Brief Time Travel (6)

By this time, Liu Erlong and Zhao Xiaotian had successfully reached the central region of the Star Dou Great Forest. Ten-thousand-year soul beasts were already active in this area.

Thus, the two of them were exceptionally wary of every rustle in the wind and grass. This caused Liu Erlong to press close against Zhao Xiaotian. Although Zhao Xiaotian did not mind, having her body pressed against his still stirred some physiological reactions.

Night soon fell, and Zhao Xiaotian and Liu Erlong found a relatively flat spot to pitch their tent. The surrounding environment was so gloomy and terrifying that they could not sleep in separate tents.

After dinner, Zhao Xiaotian naturally volunteered to take on the heavy responsibility of keeping watch. Even after Liu Erlong entered the tent, she did not lower her guard. To prevent Zhao Xiaotian from encountering danger while keeping watch alone, she released her Soul Power to help him observe the surroundings.

That way, Zhao Xiaotian would not be left without assistance if he encountered a powerful soul beast. As the night gradually deepened, Zhao Xiaotian scattered realgar powder around the camp. He then dug a hole and buried the leftover food. Finally, after smothering the bonfire with dirt, Zhao Xiaotian leaped onto a tree branch and released his Soul Power to observe the area.

Meanwhile, Flender and Yu Xiaogang were in the outer area of the central region. The main reason was Yu Xiaogang's weak Soul Power. If Yu Xiaogang's Soul Power had not been so weak, Flender would not still be roaming the outer central region despite being a Soul Emperor.

Although Flender, with his Soul Emperor cultivation, did not need to keep watch in the outer central region, he had brought along the useless Yu Xiaogang. With Yu Xiaogang's twenty-ninth-level Soul Grandmaster cultivation, he was not even a match for a hundred-year soul beast.

So Flender still had to keep watch. If Yu Xiaogang were not so useless, he, Flender, would not have to stay up every night. Would it not be better to get a full night's sleep every day?

Time flew by, and the night passed just like that. Liu Erlong slept very comfortably that night, unlike when she had traveled together with Flender and Yu Xiaogang.

Perhaps Zhao Xiaotian keeping watch made her feel especially safe! Still, Zhao Xiaotian had not slept all night. Who knew whether that would cause any problems?

In the morning, Liu Erlong woke up in the tent. Looking up, she saw Zhao Xiaotian asleep on a tree branch, leaning against the trunk. Rather than blame him for falling asleep while keeping watch, Liu Erlong carefully covered him with a blanket.

In truth, Zhao Xiaotian had only leaned against the tree and pretended to sleep after noticing that Liu Erlong had awakened. He had not slacked off and fallen asleep during his watch. As the Holy Son of Spirit Hall, he would not make such a low-level mistake.

At this time, Zhao Xiaotian only had two days left in this timeline. After two days, he would leave this timeline and return to the original one.

Although Zhao Xiaotian felt that this time was not bad, when he thought of Yu Xiaogang calling himself Spirit Hall's foremost theorist, he found it rather puzzling. He decided that after returning to the original timeline, he would investigate Yu Xiaogang's identity.

Soon, it was noon. Zhao Xiaotian woke from his sleep and immediately saw Liu Erlong clumsily cooking mushroom soup.

Zhao Xiaotian folded the blanket and put it into his Soul Tool before walking over. The moment he saw the mushrooms in the pot, his expression changed. The mushrooms had purple caps with white stalks, along with white stalks covered in red spots.

Seeing that Liu Erlong was about to ladle him a bowl, Zhao Xiaotian quickly stopped her. He asked, "Erlong, have you cooked before?"

Hearing this, Liu Erlong shook her head and said innocently, "No! But I watched my mother make mushroom soup before, so I cooked this pot of soup."

"Then look carefully. Are the mushrooms in this pot the same as the ones your mother used?"

Liu Erlong looked at the mushroom soup in the pot and immediately became embarrassed. Although she did not know how to cook soup, she still knew that these mushrooms were poisonous. She had only wanted Zhao Xiaotian to have a hot bowl of mushroom soup when he woke up, so she had not paid any attention to what the mushrooms looked like.

Seeing Liu Erlong's embarrassed expression, Zhao Xiaotian picked up the pot of soup, casually dug a hole, and poured it in. Although Liu Erlong was somewhat reluctant to waste the food, she understood that the soup could not be drunk.

After throwing away the pot as well, Zhao Xiaotian caught several fish from a nearby stream. Upon returning to camp, he lit a fire and grilled the fish. After skillfully brushing them with oil and sprinkling them with cumin and chili powder, the fish were ready.

The fragrance made Liu Erlong drool. She immediately walked over, took a grilled fish, and began eating. Zhao Xiaotian shook his head helplessly, then picked up a grilled fish and ate as well.

Before long, the two had eaten and drunk their fill, preparing to begin their official training. In the forest, Liu Erlong displayed the advantages of her martial soul, pinning several Thousand Year soul beasts to the ground and beating them up.

Although every one of Liu Erlong's strikes was deadly, she did not ruthlessly kill those Thousand Year soul beasts. On the other side, Zhao Xiaotian summoned his second soul skill into his hand, Spirit Weapon: Spear.

Since Zhao Xiaotian had previously comprehended a Self-Created Soul Skill, he was highly proficient with the spear. Just after Zhao Xiaotian drove off a two-thousand-year Cave Spider, an enormous Cave Spider appeared.

This Cave Spider had a jet-black body and six blood-red eyes. The three soul rings around Zhao Xiaotian rose and fell as he stared tensely at the Cave Spider.

After driving away the last Thousand Year soul beast, the King of the Earth, Liu Erlong spotted the soul beast Zhao Xiaotian was facing. She said in shock, "Xiaotian! That's a fifty-thousand-year Cave Spider!"

Zhao Xiaotian understood that this Cave Spider was a fifty-thousand-year soul beast, but he also knew that it was not something he could fight in his current state.

The Cave Spider let out a roar at Zhao Xiaotian and unleashed a spiderweb cage. Zhao Xiaotian coldly extended one finger. "Third Soul Skill! Taiji Ground Suppression!"

Taiji Ground Suppression formed a massive Taiji diagram on the ground, which slowly rotated. Zhao Xiaotian's bodily functions were all increased by twenty percent, while his Soul Power consumption was reduced by twenty percent.

The Cave Spider charged Zhao Xiaotian, thrusting its two front legs toward him. Since the Cave Spider's poison was not particularly potent, Zhao Xiaotian did not fear it and directly raised his spear to meet it.

Seeing this, Liu Erlong spat out a mass of Red Dragon True Flame, which struck the Cave Spider's body. Although the Cave Spider feared fire, Liu Erlong was only in her fifties in level. As a fifty-thousand-year soul beast, it was not truly afraid of her.

Zhao Xiaotian fought the Cave Spider with unstoppable momentum. As the sounds of metal clashing rang out, the surrounding Thousand Year soul beasts scattered and fled.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!" The legs of the fifty-thousand-year Cave Spider were incredibly hard, and the Soul Power in Zhao Xiaotian's body was nearly exhausted.

He was only a level-thirty-five Soul Elder. Being able to fight a fifty-thousand-year soul beast without falling behind was already unprecedented on the Douluo Continent.

Just as Zhao Xiaotian's Soul Power was completely depleted and he planted his spear into the ground, when he was about to resign himself to his fate, a voice rang out.

"Clear Sky Nine Arts! Collapse Character Art!"