My starting summon is a small skeleton-Chapter 61 - 0 Unexpected News

At a corner of the Quancheng Cup Competition Venue, Lu Wu picked up a call from Li Kai.

"Uncle Li, what's the matter that you're looking for me at this time?"

Li Kai knew that he was in a competition, and he wouldn't have called unless it was something especially important.

Sure enough, Li Kai's next words took Lu Wu by complete surprise.

"Mr. Lu, I just visited the official website of the Fu City Professional Summon Beast Cultivation Center. Guess what I saw!"

Li Kai was playing coy, which was quite unusual. Lu Wu, with a smile, responded, "What did you see? Has the professional certification been moved up? Can I get my professional certificate early?"

On the other end of the phone, Li Kai nodded vigorously, "Yes!"

"What did you say?"

Lu Wu was stunned, finding it incredibly hard to believe, his face filled with surprise.

Little did people know, acquiring knowledge as a Summon Beast Cultivator was Lu Wu's biggest headache recently.

He had exhausted almost all available channels to acquire knowledge before becoming a professional, and he had already assimilated all that information. Now, he had hit a bottleneck and had been stuck there for a while. The lack of progress in cultivating Little Skeleton was due to this very reason.

Lu Wu had assumed that he would have to wait until next year to resolve this problem, but now, he was hearing news that the assessment was being moved up.

The excitement he felt was unimaginable.

"Actually, it's not exactly that the assessment has been moved up.

The research center in Fucheng has issued a challenge reward. As long as you pass their assessment, you can obtain your professional certificate early. I'll send you the link later, and you can check the details on the official website yourself."

"Alright, alright, alright!"

Lu Wu was particularly thrilled, very eager to learn more.

Without any delay, Li Kai hung up the phone and sent Lu Wu a link.

Through the link that Li Kai sent, Lu Wu logged into the official website of the Fu City Professional Summon Beast Cultivation Center and saw the assessment challenge that Li Kai had mentioned on the homepage.

However, after closely examining the details of this challenge, he felt a headache coming on.

The assessment was written very formally but the content was very straightforward.

It mentioned that the Fucheng Professional Summon Beast Cultivation Center had recently received a special Summoned Beast from a Secret Realm.

The Summoner who owned this beast seemed to be in danger of failing for unknown reasons, and their Professional Center, feeling helpless yet unwilling to lose face or give up on the Summoned Beast, couldn't ask other Professional Centers for help.

So, they came up with a clever challenge, hoping that the Summon Beast Cultivators from Jiangnan would come forward and give it a try.

Non-professionals could also participate, and if they could solve the problem, they would receive a Professional Summon Beast Cultivator certificate, gain access to the Fu City Professional Center's library for a month to read books, and even receive additional rewards.

Of course, the prerequisite was that you had to join the Fu City Professional Center.

The conditions were generous, and Lu Wu was very tempted.

But there was a problem: this assessment challenge coincided with the Quancheng Cup.

If Lu Wu decided to participate in the assessment, and if he were to get held up, he would essentially have to say goodbye to the Quancheng Cup.

This was a difficult decision, and Lu Wu hesitated for nearly a whole second.

"Why hesitate? It's not like you have to give up the Quancheng Cup. Besides, even if you do, there's still high school league, but if I miss this challenge, where else could I get the chance to read books for a month?"

Given the circumstances, Lu Wu wisely chose to step back and first pass the assessment.

Holding that thought, Lu Wu closed the website of the Fu City Professional Center, ready to go out and find Hao Zhijian to have a talk.

However, upon going out, he didn't see Hao Zhijian anymore, but the reporters from the Quancheng Cup were still around.

As soon as they saw Lu Wu approaching, they immediately surrounded him.

"Lu, Hao just said that the reason his Frozen Bird was defeated is that you seized command during the competition to show off, causing the Frozen Bird's movements to be unbalanced. Do you have anything to say about this?"

"Also, Hao said that your Little Skeleton was able to deliver such a fantastic output at the end simply because Team 023 expended too much in taking down the Frozen Bird, and you were just taking advantage of their hard work. What's your response to that?"

"Furthermore, Hao accused you..."

One question after another was hurled at Lu Wu, leaving him utterly bewildered, and when Lu Wu realized what was going on, his eyes instantly narrowed.

Dudu noticing on the side, saw that Lu Wu was getting angry.

Indeed, Lu Wu was in a rather foul mood at the moment, but he didn't let it show. Instead, he even answered those questions with a smile, willingly taking some of the blame...

Over at Hao Zhijian's side.

After passing the buck at the competition venue, he left the area and then got in touch with friends he had arranged to meet with earlier in the day.

Within half an hour, a group of friends had gathered around him.

Surrounded and celebrated like a star, Hao Zhijian was particularly smug, "Let's go, live it up, I'll cover the expenses tonight!"

Clearly, he had already bounced back from his defeat in the competition.

And the blame-shifting during the interview had been cast out of his mind.

All he wanted to do now was to indulge himself.

His friends erupted in cheers at his words, but among Hao Zhijian's social circle, despite the presence of fair-weather friends, there were also one or two true friends.

"Hao, don't you have training this afternoon?"

"Train what? Hao is so strong, skipping one afternoon won't make a difference."

"No, Hao, you just made a mistake in the competition, and you even shifted the blame during the interview. Isn't it a bit much to go out and celebrate now? I think it would be better for you to properly explain things to Lu Wu now."

It really is true that honest advice grates on the ears.

The sincere advice immediately darkened Hao Zhijian's face, "What do you mean I passed the buck? It was Lu Wu's fault. If he hadn't taken over command, we could have taken care of Zero23 in one go. Would there have been any trouble then? And what right does Lu Wu have to lecture me?"

Obviously, the victories over the past two weeks, along with the accolades from the Quancheng Cup officials, had inflated Hao Zhijian's ego to a considerable degree. At this moment, it seemed he had forgotten the harsh lessons he had previously learned.

Seeing that Hao Zhijian was getting angry, the true friend didn't dare to say another word.

Instead, it was the sycophants who started egging him on.

"That's right, Lu Wu is just a pretty boy who got lucky, clinging to the coattails of that chubby girl. Otherwise, he's nothing compared to Hao."

One with a hidden agenda even instigated further, "If you ask me, Hao, you should just poach that chubby girl and kick Lu Wu out. If you're without a teammate, I'm willing to be your sidekick."

"Get lost, if anyone is going to be a sidekick, it'll be me. But you're right, though she's chubby, she's pretty cute. She'd definitely be beautiful if she lost some weight, plus her Summoned Beast is strong. Maybe you should just bite the bullet and make do, Hao. If it's too unbearable, just put up with it and dump her after the high school league."

...

The conversation took a twisted turn, with all manner of disorderly comments spilling out.

Some ideas were tantalizing to Hao Zhijian, but while he was somewhat conceited, he hadn't lost all sense of reality. Some thoughts were still off-limits to him, so he snapped with a stern face, "Stop talking rubbish like this, or we can no longer be friends!"

The flatterers weren't sure if Hao Zhijian meant what he said and were about to encourage him further when an icy voice suddenly cut through.

"I don't think you need friends like these!"

Hearing this voice, Hao Zhijian couldn't help but shudder.

Looking up, he saw Lu Wu, his face ashen, slowly walking towards him with Dudu in tow.

At this moment, Hao Zhijian started to panic somewhat.

However, partly due to his inflated ego and partly because of his friends around him, he was still holding on for the sake of his pride.

"Lu Wu, what are you doing here..."

"Slap!"

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Before Hao Zhijian could finish, Lu Wu landed a slap right across his face.