"Care to introduce yourself?"
"Miao Jun, Beast Taming Sacred Sect."
"Gobel."
After the two exchanged names, the atmosphere across the entire arena abruptly grew heavy.
Gobel's bone-armored body, thirty feet tall, stood on the eastern side of the arena like a gray-white mountain.
Magma-like light slowly swirled within his dark red eyes, each turn sending a crushing pressure spreading outward.
His arms hung at his sides, his ten fingers, thick as iron pillars, slightly spread.
Dark red light churned in the gaps between the bone armor around his knuckles.
They were like ten active volcanoes, suppressed for far too long, gathering the strength to erupt.
Miao Jun sat upright on the strange beast's back, his left hand resting lightly on the scales of its neck.
His fingertips gently pressed into a gap between two particular scales.
The black strange beast's scarlet eyes suddenly flashed, and the dark golden radiance swirling within its vertical pupils quickened.
The dark golden rings beneath its four hooves abruptly brightened.
Miao Jun's expression remained as calm as ever, his right hand holding the three-foot whip.
The gray-white beast hair at the whip's tip fluttered gently in the wind.
The wine inside the Purple-Red Gourd at his waist sloshed softly in rhythm with the strange beast's breathing.
It made a faint gurgling sound, its rich fragrance gathering around him in a barely perceptible mist.
"Shall we begin?"
Miao Jun spoke, his voice as placid as water.
"You first."
Gobel's voice rumbled like boulders rolling deep underground.
"Arrogant."
Miao Jun uttered the word flatly.
The instant his voice fell, the black strange beast beneath him kicked off fiercely with all four hooves.
Dark golden rings burst beneath its hooves, and the entire beast charged toward Gobel like a bolt of black lightning.
It lowered its head, aiming