Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 166 Deadly Toxin

Just as Dai Huabin was thinking rapidly, the scorpion tiger had already run towards the animal pen without looking back.

Chen Ping frowned. He had no idea whether letting the soul beast escape would affect his final score.

Immediately, Chen Ping exerted force with both legs, and his whole body shot off like an arrow, chasing after the scorpion tiger.

At this moment, the scorpion tiger was already affected by three effects: blinding, corrosive, and paralyzing, making its escape movements quite disheveled.

This drew the attention of many people to the Colosseum's every move.

Could it be that Shrek Academy is really about to produce a prodigy who can defeat a five-thousand-year-old soul beast with just a second-ring soul?

Shrek's arena wasn't small, but it wasn't particularly large either. Chen Ping and Scorpion Tiger ran at full speed and reached the edge of the arena in just a few seconds.

The next moment, a scene that completely exceeded everyone's expectations appeared.

The scorpion tiger didn't turn around to deal with Chen Ping. Instead, it kicked off the wall with undiminished momentum. Its movements were so agile that it was a far cry from its previous disheveled appearance!
Even Chen Ping could only watch as the scorpion tiger suddenly leaped off the wall and spun in mid-air in a perfect arc, its black barb on its tail, resembling a scorpion's tail, already silently aimed at Chen Ping.

"Whoosh—"

Thousands of black poisonous needles shot out from the scorpion's tail hook, instantly transforming into a cloud of poisonous needles that rushed towards Chen Ping, giving the impression of a dark cloud pressing down on a city.

Besides darkness and wind attributes, this scorpion tiger also has poison as its third attribute. This killing move, which it has been holding back for so long, is now determined to pin Chen Ping to this spot!

A cruel glint flashed in the scorpion tiger's eyes, but then, all that remained was disbelief!

"Boom boom boom boom."

A series of thumping sounds rang out as Chen Ping spun the Dragon-Touching Staff like a windmill. Any poison needles that tried to hit Chen Ping were deflected and deflected by the rapidly spinning staff. Only a few poison needles splashed onto Chen Ping's hands, causing them to swell up immediately.

"Sha."

The venomous stinger of the scorpion was so painful, numb, itchy, and burning that Chen Ping had to throw down the stick and keep shaking his hand after he had just removed all the stingers.

The venom of the scorpion tiger's stinger was far more potent than the poison he released, and this also made Chen Ping realize a truth.

While the stick flower technique is effective at intercepting projectile attacks, it's best not to use it to block fine and dense poison needles like these, as your hand can't withstand it!
Unless, of course, one could obtain something similar to Tang San's Xuan Yu Hand, or the Forged Iron Hand used by the Power Clan, which would allow for targeted enhancements to oneself.

That Xuan Yu Hand was nothing more than condensing soul power in the palm of the hand to form a layer of protection.

Given his expertise in exercise meditation, achieving this should not be difficult for him.

The scorpion tiger was both shocked and furious when it saw Chen Ping deflect its poisonous stinger, which it intended to use as a killing move.

Its poisonous needles are invincible even when used to hunt down spirit beasts of the same level.

Once the defenses are breached, thousands of poisoned needles will instantly pierce the target's body, causing them to lose most of their combat abilities in an instant. At the same time, the areas pierced by the poisoned needles will swell and ooze pus. If the needles hit the chest, the swelling will be so severe that even breathing will become difficult for the soul beast, and suffocation is not out of the question.

Now that he sees that although 99% of his poison needles missed, at least Chen Ping is in so much pain that he can't even hold the stick, what threat does Chen Ping pose to him?
Falling from mid-air, the Scorpion Tiger had almost exhausted its soul power after releasing several soul skills in succession. At the same time, it was also feeling nauseous from being sluggish by Chen Ping's poisoned stick hanging on its body.

But the instinctive and skillful fighting techniques made the Scorpion Tiger brake abruptly, unleashing a frenzy. It pressed its claws slightly on the ground and then slashed at Chen Ping's position.

Chen Ping hooked his right foot and suddenly lifted it upwards, sending the Dragon-Touching Staff, which he had tossed onto his foot, flying half a person's height.

Immediately afterwards, a fierce glint flashed in Chen Ping's eyes, as if he had become ruthless, and he didn't even look at the scorpion tiger that was pouncing on him.

Subconsciously, he circulated his blood and energy to the top of his right foot, forming a protective layer that resembled a blood and energy armor.

Then, he spun around and delivered a powerful kick, slamming it into one end of the Dragon-Touching Staff, sending it hurtling out like a javelin after it had been hooked by his right foot.

"Oh!"

Chen Ping's kick was so powerful that it even caused the Dragon-Touching Staff to tremble slightly. Then, the entire staff burst out with a whooshing sound and shot towards the Scorpion Tiger like a chasing star!

Scorpion Tiger never expected that Chen Ping's hands, which were swollen like loaves of bread from the poison needles, would still be able to wield the stick with his feet to fight back. Completely unprepared, he was instantly pierced through the shoulder blade by the Dragon-Touching Stick.

For the first time, Chen Ping hesitated for a moment, looking incredulously at the blood-red armor gradually fading from his feet, before continuing his attack on the scorpion tiger.

The scorpion cried out in pain and instinctively tried to turn and run away, but it was now out of options. How could Chen Ping be afraid of it?
After retracting his martial spirit into his body, Chen Ping used the same trick again, summoning his martial spirit once more and kicking it out heavily, thrusting the Dragon-Touching Staff at the Scorpion Tiger like a javelin.

The move of repeatedly using his martial spirit as a javelin wasn't new, but it did manage to strike the completely unsuspecting Scorpion Tiger once again, causing large swathes of black mist to erupt from its body.

"Hmph, want to run away?"

Chen Ping snorted coldly; his five layers of poison seal were already fully stacked!
The next moment, a huge venom bubble rose from the scorpion tiger's body and then burst with a pop, shaking away all the black mist that the scorpion tiger had forcibly squeezed out a little soul power to release.

Chen Ping showed no mercy, unleashing his second soul skill, derived from the Thousand-Year Demon King, in public for the first time.

[Violent Toxin: Instantly and significantly enhances the effects of all poison-attribute soul skills activated by the user, and prolongs the duration of the poison's effect.]

Almost at the same time that Chen Ping's dazzling and noble purple second soul ring lit up, a second and a third five-colored poison bubble actually condensed on the Scorpion Tiger's body.

These two poison bubbles are far more powerful than the first one; the moment they appeared, a hissing, corrosive sound filled the air.

Splat! Splat!
One poisonous bubble after another burst open, splashing poisonous water onto the ground of the arena, which even emitted white smoke.

The scorpion tiger, which had been almost completely drained of its soul power but still managed to maintain a sliver of blood energy, suddenly had three poisonous bubbles burst from its body. As if all its vital energy had been drained, its limbs went limp and it fainted.

Chen Ping's second soul skill, called Venom, may not seem like much, but when combined with his first soul skill, it creates a rather wonderful chemical reaction!
After all, Chen Ping's first soul skill can release five kinds of poison.

(End of this chapter)