Chapter 1628

Chapter 613 – Interstellar Cup Player (Two-in-One)

“No need, I already know,” Josang said.

“You know?” Michaela looked over.

Josang hummed in agreement and said, “Coach Tao just contacted me, sent me the list of players, and also told me the competition time.”

So that’s how it is… Michaela already knew the host country of this Interstellar Beast Taming Championship, so she wasn’t particularly surprised. Then, she thought of something and said,

“Let me see the list.”

Josang picked up her phone, operated it a bit, and said, “Sent.”

Michaela’s phone vibrated, and she opened it, skimming through the pages.

Soon, she saw something, her brows furrowing slightly. As she looked down, her brows furrowed even more.

“What’s wrong?” Josang noticed that Michaela’s expression was a little off and asked.

“I’ll tell you later, let me finish reading first.” Michaela said as she opened the file sent by the dean and compared it with the list of names she had just seen.

She hadn’t had time to open the list the dean had sent earlier.

“Is the teacher’s expression a little serious?” Josang asked in her mind.

“Gang Quan.” Gang Bao glanced at Michaela and responded in her mind.

“It seems so. The contestants on the list are all too strong.

They’re participating in the Interstellar Beast Taming Championship, how could they not be strong? Even the last-place finisher, eliminated immediately, is considered a top-tier figure among professional beast tamers…

” Qiao Sang thought to herself. “Gang Quan,” Gang Bao’s voice echoed in her mind. “

I heard it. “

Qiao Sang instantly forced herself to focus.

At this moment, Michaela put down her phone, her expression serious. “There’s something strange about the contestants participating in this Interstellar Beast Taming Championship.”

Qiao Sang was taken aback. “What’s strange?”

“Several of them are among the most powerful S-rank professional beast tamers in the entire interstellar world,” Michaela said in a deep voice. “Three of them even participated in the previous Interstellar Cup, and they’re still young enough to participate in the next one.”

Qiao Sang asked in surprise, “Three of them participated in the previous Interstellar Cup and can still participate in the next one?”

As far as she knew, contestants who participated in the Interstellar Beast Taming Championship, even if they had previously participated in the Interstellar Cup, were usually disqualified from future Interstellar Cups due to age or other issues.

It was quite surprising that three professional beast tamers qualified for the Interstellar Cup had signed up.

One would be understandable, but three was far too many.

“Yes,” Michaela nodded slightly, her expression serious.

To be honest, she couldn’t understand why such contestants would participate in the Interstellar Beast Taming Championship, let alone three of them. Logically speaking

, at this time, S-rank professional beast tamers of this strength and age should be preparing for the Interstellar Cup.

People who wouldn’t normally participate had signed up—what was their purpose…? Josang considered the situation from a different perspective, then, as if struck by a thought, asked,

“What’s the prize for this year’s Interstellar Beast Taming Championship?”

“It hasn’t been announced yet, but it should be the same as before: one billion Alliance Coins, a trophy, a Hall of Fame Beast Tamer title, and some resources for the champion’s backing,” Michaela said.

Upon hearing this, Josang’s first thought was: Shouldn’t these resources go to the champion? Why are they giving resources to the champion’s backing?

Then her second thought arose: If the prizes are the same as previous years, why are these three contestants even participating in this competition?

Moreover, this is the champion’s prize; the prizes for the later winners are definitely not as good.

Although one billion Alliance Coins sounds like a lot, for an S-rank professional Beastmaster, it’s something that can definitely be earned with some time and effort. After all, she felt that even she, a newly promoted S-rank professional Beastmaster, could earn that much.

As for the trophy and the title of Hall of Fame Beastmaster, it’s naturally an honor for an S-rank professional Beastmaster, but this honor hadn’t attracted such contestants before. How come there are three this year?

Qiao Sang couldn’t figure it out, so she stopped thinking about it and asked,

“Who are these three contestants?”

Michaela said in a deep voice,

“Killian from Yantian University, Miles from the Super Star Beastmaster Club, and Contan from the Giant Kingdom.”

Killian, Miles, Contan… These three names floated into Qiao Sang’s mind. After thinking for a moment, relevant information appeared in her mind.

Killian, I remember he’s over eighty, participated in the last Star Cup for the first time, what were his results…?

Josan recalled for a moment and concluded: his results seemed less than ideal. She hadn’t seen his name again when she followed the Star Cup after the Master Challenge…

She gathered her thoughts and continued to recall the information of the other two contestants.

Miles, over eighty, also participated in the last Star Cup for the first time. Her backing was the Super Star Beast Taming Club

, located on the planet Super Star. The Super Star Beast Taming Club was one of the top five clubs in the entire galaxy, having produced many well-known professional beast tamers. They had won countless competitions, and joining them was like a meteoric rise.

However, the Super Star Beast Taming Club was extremely strict with its members; if a member failed to achieve certain goals or win certain competitions, they would be directly dismissed.

Although she didn’t know Miles’s specific results in the last Star Cup, her joining the Super Star Beast Taming Club and participating in the previous Star Cup was enough to demonstrate her talent and strength.

Contan, over ninety years old, was also participating in the Star Cup for the first time in the previous edition. If he could participate in this year’s Star Cup, it would likely be his last, against the backdrop of the Giant Kingdom.

This country was only considered a mid-level power on Tianyuan Star. Contan remembered that he was the first player from the Giant Kingdom to successfully participate in the Star Cup in nearly a thousand years.

Many media outlets reported on it at the time, and even though her attention was mostly focused on the Master Challenge, she had seen the news.

However, she had a bad start, apparently being eliminated in the preliminaries…

As these thoughts flashed through her mind, Michaela comforted her:

“Don’t be too nervous. Your purpose in participating in the Star Beast Taming Championship was to train. Meeting them in this competition might actually be a good thing; you can see the skills of the Star Cup players beforehand.”

“Seeing them in person is a completely different experience from fighting them in person.”

With so many participants, she might be eliminated early on and might not even get to meet them… Qiao Sang sighed inwardly, but outwardly remained serious:

“I understand. No matter who the opponent is, I’ll stay calm.”

Gangbao glanced silently at his Beastmaster.

Michaela smiled, “I’ve always trusted you in this regard.”

Then, as if remembering something, she said, “The competition is on December 12th, Blue Star time. We should probably get ready to leave.”

Upon hearing this, Qiao Sang glanced at Tingbao, who was lying beside him digesting the power of lightning, and said,

“I want to wait until Tingbao evolves before we leave. I feel like its evolution is just around the corner.”

Although Tingbao could evolve using Dragon Flash Amber once its energy reached its limit, and could even evolve in the starship, the relevant information stated that later-stage pets should not evolve in enclosed spaces, but rather in nature, where their energy corresponds to theirs, to achieve a more perfect evolution.

Before Michaela could speak, Tingbao opened its eyes and called out,

“Tingting.”

It could return to Blue Star to evolve.

Michaela didn’t understand, and said, “Tingbao can evolve on Blue Star. It doesn’t matter if it evolves sooner or later. What’s important now is the Interstellar Beast Taming Championship. You need to go there early to prepare.”

Pet evolution is important, but in her opinion, even if Tingbao evolves, it will only be a King-level pet. For a pet of this level, evolving early or late won’t make much difference in the Interstellar Beast Taming Championship. If it evolves late, it might still be accumulating energy points, so it doesn’t matter if it evolves late.

Upon hearing this, Tingbao, who originally wanted to return to Blue Star to evolve, immediately looked at Michaela with a cold expression, and tiny yellow arcs of electricity appeared on its body.

Michaela glanced at it, decided to ignore it, and turned to Qiao Sang, asking,

“What do you think?”

Qiao Sang thought for a moment and said,

“Let’s wait another week. If Tingbao hasn’t evolved in a week, we’ll go back to Blue Star.”

Tingbao couldn’t possibly not evolve in a week. If it didn’t evolve, she would just add the points for it.

Gangbao silently glanced at its beast tamer again.

Hearing his Beastmaster’s words, Tingbao remained silent, simply dissipating the electric arcs on his body, closing his eyes again, and silently circulating his energy, trying to speed up the digestion of the lightning power.

At the same time, Penjamei appeared out of thin air.

“Why did you take so long?” Michaela glanced to the side and asked, “Where’s Dr. Jiang?”

“Penpen,”

Penjamei called out, indicating she didn’t know where he was and had searched for a long time.

“I’ll call and ask,” Qiao Sang said.

Just then, a knock sounded at the door.

“Xunxun~”

Little Xunbao teleported to the door, glanced at the face appearing on the nearby monitor, and opened the door.

Dr. Jiang walked in carrying large and small bags. Seeing the food on the table, he asked in surprise, “You’ve already started eating?”

“Not yet,” Qiao Sang replied, “Teacher just asked Meimei to call you, wanting you to come and eat with us.”

Hearing this, Dr. Jiang placed the large and small bags on the table and smiled, “Great! I also bought some food, everyone can eat together.”

He then took out boxes of food from the bags.

Qiao Sang glanced over and noticed that two-thirds of the food was pet energy meals.

“Xunxun~”

Little Xunbao floated over, its eyes lighting up at the energy meals on the table, and it reached out a paw to open them.

However, just as its paw was about to touch them, Dr. Jiang swiftly removed the energy meals.

“Xunxun?”

Little Xunbao looked up, its face full of confusion.

Dr. Jiang smiled and said, “This is what I bought for Lu Bao.”

Little Xunbao gave an “okay” look and reached for the energy meals next to it.

However, just as its paw was about to touch them, the energy meals were removed again.

Little Xunbao looked up at Dr. Jiang.

Dr. Jiang continued to smile, “This is also what I bought for Lu Bao. It contains rich ice-type energy and is only suitable for pets with ice-type energy in their bodies.”

“Xunxun…”

Little Xunbao lowered its head, looked around, and then reached for a plate of dark purple energy meals.

Dr. Jiang again removed the energy meals.

Little Xunbao looked up, giving him a somewhat resentful look.

Dr. Jiang said somewhat embarrassedly,

“This is also something I bought for Lu Bao.”

Little Xun Bao: “…”

“Xun Xun!” Little Xun Bao put its paw on another energy meal.

“This is something I bought for Lu Bao.”

“Xun Xun!”

“This is also something I bought for Lu Bao.”

“Xun Xun!”

“This is also something…”

“Xun Xun…” Little Xun Bao looked at Dr. Jiang with great resentment.

“Bing Luo.” Lu

Bao glanced at Little Xun Bao, then looked at Dr. Jiang and called out, indicating that it didn’t need to eat so much.

It meant that it wanted to share some with Little Xun Bao.

After spending two months together, don’t you understand that everything Dr. Jiang bought was specially for you…? Qiao Sang helped translate:

“Lu Bao said it can’t eat that much.”

Dr. Jiang quickly said, “These energy meals contain rich water energy and ice energy. Eating them will only benefit your body. If you can’t finish them, it’s okay. Just finish them within a day. If you really can’t finish them, just throw them away.”

Lu Bao was silent.

Little Xun Bao: “…”

Little Xun Bao’s eyes became even more resentful.

“I can’t eat all of this, and I didn’t even think to give it to Xiao Xunbao…” Qiao Sang thought to herself, then explained, “The energy meals Dr. Jiang bought are all suitable for water and ice-type pets. They’re actually bad for other types of pets.”

“Xunxun…”

Xiao Xunbao sighed, giving a “okay then” look.

Qiao Sang smiled, “Isn’t this whole table of food enough for you?”

Xiao Xunbao’s attention returned to the food on the table, her eyes lit up, and she quickly floated over to start eating.

Dr. Jiang considerately placed the energy meals he bought in front of Lu Bao one by one.

Xia Bao looked at the pile of food in front of Lu Bao, suddenly remembered something, and looked at Lu Bao with a sympathetic expression.

“Dr. Jiang, are you coming back to Blue Star with us?” Michaela asked.

Dr. Jiang was taken aback at first, then said, “Of course I’ll go with you.”

After saying that, he thought of something and asked, “Has the competition time been set?”

Qiao Sang replied, “Yes, it’s December 12th, Blue Star Dragon Kingdom time.”

“Which region will the competition be held in?” Dr. Jiang asked.

Qiao Sang shook his head and said, “I don’t know yet, but it should be in the Mid-Sky Region.”

Generally, super-large international or interstellar competitions are held in the Mid-Sky Region.

Dr. Jiang looked regretful upon hearing this and said, “I need to do research when I get back. If it were the Ancient Mist Region, I could watch your competition.”

At this moment, Michaela said,

“Not the Mid-Sky Region.”

Qiao Sang was stunned and looked at her, asking, “Then where is it?”

Dr. Jiang also looked over.

“It’s the Zhitia Region,” Michaela said.