A sudden slap caught Liu Erlong off guard.
Her eyes rolled back, and her body staggered, nearly toppling from the tree.
Fortunately, several tentacles surged from the black bodysuit, wrapping firmly around the trunk to keep her from falling.
"You bastard—what are you doing, ambushing me out of nowhere!"
"This is to train your tolerance." Jiang Ce felt the warmth that tightly enveloped him and sighed leisurely, "You need to adapt properly. An Anti-Magic Ninja can withstand a three-thousand-fold sensitivity test and continue to fight—you start panting after being touched once; how are you supposed to battle?"
Liu Erlong's pupils constricted.
"Three thousand times? Who the hell could withstand something like that? Their brain would be fried!"
She had been tormented by this guy for a day and two nights after consuming the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, and she already felt her mind going blank, as if it no longer belonged to her.
Three thousand times—would there even be a need to fight?
That was practically driving someone toward a mental breakdown.
"That's why you still need to practice."
As soon as Jiang Ce finished speaking, the tentacles on her body tightened abruptly, once again squeezing her ample chest into the shape of a Michelin Man's arms.
Watching her pride and joy being tormented like this, Liu Erlong gritted her teeth, let out a muffled groan, and rolled her eyes.
"Get lost."
Liu Erlong gritted her teeth and adjusted her breathing. "Release your tentacles already."
"Tsk tsk, getting bigger and bigger."
Jiang Ce patted the surging waves once more before letting go, chuckling wickedly as he retracted his tentacles.
Liu Erlong let out a long breath, composed herself, and continued searching ahead.
Over the next few hours, whenever she sensed soul power fluctuations, Liu Erlong would pounce directly—
Taking them by surprise, killing them in one strike, and then letting Jiang Ce devour and absorb them.
From Earth-Walking Lizards to Rock-Armored Pythons, ranging from over a thousand to over three thousand years old, not a single beast that appeared in her line of sight escaped alive.
She even deliberately took a few detours to specifically hunt for sonic-type soul beasts, slaughtering two close relatives of the Phantom Sound Bat and one Echo Bird.
Jiang Ce's fire-attribute resistance had reached forty percent, his age had increased to sixty-five hundred years, and he had acquired several new skills from these soul beasts.
The other skills were relatively average, but two were quite practical.
One was Rock Scale Armor—while boosting physical defense, the scales on the body could also be actively detonated to cause shrapnel damage to enemies in close proximity.
The other was the one that satisfied Jiang Ce the most.
Fission.
By splitting half of his own age and cultivation, he could fission a new body from himself.
His consciousness could shift back and forth between the split bodies at will, synchronizing perception and control.
This thing was practically tailor-made for him—
With Fission, he could parasitize new hosts and control even more female mounts.
Thinking of the wonderful days ahead, Jiang Ce let out a heartfelt, wicked laugh.
Meanwhile, the soul power accumulating within Liu Erlong finally broke through that critical threshold—level thirty-five.
She stood up from beside the remains of a soul beast that had just been devoured, feeling the power climbing within her once again.
Although the sensation wasn't as exhilarating as the consecutive level-ups from the past two days, It was like adding water to a large vat ladle by ladle; the speed of accumulation was visibly accelerating, and the satisfaction it brought was equally addictive.
At this rate, it wouldn't be long before she broke through to level thirty-six.
The only thing that made her frown from time to time was that Jiang Ce, seemingly to train her tolerance, would often move unexpectedly, causing her body to jerk and her energy to scatter.
But she could only grit her teeth amidst Jiang Ce's wicked urging and continue forward, searching for the next prey.
She had to become stronger, even stronger, and trample everyone who looked down on her beneath her feet.
What did it matter if her body was just being wantonly ravaged and tormented by this guy?
Sensing this thought from Liu Erlong, Jiang Ce was extremely satisfied.
She was truly worthy of being the mount he had chosen.
The search continued until dusk, and the target finally appeared in their field of vision.
A fire-attribute dragon-type soul beast over five thousand years old—a Red Fire Earth Dragon.
Its size was slightly smaller than the previous Red Flame Earth Dragon, its scales were lighter in color, and it was lying at the mouth of a cave, basking in the sun.
Beside the cave entrance lay another Red Fire Earth Dragon of almost identical size, with slightly lighter scales and clear female characteristics on its abdomen.
The two dragons lay side by side, their tails flicking back and forth leisurely.
Liu Erlong lay in the bushes on a distant hillside, staring expressionlessly at the two massive figures, and remained silent for a moment.
"What are those people in charge of scouting mission intel even doing?" she cursed under her breath.
"The last mission target had an eight-thousand-year Red Flame Earth Dragon pop up, and this time, a pair just showed up directly—it's like this every single time. Can those useless people issuing the bounties do anything right?"
If she hadn't come personally, anyone else would have turned and run the moment they saw this scene.
After all, two Red Fire Earth Dragons would require a well-coordinated squad at the very least to surround and kill.
Furthermore, the mission required the corpses to be intact and undamaged, which doubled the difficulty.
"Is there a difference? Killing one is a kill, and killing two is also a kill. It's just a male and female pair."
"So?"
"So that territory must have a dragon den. Where there's a dragon den, there's treasure—did you forget how you struck it rich overnight in that Red Flame Earth Dragon's nest last time?"
Liu Erlong's eyes lit up instantly.
That's right.
If it weren't for that Red Flame Earth Dragon, she wouldn't have met Jiang Ce, her strength wouldn't have surged, and she might have died at the bottom of the cliff long ago, let alone becoming a wealthy woman holding a million Gold Soul Coins overnight.
"Let's go. Kill them."
She stood up, no longer hiding.
The male dragon sensed her first, its vertical pupils locking onto Liu Erlong instantly as a low growl rumbled in its throat.
The female dragon also crawled up from the cave entrance. The two dragons stood side by side, staring at the young woman who had emerged from the bushes, flames spewing from their nostrils as a pungent smell of sulfur filled the air.
Liu Erlong didn't waste any words.
Her Fire Dragon Martial Soul manifested directly behind her—First Soul Skill: Tyrant Dragon Possession, dragon scales sprouting from beneath her skin to cover her entire body.
Second Soul Skill: Dragon Arm, her entire right arm encased in dragon scale armor, flames igniting at the knuckles.
Third Soul Skill: Dragon Flame Blood Burn, dark red flames surging from within her body, doubling all her attributes.
The dark red dragon wings behind her snapped open—
External Soul Bone: Red Flame Dragon Wings, with a four-meter wingspan, edges sharp as blades, dragon flames churning across the surface of the wing membranes.
The male dragon swiped at her with a claw.
She dodged to the side, her right fist, enhanced by the Dragon Arm, slamming into its flank; the force of the punch pierced through the scales and surged directly into its internal organs.
The male dragon let out a muffled howl, its massive body shoved three meters sideways by the impact.
The female dragon seized the opportunity to pounce from the rear flank, but Liu Erlong didn't even look back, flapping her wings to soar into the air and evade the strike.
The male dragon opened its mouth and unleashed a blast of dragon breath—
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