Hunting the Seventy-Thousand-Year Crocodile Dragon! Is Uncle Crocodile Playing Hide-and-Seek?

"Whew!"

"Cough, cough, cough!"

"This fire-breathing thing is pretty hard to learn!"

He tried several times in a row.

After swallowing a huge amount of the black smoke he had spat out.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff finally breathed out a long stream of fire!

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"

When the flames burst onto the surface of the water.

They produced a massive amount of steam.

The entire pool was instantly covered in a vast expanse of white mist.

"Glub, glub, glub!"

At the same time, as the temperature rose.

The pool began bubbling nonstop.

It immediately alerted the Soul Beast below!

"Roar!"

"Splash!"

Good lord, it was a massive crocodile nearly over ten meters long.

Two small horns had even grown from its head.

It looked just like a flood dragon from Eastern mythology!

"This is?"

"A Crocodile Dragon?"

He remembered seeing this kind of crocodile once in the Soul Land 1 anime.

He had never expected the starving Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff to run into one.

"Splash!"

"Plop!"

This seventy-thousand-year Soul Beast did not seem as reckless as the previous ones.

It merely surfaced for a glance.

Then quickly dove beneath the water again.

It would not even let its tail show above the surface!

"Oh, come on!"

"You're playing hide-and-seek with Uncle Crocodile, huh?"

"I refuse to believe I can't catch you!"

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff let out an angry roar.

His enormous body swiftly leaped into the water.

As a mammalian Soul Beast.

Although he could not fight underwater for as long as a crocodile could.

Holding his breath for a short while was no problem!

"Plop!"

The enormous golden figure crashed directly into the pool.

For a moment.

The previously calm surface instantly erupted with huge waves.

"Glub, glub, glub..."

After entering the water.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff realized that he had underestimated the situation here.

This pool did not look very large.

But it was extraordinarily deep below.

And the farther down he went, the darker it became.

All around him were aquatic plants and rocks.

If not for a Soul Beast's powerful senses.

An ordinary Soul Master would probably have gotten lost long ago.

"This guy's pretty good at hiding."

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff narrowed his eyes.

His nose twitched slightly.

Although the current affected scents.

That distinctive fishy smell still could not escape his tracking.

Just then.

"Whoosh!"

A black shadow suddenly shot over from the side.

It was unbelievably fast!

"Holy shit!"

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff saw only an afterimage.

The next moment.

A huge tail lashed fiercely against his body.

"Boom!"

A muffled boom instantly rang out beneath the water.

The terrifying force churned up all the surrounding mud and sand.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's massive body was sent flying more than ten meters.

"Hiss..."

Even he was somewhat surprised by that blow.

"This crocodile's got some moves!"

"A seventy-thousand-year cultivation really isn't comparable to those little rookies from before."

Meanwhile.

The Crocodile Dragon did not continue its pursuit.

Instead, it hid in the darkness.

Its pair of cold eyes stared fixedly at the intruder before it.

As a water-element Soul Beast.

The Crocodile Dragon's greatest advantage was underwater combat.

Here.

It was the absolute hunter.

"Roar!"

Suddenly.

The Crocodile Dragon attacked again.

Its enormous jaws opened.

Revealing rows upon rows of sharp teeth inside.

It bit straight toward the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff!

"Perfect timing!"

Seeing this.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff was delighted rather than alarmed.

What he liked most were opponents who faced him head-on.

"Dark Gold Dreadclaw!"

"Buzz!"

The next second.

His two claws began to change.

His originally golden sharp claws.

Were now covered in a layer of dark golden light.

This was power from the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear!

"Break!"

"Boom!"

The two giant beasts.

Collided fiercely beneath the water.

The Crocodile Dragon's teeth bit into the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's shoulder.

But the next moment.

It froze.

Because it discovered.

Its teeth could not completely pierce the other's skin!

Meanwhile, the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's claws.

Had already raked fiercely across its face.

"Pshht!"

Blood instantly dyed the pool red.

The Crocodile Dragon cried out in pain.

It thrashed its body wildly.

Trying to throw off this terrifying creature.

But it was already too late.

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's four limbs locked tightly onto its body.

Like a gigantic golden spider.

He clung firmly to the Crocodile Dragon's back.

"Haha!"

"Don't you like hiding in the water?"

"Let's see where you can run now!"

"Roar!"

The Crocodile Dragon was completely enraged.

Its seventy-thousand-year cultivation erupted.

The entire pool began shaking violently.

Streams of water formed whirlpools.

Trying to sweep the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff away.

But.

What the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff feared least now was strength.

After being strengthened by the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear and dragon blood.

His physical strength had long surpassed that of ordinary ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts.

What was more.

His cultivation had already reached sixty thousand years.

The gap between him and the seventy-thousand-year Crocodile Dragon was not as great as imagined.

"Your scales are hard?"

"Then I'll tear them apart bit by bit!"

"Crack!"

The Dark Gold Dreadclaw swung down again.

This time.

Its target was the softest spot beneath the Crocodile Dragon's neck.

"Roar!"

The Crocodile Dragon let out a pained roar.

It rolled around frantically.

But the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff gave it no chance at all.

He bit down on the back of its neck.

His sharp canine teeth pierced directly into its flesh.

Scalding blood instantly flooded into his mouth.

"Hm?"

"This taste..."

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff's eyes lit up.

"As expected of a Soul Beast with dragon blood."

"Much stronger than those old monkeys from before!"

"Never thought one fifty-thousand-year-old monkey would get away, only for me to catch a seventy-thousand-year-old Uncle Crocodile!"

"Splash, splash, splash!"

The next moment, the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff clamped his jaws around his prey.

He swiftly rose toward the surface...

"I can't kill this crocodile too quickly this time, or I won't get any grilled meat!"

Having learned from his previous failed hunts,

the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff had finally grasped the trick to hunting Soul Beasts!

If he killed one in a single blow,

its Soul Ring would emerge before long.

Then all that excellent flesh and hide would go to waste.

The meat on Uncle Crocodile's back and claws could be grilled first.

Then he could slowly absorb the Soul Ring.

That was the most wonderful way to enjoy himself!

He could breathe fire now.

He no longer had to gnaw on raw meat like before.

As a Ferocious Beast with the soul of a human transmigrator, he naturally preferred cooked food!

"Hahaha!"

"Perfect!"

When the soaking-wet Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff dragged his prey onto the shore,

there were no traces of any other Soul Beasts nearby.

That meant that, for the next while,

he could finally enjoy a proper meal!

"Where should I start?"

"The back should be the tenderloin, right?"

"I'm in for a treat today!"

Others might be wary of crocodile hide.

But for the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff, all he had to do was lightly rake that spot with his claws,

and the leather that could be made into shoes would peel right off.

Then he dug out the most delicious piece of crocodile meat.

With Little Flame, he slowly roasted it.

That flavor...

Tsk, tsk, tsk!