Their objective was no longer to interrupt, but… mutual destruction!
They intended to use the Soul Power, flesh, and bones accumulated over ten thousand years to contaminate, clog, and detonate that accursed mineral vein core!
Boom boom boom boom boom—!!!
A continuous series of terrifying impacts, like countless volcanoes erupting simultaneously, exploded throughout the mine tunnel!
The instant each Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast charged into the flame force field, it was as if a gigantic Soul Power bomb had been ignited!
Their bodies began to annihilate violently the moment they made contact with the force field, yet the terrifying energy turbulence and explosive shockwaves produced by that annihilation slammed head-on into the flame force field maintained by Lin Xia and Larvitar!
The entire mine tunnel was like a gigantic drum being pounded madly!
The ceiling began to collapse on a massive scale, enormous rocks crashing down like a torrential rain!
Under the blast shockwaves, the rock walls collapsed and melted in large stretches sheets!
The radiance of the Sun Essence mineral vein flickered erratically under the violent energy impacts; the flowing liquid golden light even suffered brief interruptions!
Lin Xia and Larvitar were once again violently blasted away and smashed by the tidal wave of explosions!
Piercing screeches rang out as crimson-gold bones scraped harshly, while vast swathes of the molten substance covering them were blown apart and stripped away!
Larvitar was even pierced through the shoulder blade by a massive bone fragment blasted loose, one that still contained terrifying Soul Power!
This time, the impact was incomparably fierce, the energy incomparably violent.
Lin Xia's crimson-gold skeleton was blasted apart and scattered in all directions!
Arms, leg bones, ribs, even the skull burning with golden flames, all separated from the main body and were flung across the mine tunnel, which had been reduced to utter chaos by the explosions, awash with molten rock and residual Soul Power flames!
Larvitar fared no better. Its small molten skeleton was nearly blown apart as well; limbs, torso, and head separated and scattered among the scorching rubble and Soul Beast remains.
Amid the violent tremors and collapse, Lou Gao clutched his head tightly, his heart sinking into ashes.
It was over, this time it was truly over… even the skeletons had been blown apart…
Humm—
Yet at this moment where silence and destruction intertwined, a strange resonant sound—like a sigh from ancient times—quietly echoed through the mine tunnel.
Those scattered crimson-gold bones, Lin Xia's arm bones, leg bones, ribs, skull.
Larvitar's claw bones, torso bones, skull—their surfaces, those profound and intricate natural patterns, suddenly lit up!
More dazzling than ever before!
Purified beyond even the light of the Sun Essence, more ancient still!
An invisible attraction, originating from the very source of life, abruptly formed between those scattered bones!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The crimson-gold bones scattered everywhere were drawn as if by invisible magnets, instantly transforming into streaks of crimson-gold light. Ignoring distance, ignoring obstacles, they shot toward their respective cores at unimaginable speed!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Clear, powerful sounds of bones locking together rang out in rapid succession!
Almost in the blink of an eye!
Lin Xia's shattered crimson-gold skeleton reassembled, reconnected, and returned to place above the devastated mineral vein core area!
Every joint fit perfectly, crimson-gold light flowing smoothly. Not only was it completely restored, the color of the bones appeared even deeper and more restrained, like divine metal tempered through countless refinements!
The molten substance covering it surged forth like living magma from deep within the bones, rapidly spreading, enveloping, and reshaping an even tougher, more powerful molten body!
Within the hollow eye sockets, two points of golden flame reignited, no longer pure destruction, but now tinged with a trace of… majesty!
Larvitar's molten skeleton reassembled just as instantly!
The pierced shoulder blade was repaired in a flash under the circulation of crimson-gold radiance!
Its small body floated in midair as molten armor re-covered it. All cracks vanished, and the flowing runes became clearer and more complete, faintly forming a full-body circuit resembling an ancient totem!
The crimson-gold flaming eyes lit up once more, their gaze locked—still—on that Sun Essence mineral vein which had dimmed slightly under the explosions, yet continued to radiate boundless temptation!
Reassembly complete! Completely unharmed! And even… stronger!
It was as if they had never been interrupted, never blown apart!
The instant reassembly finished, Lin Xia's crimson-gold arm bones plunged deeply into the ore once more!
Larvitar's small claws scrabbled forward as its molten fangs bit down again with savage force!
"Crack!"
The sound of crushed ore rang out with exceptional clarity in the now deathly silent mine tunnel—blatant, unmistakable… provocation!
"..."
For all remaining Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, within those eyes burning with mad golden flames, something appeared for the first time with absolute clarity—
Fear.
And… a deeper, more profound despair.
They had burned their lives and detonated themselves, paying the price of near-total annihilation yet they still couldn't even delay the enemy for a single moment!
"..."
Deep underground, even that furious, violent cry showed its first trace of… stunned disbelief.
As if even it could not comprehend why two mere ants that stole power would undergo such a transformation!
Just as this suffocating dead silence and standoff took hold, another mutation erupted!
At the exact instant Lin Xia and Larvitar finished restructuring their skeletal frames and resumed their frenzied devouring of the Sun Essence, within the core of their bones—where a faint golden flame had always pulsed weakly like a heart, stubbornly burning, the flame suddenly surged violently at the same time!
Weng—!
Two faint yet incomparably condensed golden beams, containing the most fundamental origin aura of the Sun Essence, burst forth from the skeletal cores of Lin Xia and Larvitar like the gaze of a god.
They were not attacks, but rather like two invisible probes that instantly pierced into the deepest depths of the mineral vein beneath their feet, where liquid golden light flowed!
RUMBLE—RUMBLE—RUMBLE—!!!
The entire Norton Volcano no, the entire Extreme Southern Volcanic Belt, seemed to awaken at this very moment!
From deep within the earth came thunderous, muffled roars, as though colossal gears were beginning to turn, as though ancient, dust-sealed gates were being forcibly pushed open!
The mineral vein beneath Lin Xia and Larvitar's feet, once flowing with liquid golden light, suddenly became incomparably viscous and heavy, like molten crimson gold!
An enormous, impossibly complex and profound ancient formation, composed entirely of pure fire-origin runes, slowly rose from the depths of the vein!
At the very center of the formation, a fire giant bird formed from endless light and heat appeared faintly, its form indistinct and flickering!
That vast will swept across the ravaged mine tunnel, swept across the remaining soul beasts, swept across the utterly horrified Lou Gao, and finally… locked firmly onto those two tiny, bone-burning existences!
Within that will surged overwhelming fury at being profaned, yet deep beneath it, there seemed to be an extremely faint… extremely faint trace of… astonishment and scrutiny.
At the moment this boundless will descended, Lin Xia and Larvitar's devouring movements froze visibly for the first time, completely beyond their control.
The golden flames within their skeletal cores leapt wildly, as if sensing a colossal threat originating from the very essence of life itself…or perhaps… an irresistible attraction?
Inside the mine tunnel, time itself seemed to solidify.
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