125: I'm in a hurry, so I called out my best fighters. [Thanks to 'Thorned Flower' for the gift]
“Then... can I play with this?” Su Jue rubbed his small hands together and leaned in.
“No way.” Zero shook her head, clutching the iron rod to her chest. “This is very heavy; you won't be able to lift it.”
Won't... won't be able to lift it?
Su Jue was stunned.
With his dignified [Intermediate Chaos Dragon Body], he could blow up an asteroid with a single punch. Would he be stumped by a fire poker?
“Don't believe me if you don't want to.” Zero saw through his thoughts and handed the iron rod over. “You try.”
Su Jue refused to believe in such nonsense.
He reached out with both hands and firmly grabbed the shaft of the rod.
Then, he began to exert force.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
The iron rod didn't budge an inch.
Su Jue's face began to turn red.
He activated his [Intermediate Chaos Dragon Body]. The muscles across his entire body instantly tightened, and a pale golden luster surfaced on his skin.
He was using every ounce of strength he had!
However, that iron rod was as if it were welded to Zero's hand; it didn't even damn well flicker!
“I told you, you can't lift it.” Zero easily took the iron rod back and even bounced it in her hand. “I used to use it to stir porridge. One time I fell asleep while stirring, and when I woke up, the pot was gone, the porridge was gone, and only this was left.”
Su Jue: “...”
Capybara: “...”
Niu Tuo and Mao Xiaomeng had completely given up on thinking.
Su Jue's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
He felt he had suffered an unprecedented insult!
To be looked down upon by a little girl who looked seven or eight years old, using a fire poker!
What a supreme humiliation!
“I don't believe it!”
Su Jue gritted his teeth and pointed in the direction of the arena the dwarf shopkeeper had mentioned earlier.
“Let's go! Let's go fight!”
“I'm going to take the championship!”
He angrily strode off with his short little legs, heading towards the Ten Thousand Beast Arena.
He wanted to prove himself!
Capybara looked at his master's fuming back, then at the 'fire poker' in Zero's arms, and silently updated the information in its core database.
[Target: Zero.]
[Danger Level: Assessment failed. Recommended to be written directly into the fundamental laws of the universe.]
[Supplementary Information: The spoon she uses to stir porridge is suspected to be capable of piercing through this universe with a single poke.]
“Shopkeeper, how do I get to the arena?” Su Jue reached the door and realized he didn't know the way, so he ran back just as angrily.
The dwarf shopkeeper gave a start and hurriedly ran out from behind the counter, his face covered in a fawning smile.
“Young Master! I'll lead the way for you! This way, please! This way, please!”
...Myriad Beast City, Ten Thousand Beast Arena.
Rather than calling it an arena, it was more like a giant steel city embedded within a mountain.
The entire architectural style highlighted one word—rugged!
Walls that towered into the clouds were pieced together from giant metal plates stained with dark red blood.
Skulls of various giant beasts hung on the walls, each one emitting a terrifying aura at least at the Divine Ability Realm.
Tens of thousands of spectator seats surrounded a massive battlefield in the center with a diameter of over ten kilometers.
At this moment, two giant beasts were fighting frantically on the battlefield.
One was a hundred-meter-tall Flame Troll, and the other was a three-hundred-meter-long Deep Sea Demon Octopus.
Every collision caused the entire arena to shake like an earthquake.
From the spectator stands, shouts and roars erupted like a mountain tsunami.
The air was thick with the smell of blood and sweat.
“Master, this... this place is too scary.” Mao Xiaomeng hid behind Niu Tuo, her little face turning pale with fright as she watched the scene of flesh and blood flying on the field.
Niu Tuo's throat was also dry, and he tightly gripped his battle-axe.
This place was a completely different concept from the small-scale adventures he had participated in before.
This was a true meat grinder!
“It's alright, just a bit noisy,” Su Jue commented, picking at his ear.
Under the perception of his [Chaos Unity] power, the two giant beasts fighting so intensely that the heavens and earth seemed to split were, in his eyes, no different from two weaklings pecking at each other.
It was purely all bark and no bite, just looking intimidating.
“Master, the registration desk is this way.”
The dwarf shopkeeper trotted along, bowing and scraping as he led Su Jue to a metal counter.
Behind the counter sat an orc four meters tall, with knotted muscles and the head of a wild boar.
His aura had actually reached the peak of the ninth level of the Domain Transformation Realm!
Just sitting there, he gave off a mountain-like sense of pressure.
“Registering?” The Boar-headed Orc glanced at the dwarf shopkeeper, then his gaze fell on Su Jue, and he froze.
“An Infant?” He couldn't help but mock, “Shorty, what did you bring a nursing brat here for? This isn't a nursery!”
“Boom!”
He slapped the counter, making a loud noise.
“Get lost! Don't waste my time here!”
The dwarf shopkeeper trembled and hurriedly explained, “No, no, no, my lord, you've misunderstood! This little master is... is here to compete!”
“Compete?”
The Boar-headed Orc felt as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.
He and the several guards behind him burst into deafening laughter at the same time.
“Hahahaha! Compete? With just him?”
“Has he even been weaned yet?”
“Does he have to have a sip of milk before he fights? We don't have any wet nurses here!”
Hearing this, the other contestants lining up to register also began to laugh along.
Their eyes looking at Su Jue were full of playfulness and disdain.
Every year, there were such ignorant fools who thought the arena was a place to make a name for themselves.
In the end, they wouldn't even survive the first round.
Su Jue frowned.
It was this familiar plot again.
He was getting a little annoyed.
Why did people always like to judge strength by appearance?
Looking down on babies, are we?!
He looked up at the Boar-headed Orc who was laughing the most wildly.
“I'm asking you.”
“Hmm?” The Boar-headed Orc stopped laughing and looked down at him contemptuously. “Little thing, do you have any last words?”
“Call out the best fighter you have here.” Su Jue pouted his lips and spoke in a childish voice, “I'm in a hurry.”
“?!!!”
The air instantly went silent.
Everyone's laughter came to an abrupt halt.
They looked at Su Jue as if they were looking at an idiot.
This little kid... he must be crazy, right?
The Boar-headed Orc's face instantly darkened.
“Little bastard, you're looking for death!”
He suddenly stood up from his seat, and a violent killing intent pressed down on Su Jue like something physical!
The aura of the peak of the ninth level of the Domain Transformation Realm erupted with full force!
Niu Tuo and Mao Xiaomeng, standing behind Su Jue, instantly turned pale, and even breathing became difficult.
However.
Su Jue acted as if nothing was happening.
He even let out a yawn.
“Too weak.”
He shook his head and extended a chubby finger.
Then, he gave a light tap toward the Boar-headed Orc.
A wisp of grey current, thinner than a strand of hair, flew out from Su Jue's fingertip and vanished in a flash.
The next second.
The body of that four-meter-tall Boar-headed Orc, as strong as a small mountain, froze.
The expression of rage on his face solidified.