Douluo: The Op-Op Fruit, skilled at researching them

Chapter 29: The Lake of Life

If the Titan Ape harbored even the slightest malice towards Luo, it probably would have been unable to control its impulse and had killed Luo on the spot.

However, it merely used its intimidating aura to give Law a warning, which actually proved that it had no intention of killing Law.

Sure enough, in the next instant, Luo felt the heavy pressure on his body suddenly disappear, and Erming had withdrawn the suffocating pressure he had exerted on him.

"From what Sister Xiaowu just said, you were able to skillfully extract the spirit rings and spirit bones from a spirit beast's body using your domain ability without harming it? Is that true or false?"

Erming lowered his head curiously, his golden eyes fixed on Luo, unmoving.

Luo looked up at Erming's huge and somewhat ugly gorilla face, then waved his hand gently, summoning the "ROOM" space of the Ope Ope no Mi (Operation Fruit), and began to explain in detail the "various" magical abilities of the "Operation Domain".

Seeing this, Xiao Wu quickly chirped in Er Ming's ear to add her own explanation, using herself as a living example to prove that what Luo said was true.

"Erming, you don't know, Luo's first spirit ring was absorbed from my 100,000-year spirit ring! And my 100,000-year spirit bone was also absorbed by Luo! We're best friends now! I know everything about him, and he knows everything about me!"

Xiao Wu excitedly recounted her story, her words filled with affection and dependence on Luo.

Afterwards, Xiaowu reminisced with Erming about the bits and pieces of her acquaintance, friendship, and companionship with Luo. Her words were full of daily trivialities about Luo and herself, as if she herself had not even realized it.

However, any bystander could clearly see that this had transcended ordinary friendship and was a deep affection.

Although Erming is honest and simple-minded, he is by no means dull-witted. On the contrary, he possesses intelligence comparable to, or even surpassing, that of humans.

It keenly sensed Xiao Wu's deep affection for Luo, and a complex and unreadable expression immediately appeared on its face.

Therefore, its gaze towards Luo was no longer filled with curiosity and inquiry as before, but instead appeared extremely conflicted and struggling.

Although Luo was not quite sure what Erming was thinking at that moment, he keenly sensed that Erming's attitude towards him seemed to have undergone a subtle change.

There was a hint of murderous intent in his voice, but more than that, there was envy and a subtle sense of relief.

Perhaps, in the heart of the Titan Ape, he also believed that he and the Azure Bull Python were not the best partners for Xiao Wu.

After all, Xiao Wu has now transformed into a human, while they still choose to remain in their soul beast forms.

Or perhaps, as long as the Azure Bull Python doesn't become Xiao Wu's lover, even if Xiao Wu falls in love with another human, the Titan Giant Ape could barely accept it?

At this moment, Xiao Wu remembered something, reached out and tugged at Er Ming's ear, pointed to a place not far away, and said loudly, "Er Ming, there's a dragon slayer over there! Take it with you, we'll go to Daming first and let Luo prove it to you!"

Erming naturally wouldn't disobey Xiaowu's order. He moved his mountain-like body and walked in the direction Xiaowu pointed.

"Huh? It's a dragon slayer with two thousand years of cultivation!"

Erming quickly walked to Zhanlong's side, stretched out his hand, which was as big as a house, grabbed Zhanlong's body, and easily lifted him into the air.

The ten-meter-long dragon-slaying beast was like a three-year-old child standing in front of an adult, utterly powerless against the ten-thousand-year-old Titan Giant Ape.

The dragon-slaying beast did not escape in time when Erming arrived, so it chose to bury its body in a clump of bushes to hide, hoping to escape from the Titan Ape.

As for wanting to challenge the 100,000-year-old Titan Giant Ape Erming?

I never even considered it!

Nonsense! Although it is a dragon slayer, it is just short-tempered, which does not mean it is stupid!

The Titan Giant Ape has the bloodline of the Behemoth flowing through its veins, making it one of the top-tier soul beasts among all soul beasts, comparable to super soul beasts such as the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and the Three-Headed Crimson Demon Ao!

Even if Zhanlong had also reached 100,000 years of cultivation, he might not be a match for the 100,000-year-old Titan Giant Ape in a one-on-one fight, let alone the fact that it only had 2,000 years of cultivation!

Compared to a 100,000-year-old Titan Giant Ape, Zhanlong, with his 2,000-year cultivation, was no different from a chick; both could be easily scooped up!

At this moment, even if Zhanlong used his most prized sword tail attack, it would probably be difficult to leave even the slightest mark on Erming's hand!

Erming saw through Zhanlong's trick at a glance when he saw it "playing dead" in his hand. So he shook his arm hard, almost shaking the shit out of Zhanlong's stomach.

Then, Erming turned to Luo and said in a deep voice, "Human, follow me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Titan Giant Ape let Xiao Wu sit on its shoulder and then took huge strides unhurriedly toward the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest, showing no intention of letting Luo stand on its shoulder.

Luo was prepared for this. After all, no matter what, he had "stole Xiao Wu's love." Er Ming hadn't killed him immediately because he was showing mercy for Xiao Wu's sake. How could Er Ming possibly give Luo a kind look?

After walking for an unknown amount of time, as the setting sun slowly disappeared from the horizon, Luo followed Erming's footsteps, traversing the entire Star Dou Great Forest, and finally arrived at a lake with rippling blue waves and unfathomable depths.

This lake is like an emerald set in the earth, radiating a lustrous blue light.

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At that moment, Xiao Wu, like a nimble swallow, lightly leaped from Er Ming's broad shoulders and hopped joyfully to Luo's side.

She reached out and patted Luo's shoulder hard, her face beaming with pride and joy, and asked, "How is it? Doesn't the Lake of Life look especially beautiful? This is where Da Ming, Er Ming, and I played and grew up together since we were little!"

Luo nodded gently, without saying a word, but silently straightened his body and turned his gaze to the Lake of Life.

A thick, mysterious white mist hung over and around the Lake of Life. This mist was not ordinary water vapor, but rather formed from the condensation of a large amount of primordial energy from heaven and earth, containing boundless vitality.

The amount of soul power one can cultivate in a day here is equivalent to the results of three days of cultivation elsewhere.

No wonder Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming were able to cultivate to the level of 100,000 years in just a few hundred years. (Original setting)

Besides the extraordinary talents of the three soul beasts, this is also inextricably linked to the suffocatingly rich spiritual energy environment of the Lake of Life.

(If soul beasts cultivate for thousands or tens of thousands of years, where do soul masters get so many soul rings? Moreover, the reproductive ability of those soul beasts with high bloodlines is not as good as that of humans. If they had cultivated for that long, they would have been killed to extinction by humans long ago.)

Therefore, I want to shorten the cultivation time of soul beasts. It will definitely be a little longer than the cultivation time of humans, but it will never be as exaggerated as tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years in the original work.

Another piece of supporting evidence is from Douluo Continent II, where the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear cub cultivated to become a thousand-year-old soul beast in one year, and to ten thousand years in ten years? At least a hundred or a hundred thousand years? The Titan Giant Ape and the Azure Bull Python can't possibly have inferior bloodlines to the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, right? I'm setting it to a few hundred years here.

(End of this chapter)