Chapter 86: The Lazy Spiny Dragon.
“The Mud Fish Dragons in the Giant Ant Hill Wasteland are truly amazing!”
Jie Jie, with a new look, stretched his head up from the dead Mud Fish Dragon and let out an admiring shout.
“Really not interested?”
Huffing and puffing while swallowing the juicy fish meat, the monster with huge sharp horns looked at the nearby Ancient Dragon Person.
On him, several fur balls were jumping around very lively.
The Ancient Dragon Person shook his head and continued to observe this guy’s new form.
Covered in dark green shell all over, and the shell was filled with protruding spines, the tips of which had some bright red color.
These spines, along with the color scheme, made him look like a large cactus or a thorny rose.
As a member of the flying dragon kind, his folded wings were smaller than those of a Fire Dragon, but this disadvantage in flight was compensated by his legs.
A pair of legs also covered in shell were strong and powerful, and the spines on them gave these legs an extremely fierce tension.
Seeing that the Ancient Dragon Person was acting as usual, Jie Jie’s dragon face showed a rather human-like expression of helplessness.
It had been nearly a year since he started living with his offspring. After defeating the top ruler of the Ancient Tree canopy, Cang Huo Long, he stayed on the tree canopy for only two days before turning into a Smoky Snow Weasel to spy on his children’s independent lives.
Spying on others will result in being spied upon.
Thus, Jie Jie discovered that he was being spied on by the Ancient Dragon People, not just one, but “many.”
The various human-like behaviors of alien souls allowed Jie Jie to quickly establish relationships with other societies, even without a common language, emotions are never expressed solely through words.
In the rustling sounds among the Ancient Dragon People, the scope of their contact gradually expanded and then ended.
The Ancient Dragon People were all old men, at least Jie Jie had never seen any younger individuals.
It was hard not to suspect that due to extreme self-preservation, they no longer needed to reproduce under their long lifespans.
During the confirmation that the children were safe, they were even discovered by them. The poor Smoky Snow Weasel was surrounded and licked on the head, but it handed over the emerald-colored Dragon Jade to Basin.
He was not forgotten, and the Fire Dragons were doing well too. Having confirmed these two points, Jie Jie began traveling again.
Absolutely not because he was annoyed by being licked repeatedly.
With the establishment of relations, the Ancient Dragon People began to appear frequently in Jie Jie’s sight, and they had their own society, an infinitely aged one.
Some were willing to interact with Jie Jie, others just glanced at him and left.
It was during this period that the dice stopped spinning, granting him his current form.
Spiny Dragon.
The best land combat form!
His entire body covered in toxic spiny shells, with breath so powerful that it carried burning, paralysis, and potent poison effects!
At the same time, his strong legs allowed him to perform a mighty Dragon Charge on the ground. Although his biting ability might be weaker, the hard spiky horns on his head compensated for that.
He was a living giant tank, capable of sending Sand Earth Dragons flying with a single charge.
But somewhat unfortunately, after transforming into a Spiny Dragon, Jie Jie became lazy and sleepy.
Subjectively, he could control it, but why would you want to resist such a good thing as sleeping?
Thus, almost a year passed, and he finally included the edge of the lush area, the forest below the swamp at the edge of the Giant Ant Hill Wasteland, within his range of action.
It was included in his range of action, not because he had only traveled this far in nearly a year.
Jie Jie took another bite of the Mud Fish Dragon’s meat; it was a delicious taste that wasn’t much inferior to Water Dragon meat.
He stayed in the swamp mainly to hunt various Gas Frogs to enhance his paralysis or toxin effects.
As for sleep effects, of course, he ate them himself.
This Mud Fish Dragon had collided with him while he was asleep, and now as he ate, he felt sleepy again.
Suppressing his drowsiness, Jie Jie’s gaze became sharp, tightly focusing on a yellow ball in the grass of the swamp.
Paralysis Gas Frog.
Shaking off the Soft Feathered Chickens on his body, the massive Spiny Dragon entered a state known as stealth, inching closer to the Gas Frog. The swamp mud reached his knees, absorbing all the sound.
Apparently, the stealth failed, the Gas Frog turned around and stared at him with its “one”-shaped eyes.
Stealth didn’t completely fail! Amphibians have powerful dynamic vision, but the trade-off is they can’t judge static objects.
As long as he moved slowly enough yet fast enough!
Jie Jie slowly raised his head and simultaneously opened his mouth slightly. The whole world seemed to freeze, and the Spiny Dragon’s movements were like a subtle struggle against the frozen world, incredibly slow.
All his strength was gathering until he could unleash a full-powered attack—
The frozen world seemed to accelerate, and the yellow figure was instantly covered by dark green.
Dead without reaction, dead without pain, the paralyzing gas slid down his throat and was sealed away.
“Hunting is really tiring.”
Jie Jie trudged back to the Mud Fish Dragon through the muddy swamp, his current lazy demeanor indicating the invincibility of the Spiny Dragon.
Sleeping most of the time, most monsters couldn’t even penetrate the shell on his body, poisoned by the toxic spines, realizing they couldn’t do anything and leaving.
If he happened to wake up at the right moment, the monsters wouldn’t escape the same fate as the Mud Fish Dragon.
No, he couldn’t continue being so lazy!
While walking, Jie Jie almost collapsed in the swamp but suddenly straightened his body, flapped his wings, and transformed into a Male Fire Dragon.
The form of the Male Fire Dragon had already settled quite well, just one step away from becoming a seasoned individual, needing only one more intense battle.
After gnawing off the good meat from the Mud Fish Dragon, he dragged the remaining parts into the mud pool to feed the little Mud Fish Dragons inside.
This is called sustainable development.
Killing a few Bite Fish that might threaten the growth of the little Mud Fish Dragons with a casual swipe of his claws, the Male Fire Dragon spread his wings and flew away.
And the Ancient Dragon People had long gotten used to it, merely watching his departure from the ground.
The Male Fire Dragon with deep colors hovered above, looking down at the ground.
After flying over the swamp, the yellow figures among the cactus clusters on the mountain caught his attention.
An excellent camouflage color in the desert, but so conspicuous when entering the oasis.
That was the Desert Tyrant Support Horned Dragon feeding on cacti, feeding on the Spiny Dragon’s kin!
Fight!
“Roar!”
A boiling fireball shot out from Jie Jie’s mouth and exploded on the sandy-yellow shell of the Horned Dragon.
The thick sandy-yellow shell was only stained with a bit of charred blackness, and a lot of condensed soil chips were blown away.
What tough stuff.
But the impact of a single exploding fireball wouldn’t go unnoticed by the Horned Dragon, the double-horned monster lifted its head and roared towards the direction the fireball came from.
The Horned Dragon is of the flying dragon kind, but its wings had long degenerated, used for digging underground in the desert, at most for gliding, unable to take off from flat ground.
At the same time, the Horned Dragon lacked a breath weapon, having no means to counter airborne threats and could only roar on the ground.
When it had no way to deal with the Fire Dragon in the air, the Fire Dragon form of Jie Jie also had no way to deal with the Horned Dragon.
