The More You Try to Save, the More You Lose

Although the Original Work never explicitly stated the exact temperature of Ultimate Fire.

It was still possible to basically analyze its temperature range from the destruction caused to the surrounding environment when Soul Masters who possessed Ultimate Fire fought near it in the Original Work.

It was no exaggeration to say that, for Chen Ping, producing an Incendiary Bomb with the temperature of Ultimate Fire might be difficult, but producing Hellfire like the Scarlet King's, with a temperature approaching that of Ultimate Fire, was not difficult.

However, reaching the temperature did not mean it could possess the same destructive power. That was the core issue. Ultimate Fire at the same temperature was worlds apart when wielded by a Level Thirty Soul Master compared to a Level Ninety Soul Master!

As for the homemade Incendiary Bomb in Chen Ping's hands, its burning temperature was between seven and eight hundred degrees. If some improved ingredients were added, pushing it past a thousand degrees would not be a problem.

But its destructive power was completely different from the effect of a Soul Skill cast by a Soul Master at a temperature of over a thousand degrees.

Therefore, the fact that Touch Dragon King's soft abdomen had no resistance to fire only applied to flames used by Soul Masters of the same level.

Chen Ping's Incendiary Bomb really was lacking by just that little bit.

Soul Power was truly magical, wasn't it?

Chen Ping had no time now to consider how wondrous the world of Soul Power was. His most urgent task was to stay alive.

The power of the Incendiary Bomb was much weaker than he had expected, but Chen Ping was not so unprepared that he had no emergency plans beyond that.

The Thousand-Year Soul Beast feces powder he had originally planned to save and resell was suddenly flung out by Chen Ping, scattering over the Evil Pincer Bug and Touch Dragon King. Chen Ping hoped it would scare away at least one of them.

At this point, he was no longer obsessed with killing this Touch Dragon King. As long as the green hills remain, there will be no shortage of firewood.

But the Thousand-Year Soul Beast feces powder Chen Ping scattered seemed to be terribly ineffective. Not only did it fail to scare away the two Hundred Year Level Soul Beasts, it instead made them even more frenzied.

Seriously?

Chen Ping had truly run out of options this time. If he could, he also wanted to refine super insecticides such as Pyrethroid and Acephate to deal with these Soul Beasts.

But that was already beyond the system's pitiful capabilities.

First, Chen Ping only knew the names of various chemical insecticides from his accumulated knowledge. He had no idea how to refine them.

Second, all Chen Ping's system could do was extract and integrate what Chen Ping himself knew with certain pieces of information from the Douluo Continent. It really could not create anything groundbreaking.

When he had first awakened the system, Chen Ping had not failed to ask it for a planet-destroying warship. But even with the blueprint for such a warship, the system could only generate it if Chen Ping himself understood its principles.

Put simply, the system could only serve as an assistant in many situations.

Somewhat unwillingly, Chen Ping glanced at the remaining Thousand-Year Soul Beast feces powder in his hand. He bitterly spent dozens of Scholar Points to analyze its composition completely.

Earlier, to save money, he had spent only one point to confirm that the feces had indeed come from a Thousand-Year Soul Beast. After that, he had ignored it entirely.

Now, before he died, he wanted to see exactly what this feces powder that had caused him so much trouble was made of.

Name: Feces Powder of the Thousand-Year Soul Beast Great King Sea Cucumber

Effect: Feces powder from a giant sea cucumber over five meters long. Due to the cultivation of its original owner, it might drive away some timid Ten Year Level Soul Beasts.

However, to terrestrial Soul Beasts unfamiliar with the scent of Sea Soul Beasts, especially Hundred Year Level terrestrial Soul Beasts, this smell might be extremely fragrant and stimulate their interest in hunting.

After reading the item description, Chen Ping wished he could tear the swindler who had sold him this thing limb from limb and eat him alive.

So this was what it meant to try to save a little and suffer a huge loss? This was damn well exactly what it meant!

As the saying went, when people taught people, they could not always learn; when events taught people, they learned in a single lesson. But the problem was, did Chen Ping have a second chance?

The answer was: Yes, brother, he did!

"Hiss, hiss, hiss!!!"

After Chen Ping had scattered the Great King Sea Cucumber's feces powder over the Evil Pincer Bug and Touch Dragon King twice in succession, the Touch Dragon King, whose eyes had already been burned blind by the fire oil, finally followed the scent and found where the culprit was.

The enraged Touch Dragon King was engulfed in raging flames, resembling a flaming train roaring out of hell.

Its pair of golden whip-like antennae trembled slightly as it moved. Its pair of huge mandibles opened and closed repeatedly, producing a clanging sound like metal striking metal. Sparks could even be seen flashing between them.

Chen Ping suddenly performed a Lazy Donkey Roll, dodging to the side.

"Hiss—!"

Touch Dragon King suddenly let out a violent hiss. Its enormous body twisted nimbly, and its pair of glinting mandibles suddenly snapped toward the Evil Pincer Bug.

"Boom!"

A violent crash rang out. The Evil Pincer Bug could still distinguish friend from foe. At the critical moment, it narrowly avoided Touch Dragon King's attack, escaping the miserable fate of being bitten in half.

Touch Dragon King, whose upper body had crashed halfway into the wall, merely shook its head as if nothing had happened. Its six blade-like wings twisted and cut through the wall behind it, pulling its body free from the earth and stone in which it had become embedded.

Chen Ping broke into an even colder sweat at the sight. He hurriedly smeared the powder remaining on his hand onto the walls of the Mountain Cave, afraid that Touch Dragon King would smell it.

The Touch Dragon King that emerged from the mountain wall had been completely blinded by rage. Although the Evil Pincer Bug did its utmost to evade its attacks, Touch Dragon King had gone completely berserk. Row after row of sharp claws swung wildly, while its mandibles, capable of eating iron and cutting steel, clanged loudly.

Poisonous Liquids with various effects and colors sprayed from Touch Dragon King's mouth—green, purple, black, and everything in between.

Some of the Poisonous Liquid hissed and smoked as soon as it landed on the ground. Some evaporated into the air, stinging Chen Ping so badly that tears streamed down his face and he could barely keep his eyes open.

Chen Ping was already in such a state, so the Evil Pincer Bug was naturally in an even worse predicament. After two of its legs had been bitten off by Touch Dragon King's mandibles, the Evil Pincer Bug finally could not endure it any longer.

Smelling the Great King Sea Cucumber's scent on Touch Dragon King, the Evil Pincer Bug, whose brain capacity was insufficient, clamped one pincer around half of Touch Dragon King's body.

Its scissor-like Forked Poison Tail suddenly stabbed toward Touch Dragon King's abdomen, which had nearly been burned through by the flames.

"Hiss—!"

Touch Dragon King's cry grew even louder. How dare this incredibly fragrant fellow turn around and attack it?

Touch Dragon King suddenly coiled its body, allowing its head to reach the Evil Pincer Bug's head. Its glinting mandibles snapped shut with a clang, giving the Evil Pincer Bug a fatal head-crushing blow!

In an instant, white, green, and various other fluids flowed from the Evil Pincer Bug's wounds.

Even so, its pincer-like steel claws showed no sign of loosening. They remained clamped tightly around Touch Dragon King's body.

As for its Forked Poison Tail, carrying potent toxins and shaped like a pair of scissors, it had plunged solidly into Touch Dragon King's abdomen and continued twisting inside.

Everyone knew that creatures capable of releasing toxins and creatures capable of resisting toxins were generally two different kinds of creatures.

Even a venomous snake would be poisoned to death if bitten by another venomous snake of the same species. The reason it could swallow a poisonous fellow creature whole was that venom could be digested after entering the digestive system, but not after entering the bloodstream.

Touch Dragon King's current situation was equivalent to that of a venomous snake bitten by another venomous snake. Even though it possessed potent toxins of its own—perhaps even several different kinds of toxins—that did not change the fact that it was already not far from being poisoned to death.