"The Beast Taming Sect really is a pain to deal with."
Gobel lowered his right hand, his five fingers reaching for the strange beast's horn like iron hooks.
As his fingers reached out, the bone armor over his knuckles suddenly surged outward.
His five fingers became five thick bone spikes, dark red light churning between them like a skeletal claw reaching out of the Abyss.
The skeletal claw seized the strange beast's horn. All five bone spikes tightened at once, locking the horn firmly in his palm.
The strange beast let out a muffled roar, its four hooves scrabbling madly against the ground. Dark gold halos burst outward one after another, yet it could not break free of that skeletal claw in the slightest.
Gobel's right arm flexed sharply, and his thirty-foot-tall body took a step forward.
He shoved the strange beast backward, along with Miao Jun on its back.
The strange beast's four hooves gouged four deep furrows through the stone tiles, its entire body sliding back dozens of feet beneath the force of that shove.
But Miao Jun reacted the instant the strange beast was pushed back.
He drew his left hand away from the beast's neck and traced an arc through the empty air before him.
A ring of golden light remained along the arc's path, rapidly swelling, condensing, and taking shape as a circular golden talisman formation floating before Miao Jun.
Dense beast patterns flowed across the formation's surface, each corresponding to a different beast-taming method.
"Beast Soul Guide: Fierce Fang."
Miao Jun thrust the short whip in his right hand straight into the center of the formation.
The formation burst apart that instant, transforming into the phantom of a giant wolf formed entirely from golden light.
The giant wolf was a size larger than the