leonardwarren Chapter 22 Dark Demon Dragon Lizard!
Chapter 22 Dark Demon Dragon Lizard!
Mingfei closed his eyes and unleashed his full mental power.
His perception radius expanded after breaking through level 30, and it has now reached about 100 meters.
Within a hundred meters, no creature with fluctuations of soul power can escape his perception.
He doesn't need to personally search for ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts; his mental power is his hunting ground radar.
He began to move through the forest.
Without a fixed direction or a predetermined route, he simply walked, scanning everything along the way with his mental power.
Hundred-year-old soul beasts, thousand-year-old soul beasts, ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts—they appeared in his perception as different "colors".
Hundred-year-old soul beasts are light gray, thousand-year-old soul beasts are dark gray, and ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts are pure black, like a thick blob of ink, standing out against the gray background.
On the first night, he found nothing.
Although Sunset Forest is vast, ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts are not found everywhere.
They mostly live in the deepest parts of the forest, where the concentration of soul energy is higher and the environment is more suitable for their survival.
Mingfei is currently located in the outer part of the central forest, still some distance from the true depths.
On the second night, he advanced about thirty miles into the depths.
The forest became denser, the canopy thicker, and the fallen leaves on the ground deeper.
The dampness in the air grew stronger, mixed with an indescribable smell of decay.
Mingfei's mental energy scan detected several thousand-year-old soul beasts.
A four-thousand-year-old ironback lizard, a three-thousand-year-old Netherworld Wolf King, and several ordinary soul beasts that are one or two thousand years old.
He ignored them and continued deeper into the area.
On the third night, he finally made a discovery.
Around 2 a.m., Mingfei stood under a huge ancient banyan tree and focused all his spiritual energy on extending it in the northwest direction.
About 300 meters away, a very faint, black energy cluster was moving slowly.
The blackness was as thick as ink, even deeper and heavier than the soul power fluctuations of the Dark Nether Python.
Ten-thousand-year-old soul beast.
Mingfei's heart raced for a moment, but quickly returned to calm.
He crouched down and focused his mental energy on the black mass, trying to analyze its shape and properties.
Large animals.
It is about four to five meters long, with thick limbs and a long tail.
It moves slowly, but each step is steady and makes almost no sound.
Its body temperature is very low, not much higher than the ambient temperature. If it weren't for mental perception, an ordinary person would have no way of detecting it.
Dark attribute.
Mingfei quickly searched his memory.
Sunset Forest, dark attribute, ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, large animal, four or five meters long, with a very long tail... a name came to mind.
Dark Demon Dragon Lizard.
It is not a real dragon, but a lizard-like spirit beast that is distantly related to the dragon race.
Its scales are dark black with a faint sheen, giving it extremely high defensive capabilities.
Its claws and teeth possess a dark, corrosive power that can easily tear through metal.
It is not fast, but it has extremely strong explosive power. Its speed in a short sprint can reach more than twice that of the Ghost Tiger.
Its weaknesses are its abdomen and eyes.
The scales on its abdomen are thin, but difficult to hit, because the Dark Demon Dragon Lizard will instinctively protect its abdomen by pressing its body against the ground during a fight.
Its eyes are another weakness, but they are small and its reaction speed is extremely fast, making it almost impossible to pierce them.
The year – judged by the concentration and volume of the energy cluster – is approximately between 18,000 and 20,000 years ago.
Just right.
Ming Fei's lips curled up slightly.
Instead of taking action, he sank his consciousness into the underworld and began to deploy tactics.
The Dark Demon Dragon Lizard is not the Dark Demon Leopard; its defense and attack power are not even in the same league.
An 18,000-year-old soul beast, in a head-on confrontation, his current undead army might not be able to win.
But he doesn't need to confront them head-on.
He has a numerical advantage, fearless undead soldiers, several main damage dealers, and a crucial advantage—the Dark Demon Dragon Lizard has very poor eyesight.
Like the Dark Python, it primarily relies on heat source perception and smell to locate its prey.
The undead soldiers have no body temperature, and are almost invisible to the Dark Demon Dragon Lizard's heat source perception.
This means that the Dark Demon Dragon Lizard can only see Mingfei alone.
Other people—no, other undead—were no different from the surrounding trees and stones in its eyes.
Mingfei's plan was simple. The undead army would surround the Dark Demon Dragon Lizard from all sides and launch an attack within its blind spots.
The Dark Demon Dragon Lizard will be caught off guard by those unseen enemies. Every counterattack it launches will miss its mark, because those undead are fearless of death. Once scattered, they will return to the underworld to revive and then come out to continue fighting.
All he needs to do is strike from the shadows at the last moment and deliver a fatal blow.
Just like killing the Dark Serpent.
Mingfei stood up and connected his consciousness to the brand of each undead spirit.
All the dead raised their heads at the same time.
Ghost Tiger emerged from the gray mist, its dark purple figure gleaming coldly in the moonlight.
The Dark Serpent slithered to Ming Fei's side, its huge triangular head lowered, its eerie green vertical pupils staring at Ming Fei.
The Dark Demon Leopard followed closely behind, its dark red eyes like two burning embers in the darkness.
Three human undead and more than ninety soldier undead lined up on the scorched earth, their eerie green eyes like a sea of stars in the gray mist.
All twenty undead soul beasts were on standby.
Mingfei took a deep breath.
"All of you—no, all the dead, follow me."
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The Dark Demon Dragon Lizard's lair is located in a natural cave.
The grotto is not large; the entrance is about two meters wide and three meters high, and it extends inward for about ten meters before reaching its end.
The cave walls were covered with dark green moss, and the ground was covered with a layer of dry gravel and unidentified white bones.
There was a strong, fishy stench in the air, like a mixture of rotting meat and moldy fur.
It is not in the nest.
Mingfei crouched on a large tree fifty meters outside the cave, using his mental power to lock onto the location of the Dark Demon Dragon Lizard.
It is about two hundred meters away from the cave, moving slowly, seemingly surveying its territory.
Its steps were steady and slow, its thick limbs made almost no sound as they stepped on the ground, and its long tail trailed behind it, leaving a shallow mark on the fallen leaves.
The 18,000-year-old Dark Demon Dragon Lizard was even larger than Mingfei had anticipated.
It is about five meters long, not counting the tail. Its body is thick and strong, and the muscles of its limbs are as bulging as iron blocks.
The deep black scales gleamed with a dark purple luster under the moonlight. Each scale was as large as an adult's palm, layered upon layered on the body's surface, like a natural plate armor.
Its head is triangular, with a short and wide snout, and two rows of sharp teeth protruding from its lips, each tooth being five or six centimeters long.
Its eyes were very small, only the size of a walnut, with dark yellow vertical pupils that contracted slightly in the darkness.
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