Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Young Gilas, Sandstorm King!

Chapter 61 The less stable the foundation, the faster the building will collapse!

Lin Xia felt a chill run down her spine.

Young Gilas's condition is too abnormal.

Lin Xia strode to the mine wall, ignoring the warnings of "Be careful!" from the height of the building, and forcefully broke off a fist-sized, dark silver crystal with stardust flowing inside.

It feels cool to the touch, as if you are holding a solid piece of cold spring water. The slowly rotating stardust inside the crystal emits a breathtaking spatial fluctuation.

Without further hesitation, Lin Xia put the crystal containing the vast power of space directly into her mouth.

"Crack!"

The moment her teeth snapped shut, Lin Xia's pupils contracted sharply!
An indescribable, ultimate "freshness" and "beauty" exploded in his mouth like the Big Bang!

It wasn't the taste of any known food, but rather the taste of a pure and ultimate "space"!

It felt as if the tip of the tongue touched a folded dimension, the taste buds savored flowing starlight, and the throat slid over a condensed spring of ethereal sweetness!
This is a sensory storm that transcends the realm of taste, bringing ultimate pleasure to the soul, as if the whole body is instantly light and sublimated!
However, this unparalleled beauty lasted for less than a breath!
In the next instant, an unimaginably violent torrent of energy, like a bursting dam of a galaxy, carrying chaotic, sharp, and seemingly all-splitting spatial power, suddenly erupted from the shattered void stone and fiercely rushed into Lin Xia's body!
"Ugh—!"

Lin Xia couldn't help but let out a suppressed groan of pain.

This energy is too domineering!

It is not as rich and nourishing as the energy of the earth and metal elements, nor as gentle and controllable as pure soul power.

It was violent, chaotic, and had the characteristic of tearing everything apart, savagely crashing into his meridians, flesh, and bones!
Lin Xia felt as if her body was being cut and stretched from the inside by countless tiny fragments of space, and it was about to explode at any moment!
Intense pain swept over my entire body like a tidal wave.

At the same time, the soul power that was originally running smoothly in Lin Xia's body was instantly ignited and detonated as if a red-hot iron block had been thrown into it!
The level 17 soul power barrier was easily torn apart like paper under the brutal impact of this foreign energy!

boom--!
A powerful surge of soul energy erupted uncontrollably from Lin Xia, blowing away the surrounding rubble.

Lin Xia's soul power level was actually raised to level eighteen in just a few breaths!
However, this surge of soul power was extremely unstable and restless, like strong liquor mixed with a lot of inferior impurities, full of explosiveness and instability.

They surged and thrashed through his meridians, difficult to tame, bringing waves of tearing, throbbing pain.

Even stranger changes occurred on the body's surface.

Lin Xia was horrified to see that, beneath the skin of herself and the young Gilas, who was also writhing in pain at her feet, strange, fine lines shimmering with a dark silver light suddenly appeared!

These patterns are complex and mysterious, like some kind of ancient star map imprint, or like the manifestation of spatial rifts.

They wriggled and shimmered beneath the skin like living creatures, emitting strong spatial fluctuations, as if they might burst out of the body at any moment!

"this……!"

Lou Gao's expression changed drastically as he instantly understood the terrifying energy and domineering characteristics contained in the Void Stone.

Lou Gao dared not touch Lin Xia rashly and could only observe her nervously.

Fortunately, the strange and dangerous patterns only flickered for a dozen seconds. As the violent spatial energy within the body was instinctively suppressed, dispersed, and absorbed by the body and soul power, they finally dimmed and disappeared completely under the skin, as if they had never existed.

"Huh...huh..."

Lin Xia was panting heavily, her forehead covered in a fine layer of cold sweat, and the back of her clothes was soaked with sweat.

Lin Xia slowly opened his eyes, his gaze filled with lingering fear. Just a moment ago, he had truly felt the immense crisis of his body being torn apart, his soul power going out of control, and even being assimilated by space!

The energy contained in this Void Stone far surpasses that of the scales of the Black-Striped Mystic Python, and it also possesses an extremely domineering and untamable spatial attribute!
Forcibly devouring it is tantamount to drawing in the Milky Way to fill one's body; the slightest carelessness could result in exploding or being torn apart by the power of space!
"teacher……"

Lin Xia's voice trembled slightly, almost imperceptibly.

"This Void Stone... its energy is too domineering! It forcibly boosted my soul power, leaving my foundation as unstable as a sandcastle! And this spatial power... almost tore me and the little guy apart from the inside!"

Lin Xia pointed to her arm skin, which had returned to normal but still seemed to have lingering phantom pain.

Lin Xia looked at the young Giras, whose belly was still swollen and who was whimpering in discomfort. The dark silver patterns on the little guy's body had disappeared, but the pain of indigestion and energy stagnation was clearly transmitted to Lin Xia.

"This is definitely not an ordinary energy replenishment! A building that is forcibly erected without a solid foundation will collapse with a gust of wind! This Void Stone is a double-edged sword!"

Lin Xia walked to Young Gilas's side, squatted down, and gently stroked its swollen, hot belly, feeling the violently accumulating spatial energy inside.

The little guy rubbed his hand against him, looking aggrieved.

"Did you hear that, little one?"

Lin Xia's voice was low and serious.

"This stuff is good, but it's also poison! Don't be greedy and eat too much!"

"From now on, when you eat this, you must do it like I taught you to eat other minerals—bite by bit, chew carefully, and absorb slowly, allowing your body to fully adapt and completely refine it!"

"Eating too much at once, like you are now, will make you burst! Understand? If the foundation is unstable, the building will collapse faster!"

"Yo...ji..."

Although the young Gilas was in pain, sensing Lin Xia's serious admonition and concern, it still nodded its heavy little head with a wronged look, a trace of lingering fear and understanding flashing in its scarlet eyes.

Young Gilas now has a profound and entirely new understanding of the concepts of "overeating" and "danger".

Lou Gao looked at the scene before him, his gaze shifting from initial fervent greed to one of profound solemnity and depth. He said in a deep voice:

"Xia is right! This Void Stone contains not only energy, but also fragments of space!"

"Forcibly devouring it is like a child wielding a giant hammer—it will harm both the child and the parent! We must be cautious! Extremely cautious! Once we get back, we must carefully study how to use it safely and effectively."

The master and apprentice exchanged a glance, both seeing the lingering fear in each other's eyes.

After Young Gilas recovered a bit, Lin Xia spoke directly to Young Gilas:

“Young Gilas, please excavate this Voidstone Mine first, then we’ll go back and rest properly.”

Upon hearing Lin Xia's words, Young Gilas nodded in agreement.

Without hesitation, despite extreme physical discomfort, the absolute obedience to Lin Xia's orders, stemming from his bloodline, and the instinctive craving for the "ore" overcame the pain.

Young Gilas knew that Lin Xia needed these stones that emitted an alluring yet dangerous stardust glow.

(End of this chapter)