Douluo: What the Heck is a Scholar Cultivation System?
Chapter 17

Lever-Lifted Raging Dragon

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Chen Ping was covered in insect blood, with several coils of Little Touch Dragon King's body wrapped around him. He looked both terrifying and somewhat ridiculous.

Especially with that yellow soul ring floating above Little Touch Dragon King—it looked as though Chen Ping had balanced it on his head, making the sight even more comical.

The commotion caused by Big Touch Dragon King's charge was far more frightening than Little Touch Dragon King's. It weighed several hundred pounds, was as thick as a thigh, and its nearly three-meter-long body could reach the second-floor windows when it reared up.

As that thing charged at him, Chen Ping felt as if his great-grandmother were already waving him over after just one glance.

Fortunately, Tang Ya was truly a model of beauty and kindness. Her Second Soul Ring lit up, and the dozen or so Parasitic Spores left on Big Touch Dragon King exploded at once. Dozens of slender Blue Silver Grass vines rapidly grew, binding Big Touch Dragon King tightly.

Though Big Touch Dragon King tore those Blue Silver Grass vines apart in an instant the next moment, Tang Ya's soul skill had undeniably bought them precious time!

With a fierce Lazy Donkey Roll, Chen Ping rolled down the slope of Giant Centipede Cave toward the foot of the mountain. Big Touch Dragon King paused for a moment before lunging toward the cave entrance again, but Chen Ping was already rolling rapidly down the hillside.

Even so, a flash of cold light still carved a huge gash across Chen Ping's left cheek.

It was Big Touch Dragon King's scythe-like bony wings. What had sliced open Chen Ping's cheek was not the wings themselves, but the sharp air currents created by their swing.

What a formidable creature!

This time, Chen Ping truly understood just how powerful existences at the level of Soul Elders and Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were.

Tearing off the wet towel wrapped around his face, Chen Ping touched the gash on his cheek. Well then, he could pay tribute to Grey Wolf now.

Logically, Chen Ping should have wrapped something around the wound, but that definitely did not include a filthy wet towel.

Wrapping that thing over the wound on his face might stop the bleeding, but it could also cause an infection. Compared to that, Chen Ping might as well leave his face exposed.

"System, give me an analysis report."

Chen Ping rolled several hundred meters before crashing into a protruding rock and finally coming to a stop.

Fortunately, he was wrapped in a layer of Touch Dragon King Armor. An impact that should have broken several ribs only left Chen Ping slightly short of breath.

Meanwhile, in front of Giant Centipede Cave, Tang Ya and Bei Bei had both assumed that the Touch Dragon King before them was about to flee.

Yet they had not expected it to be so enraged. Though it had already reached the cave entrance, it refused to retreat. With a hiss, it charged toward the place where Chen Ping had rolled down the slope.

"Where do you think you're going?!"

Bei Bei naturally could not stand by and watch Chen Ping get devoured alive by the Touch Dragon King. A dazzling blue light suddenly lit up between Bei Bei's brows, then instantly spread from his forehead throughout his entire body.

Blue-violet electric arcs erupted like little snakes, writhing around his body.

At first glance, Bei Bei had not changed much. Aside from a blue lightning mark appearing on his forehead, only one part of his body transformed due to Martial Soul Possession.

That part was his right arm.

The sleeve on his right side burst apart completely as his arm swelled, turning to ash. His arm lengthened by more than half a foot, becoming enormously thick and covered in blue-violet scales.

His hand became a claw covered in the same scales. Every joint in it grew immensely thick, while the blue-violet serpent lightning circling his body continually gathered around or surged across that arm.

His three soul rings—two yellow and one purple—did not circle his body like those of other soul masters. Instead, they revolved around this uniquely transformed arm.

This was completely different from the illusory dragon claw he had formed when using Thunder Dragon Claw before. He had truly transformed his entire arm into a dragon claw.

Dragonification!

One of the secret techniques passed down by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Starting from Level Thirty, every time a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul master acquired a soul ring, one part of their body would become more dragon-like when using their martial soul.

Bei Bei's right arm was the first part of his body to transform. Once a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul master reached Level Seventy, they could truly transform into a dragon and unleash extraordinarily terrifying power.

Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track flashed repeatedly beneath Bei Bei's feet, while the yellow Second Soul Ring on his arm flickered.

Countless arcs of serpent lightning shot from his dragon claw, expanding simultaneously into lightning arrows that flashed violently through the air, forming a dense net of thunder that descended upon Big Touch Dragon King.

Seeing Big Touch Dragon King relentlessly continue its assault, Chen Ping shuddered and frantically poured what little Soul Power remained in his body into the Willow Staff.

The Willow Staff, originally only one and a half meters long, seemed to grow with the wind, instantly extending to more than five meters.

This was not an ability unique to Chen Ping's martial soul, but something possessed by the vast majority of Tool Soul Masters.

For instance, the Clear Sky Hammer of the Clear Sky Sect was ordinarily only so large, but when swung, its hammerhead could expand to an area broad enough to flatten three or five people.

In contrast, Support System Weapon Martial Souls such as the Glazed Tile Pagoda of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect usually did not possess the ability to change size so freely.

By then, Bei Bei's Second Soul Skill, Thunderous Might, had arrived after yet overtaken its target, striking Big Touch Dragon King heavily. Yet the effect was minimal.

From more than ten meters away, the violent electric net had already made the hair on Chen Ping's face stand on end, and his short black hair showed signs of rising straight up.

Yet after taking that attack, Big Touch Dragon King merely stumbled slightly before continuing to stagger toward Chen Ping, looking as though it would not rest until it had killed him.

Chen Ping glanced at Big Touch Dragon King's information from the corner of his eye and discovered that it was actually a soul beast with darkness, poison, and wind attributes. No wonder a mere empty swing of its claw had left a gash on his face earlier.

But what Chen Ping valued most was a detail he had noticed before.

Because they spent years burrowing through soil and rock, climbing and crawling about freely, Touch Dragon Kings did not have lower bodies as stable as those of other soul beasts.

"Senior, if you have a Third Soul Skill, get ready to use it! We'll only get one chance!"

Chen Ping shouted as he laid the Willow Staff, now more than five meters long, across the rock he had crashed into while rolling down the slope. He hid slightly behind it, tightly gripping the other end of the Willow Staff.

As Big Touch Dragon King charged fiercely toward Chen Ping's position, Chen Ping gripped the Willow Staff with both hands and abruptly crouched down.

Big Touch Dragon King's upper body pressed down on the other end of the Willow Staff. Using the simplest principle of leverage, Chen Ping instantly pried up its upper body, which weighed more than two hundred pounds. Its body swayed in mid-air before crashing heavily onto its side.

Xiao Ya and Bei Bei were both Shrek students. How could they fail to recognize such a fleeting opportunity?

Even though the Soul Power in her body was nearly depleted, Xiao Ya still forced herself to pour all of it into her Blue Silver Grass martial soul. Along the Touch Dragon King's insect legs on the side it had fallen toward, she gave a fierce pull and completely flipped it over!

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