Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Young Gilas, Sandstorm King!

Chapter 107 Ruins!

Young Gilas cautiously sensed the collapsed area. The blockage was severe, and forcibly clearing it would be too costly.

Fortunately, the source of the disturbance that attracted it seemed to be not far below. It decided to change direction, bypass the landslide area, and continue downwards.

They dug down another ten meters or so, and the slope of the passage became even steeper.

Just then, Young Gilas's sharp claws suddenly touched something completely different from the sand and gravel!

Hard! Cold!
It has a kind of artificially sculpted, angular feel!
It immediately stopped what it was doing and carefully used its paws to dig away the surrounding sand.

A huge stone slab, its surface covered with a thick layer of sand and dirt, yet still showing traces of smoothness...
Or a wall? It's exposed!
The material is neither stone nor jade, and it has a deep, dark gray color. It feels icy cold to the touch, yet it is exceptionally sturdy.

That strange pulse was clearly emanating from the depths of this hard structure!
Eurydice was invigorated!
Found it! It immediately began digging horizontally along the hard surface, quickly clearing out a small area.

What appeared before it was part of a sloping, huge, and smooth wall.

The walls were covered with thick layers of sand and a black, dried substance resembling moss, but some faint, cryptic geometric markings could be seen hidden beneath the grime.

This is definitely not naturally formed!

It's architecture!
It is some kind of relic buried deep underground!

It gently tapped the wall with its little paws, making a deep, resonant "thump-thump" sound.

It is very sturdy; it cannot be broken by force.

Its gaze searched downwards along the wall.

The source that attracts it seems to be in a deeper, more central place.

It must find the entrance.

Young Gilas began digging down and sideways along the base of this massive wall.

Excavation became difficult because of the hard deposits adhering to the walls.

Time passed little by little.

Finally, after bypassing another metal structure that had twisted and collapsed due to its age, it found a small, mostly buried opening at the junction of the wall and the "ground"!

The opening was clearly not a door, but rather a crack or breach formed by some kind of violent impact or collapse, with jagged edges and filled with twisted and broken metal and fragmented rock-like material.

The inside of the cave was pitch black, but the strange pulsating sensation could be felt most clearly coming from there!

Young Kiras approached the cave entrance, its scarlet eyes straining to peer inside. The space inside seemed quite large, but it was shrouded in darkness and dust.

Its keen senses can "touch" the more solid structure inside, and... deep within the space, there is a relatively stable core source that radiates gentle yet powerful energy!
The fluctuations of that energy core resonated with the phoenix divine patterns within its body in an extremely faint yet real way!
right here!

But danger also loomed ahead.

The opening was too small, barely allowing it to squeeze in.

Its internal structure is unknown and is full of instability caused by the erosion of time.

While the energy core attracted it, it also emitted an invisible force field that interfered with its control over the surrounding sand, making it more difficult to maintain the solidification of the channel.

Young Gilas could even sense that the loose sand near the cave entrance was becoming restless under the influence of this force field. It hesitated.

Should we risk squeezing in to explore the core, or retreat instead?
The space inside seems to offer temporary shelter, but the entrance could be sealed off by quicksand at any moment.

Lin Xia sat cross-legged on the scorching sand, his brows furrowed, fine beads of sweat forming on his forehead, whether from the heat or nervousness, it was hard to tell. His mental energy, like the finest thread, tightly maintained his contract with Young Gilas.

He "senses" the little guy descending, feeling its tense and composed response when encountering quicksand collapses, its excitement when it digs into a hard structure, and its hesitation at the entrance and the increasingly clear warning of danger—the vague perception transmitted by the contract, and the strange energy fluctuations that are faintly transmitted from deep underground and become extremely weak after being blocked by the earth, all of which make him uneasy.

Time seemed to stretch out due to the desert's intense heat.

Every minute and every second was extremely agonizing.

Lin Xia's right hand clenched unconsciously, her nails digging deep into her palm.

He repeatedly weighed in his mind whether he should forcibly pull it back now.

Young Gilas hasn't sent out a distress signal yet, proving it believes it can handle the situation. But that unknown energy and the dangers underground… what if?
Just as Lin Xia's inner anxieties were about to overwhelm her reason, and she was about to activate the contract recall—

A powerful surge of thought, a mixture of immense discovery and heightened vigilance, burst through the contract and surged into Lin Xia's mind like a flood breaking through a dam!

"Yoji!!!"

This thought contains a large amount of fragmented information: the walls, strange markings, the narrow and dangerous broken entrance, the huge and gentle yet disruptive energy core deep inside, and the unstable feeling of the quicksand at the cave entrance!
Lin Xia suddenly opened her eyes, and a terrifying light burst forth from her dark golden pupils!

He instantly understood the situation of the Young Kira and the complex message it was conveying!

Remains buried deep underground!
A mysterious energy core that can attract Young Gilas and resonate with its phoenix emblem!
And there's the deadly threat of quicksand!

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Xia's powerful mental energy acted like an invisible anchor, firmly locking onto Young Giras deep underground through the contract, while simultaneously issuing an incredibly clear command:

"Younggilas! Retreat! Retreat immediately! Do not risk entering!"

As soon as the order was issued, he was already prepared to initiate the contract recall at any time.

No matter how precious the underground ruins and treasures are, they cannot compare to the safety of Young Gilas!

However, at the very moment when his mental energy was highly concentrated, a sudden change occurred!

Rumble——! ! !
The ground beneath Lin Xia trembled violently without warning! It was as if a sleeping earth dragon had been awakened!
The sand above the entrance to the Young Kiras's excavation site, where he had been sitting cross-legged, churned and collapsed violently like boiling water!
A massive funnel-shaped quicksand vortex, over ten meters in diameter, instantly formed. The terrifying suction force was like countless invisible hands, gripping Lin Xia's legs tightly and trying to drag him into that bottomless, all-consuming dark abyss!

Lin Xia's expression changed drastically!

It's not natural quicksand!

The scale, speed, and sudden suction force of this collapse are absolutely abnormal!
Was it caused by a sudden, violent fluctuation in the energy core of the ruins?

Or did the actions of Eurydice below trigger some ancient defense mechanism?

The roar of the quicksand drowned out everything!
Lin Xia suddenly felt her feet sink and her body fall uncontrollably downwards!
He desperately unleashed his soul power, activating the full power of his sand ability, attempting to manipulate the surrounding sand grains to form a support. However, the suction force beneath his feet was far greater than he had imagined, and a strange energy fluctuation was interfering with his control over the sand!

"Damn it!"

(End of this chapter)