Do You Want to Spar with Me?

By the lake, Xiao Wu crouched before the fire. At the sound of footsteps, she sprang up.

"You're finally back!"

She hurried over and looked everyone up and down. Only when she saw they were all safe did she relax.

Lin Yuan pulled a crisp-roasted dragon leg from his Soul Tool and tossed it over. Da Ming, coiled beside the lake, swept out his tail and caught it neatly, then lowered his head to sniff it.

"What's this?"

Er Ming chuckled beside him.

[That stinking lizard's meat. It smells delicious!]

After saying that, he leaned over to Da Ming, and the two brothers began muttering together. Lin Yuan had just turned around when Xiao Wu came up to him.

"Where's mine?"

Lin Yuan took another piece of roasted dragon meat from his Soul Tool and handed it to her.

"Right here. Take your time."

Xiao Wu took a bite and chewed slowly, her whole face lighting up.

"This meat's pretty good. Hmph, that'll teach you to bother me. Now you've turned into dinner."

Then she looked up at Lin Yuan.

"Oh, right. How did the fight go? Did anyone get hurt?"

The question went off like a firecracker. Several Gugas swarmed over at once, jostling and talking over one another.

Guga squeezed to the front, waving his stubby arms, his tail sticking high in the air.

"Let me tell it, guga! I brought my hammer down, and that big dragon fell flat, guga!"

Golden Mastiff Guga turned his face away with a soft snort, though his tail would not stop wagging.

"Without my punch, that lousy hammer of yours would never have come down, guga. I deserve all the credit for this fight, guga!"

Dark Gold Guga lifted his chin.

"I was the first to tear through its rock armor,