Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Young Gilas, Sandstorm King!

Chapter 6 There will be times when the wind and waves will be strong, and the sails will be hoisted to cross the vast ocean!
However, Lin Xia and Young Kiras's efficient yet brutal "training + meal" model soon led to trouble.

The open section of road they chose was not entirely deserted.

During a training session, Young Gilas had just blasted a small mound to the ground with a primal force. Before the dust had settled, Lin Xia and the little guy were sitting in the newly dug pit, enjoying the fresh, dark soil rich in soul power, when a terrified scream shattered the silence.

"Oh my god! A ghost! A ghost is eating dirt!"

Lin Xia suddenly looked up, her mouth still full of mud.

A woman carrying farm tools was standing by the roadside, her face ashen. She didn't even notice the hoe she was holding clattering to the ground. Her fingers trembled as she pointed at the person and the pet in the pit, her eyes filled with pure, indescribable fear.

Looking at the scattered ore beside the pit and the two figures with their mouths full of mud, she seemed to see some monster that devoured the earth and desecrated common sense.

The woman turned and ran, stumbling and crawling, her voice trembling with sobs.

"Eating dirt...eating stones...digging huge pits...monster! It's a monster!"

This is just the beginning.

On several subsequent occasions, whenever they "created" a new pit and buried themselves in "eating," they would always attract strange looks from passersby.

Most people, upon seeing the devastated ground that looked as if ravaged by a giant beast, and Lin Xia sitting in the center of the pit, covered in dust and with mud at the corners of her mouth, along with the strangely-looking soul beast, instinctively chose to detour, their eyes filled with a mixture of surprise, disgust, and deep fear.

"Whose crazy child is this? Or is he an experiment of an evil soul master?"

"What...what kind of spirit beast is that? Why does it look so ferocious? It...it's eating dirt?!"

"They carved out such a huge hole by sheer grit?!"

"Report this to the Spirit Hall!"

Some soft-hearted people only saw Lin Xia's pitiful appearance—young but disheveled, eating dirt alone in the wild.

An elderly man with a cane approached shakily, his tone filled with pity.

"Child...you must be starving, right? Don't eat dirt, Grandpa has a pancake here...come home with me, I'll give you something warm..."

However, when his gaze passed over Lin Xia and landed on Young Gilas, who was on the other side of the pit, gnawing on a large rock fragment with a "crunch" sound, and looking up at him with dark red eyes, the old man's kind face instantly froze, turning into extreme terror.

Those eyes, brimming with primal power and wildness, are definitely not those of a gentle, tamed beast!

"Weird...monster!"

He dropped his cane, but didn't bother to pick it up. He staggered backward and scrambled away into the distance.

Seeing the kind-hearted person who had been scared away once again, and the crowd pointing and whispering in the distance, Lin Xia felt a sudden tightness in her heart.

Lin Xia slowly swallowed the dirt in his mouth. The slight excitement brought about by the increase in strength vanished, leaving only a cold vigilance.

"Oops!"

Lin Xia wiped the mud off her mouth and led Young Gilas, who was still tilting his head and looking at the fleeing passersby.

“Younggilas, we’ve become monsters in other people’s eyes… and the signs are too obvious!”

Look at this fresh, dusty crater under your feet, and then look at the road stretching forward.

This is practically the best clue left for those with a keen eye to track them down!
Recalling how Yu Xiaogang had pestered her for over ten days to take her as his apprentice, Lin Xia immediately realized that she was probably a hot commodity in the eyes of some people with ulterior motives! In addition to the potential and special nature of the Young Gilas, what would become of her strange ability to eat soil and mines if she fell into their hands?
Slice study?

"No! We absolutely cannot take the main road anymore!"

Lin Xia made a decision instantly, her sharp gaze sweeping across the rolling hills and lush vegetation on both sides of the road.

"Let's go into the mountains! Eurygius, from now on, if we get hungry, we'll go into the mountains to find food! We'll eat our fill before we come out and continue our journey!"

After Lin Xia finished speaking, she led Young Gilas into the vast forest.

Half a month later, Lin Xia ended a simple night of meditation under a sheltered cliff near Gengjin City.

Sunlight filtered through the trees and fell upon him.

Lin Xia habitually calmed her mind and tried to sense the flow of soul power within her body.

hum-

An unprecedented, solid and full fluctuation of soul power instantly filled Lin Xia's senses!

Within the dantian and dantian, the soul power that was originally like a thin mist that needed to be accumulated little by little was now like a stream that had been filled, surging and turbulent!

That power was no longer ethereal, but rather profound, condensed, and possessed a rock-like sense of weight!

It's like a shallow puddle that has now become a full, brimming pond!
The critical boundary is now just a hair's breadth away, but the "quality" and "quantity" of soul power have already reached a critical point!

Level 10 Soul Power!

Without systematic meditation guidance, relying solely on the frantic feedback from the characteristics of the Young Gilas Martial Soul, and his own gluttonous devouring of the primal energy contained in the earth's minerals and soil!

For more than ten days after Lin Xia first awakened his innate soul power, he did not cultivate in order to take care of the infant Giras!

The formal training period was only half a month, but he crossed the threshold of level nine and directly reached the first real hurdle of Soul Master cultivation - level ten Soul Power!
If word of this speed of progress were to spread, it would be enough to leave those peers who were meditating step by step in utter astonishment; it would be nothing short of an unbelievable miracle!

"Level 10...I've broken through!"

Lin Xia suddenly opened her eyes, the dust on her face unable to conceal the light of wild joy!
Lin Xia excitedly tried to pick up the baby Gilas who was still yawning next to her, but she couldn't lift it!
However, Lin Xia didn't care; instead, her voice trembled with excitement.

"Youngkiras! Can you feel it? Level 10! We've reached level 10! Hahahaha!"

Young Giras was startled by Lin Xia's actions, but it quickly and keenly sensed the explosive joy deep within Lin Xia's heart and the surging soul power fluctuations like a rising tide.

This instantly excited it, and it waved its little arms, making cheerful, incomprehensible cries.

"Yoji! Yoji!"

After releasing Young Gilas, Lin Xia also stood up, his gaze piercing through the dense forest, fixed on the legendary metal city.

Moreover, level ten means that he can finally absorb that crucial first spirit ring!
And where else could Eurythus—the future Sandstorm King—be more suitable as the starting point for its meteoric rise than a magnificent city that gathers the essence of the earth's gold and iron and flows with metal veins?

However, before that, Lin Xia still needs to join a faction in the city and find some knowledge about soul beast soul rings that are suitable for Young Gilas to absorb!
After all, this concerns her future path, so Lin Xia dares not be careless!
Thinking of this, Lin Xia felt a surge of pride!
"There will be times when the wind will be strong and the waves will be broken, and the sails will be hoisted to cross the vast ocean!"

"Youngkiras, Gengjin City is just ahead, let's go!"

(End of this chapter)