Chapter 38: Searching For The Ice And Fire Yin Yang Eyes
The most troublesome part of soul hunting has never been hunting soul beasts, but finding soul beasts of the right type and age.
In less than three hours, the group successfully found the target, with terrifyingly high efficiency.
The first boss spent a few hours and successfully absorbed a soul ring, becoming a Soul King.
Meng Huaifeng repeated his old trick, and in just two days, he completed the hire and obtained ten thousand Golden Soul Coins.
Dan Heng carefully observed the process of the soul ring’s formation and the changes in the three bosses’ martial spirits after absorbing the soul rings, planning to record all of this in the Knowledge Base after returning to the train.
After sending the three bosses back on their own, March 7th complained a bit: “Your Art of Heavenly Inquiry is indeed convenient, but the process has no fun at all—either rushing on the road or absorbing soul rings. Too boring.”
“Exactly, we couldn’t even properly explore if there were any treasure chests along the way.” Star was also a bit dissatisfied; rushing all the way, Star felt he had missed a lot of things.
“How could there possibly be a treasure chest here?” Meng Huaifeng was amused, this wasn’t a game after all.
Star smashed the bushes ahead with his baseball bat, and with a ‘clatter,’ something rolled out.
“What’s this?” Star picked it up in surprise and ran back like offering a treasure, asking.
“This seems to be… a soul bone?” Zhu Zhuqing said in disbelief.
Meng Huaifeng’s expression stiffened; there was no treasure chest, but he didn’t expect there to really be a treasure.
Compared to the number of soul beasts hunted by humans, more soul beasts died from fighting among themselves, so it wasn’t impossible for there to be a few soul bones formed after soul beasts died in the wild.
“See? I told you there was.” Star smugly raised his eyebrows at Meng Huaifeng, but then his expression turned ugly again: “Damn it! How many treasures did I miss these past two days? It’s all your fault.”
“Alright, alright, it’s my fault, my fault. Next time, I won’t use the Art of Heavenly Inquiry, okay?” Meng Huaifeng made a surrendering gesture, inwardly rolling his eyes—picking up a soul bone was sheer luck, did he really think they were like cabbages to pick casually?
“The result of pioneering is important, but the process of pioneering is equally important. Getting the answer directly loses the meaning and happiness of pioneering. You should indeed use this soul skill less, but don’t hesitate when you need to use it.” Dan Heng patted Meng Huaifeng’s shoulder.
“Mm, I understand.” Meng Huaifeng nodded.
“Dan Heng, take a look at this soul bone. Can you tell what it’s for?” Star handed the soul bone to Dan Heng and asked expectantly.
The ever-reliable Teacher Dan Heng never disappointed; after studying it, Dan Heng concluded: “This soul bone contains an energy circuit, similar to the energy circuit of a soul skill in a soul ring. This thing can completely be regarded as an exoskeleton armor that fuses into the body, which improves combat power.”
“However, like exoskeleton armor, once strength reaches a certain degree, it’s basically useless. It also has a drawback: once fused, it’s very difficult to replace. Not recommended for use.”
Though he said that, it was because the train crew had hidden dragons and crouching tigers, all not simple, so their vision was naturally higher.
For ordinary pathfinders, this thing was still very useful; at least, after fusing the soul bone and then wearing a set of exoskeleton armor, wouldn’t it be much stronger than just wearing exoskeleton armor?
Star immediately lost interest.
“This is a specialty of Douluo Star; there’s no such thing in the universe. Herta will surely be very interested. When we get back, hand it to Herta, and she should give you a nice reward.” Dan Heng changed his tone.
Star immediately cheered up again, putting the soul bone into the Ticket Space like a precious treasure, like a kid.
“What do we do next?” March 7th asked.
“How about we go find the legendary Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes?” Meng Huaifeng suggested.
“Hey, Huai Feng, you’re not thinking of taking all those immortal herbs, are you? We may not like that Tang San, but the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes currently has an owner. We can’t do things like forcibly seizing.” March 7th reminded.
“Don’t worry, I’m not that kind of person. I just heard that Poison Douluo has long been tormented by toxins and want to go help him. Isn’t it reasonable to take a few immortal herbs as reward? Plus, tell him what his flowers and grasses are for, so he doesn’t get fooled by villains.” Meng Huaifeng said with narrowed eyes.
“That works.” March 7th nodded in approval.
Meng Huaifeng instinctively wanted to use the Art of Heavenly Inquiry to find the location of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, but thinking that the process of searching was also part of the meaning of pioneering, he gave up the idea.
There were no soul beasts in Sunset Forest that could threaten the five; the five could rampage freely in Sunset Forest.
The five observed the living habits of various soul beasts, occasionally challenged soul beasts one-on-one to gain combat experience, forced majestic and mighty soul beasts to serve as mounts, and treated some small cute soul beasts as pets.
Star lived up to the name of pioneer, occasionally picking up relics of soul masters who died in Sunset Forest, unclaimed soul tools, wild soul bones.
Meng Huaifeng also imitated Star in carefully observing the surroundings, but picked up nothing, making Meng Huaifeng suspect if Star had a system, like a trash-picking system?
The pioneer squad witnessed the magnificent scenery of nature—waterfalls and cliffs—and also the law of the jungle in the natural world, fierce beasts hunting.
In a flash, more than ten days passed; just as Meng Huaifeng was getting a bit unable to resist using the Art of Heavenly Inquiry, they finally found a valley shrouded in poisonous mist.
“If there’s no accident, this is the poisonous mist set by Dugu Bo; the center of the poisonous mist is the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.” Meng Huaifeng said joyfully.
“Wow, we finally found it. It wasn’t easy.” March 7th sighed.
“Wow, we finally found it. It wasn’t easy.” Star repeated.
“Why are you acting up again, repeater? I thought you were cured.” March 7th rolled her eyes at Star.
“Ever-reliable Teacher Dan Heng, how do we get in?” Meng Huaifeng looked at Dan Heng.
Dan Heng, March 7th, and Star could definitely ignore this poisonous mist; he wasn’t sure about himself, but Zhu Zhuqing definitely couldn’t withstand it.
“Let’s first see if the owner of this place is in.” Dan Heng said.
Meng Huaifeng nodded and shouted into the poisonous mist: “Is Senior Poison Douluo here? The train crew has come to visit!”
To ensure Dugu Bo heard, Meng Huaifeng shouted two more times.
There was no movement in the poisonous mist; after more than ten breaths, the poisonous mist finally churned, and a slender figure in a gray robe with ink-green hair flew out from it.
“Is Senior Poison Douluo Dugu Bo Your Excellency?” Meng Huaifeng clasped his fists.
“Who are you? How do you know this old man is here?” Dugu Bo’s expression was unfriendly as he asked vigilantly.
Knowing he was Poison Douluo yet daring to come find him—was it a well-prepared trap, or brainless fools?
The group saw Dugu Bo’s face clearly: expressionless, or rather, his facial expression completely stiff; cheeks deeply sunken, head of messy green hair, a pair of eyes shining like green gems.
