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

Chapter 538 The True and False Auspicious Beasts
Chen Ping also frowned deeply at this moment.

The spirit beast before them was over three meters long and eight feet tall at the shoulders. Its entire body was covered with a layer of brilliant golden fur, making it look like a Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Its roar also resembled that of a Three-Eyed Golden Lion. The vertical pupil between its brows and its semi-transparent, crystal-like fur also resembled that of a Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

However, Chen Ping felt an extremely strong sense of unfamiliarity from the three-eyed golden lion in front of him. This three-eyed golden lion was extremely ferocious. Even when Chen Ping first encountered the three-eyed golden lion when he was captured alive by the Zhongli people, the ferocity on it was not this strong.

If the three-eyed golden lion he encountered back then was the one in front of him, he would probably have been crushed to death by its small feet covered in golden dragon scales right away, and there would have been no subsequent plot.
"Senior Sister, be careful! Something's wrong with this three-eyed golden lion!"

Chen Ping offered a reminder, and the next moment, upon sensing the results of his mental energy scan, Chen Ping was jolted.

What's going on? How come there's a three-eyed golden lion a few kilometers away?
In Chen Ping's mental detection, the size, shape, bloodstained fur, and location of the injury of the three-eyed golden lion behind were exactly the same as those of the three-eyed golden lion in front.

However, only one Imperial Beast can appear in an era. Logically speaking, it is even more tightly controlled than a top-tier healing martial soul like the Nine-Hearted Begonia. How could two Imperial Beasts appear at once, and both of them be Three-Eyed Golden Lions?

Perhaps because of Chen Ping's reminder, Zhang Lexuan did not relax her vigilance against the three-eyed golden lion in front of her. When the three-eyed golden lion suddenly pounced towards Zhang Lexuan, Zhang Lexuan raised her right hand almost without hesitation.

Standing behind, Chen Ping clearly saw that eight spirit rings—two yellow, two purple, three black, and one red—quickly rose from beneath Zhang Lexuan's feet.

When the red spirit ring appeared on her body, the three-eyed golden lion clearly hesitated for a moment, but only for a second, and then continued to charge forward madly.

It was already dusk, with the sun and moon shining in the same sky. On one side was the blood-red sunset, and on the right was a bright moon emitting a silvery-white light.

Just then, a light suddenly appeared behind Zhang Lexuan. It was a crescent moon, a bright moon that seemed to be magnified from the moon in the sky. The crescent moon looked as if it were hanging on the treetops. When it appeared, it immediately illuminated everything around it.

This gave Chen Ping the feeling that Zhang Lexuan had used some kind of pinhole imaging technique to magnify the moon in the sky and then hang it on the treetop—a truly wondrous sight.

Zhang Lexuan's skin was crystal clear and white under the moonlight. She pointed forward with her right hand, and several beams of moonlight shot out from the crescent moon.

To everyone's surprise, after the three-eyed golden lion charged forward, the attacks that could have blasted away Soul Kings and Soul Emperors with a mere ray of moonlight had almost no effect on it.

After being bombarded by the continuous moonlight, the three-eyed golden lion in front of him only let out a low roar, and directly withstood Zhang Lexuan's moonlight. It then extended one of its claws, which was like a dragon's claw and covered in golden flames, and slammed it heavily towards Zhang Lexuan!
"Certainly!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Ping activated his Cold Fixing Seal almost instantly.

But the creature in front of them, which appeared to be a three-eyed golden lion and had a cultivation level of 15,000 years, only trembled slightly and hesitated for a moment in mid-air before still sending Zhang Lexuan flying, as if it had not been affected by Chen Pinghan's seal at all.

However, this momentary delay gave Zhang Lexuan a chance to retaliate. The next moment, her entire right arm turned into a bright, moonlit color, and a terrifying surge of soul power instantly blasted out, sending the three-eyed golden lion flying backward.

This is Zhang Lexuan's sixth soul skill. The name doesn't sound like her temperament at all, but it sounds incredibly powerful—Silver Moon Piercing Killing Light.

This soul skill is actually divided into two parts. It usually involves first controlling the enemy, then directly drawing the moonlight downwards to suddenly envelop the opponent's body. The next moment, an explosion occurs, creating a huge penetrating wound. However, given the urgency of the situation, she could only manage to land a blow on the three-eyed golden lion in front of her before being heavily slapped away.

"Sister!"

Chen Ping called out with some concern, gripping the Jade Scorpion Staff tightly in his hand, protecting Ning Tian behind him.

"I'm fine, you two be careful!"

Zhang Lexuan shouted with difficulty before she could barely get up from the ground. The trigger-type level eight defensive soul tool on her body had been completely shattered!
Single-handedly, she pierced through an eighth-level defensive soul tool. If she hadn't been wearing that defensive soul tool, Zhang Lexuan was certain that she would not have suffered such a minor injury.

What a terrifying soul beast! Is this another 100,000-year-old soul beast?
For a moment, Zhang Lexuan's heart was filled with gloom.

At this moment, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, which had been struck and sent flying by Zhang Lexuan's sixth soul skill, Silver Moon Piercing Killing Light, rolled off the ground and stood up again.

No, to be precise, this creature can no longer be called a Three-Eyed Golden Lion. As a white mist rose from the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's body, a giant beast appeared in the spot after the mist dissipated.

This behemoth is about the same size as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, both being three meters long, but its body looks very well-proportioned. Every muscle seems to be filled with explosive power. Although its fur is the same bright gold color as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, it lacks the transparent crystal-like texture.

At the same time, the head of this behemoth is enormous, resembling a huge lion's head, but it has a black, ghostly face that only Tibetan mastiffs have, and it exudes an extremely terrifying aura.

"This is."

Looking at the golden-yellow spirit beast before him, which resembled both a lion and a Tibetan mastiff, Chen Ping's heart stirred, and he thought of a spirit beast.

The Golden Lion Mastiff, a suspected extinct soul beast that has only been recorded a handful of times in the last ten thousand years and has not been documented in writing for nearly three thousand years, is qualified to be a Beast King-level soul beast!
Judging from its length, the golden-haired lion mastiff in front of us is probably only a little over 10,000 years old.

But given how Zhang Lexuan almost got slapped to go see her old teammates just now, no one dared to treat this golden-haired lion as someone that an ordinary Soul King could handle.

Soul King?

Chen Ping suspected that even if Soul Saints came, three or five of them together, they would only be able to provide an extra meal for the golden-haired lion-mastiff in front of him!

"Senior Sister, be careful! That soul beast ahead could very well be a golden-haired lion mastiff, a soul beast that is suspected to be extinct."

(End of this chapter)