Hunting the Seventy-Thousand-Year Crocodile Dragon! Playing Crocodile Uncle's Perfect Invisibility?

"Whew!"

"Cough, cough, cough!"

"Breathing fire is pretty hard to learn!"

He tried several times in a row.

After swallowing a huge amount of the black smoke he had spewed himself.

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

"Fizzle, fizzle, fizzle!"

When the flames surged onto the water's surface.

They produced a massive amount of steam.

The entire pool was instantly blanketed in a thick 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!"

Well, well, it was a massive crocodile nearly over ten meters long.

Two tiny horns had grown from its head.

Making it look 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 not 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!

"Oh, come on!"

"You're playing Crocodile Uncle's Perfect Invisibility on me, huh?"

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

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

Its enormous body swiftly leaped into the water.

As a mammalian soul beast.

It could not fight underwater as long as a crocodile could.

But holding its breath for a short while was not a problem!

"Plop!"

The enormous golden figure crashed straight into the pool.

For a moment.

The once-calm surface instantly erupted in huge waves.

"Glub, glub, glub..."

Only after entering the water did the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff realize he had underestimated the situation below.

This pool did not look large.

But it was exceptionally deep beneath the surface.

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

Water plants and rocks filled the surroundings.

If not for a soul beast's powerful senses.

An ordinary soul master would have gotten lost long ago.

"This guy is 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 toward him from the side.

It was unbelievably fast!

"Damn!"

The Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff saw nothing but an afterimage.

The next moment.

A massive tail slammed viciously into his body.

"Boom!"

A muffled explosion echoed beneath the water.

The terrifying force churned up all the silt around them.

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

"Hiss..."

Even he had not expected that blow.

"This crocodile has some moves!"

"As expected, seventy thousand years of cultivation is no match for those rookie weaklings from before."

Meanwhile.

The Crocodile Dragon did not continue its pursuit.

Instead, it hid in the darkness.

Its cold eyes stared fixedly at the intruder before it.

As a water-attribute 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 within.

As it bit straight toward the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff!

"Perfect!"

At the sight of this.

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

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

"Dark Gold Dreadclaw!"

"Buzz!"

The next second.

His forepaws began to change.

His originally golden claws.

Were now covered in a layer of dark golden radiance.

This was the power of the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear!

"Break!"

"Boom!"

The two gigantic beasts.

Slammed viciously into each other 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 ripped viciously across its face.

"Splurt!"

Blood instantly dyed the pool red.

The Crocodile Dragon cried out in pain.

Its body thrashed wildly.

Trying to throw off this terrifying creature.

But it was already too late.

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

Like a gigantic golden spider.

He clung firmly to the Crocodile Dragon's back.

"Haha!"

"Don't you like hiding underwater?"

"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 to shake violently.

Streams of water formed whirlpools.

Trying to sweep the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff away.

But.

Strength was what the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff feared least now.

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 now reached sixty thousand years.

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

"Your scales are tough?"

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

"Crack!"

The Dark Gold Dreadclaw swung down again.

This time.

It targeted the softest spot beneath the Crocodile Dragon's neck.

"Roar!"

The Crocodile Dragon let out a pained roar.

It rolled about madly.

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 straight 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."

"They were much stronger than those old monkeys from before!"

"Who'd have thought that after one fifty-thousand-year-old monkey got away, I'd 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 quickly rose toward the surface...

"This time, I can't kill this crocodile too quickly, or I won't get to eat any roasted meat!"

After accepting the lessons from his previous failed hunts,

the Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff had finally grasped the knack of hunting soul beasts!

If he killed them in one blow,

their soul ring would emerge before long.

Then all that prime hide and meat would go to waste.

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

Then he could slowly absorb the soul ring.

Now that was the most wonderful enjoyment!

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 still preferred cooked food!

"Hahaha!"

"Perfect!"

When the dripping-wet Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff dragged his prey ashore,

there were no traces of any other soul beasts nearby.

That meant that, for a while,

he could finally enjoy a proper meal!

"Where should I start?"

"The back should be 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 slice that spot with his claws,

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

Then he would carve out the most delicious piece of crocodile meat,

light a small fire, and slowly roast it.

That flavor...

Tsk, tsk, tsk!