Douluo Continent II: The Dragon Breaks the Nine Heavens

Chapter 363 Compensation, Resources

"Captain of the Soul Hall? Hmm, you could say that. You can also call me Lord of the Soul Hall." Lin Yun smiled as he looked at Nan Qiuqiu.

"Palace Master..." Nan Qiuqiu was speechless.

"Is your Soul Hall lacking in talent? How could you appoint someone under twenty as the Hall Master? Could it be that your Soul Hall only has a few people like you participating in the competition?"

Is there no one in the Soul Palace?

Lin Yun fell into deep thought.

It seems there's no one else around. Apart from him, the temple master, his subordinates seem to be quite powerful.

Emperor Tian—Black Dragon Heavenly Venerable of the Soul Palace.

Snow Emperor – Soul Palace Cold Snow Celestial Venerable.

Bi Ji – Holy Healing Celestial Venerable of the Soul Palace.

The King of Ten Thousand Demons - Soul Palace Demon Eye Celestial Venerable.

Xiong Jun – Soul Palace Terror Claw Celestial Venerable.

Ice Emperor – Soul Palace Azure Ice Celestial Venerable.

Crimson King – Crimson Demon Heavenly Venerable of the Soul Palace.

Zi Ji – the Heavenly Venerable of Hell in the Soul Palace.

Currently, only these eight possess the title of Celestial Venerable. Although several powerful 100,000-year and 200,000-year-old soul beasts have joined the Soul Palace, such as the Shadow Leopard King, which served as Lin Yun's mount, they do not have titles.

Now, all the 100,000-year-old soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest who know the inside story yearn to join the Soul Palace. They have also changed their address of Di Tian and the others from calling them by their given names to using their respective titles.

(Regarding the titles bestowed upon each Soul Beast in the Soul Palace, if there are any other suggestions, the author will consider them at his discretion.)

Of course, there's also Gu Yuena, the nominal deputy hall master of the Soul Hall, although Lin Yun would never let this deputy hall master, whose mind is probably not even normal, make any decisions.

"It's alright, at least we still have several Title Douluos." Lin Yun said calmly, "However, these are internal matters of my Soul Hall, so it's best if you don't ask too many questions; it won't do you any good."

"You're making it sound like I really want to know..." Nan Qiuqiu pouted. No matter how curious she was, she couldn't lose in terms of words; that was her persona!

Nan Qiuqiu asked irritably, "Since the Palace Master doesn't intend to talk to me about your Soul Palace, what brings you here to see me?"

Are you trying to mess with me in the middle of the night, mocking my foolish challenge during the day?

Waaaaah~

If it weren't for the sense of trust emanating from her martial spirit and soul, Nan Qiuqiu would probably have thought Lin Yun was going to assault her.

"Oh, it's nothing much, just some compensation." Lin Yun smiled, used his soul power to lift the wooden box in his hand, and handed it to Nan Qiuqiu. "This is the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, the fruit of a celestial herb. It can purify dragon blood and contains the power of the earth, which can evolve your martial soul."

"Although that thing is of no use to you, I took it without asking, so consider this herb as compensation."

"Compensation? Taken without permission?" Nan Qiuqiu frowned, looking completely bewildered. "What are you talking about?"

Lin Yun did not answer Nan Qiuqiu's question. Instead, he muttered ambiguously, "Judging by the time, it should be about time." Then, as if someone was cooperating with his performance, a crack tore open in the space around Lin Yun, and the cold and noble figure of Xue Di walked out from it.

"Palace Master, it's finished." After glancing at the dumbfounded Nan Qiuqiu, Xue Di said softly to Lin Yun.

This was Lin Yun's request. Xue Di and the others refused to call Lin Yun by his name directly, but it was inappropriate to call him Venerable in the human world. So they were allowed to call him Palace Master. The titles of Di Tian and Xue Di were also determined at that time.

What Xue Di did was, of course, to take away the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal that Di Tian had failed to take from beneath the Earth Dragon Gate.

Although the Earth Dragon Gate is far from Mingdu, this distance is completely meaningless to Xue Di, who possesses a Yin-Yang complementary soul core and can tear space at will.

The competition ended just over an hour ago, and Xue Di has already completed a round trip from Mingdu to Dilongmen, including the time spent mining Ice Extreme Crystals.

Thinking back now, I guess Di Tian's claim that his trip around Douluo Star wouldn't have taken too long.

Space travel is so convenient.

Lin Yun nodded and smiled at Nan Qiuqiu, and he and Xue Di turned and walked into the spatial passage. Under Nan Qiuqiu's continued bewildered gaze, the spatial passage quickly closed.

"What kind of method is this...?"

……

"Your Majesty, these are all the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals that accompanied the Myriad-Year-Old Profound Ice Cave. I have already distinguished between the Ice Extreme Divine Crystals that have nurtured Ice Spirits and those that have not." After returning to Lin Yun's room, the Snow Empress handed Lin Yun a storage ring.

"It's just a pity about that ten-thousand-year-old ice cave." The Snow Emperor's tone couldn't help but carry a hint of regret as she said this, "The temperature at the location of that sect is still too high, and it no longer meets the low temperature requirement that the ten-thousand-year-old ice cave maintains."

"The formation of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Cave is too difficult. The formation of each Ten Thousand Year Ice Cave is a gift from the Ice God. If the location of that sect were not unsuitable, as long as a little Ten Thousand Year Ice Essence is left behind, that Ten Thousand Year Ice Cave will continuously produce Ten Thousand Year Ice Essence."

After being ordered by Lin Yun to go to the Earth Dragon Gate to mine the Ice Extreme Divine Crystal, the Snow Emperor naturally explored the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Cave after arriving at the Earth Dragon Gate.

In any case, the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow nurtured in this Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave has solved its own Heavenly Tribulation problem. As a spirit of heaven and earth, the Snow Empress does not want to see this Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow completely lose its effect in the end.

Unfortunately, this ancient ice cave, to put it in a more fantastical way, has run out of time.

To put it another way...

San Gou truly doesn't give any benefits to anyone other than his Tang family. All the famous opportunities in Douluo Continent belong to the Tang family. How could a treasure trove like the Ten Thousand Year Xuanbing Cave, which can change the fate of ice attribute soul masters, be left to a small place like the Earth Dragon Gate?

We definitely need to set up a limited-time dungeon where the effects are lost once the opponent is completely devoured by Huo!

"Xue'er, there's no need to regret this," Lin Yun said with a smile, his tone filled with emotion. "The Douluo Star beneath our feet has been around for who knows how long. Time has passed, countless lives have come and gone, and countless resources have been generated and then consumed."

"This is a natural law, and also a universal law. Resources will not be exhausted; they will be regenerated one day. However, this process is not measured in biological time, but in time on a cosmic scale."

"Before the universe, life is too insignificant, like this ancient ice cave. Although it is useless now, how do you know if a new ancient ice cave has been born in the far north because of it?"

(End of this chapter)