Chapter 59: Capturing a Spirit Beast

Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo, both having donned the black masks and robes prepared by Dugu Bo, left the Poison Array and walked toward their long-determined destination.

Neither of them was slow; after walking for an hour within the Sunset Forest, they arrived at a small mountain in the northeast of the Sunset Forest.

It was already dusk.

Upon arriving at this small mountain, Zhou Heng clearly sensed a powerful energy of the God of Elements, specifically fire, active halfway up the mountainside.

Dugu Bo grabbed the shoulder of Zhou Heng's robe and moved rapidly across the small mountain, sprinting toward the location of the nest of Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts he remembered.

Dugu Bo's burst of speed was extremely fast; in just five or six minutes, the two arrived at the location of the fire energy Zhou Heng had sensed.

After reaching the destination, Dugu Bo set Zhou Heng down.

Before them was a massive fissure, three meters wide and five meters high, from which scorching heat waves were radiating outward.

From this massive fissure, Zhou Heng sensed the powerful fire energy he had felt earlier.

Dugu Bo led the way in front, simultaneously clearing a path for Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng followed closely behind Dugu Bo, while remaining cautious of any potential enemies.

Before long, the two had penetrated several hundred meters deep; the size of the fissure had grown larger and larger, now reaching over twenty meters in width and ten meters in height, having completely turned into a tunnel.

As the two walked through this tunnel, scorching heat waves surged outward from time to time.

Feeling the increasingly dense fire energy within these heat waves, Zhou Heng felt even more anticipation for those Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts.

After walking for another few minutes, Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo finally exited the tunnel and arrived before a massive, extremely spacious cavern where magma flowed.

Dugu Bo and Zhou Heng came to the edge of the cavern and looked down.

A distance of just over ten meters below formed a huge pit, filled with boiling magma.

And within this boiling magma stood over a dozen special Spirit Beasts that resembled humans with tall bodies, with several of these special Spirit Beasts emitting a dark red glow from their bodies.

However, the lower halves of these Spirit Beasts were submerged in the magma, making them completely invisible to Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo.

These special Spirit Beasts were in the magma, consuming it to replenish the fire energy in their bodies.

As the fire energy was replenished, the bodies of these Spirit Beasts began to emit a dark red glow.

Finally, bright red stripes lit up on the bodies of these special Spirit Beasts, and these stripes were even brighter than the dark red glow emitted from their bodies.

After these Spirit Beasts replenished their fire energy, they walked out of the magma and toward the shore.

Once these Spirit Beasts walked onto the shore, Zhou Huan was able to see the full appearance of these special Spirit Beasts through the bright light they emitted.

Most of these Spirit Beasts were only three meters tall, but there were three Spirit Beasts that were taller, reaching five meters in height.

Their bodies resembled humans, and within those bright red stripes, Zhou Heng faintly saw a liquid like magma flowing.

As for their lower bodies, they were two sturdy limbs composed of stone, resembling human legs.

Those three five-meter-tall Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts, however, had several bright red circular crystals on their chests and abdomens, and liquid was likewise flowing within these crystals.

Dugu Bo looked at these Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts and asked Zhou Heng, "Those three-meter-tall ones are all Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts under ten thousand years but over one thousand years; their specific age is judged by the number of bright red stripes—every two additional stripes increases their cultivation by one thousand years.

As for those three five-meter-tall Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts, their age and cultivation are judged by those Lava Cores.

Each Lava Core represents five thousand years of cultivation.

Which Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast are you looking to choose?"

Zhou Heng looked at the Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts below, ignoring the thousand-year-level ones entirely, and looked directly at the three ten-thousand-year-level Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts.

Two of the Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts had three Lava Cores, while only one had five Lava Cores, representing that it was a twenty-five-thousand-year Spirit Beast.

Zhou Heng pointed at that twenty-five-thousand-year cultivation Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast and said, "Drag that Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast out; I want that one."

Dugu Bo looked at the Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast Zhou Heng had chosen, his eyes widening as he scolded in a low voice, "You have only just reached level forty; even with the boost from the Immortal Herb, you can at most absorb a Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast that has just reached ten thousand years. There isn't one here that fits that age limit; the most I can find you is a Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast of over nine thousand years."

"Don't stop me; in a moment, I will prove it to you." Zhou Heng revealed to Dugu Bo that he had a trump card, meaning he should trust him.

Dugu Bo stared fixedly at Zhou Heng, and finally, without a word, he erupted with soul power and charged out.

Because poison-attribute soul power was useless against Spirit Beasts like the Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts, which were composed of lava and elements, the moment the battle began, the eighth soul ring at Dugu Bo's feet flashed instantly.

A move of Time Solidification was released, a pure white light flashed and vanished, and subsequently, everything in the surroundings remained frozen in place.

This time, Dugu Bo did not charge up his power; he only froze things within a twenty-meter radius.

If Dugu Bo had chosen to charge up and use the Time Solidification soul skill at full power, an area of several thousand meters around them would have been completely frozen by this move.

From this, one could see the terrifying nature of this move of Dugu Bo's.

After Dugu Bo froze the surroundings, he raised his hand, releasing soul power to form a massive, ink-green palm, grabbed that twenty-five-thousand-year cultivation Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast in his palm, and prepared to leave.

However, Dugu Bo pondered for a moment, attacked again, and another giant soul power palm appeared, grabbing a Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast of over nine thousand years.

Dugu Bo took these two Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts and, with a single leap, arrived at the entrance of the tunnel above, where Zhou Heng was standing, poking his head out to look below.

This was Zhou Heng's immediate action after Dugu Bo had charged out.

Dugu Bo raised his left hand, grabbed Zhou Heng, and carrying Zhou Heng and the two Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts, he exerted his speed to the limit and ran toward the outside.

It had originally taken Zhou Heng and Dugu Bo over ten minutes to enter, but under Dugu Bo's full-power burst, it took only four minutes to run out.

In order for that twenty-five-thousand-year cultivation Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast to be able to exit through that fissure, Dugu Bo even took the initiative to enlarge the fissure a little.

Once the two were out and Dugu Bo had set Zhou Heng down, he mobilized his soul power to suppress the two Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts on the ground.

For Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts, there was no such thing as being "wounded."

Because their core was the Life Core within their bodies, composed of soul and elemental energy, only by shattering this Life Core could the Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast completely lose its life, thereby forming a Soul Ring.

Otherwise, if only their limbs were broken, the Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast would only need a very short amount of time to rely on absorbing nearby rocks to reconstruct its limbs.

Therefore, one could only use powerful soul power suppression to eliminate the Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast's ability to resist.

"Little Heng, hurry up and choose your Soul Ring; stop joking around!" Dugu Bo shouted sternly at Zhou Heng, who was to the side.

Zhou Heng looked at the two Fire Phosphorus Lava Beasts Dugu Bo had dragged out, shook his head with a bitter smile, and his Battle Instrument Martial Soul appeared in his hand. He injected both soul power and mental energy into it, beginning to draw that twenty-five-thousand-year cultivation Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast into it to become his Soul Ring.

Dugu Bo looked at the Battle Instrument that had suddenly appeared in Zhou Heng's hand; for a moment, he did not know what Zhou Heng was doing and stood there, stunned.

The next moment, Dugu Bo could not help but widen his eyes, staring fixedly at the Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast being drawn in by Zhou Heng.

Just like that, that twenty-five-thousand-year cultivation Fire Phosphorus Lava Beast was drawn directly into the Battle Instrument Martial Soul that had suddenly appeared in Zhou Heng's hand.

After the Fire Phosphorus Molten Beast entered his Battle Instrument Martial Soul, Zhou Heng immediately sat cross-legged and mobilized his spiritual power to suppress the will of this Fire Phosphorus Molten Beast.

The two of them unfolded a battle on the spiritual level.

Dugu Bo casually tossed the Fire Phosphorus Molten Beast with over nine thousand years of cultivation that he had captured into the rift whose space he had expanded, condensing some of the pressure belonging to a Title Douluo to suppress the other party.

The moment that Fire Phosphorus Molten Beast was thrown into the rift by Dugu Bo, it fled toward the depths.

Upon sensing Dugu Bo's pressure, its speed of escape became even faster.