Hearing Ye Fan's words, Big Black Dog's eyes widened as he mumbled incoherently around something in his mouth.
No matter how hard Ye Fan listened, he could not make it out. With a wave of his hand, he removed the divine power sealing Big Black Dog's mouth.
Big Black Dog was overjoyed and hurriedly spat out the metal sphere. Then he bared his teeth and glared furiously at Ye Fan.
"You damned brat, how dare you use this thing to scare me? Do you know that I—Awooo!"
Before he could finish, Ye Fan stuffed the saliva-covered metal sphere back into his mouth and looked at him expressionlessly.
"Can you speak properly?"
"Mmph, mmph..."
Big Black Dog tried the same trick again, continuing to mumble.
But this time, Ye Fan refused to fall for it. He sneered, "Nod if you understand."
Big Black Dog's mouth twitched. He widened his bell-sized dog eyes and stared at Ye Fan from afar.
Yet beneath Ye Fan's unmoved sneer, he finally admitted defeat and nodded dejectedly.
"That's more like it!"
Ye Fan smiled in satisfaction, waved away the divine power, and retrieved the sphere.
Big Black Dog coughed twice. Just as he was about to change his tune, he saw Ye Fan holding the sphere in his palm, cold light flashing in his eyes. He immediately chose discretion and said with a fawning smile,
"Ahem, brat, let's talk things over properly."
"I have always enjoyed reasoning things out. What happened just now was indeed improper... How about this? Put that thing away and pull me up. I am magnanimous and certainly will not hold it against you!"
You will not hold it against me?
Ye Fan laughed in anger. He rose to his feet and glanced at Big Black Dog.
"Still calling yourself 'I'? You