The rapidly expanding body of Phosphor Mantis suddenly twisted, its wings, fangs, and even its skin began to ooze venom.

It was as if someone was wringing out a rag.

“Drip.”

“Drip! Drip!”

Scarlet, emerald, and pitch-black venom indiscriminately covered the entire arena like a torrential downpour.

It wove into a net of death.

The ground was corroded and pitted, and the heavy air was filled with a deadly, foul stench.

Even with Black Pearl maintaining the Water Star Ring, the omnipresent corrosive toxins compressed it severely, making it extremely unstable.

Black Pearl was like a small boat in a storm, struggling to dodge and defend within the net of poison.

New wounds constantly appeared on its body.

Its scales were broken, its skin charred black, and the numbness, intense pain, and chilling cold brought by the toxins continuously eroded its will and spirit.

Through the shared senses, Mingxi knew that every breath it took was accompanied by a burning pain.

Mingxi’s heart tightened.

Black Pearl’s condition was rapidly deteriorating.

“Don’t rush.”

Mingxi kept telling herself internally.

Her gaze was fixed on Phosphor Mantis, her brain working like an overclocked processor, analyzing the trajectory of each of its attacks, its energy fluctuations, the characteristics of its toxins, and so on.

“Black Pearl!”

Black Pearl understood immediately.

It withdrew the shared senses from Mingxi and transferred the skill to Phosphor Mantis.

The sudden mental sharing and intense pain caused Phosphor Mantis to freeze for a moment.

Now was the time—

“Ghost Doppelganger, Curse.”

Thousands of small mermaids frantically crashed into Phosphor Mantis, which was temporarily stunned by the shared senses.

Curse marks continuously lit up.

Energy disruption, weakened defense, mental fatigue... one negative status after another appeared on Phosphor Mantis.

“It’s working!”

Mingxi’s eyes blazed with light!

Before the match, she had watched several of Luo Wuyue’s competition videos and discovered that while Phosphor Mantis’s attacks were fierce, its accuracy was actually not high, so during battles, it mostly ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) used highly draining area-of-effect skills.

And what did low accuracy mean?

Poor aim?

That was one reason, but it also indicated bad luck!

For this type of pet beast, Curse was the best method.

“Water Fusion.”

Black Pearl manipulated energy, transforming the surrounding venom into ordinary water.

“Water Blast.”

“Boom!”

Phosphor Mantis, burdened by several layers of Curse, lost its previous ferocity and passively endured Black Pearl’s attacks.

“Bastard!”

Luo Wuyue was both shocked and enraged.

He never expected someone to use a life skill like shared senses as a control skill, and they had actually discovered Fol’s weakness!

How did Mingxi discover it?!

His face was ashen, sensing the chaotic negative statuses on his Phosphor Mantis, feeling a sense of resentment as if he had been played by fate!

She deliberately had Anatoth use water-elemental skills; there was no hidden trump card in the poison field at all. It was clearly a feint, with her true intention elsewhere.

To obscure and divert his attention!

What a Mingxi!

“Fol, Berserk!”

“Tear it apart for me!”

Mingxi frowned.

Berserk, or complete frenzy, was a rare characteristic.

In this state, the pet beast felt no pain, couldn't think, and only knew how to attack and kill, never stopping until death!

Scientists called this characteristic the forced unlocking of genetic locks.

The 【Berserk】 characteristic kills others, and also kills oneself.

Activating Berserk caused extremely severe damage to the pet beast itself, affecting its vitality, stamina, and talent, and these were permanent injuries that could not be reversed by healing methods.

It was just a competition, yet Luo Wuyue made Phosphor Mantis activate 【Berserk】, which showed the viciousness and cold-bloodedness of his character.

In that case, she wouldn’t be blamed for returning the same level of brutality.

But Phosphor Mantis did not disobey its Beast Tamers’s command.

It quickly activated 【Berserk】, its originally clear eyes immediately became chaotic, and it began to attack recklessly.

However, 【Berserk】 only enhanced its combat power and madness; it didn't have the ability to clear negative statuses and Curses.

In fact, the interference of the Curses and the amplification of negative statuses made its attacks chaotic, and its energy became much more scattered.

It was like a blind madman.

It possessed terrifying destructive power but couldn't grasp the key points, and even its targets were confused.

Therefore, the 【Berserk】 characteristic was even less reliable than the Seven Injury Fist.

“Black Pearl, Curse Triple Play!”

Mingxi’s voice boomed like thunder.

Black Pearl’s eyes erupted with deep black light.

The true Curse feast had begun!

“Buzz—!”

Phosphor Mantis’s massive body stiffened again!

It opened its mouth and let out a shrill, distorted shriek, its internal energy core seemed to be boiling, the colors in its vertical pupils became even more chaotic, and energy flowed backward within its body uncontrollably.

Curse Triple Play, let alone a miserable wretch like Phosphor Mantis, even Little Silver Flower would suffer greatly.

But this wasn't over yet!

In the depths of Black Pearl’s inky black eyes, the image of Phosphor Mantis, driven mad by Curses and the 【Berserk】 characteristic, was reflected.

“Headbutt!”

Black Pearl slammed Phosphor Mantis into the ground with its head!

“Dream Illusions, Burial Sea Elegy!!” Mingxi’s voice was clear and powerful.

Actually, Luo Wuyue guessed correctly.

The rising poison field indeed concealed her trump card.

Black Pearl leaped fearlessly into the waist-high poisonous water!

Apologies.

It wasn't an ordinary water-type; it had absolutely no fear of this poison field, which it had put most of its effort into creating.

Because it had the characteristic 【Myriad Realms Travel】.

Burial Sea Elegy, how could a sea of poison not be a sea!

“Rumble Rumble Rumble—!!!!”

An indescribable, terrifying explosion occurred.

It didn't come from the outside, but erupted from within Phosphor Mantis’s mental sea!

The venom on the ground rapidly dissipated.

What was even more horrifying and incomprehensible to Luo Wuyue was that its scales, flesh, and bones, like balloons being inflated, instantly expanded to their limit, and then—

“Puff!!!”

A bloody storm, shattered limbs and bones!

Phosphor Mantis’s massive body, under the horrified gaze of countless spectators, was literally blown into charred fragments and foul, poisonous blood flying everywhere.

Viscous venom and shattered organs splattered onto the isolation barrier like a downpour.

“Plop!”

“Plop!”

“Ahs.”

As the venom on the battle stage surface disappeared, Black Pearl leaped out from the scattered flesh, covered in blood, with many scales on its fish tail broken and scorch marks all over its body.

Its body was still covered in venom and minced meat.

It panted slightly, its body swaying precariously, looking extremely disheveled, but its black eyes were astonishingly bright, like the deep sea after a storm, even more profound and serene.

At the center of the battle stage, only a huge, pitted crater remained, and at the bottom of the crater, unrecognizable charred residue was still smoking.

“....”

Many spectators’ faces turned completely pale.

“No—! Pfft!”