Douluo: From Rusted Spear to Emperor-Slaying Spear

Chapter 6: Sea Viper Mutant, Blood Dragon

As for the soul beast to be hunted, Ji Wuming had already made his choice in his heart. According to the characteristics currently displayed by the Blood Spear Martial Soul and its own fragile shortcomings,

Choosing to hunt snake soul beasts is undoubtedly the best choice. Sea vipers are not only poisonous, but also have a certain degree of toughness. They are murderous by nature, and the blood evil energy in their bodies must be far superior to most sea soul beasts. It can be said that it can completely make up for the shortcomings of the Blood Spear Martial Soul and strengthen its advantages.

As for the deep-sea magic whales, evil killer whales and other powerful top-level sea soul beasts, they are still the top choices, but unfortunately they do not have the hunting power!

Director Lu thought for a moment, then frowned and said, "Sea viper? That's a good choice. Coincidentally, my martial spirit is also a sea viper, which has a certain inhibitory effect on it. Hunting down a three or four hundred year old one shouldn't be a problem."

"Thank you, Director. Even if I'm older, I can still bear it with my current physical condition." Ji Wuming replied.

"Well, let's go now and try to find you a sea viper of the right age before sunset."

After Director Lu arranged some work, he immediately took Ji Wuming to the beach, but he had to remind him,
"Xiao Ji, the older the soul beast, the more likely it is to live in waters far away from humans. They are afraid of humans, and humans are also afraid of them. Although sea vipers are widely distributed in the ocean, it is still difficult to find a sea viper that is more than 400 years old and suitable for this purpose."

"It's okay. It's already difficult for a soul master to obtain a suitable soul ring. If I don't have this little bit of patience, then I don't deserve to be a soul master."

Hearing these words, Director Li felt very pleased with Ji Wuming. Most children of this age are very impetuous, especially when obtaining their first soul ring. However, Ji Wuming is humble and cautious, and has already shown some of the demeanor of a great soul master. His future achievements will surely not be bad.

"Possessed by a martial spirit!"

Unlike land-based soul masters who have their martial spirits possessed, sea soul masters fight in the sea using a special beast soul out of body state.

At this time, Director Lu was standing on an eight-meter-long purple sea viper, floating on the water.
"Come up, Xiao Ji. It's time for us to set off." Director Lu stretched out his left hand and pulled Ji Wuming onto the back of the sea viper.

Along the way, Director Lu deliberately released the pressure of a great soul master, making some soul beasts under a hundred years old dare not approach, thereby speeding up their swimming speed.

Director Lu, due to his martial spirit, was extremely sensitive to sea vipers and soon discovered the trace of a sea viper.
"Xiao Ji, we've found your first spirit ring. There's a sea viper swimming on the sea ahead."

As they swam faster, they saw a sea viper that was only three meters long at a distance of sixty meters. Director Lu shook his head in disappointment.

"Sea vipers grow one centimeter longer every year, and this one is between three and three and a half meters long. A rough estimate is around 350 years old. We'll swim a little further, and if there's nothing older, we'll choose this one."

"Okay, Director." Ji Wuming said softly.

However, in the next second, the relatively calm sea surface suddenly became turbulent, and countless weak sea soul beasts fled in all directions. Only to be seen was an unknown soul beast with a blood-red body and short horns leaping half a meter out of the water and biting the 350-year-old sea viper's seven inches.
As its head swung left and right a few times, the hard snake scales were bitten through directly, and the sea viper was immediately broken into two pieces, and a circle of bloody red appeared on the water surface.
Director Lu noticed this scene, his eyes filled with surprise. "This is a blood dragon, an extremely rare variant of the sea viper. Judging from its length, it's nearly 630 years old."

Hearing this, a golden light flashed in Ji Wuming's eyes.
He had seen the Blood Dragon, a soul beast that was a mutant of a sea viper, in the encyclopedia of sea soul beasts. The Blood Dragon was actually one of the top soul beasts that was a sea viper that had mutated after devouring a certain number of its own kind, and while its body mutated, it gained a trace of dragon essence and finally completed the mutation.

On the continent, in everyone's subconscious, dragons have been considered synonymous with powerful bloodlines. Even an ordinary soul beast, as long as it obtains a trace of dragon bloodline, can be ranked among the top soul beasts.
Snakes belong to the dragon species, and there is a very faint trace of hidden dragon blood in their bodies. If they get the opportunity or eat a soul beast with dragon blood, they will definitely be able to transform into a dragon.
As for the blood dragon in front of him, it was just a name given to the soul beast because most people had no concept of the word "jiao". The correct name should be "blood jiao".

Ji Wuming watched the blood dragon swim further and further away. He had no time to explain at this moment and shouted anxiously,
"Director, this blood dragon is very suitable as my first spirit ring. Based on my current physical fitness, I can absorb a spirit ring of about 650 years. And according to my understanding, blood dragons like to collect some precious items. It is very likely that there are a lot of treasures in its cave."

The dragon race is lustful, but another characteristic is that they like to collect treasures. The blood dragon is already evolving into a blood dragon, so it must have inherited some characteristics of the dragon race.

"Physical fitness is actually linked to the age of the spirit ring?"

After questioning for a moment, Director Lu looked at Ji Wuming's height of 1.56 meters and his extremely strong physique, which was even stronger than when he became a great soul master. He felt a little affirmative about Ji Wuming's ability to absorb soul rings above his level.

Moreover, if the second half of Ji Wuming's sentence was true, with his current strength, he would have no problem dealing with a two or three thousand year old soul beast. Even if this 630 year old blood dragon was stronger, its true strength was only at the level of a thousand year old soul beast. So the blood dragon cave could really be explored.

"Okay, let's catch up right away."

Director Lu grabbed Ji Wuming and accelerated as fast as he could. In order to prevent their whereabouts from being discovered by the blood dragon, they deliberately kept a safe distance from it.

Two hours later, the blood dragon swam to a small island and crawled towards a cave at a very fast speed.

"Xiao Ji, although this island is much safer than the ocean, there must be a large number of sea vipers on this island. Pay attention to your surroundings and follow me closely."

"Director, I understand!" Ji Wuming immediately drew out the blood spear from behind him and sneaked forward step by step, following Director Lu's speed.

After they passed through a hundred-meter-long forest, a cave over 20 meters high appeared in front of them. A breeze blew, and a strong smell of blood hit them. There were also many snake skins on the ground.
Just as Director Lu was about to go inside, Ji Wuming looked at the scorching sun above his head and immediately stopped him.

"Director, there are different kinds of snake sloughs on this island. The Blood Dragon is very likely to have become the king of snakes. There must be a large number of snake spirit beasts inside this cave. If we force our way in, even a Soul Sect member will die if he is not careful."

(End of this chapter)