Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle

Jie Gangtai looked at Mu Qingxue's joyful eyes, tinged with a special kind of emotion, and inside, he felt incredibly conflicted.

*Xiao Ye had been right—even if Xiao Ye hadn't shown up, Mu Qingxue would never have belonged to him, Jie Gangtai, and they would never have formed a contract, not in this lifetime.*

*After this battle, he truly realized just how big the gap was between himself and Xiao Ye.*

*Ye Fan, honored as the number one among the younger generation, couldn't last more than two moves in front of Xiao Ye, and as for himself, he figured he'd get knocked out instantly by Ye Fan.*

"All I can do is protect her in silence!" Jie Gangtai's gaze turned determined.

*He had watched over his white moonlight for more than ten years—he would keep on watching from the shadows, quietly giving everything he had!*

Cheng Bingxi and Nangong Siyao jumped up, hugging each other as they cheered, celebrating Xiao Ye's victory.

Yang Junming and Cheng Yi were stunned, their eyes full of overwhelming shock.

Mu Cheng stepped out to take charge of the scene, finalizing the outcome, and said,

"As everyone has seen, the match is decided."

"The victor, Xiao Ye!"

The Virtual Cabin's door slowly opened, and Ye Fan and Xiao Ye walked out.

Ye Fan's face was still full of disbelief at that moment, and inside, he couldn't accept that he'd lost.

*He had been praised as number one among the younger generation, undefeated, striding the path of a champion—yet he lost, and so thoroughly, without even getting a chance to retaliate! How the hell was he supposed to accept reality?*

Red-haired Ye Fan stormed over to Xiao Ye, unleashing a powerful One-Star Realm aura, and snarled,

"Kid, that last match doesn't count, let's fight again, I was careless, didn't dodge!"

"One more match and I'll definitely beat you!"

"Ugh!" Several Young Masters from the Imperial Capital forces twitched at the corners of their mouths after hearing this. *Was their Young Master just refusing to face reality?*

The elderly man's forehead filled with irritated lines. *A dignified Young Master of the Ye Family—if you lose, you lose! You have to accept reality. Looking this shameless now, you're really disgracing the Ye Family!*

Facing Ye Fan, whose immense energy was pressing down on him, Xiao Ye stayed perfectly calm, a faint smile on his lips, and said,

"You lost."

Red-haired Ye Fan's rage boiled up, and he snapped, "The Virtual Read Gear misread the data, let's fight for real, I'll win this time."

Xiao Ye said blandly, "But you lost."

"!" Red-haired Ye Fan ground his teeth, unleashing the aura of a ruler. "As the Young Master of the Ye Family, I order you, fight me again!"

Xiao Ye smirked, looking at him with disdain. "Losing is losing. What's wrong—Young Master of the Ye Family can't handle defeat?"

"Ah!" Red-haired Ye Fan felt like he was about to go insane. *It was the first time someone had ever looked at him with such utter contempt, and it had to be the young genius who'd just beaten him.*

*Xiao Ye saw how he just wouldn't shut up and wanted another match. Suddenly—BOOM—he let out a savage Three-Star Realm aura!*

*A Mythical Level Three-Star Realm aura was way stronger than an SSS-level One-Star Realm aura; when it burst out, it was a hell of a hurricane—almost knocking Red-haired Ye Fan flat on his ass.*

Red-haired Ye Fan finally snapped out of it, shocked. "You, you're actually Three-Star Realm!"

*He took pride in being One-Star Realm. Yet this kid, who looked even younger than him, was on a way higher level!*

Mu Qingxue ran over with an angry look on her face, blocking Xiao Ye and barking at Red-haired Ye Fan, "You really suck, pulling this kind of crap after losing. How could I, Mu Qingxue, ever be engaged to someone like you?"

Red-haired Ye Fan's words caught in his throat, his whole body jolting.

The elderly man smacked his lined forehead and dragged Ye Fan over, sending a message in secret, "Young Master, your heart is in chaos."

"Let me handle things from here."

"That kid obviously contracted a Beast Girl and inherited the Summoned Beast's Innate Skill. You haven't contracted a Beast Girl yet; you're just a plain old Beastmaster, cultivating with the human method. Summoned Beasts level up way faster than humans."

"When you contract a Beast Girl, your cultivation speed will skyrocket—and surpassing that kid will be a piece of cake. Beating him? That'll happen real soon!"

After hearing this, Red-haired Ye Fan finally accepted reality and said to Mu Cheng, "Uncle Mu, I lost."

Mu Cheng nodded with a smile, "All right, then your engagement to Xue'Er is annulled."

Mu Qingxue and Xiao Ye exchanged a glance, both seeing the joy in each other's eyes.

But at that moment, the elderly man stepped forward, his voice rising above Mu Cheng's, and said, "Hold on!"

"We never said losing this battle means the engagement would be canceled."

Mu Cheng's face turned cold. "Elder Ye, that's not cool."

Mu Qingxue's eyes blazed with anger.

The old man's face, wrinkled as a dried well, didn't betray a single emotion. He exuded a thread of Quasi-Saint pressure that filled the place, and said, "The engagement was decided in childhood, how could it be canceled on a whim? What, does the Mu Family want to humiliate my Ye Family and unilaterally break it off?"

Mu Cheng felt a terrible weight crash down on him, making it almost impossible to move.

*They lost the fight—now they wanted to use forceful means!*

*But the Mu Family had no Quasi-Saint.*

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*Sure, there were people in the Saint Realm, but unless the family was facing extinction, they'd never interfere in mortal affairs.*

*Besides, the Ye and Mu families had forged this engagement many years ago. The old man hadn't really crossed any boundaries by doing this.*

Mu Cheng sighed. *At this rate, Xue'Er would have to get engaged to Ye Fan today, no doubt about it!*

Xiao Ye couldn't take it anymore—he couldn't move, but his mouth worked just fine. He said, "Sir, I remember your Young Master promised that if he lost, he'd kowtow to me three times."

"Those were his exact words!"

"So, did he do it yet?"

The Ye Family side hadn't agreed to cancel the engagement if they lost, but kowtowing three times—that had been loud and clear.

Mu Qingxue was delighted, chiming in, "Yeah, did he do it? Or does the Ye Family want to break their word too?"

Red-haired Ye Fan suddenly froze up. He really had said that, but with everyone watching, how could he actually kowtow three times to someone else?

No way! Absolutely not.

*If he really did it, the whole world would know—the former number one of the younger generation, the Young Master of the Ye Family, kowtowed to the new number one. He'd be a laughingstock, the Ye Family's dignity would be trashed, and his own pride... all gone.*

The emotionless old man's dried-well face finally shifted, those ancient eyes narrowing as he looked at Xiao Ye, a dangerous glint in his gaze.

"Kid, if you keep talking, no one's going to think you're mute!"

A vast Quasi-Saint pressure swept toward Xiao Ye like a tidal wave, aiming to crush him flat.

If it landed, he'd probably be puking blood.

Right then, a cold, sweet voice pierced the hall. The temperature dropped more than a hundred degrees in an instant—everyone felt an icy chill to the bone.

"What's wrong with speaking? You got a problem?"

Another surge of Quasi-Saint pressure roared out, smashing into the old man's aura. With a deafening crash, everyone's ears nearly burst.

A towering, white-robed silhouette with exquisite beauty appeared by Xiao Ye's side.