Douluo Continent: Martial Soul Young Gilas, Sandstorm King!

Chapter 81: Rebirth from the Ashes – It seems I've gotten involved in something… extraordinary!
Lin Xia was completely dumbfounded.

His last memory was that he and Larva were about to be burned to ashes by the Sun Spirit. How come when he "opened his eyes" he was not only alive and well, but his physical body was also reshaped, and Larva even changed color?

I felt an unprecedented surge of power, but I was completely unfamiliar with the changes in my body!

However, after staring at its red carapace for a long time, Young Gilas had a thought, and the red color on its body quickly faded away and merged into the phoenix pattern on its little paws, restoring it to its original appearance.

Seeing this, Lin Xia was about to say something when he caught a glimpse of the burly figure sitting cross-legged like a stone sculpture at the entrance of the mine, looking at him with a mixture of tension and relief.

"teacher!"

A huge sense of surprise and relief welled up inside me!

Lin Xia no longer cared about studying herself, picked up the still bewildered Young Giras and flashed away!
call!
Without using his soul power, but only with the burst of his newly formed physical strength, Lin Xia instantly traversed a distance of tens of meters as if he were teleporting, creating a scorching airflow, and landed steadily in front of Lou Gao!

The speed was so fast that even Lou Gao, a Soul Saint, almost couldn't react in time.

"Teacher! You're alright! That's wonderful!"

Lin Xia's voice was filled with excitement and lingering fear. He put down Young Gilas, grabbed Lou Gao's rough hand, and felt the real temperature and pulse in his hand. Only then did a huge weight lift from his heart.

Lou Gao looked at his disciple, who was unharmed yet possessed an aura as deep as an abyss, and at the young Giras beside him, whose armor was rugged and whose power was beginning to emerge. His eyes instantly reddened, and he tightly gripped Lin Xia's wrist with his other hand, his voice choked with emotion.

"You brat! You finally woke up! You scared the hell out of me! I'm so glad you're alright! I'm so glad you're alright!"

After the initial excitement of surviving the ordeal subsided, Lin Xia's mind was immediately filled with a barrage of questions.

Lin Xia pointed to herself, then to Young Gilas, and asked eagerly:
"Teacher! What happened? Why am I completely unharmed? I remember... I remember swallowing that piece of solar essence, and I felt like my whole body was being burned away! My bones... I felt like they were turning to ash! How come now... now not only am I alright, but I... I even feel..."

Lin Xia swung her arm, and the sound of it cutting through the air was clearly audible.

"...I feel like my body is brimming with inexhaustible power? And what happened to Larvitar? This mine...the marks of battle...what happened? How long have we been here?"

Lin Xia's questions came out like a barrage of bullets, each one pointing to those blank, terrifying, and miraculous ten days.

Lou Gao took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down. Looking at his disciple's dark golden eyes, which were filled with confusion and thirst for knowledge, he showed a look of lingering fear, mixed with immense shock and incomprehension.

"fine?"

Lou Gao gave a bitter laugh, his voice low and slow, as if he were trying to dig that nightmarish experience out of the depths of his memory.

"Kid, you call this 'nothing'? Do you know that just over ten days ago, you were nothing but a charred skeleton in my eyes, burned to the bone! You even almost shattered Younggiras!"

Lin Xia's pupils suddenly contracted.

"Wha...what?!"

Lou Gao began to recount his story, his voice carrying a sense of awe and lingering fear, as if he were witnessing a myth.

"The energy of that solar essence is terrifying... After you swallowed it, your whole body... was instantly carbonized! Your skin and flesh were charred and fell off, leaving only... a skeleton! A reddish-gold skeleton that was still glowing!"

"Then... those volcanic spirit beasts went mad! Summoned by a terrifying voice from underground, they charged in recklessly, determined to tear you apart!"

"A ten-thousand-year-old soul beast! Self-destructed! The entire mine was almost blown apart! You and Young Gilas were blown to bits... your bones were scattered everywhere!"

"I thought...it was all over..."

The sound from the high-rise building trembled slightly.

"But...at that moment...a miracle...or rather, a divine intervention...occurred!"

Lou Gao's gaze became incredibly complex, filled with awe.

"A gigantic...phantom of a phoenix made of pure flames! Emerged from the depths of the mine!" "Before it, I didn't even have the courage to look up! That was...that was a complete crushing of life forms! The aura of an ancient behemoth!"

Lin Xia felt a chill run through her body as she listened, and subconsciously touched her arms and chest, finding it hard to believe that she had once been a skeleton.

"It...it seems angry that you're gnawing on the veins...but it seems...it can't stop you? Or...it doesn't want to completely destroy you?"

Lou Gao tried hard to recall that incomprehensible scene.

"It...it was silent for a long time, and finally...it seemed to...sigh?"

"Then, it flapped its wings. Two...beams of fiery light entered your and Larvitar's bodies..."

Lou Gao's tone was full of disbelief.

"Then...I witnessed a miracle!"

"New flesh and blood have grown on your bones! Blood vessels, nerves, heart... a heart of fire beating in your chest! All organs... have regrown layer by layer! It's like... like the earth is reshaping a life!"

"The same goes for Young Gilas. Its carapace became stronger, and new things grew inside... as well as your skin... In the end, you became what you are now! Intact! Even... stronger!"

Lou Gao pointed at Lin Xia's left forearm.

"Look! And this too! This appeared on both of you before that giant firebird disappeared!"

Lin Xia suddenly raised her left hand, her gaze fixed on the lifelike crimson-gold phoenix mark on the inside of her forearm.

Lin Xia felt a mysterious and close connection between this mark and the scorching energy flowing in his blood, and even with the young Gilas beside him.

Young Gilas also raised its left forelimb, showing Lin Xia the phoenix mark on its carapace, and let out a low growl with the same doubt.

"Yoji..."

"It...it took away all the corpses of the soul beasts in the end...and then it disappeared..."

Lou Gao Chang let out a long breath, as if he had unloaded a heavy burden.

"Then... you two acted as if nothing had happened and continued to gnaw on that vein... for more than ten days, eating away at almost half of it... before finally stopping and waking up."

The mine was silent, with only the residual golden light of the ore vein flowing slowly.

Lin Xia looked down at her newly formed hand, which contained terrifying power, then at the mysterious phoenix mark on her arm, and then at the young Giras whose form had changed drastically beside her.

Every word Lou Gao described struck him like a hammer blow.

From the brink of carbonization and shattered skeleton... to the arrival of the fiery giant bird, the reshaping of his body, and the acquisition of the phoenix mark... and then to absorbing a massive amount of solar essence without suffering any harm...

What exactly did he go through in the past ten days?
"Crushing at the level of life... Ancient behemoth... Phoenix mark... Reshaping the physical body..."

Lin Xia murmured to herself, her dark golden eyes gradually replacing the confusion with a deep desire to explore and a faint sense of awe.

Lin Xia clenched her fists, feeling the unfamiliar and vast power of the flames within her body.

"teacher…"

Lin Xia raised her head, her voice slightly hoarse.

"We... seem to have gotten involved in something... terrible."

(End of this chapter)