Origin Transformation, Immortal Herbs Hidden Within

Origin Transformation, Immortal Herbs Hidden Within

At the entrance to the valley, dark green poison clouds churned like a raging sea, frantically battering the black barrier raised by Ghost Leopard Douluo. Two Titled Douluo-level energies collided violently, producing hissing corrosion and dull explosions that twisted even the surrounding space.

"Ghost Leopard! Get out of my way! That brat touched the old man's lifeblood! I'll grind his bones to dust!" Dugu Bo roared like a fiend from the underworld, his voice filled with shock, fury, and killing intent. He could clearly sense that the auras of the two core immortal herbs he had treasured and studied for decades—the Infernal Delicate Apricot and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass—had completely vanished! That damned brat had destroyed them!

"Dugu Bo! Calm down!" Ghost Leopard Douluo's face darkened as he maintained the barrier with all his strength. His chilly voice pierced through the poison clouds. "That brat is suppressing the strange poison in his body! He just caused a little more commotion than usual! You've guarded this treasure ground for so many years, and you still care about one or two blades of grass?"

"Bullshit!" Dugu Bo trembled with rage, his dark green vertical pupils practically spitting fire. "Are those ordinary plants?! They're rare treasures of heaven and earth! They are this old man's..." The words reached his lips before he swallowed them back. He could hardly say they were his hope for researching an antidote, could he? "In any case! Hand that brat over! Otherwise, neither of us will leave alive today!"

Just as the two remained locked in a stalemate, with killing intent boiling over—

Boom—!!!

A strange yet powerful energy fluctuation suddenly erupted from where Ling Feng was!

This fluctuation was neither purely icy nor purely scorching. Instead, it carried a completely new aura... one that fused light, lightning, the Will of Judgment, and a faint trace of ice-and-fire origin power!

The aura was not especially powerful compared to that of a Titled Douluo, yet it possessed an indescribable... purity and dominance! It was like a newborn god proclaiming its own birth!

Dugu Bo, who had been attacking madly, suddenly froze! His dark green vertical pupils filled with disbelief! He could clearly sense that the Energy Core erupting with power belonged to the brat named Ling Feng! And... Ling Feng's Life Aura, which had been like a flickering candle in the wind and could go out at any moment, had stabilized at an astonishing speed after the eruption, like dead wood blooming in spring. And it was... transforming! Ascending!

How was that possible?! He had clearly sensed that the brat had forcibly triggered some terrifying energy. He should have been doomed to die! How could this be...?

Ghost Leopard Douluo also sensed the strange aura of transformation, and a sharp light burst from his cloudy old eyes! He did it?! That brat... had actually endured it?! What exactly had he done?!

The energy fluctuations gradually subsided.

The poison clouds dispersed, revealing the scene at the valley entrance.

Ling Feng sat cross-legged where he had been. The terrifying ice-and-fire cracks across his body had already vanished. His skin now possessed a warm, jade-like luster, faintly suffused with golden light, like the blank of a divine weapon tempered a thousand times. His once-thin body now had smooth lines that contained an explosive sense of power. Most striking were his eyes—when they opened, golden lightning and icy-fire phantoms seemed to flash through the depths of his black pupils, carrying the majesty to pierce through falsehood and judge all things!

He slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air. A trace of scorching white vapor drifted from the left side, while a wisp of icy frost emerged from the right. They intertwined in the air before ultimately vanishing into nothingness.

His Soul Power Level had shot up from Level 11 Peak to... Level 15! He had risen four levels in a row! Moreover, his Soul Power was dense and solid, and his foundation was terrifyingly stable!

Ice and Fire Golden Body! Origin Transformation! Success!

Ling Feng felt the brand-new Soul Power surging through his body, containing threads of ice-and-fire origin power, as well as his Meridians and physique, which had been tempered to become several times tougher than before. Wild joy at surviving the ordeal and a powerful sense of control over his strength surged within him! The Judgment Angel Martial Soul in his dantian had withdrawn its radiance, yet it had become even more solid and majestic. That trace of destructive will had also become clearer and more controllable.

"Brat, you..." Dugu Bo appeared before Ling Feng like a ghost. His dark green vertical pupils stared fixedly at him, filled with suspicion, scrutiny, and a barely perceptible... greed? He could sense the earth-shattering changes in Ling Feng! That aura of transformation, that faintly leaking ice-and-fire origin power... could this be the result of forcibly "suppressing the cold poison"? The effect was... simply astonishing!

Ghost Leopard Douluo also flashed over and looked Ling Feng up and down with a complicated expression. "You... are all right?" He felt it most clearly. Ling Feng's aura was still weaker than the giant leopard beneath him, but that solidity and potential made even him feel a trace of alarm.

Ling Feng rose to his feet and gave the two Titled Douluo a deep bow, his face carrying just the right amount of "lingering fear" and "gratitude." "Thank you, Seniors, for protecting me! This junior... was fortunate enough to suppress the backlash of the cold poison. It was just that the process... was far too dangerous. I nearly lost my soul." He did not mention the immortal herbs at all, only emphasizing "suppressing the cold poison."

"Fortunate?" Dugu Bo's voice was heavy with suspicion. His gaze was like a blade as it swept over the spot where Ling Feng had just been sitting, then shifted to his empty hands. "Where are this old man's Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass?! Why have their auras disappeared?! Did you destroy them?!" This was what he cared about most!

Ling Feng had long prepared an answer. His face showed an appropriate amount of "confusion" and "fear." "Immortal herbs? What immortal herbs? This junior was doing everything possible to suppress the cold poison erupting inside my body. The pain was unbearable, and my five senses were almost sealed. I only felt a scorching aura and an icy aura being forcibly drawn forth and neutralized by the power within my body... As for what happened outside, this junior truly does not know. Could it be... that while suppressing the cold poison, this junior accidentally triggered some strange energy in the valley and affected Senior's treasures?" He played dumb and pushed the responsibility onto "loss of control over the energy." In any case, there was no proof.

"Triggered energy and affected them?" Dugu Bo's face turned ashen. He did not believe it at all! How vast and tyrannical was the energy contained within those two immortal herbs? How could they be destroyed merely by being "affected"? And destroyed so thoroughly that not even a speck remained? There had to be something suspicious about this brat!

But he had no evidence! Ling Feng's current condition did indeed look as though he had undergone a life-and-death transformation, and the newly born aura on his body that fused ice-and-fire origin power could not be faked. Could it be... that while suppressing the cold poison, his body had turned into a terrifying furnace and "burned" those two immortal herbs as fuel?

The thought filled Dugu Bo with shock, fury, and heartache! Those two immortal herbs had been the key to his research into antidotes! And now they were simply gone?!

"Fine! Very fine!" Dugu Bo trembled with rage as dark green poison mist churned around him. "Brat, you think one sentence of 'I don't know' is enough to muddle through this? You destroyed my immortal herbs. This hatred is irreconcilable! Today, you must give this old man an explanation!" Terrifying killing intent locked onto Ling Feng once more.

Ghost Leopard Douluo instantly stepped in front of Ling Feng and said coldly, "Dugu Bo! Do you have any sense of reason? He was nearly killed by his own poison. Where would he find the time to destroy your plants? I think you failed to guard them properly and some powerful soul beast stole them, yet now you're blaming us! You want an explanation? Ask this old man's claws first!" His stance was unyielding, refusing to give an inch. Ling Feng's value had already risen to the point where he had to be protected!

Just as the conflict was about to erupt again—

Ling Feng suddenly spoke, his voice carrying a trace of "weakness" and "earnestness." "Please calm your anger, Senior! Although this junior knows nothing about the immortal herbs, Senior showed me great kindness by allowing me to suppress the cold poison here. This junior will remember it in my heart. I possess nothing of value, but... during the process of suppressing the cold poison, it seems that a trace of strange 'Medicinal Essence'... may have condensed within my body. Perhaps... perhaps it may have even the faintest effect in easing the poison within Senior?" He cast out the bait—using the minute remnant of ice-and-fire origin power left after tempering his body, purified by the Will of Judgment, and disguising it as "Medicinal Essence"!

"Medicinal Essence?" Dugu Bo's killing intent abruptly stalled! His dark green vertical pupils stared hard at Ling Feng. "What Medicinal Essence? Take it out and let me see!" He was like a drowning man clutching at his final straw. The immortal herbs were gone, but if this brat could truly condense something effective against Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Poison within his body... perhaps the loss could still be made up for!

Ling Feng showed a "troubled" expression. "This... this 'essence' is connected to this junior's origin and cannot be taken out directly. But... if Senior trusts me, this junior can try to guide out a trace and send it into Senior's body... Senior will know after trying it!" He was betting on Dugu Bo's desire for an antidote and his confidence in his own strength as a Titled Douluo!

Dugu Bo's eyes flickered intensely. The risk was great! Letting an unknown brat send some unknown substance into his body? But... the aura of transformation on the brat's body and that trace of ice-and-fire origin power possessed a fatal attraction for him! Besides, Ghost Leopard was watching him like a tiger nearby. Even if he acted by force, he might not be able to seize the brat and interrogate him...

"Fine! This old man will trust you once!" Dugu Bo gritted his teeth and extended his withered palm, his dark green vertical pupils filled with warning. "Brat, if you dare play any tricks, this old man will make you taste every poison in the world. You'll beg for life but be unable to live, beg for death but be unable to die!"

"This junior would not dare!" Ling Feng sneered inwardly, but his face was full of "sincerity." He extended his index finger, Soul Power flowing around its tip. A thread of strange energy slowly appeared—extremely faint and nearly transparent, yet containing both pure solar flame power and profound icy energy, with a wisp of judgmental golden light wrapped around its core. This was precisely the remnant ice-and-fire origin power left after his tempering, highly refined and purified by the Will of Judgment! Though the quantity was minuscule, its quality was extraordinarily high!

The instant he saw that thread of strange energy and sensed the utterly pure ice-and-fire aura within it, along with a trace of judgmental majesty that made even his heart palpitate, Dugu Bo's breathing immediately grew heavy! This was the feeling! The source of that brat's transformation!

He hesitated no longer. With a point of his withered finger, a thread of dark green Soul Power extended through the air, carefully touching and wrapping around the strange energy at Ling Feng's fingertip before swiftly retracting into his body!

The instant the energy entered his body—

Dugu Bo's body shook violently! His dark green vertical pupils widened at once! An expression of extreme shock and wild joy intertwined across his face!