The battle between White-Eye Bug and Yellow Great-Immortal was on a hair-trigger, and Shen Cong had already guided the Great Vajra to retract its metal-steel.

"Little Four, guard the Great Vajra!"

"Bobo… steady…" the four-legged dragon answered, then snarled toward the two jin beasts stronger than itself a short way off. Yellow bug… yellow caterpillar… Bobo… kill… tasty…

Shen Cong paid the dragon's resentment no mind and walked over to the driver's cab, eyeing Chen Xiuni coldly. "Out."

Chen Xiuni jumped down from the truck. Used to Shen Cong's icy manner by now, she asked, "You've already brought this weasel to heel?"

Shen Cong went into the cab and shortly hauled out a stockpile of Mushroom weapons, splitting off half and shoving them at Chen Xiuni. "From here on, you'll work with Yellow Great-Immortal to kill White-Eye Bug. I'll have Yellow Great-Immortal ignore you. But mind you don't hit Yellow Great-Immortal by mistake — otherwise…"

He left the rest unsaid, but the meaning was clear.

Yellow Great-Immortal wasn't a dog he'd raised. Whether it gave anyone face was entirely up to the animal itself.

As they spoke —

Yellow Great-Immortal and White-Eye Bug were already at it. At sixty or seventy meters, Yellow Great-Immortal was far longer than White-Eye Bug, but its body was so slender and drawn-out that beside the tiger it actually looked rather shabby. From the faint gap in Talent, Shen Cong could tell that White-Eye Bug's Talent wasn't in fact as high as Yellow Great-Immortal's.

"Yellow Great-Immortal has 4.874H Talent, only 0.9H above the nuclear-grade standard of 4.865. White-Eye Bug should be more than 0.9H below Yellow Great-Immortal — and it's an ultimate-grade jin beast, not nuclear-grade."

Still, between nuclear-grade and ultimate-grade lay only a difference of quantity, more or less — not truly much of a qualitative change.

Compared to the slender Yellow Great-Immortal, the brawny White-Eye Bug was far better suited to fighting, so once the two behemoths went at each other, they battled evenly matched.

White-Eye Bug was fierce: forelimbs lunging up, great maw tearing, tail sweeping sideways — all of them weapons.…