Douluo Continent: My Martial Soul is the Black Dragon, I am the Lord of the Gods

Chapter 87 Do what you say
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At dawn, in a valley dozens of miles away from Holy Soul Village, surrounded by mountains and verdant hills, there is a magnificent waterfall connecting heaven and earth.

This is the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, a desolate and sparsely populated area. There are also some thousand-year-old soul beasts in the surrounding mountains and forests, so no one would dare to approach.

"Is what you're looking for right here?" the Ice Dragon King asked, somewhat puzzled.

Could such a godforsaken place contain soul bones that are 100,000 years old?

"Behind that waterfall," Xuanming pointed to the waterfall in the distance.

"Alright, give me your body." The Ice Dragon King once again took over Xuanming's body, leaped into the waterfall, and flew into the waterfall.

She was the Ice Dragon King and the Water Dragon King. Although she was dead, she could still perceive her environment by manipulating water.

"There really is a secret chamber?" The Ice Dragon King, carried by the water flow, arrived at the middle of the waterfall. With a wave of his hand, he dispersed the water flow, and with a gentle tap, a perfectly fitted rock caved in, clearly a man-made stone door.

With a flash, the Ice Dragon King arrived in the cave and returned his body to Xuanming.

The cave is very damp, about three meters high and two meters wide, and extends inwards.

As you walk to the innermost part, everything around you suddenly lights up. Looking up, you see a stone hole at the top of the cave wall, which leads to a stone chamber of nearly ten square meters.

Directly below the stone hole, there is a small mound of earth, on which a slender blue silver grass with fine golden veins sways in the wind.

"Blue Silver Emperor?" The Ice Dragon King's expression changed slightly.

"You know him?" Xuanming asked, puzzled.

"Of course I know it. Among plant-type soul beasts, it's the 100,000-year-old soul beast with the most terrifying vitality," said the Ice Dragon King.

"Even those soul beasts with hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation wouldn't be able to kill it."

"However, what's wrong with this Blue Silver Emperor...?"

“She sacrificed herself.” Xuanming stepped forward and forcefully struck the surrounding stone walls. Suddenly, a mechanism was triggered, and a black box fell from above the stone chamber, crashing heavily to the ground.

Xuanming stepped forward, opened the box, and a gentle energy instantly surged out, filling the entire stone chamber. The originally dormant Blue Silver Emperor was also stimulated and began to sway.

"There really is one?" The Ice Dragon King was a little confused.

How did you know about this?

"I don't want to talk about it." Xuanming closed the box and put it into his soul tool.

"Alright." The Ice Dragon King didn't ask any more questions.

After putting away the soul bone, Xuanming was about to leave, but looking at the lonely Blue Silver Emperor, he hesitated for a moment, then came back, took out a flowerpot, and dug the Blue Silver Emperor out.

"What are you doing?" the Ice Dragon King asked, puzzled.

“Take her back to the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire,” Xuanming said.

“You…” The Ice Dragon King sighed.

"Your kindness is not suited to this world."

Xuanming is essentially a good person, but he is unwilling to admit that he is a good person because he knows that being a good person requires sacrifice. He can barely protect himself, let alone sacrifice for others.

This is also the root of his stubbornness. He is unwilling to let go of his pride and cannot do anything that disgusts him. He feels that is his bottom line as a human being. If he loses it, then he is no longer human.

She was glad that Xuanming had an unyielding sense of restraint, because she couldn't trust someone who had no bottom line. However, his restraint often seemed out of place.

To the world, his reserve was seen as pedantry, inflexibility, and stupidity.

Good people can't survive in this world.

Being a good person comes at a price.

If this kindness is not suppressed, Xuanming will eventually pay the price for it.

“Everything has two sides. You can’t expect a rational and cold-blooded person to be crazy in love. That’s a contradiction,” Xuanming said.

"If you want me to do all that strategic thinking, then you're the one who'll suffer." If he had no bottom line, he could have just knelt down and acted like a dog for Qian Renxue back in Wuhun City, without all this fuss. But he couldn't bring himself to kneel.

Everyone has their own way of surviving. He won't force people with no bottom line to believe they should have one, nor does he want those with no bottom line to point fingers at him.

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Tiandou City.

Several months have passed since Xuanming disappeared. For the first month, Xue Qinghe was relatively calm, but starting from the second month, he began to activate the intelligence system of the Heaven Dou Empire to search for Xuanming's whereabouts within the Heaven Dou Empire. Since there was no news for a long time, he also ordered the Spirit Hall to search for information within the Star Luo Empire.

"Young Master, news has come back from the Spirit Hall of the Star Luo Empire that someone saw a person with a peculiar build on the border last month," said Serpent Spear Douluo.

"The border?" Xue Qinghe's expression changed.

"where?"

"The border between the Barak Kingdom and the Star Luo Empire is already within Star Luo territory," said Serpent Spear Douluo.

Xue Qinghe clenched his fist. "What did the Papal Palace say?"

Xuanming has been missing for several months, and the news has long since reached Wuhun City!
"He didn't say anything." Serpent Spear Douluo paused.

"According to the Elders' Hall, the Pope took Chrysanthemum and Ghost to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt soul beasts. However, when they returned, Chrysanthemum and Ghost were seriously injured, and the Pope looked very bad. It must have not gone well."

“I didn’t ask her anything, I was talking about Xuanming,” Xue Qinghe said.

"The Pope hasn't reacted to this at all?"

“There was a reaction, but…” Serpent Spear Douluo’s expression was somewhat unnatural.

"Speak!" Xue Qinghe said coldly.

"The Pope said that you can't even keep an eye on a child, you're being too... careless," Serpent Spear Douluo said guiltily.

"She's mocking my incompetence!" Xue Qinghe sneered.

"Send word back to the Elder Hall to dispatch two Title Douluos to bring Xuanming back to me, alive or dead!"

"This..." Serpent Spear Douluo hesitated.

"Young Master, isn't this a bit too much..."

"Do you think I'm making a big fuss?" Xue Qinghe said coldly.

"Don't you know his situation? The fact that he ran away proves that he still harbors resentment towards the Spirit Hall and towards me!"

"Why not capture him now and wait for him to take revenge on the Spirit Hall in the future?!"

Serpent Spear Douluo nodded. "Young Master is right. Then... should we just kill him?"

"Bring him back first!" Xue Qinghe said coldly.

"I want to hear how he plans to explain himself. He put on an act of loyalty and integrity, saying that he would do what he promised and wouldn't agree to do what he didn't want to do. He agreed to cooperate with me to complete the Heavenly Dou Empire's plan, and I believed him and helped him. Now he's found an opportunity to run away!"

"Is this what he means by keeping his word?"

"ridiculous!!"

Xue Qinghe clenched his fist and smashed it down, shattering the stone table in front of him into pieces.

"If anyone's going to be killed, it will be me!"

"Understood." Serpent Spear Douluo dared not say anything more and quickly left.

Xue Qinghe, his face grim, looked towards the direction of the Barak Kingdom, "Xuanming..."

Anyone who dares to mess with her will pay the price!

(End of this chapter)