Two Treasures

"I've more or less figured out how that monster revives. I've got some ideas for stopping it—or at least slowing it down." Ju Hua fell into deep thought. Before long, one idea after another flashed through his mind.

A burst of inspiration soon led Ju Hua back to his meditations.

As he continued to ponder, time flew by once more.

Every thousand years, the monster with the steel fork would break free of the high platform's restraints, just as before, and attack Ju Hua.

Whenever it did, Ju Hua would put the ideas he'd developed over the past millennium to the test, trying to stop the Magma Monster from reviving.

Unfortunately, at first he failed every time. No matter how many methods he tried, he couldn't prevent the Magma Monster from coming back to life.

Ten thousand years passed, and Ju Hua had little to show for it.

Thirty thousand years passed, and he succeeded in delaying the monster's revival—but only for a brief moment.

Fifty thousand years passed. By then, Ju Hua could delay the monster's revival by half a day. Still, he chose not to act right away. To be cautious, he continued studying on the high platform.

It wasn't until nearly seventy thousand years had passed that Ju Hua finally left the platform, brimming with confidence.

Whoosh!

Ju Hua used the Floating Shadow Style to merge with the magma and shot upward at high speed.

Just as he'd expected, not long after he left the platform, a steel fork suddenly appeared behind his head. The monster moved so quickly that an ordinary Second Level Dao Lord wouldn't have had time to react.

After nearly a hundred thousand years, the Magma Monster had grown stronger a hundred times. Its strength now ranked among the best of the Second