69novels Chapter 15 The Dust Settles
Chapter 15 The Dust Settles
I'm not dead?
As Xu Yingluo's mind slowly returned from the sudden chill, she clutched the small scab that had formed on her chin wound, shivering from the cold. She stared at the receding blue dot of light in the sky, her bewildered gaze, a mixture of relief and despair, suddenly turning into a chilling, venomous resentment.
How dare they look down on me like that? They're only doing this because they have a Super Douluo elder as a relative. Wait until we return to the Xuanming Sect…
She suddenly realized with sorrow that she really couldn't do anything to the other party. The strongest person in the Xuanming Sect, her own ancestor, was only level 94, and had been in seclusion for many years, his fate unknown.
And in the future, given the other person's talent, they will likely become someone I look up to for the rest of my life.
Should she thank him for his mercy? The Xuanming Sect was practically untouchable in Tiandou City; this stark contrast made Xu Yingluo experience for the first time the true meaning of "might makes right." Her fingertips dug deep into her flesh, and she secretly vowed that no matter what it took, she would repay this humiliation tenfold.
Instead of dwelling on why the other party had let her go, Xu Yingluo was about to stand up and leave this dangerous place, Xingdou.
Then, she saw her body covered in colorful lines.
Centered on the wound on his chin, countless eerie, multicolored lines spread across his entire body, and the scabs on the wounds were even more colorful.
The various colors of light flickered and shimmered in response to each other, looking as if the blood flowing within her was a mixture of seven colors, or perhaps as if her soul power was about to burst forth.
Xu Yingluo turned her head sharply, and sure enough, the corpses of the Xuanming Sect members, including the huge remains of the golden tortoise shell, all shone with the same seven-colored radiance.
She smiled bitterly, realizing how foolish she had been; how could she not eliminate such a person completely?
Immediately, her body swelled up, and when it reached its maximum size, it was like a balloon that had been blown up to its maximum size. With a "bang," it burst open and turned into countless tiny, colorful specks of light.
The other corpses also exploded almost simultaneously, appearing from the sky as if several small fireworks had burst open on the ground—exactly eight in total.
The second innate ability of the Silver Dragon Martial Soul is Super Element Resonance.
Using one's own soul power as a guide, and through powerful elemental control, it causes various elements around it to resonate and assimilate until the resonance frequency reaches its maximum, and then it explodes with a roar.
When this insidious talent is used to inject soul power into another person, it detonates the other person's own soul power and the elements around their body.
It is far superior to the so-called ice-type divine skill, Ice Blast.
The four core elemental arrays of the final elemental creed were activated simultaneously, and this incredibly clean post-battle cleanup was all thanks to this.
After an unknown amount of time, this small, ravaged forest finally returned to peace. Everything had vanished, except for a few deep pits and the corpses of golden wolves scattered on the ground, indicating that something had seemingly happened here.
The last ray of seven-colored light fell and merged with the earth. The last trace of the Xuanming Sect members in this world vanished, as if they had never existed here.
The dust has settled.
……
The ninth-level Soul Masters flew extremely fast. When the fluctuations of the broken elemental imprints came from afar, Kong Tianxu and his companion had already landed deep in the mixed zone, amidst a sparsely wooded patch of colorful trees.
Somewhat surprised, he unfolded the map in his hand. Under the influence of the Origin of All Things Domain, the contents recorded on the parchment were fully revealed.
At the very bottom of the map, at the last barrier that Xu Yingluo's father was unable to crack, there was a line of small writing:
Twenty thousand years, Immortal Herb
But... Kong Tianxu looked at the strange scene before him and muttered to himself, "This is really a bit exaggerated."
Unlike the lush and verdant landscape outside the mixed zone, the vegetation here is sparse and mostly colorful, even though we are now close to the core area of the starry sky.
This dazzling beauty is definitely not a good thing. Bright colors usually represent deadly poison in plants, which is common knowledge in the Douluo Continent.
What truly shocked Kong Tianxu was that, with his position as the boundary, behind him was still normal woodland, while in front of him, the ground was covered by a layer of bones that almost completely covered the ground.
Some of them even displayed the same vibrant colors, appearing even more eerie under the shroud of dust in the air.
Keep in mind, this is deep in a forest; the air should be much better than outside. Even if there's a dense fog today, these fine dust particles are clearly not something that should be present under normal circumstances.
"The Azure Phosphorus Nine-Penetration Flower truly lives up to its reputation as one of the most deadly poisons of our time. According to the detection results of our soul-guided device, we are still some distance away from its true form, yet the poisonous mist it releases can still cause such a terrifying effect. It is probably not just a matter of 70,000 years of cultivation."
With a wave of his hand, Kong Deming cast two golden halos around himself and Kong Tianxu, their golden light separating them from the vibrant plants.
"The stronger the better. That way, I'll be even more excited about the level of that immortal herb."
Kong Tianxu strode forward, his excitement barely concealed in his words. Even he, facing a celestial herb that had reached the level of ten thousand years and was absolutely a divine grade, could not remain sufficiently calm.
The Immortal Spirit Grass is inherently intelligent. Unlike ordinary plant-type spirit beasts that only develop sentience and a certain degree of self-defense ability after a thousand years of cultivation, it possesses intelligence nearly identical to that of ordinary spirit beasts from the moment it grows. It rapidly grows stronger with continuous growth. However, the Immortal Spirit Grass has extremely demanding growing conditions, and even in a natural habitat with such superior natural conditions as the Star Dou Great Forest, it is rarely found.
Similarly, as a plant-type soul beast formed from the purest spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it possesses extremely high nutritional value. It is an unparalleled tonic for all soul beasts and human soul masters. If it is a thousand-year-old immortal herb, then it is truly a rare and precious treasure.
The Demon King, ranked fifth among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts and possessing a cultivation of 530,000 years, ascended to the level of a top-tier plant-type soul beast by devouring a newly cultivated Immortal Spirit Grass. This allowed him to leap from the level of an ordinary Demon Eye Tree to that of a top-tier plant-type soul beast, becoming the King of Plants in the Star Dou Great Forest. Before devouring it, he was already a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, demonstrating the terrifying power of the Immortal Spirit Grass.
After reaching ten thousand years of cultivation, the rarity of the Immortal Spirit Grass increases even further. As a rare soul beast that can continuously improve its level with the advancement of its cultivation, if the level of the thousand-year-old Immortal Spirit Grass can be regarded as a top-tier soul beast, then after ten thousand years of cultivation, it is probably no less than a true super soul beast.