Teeth Like Rakes Within Its Jaws, Golden-Armored Steel-Legged Touch Dragon King

But Chen Ping soon discovered an option that suited him even better.

Recommended Soul Beast to Hunt: Touch Dragon King

Attributes: Darkness, Poison

Age: Four Hundred Eighty Years

Location: North of the Star Dou Forest Outer Region, Poisonous Insect Woodland, inside Giant Centipede Cave

Possible Soul Skills after hunting: Poison Staff Dance to the Heavens, Blinding Muffled Strike.

Chen Ping's mind raced as he recalled what he knew about the Touch Dragon King.

Generally speaking, whenever a Soul Master heard the name of a Soul Beast ending in "King" or "Emperor," they needed to be cautious.

According to the customary naming conventions of the Soul Master world, such Soul Beasts were most likely Over Ten Thousand Years old, perhaps even over thirty thousand or fifty thousand years old.

Among certain powerful Soul Beast clans, they needed to reach the Hundred Thousand Year Level before they could be called kings or emperors.

There were many examples, such as the Underground Demon Spider and the Underground Demon Spider Emperor, the Thousand-Jun Ant and the Thousand-Jun Ant Emperor, and the Evil Orca and the Evil Orca King.

But the Touch Dragon King was an exception. The "King" in its name merely represented its status within the clan; it was not meant to display the strength of its cultivation.

It was like the Thousand-Jun Ant Queen. The "Queen" only represented her identity within the colony. A Thousand-Jun Ant Queen at the Ten Thousand Year Level was still an ant queen, and a Thousand-Jun Ant Queen at the Ten Year Level was also an ant queen.

The Touch Dragon King was the same. Even a Hundred Year Level Touch Dragon King was still a Touch Dragon King. Its title was determined by its place in the clan.

As for what a Touch Dragon was, the system's listed location made it clear.

Poisonous Insect Woodland, inside Giant Centipede Cave.

A Touch Dragon was, plainly put, an elegant name for a golden-shelled centipede Soul Beast. Touch Dragon, Touch Dragon—essentially a dragon with feelers.

Still, this Soul Beast had rather good attributes. Not only did it possess both darkness and poison abilities, but its shell also offered powerful defense. Its only drawback was that it was extremely difficult to hunt.

After all, the Touch Dragon King would certainly be surrounded by Touch Dragon underlings serving it loyally.

Moreover, Soul Beasts such as Evil Pincer Bugs generally had good relations with Touch Dragons and often lived alongside them.

The option was excellent, but unless Chen Ping had a Soul King-level bodyguard at his side, barging into the cave would most likely just turn him into bug food.

Chen Ping felt somewhat unwilling to let it go. Missing out on that Demon Eye Magic Tree was one thing—its age simply did not suit him, and there was nothing to be done about that.

But this Touch Dragon King's age, attributes, and potential Soul Skills were all perfectly suited to him.

Having to settle for less again and search for some inferior substitute left Chen Ping deeply dissatisfied.

But no matter how unwilling he was, there was nothing he could do. He was alone now, with no powerful patron to rely on. The one thing he had to avoid was getting carried away.

As he continued reading the system's detailed recommendation documents, Chen Ping's mood improved somewhat.

To a certain extent, his system's ability to gather and organize information could serve as a cheaper substitute for Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection.

Although by the time the system organized its documents and delivered them to him, the information was already outdated compared to Huo Yuhao's real-time Spiritual Detection, and it even charged Scholar Points to do the work for him.

Still, it was already incredibly powerful. The strength of his Scholar System did not lie in excelling in one field, but in being proficient in everything. With a cheat like this by his side, Chen Ping was already very satisfied.

But Chen Ping's gaze soon sharpened as he noticed something was wrong.

Recommended Soul Beast to Hunt: Touch Dragon

Attribute: Poison

Age: Two Hundred Thirty Years

Location: North of the Star Dou Forest Outer Region, Poisonous Insect Woodland, outside Giant Centipede Cave

Recommended Soul Beast to Hunt: Touch Dragon

Location: North of the Star Dou Forest Outer Region, Poisonous Insect Woodland, Blue Fish Stream

Recommended Hunt

Location.

Why had all these Touch Dragons suddenly poured out of Giant Centipede Cave?

Chen Ping immediately realized this might be an opportunity.

Although he had no idea why the Touch Dragons inside Giant Centipede Cave had all left, he had to consider whether he should seize such a perfect chance.

He was not far from the Poisonous Insect Woodland. He could get there quickly if he ran.

The problem was that the reason these Touch Dragons had left their nest was simply too inexplicable.

Even if Chen Ping took advantage of their absence, entered Giant Centipede Cave, and fought the Touch Dragon King in a true One-on-One before killing it, he still had to consider the possibility of the Touch Dragons returning.

If they blocked him inside Giant Centipede Cave halfway through, that would be truly fatal!

Though he had all kinds of concerns, Chen Ping ultimately ran toward the Poisonous Insect Woodland first.

No matter what, he had to take a look before making a decision.

After all, he had merely used the system to search for Soul Beasts suitable for him to hunt, and the list just happened to include the Touch Dragon King and Touch Dragons.

So if he wanted to find out what was really going on, he still had to go see for himself.

North of the Star Dou Forest Outer Region, Poisonous Insect Woodland, outside Giant Centipede Cave.

"Bei Bei, do you have any realgar left?"

A pitiful cry rang out. The voice was crisp and pleasant, though its tone carried a hint of distress.

The owner of the voice was a girl who looked around fifteen or sixteen. Her long black hair was tied into a ponytail that swayed in the wind.

Her pale blue fitted outfit outlined her budding figure, brimming with youthful vitality. With mysterious, unpredictable footwork, she darted through the forest.

The girl had large, lively phoenix eyes, a high, pert nose, and an almost perfect oval face. Her pretty features were flushed, clearly from running.

"How could I have prepared that much? Should we go back and get more, or just return to the academy and call for reinforcements?"

Following behind the girl was a boy who appeared to be around her age. He was slender and upright, and his short Deep Blue hair gleamed like gemstones beneath the sunlight.

Though young, he gave off an elegant air. His handsome face was currently filled with helplessness as he kept running after the girl, his footwork equally mysterious and unpredictable.

Behind them chased over twenty giant centipedes with golden-sheened shells. The smaller ones were half a meter long, while the largest stretched beyond a meter, all of them pursuing relentlessly.

The next instant, the earth churned and soil surged upward.

A giant centipede with six wings on its back, swift as lightning, and clad in golden armor burst from the ground directly beneath the young pair's feet!

As the saying went:

Two antennae, like golden whips; a pair of great jaws, gleaming cold.

Its segmented body rose layer by layer, with a hundred pairs of hooked legs along its sides.

Six wings grew upon its back like sharp sickles; horns upon its head resembled a blue dragon's.

Teeth within its jaws were like rakes; golden armor and steel legs—the Touch Dragon King!

This was the greatest difference between a Touch Dragon King and an ordinary Touch Dragon.

Compared to a Touch Dragon, the Touch Dragon King evolved two enormous antennae resembling golden whips, as well as three pairs of scythe-like bony wings along its back.

This structure allowed it to burrow and swim through soil and rock, leading Touch Dragons to establish homes wherever it went.