Chapter 72: Trivialities—3

After the ball of light merged into Zhou Heng's brow, Manxing seemed to have something else to do, and transmitted Zhou Heng's consciousness back into Zhou Heng's body.

Zhou Heng's consciousness quickly sensed his own body; the moment he opened his eyes, Zhou Heng saw Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo standing before him.

"Kid, how are you? Did something go wrong with condensing your Soul Core? Do you need to find your masters to take a look?"

Dugu Bo looked at the waking Zhou Heng and asked.

He was truly afraid that Zhou Heng might die here for some reason; he did not want his family to be implicated because of Zhou Heng.

Now that Zhou Heng had woken up, he could finally rest easy.

Dugu Yan, however, did not know her grandfather's thoughts; seeing Zhou Heng wake up, she wanted to help Zhou Heng stand up.

Zhou Heng pushed away the hand Dugu Yan reached out, and braced himself against the ground to stand up.

"Don't worry, I'm fine. There was no problem with condensing the Soul Core this time.

It's just that I found an opportunity; don't disturb me, I'm going to cultivate."

Zhou Heng could not wait to study the knowledge about Soul Rings that Manxing had transmitted to him, wanting to create his own soul skills.

Dugu Bo really did not dare to let Zhou Heng stay alone now; he was truly afraid that Zhou Heng might die here.

Therefore, Dugu Bo directly rejected Zhou Heng's proposal, letting Dugu Yan watch Zhou Heng while he stepped forward to check whether there was actually anything wrong with Zhou Heng's body.

Zhou Heng could not refuse Dugu Bo, so Zhou Heng had no choice but to let Dugu Bo use his soul power to probe his body.

After Dugu Bo's soul power entered Zhou Heng's body, he felt that Zhou Heng's body was truly too strong.

It was completely not inferior to the bodies of those Six-Ring Soul Emperors, or even Seven-Ring Soul Saints, and was perhaps even superior.

After Dugu Bo confirmed that there was indeed no problem with Zhou Heng's body, he no longer had any thoughts of stopping Zhou Heng, and could only let Zhou Heng do as he pleased.

Zhou Heng did not immediately start researching the Blood Qi Soul Ring either; he had just experienced the Ice and Fire Alchemy Body, spent time condensing the Soul Core, and then conversed with the planet's consciousness.

His spirit was already extremely exhausted; it would be better to rest first today.

Zhou Heng was helped by Dugu Yan to a wooden house within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well; the moment Zhou Heng touched the bed, he fell asleep immediately.

After Dugu Yan helped Zhou Heng cover himself with the quilt, she walked out on tiptoe to avoid waking Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng slept until high noon; Zhou Heng felt that his exhausted spirit had recovered quite a bit.

Thinking of the knowledge about Soul Rings he had obtained from Manxing yesterday, Zhou Heng closed his eyes again and began to organize the fragmented knowledge in his Sea of Consciousness.

This organization took Zhou Heng nearly an entire day.

When Zhou Heng opened his eyes again, it was already high noon on the second day after the day he condensed his Soul Core.

"Finally finished organizing this knowledge." Zhou Heng looked with satisfaction at the precious knowledge in his Sea of Consciousness.

This knowledge included not only human research on Soul Rings, but also the settings for Soul Rings by Manxing, the planet's consciousness.

This was the setting for Soul Rings on Douluo Star; with this knowledge, he would definitely be able to design soul skills that met his needs.

"Ugh~ so hungry."

Zhou Heng suddenly felt a sense of hunger and could not help but brace himself on the bed to sit up.

Seeing that his clothes were fine, he walked directly toward the outside of the wooden house.

He had to find something to eat; he was so hungry now he could eat a cow.

As soon as Zhou Heng walked out of the wooden house, he saw Dugu Bo leading Dugu Yan in practicing the Poison Technique he had deduced.

This Poison Technique was specifically deduced by Zhou Heng to control the Jade Phosphorus Snake Poison; apart from being of some use to those who awakened the same snake-type martial soul, it was basically useless for other martial souls.

This would allow the Dugu Family to always control this technique without it being coveted by others.

Zhou Heng watched for a moment, and after confirming that the technique the two of them were practicing had no issues, he walked toward the outside of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Zhou Heng planned to go into the Sunset Forest to find something to eat now.

After arriving beside the Poison Array, Zhou Heng merely condensed the Extreme Ice element, gathering the Extreme Ice around his body to block the poisonous gas of the Poison Array.

There was still water vapor present within the poisonous gas, and the extreme cold temperature of the Extreme Ice easily froze the water vapor in the air into tiny ice particles, and the poisonous gas naturally dissipated.

After Zhou Heng passed through the Poison Array, a passage one person high remained behind him; Zhou Heng stood beside this passage, quietly waiting for the poisonous gas released by the Poison Array to completely fill the passage.

After waiting for two minutes, Zhou Heng saw that the poisonous gas had finished filling the passage, and then walked toward the distance.

Zhou Heng had already lived here for nearly a year and a half, and was quite familiar with the surrounding Spirit Beasts.

There was a ten-thousand-year-level Earth Dragon nearby, which was a very suitable target.

Zhou Heng ran rapidly toward that location.

More than ten minutes later, Zhou Heng arrived at a piece of land with exposed rocks; there were no plants growing around, and not far away, there was a cave.

Zhou Heng could sense that a powerful life aura was sleeping inside the cave.

Zhou Heng did not intend to ambush; this time, capturing this Earth Dragon would also be a chance to test the benefits he had gained.

Zhou Heng reached out a hand, and a fireball appeared on his palm, which Zhou Heng threw into the cave.

This fireball was condensed by Zhou Heng using ordinary fire elements, but after all, Zhou Heng possessed Extreme Fire, so even an ordinary fireball's power far exceeded a normal fireball.

Only hearing a "Boom~" explosion ring out, numerous fire elements sprayed out from the cave toward the outside.

"Roar~"

An angry roar came from the cave, and a Spirit Beast with earth-yellow scales rushed out from the cave.

This Spirit Beast was an Earth Dragon that had just reached twenty thousand years; this Earth Dragon was a full two meters tall and one zhang long, with thick and powerful limbs, extremely sharp claws, and was covered in thick, earth-yellow scales.

Although it was called an Earth Dragon, in Zhou Heng's view, this guy was more like an enlarged version of a lizard.

The Earth Dragon looked around, searching for the bastard who disturbed its sleep.

But at a glance, the Earth Dragon saw Zhou Heng standing not far away, and immediately roared wildly, charging toward Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng stomped his foot fiercely, and layers of ice walls condensed, appearing in front of Zhou Heng; these ice walls were a full ten layers thick, with each layer being one meter thick.

These ice walls emitted waves of cold air, and the water vapor in the surrounding air had already condensed into tiny ice shards, falling to the ground.

The Earth Dragon's charging speed was extremely fast; after seeing the ice walls that appeared out of thin air, its Zhuang Shi body could not dodge in time and crashed directly into the ice walls.

Bang, bang, bang~ the sounds of flesh colliding with the ice walls rang out incessantly.

However, it vanished again very quickly.

Zhou Heng exerted force under his feet, his body flashed, and he disappeared from his original spot; when he reappeared, he had already arrived on the ice wall.

Zhou Heng saw at a glance that not far away, the Earth Dragon had been blocked by an ice wall that already had some cracks.

The Earth Dragon was shaking its head, lying prone before that ice wall.

Behind the Earth Dragon, a large hole had appeared in the wall of three ice walls, and tiny ice shards were still falling.

Zhou Heng did not care about this at all.

Just at this moment, that Earth Dragon had already sobered up and was standing up, wanting to continue searching for Zhou Heng's figure.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Heng circulated the soul power within his body, and those ice shards that had been smashed by the Earth Dragon and scattered on the ground were immediately controlled by Zhou Heng, flying toward the Earth Dragon's body.

The Earth Dragon had no time to dodge, and these ice shards all stuck to the Earth Dragon's body.

This was not enough; masses of water currents in the air were created by Zhou Heng using soul power, wrapping the Earth Dragon in a water sphere, and subsequently, the cold air of Extreme Ice bloomed, freezing the water sphere and turning it into an ice sphere about four meters in diameter.

Endless cold air assaulted the Earth Dragon frozen within the ice sphere.

The Earth Dragon struggled with all its might, wanting to break free from the ice freezing it.

However, how could the strength of Extreme Ice be something that a Spirit Beast like it, which had not even reached twenty thousand years, could resist?

Apart from cracks appearing on the ice sphere, this Earth Dragon simply could not break free from the freezing of this ice sphere.

Several minutes later, the Earth Dragon's struggling movements inside the ice sphere became smaller and smaller; the lack of air and the erosion of the cold air made the Earth Dragon increasingly powerless.

In the end, it could only be trapped and die inside this ice sphere.