Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Young Gilas, Sandstorm King!

Chapter 60: The Void Stone Vein Has a Problem!
Although Young Gilas had limited understanding of illusions, he could still understand moving in a straight line.

His scarlet eyes suddenly lit up dramatically, all his confusion vanished, replaced by pure excitement and drive!
Young Gilas let out a powerful shriek, its short hind legs slamming into the ground, its rock-carved body crashing into the thick, black rock wall that the building pointed to!
"Clang! Crack! Boom—!!!"

The incredibly sharp claws instantly tore through the hard rock, sending fragments of rock flying like an explosion!
Without pausing, Young Kiras transformed its small body into a tireless tunnel boring machine, carving out a new passage nearly two meters in diameter straight down through the thick black rock layer in the most ruthless and direct way!

Lin Xia and Lou Gao followed closely behind.

After digging down less than thirty meters, the Eurygius, which was working hard to excavate, suddenly stopped!
Immediately afterwards, its unique scream, filled with extreme excitement and longing, pierced through the roar of breaking rocks and echoed clearly in the passage.

"Yoji—!!!!!"

The cry was even louder and more filled with the ecstatic joy of discovering a priceless treasure than when it found the scales of the Black-striped Xuan Yan Python!

Lin Xia and Lou Gao's hearts pounded wildly at the same time!
The two exchanged a glance and both saw the glint of light flashing in each other's eyes!
Lou Gao was so excited that his beard was trembling!

"Hurry! Get there quickly!"

The two quickened their pace and rushed to the end of the tunnel dug by Young Gilas.

The sight before them left both the well-informed master craftsman Lou Gao and Lin Xia, who had lived two lives, breathless and deeply shocked!
At the end of the passage was not an even larger void, but... a wall!

A dreamlike wall made of countless dazzling crystals!
These crystals are not transparent, but rather have a deep, dark silver color that seems to absorb light!
Inside the crystal, it is not static, but countless tiny silver specks, like stardust, slowly flow and rotate, forming mysterious star maps!
They are tightly embedded in the black bedrock, densely packed and layered, forming a flowing, dark silver sea of ​​stars that covers the huge rock wall in front!
The entire crystal wall exudes an indescribable spatial fluctuation!

Gazing at it, one can almost see the folds of space and feel the disorientation of being so close yet so far!

The surrounding air was slightly distorted by this strong spatial force, and light underwent strange refraction on the crystal surface.

A pure, ancient, and vast aura of spatial energy rushed towards us, so dense that it almost materialized!

"This...this is...Void Stone? No! It's...a crystallized original Void Stone vein?!"

Lou Gao's voice trembled violently with extreme excitement and disbelief. He stretched out his slightly trembling fingers, wanting to touch the flowing star map, but dared not, as if afraid of disturbing this spectacle.

"Such a scale...such purity...!"

But Young Kylas had already been unable to restrain himself any longer!

Its scarlet eyes were fixed on the flowing dark silver sea of ​​stars, and its mouth was practically watering!
It contained a fragrance that was even more advanced and purer than that of the Black-striped Xuan Yan Python scales, which immediately made Young Gilas's mouth water!
"Yoji—!!!"

Young Gilas let out a declarative roar, using all four claws to pounce on the Voidstone deposit!

That look seemed to say, "Oh my, it's all my fault!"
Seeing the eager look on Young Kiras's face, as if it wanted to stuff the entire dark silver void stone flowing with starlight into its belly, its little paws scrambling and sending pebbles flying, and it kept making "yo-ji yo-ji" noises, Lin Xia sighed and rubbed her forehead in exasperation.

Turning to Lou Gao, whose eyes were also shining with awe at this magnificent mineral deposit, he asked:

"Teacher, should we... just take this Void Stone vein with us?"

After hearing Lin Xia's words, Lou Gao decisively replied:

"Of course! Is that even a question?! Pack it all up! We must take it all! Not a single piece can be left behind! Good heavens, the Void Stone! I've lived most of my life and only ever heard of it in ancient texts and legends! Such a divine object is actually buried beneath Gengjin City?"

"This isn't just good luck, this is incredible luck, and ten times in a row!" Lou Gao rubbed his rough hands together, circling the mine wall, his eyes burning as if he were looking at a priceless treasure—no, this itself was a priceless treasure!

"We've struck gold! Xia! We've really struck gold this time! This stuff is top-grade material for forging top-tier spatial soul tools, constructing large-scale spatial arrays, and even... even for forging the core power source of your soul-guided mecha!"

Lin Xia was also infected by the teacher's ecstasy, but quickly calmed down and thought of a key question.

"Teacher, will this single Void Stone deposit be enough? After all, the things we're researching will likely consume a lot of resources..."

Lou Gao stopped in his tracks, his eyes gleaming with shrewd calculation and a deeper ambition.

"Of course not! This alone can barely support even a small part of our grand plan!"

"The Void Stone is the core of the core, but the Soul Guidance Mech you've conceived is a systems engineering project that requires the synergy of multiple top-tier materials! Strength, energy conduction, soul power resonance, physical defense, elemental resistance... none of them can be missing!"

Lou Gao patted Lin Xia on the shoulder, his tone resolute.

"Don't worry! I know what I'm doing! I know several old places around Gengxin City, and even further afield, where there are hidden mineral deposits!"

“There were places we didn’t dare go to before because they were too dangerous or the exploration wasn’t clear enough, and others we didn’t consider because the materials weren’t of a high enough grade. But things are different now! With this Void Stone as a foundation, and with the little guy’s digging skills, it might not be so bad to give it a try…”

"Besides, we still have firearms, don't we?"

Lou Gao patted the AK in his hand, revealing a confident, almost "fierce" smile.

"With this thing, we'll have the confidence to tackle the really tough nuts to crack! To raid those ancient mines rumored to be infested with terrifying soul beasts! But—"

Just as Lou Gao was about to say something, he heard Young Gilas let out a painful wail.

"Yoji!!!"

The two turned to look and saw that Young Gilas, who had been so lively and enjoying his meal on the mine wall just moments before, was now moving extremely slowly.

Young Kira's little paws were still resting on a basketball-sized Void Stone, trying to pry it off, but the movement was like it was in slow motion ten times.

What's even more striking is its round belly, which is now bulging high like a fully inflated balloon, making its rock-covered body look somewhat out of place.

Her once bright, scarlet eyes were now drooping, conveying a pitiful feeling of "I'm so full, I can't move, I feel so uncomfortable."

"Ok?"

Lin Xia was greatly surprised.

He knew Young Gilas's appetite better than anyone. Back then, it gnawed on those incredibly hard black-striped basalt python scales like they were biscuits, and it could easily devour several tons of tungsten steel. How come it only managed to eat this much now...?

Lin Xia estimated that it was only seven or eight void stones, each the size of a human head to a basketball, that had turned into this shape.
The energy contained in this Void Stone is probably far beyond imagination!
Moreover, it seems that it's not just about having a huge amount of energy; there may also be unique properties that affect the powerful digestive and absorptive abilities of the young cygnets.

"has a problem!"

(End of this chapter)