Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Young Gilas, Sandstorm King!

Chapter 76 What kind of mess is this?!

Next came their flesh and bones!
In the fiery sandstorm, rapidly spinning and molten rock particles, like billions of tiny, red-hot razors, under the terrifying heat, scrape away their bodies layer by layer, piece by piece, from the point of contact, breaking them down into the most primordial particles!
The whole process was incredibly fast!

A massive lava lizard vanished completely from the moment it touched the edge of the sandstorm, turning into a wisp of smoke with a burnt smell—all in less than a second!
Only a faint mark remained, instantly transformed by the high temperature!

Several lava dragons roared and spewed out blazing white fireballs. Their fireballs, powerful enough to melt gold and iron, were assimilated and absorbed by the purer and more domineering solar fire in the storm the moment they hit the fiery sandstorm. They were like water droplets falling into a red-hot iron pot. With a "sizzle", they didn't even create a decent ripple. Instead, they amplified the power of the sandstorm!
The lava dragon that spewed fireballs was caught in the storm and followed in the footsteps of the lava lizard, rapidly disintegrating and disappearing in the blinding golden light.

The giant lava dragon, wounded by the towering building and having one of its limbs destroyed by Lin Xia's gaze, burned with its last madness as it lowered its head and used its massive lava horn to slam into the heart of the storm!

This time, finally a sound was made—like a red-hot iron rod being plunged into boiling molten steel.

"Swoosh—Boom!"

The moment its horn came into contact with the core of the sandstorm, the tip began to melt and shorten rapidly!
The massive, burning body was as if it had sunk into a viscous swamp with unimaginably high temperatures, being forcibly dragged and torn apart by terrifying forces!
Its burning golden flames tried to resist, but they were like a mantis trying to stop a chariot in the face of the omnipresent, all-consuming fire of the sun's spirit in the storm!
Its body twisted and deformed violently in the storm, and large chunks of "flesh and blood" burning with golden flames were peeled off, carried away, and vaporized by the high-speed rotating lava sand!
It lasted for less than three seconds!

Three seconds later, the enormous fire behemoth, resurrected from the corpse of a ten-thousand-year-old soul beast, along with the seemingly indestructible golden flames on its body, completely disappeared into the raging golden-red fire sandstorm, leaving no trace of its existence.

Only the momentary burst of light at the eye of the storm revealed that its immense energy had been completely swallowed up and assimilated!
Fear, true and overwhelming fear, finally replaced the rage, sweeping over all the surviving soul beasts like an icy tide!

However, it was too late.

The fiery sandstorm, like the gaping maw of a greedy glutton, relentlessly pushed forward and devoured everything in its path!
Wherever it passed, whether it was a thousand-year-old soul beast or a ten-thousand-year-old corpse, whether it was a burning flame monster or a living behemoth with a physical body, all of them turned to ashes!

The mountain of soul beast corpses piled up at the cave entrance melted away rapidly in the face of the sandstorm, like snow under the sun.

The mine walls were scraped by the edge of the sandstorm, and the hard rock melted and collapsed silently. The entrance to the entire mine was forcibly widened and deepened at a visible speed!
The scorching heat waves, carrying the ashes from the burning, formed plumes of hot, dark red smoke with a pungent sulfur and burnt smell, which violently spewed out from the cave entrance and the rock crevices that had been broken open high up in the building!

Further away, the earth shook violently!

Lou Gao sensed the powerful aura emanating from the figures of the soul beasts that were rushing towards him. However, when they felt the earth-shattering fire sandstorm and the aura of the sun's essence contained within it, their ferocious charge suddenly halted!
Some of the weaker ones even let out terrified cries and began to instinctively retreat!

Only a few of the most powerful and violent auras continued to rush forward relentlessly, but their speed was clearly greatly affected by the destructive pressure.

Deep within the mine, the two sources of destruction—Lin Xia, the Crimson Bone Golden Flame, and Young Giras, the Lava Incarnation—suspended silently at the core of the fiery sandstorm.

Lin Xia and Young Gilas's "gaze," burning with golden flames, coldly swept over the empty area at the cave entrance, which had been instantly cleared, leaving only molten rock and glassy ground, as well as the torrent of soul beasts in the distance, engulfed in chaos and fear.

Deep within Lin Xia and Young Gilas's consciousness, that intense thought did not diminish in the slightest; on the contrary, it became even clearer and more fervent due to the enemy's temporary "clearing":
Obstacle cleared... You can... continue... eating!
The crimson-gold skeleton, encasing a body of flowing lava, slowly rotated. Its eye sockets, burning with miniature suns, once again greedily locked onto the core of the ore vein behind it, flowing with eternal golden light. Young Gilas also let out a silent, yearning hiss, its lava body turning towards the ore vein, its scarlet-golden eyes filled only with an endless craving for that ultimate fire energy.

Lou Gao huddled in a shallow crevice he had barely dug out, barely enough to fit half his body, his back pressed against the scorching rock, still shaken as he watched the devastating energy storm outside gradually subside.

Lou Gao cautiously peeked out from the edge of the rock crevice and saw Lin Xia and Young Gilas ignoring everything and turning their "gaze" back to the Sun Essence Mine.

"..."

Lou Gao opened his mouth, but ultimately no sound came out; all that remained was a mouthful of bitterness and a sense of absurd powerlessness.

Lou Gao knew his own voice, his own worries...

At this moment, to Lin Xia and Young Gilas, it probably wasn't even a breeze.

Their world now consists only of the essence of the sun, which brings endless power and transformation.

From deep underground, the roar, filled with fury and anxiety, echoed faintly once more, more urgently and closer... as if some terrifying being was being thoroughly enraged by this unbridled "theft" and was about to burst forth from the earth!

Lou Gao looked at Lin Xia and Young Gilas, who had their backs to him and seemed oblivious to the impending crisis, or rather, completely indifferent. He could only desperately grip the scorching diamond chisel in his hand and take a deep, deep breath of the burning, lung-piercing air.

"What kind of mess is this?!"

"coming!!"

Lou Gao, huddled in a makeshift crevice in the rocks, felt his heart pounding in his throat.

Lou Gao could clearly feel that the rocks under his feet were no longer solid ground, but rather like a piece of fat meat thrown into boiling oil, trembling and groaning wildly.

The "vacuum zone" that had briefly formed at the entrance of the mine after being cleared by Lin Xia and Young Gilas's terrifying fire sandstorm was instantly filled with an even more turbulent and violent torrent!
This time, it was no longer a chaotic mass of thousand-year-old soul beasts or resurrected corpses.

Appearing at the cave entrance, it was like a mobile fortress forged from lava; it was a true ten-thousand-year-old soul beast!

Their bodies are as large as the beginnings of mountains, and their thick scales are no longer just crimson, but a deep blackish-red like solidified magma. The light flowing between the gaps in their shells is no longer dark red, but golden flames like molten lava!
On its enormous head, the thick lava horn gleamed with a cold light capable of piercing mountains, and its crimson-gold eyes, like windows to purgatory, burned with an indomitable will ignited by the roars from the earth.

(End of this chapter)