Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well—Why Is Dugu Bo Here? (Second Update)

Sunset Forest, deep within its mountains and valleys.

With the Insight Eye he had just acquired, Huo Yuhao scanned the terrain ahead and its surroundings. Every Soul Beast appeared in his vision as a special Soul Power fluctuation within a gray-white world.

For instance, Ten-Year Soul Beasts had white cores, Hundred-Year Soul Beasts had yellow ones, Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had purple ones, and Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had black ones.

The deeper the color of a Soul Beast he observed, the greater its age.

Those Soul Beasts were like bonfires in the night, like glowing Lantern Fish in the deep sea, constantly revealing their positions.

Relying on this ability, Huo Yuhao quietly avoided Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and used Netherworld Stealth, granted by his soul bone, to carefully skirt around threatening Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had formed because of its two pools, one frigid and one scorching. The cold and heat alternated continuously, while the mist deep within Sunset Forest lingered year-round, allowing most of the rising vapor's energy to be retained and returned to the earth.

This meant that the region surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well remained hot and humid throughout the year.

Such an environment was exceptionally suitable for plant growth, while also serving as a paradise for arthropods, armored insects, venomous snakes, and scorpions.

If he searched around the territories where insect-type Soul Beasts gathered, he should be able to spot familiar mountain ranges and determine the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's exact location.

"This should be roughly the right direction..." Huo Yuhao murmured as he moved through the forest.

A light drizzle drifted down from the sky.

Light as a swallow, Huo Yuhao darted through the forest.

A Soul Beast resembling a land scorpion suddenly turned around ahead of him. It was known as a Pink Lady, and it brandished its two pink pincers.

Huo Yuhao had already stepped across the reflection in a puddle. Light flickered in his eyes as his figure flashed past.

Beneath an ancient banyan tree.

Huo Yuhao leaned against the trunk, watching the pattering rain outside as a faint dampness clung to his hair.

When he looked up, he saw pale mist drifting above a distant valley. A faint green haze wandered through the valley, blurred by rain clouds and appearing only intermittently.

Huo Yuhao's heart jolted, and he immediately activated his Spiritual Eye to gaze into the distance.

The rain clouds passed overhead, mixing with the mists and obscuring his view. Yet Huo Yuhao was already certain that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well lay over there!

He crossed the mountains and saw the familiar terrain.

When he arrived before the valley, he saw a strange plant known as the Seven Deadly Jade Phosphorous Flower growing above it. Dense jade-green poison gas shrouded the mountainside.

He had found it—the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!

Hope bloomed in Huo Yuhao's eyes.

He immediately swallowed the antidote pill he had prepared long ago, held a torch to make full use of it, and entered the poisonous mist alone.

In the prehistoric era ten thousand years ago, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was still the territory of Poison Douluo Dugu Bo, though its defenses were somewhat different.

Huo Yuhao traveled through the poisonous fog for roughly a quarter of an hour before finally emerging from the jade-green haze.

He coughed slightly, his eyes painfully bloodshot. Wisps of green mist dispersed from his plain clothes, whose edges had been corroded full of holes, exposing reddened skin beneath.

Enduring his poisoned body, Huo Yuhao looked toward the towering cliff ahead.

He neither possessed the ability to fly nor had he fashioned a flying Soul Tool. Relying on his sense of the terrain, he avoided the dangerous landscape and took a narrow path around the side.

At last, he reached a relatively lower cliff and raised his right hand. Netherworld Bone Claws sprang from his fingertips.

Soul Bone Skill's Additional Effect: Valiant Sharpness

With only a little force, the Tiger Bone Claw easily embedded itself into the rock.

Huo Yuhao immediately examined the protruding rocks on the cliff face, planning his climbing route and identifying gentler slopes where he could rest midway.

Go!

After half an hour of arduous climbing, Huo Yuhao finally reached the top of the valley. Looking ahead, he found more sheer cliffs, while clouds and mist gathered below, concealing the sight within the valley.

Watching the mist coil and thin, Huo Yuhao could not help but sigh.

No wonder this treasure land had gone undiscovered by outsiders for so many years. The natural terrain concealed it far too well.

He surveyed the surrounding terrain, found a gentler slope to descend, and eventually reached the valley floor, where an entirely different world awaited him.

It was a lush, vibrant valley filled with all manner of medicinal herbs.

At the heart of the valley were two spring pools, shaped like interlocking half-moons of yin and yang.

From where he stood, he could vaguely see red light and rising waves of searing heat from one half, while the other half glittered with white icy mist.

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well—he had finally arrived!

Joy appeared on Huo Yuhao's face. Old Yi could be saved.

"Who might this old man be seeing? I never expected a little ant to deliver itself to my doorstep."

An aged voice came from deep within the distant valley. Huo Yuhao's pupils trembled, and his body froze in place.

A dark green figure emerged from a cave in the distant valley, revealing his true appearance.

The man wore a dark green robe. His pale, handsome features made him appear middle-aged, while his long dark green hair was tied back and fell behind him. His eyes were unexpectedly jade-green vertical pupils, and they stared fixedly at Huo Yuhao as a teasing, cold smile curled across his lips.

Huo Yuhao felt as though venomous snakes had wrapped around his body. Shrouded by that terrifying presence, he could not move an inch.

Poison Douluo Dugu Bo!

He actually happened to be at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!

Stay calm.

Huo Yuhao worked hard to steady his emotions.

His encounter with the Hell White Tiger had already drained Old Yi's power dry and forced him into slumber. Now, he could only rely on himself.

Fortunately, he knew something about Dugu Bo, this figure from ancient times.

His martial soul was the top-tier beast martial soul, the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, but it possessed a fatal flaw—

As he cultivated, the poison from his martial soul seeped deep into his bones.

Even his descendants had inherited this trait, and few met a good end. At present, his only remaining relative was his granddaughter, Dugu Yan!

His lifelong pursuit had been to resolve the poison within his body and break his family's bloodline curse.

Tang San had formed a friendship spanning generations with Dugu Bo by offering to help alleviate his poison outbreaks, later taking possession of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Detoxification.

The cure was right here.

Dugu Bo himself was feeling somewhat suspicious.

His snake venom was just about to flare up, and he had retreated here to avoid being hunted down by enemies while weakened.

However, just as he was preparing to enter seclusion, he sensed someone approaching.

He had thought his lair had been discovered and was about to flee, only to find that the intruder's cultivation was pitifully low—so weak that he could crush him with a single finger.

The reason he had not acted rashly was that several things did not add up.

This herb garden was located deep within Sunset Forest. Even the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts outside were not something this boy could have passed through.

That meant someone else had brought him here and was currently hiding in the shadows, undetected.

Furthermore, the valleys in the Core Area of Sunset Forest were numerous and concealed beneath clouds and mist.

If this boy had stumbled in by accident, Dugu Bo simply did not believe it.

"Greetings, Your Excellency Dugu. My master sent me to deliver a message." Huo Yuhao looked Dugu Bo straight in the eye, his voice firm and forceful.