Chapter 530 Three Abilities – Dragon Mountain

“Dragons feed on dragons.”

Su Ping could not believe what he had just seen.

He quickly raised his astral shield as blood dripped down, so that it wouldn’t fall on him. Otherwise, the smell of blood on him would invite unwanted troubles.

As if feeling an energy disturbance, the huge dragon with a small dragon’s head in its mouth turned its eyes down. A tiny figure leaped into the dragon’s sight; the dragon looked away and flew out of there.

“Did the dragon just find me? I don’t think it was interested in me.”

What a relief.

He was able to tell that the dragon was as overwhelming as the Otherworld Heavenly King; it had to be at the Fate State. The Otherworld Heavenly King might even be weaker than the dragon. After all, dragons were the top creatures among all creatures in the world.

Su Ping looked around. He was at a complete loss.

“Now tell me, how large is the realm? Where should I find the dragon origin?”

He had to speak up after some time passed, since the system didn’t seem to detect his thoughts.

“The system does not provide GPS inside the cultivation sites. The host shall explore all by his lonesome.” The system didn’t hesitate in the slightest when it turned Su Ping down.

Su Ping was speechless.

He thought about it. That was a realm of dragons but the dragons found there were generally of high rank. Those that had reached the legendary rank would have learned the language of other species. He could communicate with those dragons.

He would probably find out where he should go if he asked around.

He jumped down from the rock he was standing on and hurried toward the forest from where that dragon flew out from. The rocks and trees were so large that Su Ping felt he was like a puny insect found in the distant past.

Soon, Su Ping found some dragon footprints and smelled the pungent odor of their droppings.

Su Ping followed the traces of those footprints and the droppings in the forest like an experienced hunter.

He saw some remains along the way; they had been left in the wild unattended. The flesh had been bitten off, leaving weathered bones.

That primitive feeling stimulated Su Ping. He was constantly at the ready.

Not long afterward, Su Ping suddenly saw a huge monster with extremely thick, yet proportionately thin legs, like steel needles. The wings on the back of that insect-like creature were translucent. With several blood-red eyes, the insect was extremely horrible, and the whole body exuded a fierce and bloody smell. The strange insect noticed Su Ping and flew towards him as if he were its prey.

That creature was several meters long; it wasn’t surprising that it would hunt a game like Su Ping.

It approached Su Ping, leaving behind a very lifelike virtual image of where the insect was. Su Ping was almost fooled by this. Su Ping summoned the Little Skeleton as the insect moved closer. Instead of merging with the Little Skeleton, Su Ping told it to finish the insect by itself.

The Little Skeleton’s reaction was fast. It drew its blade the moment it received Su Ping’s order. After a blur, the strange insect had been halved; blood gushed out.

The strange insect was at the Ocean State. While fast, it was still slower than the Little Skeleton.

“Beast core.”

Su Ping dug out an energy crystal from the remains of the strange insect. The beast core was the thing that controlled energy flows inside the beast and would crystalize after some time. A beast core had a high pharmaceutical value and could also be administered to other beasts of the same family to attain stronger powers.

If someone wasn’t fond of beast cores, they could still be used as energy bombs. Beast cores had a lethality close to that of small missiles and could hurt seventh-rank beasts.

Su Ping put away the beast core; he was going to take it back to his store to sell it. That strange insect was of the wind family. So, he could sell the beast core to someone with a pet of similar stock.

Su Ping continued exploring after having finished the insect.

He then understood that there were other creatures in the world of dragons, but they probably weren’t commonly seen.

At the same time, Su Ping took his time to check the Little Skeleton.

Su Ping had not had the time to inspect the Little Skeleton carefully after its recovery. He had been busy with battles and other matters.

He cast an identification spell to read the Little Skeleton’s information.

Little Skeleton

Property: pet of the demon family

Rank: the intermediate position of the ninth rank

Combat Strength: 39

Aptitude: above average.

Talent Skill: elementary agility talent

Bloodline Skills: Bone Demon, Eternal Revenant, Descent of the Bone King

Abilities Mastered: Regeneration, Undead Enslaving, Advanced Saberplay, Puppetry, Demon Whispers, Nightmare Space, Punishment of Sins, Darkness Teleportation, Realm of Death…

Su Ping was deeply impressed.

The Little Skeleton’s aptitude, combat strength, and new abilities had astounded him.

The Little Skeleton was merely at the seventh rank before, with an average aptitude. But, once it had completely consumed the blood crystal, it jumped up by two ranks! From the seventh to the ninth rank!

It would have taken years at a normal rate for the Little Skeleton to climb those two ranks, to say the least.

The more shocking thing was the Little Skeleton’s combat strength, which was at 39!

In usual cases, a ninth-rank beast would only have a combat strength of nine points! But the Little Skeleton’s combat strength was 39 points!

Even a legendary rank creature at the Void State would merely have a combat strength of 20 points!

The Little Skeleton’s combat strength was nearly double in comparison!! The Little Skeleton had also acquired three bloodline skills, which came as a complete surprise to Su Ping. It was true that the pet had gained the Skeleton King’s bloodline, but even the average members of the Skeleton King’s family would merely have one or two bloodline skills; the extremely talented would have three or four bloodline skills.

Since the Little Skeleton was able to acquire three bloodline skills as the new bloodline had just been awakened, the Little Skeleton was more than gifted!

No wonder its aptitude didn’t drop. That was to say that, of all the creatures with the Skeleton King’s bloodline, the Little Skeleton was above average!

Of course, it would be basically impossible for the other common skeletons to achieve such results. The Little Skeleton merely achieved such accomplishments because it had been trained in a special way, while leveraging the Skeleton King’s bloodline.

It would be like asking for the moon to have the Little Skeleton have such strength without the Skeleton King’s bloodline.

The Little Skeleton should be still comparable to the Void State. I wonder how far away it is from the Fate State… Su Ping asked himself. As of that moment, the Little Skeleton’s combat strength was higher than Joanna’s.

Of course, that would be the girl who was working for him, not Joanna’s original self.

Joanna’s original self was a truly powerful being, even taking the universe as a whole, someone that Su Ping couldn’t even imagine.

The combat strength of her employee self was 29.6 points.

The Little Skeleton’s combat strength was almost 10 points higher. That being said, Su Ping was fully aware that his employee’s major focus was on her mind. She could have improved her combat strength at any time if she wanted to.

That merging must be the Bone Demon skill. Su Ping understood that the three bloodline skills had to be the core skills for the Little Skeleton.

There were simple descriptions of each of the three bloodline skills.

The first was the Bone Demon, which was the one that enabled the Little Skeleton to merge with Su Ping. In that state, the Little Skeleton would share all of its strength with Su Ping and the pet itself would become an unbreakable armor for him.

That skill didn’t mean much for the wild Skeleton Kings, but it was truly meaningful for those that entered into contracts with humans.

That was why Skeleton Kings were favored as battle pets by battle pet warriors at the Star Rank.

The second bloodline skill, Eternal Revenant, would enable the Little Skeleton to draw dark energy from the void to recover its body no matter how bad it had been wounded.

The Little Skeleton would be practically unkillable!

When a creature died, it would usually be pulled into the Realm of the Undead…

But when a Skeleton King was in a fatal state and the Realm of the Undead tried to suck it in, the Skeleton King would be able to draw energy from the Realm of the Undead and come back to life!

Almost immortal!

Of course, as informed as Su Ping was, he was able to tell that such a skill wasn’t infallible.

Some creatures were able to freeze time and space, and isolate all energy. In such a case, using that skill would be more than difficult.

He would rather wait for his death if he were to run into such a creature. That would make things easier for him.

As for the last of the three bloodline skills, the Descent of the Bone King was an assault skill. Descent of the Bone King was able to summon the forefather of all Skeleton Kings and leverage the forefather’s strength to wield outstanding powers!

Only the forefathers of major species that had Star Rank bloodlines could have created such skills, leaving such skills to help their offspring!

Apart from the three bloodline skills, the other skills were quite stunning. The long list of new skills dazzled him. How amazing!

The Little Skeleton had become impressive in every way after that awakening.

No wonder it had attained such combat strength. It wasn’t an exaggeration to say it had been blessed with too many skills!

I wonder what the best of the Skeleton Kings would be like, Su Ping wondered.

The Little Skeleton was at the ninth rank but had a combat strength comparable to the Void State. As such, the pet was able to kill average Void State creatures.

That was shocking!

Right then, Su Ping heard a noise.

Roar!

Su Ping came back to his senses. He was bold enough to stop and check the Little Skeleton because he knew he could return to life at the cultivation site.

That roar evidently belonged to a dragon. Su Ping took the Little Skeleton and found their way forward.

Soon, he heard an earth-shaking noise coming from a certain point in the forest. It seemed that a battle was in progress.

Su Ping and the Little Skeleton stole their way over. Su Ping could then see that two dragons were fighting!

One of the dragons had purple scales, quite elegant, while ferocious at the same time.

The other dragon, clearly from another breed, had dark green scales. The dragon had two thick legs and four shorter paws, but each claw was quite sharp.

The two dragons were of different size. The one with the purple scales was more than two hundred meters tall, while the other was less than one hundred meters tall. Right then, while the latter was very aggressive, it wasn’t gaining an upper hand in that battle.

Another hunt. Su Ping was startled.

The dragons were more violent than he had expected. First, he had seen a dragon eating another dragon; then he witnessed a dragon hunting another dragon.

Su Ping kept quiet.

Both dragons were at the legendary rank. Su Ping was planning to wait for one of them to be defeated; he would then capture the winner to ask about the dragon origin.

The battle was intense and neither dragon had noticed the uninvited party. That, or, even if they had noticed the presence of a human male, they wouldn’t care because Su Ping seemed to be too weak. He wasn’t even at the legendary rank. Compared to the two dragons, at best, Su Ping was a puny bug.

Boom!

With a blast, the dragon with the dark green scales was swept away. The one with the purple scales bit the former’s neck; the former let out a cry of pain.

That was a cry filled with desperation and it carried a begging tone. However, coldblooded hunters would never let go of their game. Soon, the cry died down and the dragon with the purple scales tore off its game’s head. Blood gushed out.

That primitive and bloody view startled Su

Ping.

He lurked in waiting.

That purple scaled dragon tossed the dragon head aside and then feasted on the neck of the dragon corpse.

The blood tainted