Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

Chapter 256 First Encounter with Di Tian

"Alright, there's no need to get so worked up. The child at the bottom of the lake is still in deep meditation. Shao Zhe, you can stay here and keep watch for me for a while."

Although it was his own body, Elder Mu, who had endured unimaginable pain for many years, clearly possessed strong willpower. He knew that his physical condition was only showing signs of improvement, not that it was truly better. At this time, rather than celebrating wildly, Elder Mu needed to calm down and engage in stable and focused meditation.

"It is indeed a very magical realm. After gaining a certain understanding of the Law of Water, I can feel how remarkable that pure and vast aura is; and after I have completely mastered the realm techniques of the Law of Water, I can feel that gentle energy nourishing my body."

Although the warming effect of water is somewhat of a temporary fix for my current physical condition, and its effects are too slow, this path is indeed effective. When I can grasp the basics of the Law of Wood or the Law of Light, my physical condition will definitely improve significantly.

"That's good, that's good. As long as it's effective, the academy has the resources to support the teacher in completing the introductory stage of the laws."

Elder Mu's words brought Yan Shaozhe a great sense of relief. With Elder Xuan's health condition still unclear, Elder Mu was Shrek Academy's only pillar of stability. Considering the current complex situation on the continent, and the fact that the Holy Spirit Cult possessed at least one Limit Douluo, Shrek Academy truly could not afford to lose Elder Mu, a Limit Douluo.

A week later, a sharp hunger jolted Long You from his comfortable state. For a moment, somewhat bewildered by his situation, Long You sat blankly at the bottom of Sea God Lake, pondering the philosophical questions of life. Fortunately, Yan Shaozhe, who had been protecting Long You on the lakeshore, merely splashed around when he sensed the movement at the bottom. Having experience in deep meditation, Yan Shaozhe couldn't help but chuckle. However, his sense of responsibility as a mentor compelled him to speak up and pull Long You, who was clutching his head and trying to recover his memories at the bottom of the lake, out of the water.

Having left the lakebed and breathed fresh air again, Long You's brain began to function normally. A layer of magical, aquamarine power spread from Long You's body. After carefully sensing this power, the corners of Long You's mouth involuntarily turned up until he was struck on the forehead by Yan Shaozhe.

Outside Shrek Academy, a blurry figure swept across Shrek Square like the wind, rushing straight into the 24-hour academy cafeteria. After experiencing his own enhancement, the bewilderment from deep meditation and the joy of the significant improvement couldn't suppress his boiling hunger. To appease his rumbling stomach, Long You needed to fill his stomach with food as quickly as possible.

Slurping down a bowl of exquisite beef soup, feeling the warm energy spreading through his body, Long You truly felt reborn. He devoured the food on his table in a whirlwind and then sauntered out of the cafeteria.

By the shore of Poseidon Lake, Long You solemnly took out a soul tool from his storage soul tool, a tool capable of testing specific soul power levels. The new competition was about to begin, and without some major fortuitous encounter, Long You's soul power level was unlikely to improve further. Whether he would have enough confidence to take advantage of the situation depended on this one decisive move.

As he channeled his soul power, a gentle white light shone, and the number "67" floating above the soul tool's display screen brought a huge sigh of relief to Long You. With this level of soul power as a foundation, Long You was not afraid even if his opponents were Soul Saints.

Putting aside his worries, Long You recalled the thought that had popped into his mind after the Sea God's Fate Conference: "It's time to go find Senior Sister and Huo Yuhao. The well in the Earth Dragon Gate courtyard needs to be properly dealt with. It doesn't matter if I share in this harmless opportunity."

With that in mind, Long You crossed Seagod Lake and arrived at Senior Sister Zhang Lexuan's residence on Seagod Island. He also sent a message to Huo Yuhao, informing him to come find him at Zhang Lexuan's place.

"That's not a good idea. That's the foundation of the Earth Dragon Sect."

Huo Yuhao was still naive; in his view, those things belonged to someone else's family, and he shouldn't take them.

“My dear junior brother, you can’t put us in the position of being unwelcome guests. In fact, we are helping the Earth Dragon Sect. No matter what, gold that can’t be obtained is useless gold.”

While our trip to the Earth Dragon Gate to obtain the Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Ice Marrow meant taking away the greatest opportunity from the Earth Dragon Gate's Cold Well, the Earth Dragon Gate also acquired the right to sell the Extreme Ice Crystals. That's a huge sum of money. Compared to previously possessing treasures without a way to utilize or monetize them, the Earth Dragon Gate made a fortune.

Most importantly, have you considered this question: how do I know there's a cold well in the Earth Dragon Gate? Since I know this and have deduced the cause of the cold well, can't others do the same? Right now, we're peacefully going to trade with the Earth Dragon Gate; what if we exchanged it for people from the Holy Spirit Cult?

Huo Yuhao was a smart man; what Long You said was all very simple, and he was already able to adjust his mindset. "Have you decided? Shall we set off?"

Zhang Lexuan was actually quite indifferent to Long You's suggestion. It was just a matter of making a trip to provide military support, which was not difficult at all. She could also take this opportunity to go out and relax.

“No rush. The academy still needs me to go to the Star Dou Great Forest. And this time, I don’t plan to use a flying soul tool. I’m going to ask Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi and the others to come along. The seven of us will travel directly by land. If I remember correctly, the next All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament is about to begin. Our team members haven’t been together for several years. This is a good opportunity to get to know each other better. However, this might take up some of Senior Sister’s time.”

Hearing Long You's words, Huo Yuhao simply agreed, but Zhang Lexuan gave Long You a meaningful look. Based on this senior sister of the inner court's understanding of Long You, there must be another purpose behind Long You bringing all seven members of the Shrek Seven Devils with him on this trip.

"It doesn't matter. My current task is to break through to the Title Douluo level, and I still have plenty of time."

At this point, the trip to the Earth Dragon Gate was finalized. Long You sent a notification message in the group chat, and everyone responded to his call. Returning leisurely to his little haven, Long You's lips curled into a subtle, enigmatic smile. He noticed Zhang Lexuan's gaze. He hadn't organized this group activity solely to give everyone practice, or rather, the short journey to the Earth Dragon Gate wasn't enough for practice. Long You wanted to drag Zhang Lexuan along to explore a secret realm.

The Douluo Continent is indeed a place where hidden talents abound, or rather, a land teeming with treasures. Beneath its seemingly peaceful surface lie numerous divine relics. These relics may not necessarily be sites of divine succession, but the fact that they still exist and form secret realms and hidden areas suggests that a powerful god-level figure made arrangements here, leaving behind clues to achieving godhood at level 100.

Long You has decided to pursue the path of creating his own divine position, so from now on, he needs to seize the opportunity to explore how to construct his own divine position.

To be honest, Long You wasn't entirely certain about this miraculous place. After all, he launched a communications satellite, not a reconnaissance satellite. The reason he was able to detect that something was wrong was actually because he used the detection soul guide device on the large aircraft while piloting it. That place was clearly part of the Hundred Thousand Mountains, a normal gathering area for soul beasts, with a relatively high concentration of soul power compared to human settlements. However, Long You discovered that the soul power concentration in that valley was significantly lower than the surrounding mountainous areas, which seemed abnormal.

Upon noticing this unusual situation, Long You's curiosity was piqued, and he controlled the large aircraft to circle at low altitude for a long time. During this time, Long You used all sorts of detection methods, and finally discovered very subtle traces of law fluctuations in that valley.

This fluctuation of law was extremely subtle, to the point that it was impossible to distinguish which law it was. However, because of the commonality of law fluctuations, the spatial law fluctuation detector in Long You's hand captured this mysterious fluctuation.

Upon sensing this fluctuation of the laws, Long You felt his heart skip a beat. According to Long You's understanding of the original story, even Limit Douluo on this Douluo Continent hadn't yet comprehended or utilized the laws. Now that such fluctuations of the laws were indeed present in this valley, it meant that the anomaly in this valley was very likely created by a god-level powerhouse.

This is interesting. For someone like Long You, who doesn't really want to achieve immortality in the God Realm through inheriting a divine position, any divine relic or ruin on the Douluo Continent is a place well worth exploring. In fact, when Long You discovered this ruin, he had already decided to explore it in depth, and he even dragged along his friends and the senior sister from the inner courtyard for a group exploration.

However, now, Long You is starting to hesitate. The reason is simple: Long You has discovered that Huo Yuhao, the chosen one of this world's destiny, is still under the watchful eye of a certain God-King, and that God-King has already begun to use his methods on Huo Yuhao.

Long You absolutely did not want to be noticed by that God-King in the God Realm. Therefore, when he used his methods to keep Huo Yuhao away from Wang Dong, he was extremely careful and dared not show any impropriety. Now that he noticed Huo Yuhao was being entangled again, he simply stopped talking about the matter altogether. The thought that a certain God-King in the God Realm might notice that he had found a divine ruin through Huo Yuhao gave Long You a real headache.

According to the solution that Long You came up with on the spot, he wanted to first go to the Earth Dragon Gate to obtain the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow, and then use the excuse that Huo Yuhao needed to seize the time to enhance his foundation or strength with the help of the treasure to directly send Huo Yuhao back to Shrek Academy for a short period of seclusion.

"What a nuisance. I already warned Huo Yuhao, but he still managed to fall for Wang Dong'er. It's unbelievable. Oh well, never mind. If Huo Yuhao doesn't get away this time, then I'll just treat this trip to the Earth Dragon Gate as a short training exercise."

Having gathered his thoughts, Long You began organizing his equipment. He also used the connection between his Martial Soul and Soul Spirit to summon his Flame Crystal Jade Tiger mother, instructing her to bring Xiao Muyang back quickly. Long You had just received a notification from the academy that they were going to the Star Dou Great Forest this afternoon. Long You planned to send Xiao Muyang to soak up the abundant life force of the Star Dou Great Forest's core area, perhaps even gaining some of its fortune?

Incidentally, Long You also planned to take Bei Bei's family's Big White back to the Star Dou Great Forest to visit relatives. If he could get some good stuff from the Emerald Swan, one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, that would be great.

In the afternoon, Long You donned a full set of Soul Guidance Mecha and experienced the speed of a Limit Douluo of the Light Holy Dragon. Although Elder Mu's current physical condition was no longer suitable for using his full strength, it had to be said that Limit Douluos were truly not the same kind of beings as ordinary Soul Masters. Thinking back to the sonic boom he heard just as Elder Mu had swept him away from Shrek Academy, Long You's expression became somewhat distorted.

In short, by the time Long You caught his breath, Elder Mu had already led him to the Star Dou Great Forest, controlling the soul-guided power mech to bow to the king of the Star Dou Great Forest before him. Although they were of different races, respect for the strong was paramount.

"Di Tian, ​​this is the academy disciple who created the Soul Spirit. He himself also possesses a Flame Crystal White Jade Tiger Soul Spirit with a cultivation level of over ten thousand years. He was allowed to observe the Soul Spirit transformation experiment on the sidelines, partly to see if there were any areas that needed improvement, and partly to answer your questions."

Of course, he also has two soul beast companions, so returning to the Star Dou Great Forest can also be considered a visit to relatives.

"Alright, come in together. When we get there, I'd like to see this child's spirit first."

You will see it.

On this point, Long You didn't need Elder Mu to elaborate further. Long You's keen spiritual sense detected a subtle hint of danger in Di Tian's eyes when Elder Mu mentioned having several soul beast companions. Long You felt it necessary to explain that before the Emperor Beast's sacrifice, the Douluo Plane's main consciousness still paid considerable attention to the Star Dou Great Forest, and Long You didn't want to offend Di Tian, ​​the Lord of the Star Dou Great Forest.

After a brief exchange, Long You followed Di Tian and Elder Mu deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest. With Di Tian leading the way, the entire Star Dou Great Forest truly felt like a safe backyard.

This safe environment greatly increased their travel speed, and in just over an hour, the Lake of Life deep within the Star Dou Great Forest came into view. Upon arriving here, the Emerald Swan, Da Bai, who had been staying in its soul-guided power mech in Longyou, couldn't help but flap its wings, wanting to go out. Although Da Bai had voluntarily left the Star Dou Great Forest with Bei Bei, nearly ten years had passed, and Da Bai truly missed its original home.

Sensing Da Bai's urgency, Long You didn't hesitate and immediately activated part of the outer armor of his soul-guided power mech. The white goose flapped its wings and circled Long You once, honking a few times at Di Tian. In his mental perception vision, Long You noticed that the white goose had rubbed a lot of black stuff on Di Tian. This black stuff caused the white goose to be avoided by other beasts when flying over the forest.

“I can feel it’s happy, kid, thank it.”

Not long after Da Bai flew away, Di Tian and Elder Mu began to descend, and Di Tian's voice entered Long You's ears.