Securing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well

A few days later, at the entrance to Sunset Forest.

"This should be the place. Huang Quan, can you sense a place surrounded by poisonous mist?" Lu Mingchuan turned to look at Huang Quan beside him.

Huang Quan did not answer. After sensing the area for a moment, she silently lifted her foot and headed into the forest. Seeing this, Lu Mingchuan quickly stepped to her side and took her hand.

Huang Quan glanced at him but did not pull away. Instead, she released a faint aura, and the soul beasts that had been heading their way immediately fled in the opposite direction upon sensing it.

Not a single soul beast disturbed them along the way, all the way until they reached Dugu Bo's poison perimeter. To be clear, Lu Mingchuan did not like living off a woman... but this soft rice was really delicious.

Lu Mingchuan waved a hand and placed a layer of shielding around them. Then he pulled Huang Quan along as they stepped inside. Although they were not afraid of the poison, it was still better to stay clean.

At that moment, Dugu Bo, who was suppressing his poison beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, abruptly opened his eyes. He sensed someone entering his poisonous mist, but promptly closed his eyes again.

He figured it was some fool who thought there was treasure here and had come searching for it, or perhaps some unlucky bastard who had wandered in by mistake. Either way, it did not matter. Before long, they would turn into pus within the mist.

After a while, he opened his eyes again in confusion. The two people in the poisonous mist had not dissolved into pus as he expected. Instead, they were rapidly approaching him.

He rose to his feet and rushed toward them. Before long, he saw the pair who had nearly crossed through his poisonous mist.

A man and a woman, both possessing peerless beauty. In all his experience, they could be said to stand at the pinnacle of the continent in terms of appearance. But he had not come to admire their faces.

Shaking off the strange thought, he said, "To make it through this poisonous mist, you two must have come well prepared." Then his tone abruptly changed.

"But if you do not have a suitable reason, the two of you can stay here forever." A dangerous glint appeared in Dugu Bo's eyes.

That truly amused Lu Mingchuan. Looking at the lean green figure before him, he gently squeezed Huang Quan's hand, signaling her not to act for now, before speaking. "Before I explain why I am here, I need to confirm something with Poison Douluo first."

Lu Mingchuan glanced at the frowning Dugu Bo and continued, "Whenever the sky is overcast or it rains, do your ribs feel numb and itchy, with the sensation gradually worsening?

"It attacks once at noon and once at midnight. Given your current condition, each episode should last more than a full shichen. Also, in the dead of night, around the third watch, your crown and the center of your chest experience needle-like stabbing pain."

At that point, he stopped talking and looked teasingly at Dugu Bo. "Well? Do you still want me to continue?"

By then, Soul Power had already gathered in Dugu Bo's hand. These two knew his secret; he absolutely could not let them leave alive. But Lu Mingchuan's next words left him frozen in place.

"It does not matter if you die. But what a pity—your lovely granddaughter probably cannot hold on as long as you can." Lu Mingchuan shook his head with a regretful expression.

"You have a way to save my granddaughter?" Dugu Bo dispersed the Soul Power in his hand, suspicion written across his face. When Lu Mingchuan nodded, he immediately tried to seize him and drag him closer.

But he suddenly sensed a deadly threat from the woman beside him. Without hesitation, he withdrew and stared at Huang Quan solemnly. His instincts told him that if he clashed with this woman, he would not survive three moves.

He had just been wondering why the two of them were not afraid of him. So this was the reason. After giving Huang Quan a wary glance, he dropped his grave expression. If these two had intended to kill him, he would already be dead.

"What do you want?" Dugu Bo turned to Lu Mingchuan and asked seriously. Seeing how sensible he was, Lu Mingchuan could not help finding it rather amusing.

"I preferred the way you were acting all arrogant just now."

"I admit it. I misjudged you." Dugu Bo closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Watching Dugu Bo surrender at lightning speed, Lu Mingchuan clicked his tongue in boredom. "It is very simple. This place belongs to me from now on, and you must do five things for me."

Dugu Bo agreed without hesitation. With his life in someone else's hands and needing their help as well, how could he possibly bargain under such circumstances? If it were only himself, he might risk it since he was not afraid of death. But he still had a granddaughter, so he did not dare take that gamble.

Lu Mingchuan was not surprised by Dugu Bo's decisiveness. He directly pulled Huang Quan along and motioned for Dugu Bo to enter the garden. After searching around without finding the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd from the system, he thought for a moment, spent five hundred Points to buy one from the system, then took out the original one and casually tossed it to Dugu Bo.

"This is an Immortal Grade Earth Dragon Golden Gourd. Both you and your granddaughter possess snake-type Martial Souls. Eating it may allow them to evolve into dragon-type Martial Souls. Even if they do not evolve, it can still remove the side effects of your Martial Souls." Seeing Dugu Bo holding the two gourds with a puzzled expression, Lu Mingchuan explained.

Hearing that, Dugu Bo carefully stored them in his Ruyi Treasure Pouch. "All right, according to our agreement, this place is yours." He let out a long breath, as though expelling all the worries he had accumulated over the years.

Lu Mingchuan then prepared to collect all the Immortal Herbs. A moment later, after the last Immortal Herb vanished into his hand, he turned to Dugu Bo, who stood nearby. "If you are still worried, you can take one now and test its effects."

"If I eat both of them, will the chance of evolving my Martial Soul be greater?" Rather than swallowing an Earth Dragon Golden Gourd, he asked Lu Mingchuan instead.

"It will not. Treasures of heaven and earth all build resistance. Taking them repeatedly can at most increase your Soul Power a little; beyond that, they have no major effect." Lu Mingchuan shook his head.

After hearing that, Dugu Bo nodded, took out one, and swallowed it in a few bites. He then swiftly sat down cross-legged on the ground. Seeing that he had entered cultivation, Lu Mingchuan took Huang Quan's hand and headed toward the Mandarin Duck Pot.

"Ah Chuan, there are two remnant souls below." Huang Quan turned her head and reminded Lu Mingchuan beside her.

He pondered it for a moment. That was indeed true. As far as he knew, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had formed because the remains of two god-level Dragon Kings were buried here, so it was unsurprising that remnant souls lay beneath it.

"Can they be slain?"

Huang Quan nodded and casually swung Wu without drawing it. A blade-light flew straight toward the Mandarin Duck Pot, and she then turned to indicate that the two remnant souls were gone.

Lu Mingchuan then took out the Dust Song Pot. First, he placed the Mandarin Duck Pot into a pit he had dug in advance. Then he removed the exposed dragon bones beneath it and tossed them into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well inside the pot.

This thing was useless to both him and Huang Quan, but honestly, it looked pretty good. It would make a nice decoration.

Huang Quan artwork, hehe. Thanks to little sister Feng of Flying-Flower Splendor for the recommendation votes and reward, and thanks to Orphan of Troubled Times for the reward and recommendation votes.

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