Although Lord Jiang Xing, sitting in a wheelchair, didn't find the battle particularly satisfying—
If even a hand-powered wheelchair couldn't beat him, then switching to an electric wheelchair like the Fae Light Dragon would steamroll everything in minutes, wouldn't it?
The audience, however, had a blast watching.
Besides the Rainbow Dragon Hatchling, the Abyssal Water Phoenix Fledgling was also an incredibly popular new Pet Beast. Its Ink Realm talent had even sparked heated debates across the internet.
The combination of the Ink Rain Team and the Lake Light Dragon was the first time such a ridiculously powerful lineup had ever been shown to the public!
Yet this theoretically unbeatable composition crashed and burned, getting run over by a literal dump truck and suffering its first defeat.
The viewers completely lost it.
"Abyssal Water Phoenix Fledgling: What's going on? Am I not supposed to be the wheelchair here?!"
"Congratulations to the Abyssal Water Phoenix Fledgling for achieving second place in the Wheelchair Tournament."
"Now that's what you call a classic banned beast!"
"Father of Banned Beasts: What the Father permits, you may take. What the Father does not permit, you may never surpass."
After this battle, combined with Jiang Xing's explanations throughout the match, people finally experienced firsthand just how powerful the Aurora Dragon King truly was—
Fearless Heart plus Unceasing Heart.
The fusion of two hearts into the Perfected Heart.
That enhancement was completely absurd.
At present, Rainbow Dragon Hatchlings dominated low-level competitions and had earned the nickname "Little Dump Trucks." Because of that, many Beast Tamers had begun developing counter-strategies specifically to deal with them.
Poison, burns, intimidation, seduction, and similar tactics all worked by stacking negative statuses to weaken Rainbow Dragon Hatchlings, ensuring that even after they made a comeback, they could no longer maintain their original level of intimidation.
Among them, the most commonly used strategy was actually the Intimidation Strategy.
After all, poison and burn effects required specific attributes.
Intimidation was much simpler. Most combat-oriented Pet Beasts could learn moves like Intimidate and use them to lower an opponent's attack and defense.
But now?
With both hearts fused into one, it was fearless and unshakable.
As Beast Tamers watched the Aurora Dragon King charge recklessly across the battlefield and crush opponents through sheer stats alone, they felt as though they were witnessing their own future selves being brutally beaten.
They were scared to tears.
After the exhibition match ended, Jiang Xing also published the Light Dragon family's Pet Beast Compendium through his social media account and included a link to the research paper in his latest post.
This method of announcing research results wasn't particularly unusual.
Many Pet Beast professors and top researchers occasionally shared research findings on social media as well.
After all, leading scholars often worked on numerous projects simultaneously and frequently stumbled upon additional discoveries during the research process.
These findings usually weren't significant enough to be accepted by major journals, nor were they worth setting aside time to attend a dedicated Evolution Conference.
The awards at lower-level conferences were usually just money and trophies anyway. Top scholars lacked neither wealth nor prestige, so it was better to leave such opportunities to younger researchers.
Posting the results online also satisfied their desire to share.
However, those academic findings were nowhere near as shocking as the Light Dragon family.
In an extremely short period of time, it swept across the entire country and became the hottest topic of discussion.
Even many veteran Beast Tamers were drawn in.
For example, a certain Beast Tamer surnamed Lu—a top tactical strategist in China and one of the country's leading game streamers—started a livestream shortly after the Light Dragon family's Pet Beast Compendium was released.
The stream's title was:
"Teacher Lu Teaches You Substitute-Protect-Toxic."
Teacher Lu's channel had over ten million followers.
The moment the stream went live, huge numbers of viewers flooded in. Upon seeing the title, many were immediately surprised.
"Teacher Lu teaching Substitute-Protect-Toxic? My youth is coming back!"
"Isn't that the most basic strategy out there? Why is Teacher Lu teaching it again?"
"Is this Newbie Classroom time?"
Teacher Lu didn't use a webcam.
Instead, he appeared through a panda-themed virtual avatar.
The panda swayed its head as it spoke: "There are no basic tactics and advanced tactics—only useful tactics and useless tactics. Rain Teams are considered basic tactics too, right? They're still being used in championship matches."
"As long as you keep innovating, even old tactics can produce incredible results."
"Just like the Substitute-Protect-Toxic strategy we're discussing today."
"This classic strategy is about to receive the most outrageous buff it's gotten in decades."
"Especially in lower-tier competitions, its strength is downright broken."
The most outrageous buff in decades?
Wasn't that a bit exaggerated?
The viewers were puzzled as they watched Teacher Lu open Pet Beast Battle and enter Custom Mode.
Pet Beast Battle was a Pet Beast game published by the Beast Tamer Association. It offered solid competitive gameplay while also serving as an introductory teaching tool for novice Beast Tamers, helping them learn about Pet Beasts, attributes, tactics, and more.
Its Custom Mode was specifically designed for special users, allowing them to freely customize attributes, talents, moves, and various statistics for testing newly discovered Pet Beasts.
At that moment, Teacher Lu created a green dragon-serpent.
Its attributes were Wood, Light, and Dragon.
Its talent was Unceasing Heart.
Seeing this, many viewers immediately realized what it was.
"Isn't that the Azure Light Dragon? One of the Light Dragon family members Jiang Xing just revealed!"
"So the Substitute-Protect-Toxic buff Teacher Lu mentioned is actually this thing?"
"Come to think of it, didn't Teacher Lu say a few months ago during a stream that he wouldn't comment on Rainbow Dragon Hatchlings at all? Why are you using a wheelchair now? Talk about a boomerang coming back around."
Teacher Lu glanced at the barrage comments and shook his head.
"A few months ago, I didn't want to talk about Rainbow Dragon Hatchlings simply because there was nothing worth talking about."
"When you run into this kind of wheelchair stat monster, you just click surrender and hand over the points. What's there to discuss?"
"What, were you planning to be a speed bump for a dump truck?"
"But things are different now..."
The panda avatar revealed a human-like sinister grin.
"It's still a wheelchair, sure, but now it's an interactive wheelchair. A top-tier wheelchair that can actually fit into a team!"
"And if you pair it with the right tactics, it can evolve on the spot and become a—"
"Stretcher!"
"Take Substitute-Protect-Toxic, for example."
"The usual weaknesses of Substitute-Protect-Toxic are either poor sustain, meaning it can't last very long, or bad luck. If Protect fails at the wrong moment, your margin for error drops dramatically and the opponent can burst you down."
"But what the hell is this Azure Light Dragon?!"
"Wood-Light attributes. Its recovery capabilities are completely maxed out. It's practically an artificial mini Life Dragon."
"And that's not even mentioning nonsense like Unceasing Heart. Even if it fails to Protect and accidentally gets blown up, it can still come back for round two."
"It's like disgusting's mother opening the door for disgusting—it's disgustingly disgusting all the way home!"
"I need to experience this immediately!"
As Teacher Lu spoke, his custom Pet Beast finished approval and became eligible for matchmaking.
He queued for a battle and began searching for an opponent.
During the process, the audience finally started putting the pieces together—
Jiang Xing had only revealed the Light Dragon family a short while ago. Most Beast Tamers were still focused on the Aurora Dragon King or the unexplored evolution paths.
Only now were they shifting their perspective from the bigger picture and examining the Azure Light Dragon itself.
And then they suddenly realized—
What kind of absurd monster was this?!
Not only did it have everything Teacher Lu had just described, but its Dragon attribute also filled out its resistance profile. Other than a quadruple weakness to Ice, it basically had no other glaring weaknesses!
Was this really something a human could evolve?
Oh right.
It's a dragon.
"No wonder Teacher Lu said this is the biggest buff Substitute-Protect-Toxic has ever received."
"If it successfully poisons you at the start, then as long as you don't have a way to cure poison, aren't you basically forced to sit there and wait to die?"
"By the way, Wood-Dragon quadruple resists Water. If you used Azure Light Dragon's Substitute-Protect-Toxic against an Ink Rain Team, wouldn't it become the strictest father that Ink Rain Team has ever had?"
"This is completely insane!"
Just as the audience imagined, once Teacher Lu started battling, the combination of Azure Light Dragon and Substitute-Protect-Toxic fully demonstrated its power.
Accompanied by repeated chants of "Protect! Don't fail! Protect!", opponent after opponent in Pet Beast Battle was poisoned to death, dying in the dirtiest possible way until they mentally collapsed.
Among them was even an opponent using an Ink Rain Team built around an Abyssal Water Phoenix Fledgling—
Although Abyssal Water Phoenix Fledglings were extremely rare in reality, this was only a game designed to teach novice Beast Tamers and entertain ordinary people, so players could obtain one.
And then this Ink Rain Team player was slowly, mercilessly cheesed to tears by Teacher Lu's Azure Light Dragon.
In fact, by the time the opponent finally surrendered out of sheer humiliation, the Azure Light Dragon was still at full health.
The scene completely broke the audience.
The popularity of Teacher Lu's stream soared, and more and more people began to realize the potential hidden within the Azure Light Dragon.
It even gained a new nickname—
Baby Azure Dragon.
"Thanks to Boss Jiang Xing for the rocket! Holy crap, is that actually the big boss himself?!"
A rocket donation floated across the screen, instantly attracting the attention of Teacher Lu and every viewer in the stream.
Since Pet Beast Battle was a real-time game, his opponent seized the opportunity and landed a winning blow.
But Teacher Lu couldn't have cared less.
He became visibly excited.
The big boss noticed me!
"Boss, don't let today's dirty gameplay fool you. I'm usually a very clean player..."
"At most, I've only contracted one or two Dark-type Pet Beasts and run a Dark Team..."
"Boss, could you research a Dark Light Dragon too? We Dark Team players believe in the light as well!"
The moment he said that, the entire livestream exploded.
No wonder Teacher Lu never talked about Dragon Hatchlings before.
So he had always been part of the Dark Will!
Dirty.
Far too dirty.
Unfortunately, after sending the rocket, Jiang Xing vanished once again.
A research genius was busy with countless responsibilities every day, and Teacher Lu understood that.
He wasn't disappointed, only letting out a somewhat regretful sigh.
"I was actually planning to ask the boss something."
"During that previous stream, what exactly were that pink Light Dragon and that pink Little Healing Fairy..."
"It's a shame the boss left so quickly."
"Forget it. Let's get back to Protect! Don't fail! Protect!"
Teacher Lu's words immediately caught the audience's attention.
It was true.
Before Jiang Xing and Su Muli's battle, the Light Dragon family he displayed had included seven different forms.
Yet the Pet Beast Compendium he later released contained only six.
One of them was clearly missing.
And the pink Little Healing Fairy was another mystery—
Ordinary Little Healing Fairies were golden. Beast Tamers knew them very well, and they definitely had no ability to use protective moves.
Yet that pink Little Healing Fairy had displayed astonishing defensive capabilities.
It had even been able to stand against a Lake Light Dragon enhanced by an Ink Rain Team!
It was obviously an entirely new Pet Beast.
Furthermore, the Light Dragon family changed color and form according to their attributes...
The pink Light Dragon and the pink Little Healing Fairy were both pink, both beautiful, and shared a similar aesthetic style...
A thought began forming in many people's minds—
Could they represent an entirely new attribute?
A Beauty Attribute corresponding to the Beauty category?