Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Young Gilas, Sandstorm King!

Chapter 79 Flesh and Blood Reconstruction, Body Regeneration!

Lou Gao was huddled in a narrow crevice no more than half a person deep, his back pressed against the scorching hot rock. He felt as if he were frozen by invisible ice, or as if he had been thrown into a boiling pot of oil, trembling violently under the extreme attack of cold and heat.

His sweat had long since evaporated, and his skin was dry, cracked, and scorched, but he was completely unaware of it.

All his senses and all his will were seized and crushed by the giant bird phantom made of pure light and heat in the core area of ​​the mine.

It was an indescribable pressure!

Lou Gao is not someone who has never seen the world.

He forged divine weapons and interacted with the strongest people in the world. He had even experienced firsthand the vast soul power and aura of those at the Title Douluo level.

But that kind of power is the accumulation of quantity, the overwhelming force, which, while awe-inspiring, is still understandable within the human realm.

But the phantom before us... it exudes something from another dimension!

That was a crushing defeat that originated from the most fundamental level of life!

Like ants gazing at the Milky Way, or mayflies facing the vast ocean.

Its very existence is the manifestation of rules, the embodiment of the essence of fire.

When those eyes, composed of eternally burning golden flames, swept over him indifferently, Lou Gao felt his soul groan and shrink away. He didn't even have time to feel fear; all that remained was a complete, humble, and utterly empty sense of nothingness, a desire to vanish on the spot.

Ancient behemoth!

God!

These two words suddenly popped into my blank mind, which was high up in the building.

Only gods and ferocious beasts of this level could possess such terrifying power that a mere phantom gaze could cause a Soul Saint-level expert to be utterly destroyed and unable to muster the slightest thought of resistance!
The phantom of the giant firebird hovered at the core of the ancient magic circle. Its gaze pierced through the collapsed mine and the ravaged battlefield, finally locking onto the two tiny yet exceptionally "stubborn" figures—Lin Xia and Young Kilas.

Even in the instant when it was forcibly frozen by the arrival of its vast will, Lin Xia's crimson-gold arm bone, which had been covered with lava muscles again, was still firmly gripping the vein of minerals flowing with liquid golden light.

Deep within the crimson flames of Young Gilas's eyes, the primal flames of devouring had not been completely extinguished; they were merely temporarily suppressed by a higher-level power.

The giant bird phantom seemed to be scrutinizing.

Time passed in suffocating silence.

Lou Gao could even hear his own heart pounding wildly in his chest, like a dying struggle, each beat pulling at the nerves crushed by the oppressive force.

Those surviving, terrified ancient soul beasts had already prostrated themselves on the ground, not daring to utter a single whimper, like the most humble dust.

Finally, the phantom of the giant fiery bird seemed to have made some kind of decision.

A sigh, extremely faint yet seemingly resounding from the depths of the soul, echoed outwards.

The emotions contained in that sigh were complex and difficult to discern. There were embers of raging anger that had been forcibly suppressed, the helplessness of having something to guard stolen, and even... a trace of extremely faint, almost imperceptible... a appreciative acceptance after scrutiny?
Or is it some kind of fateful compromise?
A sigh fell. The phantom of the giant bird, composed of pure light and heat, gently waved its fiery wings, which seemed capable of burning down galaxies.

There was no earth-shattering burst of energy.

Only two streams of golden-red light, refined to the extreme and as pure as liquid sun, emanating an indescribable life force and primal power, flowed from the tips of its wings.

These two streams of light ignored the distance in space and the high-temperature force fields on Lin Xia and Young Gilas's bodies that were enough to incinerate everything. Like weary birds returning to their nests, they precisely and gently entered the core of Lin Xia's chest and the core area in the center of Young Gilas's head—the two clusters of tenaciously burning golden flames that represented their life imprints!
"Om-!"

A strange resonance instantly resounded throughout the entire mine!

The moment the light stream entered Lin Xia and Young Gilas's bodies, they burst forth with an unprecedented, gentle yet incredibly profound crimson-gold light!
Change has begun!

First, the skeleton!
Lin Xia's bones, forged from divine iron like crimson gold, and Young Gilas's molten carapace, under the nourishment of the golden-red light, had their ancient patterns instantly illuminated, activated, and began to spread, intertwine, and recombine wildly.

The patterns became more intricate and mysterious, as if they were imprinted with the secrets of the birth of flames.

The bones themselves become more gentle and restrained, yet contain an explosive sense of power.

One after another, crimson-gold energy pathways, like veins of lava, began to clearly emerge and connect within the bones!
Next comes the reshaping of flesh and blood!

Chi chi chi——

A chilling yet miraculous sound rang out.

On the bones that shimmered with crimson-gold runes, countless fine, bright red buds, exuding a rich life force and pure fire elemental energy, sprouted and spread wildly at a visible speed, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain!
Blood vessels, nerves, fascia... these fundamental tissues that constitute life, guided by the golden-red light flow and supplied with the residual energy of the sun's essence, are rapidly constructed and woven along the contours of the skeleton in an unprecedentedly efficient and perfect manner!
Lou Gao stared in disbelief, almost forgetting the terrifying pressure.

It was as if a miracle of the Creator was unfolding before his very eyes!

Lin Xia's charred and carbonized traces were completely replaced and covered by rapidly growing bright red muscle tissue.

The muscles were sleek and contained explosive power, with a faint reddish-gold halo flowing across their surface, as if they were not flesh and blood, but rather a fusion of concentrated magma and the essence of life.

A layer of flexible yet incredibly tough fascia covers it.

The changes in young cyprinids are equally astonishing.

Its translucent lava shell did not disappear; instead, it became even more profound and restrained under the infusion of the golden-red light, like the core of a cooled and solidified star.

Beneath the shell, there is no longer nothingness or simple lava energy. Instead, energy veins, composed of pure fire elemental power and life essence, have grown out, resembling muscle tissue. These veins are clearly visible in the gaps between the shells, like flowing rivers of lava, reflecting the even more dazzling runes on the shells.

Then comes organ regeneration!
Inside Lin Xia's newly formed chest cavity, a powerful heart took shape first!
It is not an ordinary flesh and blood heart, but a "heart of fire" wrapped in crimson gold runes, with a cluster of eternal golden flames leaping at its center!
With each pulse, the surrounding raging fire elements resonate, pumping out no longer blood, but a reddish-gold "liquid flame" that is a mixture of pure life energy and fire power, flowing through the body along the newly formed vascular system, which is also composed of energy veins!
The brain, lungs, liver... all vital organs are being rapidly reshaped under the guidance of the golden-red light and the power supplied by the "Heart of Flame," with the crimson-gold bones as the foundation, the newly formed flesh and blood vessels as the body, and the pure fire elemental power as the core!
These organs are no longer fragile; they are powerful energy nodes in themselves, radiating surging vitality and the power of flames.

A layer of tough, smooth skin, like the finest jade, quickly covered Lin Xia's newborn body, displaying a healthy wheat color, yet subtly revealing an inner crimson-gold radiance.

(End of this chapter)