Ice and Fire Golden Body, Nine Deaths and One Life

Ice and Fire Golden Body, Nine Deaths and One Life

Near the mountain wall by the Yang Spring, heat waves rolled forth, warping the air. Ling Feng sat cross-legged atop a scorching rock, eyes closed in concentration, as though he were truly struggling to guide the Yang Spring's heat to suppress the "cold poison." In truth, his mind had sunk deep into his sea of consciousness. Gaze of Destiny, like invisible tentacles, arduously pierced the valley's violent field of extreme cold and heat, greedily scanning the core region of the Ice and Fire Immortal Grass.

Blurry yet intoxicating images flashed amid the interference.

Image one: A strange flower, crimson from stem to petal and shaped like a cockscomb, its petal edges flowing with a lava-like sheen, swayed amid the scorching heat waves—Infernal Delicate Apricot! A supreme Yang immortal herb!

Image two: A small octagonal herb, crystal-clear as if carved from ice crystal, its leaf edges coated in frost, quietly rooted at the edge of the icy-blue cold spring—Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass! A supreme Yin immortal herb!

Image three: A golden strange flower with chrysanthemum-like petals, radiating a rich, masculine aura—Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum! An indestructible body, strengthening one's foundation!

Image four: A large pinkish-white flower exuding a soul-cleansing fragrance—Aromatic Silk Beauty! Nemesis of all poisons!

Image five: Countless other strange flowers and herbs of varied forms, their treasure light shimmering: Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone... a treasury of immortal herbs!

Wild joy and anxiety tangled within Ling Feng. A mountain of treasure lay before him! Yet Dugu Bo's divine sense was like an invisible spiderweb, constantly blanketing the entire valley. The slightest unusual movement would bring thunderous extermination! How could he take them? How could he use them?

Ding! Ice-Fire Body Tempering Plan activated! Prerequisites: Obtain Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass! Execution plan: Use Will of Judgment as the core to guide ice-fire energy in tempering the body! Risk: 99.9% chance of exploding to death! System assistance: Can provide 1 second of Absolute Energy Stabilization!

Warning: Host's current Soul Power Level is too low and physique too weak. Success rate is below 0.01%! Strongly advised to give up!

Give up? Madness blazed in Ling Feng's eyes! 0.01%? That was still a chance! The Path of Judgment was a path toward life through death! Without madness, there could be no life!

System, record the plan! The chance... will come! Ling Feng roared inwardly. He needed to wait—for a moment when Dugu Bo temporarily left or shifted his attention! At the same time, he had to adjust himself to peak condition!

He no longer merely "pretended" to guide the heat. Instead, he truly began circulating his Soul Power, absorbing the sparse yet exceptionally high-quality vital energy from heaven and earth at the outskirts of the valley. The Judgment Angel Martial Soul slowly revolved within his Dantian Sea of Qi, streams of pure Light Spirit Power flowing out to carefully nourish and repair the wounds on his back and waist left by the Nether Wolf. In the unique environment of the Ice and Fire Immortal Grass, the infinitesimal traces of ice-fire aura within the vital energy of heaven and earth were forcibly stripped out and purified by Will of Judgment, becoming the most fundamental nourishing power. The healing speed actually far surpassed that of the outside world!

Ghost Leopard Douluo rested with his eyes closed some distance away, but a thread of Spiritual Power remained faintly focused on Ling Feng. He sensed the change in Ling Feng's aura. The faint majesty of judgment radiating from his circulating Soul Power, along with a weak but pure trace of ice-fire aura, made astonishment flash through his cloudy old eyes once more. This brat was actually improving while cultivating in a godforsaken place like this? What a freak!

Time passed amid anxious waiting. While cultivating, Ling Feng kept Gaze of Destiny firmly locked onto fluctuations in Dugu Bo's aura like the most patient hunter.

Finally! On the evening of Ling Feng's third day of "obedient" cultivation!

Ding! Target "Dugu Bo" Fate Fragment fluctuating! Detection: His mind has undergone a brief, intense disturbance due to his concern over Dugu Yan's increasingly frequent poison outbreaks! Vigilance lowered! Time window: approximately a quarter of an hour!

An opportunity! A once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity!

Ling Feng's heart pounded wildly, nearly leaping from his throat! He abruptly opened his eyes, a flash of golden light vanishing from them! Without the slightest hesitation, he sent a voice transmission to Ghost Leopard Douluo, who appeared to be dozing nearby. "Elder! This disciple must immediately 'suppress' the backlash of the cold poison within my body! The process is extremely dangerous and cannot endure the slightest disturbance! I beg you, Elder... please protect me for a moment! Ling Feng will never forget this kindness for the rest of his life!" His tone was urgent, filled with the resolve of life and death!

Ghost Leopard Douluo did not even raise his eyelids. His cold voice sounded directly in Ling Feng's mind. "Brat, what are you up to? Keep it down! Don't draw that Old Poison over here!" Though puzzled, Ling Feng's current urgency did not seem feigned, and he also wanted to see what medicine this brat was selling. He quietly spread a trace of his Titled Douluo aura, forming an invisible barrier that enveloped the small area around Ling Feng and cut off most of the leaking energy and sound.

Ling Feng's heart settled completely! With Ghost Leopard as an added safeguard, and Dugu Bo's mind distracted by his granddaughter, this was his only chance!

He sprang to his feet, moving like a phantom as he pushed his speed to its limit! Gaze of Destiny navigated precisely for him through the interference! He did not charge toward the core spring. Instead, he raced along the scorching crimson mountain wall like a gecko toward the relatively secluded corner from images one and two! That was where Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass grew!

The heat waves nearly roasted him alive, while the bone-piercing cold stabbed into his marrow like steel needles! The pain of alternating ice and fire far exceeded anything he had imagined! Yet Ling Feng clenched his teeth. Will of Judgment guarded his mind like the sturdiest armor, while his Soul Power circulated madly to resist the erosion of the extreme environment!

Within a few breaths, he reached his destination!

To the left, Infernal Delicate Apricot resembled a burning fire sprite, radiating heat that scorched the soul!

To the right, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass resembled an ice-sealed fairy, suffusing the air with marrow-freezing chill!

The two immortal herbs were within reach! Their terrifying ice-fire energy formed an invisible force field that repelled every living being approaching them!

A resolute light erupted in Ling Feng's eyes! He had no time to hesitate! No time to harvest them carefully!

He abruptly spread his arms, his left hand grabbing Infernal Delicate Apricot's flower stem and his right hand seizing Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass's leaves! At the same time, he roared at the system from the depths of his soul, System! Now! Assist me!!!

Ding! Absolute Energy Stabilization activated! Countdown: 1 second!

An indescribable power, transcending all rules, descended in an instant! It enveloped Ling Feng and the two immortal herbs touched by his hands!

Before this power, the violently repulsive ice-fire force field became as docile as sheep, instantly freezing and falling still!

That one second!

Ling Feng yanked hard with both hands!

RIP! RIP!

The two immortal herbs containing the ultimate energies of heaven and earth were forcibly torn from the edge of the spring where they had taken root!

Absolute Energy Stabilization ended!

BOOM—!!!

It was as if two dormant volcanoes and an ice prison had erupted in Ling Feng's hands at the same time! The unimaginable torrent of terrifying energy, no longer bound by the herbs themselves or suppressed by the system's power, surged wildly into his body through his hands like primordial beasts breaking free of their reins!

"Aaaaargh—!!!"

Ling Feng let out a shriek that no human could make! His body instantly became a battlefield!

On the left, a terrifying crimson current like molten lava ravaged everything madly! Wherever it passed, his meridians cracked inch by inch like dried riverbeds, his blood boiled and evaporated, and his bones groaned under unbearable strain, as though he would be burned to ashes the next instant!

On the right, extreme icy-blue chill like Myriad Year Profound Ice crashed through him! It froze his blood, sealed his Soul Power, and seemed to freeze even his thoughts stiff! Tearing agony came from his soul!

Ice and fire! Two completely opposing yet equally tyrannical powers of heaven and earth rampaged and collided within his fragile body, tearing at him! They sought to utterly annihilate every inch of his flesh and every strand of his soul!

His skin instantly turned half blazing crimson and half icy blue beneath a layer of frost! He looked like a glass doll on the verge of shattering, covered in savage cracks! Blood mixed with ice shards and steam burst from his seven orifices! His Life Aura plummeted like a candle flame in the wind!

Pain! Pain beyond imagination! It was as if his soul had been cast into the furnace of hell and the icy sea of a frozen prison, trapped in an eternal cycle!

His consciousness struggled madly at the brink of collapse!

Ghost Leopard Douluo's expression changed drastically! He felt that terrifying energy fluctuation erupting in an instant, enough to make one's soul tremble! He also saw Ling Feng's ghastly condition! "Has this brat gone insane?!" Shocked and enraged, he instinctively wanted to rush over and stop this suicidal act!

But at the instant he moved!

"Hm?!" Dugu Bo's furious roar came from deep within the valley! Clearly, the instant fluctuation caused by the forcibly harvested immortal herbs had alarmed the Poison Douluo, whose mind had only just calmed, even through Ghost Leopard's barrier! Boundless killing intent and dark-green poison clouds swept out from the heart of the valley like a tsunami!

"Damn it!" Ghost Leopard Douluo cursed, forced to stop in his tracks as his Soul Power erupted! A solid black curtain of light instantly expanded, firmly blocking the terrifying poison cloud rushing toward him! "Dugu Bo! What the hell are you going crazy for?!" he shouted, though anxiety filled his heart. What was going to happen to Ling Feng?!

At that moment, Ling Feng could no longer hear any sound from the outside world. His consciousness had been completely drowned in boundless agony. The Judgment Angel Martial Soul within his Dantian Sea of Qi wailed mournfully, its golden radiance flickering beneath the impact of the ice-fire torrent, ready to be extinguished at any moment.

Am I going to die?

Judgment... shall not perish! A weak yet incomparably tenacious thought burned stubbornly amid the endless darkness and pain like the final spark!

The system's plan! Will of Judgment! Tempering!

Temper me...!!!

At the edge of his soul's annihilation, Ling Feng squeezed out the last shred of his willpower! Within his sea of consciousness, the dim phantom of the Judgment Angel abruptly raised its head! In its golden eyes burned the flames of destruction and rebirth! An unyielding will to judge heaven and earth erupted with a thunderous roar!

This will was no longer mere protection. It transformed into the most tyrannical furnace flame! It no longer passively resisted the ice-fire torrent, but actively guided it! Like the greatest blacksmith, it used his will as a hammer and ice-fire energy as metal, brutally striking his own flesh, meridians, bones, and soul!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Every "hammer blow" brought pain ten times more intense than before! But after every wave of pain, deep within the body that had been shattered by the ice-fire torrent, a faint new power tinged with pale golden light began to emerge! It was... the power of rebirth, tempered from a trace of ice-fire origin and Will of Judgment!

Nine deaths and one life! Toward life through death!

Ling Feng's body became the cruelest yet most miraculous alchemical crucible! At the edge of destruction, it forged rebirth bit by bit!