"Such strength."
Miao Jun had already reacted the instant his two tamed beasts were driven back.
He lashed his short whip five times with his right hand, weaving five gray-white whip shadows into a five-pointed net of light that descended on Gobel.
At the same time, his left hand reached into the gourd at his waist for the fourth time, but this time, all he felt was its empty bottom.
All the liquor had already been poured out.
The last few drops of liquor in the Purple-Red Gourd trickled from its mouth onto the back of his hand.
He glanced down at the empty gourd, a faint trace of regret flashing through his dark red pupils.
The five-pointed net of light closed over Gobel's head, and all five whip shadows lashed down at once.
But this time, Gobel did not take them head-on.
He abruptly threw back his head, and two thick pillars of dark red light shot from his eyes, blasting into the five-pointed net and tearing it in half down the middle.
The five whip shadows shattered into gray-white fragments of light that rained through the air, and Gobel charged out through them.
His bone-armored body, thirty-five feet tall, bore down on Miao Jun like a burning mountain.
Miao Jun flipped off the Strange Beast's back, lightly pushing off with his right foot, and drifted several dozen feet backward like a gray-white feather.
But Gobel's right hand had already reached out, its five dark gold bone blades clawing down toward Miao Jun's chest.
Miao Jun held his short whip across his body with his right hand, catching the strike of those five bone blades.
The bone blades slashed into the short whip, carving five deep notches into its dark shaft and nearly severing it in the middle.
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