Douluo Dalu: My Martial Spirit is the Worm of Time

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In the Sunset Forest, nestled among the mountains, lies a valley shrouded in poisonous mist. The miasma, neglected for years, has thinned to the point of near disappearance.

A gorgeous woman in red robes stood at the foot of the mountain, glancing up before casually incinerating a spider-like Soul Beast that attempted to ambush her.

She adjusted her monocle, a smile playing on her lips: "Hmm, since the Soul Beasts here are so enthusiastic, let's have them all join our big family."

A starlight glimmered, transforming into a young man in a black classical robe with a matching pointed soft hat.

"Clean up all the Soul Beasts in the forest."

"Leave it to me."

This Amon plucked a monocle from the void and fitted it into his right eye socket.

"Yan Jin" continued forward, taking a step and, with a shift in light and shadow, passed directly through the mountains, arriving at the valley encircled at its center.

At the bottom of the valley, an oval pool radiated a strange luster. One side held scorching crimson water, as if flames were burning, while the other held frigid, milky-white water, like unchanging eternal ice. The ground around the spring was scorched red on one side and crystallized with ice on the other.

The 'Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well,' a uniquely blessed creation of nature, possibly born from the convergence of heaven and earth's essence, or perhaps the pool's depths concealed an item containing the ultimate power of ice and fire.

"Such as… the corpses of the Water Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King."

"Yan Jin"'s lips curved into a smile.

She stepped forward, crouched down, and plunged her right hand into the dividing line at the center of the Yin-Yang pool.

Feeling the heat and extreme cold of the pool's shallow layer, and confirming that it was within her body's tolerance, she leaped into it.

She swam towards the depths of the pool, and the deeper she went, the stronger the powers of extreme cold and extreme heat became.

As she approached the bottom of the pool, even "Yan Jin," who possessed the ultimate ice and fire attributes, found her body unable to withstand the intense cold and heat, and cracks began to appear on her skin.

Blood trickled from these cracks, and she raised her arm, glanced at the fissures, and gently touched her monocle.

Emerald light burst forth from the monocle, and a surge of powerful life force erupted from her body, rapidly healing the cracks.

However, the surrounding ice and fire energy immediately tore through her skin again, causing the cracks to reappear. This energy surged into her body along the fissures, constantly destroying her tissues, dissolving her muscles, and corroding her bones.

The life energy promoted the restoration of the injuries on her body, forming a dynamic balance with the destructive power of the raging ice and fire energy.

"Yan Jin"'s body's tolerance to ice and fire energy was also increasing bit by bit.

She muttered, "Hmm… it's a bit slow, when will I finish absorbing at this rate?"

With that, she reached out and grabbed a young man in a black classical robe.

At their current depth, even a Titled Douluo would be eroded by the dense ice and fire power and die in an instant.

This Amon in the classical robe, however, didn't care at all, a gentle smile on his face. Upon closer inspection, it could be seen that the ice and fire pool water didn't even touch him, separated by a thin layer of white light, as if this light contained an infinitely distant space.

"Amon, give me a buff,"

"Yan Jin" said with a grin.

Amon raised his right arm, using his index finger knuckle to push up the bottom edge of his monocle, and a silver-white light burst forth.

Two small worms with twelve segments flew out of the light, end to end, forming an ancient, mottled clock phantom.

This phantom resembled the surface of a stone-carved grandfather clock, with twelve evenly distributed marks.

The hour, minute, and second hands, of different lengths and thicknesses, were all overlapping, stopping at the "twelve" mark.

Then, the longest and thinnest second hand began to spin rapidly, as if everything around it was accelerating.

The cracks on "Yan Jin"'s body appeared and healed several times in an instant.

She began to swim downwards.

Under the impact of an unspeakable torrent of time, "Yan Jin" barely paused, adapting to the ice and fire energy at the current depth each time she reached a new depth, and then continuing to descend.

After diving to a certain depth, she seemed to be able to vaguely see two behemoths below.

Just then, Amon put his hand on her shoulder and shook his head at her.

"What's wrong?"

"Yan Jin" looked puzzled.

"Out of Soul Power."

Amon shrugged.

Grabbing her, light and shadow shifted, and the two returned to the valley above.

At this moment, in the Utopia of the Corpse Church, almost all the Amons were lying on the ground without any regard for appearances. The continuous time acceleration had almost drained their Soul Power, and they were too tired to move at this moment.

Some of the Amons had wrinkles on their faces, and their hair had turned gray. He had paid a considerable price to allow "Yan Jin" to quickly adapt to and absorb the energy in the "Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well."

When "Time Acceleration" is used, in addition to consuming Soul Power, time must also be paid. The time that the accelerated target spends must be repaid by Amon at a cost of a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, or even higher.

"Yan Jin" arrived in Sunset Forest in the morning, and it was already late at night. Although less than a day had passed, Yan Jin had been in the pool for a year!

In addition to the huge consumption of time and Soul Power, the loss of life force was also huge. To forcibly absorb the power of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings through this clumsy method, a huge price must be paid, and Amon had already prepared to convert a large amount of resources at a loss.

Anyway, for him, the cost of these low-level resources was just a little bit of time cost, and he could just steal them again if they were gone.

Amon came to the forest outside the valley, stretched out his right hand, thought for a while, and then put it down.

He originally wanted to directly steal the life force of the plants in Sunset Forest, but such a movement was a bit loud, and might attract the attention of some existence.

So he decided to change the place, came to Star Dou Great Forest, and then he made a grabbing action towards the void in front of him.

Soon, large swaths of plants withered and died, and one-sixth of the entire Star Dou Great Forest became barren.

Large groups of emerald light surged, like a torrent, and submerged into Amon's body. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, outlining a smile.

After resting for a night, after the Amons' Soul Power recovered, "Yan Jin" began to continue to descend.

In this process, her body, which was already no weaker than a Soul Beast's, became more and more tenacious, faintly glowing with golden spots, which was a sign that her body was beginning to transform into a god's body.

This day, "Yan Jin" still failed to dive to the bottom of the pool. When she was just able to see the outlines of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King's corpses, Amon was already unable to continue to bear the huge consumption.

"Tsk… Ice Dragon King, Fire Dragon King, should I say that you are indeed existences comparable to a Level 1 God? The energy that overflows just after death can hurt the body of an Ultimate Douluo like this. It's a bit troublesome…"

Amon pinched the upper and lower edges of his monocle with his index finger and thumb, his eyes deep.

Although he said it was troublesome, he didn't reveal any negative emotions.

"Tch… it's not troublesome, is it? It's also possible to absorb it in a way that consumes less, it just takes more time."

"Yan Jin" spread her hands and responded.

After a pause, she continued:

"I feel that if I come one more time tomorrow, I will be able to enter the bottom of the pool without fear of the violent energy in the 'Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.'"

"Hmm, that's not bad. Clumsy methods are indeed the simplest and most effective way in certain situations."

Amon nodded with a smile.

The next day, at dawn, after confirming that the Amons' states had all recovered to almost the same level, "Yan Jin" jumped into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well again.

She quickly descended, and soon came to the position where she had stopped yesterday.

At this time, she had almost adapted to the god-level ice and fire energy, and large patches of golden spots had appeared on the surface of her body, a bit like the performance when launching "Invincible Golden Body."

The golden spots formed a sharp contrast with her original fair skin, making her look a little ugly.

The ancient mottled clock phantom reappeared, and "Yan Jin" plunged down.

Her body burst out with bursts of blood mist, and in these blood mists, there was a trace of golden light. God's blood, nearly half of the god's blood had already been mixed into "Yan Jin"'s body.

As the three hands on the mottled clock shadow kept turning, "Yan Jin" got closer and closer to the bottom of the pool. Finally, at the moment when the clock shadow was about to dissipate, her feet stepped on the gravel at the bottom of the pool.

The area at the bottom of the pool was much larger than the outside, half blue and half red. Even the gravel under her feet had become somewhat extraordinary because it was soaked in the special energy of ice and fire.

Below the red waters, the gravel was also red, giving people a sense of heat, and each grain contained extremely abundant fire-attribute power.

And the blue waters on the other side were just the opposite, the gravel was blue, filled with the power of ice.

Just the surrounding pool water and the gravel all over the ground were invaluable treasures for Soul Masters and Soul Beasts of the same attributes.

After slightly looking around the surroundings, "Yan Jin" was attracted by the two huge corpses lying dormant under the pool.

These were two giant dragons, one red and one blue, and even after not knowing how long they had died, they still exuded a suffocating pressure.

Even "Yan Jin," a level 99 Ultimate Douluo, felt a tremor in her soul.

Each of their scales shone like gemstones, and gave people a kind of toughness like gold and iron, and a heaviness like mountains and rocks.

There were many wounds distributed on the corpses, and it could be seen how tragic the battles they had experienced in their lives were.

"Yan Jin" stroked the monocle on her right eye, and the corners of her mouth curled into a smile:

"I've put in so much for you, I believe the harvest won't disappoint me either."

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