Lakebed Situation

"Soul Grandmaster? If I remember correctly, when I first met you, Dales, you were accompanied by four Soul Grandmaster?"

Xiao Wu suddenly interrupted.

Immediately, the atmosphere inside the tent fell silent.

Zhou Qing coughed and said, "My companion's point is that we don't know if Lord Dales has brought those four Soul Grandmaster with him. If they help, it might be easier to deal with those four Soul Grandmaster level Fallen Ones, since there might be a Soul Ancestor level Fallen Ones hiding in Falling Star Slope."

"The City Lord actually has four Soul Grandmaster subordinates? How come I didn't know about this?" Norman feigned surprise and hurriedly stood up. "Soul Grandmaster level combat power naturally qualifies them to come here for discussions. Why not invite them over as well?"

Dales was speechless for a moment before he seemed to come to his senses and said somewhat hesitantly, "My four men have gone back to Star Luo City because of family matters, and they won't be back for a while."

"Going to Star Luo City? What a coincidence." Norman slowly sat down, his tone carrying a hint of sarcasm.

"Hey, Norman, I know you have a problem with me, but we're all fighting for Falling Star City now, so there's no need to Taunt me, is there?" Dales raised his glass to Norman and sighed, "My four Soul Grandmaster are like brothers to each other. If one of them is in trouble, the other three will naturally help him. How could I let them have a rift between brothers?"

"Lord City, your compassion for your subordinates is truly admirable!" Luo Xing exclaimed, steer the conversation in a direction favorable to Dales, and then raised his glass, saying, "I'd like to offer you a toast, please!"

"Please!"

Dales laughed heartily, which was also a way of retaliating against Luo Xing.

Tang San looked at Zhou Qing with a questioning gaze. "Are you just going to watch them flatter each other like this?"

Zhou Qing responded with a gesture: Let's wait and see.

Then, Zhou Qing gestured with his fingers to Xiao Wu, making a line in front of his mouth, telling her not to talk and just eat the dishes on her table.

Xiao Wu responded to Zhou Qing with a funny face, but she was obedient and didn't interrupt again. She just kept stuffing food into her mouth, and her cheeks never went down after they puffed up. The servants beside her had to add more food and rice to her bowl many times.

When Dales glanced at Zhou Qing, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, and the others who were only focused on eating, he couldn't help but feel a little contempt: children are just children after all, all they know is to eat.

In the blink of an eye, night fell.

Under Dales's arrangement, Luo Xing led a small team of twenty adventurers to detour around the lake from the left side; Norman led thirty members of his own Spirit Hall Branch to detour around the lake from the right side; together, they launched a pincer attack from both sides, searching for Falling Star Slope on the other side of the lake.

The remaining fifty or sixty people stayed behind to provide backup.

Can they succeed?

Beside the lake, Xiao Wu took off her shoes, soaked her feet in the lake water, and looked at the twinkling lights on Falling Star Slope in the distance. She then asked Zhou Qing and Tang San, who were sitting not far away.

"Under normal circumstances, the twenty adventurers led by Luo Xing, whose Soul Power was all above level fifteen, would be enough to wipe out all the bandits in Falling Star Slope."

Zhou Qing answered, but his attention was focused on the undulating mountains and hillsides in the distance.

Then, he looked at the lake again and connected the two. He realized that if the lake were drained, it would really look like a crater made by a meteorite impact. After all, only the Falling Star Slope on the other side of the lake was undulating, while the side they were on was relatively flat, and the two sides of the lake undulated slightly outward.

Then he suddenly asked Romantina, "Speaking of which, is the legend of Falling Star Slope true? Is it really true that a meteorite hit the ground in the past, compressing the rock layers and causing Falling Star Slope to appear?"

"Ah?"

Romantina was taken aback by Zhou Qing's sudden question, but then said, "I think so. But if you're asking for evidence, no one can tell us, since nobody knows how many years ago the meteorite fell."

"What's wrong?" Tang San scanned the lake and then looked at the surrounding terrain, nodding unconsciously. "Qing Ge, do you think this lake is a crater created by a meteorite? It does look like an enlarged version of the crater left by a pebble after it hit a sticky mud pit."

"And--"

Tang San paused, his eyes gleaming with purple light, as he carefully examined the fold-like hillsides and mountains across the lake, and sighed, "This is the true power to move mountains and fill seas!"

Romantina exclaimed in amazement, "Does Titled Douluo possess such power? Compressing the thick earth as if it were skin?"

"Definitely not."

The one who answered was Xiao Wu.

Just how powerful are Titled Douluo?

I don't know.

However, Xiao Wu knew the strength of the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape very well. Even the Titan Giant Ape, which possessed the Power of the Earth, could not have achieved such a terrifying level.

This is the power of nature!

Zhou Qing remained noncommittal, and rather than discussing just how strong Titled Douluo really is, perhaps it would be better to consider. "Do you think that after the meteorite fell from the sky, did the people of that time investigate its purpose after it cooled down?"

"Meteorite Iron!?"

Tang San was the first to react, his eyes lighting up.

The manufacture of Soul Tool Hidden Weapon and Soul Tool requires a large amount of materials, even rare metals. If Meteorite Iron exists beneath this active place, the Soul Conductor Godly Zhuge Crossbow can be improved again, and a brand new Hidden Weapon can be manufactured: Torrential Rain Pear Blossom Needle!

The manufacturing conditions for the Tang Sect's Torrential Rain Pear Blossom Needle are extremely demanding. Not to mention that the final step requires Blood Qi Enlightenment, more importantly, the materials required must be Deep Sea Silver, or even Silver Mother.

So-called Deep Sea Silver is actually silver, but this kind of silver is different from ordinary silver. It has been squeezed by the pressure of the deep sea for tens of thousands of years, making it more durable than ordinary silver and even giving it some unique properties.

but--

On that Soul Guidance Crystal, there was a Soul Tool Core Formation that Tang San tested and found could enhance the strength and hardness of metals. If it could be used on Meteorite Iron, it might be able to replace Deep Sea Silver, a metal that is almost impossible to find.

Romantina answered Zhou Qing's question, "I don't think anyone has gone to investigate, right? After all, there's a legend in Falling Star City about this lake: after the meteorite fell, a fierce wind blew and it rained for three days and three nights, filling the crater completely..."

rain?

Zhou Qing thought of the border area between Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empire, which was mostly hills and basins, so—

The air close to the ground is rapidly heated by the meteorite, causing it to expand and rise, while the cold air above and around it contracts and sinks, creating strong convective winds.

When a large amount of hot air rises to a certain height, the water vapor in the air condenses into clouds and fog due to the decrease in temperature. In addition, the large amount of smoke and dust generated by meteorite impacts rises into the sky with the air, providing ideal condensation conditions for water vapor, thus accelerating the condensation of water vapor.

Therefore, after the meteorite fell, strong winds and torrential rains directly flooded the crater created by the meteorite impact.

"Romantina, use your Soul Skill... never mind, Brother Sky Dream, you do it. Romantina's Spiritual Power is too low to cover the entire lake." Zhou Qing rubbed his temples, recalling the geographical knowledge he had learned in his previous life, and instructed Romantina to explore, but he changed his mind halfway through his sentence and asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm to come out.

In an instant, Romantina's increasingly lewd expression turned serious.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm has possessed me!

"Watch out for me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the pure white Soul Ring flashed, and Zhou Qing and the others felt a blur before their eyes, and the entire lake appeared before them.

Amidst the black and white ripples, various kinds of fish and shrimp swam about, and some of the larger fish with degenerated eyes even emitted a slight fluctuation of Soul Power.

He actually became Soul Beast!

However, they are all only Ten-Year...