Black Flame Earth Dragon Python

Biodata

History

Discovery

Long Qianming and Lou Gao encountered the python after spending a month searching the Earth Dragon Mountain Range for a lesser dragon with darkness and fire attributes. Lou Gao detected it fighting a Black Hell Dragon Bear on flat volcanic ground. Although its attributes were suitable, he advised against choosing it because its cultivation exceeded the age he considered safe for a Second Soul Ring. Long Qianming assessed it as over 1,400 years old and insisted that his Martial Soul required dragon-type Soul Beasts 20.

Hunt and Death

The python constricted the exhausted bear and killed it with three breaths of black flame, suffering few injuries itself. While swallowing the corpse, it detected human scent in the wind, regurgitated its prey, and charged toward Long Qianming 21.

Lou Gao stopped its attack with Soul Saint pressure, inflicting severe internal injuries. The python fled when he withdrew the pressure, but Long Qianming and Xiao Tian pursued it. Xiao Tian struck a wound on its back with Space-Rending Claw and subsequently blinded its left eye. When the python gathered Soul Power to self-destruct, Lou Gao dispersed the buildup. Long Qianming then killed it with a Level 3 Soul Guidance Ray through the head 21.

Appearance

• Coloration: Pitch-black body with a few red markings 21.
• Head: Three small fleshy bumps and a scarlet, forked tongue 21.
• Scales: Described as iron-hard, though unable to withstand Lou Gao’s Soul Saint pressure 21.
• Jaws: Could spread outward dramatically; its mouth widened enough to fit a bull’s head while swallowing the bear 21.

Abilities & Skills

Black Flame Breath

The python expelled searing black flames from its mouth 21.

• Killed the dragon bear with three successive breaths.
• Burned away grass along its escape route.
• Its speed increased while surrounded by the flames, which almost concealed its body.
• The flames did not stop Xiao Tian, who continued tracking it by scent 21.

Constriction and Physical Combat

Its flexible body supported powerful coiling attacks and rapid changes of direction 21.

• Constricted the dragon bear tightly enough to make its skeleton creak.
• Attempted to trap Xiao Tian in its coils after he attacked its back.
• Neutralized two incoming dark claw attacks with a tail flick.
• Slithered at a speed compared to a four-legged beast at full gallop, exceeding that of most snake-type Soul Beasts 21.

Scent Detection

• Detected a trace of human scent carried by the hot breeze while feeding.
• Located Long Qianming’s direction and abandoned its meal to attack him 21.

Attempted Self-Destruction

• Gathered Soul Power for self-destruction after losing its left eye.
• Never completed the attack: Lou Gao’s pressure dispersed the accumulated power before Long Qianming delivered the killing shot 21.

Soul Ring Legacy

• The inherited flames are not identical in strength to the python’s original breath. Long Qianming explicitly described his Darkness Qi–formed flames as stronger than the python’s fire 22.