Reincarnated as a Tabby Cat: Daily Life with the School Beauty Empress

Chapter 66 Quarterfinals - Pole Dance Master

On the arena, Su Qianxue and Mo Qianshang stood face to face.

Mo Qianshang was much more arrogant than yesterday. Entering the top eight gave him confidence, and coupled with his victory over two Dragon Empire players on the first day, he felt that he already had one foot in the top four.

Behind him, the Shadow Spider crouched at the edge of the arena.

Its eight legs were tucked under its body, its black carapace gleamed with purple light, and its abdomen had bulging venom sacs filled with paralyzing toxins.

Mo Qianshang crossed his arms and tilted his head to look at Yichen on Su Qianxue's shoulder.

"Su Qianxue, you're lucky to have made it to the quarterfinals as a cat. Let's stop here; the championship belongs to our Senluo Empire."

Su Qianxue showed no expression.

"Where does your confidence come from?"

Mo Qianshang grinned, revealing a set of white teeth: "Because my skills can cover the entire arena! Prepare yourself!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his body began to fade.

It's not that it's fast; it's truly disappearing.

The Shadow Spider spat out an almost invisible thread that wrapped around his waist. The thread transmitted the spider's stealth ability, and Mo Qianshang blended into the shadows of the arena.

At the same time, the Shadow Spider's abdomen writhed violently, its eight legs spread open, and it spewed out a large cloud of purplish-black poisonous mist from its mouth.

The toxic fog spread extremely quickly.

The poisonous spider spread outwards from its location, covering half of the arena within three seconds, and five seconds later, the entire arena was shrouded in purplish-black smoke.

A commotion broke out in the audience.

"Oh no, Su Qianxue has met her match!"

"The poisonous mist from that spider made two Dragon Soar contestants go limp after just one breath; they couldn't move at all."

"Moreover, Mo Qianshang is invisible. How can you fight if you can't see him? No matter how powerful Su Qianxue's cat is, it's useless if it can't find its target."

""

"I think this match is going to be tough. Su Qianxue's fighting style relies entirely on that cat's ranged attacks and gravity field, but the opponent doesn't engage in direct combat with you at all. They just hide and release poison, wearing you down to death."

"Yes, I think the opponent she encountered was just the right one to counter her."

"I don't think so."

The speaker was a young man in a white robe with silver snowflakes embroidered on his arm, standing in the audience section of the Ice Phoenix Empire. The person next to him glanced at him, but he didn't explain, simply staring at the arena.

On the arena.

The poisonous fog had already reached Su Qianxue's feet. She took two steps back, her light shield deploying to block the fog in front of her. But the fog was gaseous, and it circled around the edge of the shield, continuing to seep in.

Su Qianxue's expression remained unchanged.

"Hiding away and relying on your contracted beast to release poison, what kind of skill is that?"

She glanced down at Yichen on her shoulder.

"Yichen, let him come out on his own."

"Meow." Yichen's cat mouth opened, revealing two small sharp teeth.

[Hehe, alright. A mere trick, trying to outsmart Master Cat by playing stealth?]

The cat's emerald green eyes lit up.

[Illusion, activated!]

The eighth-level Emperor-level spiritual power transformed into countless fine threads, passing through the poisonous fog and shadows, precisely locking onto a "blank" position in the northwest corner of the arena.

Mo Qianshang thought he had hidden it well.

The Shadow Poison Spider's stealth skill is at the King-level 8th tier, making it virtually unbeatable among its peers.

However, Yi Chen's illusion technique is at the eighth level of the Emperor rank.

There's a difference of two whole levels.

The threads of mental energy touched Mo Qianshang's barrier of consciousness, as thin as a sheet of paper.

Mo Qianshang's figure emerged from the shadows.

His expression was blank, his eyes unfocused, and his pupils unfocused. His stealth skill was forcibly canceled, and his body was exposed to the poisonous fog. His own poison had no effect on him, but he had stepped forward.

A wicked smile crept onto Yichen's cat face.

[Come on, next up is Cat Master's signature act. The pole dancing performance on National Radio Channel 8 is about to begin!]

Mo Qianshang's body stiffened for a moment.

Then, he moved.

It was neither an attacking move nor a defensive move; it was not a move that any normal martial artist would make.

He walked towards his contracted beast.

The Shadow Spider was spewing venom when it suddenly noticed its master walking towards it with strange gait and twisting body.

Mo Qianshang grabbed the thickest foreleg of the poisonous spider with both hands.

Hug her, press her against him.

Then, he started dancing.

Her waist twisted, her legs wrapped around the spider's leg, and she spun around the dark leg one and a half times. Her posture was alluring, her movements fluid, and her sense of rhythm absurdly strong.

The poisonous fog still lingered on the arena. In the purplish-black smoke, a young human was performing a pole dance while clinging to the leg of a giant spider.

The entire room was silent for a full three seconds.

Three seconds later...

"Hahahaha!"

The stands of the Dragon Empire erupted first.

"Holy crap! What is he doing?!"

"He's dancing? He's dancing! Dancing while hugging spider legs!"

"Hahahaha, I can't take it anymore, what the hell is this?!"

Even the stands of the Blazing Sun Empire couldn't hold back anymore. In the Ice Phoenix Empire's usually most indifferent spectator section, someone laughed so hard they slid off their chair.

The stands of the Senluo Empire were completely silent.

Their top eight contestant, their trump card, their rising star Mo Qianshang, is performing a pole dance while hugging a spider's leg in front of 100,000 people.

The team leader's face turned green.

The commentator's voice trembled, not from nervousness, but from suppressing laughter: "Player Mo Qianshang—is currently—performing some—unconventional movements. He appears to be affected by some kind of mental ability."

The phrase "mental skills" made the experts' smiles fade.

Illusion.

This kind of illusion can make a target act completely against their will while they are fully conscious; it is not an ordinary illusion.

Ordinary illusions might cause visual illusions or brief dizziness. But to make a high-level martial artist dance in public, and dance so earnestly and with such dedication, is truly extraordinary.

Just how abnormal is this cat's mental strength?

On the arena, the Shadow Spider was stunned.

It didn't know why its owner suddenly hugged its leg and spun around, but out of its contracted beast instinct, it didn't attack its owner, but just tried to pull its leg back.

I can't pull it out.

Mo Qianshang was holding on too tightly, and with the "passion" bestowed by the illusion, the spider's legs were being squeezed so hard they were making a cracking sound.

Su Qianxue stood at the edge of the poisonous fog, holding the Moon Crown Staff in her hand, and lifted her foot to walk forward.

The poisonous fog blocked their path. The purplish-black smoke remained thick, and although Mo Qianshang had lost his fighting ability, the poisonous spiders were still unconsciously spewing venom.

She stopped and looked back at Yichen.

Yichen perched on her shoulder, his emerald green cat eyes admiring his "work" with great interest.

Su Qianxue's lips twitched.

"Alright, stop playing around. He's already embarrassed enough."

Yi Chen reluctantly withdrew the illusion spell from Mo Qian Shang's body.

"Meow."

[Then let's have one last program. After the pole dancing, how about some hand-to-hand combat?]

His cat-like eyes turned toward the Shadow Spider.

An Emperor-level eighth-tier illusion against a King-level eighth-tier contracted beast.

The spiritual energy threads reached out and penetrated the poisonous spider's consciousness in three seconds.

Mo Qianshang's illusion had just been dispelled, and he hadn't yet fully recovered from his daze. The moment he loosened his grip on the spider's leg, the poisonous spider moved.

Suddenly, the eight legs exerted force, and one of the hind legs swept over, hitting Mo Qianshang squarely in the waist.

"Well!"

Mo Qianshang was sent flying by his contracted beast.

He tumbled twice in the air and crashed heavily onto the ring. Before he could get up, the venomous spider charged at him again.

The spider raised its leg and slammed it down. Mo Qianshang rolled to dodge, his face completely bewildered.

"What are you doing! Stop! I am your master!"

The venomous spider ignored him.

Under the control of the illusion, it "believed" that Mo Qianshang was an intruder who had to be eliminated.

A man and a spider chased and fought each other in the purplish-black poisonous fog.

Mo Qianshang ran and cursed, while the poisonous spider chased and slapped at him. The spider's legs slammed against the stone slabs of the arena, sending fragments of stone flying with each blow.

"He's fighting with his contracted beast?!"

The audience in the stands couldn't sit still any longer.

"What's going on? First they were dancing, and now they're fighting?"

"What exactly did that cat do to him?"

"Illusion! It's definitely an illusion! An illusion that can control both a person and their contracted beast simultaneously—that's beyond the realm of Emperor-level magic, isn't it?"

"No, theoretically, it's possible with Emperor-level illusions, but only if one's mental strength far exceeds that of the target."

No one answered the question. Because the answer was right there on the ring: a golden kitten perched on the silver-haired girl's shoulder, leisurely licking its paws.

The venomous spider finally completed the "task" assigned by Yichen.

A spider leg lifted up from below, precisely sending Mo Qianshang flying from the center of the arena to the edge.

Mo Qianshang's back slammed into the railing, causing him to flip over and land on the cushioning mat outside the arena.

Out of bounds.

The referee raised his hand: "Dragon Empire, Su Qianxue, wins!"

On the stands of the Senluo Empire, the team leader crushed the teacup in his hand, burning his hand.

The audience at Dragon Empire was laughing so hard they were breathless; half of them were standing and clapping, while the other half were bent over, panting.

Private rooms on the upper floors.

Lin Bingyu put down her teacup and rested her fingers on the windowsill.

"interesting."

Chu Yun, who was beside her, turned to look at her.

Lin Bingyu's lips twitched slightly, the movement so subtle as to be barely perceptible.

"It's getting more and more interesting."

Her gaze pierced through the glass and landed on the golden kitten on the ring.

An Emperor-level illusion technique, capable of controlling both humans and beasts simultaneously. It combines spatial attacks, gravity fields, and this mind control ability.

The cat was worth more than she had previously estimated.