Boom!

In the next instant, an invisible pressure descended upon Shi Jin.

Standing atop the arena, Shi Jin made no move at all — just like Bai Xi and Lu Heng before him, he was resisting the pressure with his own flesh and spirit!

This scene left the watching beast tamers slightly stunned. A dozen or so seconds was actually quite fast; by the time they snapped to attention, more than ten seconds had already passed on the arena. The translucent waves of intimidation had already turned into a storm coiling around Shi Jin, yet Shi Yu remained utterly motionless.

At the sight, everyone's mouths fell slightly open...

In the blink of their daze, several more seconds slipped by — and in a flash, twenty seconds had passed. The pressure had now reached the standard of commander-level power.

At this point, it was almost as if a commander-level ferocious beast, one that had mastered intimidation beyond the level of perfection, was continuously unleashing its pressure on Shi Jin!

And at the same time, the beast's power was still steadily increasing!

"I knew it!"

Below, Bai Xi pouted. Looking at Shi Jin, whose expression hadn't changed in the slightest, she was dying to know how Shi Tan's family trained their bodies.

After all, when a high-level beast tamer's pet beast faced intimidation of this level, it would instantly lose its will to fight.

But Shi Jin — he hadn't used any pet beast's power at all, and had actually withstood it on his own physique alone.

Twenty-one seconds, twenty-two seconds, twenty-three seconds...

"Holy shit."

The crowd's expressions gradually froze, feeling it grow more and more absurd.

The first two were one thing — Bai Xi came from a martial fighting clan, possessed fusion talent, and was a master herself, so a powerful physique was only natural. As for Lu Heng, his beast taming level was even higher, which meant a higher upper and lower limit for his constitution; they were both beast tamers contracted with king-level pet beasts, so the crowd could accept that they could withstand commander-level intimidation. But, but...

Shi Jin could not possibly be a Master-tier beast tamer!

And Shi Cen was definitely not carrying any spirit equipment. They looked at Shi Jin, dressed simply in his panda suit, and saw not the faintest equipment response coming from him. Shi Jin was resisting the pressure purely with his own flesh!

"This—this is impossible!!!"

Many people stared wide-eyed, doubting whether they had miscounted the number.

Soon, Shi Jin's endurance caught up with Bai Xi and Lu Heng. This meant that Shi Ying's constitution was in no way inferior to that of Bai Xi and Lu Heng, who were one or two grades higher than him.

Seeing this, Bai Xi and Lu Heng both had their eyelids twitch.

"That kid Shi Jin..."

Only they themselves knew how much they had paid to train their physiques to this level—to a level far beyond beast tamers of the same rank. Yet here was such a physique appearing in a high-tier beast tamer, and they could not help but begin to question life itself.

"Almost there."

Meanwhile, Shi Jin began to feel the pressure, felt the prickling pain start in his spirit and then in his body, and so he stopped holding out and directly began summoning his beast.

A green summoning array representing a high-tier beast tamer appeared in midair, and the next moment, a cry of "Eee" rang out.

Quickly, a tiny iron-eating beast dropped from the array above into Shi Jin's hand. Shi Shuo grasped the iron-eating beast and immediately gained immense power.

"Eee eee eee."

You're not a screaming chicken, so stop that eee-ing!

"Eee."

During this process, everyone could clearly notice subtle changes in Shi Ying's skin, as if an invisible suit of armor had wrapped itself around Shi Jin, giving his body a metallic sheen.

Not only that—within the hardened layer, upon Shi Ying's body, a transparent layer of intimidation rippled and coiled, forming a second suit of armor that enveloped and protected Shi Jin!

"That's the iron-eating beast's Hardening! A masterwork-tier externalized, coiled Hardening!"

Many present had heard of Shi Jin's fame as the Iron-Eating Beast Knight, and now, seeing the little iron-eating beast channel its power into Shi Jin, their expressions turned rich and varied.

"Here it comes, here it comes..."

"But... that pose seems a little off."

Sit on it!

Ride the iron-eating beast!

What good is holding such a tiny iron-eating beast?!

By now, with Eleven's Hardening, Shi Ying's physical strength rose once more, and resisting the Commander-tier intimidation was effortless.

In the blink of an eye, the intimidation level reached the threshold between Commander-tier and Monarch-tier, hitting 30 seconds.

At this point, the audience was numb.

Although a time of 30 seconds represented Commander-tier Listening Snow Peak, and that result was utterly absurd for a high-tier beast tamer, given Shi Jin's monstrous personal constitution earlier, they could still more or less accept this fact.

They only wanted to know: could Shi Jin break through the 30-second limit?

At this moment.

As the 30-second mark arrived, even with max-level Hardening and coiled intimidation, Shi Cen once again felt the pressure bearing down. The immense force pressed in, and Shi Yun seemed to freeze; every second began to feel like a year to Jue.

"Thirty seconds."

As they hit thirty seconds, Shi Ling said the most critical moment had come. Whether he could hold out one more second would be crucial.

In this moment, many also held their breath, knowing the turning point ahead was important.

They looked toward the rock pillar. In an instant, the field blurred, covered by a materialized brown pressure as though the yellow heavens had collapsed. An even more terrifying intimidation swept directly toward Shi Jin.

Unlike Bai Xi, who fused with her beast and released intimidation to block it, and Lu Heng, who possessed her beast and used wind pressure to resist, Shi Qi, relying on Hardening and coiling to withstand the pressure, looked insignificant.

The powerful Monarch-tier intimidation bore down, and everyone's hearts tightened, unsure whether Shi Yu could hold on.

Yet at this very moment...

As the weakest Monarch-tier intimidation descended, Shi Cen began to reveal a new power—an abrupt eruption that shook everyone to the core.

Boom!!

A vast aura burst directly from Shi Jin. The Possession skill was very special; it could be activated by the beast from within the beast-taming space. Now, as the high-tier overlord species Red Pupil, whose energy value had already surpassed Chongchong's, entered Possession, Shi Ying's momentum surged like a volcano erupting, and astonishing flames coiled in Shi Jin's eyes.

A dazzling aura blazed skyward, charging straight at the intimidation!

"Fifty thousand energy after Possession."

By now, Lu Heng below had put her glasses back on. Reading the display on the bestiary, she murmured the new combat power born from the combination of Red Pupil's max-level Possession and Shi Ying's formidable constitution.

It had directly reached the standard of a Commander-species Monarch-tier beast.

"What!" Bai Xi gave a small start beside her, though when she thought of Shi Ying's constitution, that Crimson Eye lineage, she let it go. Anyway, that bug Shi Jin was even more absurd.

The intimidation descended. Shi Jin entered his Possession state, and as his power unfurled, an aura that pierced the heavens surged upward more than a dozen meters, instantly shoving the crushing pressure back and leaving the domain of intimidation tottering on the verge of collapse!

"This..."

In that instant, every eye went wide, fixed on Cen Yu.