On the way to the Star Luo Empire.
Di Qiu'er's gaze was fixed on that man.
"What exactly did Du Busi give you? Why are you suddenly using this kind of cultivation method to strengthen your body so desperately?"
Ever since Du Busi forcibly stuffed several Storage Soul Tool into his hands, even on the way to the Star Luo Empire, Toji was still desperately pursuing the path of body cultivation.
From initially carrying heavy loads and cultivating his Qi and Blood, to eventually setting his sights on a small mountain...
Toji volunteered to take out a high-quality iron chain, which he specially tied to Xiaoshan's vital parts, and then used the chain to bind his own body.
Then he... relying on his physical body, he used iron chains to connect with the hill, attempting to move it.
Yes, that's right, a feat similar to moving a mountain with bare hands.
Although this small hill only appears to be about 100 meters high and is not considered a large mountain, it is still quite spectacular.
Only Titled Douluo can destroy it in a single move.
At this moment, the setting sun seemed to dye the sky blood-red, Toji the veins on his neck bulged like the gnarled roots of an old tree. He no longer had the mind to answer Di Qiu'er's question.
His bare upper body was bulging with layers of muscles, and beneath the bronze panel, it seemed as if magma was surging in his veins, and every muscle fiber was groaning under the strain.
"Snap!"
The thick iron chain dug deep into the shoulder blade, leaving charred marks on the flesh. The hundred-foot-tall hill, uprooted, hung in mid-air, and clods of earth from its roots fell like a mudslide, smashing the ground into a crater several meters deep.
Nine hundred and ninety...
Toji sound of counting, mixed with blood and foam, squeezed out from between his teeth. His leather boots were already worn through, and his bare feet had plowed two bloody furrows into the rocky ground. The trail behind him looked like the wounds left by a giant beast.
His right shinbone cracked with a teeth-grinding sound, and bone marrow, gleaming with a faint golden light, spurted out from the crack in his kneecap.
He streaked across the sunset with several dazzling streaks of light, blood churning in his throat, the veins bulging on his neck like a bowstring about to snap, sweat and blood mixing into a pale red stream that flowed down his muscle grooves and pooled at his feet.
As Di Qiu'er watched the man's back muscles bulge like a volcanic eruption, and his vertebrae protrude beneath the panel like a dragon's spine, she suddenly felt that humans were terrifyingly absurd creatures.
They could have used Flying Soul Tool to bypass the mountain range, but instead they insisted on dragging the entire mountain along like a mad mammoth!
"Boom!"
The hill suddenly tilted, and half of the waterfall cascaded down the broken mountainside.
Toji's right knee slammed heavily into the ground, and spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread to Di Qiu'er's feet.
He let out a low growl like a trapped beast, his neck jerked back, and the iron chain was pulled taut again!
"Hey!" Di Qiu'er finally couldn't help but shout, "What on earth is your brain made of? Why would you want to put your body to the limits of life and death like this?"
"Do you really want to die?!"
"You don't know anything..." Toji spat out through gritted teeth, "That's how I trained before, and now I'm back to my old ways... So what!"
Another spurt of blood shot out from Toji's ruptured tiger's mouth, drawing a poignant arc in the setting sun.
At the same time, the panels all over Toji's body were cracking, but beneath each crack was not flesh and blood, but bone marrow flowing with golden light.
Di Qiu'er knew perfectly well that he hadn't had this golden light before.
Clearly, his cultivation technique has improved again.
"Snap!"
A sickeningly loud cracking sound interrupted Di Qiu'er's thoughts. Suddenly, Toji's left scapula pierced through the panel, and golden Qi and Blood Entanglement around the white broken bone.
Di Qiu'er suddenly stood up, about to step forward to help, when she saw Toji raise his head and roar, letting out his final furious roar:
"Break it for me!!!"
The final roar shattered the crimson clouds, Toji the hill crashed to the ground, golden waves of energy erupted from its body, causing the ground within a hundred miles to undulate like ocean waves.
The iron chains that had pierced his flesh broke off inch by inch, and each broken piece of metal melted into molten iron in the air, pouring down like a torrential rain onto the scorched earth.
Toji staggered and fell to the ground, halting his foolish attempt to move the mountain.
Di Qiu'er waved her sleeve to shake off the flying dirt, and was about to step forward when she saw a figure slowly rising from the dust.
Toji the cracked panel, golden bones were regenerating at a visible speed, and the wounds covering his body resembled golden threads woven by an invisible hand, shimmering with divine radiance in the setting sun.
"Your main body's Martial Soul Second Awakening... and leveled up again?" she murmured. "So that's it. No wonder you became almost obsessed with studying body-tempering methods day and night after Du Busi gave you that little notebook."
"Hahaha, level 58! One breakthrough in one go, awesome!"
Toji spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, laughing heartily, completely disregarding his already damaged and bleeding throat.
The aura of a level 58 Soul King soared into the sky. Toji cultivated Qi and Blood with a golden light, which stirred up the clouds within a hundred miles like a storm, and greedily absorbed the surrounding energy of heaven and earth into his body.
Such a great upheaval, if Di Qiu'er hadn't witnessed it with her own eyes, she probably would have thought that a powerhouse above the Soul Douluo level was facing a breakthrough in cultivation.
"As expected, this extreme method of body tempering is the best way to improve cultivation..."
Before he could finish speaking, Toji went black, and he lost consciousness, collapsing to the ground.
Before he collapsed completely, Di Qiu'er rushed forward and caught Toji's body.
"That idiot..."
Di Qiu'er sighed, picked him up, and found a suitable place to sit down.
She leaned against a tree, her golden hair cascading down like a waterfall, gently resting Toji's head on her knees.
Looking at Toji's face, Di Qiu'er bit her red lips lightly, as if she had made up her mind. Her slender fingertips glowed with a faint golden light as she carefully brushed across Toji's cracked panel.
Those deep, bone-revealing wounds were like frozen earth touched by a spring breeze, growing pink new flesh at a visible speed.
She bit her lower lip, her crimson eyes shimmering with starlight.
"When they cultivate, it's as if they completely disregard their own lives."
Di Qiu'er raised her hand and gently wiped away the congealed blood scabs from Toji's lips.
She just sat there, as if waiting for him to wake up on his own.
late at night.
Moonlight illuminated the scorched ground, and the distant sound of clashing metal armor could be heard.
Twelve border patrolmen from the Star Luo Empire approached, carrying torches. The captain, who was leading the group, looked into the distance as if he had seen something terrifying, and suddenly froze on the spot.
"Captain, what's wrong?"
The captain didn't speak, but silently focused the torchlight in front of him.
Under the firelight, a ravine ten feet wide ran through the wilderness, with ancient trees that had been lying on both sides like straw crushed by giants, and at the end of the ravine was a small hill that had been uprooted.
"This is impossible..." The captain's sword clattered to the ground. "We've walked this road countless times. The location of this mountain is not right. How did it end up over there?"
Could it possibly move on its own?