A Bite of Douluo Continent

Ruyi had already divided up the distribution areas of all the dragon-type soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest for Qi Han. At this moment, Qi Han was preparing to go to the area closest to him, which belonged to a type of earth dragon soul beast called Mangjialong.

Next, he plans to try out different types of dragons one by one.

About ten minutes after Qi Han left the stream, a black mist suddenly appeared and quickly condensed into a dark, gloomy figure. He looked at the mess left behind and smelled the faint aroma of roasted meat still lingering in the air. He felt his stomach rumbling and couldn't help but snort, "That stinky cook certainly knows how to enjoy life."

"You're lucky you ran fast." You Li muttered, then flashed to another spot by the stream, slowly bent down, and touched the ground with his pale, withered fingers.

On the ground, a clear hoofprint stands out.

"Heh... Gotcha, you little mouse." A cruel smile played on You Li's lips as he transformed into a black shadow once more, chasing after the hoofprints.

From the memories of the Yu family father and son, he already knew that Qi Han possessed a thousand-year-old blood-red unicorn.

Such a soul beast runs very fast. Even if I am a six-ring Soul Emperor, I can surpass it in speed, but my endurance is definitely inferior, and I cannot continue to chase at full speed.

However, it was impossible for Qi Han to travel at full speed continuously within the Star Dou Great Forest.

As long as he stops, I'm sure I can catch up with him!

Chapter 347: A Hundred Ghosts' Journey

"We're here, we've arrived."

After traveling at full speed for about ten minutes, Qi Han gently patted Zhuiyun's back, signaling it to stop.

He looked around at the trees, which were noticeably thicker than before, and nodded.

The main criterion for determining which area you are in within the Starry Sky Forest is the thickness of the tree trunks.

The closer you get to the inside, the older and thicker the tree is.

Referring to the map, he realized he had arrived at the habitat of the Mangjialong. Qi Han rolled off and patted Zhuiyun on the shoulder, saying, "You've worked hard. Rest in the small world for a few days from now on."

For the next few days, he should stay in this area and won't need to use the Cloud Chaser for transportation for the time being. Compared to the dangers here, the small world is obviously more suitable for Cloud Chaser.

Zhuiyun clearly understood this principle as well. He gently touched Qi Han's forehead with his unicorn horn, bid farewell, and then followed the guidance of Ruyi into the small world.

"Alright, it's time for us to get going now." After Zhuiyun disappeared, Qi Han patted Guru and carefully headed towards the habitat of the Mangjialong.

The Mangjialong is a social land dragon. Although according to Ruyi's markings, the Mangjialong in this area are only of the hundred-year and thousand-year level, if they were to attack Qi Han in groups after discovering him, Qi Han would probably have to flee in panic.

This soul beast is short in stature with short, thick legs, but its head has a very thick, hard armor, and its entire back is also covered with hard, spiked armor. At the end of its thick, long tail is a spiked hammer.

Because of its extremely high defense and low-profile design, most spirit beasts cannot attack its soft belly. This earth dragon, covered in armor, is all about recklessness. It will charge straight at any opponent and attack with its hard head and the hammer-like part at the end of its tail. Hence, it is called the Reckless Armored Dragon.

A hundred-year-old Mangjia Dragon has dark blue-green armor, while a thousand-year-old Mangjia Dragon will have dark blue-green armor that turns into a deep black color, so the two are still easy to distinguish.

Qi Han was quite lucky. After tiptoeing into the depths of the area, he soon discovered two Mangjialong traveling together. There were no other companions around. Judging from their armor, they were both the dark blue-black color of a hundred-year-old Mangjialong.

Qi Han held his breath and hid behind a tree, carefully watching the two armored dragons, pondering how to kill them without being noticed by the other armored dragons.

Soon, his expression turned strange.

Of the two armored dragons in front of them, the stronger one suddenly climbed onto the back of the other armored dragon and began to rock back and forth.

So... are they a male and a female?

Qi Han's expression was quite interesting; no wonder the two of them had secretly slipped away to a place where there were no other dragons.

I can't watch anymore, it's too offensive.

He immediately revealed himself and used all four of his soul skills simultaneously. The blade of light he unleashed struck the belly of the armored dragon above at an extremely tricky angle. The armored dragon let out a miserable cry and fell silent.

The armored dragon below sensed something was wrong and instinctively tried to curl up to protect its most vulnerable abdomen. However, before it could complete its movement, Qi Han's blade light had already descended, ending its life in one strike.

With Qi Han's current strength, dealing with two hundred-year-old soul beasts was a piece of cake. Soon, he grabbed the tail of a Mangjialong in each hand and instantly entered the training space.

...

"The hoofprints are gone?"

A few minutes later, the shadowy figure arrived at the location where Qi Han had sent Zhuiyun into the small world. Looking at the completely disappeared hoofprints, You Li, who had reappeared, had a gloomy expression on his face. "He's quite cautious. Did he realize that the hoofprints would give away his tracks, so he gave up riding the horse?"

He seemed to have completely forgotten that Qi Han had no idea of ​​his existence, let alone that he had tried to escape.

"Strange, where did his blood-red unicorn go?" You Li frowned, stomped his foot slightly, and pale red vengeful spirits emerged from around him, flying in all directions, their color fading until they were almost completely undetectable.

"I'll see if you can escape my Hundred Ghosts' Pursuit!" You Li sneered, sitting cross-legged on the ground to await the return of the wronged souls.

Soon, countless wronged souls returned to his side, and a smile appeared on his stern face. "I've found you."

He then sped off in the direction Qi Han had once walked.

A few minutes later, You Li stopped. He looked at the two hundred-year soul rings flashing before his eyes and the pool of blood on the ground, and a hint of joy appeared on his face.

A thin layer of black mist enveloped the area, and soon the souls of two ferocious armored dragons emerged. You Li impatiently reached into the souls of the armored dragons, searching for the information he wanted. Soon, he disdainfully shattered the souls of the two armored dragons, calling them "trash."

A remnant soul can only retain some of its memories from its previous life, and the degree to which it retains these memories is directly related to the strength of its original intelligence.

A fool like the Mangjialong, whose brain is filled with hard armor, has almost no memories retained in its remnant soul.

From the scattered images, it can be seen that they were indeed killed by Qi Han, but they had no idea where Qi Han went after killing them.

The trail went cold again.

"Damn it!" You Li clutched his head in pain. His mind was extremely restless. Absorbing too many souls' memories had caused his personality to be unpredictable, giving him a somewhat schizophrenic feeling.

His repeated failures completely wore down his already limited patience.

"Roar!" An angry roar came from the side. A monstrous armored dragon whose carapace had completely transformed into a dark black color strode over. Seeing the two flashing soul rings and sensing the familiar aura of the same origin, its eyes instantly turned blood red. After roaring, it angrily charged towards You Li.

"Get out of here, you idiot." You Li roared and kicked the Mangjialong. With a whooshing sound, the huge Mangjialong, which was five or six meters long, was still kicked away ten meters away by You Li's venting kick.

After rolling around on the ground a few times, it stood up again, shook its head, and then charged headlong at Youli, as if it were determined to fight to the death.

"Didn't you hear me say 'Get out of here'? You idiot." You Li's face grew even more ferocious. A cloud of black mist suddenly enveloped half of the Mangjialong's body. Amidst the Mangjialong's screams, that half of its body quickly turned into pus. Only the hard carapace remained, but it had lost its protective function.

"It's all your fault, you damned beasts, for being so stupid. The remnant soul's memories are so fragmented that I can't even find a single person. You deserve to die!" You Li became increasingly irrational, blaming all the blame on the Mangjia Dragon.

His eyes were filled with madness and ferocity. He showed no pity for the Mangjialong, which was howling and barely breathing on the ground. The black mist condensed again, turning the remaining flesh and blood of the Mangjialong into foul-smelling pus. He then extracted the Mangjialong's soul, tortured it, and ate it.

Such a commotion had already alerted the Mangjia Dragon horde. You Li had just finished absorbing the souls of the Mangjia Dragons when they charged over, roaring as they attacked him.

"Die, all of you!" You Li sneered, advancing instead of retreating, charging towards the Mang Jialong, venting his inner rage.

...

"Senior Sister, what's wrong?"

A group of more than ten people were walking in the Star Dou Great Forest when the silver-haired girl at the head of the group suddenly frowned and stopped. Behind her, another girl couldn't help but ask, "We're still quite a distance from the area of ​​ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts."

"I think I sensed an evil aura, possibly the activity of an evil spirit master." Yu Lianxin frowned. The aura was faint, and she couldn't be completely sure.

"An evil spirit master?" The crowd behind him immediately stirred.

"Senior Sister, let's go take a look together!" a male student immediately said. "It's not that far anyway. Judging these evil guys is our supervisory team's job!"

“Yes, yes,” many students agreed.

Seeing this, Yu Lianxin nodded, "Then let's go take a look."

Chapter 348 Experimental Ingredients

Inside the training space, Qi Han struggled to lift two enormous armored dragons onto the table, panting heavily from the effort.

These two armored dragons were quite large, weighing several tons each, and it took Qi Han a lot of effort to move them.

Looking at the Mangekyou in front of him, Qi Han felt that it resembled a type of dinosaur called Hammerhead Dragon more than the legendary dragons.

Never mind, let's start dividing it up.

Hmm... let's start with that male one, because it's such an eyesore.

With a flash of his blade, Qi Han carefully dissected the Mangjialong's body, starting from its abdomen, separating the flesh of each part along the grain to prepare it for future experiments.

Despite its dark exterior, the flesh inside the Mangekyou is quite tempting. All parts of its body have a pinkish color, like cherry blossoms, making them look very tender.

Normally, lizards are reptiles and do not have myoglobin in their bodies, so their flesh should be white.

However, it is obviously unwise to focus on biology when dealing with soul beasts. Qi Han could only guess that the color of the flesh was probably related to the dragon bloodline within it.

Smelling the somewhat foul-smelling blood inside the Mangjialong's body, Qi Han couldn't help but frown.

This blood is probably inedible; it smells so bad, it's best to just throw it away.

Originally, Qi Han wanted to try making something similar to pig's blood, but now he has decided to give up.

Soon, Qi Han had separated and cleaned all parts of the Mangjialong except for its carapace.

Tossing the empty carapace aside, Qi Han's gaze wandered over the various parts of the Mangjialong that had already been divided.

The contents include the skin of the Mang'anosaurus on its abdomen, the softer flesh of its abdomen, the flesh along the edges of its ribs, the flesh near its spine, and the Mang'anosaurus's robust limbs, as well as its various internal organs.

These are the parts that Qi Han thinks are edible.

The skin on the belly of the Mangekyou is still the same dark blue-black color as its armor. Although it is the Mangekyou's weak point, this layer of skin is not as fragile as one might imagine. It is a full finger thick and extremely tough.

So-called weaknesses are only relative.

I wonder what it tastes like to eat such collagen-rich ankylosaur skin.

The plump skin and gelatinous texture instantly reminded Qi Han of Dongpo pork knuckle.

It's decided. Let's try stewing it using the method of Dongpo pork knuckle first, and see how Dongpo pork skin tastes!

…two hours later…

"Ugh..." Qi Han spat out the piece of Mangjialong skin from his mouth, his face showing a look of existential doubt.

This armored dragon hide…

Before cooking, Qi Han really thought that the Mangjialong skin would turn out pretty well.

Because the dragon skin is extremely elastic and rich in collagen, it doesn't smell bad after the surface is washed clean.

Just in case, Qi Han actually took thorough precautions to remove the fishy smell.

But... after it was fully cooked, the pungent, nauseating fishy smell still shocked Qi Han.

Qi Han silently crossed out the Mangjialong skin in his mind, and then began the experiment with the second ingredient: the meat from the Mangjialong's abdomen.