Douluo: Legend of the Dragon King - The Voice of the Purple Emperor

Chapter 30 Bizarre Stories

"Why don't you kill me?" The biting cold around them had dissipated, and Gu You and the Ice Emperor Scorpion stared at each other.

"Hmm... I don't know. The aura around you feels very strange to me, and you're definitely not one of those people."

The aura is strange? It seems that there are still many secrets about my martial soul. "Who are they? How exactly were you captured?" Gu You wondered. A talking soul beast with very high intelligence and considerable strength could actually be captured alive.

"It's a long story. First, could you please turn off that wretched sphere for me? It's suppressing my cultivation." The Ice Emperor Scorpion pointed with its pincers at a frozen box.

Looking into the box, Gu You saw a sphere at its center, radiating a strange glow and surrounded by ice. "No, what if you recover your cultivation and try to kill me?"

"Damn humans, we soul beasts are much more trustworthy than you humans."

"You soul beasts are far more cunning than we humans."

"You...you! You're driving me crazy!" The Ice Emperor Scorpion walked back and forth in this cramped space.

"It's not like I'm not going to help you, just answer my two questions first." Gu You found this scorpion quite interesting.

"real?"

"nonsense!"

"Alright! I am originally from the Ice Emperor Scorpion clan, and I possess the royal bloodline, giving me a birthright among beasts. However, I was rather playful when I was young..."

"Wait a minute, what else is there to do in that desolate land of the far north besides ice and snow?" Gu You asked curiously, feeling that the Ice Emperor Scorpion in front of him was like a child.

"Huh? Just wandering around, sometimes using my pliers to cut ice blocks, or as you humans would say, carving." The Ice Emperor Scorpion poked its two pincers together.

"What? You can carve? There are artists among soul beasts?!" Gu You paused, his cerebellum shrinking. What he had seen and heard today had indeed overturned his impression of soul beasts.

"Am I an artist? That's good. I liked to run around when I was a kid, and for about four thousand years, I haven't really cultivated myself much..."

Four thousand years?!

Ancient travel is just ridiculously long-lived, which is really good.

"After I got tired of playing, I started cultivating. With the ultimate ice and king-level bloodline, I reached a cultivation level of 50,000 years in just three thousand years. Then I fell into a deep sleep. After a few thousand more years, I woke up with a cultivation level of 60,000 years, and there was more..."

"Stop! Stop! Stop this nested doll-like approach, let's get to the point." Gu You quickly stopped the Ice Emperor Scorpion.

"...That day, I had nearly 100,000 years of cultivation, but my total age was only 10,000. At that time, an elder of my clan, a royal-level being, told me that soul beasts must undergo tribulation every 100,000 years of cultivation. My physical body was weak, and it would be difficult for me to even pass the first tribulation. After that, I heard a legend of my clan, the story of the Ice Emperor, one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, who followed a human boy to become a god. I was very naive at the time. Then, when the tribulation was about to come, I left the inner region of the far north and came to the outskirts of your human activities. At that time, it was really too late. Then I met a woman. She was very powerful. She was shocked when she saw me. At that time, I even boasted a bit, saying that I wanted to be her soul spirit. And then...and then..."

"And then what happened?" Gu You was listening intently.

"She showed me nine spirit rings and tried to hit me, but I didn't hit her back." Ice Emperor Scorpion cried in grievance.

Nine spirit rings! Gu You pondered, "If that's the case, wouldn't there be a nine-ring evil spirit master here? What's the point of running away then?"

"Later, she beat me so badly that I was covered in bruises. She used a special device to restrain me here, the one I told you about. And her aura was really disgusting to me. Anyway, I didn't like it. Sometimes she would bring me some food, which was actually quite nice."

"This is outrageous! What the hell is this plot?" Gu You joked. "You seem to be living a pretty comfortable life."

"This life is terrible, this place is too small, I want to go home, I've already told you, can you let me go now?" The Ice Emperor Scorpion rolled on the ground.

"So you don't want to leave if there's any place even slightly bigger?" Gu You patted his head speechlessly. Just as he was about to look at what the suppression equipment was, he suddenly remembered something. "Didn't you say that your great calamity of ten thousand years was coming?"

Ice Emperor Scorpion was taken aback. Oh, right. She remembered that when she left the far north, there were already signs of a heavenly tribulation. But why hadn't it descended after so long? She was quite clever. She stared blankly at the device suppressing her. Could it be because of this?

"What should I do? I don't want to die, I want to leave here." Ice Emperor Scorpion sat down without any sense of incongruity, covered his eyes and cried.

"Uh, didn't you say you wanted to become a spirit? Can't I do it?" Gu You planned to abduct this silly Ice Emperor Scorpion.

"You?" The Ice Emperor Scorpion King sized Gu You up and down. "Your soul power is so low, as weak as shit!! What soul spirit would want you?"

I rely on!

"How am I weak? I could take on ten of those punks by myself," Gu You said, dissatisfied.

"Then how can you withstand my spirit ring? I have nearly 100,000 years of cultivation, and I can also sense that your cultivation level is not high enough to absorb more spirit rings." The Ice Emperor Scorpion jumped and came in front of Gu You.

"It's simple, just force me to level up five times. My mental strength is strong enough." Gu You took out the milk bottle, and a huge surge of soul power emanated from it.

"Forced breakthrough will affect your future development," Ice Emperor Scorpion warned.

"My talent is unparalleled throughout history, so what do I have to fear in the future? If there are no setbacks, wouldn't it be too easy?" Gu You said disdainfully.

"Can you become a god?" Ice Emperor Scorpion asked the fatal question.

Gu You almost fainted. Become a god? Logically speaking, that's impossible, since the God Realm has been swept away by the spacetime turbulence, making it impossible to become a god.

"I think it's possible. Think about it, the person chosen by the Hyotei Academy had less than one ten-thousandth of my talent, and he still became a god, so why can't I?" Gu You said, indicating that he was absolutely sure he could do it.

"Hmm... alright, I think you're the only one suitable." Ice Emperor Scorpion agreed.

"What do you mean 'I'm suitable for you'? So you've actually picked someone!" Gu You cursed a few times, then began to meditate. A massive amount of soul power surged from the milk bottle, rushing straight into Gu You's body.

26!

Even the Ice Emperor Scorpion was shocked by the density of soul power in the air. What was that little bottle? It was amazing that it could release so much soul power.

Having stored up the soul power of a Soul Douluo-level being, Gu You planned to forcibly integrate it into his own body to break through level 30!

His bones groaned, and Gu You gritted his teeth, his whole body trembling.

This little bit of pain... is nothing!

27!

28!

29...

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