Chen Ping was covered in insect blood, with several coils of the Lesser Touch Dragon King's body wrapped around him. He looked horrifying, yet faintly ridiculous.
Especially with the yellow soul ring floating above the Lesser Touch Dragon King-it looked as though Chen Ping were balancing it on his head, making him look even more comical.
The Greater Touch Dragon King's charge was far more terrifying than the smaller one's. Weighing several hundred pounds, with a body as thick as a thigh and nearly three meters long, it could reach a second-floor window if it reared up.
One look at that thing charging toward him, and Chen Ping felt as though his great-grandmother were already waving him over to the other side.
Fortunately, Tang Ya was the very model of a beautiful woman with a kind heart. Her second soul ring lit up, and the dozen or so parasitic spores left on the Greater Touch Dragon King burst open. Dozens of slender strands of blue silver grass grew rapidly, binding it tight.
Although the Greater Touch Dragon King tore the blue silver grass apart the very next moment, there was no denying that Tang Ya's soul skill had been an enormous help!
Chen Ping abruptly threw himself into an ungainly donkey roll, tumbling downhill along the slope outside the Great Centipede Cave. The Greater Touch Dragon King paused before lunging toward the cave entrance again, but Chen Ping was already rolling down the hillside.
Even so, a cold gleam flashed past, leaving a huge gash across Chen Ping's left cheek.
It had come from the scythe-like bone wings on the Greater Touch Dragon King's back. What sliced Chen Ping's cheek was not the wing itself, but the razor-sharp air current produced by its swing.
What a formidable creature!
This time, Chen Ping truly understood just how powerful Soul Elders and thousand-year soul beasts were.
Pulling off the wet towel wrapped around his face, Chen Ping felt the gash in his cheek. Well, now I can pay tribute to Wolffy.
Logically, Chen Ping should have found something else to cover the wound, but a filthy wet towel was definitely not an option.
Wrapped around the wound on his face, it would do nothing but soak up blood and risk infection. Rather than that, Chen Ping might as well leave his face uncovered.
"System, give me an analysis report."
Chen Ping rolled several hundred meters before crashing into a protruding rock and coming to a stop.
Fortunately, he had a layer of Touch Dragon King Armor wrapped around him. An impact that should normally have broken several ribs merely left his circulation feeling slightly unsettled, nothing more.
Meanwhile, outside the Great Centipede Cave, Tang Ya and Bei Bei had both thought the Touch Dragon King before them was about to escape.
Unexpectedly, the Touch Dragon King was so enraged that, despite having reached the entrance, it stubbornly refused to go back inside. With a shriek, it charged toward the spot where Chen Ping had rolled down the slope.
"Where do you think you're going!"
Bei Bei naturally could not stand by and watch the Touch Dragon King devour Chen Ping alive. A dazzling ball of blue light suddenly flared between his brows, then instantly spread from his forehead throughout his body.
Streaks of blue-violet lightning erupted like little snakes, weaving around his body.
On the surface, Bei Bei had not changed much. Aside from the blue lightning mark that appeared on his forehead, only one part of his body had changed through Martial Soul Possession.
That part was his right arm.
His right sleeve burst apart and turned to ash as his arm swelled. The 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 swelling dramatically. The blue-violet serpentine lightning circling his body continually gathered on his arm or darted along it.
His three soul rings, two yellow and one purple, did not revolve around his body as other Soul Masters' did. Instead, they circled this uniquely transformed arm.
This was completely different from the illusory dragon claw he had released earlier with Thunder Dragon Claw. His entire arm had truly become a dragon's claw.
Dragon Transformation!
It was one of the secret arts passed down within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Starting at rank thirty, every soul ring a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master obtained allowed another part of their body to become more dragon-like when they used their martial soul.
Bei Bei's right arm, for instance, was his first transformed limb. Upon reaching rank seventy, a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master could truly become a dragon and unleash utterly terrifying power.
Bei Bei repeatedly executed Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and the yellow second soul ring on his arm flashed.
Countless streaks of serpentine lightning shot from his dragon claw, expanding simultaneously into lightning arrows that flashed violently through the air. They formed a dense net of thunder and lightning that descended upon the Greater Touch Dragon King.
Seeing the Greater Touch Dragon King refuse to give up and continue charging toward him, Chen Ping shuddered. He frantically poured what little soul power remained in his body into the Willow Wood Staff.
The Willow Wood Staff, originally only a meter and a half 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 the vast majority of Tool Soul Masters could do.
The Clear Sky Sect's Clear Sky Hammer, for example, was only so large under normal circumstances. But when truly swung into action, its striking face could grow large enough to bounce three to five people on it.
Support-type tool martial souls, such as the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Glazed Tile Pagoda, generally could not change size so freely.
By then, Bei Bei's second soul skill, Thunderous Might, had overtaken the Greater Touch Dragon King despite being launched later, slamming heavily into its body. Yet it achieved very little.
Even from more than ten meters away, the violent electrical net made the fine hairs on Chen Ping's face stand on end. His short black hair looked ready to stand straight up as well.
Yet after taking the attack, the Greater Touch Dragon King merely stumbled a little before continuing its lurching charge toward Chen Ping, looking as though it would never stop until it killed him.
Chen Ping glanced at the Greater Touch Dragon King's information out of the corner of his eye and discovered that it was actually a soul beast with darkness, poison, and wind attributes. No wonder a mere swipe through empty air had cut his face open.
But what mattered most to Chen Ping was something he had noticed earlier.
Because Touch Dragon Kings spent years burrowing through earth and rock, roaming freely up and down, their footing was not as stable as that of other soul beasts.
"Senior, if you have a third soul skill, get ready to use it! You'll only get one chance!"
Shouting this, Chen Ping laid the Willow Wood Staff, now more than five meters long, across the rock he had struck while rolling down the hillside. He crouched a little farther behind it, gripping the other end of the staff tightly.
As the Greater Touch Dragon King charged toward his position, Chen Ping gripped the Willow Wood Staff with both hands and abruptly dropped into a squat.
The upper half of the Greater Touch Dragon King's body was pressing down on the other end of the Willow Wood Staff. Using the simplest principle of leverage, Chen Ping instantly pried those two hundred-odd pounds into the air. Its body swayed in midair before crashing onto its side.
Xiao Ya and Bei Bei were both Shrek students. How could they fail to recognize this fleeting opening?
Although her soul power was nearly exhausted, Xiao Ya forced herself to pour all of it into her blue silver grass martial soul. Catching the legs on the side where the Touch Dragon King had fallen, she gave a sharp tug and flipped it completely over!
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