Douluo: The Peerless Sun and Moon Mechanical God

Chapter 50 The Source of Metal and the Prototype of the Soul Core, A Redemption Through Vertical Descending (4K)

"The black guy is still the same black guy."

He blasted Wang Shaojie to pieces with a single shot to the head, and, who hated people who apologized afterward, put away the Dragon Devourer and continued to use the milk bottle to recover his soul power.

During the half-year study and life in the Red Dust Class, Wang Shaojie honestly suppressed his negative emotions. Lin Qing thought that his friend had grasped the principle that those who know when to yield are the wise ones. However, it turns out that old habits die hard, and he exploded under pressure.

The level 5 milk bottle cannot fully replenish the abundant soul power of the ultimate martial soul. The mechanical element devours the inexhaustible gold element like a silver black hole, increasing the master's recovery speed.

Jingyang Mountain Range is a paradise for metal-attribute soul beasts and a realm where the ultimate metal element thrives. Tonight, the mountain range is unusually active, with the metal element being more concentrated than usual.

Moreover, a faint indigo sheen emanated from beneath Lin Qing's clothes on his chest, as his level-nine soul tool, Azure Sky Moon, rapidly absorbed the moon's essence.

Now that the night is halfway over, the Moon Protection Shield has not had time to return to its full moon form. Lin Qing would be grateful for the Moon Goddess's gift if it reached half a moon.

Lin Qing gave the Azure Moon's defense a high five-star rating. The Moon's shield was as solid as a rock, steadily blocking the relentless bombardment summoned by the Silver Lion leader and all the Silver Lions.

The subsequent Dragon Gland Thermonuclear Cannon caused heavy casualties among the Silver Lions, giving everyone a chance to activate their flight soul tools and escape.

At this moment, the Silver Lions, who were skilled in long-range attacks, suffered heavy casualties, while the Golden Lions were nothing more than a bunch of dumbards who specialized in close combat. The pride was unable to organize a powerful ground-to-air bombardment.

As long as Zheng Zhan keeps the 100,000-year-old Golden Sword Lion King occupied, Lin Qing can easily retreat from the Jingyang Mountains without having to bother Eli Jings.

Ju Ke and Lin Qing were two clever and quick-witted girls. They understood that they had to rack their brains to escape from the Jingyang Mountains. Lin Qing put down the level 5 milk bottle that had run out of energy, replenished his soul power, cleaned up all traces, and then deployed the flying soul tool on his back, flying at low altitude along the flow of gold elements.

The gold element never stirs up trouble for no reason. The gold elements in the entire Jingyang Mountain Range are frantically gathering in one place, like countless streams winding and flowing, converging towards the same destination.

The Golden Sword Lion King led his clan from Jingyang Peak in the central region to this branch, presumably because they had encountered a treasure that would greatly benefit them.

Everyone here is of the metal element, and Lin Qing also covets the Golden Sword, a treasure that the Lion King has been eyeing for a long time.

With the Unbreakable Douluo holding back the Golden Sword Lion King, he could confidently take risks and seize the opportunity before the gold-attribute treasure was born and attracted any distant gold-attribute soul beasts!

Lin Qing remained calm and collected. If he could win, he would fight; if he couldn't, he would run away; if he couldn't run away, he would just stand there with his hands shrugged and shout, "Old Yi, save me!"

On the Douluo Continent, no one surpasses the extreme metal's sensitivity to metal. Smelling the familiar cold and hard scent of metal, the silvery-white light shuttles through the mountains and forests and rock walls. Along the way, there are occasional cries of soul beasts, but they can't catch up with the speed of the light.

"Hoichi"

The Platinum Jade Crystal vein echoed with roars. The pure, natural, and pollution-free Platinum Jade Crystal contains various metallic energies and is a rare metal favored by many metal-attribute soul beasts.

Consuming platinum jade crystals over many years can accelerate cultivation, and soul beasts have a small chance of mutating and gaining a special ability called jadeification.

Golden tigers, golden pythons, golden bears—each a different soul beast, with soul rings floating and rising into the sky, signifying that these soul beasts have lost their lives, yet their bodies have become smooth and jade-like, and their movements retain the attack postures they had before death.

The Thirty Thousand Year Jade Wolf King raised its paw and smashed a jade-transformed golden lion. Its beastly eyes shone with a bright, restless anxiety. The platinum jade crystal mine was entering its final energy-gathering stage. In just a few hours, the metal source would be born.

Every tens of thousands of years, the fertile veins of the Jingyang Mountains will give birth to a metal source, which mostly appears on Jingyang Peak and rarely flows to the branch veins.

For metal-type soul beasts, the metal source has the magical effect of cleansing the marrow and can become the first soul core that a soul beast must have to break through 100,000 years.

The quality of soul beasts living in the Jingyang Mountains is limited, and a 100,000-year-old soul beast is enough to rule the world.

Legend has it that the Golden Sword Lion King once absorbed a metal source, which allowed him to complete his bloodline transformation, grow those iconic saber teeth at the corners of his mouth, and then smoothly break through the 100,000-year bottleneck!

The Golden Lion was a scout sent by the pride to find the source of the metal. The Jade Wolf King knew this perfectly well, and the Golden Sword Lion King was sure to be on his way. However, he still resolutely chose to kill the Golden Lion to buy time, and led the wolf pack to stand ready.

The Jade Wolf King admitted that there was an element of gambling involved, which is the allure of all-in poker.

The wolf pack gambled that the metal source would arrive before the Golden Sword Lion King, at which time the Jade Wolf King would have the potential to break through 100,000 years of cultivation. At worst, they could temporarily avoid the limelight and leave the Jingyang Mountains.

For thirty thousand years, the wolf has roamed south and north of the mountain. It awaits the evolution into a hundred-thousand-year-old Platinum Jade Wolf King, before leading the wolf clan back in glory. The Platinum Jade Wolf King will shatter the proud lion's heart of the Golden Sword Lion King, and the wolf clan will replace the lion clan as the new overlord of the Jingyang Mountains!

The glorious beginning of everything was a once-in-a-millennium metal source!

The Jade Wolf King's eyes burned with fervor as he stared intently at the dazzling ball of light emerging from the depths of the mine. His golden and silver wolves held their breath, waiting with their leader for the moment when the metal source would appear out of nowhere!

"boom--"

As if sensing the wolves' sincere prayers, the Platinum Crystal Mine roared violently.

The mineral energy surged into the metal source like rivers flowing into the sea, and a dazzling ball of light, shimmering with a white-gold hue, burst forth from the earth. Its exquisite jade-like color swayed in the wind, captivating the soul under the dawn sky!

Metal source, platinum and jade crystal essence.

The wolf pack howled excitedly to the sky. The wise wolf king had won his gamble. The Golden Sword Lion King did not come to seize the Platinum Jade Crystal. Once the 100,000-year-old Platinum Jade Wolf King took control of the wolf pack, the lion clan's dominant position would be in jeopardy!

The Jade Wolf King trembled with excitement. The 100,000-year-old realm he had longed for was no longer a dream. After consuming the Platinum Jade Crystal Soul, he only needed to cultivate step by step from now on and directly ascend to the 100,000-year-old soul beast!

With its jaws wide open, the Jade Wolf King unleashed a powerful suction from deep within its throat. However, things did not go as smoothly as the Jade Wolf King had anticipated. The Platinum Jade Crystal Soul seemed to have developed sentience, swaying and resisting the wolf king.

The next second, a wisp of silver-white elemental material transformed into a large hand and grabbed at it. The Platinum Jade Crystal Soul was unusually docile, willingly throwing itself into its palm and nuzzling against it with a touch of affection.

"Huh!?"

The wailing was heart-wrenching. The Jade Wolf King's pupils reflected the image of the silver-white hand and the platinum jade crystal intimately embracing. His heart felt as if it had been pierced a thousand times by the Golden Lion King's crushing claws.

The wolf pack is the owner of the Platinum Jade Crystal Mine. The Jade Wolf King has been feeding on Platinum Jade Crystals for generations. After finally obtaining the Platinum Jade Crystal Soul, he abandoned the wolf clan and chose a strange creature when faced with a choice between two options!

"It's better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early."

The mechanical element enveloped the Platinum Jade Crystal Soul. As the master of metal, Lin Qing clearly sensed the joy of the metal source. Neither the Golden Sword Lion King nor the Jade Wolf King were the right people the Platinum Jade Crystal Soul longed for. The ultimate metal fusion was the final destination for this life!

The cooked duck flew away, following in the footsteps of the Silver Lion leader. The Jade Wolf King's blood pressure soared instantly, and Hong Wen became the Blood Wolf King.

The wolf pack roared furiously at Lin Qing. The silver wolves, whose abilities were similar to those of the silver lions, launched six-element missiles. Even if the metal source was unwilling to submit to the jade wolf king, they were determined to force him!

Glaring at Lin Qing, who was maneuvering the flying soul tool left and right, the Jade Wolf King was furious. The human's interference was an insult, and even worse was the Golden Sword Lion King's forceful seizure of his power. Soul masters were a thousand times more evil than lions!

With its limbs slamming into the ground, the explosive shockwave shattered the jade-like metallic soul beast. Enraged, the Jade Wolf King took to the air. Its mutated bloodline made it the only wolf in the pack capable of flight. It unleashed the Jade Crystal Vortex with all its might, determined to bring Lin Qing to the same fate as the Golden Lion!

The steel mechanical domain enveloped the sky, and the Jade Wolf King, at its core, was still a metal-attribute soul beast, unable to escape the superior suppression of the ultimate metal.

The power of the jade crystal vortex was reduced by half. Suddenly, the Jade Wolf King saw Lin Qing holding a gray longsword in his right hand, the cross-shaped hilt flashing with a cold, eerie light.

Martial Soul Switch: Underworld Emperor Sword.

The Underworld Emperor's Sword slashed down, its sword energy transforming into a fleeting gray line that swept past the distorted jade crystal vortex. The jade crystal vanished in an instant, and a dazzling yet icy gray crystal flower bloomed in the sky at dawn.

Before the Jade Wolf King could escape the suppression of the mechanical element, it was attacked head-on by the sword energy of the underworld artifact, which could kill in one blow. The first generation wolf king was just like a helpless husky, whimpering as if begging for mercy, but the gray sword energy had no mercy. The wolf king's body began to be covered by death crystals!

He is to be executed!

The Lord of the Underworld bestows death, and the Underworld Emperor's Sword devours the life of the 30,000-year-old Jade Wolf King, advancing the sword's development once again.

With the wolf king dead, the wolf pack scattered and fled in all directions, fearing they would become food for the Underworld Emperor's Sword. Lin Qing, too lazy to pursue the wolf pack whose highest cultivation level was just over ten thousand years, instead fused with the Platinum Jade Crystal Soul.

Unable to resist, the metal source flowed smoothly into Lin Qing's body, settling in his chest and dantian, where it slowly rotated, subtly nourishing his limbs, bones, blood vessels, and meridians.

"Soul Core Prototype —" Lin Qing murmured to himself.

A soul core is a prerequisite for breaking through to the Title Douluo level. His ability to condense the prototype of a soul core at level 49 is unprecedented. The Platinum Jade Crystal Soul helped him overcome most of the obstacles to the ultimate gold soul core, and he is only one step away from condensing the true first soul core!

Condensing the first soul core early has its advantages. Before breaking through to the level 90 Title Douluo, Lin Qing needs to develop the second soul core that he was only trying to challenge at the Limit Douluo level. The advantage is that it accelerates the cultivation speed of a soul master.

As everyone knows, the cultivation speed of the ultimate martial spirit from level 30 to 70 is as slow as a tortoise crawl. Although Lin Qing has almost passed the level 20 hurdle, the cultivation difficulty from level 50 to 7000 is incomparable to the previous stage.

In the past, under the full-fledged training of Shrek Academy, it took ten and twenty long years respectively for the two hurdles to reach the ultimate Soul Master realm. Huo Yuhao broke through two realms in just a few years, which was due to the combined effects of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Jade Marrow Bed, the Extreme Cold Ice Spring, and the sacrifice of the Emperor Beast Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

Even the most precious gold wouldn't receive such a blessed treatment. Despite the support of the Metal World and the Gold-Eating Beast, which helped Lin Qing save cultivation time, the gap between level 50 and level 70 was still insurmountable. Condensing the first soul core was more beneficial than anything else, and getting through the developmental period was a priority over other factors.

The wolves scattered like birds and beasts. Seeing that no one was around to disturb him, Lin Qing swung the Underworld Emperor Sword and took out a large lump of platinum jade crystals to fill his storage soul tool.

This rare metal is highly valuable and is an excellent raw material for making soul tools and for cultivation.

He heard from Xiaomeng that Jing Hongchen, an old man from Mingdu, liked to play with metal walnuts. The gift for his first visit to the Hongchen family's ancestral home was just right: a pair of the Ultimate Gold Sublimation Platinum Jade Crystal Walnuts!

"It's about time to retreat. Hopefully, the Unbreakable Douluo can hold off the Golden Sword Lion King, and that Orange and Keke can leave the Jingyang Mountains safely."

The outer perimeter of the Jingyang Mountains.

The lion pride, in groups of three or five, searched the mountains and fields for human soul masters. As their roars resounded in all directions, the pride received the message and began to gather.

Orange and Coco stood on a cliff face in a mountain range, with a group of golden lion corpses lying haphazardly in front of them.

The two women were in a rather disheveled state. Ju Zi's delicate face was ashen, and she was clutching an orange-shaped high-explosive soul-guided bomb. Ke Ke was kneeling on one knee, clutching her lower abdomen, gasping for breath.

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During their escape, their flying soul tool was unfortunately shot down by the silver lions. With their plane crashed, they had no choice but to fight a desperate battle. The outcome of this battle was already decided, and their soul power was dwindling. The lion pride was coming from all directions.

"Sister Orange, do you think we can escape from the Jingyang Mountains?" Keke struggled to carry a heavy cannon.

"It's a bit difficult." Orange pursed her lips slightly.

"If we manage to get out of here alive, then... you can come with me later. First, I'll blast that bastard Wang Shaojie to smithereens for daring to trick us!"

Keke swore an oath, and the petite and lovely girl was turned into a mischievous thunderbolt!

"Watch out, the lion pride is coming!"

Just as Orange finished speaking, two groups of lions burst into view from the left and right.

The two women's delicate bodies suddenly tensed up. The lions that came this time were not just ordinary golden and silver lions. The leaders were two saber-toothed lions: a ten-thousand-year-old purple-gold saber lion and a ten-thousand-year-old white-silver saber lion!

The saber teeth are a symbol of the evolution of the Golden Sword Lion King's bloodline, and these two lions have clearly inherited the Lion King's bloodline!

The Purple Gold Sword Lion and the Silver Sword Lion lowered their bodies, leading more than ten gold and silver lions to surround the two in a semi-circle. The two quasi-Soul Kings, having exhausted all their tricks, gritted their teeth and couldn't help but look at the cliff with their beautiful eyes.

Ju Zi gripped the bright yellow high-explosive bomb, a hint of regret flashing in her eyes for not being able to avenge her great grudge. She had failed to kill Duke White Tiger and avenge herself.

Thankfully, she tasted her mother's cooking tonight, something she hadn't experienced in a long time—not very tasty, but undeniably comforting. She prayed that the guy with the same culinary skills as her mother was safe.

The two ancient saber-toothed lions could no longer suppress their bloodlust. They licked their fangs with their scarlet tongues. The two women stood back to back, ready to detonate their soul-guided devices. They were determined to kill a few lions, even if it meant their own death!

"Boom!"

A deafening sonic boom suddenly resounded in the sky, and the pride of lions and the two women instinctively looked up.

A silver meteor fell straight down, the burning mechanical elements turning into brilliant molten gold, resembling a flowing golden spring in the morning light. Orange and Coco held their breath, their pretty faces beaming with immense joy!

The king descended from heaven, and Chuizhen descended to redeem him!