Douluo, my martial soul is the Rock King Emperor

Chapter 71, Topaz Mine

What a tall mountain it is, standing in the desert like a pillar supporting the sky.

Without getting close to the mountain, just standing outside, Xu Huan felt a strong sense of oppression coming. Jian Douluo's expression was even more solemn, and he murmured:
"This is 80,000 years? The intelligence misled me!"

Xu Huan sat down on the ground in dejection and sighed:
Maybe those who passed on the information never made it here. They just couldn't get through the previous section of the rock tower, so they had such information.

Jian Douluo nodded in agreement, smiled bitterly and sighed.
"I am honored to have seen such a powerful soul beast in my lifetime. I, Jian Dao Chen Xin, can say that my death is worthy!"

As he spoke, Jian Douluo took a long breath, looked towards the majestic mountain with a fearless attitude, and said:
"At this point, the only way to survive is to fight to the death!"

As he spoke, a huge sword shadow evolved behind Jian Douluo, exuding a strong fighting spirit and... tragic!
"Xiao Huan, I will block this soul beast for you, you find a way to escape from somewhere else. Remember, you must not let Rongrong down, otherwise even if I become a ghost, I will definitely..."

"Wait, Uncle Jian, I don't think it has come to this yet!"

Xu Huan interrupted Jian Douluo, pointed at his head and said:
"Uncle Jian, I think you should put your sword heart aside and use your brain to think about whether there is any other way!"

Jian Douluo sighed upon hearing this:
"What else can we do? There are hundreds of ten thousand year old spirit beasts behind us, and there are countless of them that are over fifty thousand years old. If we go back, we will definitely die. Now the only way to survive is to move forward."

As he spoke, Jian Douluo pointed his sword at the mountain and said in a tragic voice:
"This soul beast has been in cultivation for at least 100,000 years. I don't think I'm a match for it, but I think I can still hold it off for a while. Then you can take this opportunity to escape. Don't let Rongrong down, otherwise..."

"Stop, stop!"

Xu Huan raised his hands repeatedly to stop him. Looking at Jian Douluo's appearance, he felt a little touched, but more of it was a headache.

Why is this guy so stubborn? He has to run over there and die?

Xu Huan pulled Jian Douluo to sit down and said:
"Uncle Jian, don't be anxious. Calm down and take a break."

Jian Douluo thought about it after hearing this and said:
"Well, that's fine. To fight such a powerful soul beast, I'd better recover to my peak state first!"

As he spoke, Jian Douluo sat cross-legged and began to meditate to restore his soul power.

Seeing this, Xu Huan smiled, took out food and water, and started eating.

While eating, he said:
"Uncle Jian, is there a possibility? If, I mean if, we stay here for ten days or half a month, will those soul beasts return to their previous dormant state? At that time, we can just walk back the way we came here!"

"Ok?"

Jian Douluo's eyelids twitched, and his thoughts began to flow.

This...seems...like...probably...there's no problem!
Then wasn't it the case that I was almost dying just now!
Jian Douluo felt that he was losing face, so he pretended to be in deep meditation, closed his eyes and did not answer.

Xu Huan smiled secretly in his heart, and he also knew what Jian Douluo was thinking now, so he didn't say anything.

Soon, Xu Huan controlled the rock martial spirit and built two stone houses on the flat ground nearby, and the two of them lived there. High-level spirit masters can go without food and water for a long time, not to mention that Jian Douluo and Xu Huan both carried sufficient supplies in their spirit guides, so let alone living here for half a month, even living here for half a year would be more than enough for the two of them.

Soon, time passed quickly.

During this period of time, the two of them continued to practice, and sometimes chatted about some topics, most of which were related to Rongrong.

Jian Douluo always wanted Xu Huan to give up Xiao Wu and marry Rongrong, but Xu Huan was stubborn and wanted to marry both of them. Jian Douluo got so angry every time that he blew his beard and glared at him, saying that he would make him pay when he got back.

It is also worth mentioning that during this period of time, while Xu Huan was absorbing the power of the nearby earth veins, he accidentally discovered that not far away underground, there was an extremely huge topaz vein, and the rich earth element energy contained in it was simply outrageous.

Faced with such a mineral vein, Xu Huan naturally wanted to absorb it, but unfortunately, this topaz mineral vein was right under the giant mountain. Feeling the extremely terrifying aura in the giant mountain, Xu Huan did not dare to act rashly.

What if he absorbed the mineral veins and attracted the soul beast in the giant mountain? Wouldn't he be doomed?
After about twenty days, the groups of soul beasts in the distance finally calmed down. Xu Huan sent out a stone man to check, and sure enough, all the soul beasts had fallen into a deep sleep and there was no movement.

To be on the safe side, after about ten days, when they saw that the soul beasts had really fallen into a deep sleep, Jian Douluo took Xu Huan and flew quickly in the direction they came from.

This time it was indeed much easier. Although there were still howling winds and sand and gravel in the sky, the weather was acceptable and there was no getting lost. Jian Douluo and Xu Huan flew quickly for less than half an hour and successfully escaped from this death zone.

"Phew, finally escaped!"

Xu Huan sighed, and hurried back to the city with Jian Douluo to report safety to Rongrong and Xiaowu.

Rongrong and Xiaowu were indeed getting a little impatient, and had even sent out several waves of men to look for it, but there was no news. Fortunately, hunting soul beasts was a time-consuming task, and with the cooperation of Sword Douluo, Xiaowu and Rongrong were not too worried. Otherwise, Rongrong would have called Bone Douluo over as well.

After recuperating in the city for a few days, Jian Douluo and Xu Huan set out again. This time they planned to hunt down the 60,000-year-old Flying Dragon King.

This soul beast once brazenly attacked the city and killed the former city lord, a Soul Douluo-level warrior, and was later seriously injured by Ghost Leopard Douluo. This was known to everyone, so it was impossible for this soul beast's cultivation to have any problems.

Sure enough, this hunt went smoothly.

After leaving the city, the two followed the clues in the intelligence and soon found the trace of the Flying Dragon King in a sand valley.

The Earth Dragon King hid underground in the sand valley, and on the ground, there were all kinds of thousand-year-old soul beasts and hundred-year-old soul beasts, which were all his minions.

After meeting, Jian Douluo immediately used his sixth soul skill, Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Origin. In an instant, thousands of swords came down at the same time, and these soul beasts died one after another.

Among the corpses of those soul beasts, a crystal soul bone emerged. Xu Huan's eyes lit up, and he controlled the stone man to take out the soul bone, which turned out to be the torso bone of a thousand-year-old sand turtle.

Jian Douluo took a quick look and lost interest when he saw that it was a thousand-year soul bone.

(End of this chapter)