Everyone: "!!!"
As expected, it used Spirit Body Exchange at the last second to move Little Treasure Spirit into the Water Area Barrier... Qiao Sang looked at the scene before her, not shocked—instead her eyes lit up and she let out a quiet sigh of relief inside.
Spirit Body Exchange can only swap positions once the attribute has been confirmed in the entry-level stage.
Xia Huo’s Shui Xixing had set its own Spirit Body attribute as Water-type, which is information you can find online.
In theory, it shouldn’t be able to swap positions with Little Treasure Spirit, who doesn’t have Water-type, but once she knew Shui Xixing could use Spirit Body Exchange, she went and studied this Skill in detail.
The books clearly record that once Spirit Body Exchange reaches Mystique Level, it can attach Energy to an item of the same attribute. If that item is currently in contact with some creature or object, it can transfer that contacting creature or object together, and no matter what attribute the transferred creature or object has, it’ll still work.
It was raining outside the Barrier, and the rain was in contact with Little Treasure Spirit. As long as Shui Xixing’s Spirit Body Exchange Skill Level had reached Mystique Level, it could swap positions by transferring the rain together with Little Treasure Spirit, who still had rain on its body.
Good thing she thought of this at the last moment and hid a hint in the command she gave Little Treasure Spirit, so when it moved in that instant, the one that reappeared in front of everyone was the Substitute.
Otherwise, if Shui Xixing had actually pulled off the transfer, Little Treasure Spirit would probably have been forced to trigger Mutual Return and Life Borrowing.
She’d just finished the last match and talked big about wanting Little Treasure Spirit to trigger those two Traits, but only in exchange for the opponent’s trump card. If the not-even-a-trump-card Shui Xixing ended up forcing out both of Little Treasure Spirit’s Traits at once, she and Little Treasure Spirit would be laughed at for a while, not to mention it’d be harder to Absorb more White Energy.
"Shui Xixing and Nether Ring Monarch have swapped positions!" On the commentary stage, Nephthys recovered from the shock and immediately caught the key point, saying, "That was Mystique Level Spirit Body Exchange. Using the rain that fell onto Nether Ring Monarch, Shui Xixing successfully activated Spirit Body Exchange and transferred Nether Ring Monarch into the Water Area Barrier!"
Auroal sighed, "Contestant Xia Huo was really hiding a strong card."
"Yin Bell?"
Yin Zhongsi looked at Nether Ring Monarch that had appeared inside the Water Area Barrier and called out.
Do you guys think there’s any chance the Nether Ring Monarch in the Water Area Barrier is still just a Substitute?
The two hosts both froze for a second as the live translation fed through their earpieces.
In the audience, everyone and their Pet Beasts stared unblinkingly at the battlefield. Some people had even covered their ears, waiting for the upcoming earth-shattering explosion.
Yet that imagined earth-shattering blast never came.
Up in the sky, Shui Xixing didn’t follow its own Beast Tamer’s command. Its ears twitched, then it suddenly turned around, blue light flooding its eyes.
In an instant, all the falling rain slowed to a crawl.
It clearly saw a break in the curtain of rain ahead—that kind of discontinuity only happens when something appears inside the rain.
"Not necessarily. Even if Shui Xixing listened to Xia Huo and blew up the Water Area Barrier, at most it’d just drain Energy, it wouldn’t get hurt. But yeah, losing was pretty much only a matter of time."
"Honestly you can’t really blame Xia Huo, that Nether Ring Monarch Substitute looks way too real. I get fooled by it every time."
"Thank god for Shui Xixing..."
"How does Xia Huo get fooled every single time."
"Feels like compared to Qiao Sang, it’s Xia Huo whose brain actually matches an 18-year-old."
"Shui Xixing is godlike! How did it even figure out Nether Ring Monarch’s real body was outside?"
"They’ve been tricked so many times already, having some paranoia is normal. It’s just Xia Huo who keeps falling for it every time."
"Don’t blame Xia Huo. I don’t believe you haven’t fallen for it too."
"She’s an A-Level Professional Beast Tamer, I’m not."
"That’s just Xia Huo’s battle style—she basically relies on raw power to crush her opponents. You rarely see messy mind-games like with Qiao Sang. And even when she sometimes gets too heated in a fight, her Pet Beasts will pull her back on track at the crucial moment."

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