Douluo Continent: The Time-Stopping Evil Dragon, They All Want to Tame Me

Chapter 23 Mantis Shrimp, Let's Go!

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What about the evil dragon?

The dragon that had been about to unleash its fury and devour people suddenly vanished from sight.

Before Purple Pearl could think any further, she suddenly felt dizzy and her legs went weak, causing her to collapse to the ground.

A tearing, numb sensation, like a torrent after a downpour, shot up from the bottom of her head and straight to the top of her head.

In an instant, tears welled up in her slightly heroic purple eyes, her brows furrowed, and she looked pitiful.

And his mind felt as if it had been filled with paste, making it impossible to think at all.

Purple Pearl lay sprawled on the ground, trembling and twitching as if she had accidentally touched the rare sea monster, the Giant Electric Eel King, and was being pierced by a powerful electric current.

It took her an unknown amount of time before she gradually regained consciousness.

With her hands braced against the ground, Purple Pearl struggled to lift herself up.

She moved with difficulty toward the chair not far away.

However, the short distance felt incredibly long to her. With each step she took, her abdomen felt like it was being stabbed with a dagger, causing excruciating pain.

"Even when I left Poseidon Island and was caught in a storm, being battered by the waves for a whole day and night, I didn't feel this bad!"

"This feeling is similar to what I experienced in the morning."

"But besides the tearing, burning pain, there also seems to be a bit of numbness and soreness."

……

Above the sea, the evil dragon spread its wings and flew slowly.

living comfortably without anybody's help.

The ingredients for the pirates' dinner, while of good quality, were ultimately just ordinary seafood, not powerful sea spirit beasts.

He wouldn't bother tasting these things if he didn't want to experience being waited on.

Now, Purple Pearl's "cooking skills" have given him a reason to go out and find ingredients.

The shimmering waves reflected the golden sunset.

For an ordinary person, it would be impossible to observe the seabed through the surface of the sea in the face of such a refraction phenomenon, but Ao Xing's dragon eyes can easily see the situation tens or hundreds of meters below the seabed.

"How come most of them are just ordinary fish?" Ao Xing said with some disappointment.

He had been away from Purple Pearl Island for a quarter of an hour, and at his flying speed, he had actually traversed dozens of miles of ocean.

However, along the way, no sea spirit beasts of advanced age that could be used as food were found.

Instead, what we saw were mostly regular fish or low-age sea spirit beasts.

"That's true. If the ocean were full of sea spirit beasts, there probably wouldn't be many ordinary fish."

"A single thousand-year-old soul beast, whether a shark or a whale, can devour a whole school of fish and shrimp in a single hunt. Ordinary fish and shrimp simply can't keep up with the speed of these sea soul beasts!"

"Shouldn't the ocean also possess the same order as the Star Dou Great Forest?"

Ao Xing figured out the key point: "So, in a certain sea area, there should be one or several ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts with the cultivation level of overlords, dozens of thousand-year-old soul beasts of different ages, and tens of thousands of ten-year-old and hundred-year-old soul beasts."

"Otherwise, common fish, shrimp, seaweed, and other organisms at the bottom of the food chain might face extinction!"

Having realized this, Ao Xing stopped flying in a straight line and instead flew close to the sea surface, circling a certain area to conduct a search.

About 15 minutes later.

Ao Xing's lips curled up, revealing his jagged, white teeth.

Immediately, he plunged into the sea!

White bubbles churned, fish and shrimp scattered, and the calm underwater world was suddenly punctuated by a white line with a dark purple tip.

A golden-armored mantis shrimp king, waving its pincers and trying to pry open the shell of a thousand-year-old red-gold sea urchin with amazing defenses, finally released its pincers.

It turned around and looked behind it.

However, before it could spot any creature that made it feel threatened, it was pulled out of the water!

"Wuhu, mantis shrimp, let's go!"

Ao Xing directly brought the Golden Armored Mantis Shrimp King to the surface of the sea.

Although the soul beast he was holding was enormous and had a pale golden color, Ao Xing recognized it as a "mantis shrimp" at a glance based on its appearance.

To ensure the freshness of the dinner ingredients, Ao Xing did not kill them immediately.

Therefore, when the Golden Armored Mantis Shrimp King discovered that it had been pulled from the sea and carried into the sky by a small flying "soul beast," it immediately roared in anger.

In the ocean, one's cultivation level is often directly proportional to their physical size.

Most sea spirit beasts are larger in size the stronger they are.

This golden-armored mantis shrimp king has a cultivation level of 24,000 years.

It is nearly six meters long, twice the size of Ao Xing!

It is the overlord of this sea area!

Now that it has been caught in the sky by a little creature that is neither snake nor bird, the King of Mantis Shrimp is naturally furious!

It twisted its body wildly, trying to use its powerful strength to disrupt Ao Xing's flight rhythm and drag it into the sea.

After all, the sea spirit beast's home ground is the ocean!

Even when they are away from the sea for a short time, most sea spirit beasts cannot unleash more than a third of their strength.

However, to the mantis shrimp king's surprise, the creature holding it continued to fly steadily in the air, completely unaffected by it.

then,

The king mantis shrimp stretched out its pincers and used all its strength to clamp down on the dragon claw that was holding it.

"Are you tickling me?"

With a hint of anger, Ao Xing used his dragon breath to infuse his voice and roared at the Shrimp King.

The next second, the soul beast, which had been around for over 20,000 years, was so frightened that it spat out a stream of water that cascaded down.

"No wonder mantis shrimp are called pissing shrimp," Ao Xing muttered to himself as he flew rapidly toward Purple Pearl Island.

……

"Does anyone here need a sixth spirit ring?"

Ao Xing's voice echoed across most of Purple Pearl Island.

Many low-level pirate soul masters trembled with fear upon hearing the dragon's voice.

After waiting for a long time, no one answered.

Upon seeing this, Ao Xing sensed the situation and discovered that the highest-level pirate was Purple Pearl, at level 62.

The rest had not yet broken through to the Soul Emperor level.

"It's a pity you're not fortunate enough to enjoy such a great opportunity." After casually tossing the still-shaking King Shrimp onto the island, Ao Xing flew around Purple Pearl Island once before landing on a rocky coast in the northwest.

After observing for a while, he stretched out his finger and traced a circle around a relatively flat rock. Then he spewed dragon fire, heating the rock for a few seconds, and then gently pushed it, peeling off a flat stone slab.

"Ah Zhu, prepare Sichuan peppercorns, fine salt, and chili peppers." Ao Xing suddenly appeared beside Zi Zhenzhu.

The latter turned pale and nodded like a chick pecking at rice, afraid of angering the evil dragon and being tormented again.

They would pile up several stones of the same height, then place the stone slabs they had just made on top to create a simple stove.

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inside the room.

The tears in Qian Renxue's eyes had dried, and her emotions had calmed down.

She naturally heard Ao Xing's loud voice.

"A sixth spirit ring?"

"What is the evil dragon up to?"

Qian Renxue walked to the simple washbasin in the room and splashed some water to wash herself.

But just then, a strange, salty, and unique aroma wafted into the room.

咕噜 咕噜

(End of this chapter)