On the arena stage, the proctor spoke solemnly. "Student Xiao Yi, please choose the cultivation age of the Soul Beast for this assessment battle."
"Set it as high as you can. After all, they're the challengers." Xiao Yi's brows and eyes were gentle, and a calm, warm smile rested on his lips. His casual words silenced the entire venue.
What an absolute show-off.
Yan Shaozhe shook his head and laughed. Didn't he say he didn't want to participate? He'd even prepared the lines.
Then, as the cage opened, a Soul Beast approaching fifty thousand years of cultivation was released.
It was a Netherfire Lizard, a top-tier fire-attribute subdragon and one of the highest-cultivation Soul Beasts in this beast arena.
The main reason was that Soul Beasts with higher cultivation were simply too difficult to afford, especially those with special bloodlines. They were utterly impossible to keep. Not to mention anything else—even their strength alone could turn the Titled Douluo guarding them into bite-sized snacks.
The instant the Netherfire Lizard left its cage, its tiny vertical pupils suddenly lit up. Intense greed and desire surged in its eyes as it locked firmly onto Xiao Yi at the center of the arena, as though it had spotted some supreme tonic.
Unlike Scarlet King, it had not developed complete higher intelligence. Although a Soul Beast with fifty thousand years of cultivation had already gained some spirituality, it still could not escape a Soul Beast's instincts and was easily tempted by energy auras.
After all, Xiao Yi possessed terrifyingly dense fire-attribute power, along with all sorts of other miscellaneous attributes.
People often said that some animal's intelligence was equivalent to that of a human child of a certain age. But unless it had truly developed human intelligence, that so-called "equivalence" could be ignored entirely.