Audrose, who was pushed aside: "......"

Although he often saw Avid arguing with his spirit beast like a schizophrenic, it was the first time for Audrose to be excluded by his own spirit beast in this way.

The mainstream view in society now is that when a person's emotions are too intense, the spirit beast will react faster than the master.

Although the spirit beast is ultimately himself, seeing the little slave being surrounded by his own spirit beast in such a possessive manner, Audrose still felt a subtle sense of displeasure...

However, Su Duan didn't notice Audrose's uneasiness. His attention was already fully attracted by the big guy surrounding him. He blinked and reached out to touch the tip of the nose in front of him, which was many times larger than his own.

It was a little cool and a little damp.

The dragon seemed to be a little ticklish from being touched, slightly tilting its head, its icy blue beast pupils rotating slightly, reflecting a shattered icy glow.

These beast pupils looked even more beautiful in the daytime than at night. Su Duan seemed to be mesmerized, unable to take his eyes off them.

As if sensing his gaze, the spirit beast slightly adjusted the position of its head, laying it sideways on the ground in front of him, bringing those icy blue beast pupils almost up to Su Duan's face.

Su Duan could clearly see the pure black eyelashes on those beast pupils spread out in front of him, like a small... uh, large brush, slightly curled and arranged.

—Just like Audrose's eyelashes, they were also curled.

Thinking this, Su Duan curiously flicked the dragon's eyelashes with his fingertips.

Audrose on the side felt an itch in his eyelids and couldn't help closing his eyes.

The spirit beast is essentially a high degree of concretization of a person's spiritual power, sharing all senses with the master. Every action Su Duan did to his spirit beast would be completely and honestly transmitted to him through sympathetic effect.

At the same time, his spirit beast also closed its eyes. Su Duan was startled by the suddenly sweeping down eyelashes. After being dazed for a while, he continued to curiously explore on the dragon's body.

His hand moved slowly along the dragon's eyelids, cheeks, below the ears... His palm slid over the somewhat cold scales, moving bit by bit backwards.

The scales on the dragon's face were the finest. Su Duan's one hand could cover several at the same time. The further back, the larger they became. By the time it reached the neck, they had become as large as his palm.

Unlike the appearance of scales flaring all over the body just now, this dragon now had its scales tightly closed. Su Duan stopped at the neck, touching along the edges of the scales, not feeling a hint of a cutting sensation.

Perhaps because the dragon in front of him was too docile, showing a look of indulging him no matter how he tossed and turned, Su Duan's courage swelled up like a balloon. With bright eyes, he used his fingertips to hook the edges of the scales, trying to make the scales stand up like just now.

Audrose's Adam's apple rolled. Although in zoology, there are no nerve endings at the edges of scales, the spirit beast is composed of high-density spiritual power, so every part of the spirit beast is equivalent to being made up of countless nerve endings.

The sensitivity naturally goes without saying.

The muscles hidden under the dragon's scales slowly tensed. If Su Duan were to pinch hard at this time, he would definitely be able to feel a texture like marble blocks.

Su Duan's fingertips slid slowly, after passing over countless tightly closed scales, finally touching a piece of not-so-smooth scale in a hidden place under the dragon's neck.

Its shape was very strange, completely out of place with the surrounding scales. Su Duan lowered his head to look and found that its direction was completely opposite to the surrounding scales, and the color was also a little darker, black to the point of being frightening. Looking closely, one would find it a bit abrupt.

Su Duan rubbed it with his fingertips. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but this scale seemed to be not as hard as the other scales, nor as cool as the other scales. It had a jewel-like texture on it, very smooth.

A scale on the neck, completely opposite to the other scales... Su Duan recalled his knowledge over the past few thousand years and found that this should be the legendary reverse scale on a dragon's body.

However, he had only heard that the ancient Eastern dragons on Earth had reverse scales on their necks. Did Western dragons have them too?

Whether it was an Eastern dragon or a Western dragon, Su Duan was seeing it for the first time. His spiritual power was too low, only barely able to protect himself. He was far inferior to those great demons, not even in the same class of creatures as them.

Dragons, a creature that is born as a top-level great spirit between heaven and earth, of course Su Duan had no qualifications to see, let alone know what the reverse scales on a dragon's body look like.

Out of full curiosity, Su Duan couldn't help but repeatedly caress that unique scale.

And Audrose on the side could no longer bear it—

The spirit beast being touched on the reverse scale, that was the most sensitive place on the entire dragon's body. Audrose's pupils constricted. For a moment, there was even a sign of them becoming slits like the beast pupils of his spirit beast. He stepped on his dragon's tail and jumped into the small circle of space in the middle, clasping Su Duan's wrist from behind.

"Don't touch, you'll get cut." Audrose said in his ear, his voice carrying a hint of indistinct hoarseness.

Suddenly being grabbed by someone again, Su Duan, like a lucky cat, had his wrist held by the man behind him, shrinking beside his cheeks, blinking blankly.

Audrose's chest was tightly attached to his spine, not the warm and slightly elastic touch as usual, but the hardness and boniness that only comes with tightly tensed muscles.

Audrose was very nervous... Su Duan belatedly remembered that the reason why that piece of scale on the dragon's body was called a reverse scale was because for a dragon, it was an absolute no-touch area. Once touched, it would arouse anger. If that place was injured, the entire dragon would go berserk.

Audrose must be very angry now, just enduring it so as not to attack him. Su Duan had always been a good herb who knew to correct his mistakes, so he apologized very sincerely, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have touched you there."

Audrose paused and said, "It's okay."

But although he said that with his mouth, he still didn't let go of Su Duan. Su Duan also didn't dare to make a sound after doing something wrong, honestly letting the person hold his paw.

The training room was quiet for a moment. Suddenly, Audrose's spiritual body moved. It retracted its neck, facing Su Duan's face again, getting closer and closer, its icy blue beast eyes constantly enlarging in front of Su Duan.

Su Duan asked the system worriedly, "System, will I be hit?"

The system solemnly replied, "I don't think so, Host. The system did not detect any domestic violence tendencies in the treatment target."

Su Duan: (⊙v⊙)