"Huh?" Li Xiaoya's laughter caught in his throat, and he cried out in surprise. He had never expected the Mechanism Beast King to beg for mercy, and found it rather amusing.
Bang, bang, bang! Suddenly, Zhang Hong's sharp cries and the crashing of shattered Mechanism Beasts reached his ears. Li Xiaoya turned to look. In just those few breaths, a quarter of the four-legged Mechanism Beasts had been smashed to pieces on the ground. The battle had become utterly one-sided.
"Hmph! If you really want to stop fighting, tell those piles of junk of yours to stand down!" Li Xiaoya snorted coldly.
"Ah, this old man admits defeat. Back when I still had my fleshly body, you would never have had a chance to order me around!" the Mechanism Beast King rambled.
"Enough nonsense! If you don't stop them now, every last one of those piles of junk will be dead!" Li Xiaoya said coldly.
"Uh, fine. This old man is a tiger brought down to the plains. I admit defeat!" With that, a humming suddenly rose from inside the enormous Mechanism Beast on the ground. Mechanical grinding sounded from the four-legged Mechanism Beasts, and almost all of them stopped moving at once.
"All right, senior sister, stop fighting!" Li Xiaoya called to Zhang Hong.
"Oh, you finished him off that quickly? I hadn't had my fill yet!" Zhang Hong stopped, put the Whip back into her Storage Pouch, and walked over with a smile. What had looked like the beginning of a great battle had ended with a tiger's head and a snake's tail.
"Hehe, just what are you? How can you speak? And how can you control the Mechanism Beasts in here?" Li Xiaoya asked curiously.
"Uh, actually, I'm human too," the Mechanism Beast King said, dropping a