My starting summon is a small skeleton

With Guzhentian spewing blood and falling into a coma,

the competition had come to an end for Lu Wu.

However, Lu Wu still chose a champion out of the remaining seven contestants with due diligence, selecting someone named Wang Yuan.

Of course, for the audience, who became the champion of this competition didn't matter anymore.

In their minds, the competition had been renamed the Lu Wu Cup.

This 19-year-old freshman, the youngest contestant on stage,

had crushed everyone while serving as a judge.

He played the game and tamed seven contestants.

The final face-off against Guzhentian was even more spectacular.

In less than five hours, Lu Wu finished what the other had been researching for over a year without completing.

He let all the contestants and audience know what it meant to dominate the present age, and what it meant to be an unparalleled demon king.

Even Sun Kongkong, who had prompted him to join the competition, had not anticipated such a result.

When Sun Kongkong heard that Lu Wu had beaten Guzhentian to the point of vomiting blood and becoming reclusive, he was utterly dumbfounded.

"Is this guy really that fierce, that brutal?"

"But, isn't this a bit too much? Gutian might go insane, right?"

Well, considering how much pride and love Gutian had for his son, the possibility of him going crazy was not small.

Although Lu Wu was now protected by both Tie Xiong and Liu Cheng, making Gutian powerless even if he lost his mind,

it was inevitable that Gutian might do something irrational.

A careless move could render Yuan Hua's prior patience in vain; thus, Sun Kongkong thought it best to send Lu Wu back early.

Coincidentally, Yuan Hua and Jiang Yuexing were also of the same mind.

Thus, no sooner had Lu Wu returned from Feng Chao than he received a message from Sun Kongkong, asking him to prepare to return to Jiangnan early.

"Go back? That's fine by me, it's just Principal Zhang over here..."

"No problem at all!

We can go back now!"

Zhang Wentao was especially excited at the moment.

Obviously, he had already heard about Lu Wu significantly boosting Jiangnan University's reputation at the competition.

Since Lu Wu had already achieved so much, whether to hold any ceremony here was not as important.

Zhang Wentao nodded, while Lu Wu was somewhat silent.

To be honest, there was some dissatisfaction in his heart.

Although he also wanted to get back early to fix Little Skeleton's phone, research issues regarding the Little Skeleton Mage, and he was also very concerned about Lin Jianying,

Beijing didn't hold much for Lu Wu to reminisce over compared to Jiangnan.

But he was still a bit irked.

Mainly because he felt he had completely overwhelmed everyone, including Guzhentian, to the point of seclusion, but now he was being rushed back home, which gave him a strong sense of fleeing in haste.

It made Lu Wu feel choked up.

However, he didn't say anything, just silently made a note against the Gu father and son in his heart.

"Next time I come to Beijing, I must personally break Gutian's limbs. As for Guzhentian? This time, I made him give up on the cultivation aspect; next time, I'll break him as a Summoner!"

Lu Wu was indeed magnanimous at heart, and once he settled this score in his mind, he felt much better.

After packing up, Lu Wu and his group set off on the journey home.

Different this time was that Lu Wu was taking someone extra with him back home than when he arrived; Tie Xiong said he wanted to stay close to protect Lu Wu all the way to Jiangnan.

Although anyone with sight and a sound mind could guess the old man's intentions,

it was clear he hadn't made enough money and planned to follow Lu Wu to Jiangnan to continue earning.

But the Cultivation Center allowed Tie Xiong to accompany Lu Wu back to Jiangnan.

Aside from adding Tie Xiong, the team also gained a Summoned Beast.

Yep, the very Summoned Beast that Lu Wu had brought out at the competition.

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Name: Snowman Effigy (One-time Evolution)

Power: 1 Star (Elite)

Quality: Ordinary (Black Iron) (Enhanced)

Attribute: Ice and Snow

State: So hot (The effigy is so hot, it's about to melt)

Weakness: Fire (Ordinary) Grass (Strong)

Basic Skills: Snowball Attack (Master) Ice Shield (Master) Dodge (Master)

Advanced Skill: Resistance Aura (Unmastered)

Talent: Ice and Snow Creature (Passive) In cold environments, it can significantly enhance the Snowman's power and skill intensity.

Description: Put away your sleazy gaze, don't look at it just because it's well-shaped, but it cannot charge...

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Lu Wu had not felt the system's scathing tongue in a long time.

Who's being sleazy? Who wants to charge?

He, Lu Wu, was the most proper, alright?

Besides, from an attribute perspective, the Snowman Effigy's attributes were mediocre, and Lu Wu wasn't too impressed.

However, thinking that this one evolution plan was foolishly given to him by Guzhentian, and that he just optimized it a bit, amounting to scoring an evolution plan for nothing, made Lu Wu's mood quite good.

Then, upon further thought, although the Snowman Effigy couldn't charge, its form was still quite attractive, and if released to the market it was likely to be very popular; he would earn another sum, making Lu Wu even happier. He immediately picked up his laptop and uploaded the Snowman Effigy's evolution plan.

After uploading the evolution plan for the Snowman Effigy, Lu Wu took out two items.

One was a special wooden token, and the other, a book.

These were the things given by Sun Kongkong; the wooden token was to deal with the 'War Soul Tablet' energy inside Little Skeleton's phone, and the book was the skill he mentioned for forging items.

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Item: Suppressing Order

Item Level: Silver

Description: A one-time use item that can be used to suppress Lord-level energy or special mysterious energies,

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This was the description of the token and the book.

As for the book, Lu Wu opened it and read it during his journey back.

Unexpectedly, after reading the book, an additional skill appeared on his attribute panel.

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Hammering Hand (Unmastered): A special Summoner skill specifically used for item forging and fusion.

Can improve the chances of items or equipment successfully taking shape.

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This was the system's introduction, but as someone who had completely read the book, Lu Wu understandably had a deeper understanding of Hammering Hand.

Simply put, this skill could hammer out the impurities in items, promoting the fusion of elements within the items and equipment.

It was a particularly useful skill.

"It seems that my focus has to change, and I need to master Hammering Hand as soon as possible, while also increasing its Skill Mastery as much as possible."

This thing would be very useful for his upcoming repairs and upgrades to Little Skeleton's phone.

Thinking this way, Lu Wu began to devote all his energy to researching the Hammering Hand skill.

Meanwhile, as Lu Wu was studying Hammering Hand, at the Lingnan Demon Cave, someone had shaken off their parents and was resolutely heading towards Jiangnan with a dog in tow...

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I'm short, I'm soft, I confess, I'm not a human!!

I'll try to have a burst of releases tomorrow,