Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well

Whoosh, whoosh!

It was night, in a rarely visited mountain valley.

A carriage stood quietly at the mouth of the valley, while beside it, a sturdy little red horse nibbled at tender green blades of grass here and there.

Within the valley, Zhu Zhuqing sat cross-legged, Soul Power surging wildly around her as the Soul Power of heaven and earth continuously poured toward her.

Pfft!

Suddenly, Zhu Zhuqing, whose eyes had been tightly shut, opened them and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Failed again!"

The surging Soul Power stopped drilling into Zhu Zhuqing's body at its limit. Zhu Zhuqing wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and said unwillingly.

The commotion caused by her external self Martial Soul Fusion cultivation was rather large now.

So Zhu Zhuqing had always wanted to find a way to make less of a disturbance, such as transferring the external mechanism inward.

But even after countless attempts, she still failed!

Fortunately, her physique was strong enough. Although she had been injured, it was nothing serious. A little rest and recuperation would be enough.

"Whew, whew... If there's still no way, I'll probably have to try forming a Soul Core!"

Zhu Zhuqing muttered to herself with a slight frown.

Even when cultivating at full force, she could only maintain a rate of improvement comparable to that of an ordinary person with Innate Full Soul Power.

And the commotion was enormous, making it easy to expose the secret of her Twin Martial Souls.

The key to solving this problem was to maintain fusion cultivation while reducing the disturbance outside.

She had tried many times before. Merely condensing a Tai Chi diagram in her Dantian was not enough. Under the impact of massive amounts of Soul Power, the Yin-Yang Tai Chi would lose its balance and become unstable.

Therefore, Zhu Zhuqing now wanted to try using a Soul Core to stabilize the Yin-Yang Tai Chi.

If she could use the Soul Core as a stabilizer for the Yin-Yang Tai Chi, then the Yin-Yang Tai Chi should not be scattered by the surging Soul Power.

Moreover, the Soul Core would also greatly benefit cultivation.

But the problem she faced now was that the basic requirement for condensing a Soul Core was for one's Soul Power to be refined to the Titled Douluo level.

Ordinary cheaters could refine their Soul Power to the Level 90 standard by Level 70.

Of course, Zhu Zhuqing was no worse, but her Level 32 Soul Power had only been refined to around Level 70.

"Do I really have no choice but to wait longer?"

Zhu Zhuqing had calculated that, with the double refinement effect of her two Extreme Martial Souls on Soul Power, once she broke through Level 50, the refinement of her Soul Power would basically reach the level of an ordinary Titled Douluo.

At that point, she could probably begin condensing a Soul Core.

But before then, she first had to raise her Soul Power.

"Hard... Still, these failures have given me some new thoughts on condensing a Soul Core!"

Zhu Zhuqing sighed, but she was not discouraged.

Failure was failure. As long as she could break through Level 50, her time would not be as tight as it was now.

Right now, she wished she could use every hour of every day for cultivation, just to keep her rate of advancement from falling behind.

"Let's go to Sunset Forest first. If I can find a way to pick a few Immortal Grade Herbs, their medicinal power should provide me with a massive amount of energy to raise my Soul Power Level!"

Zhu Zhuqing had no intention of entering Heaven Dou Imperial City. She might go there in the future, but right now, she only wanted to grab a few Immortal Grade Herbs and lie low while solving her cultivation problem first.

She once again activated the fusion cultivation method.

Two feline creatures carrying Ultimate Attributes appeared beside Zhu Zhuqing. The instant they landed, a massive Tai Chi diagram appeared and enveloped Zhu Zhuqing.

Then, the two Martial Souls began to run, driving the Yin Yang Diagram into continuous rotation as it crazily drew in the Soul Power of heaven and earth and poured it into Zhu Zhuqing's body.

"Ugh, the commotion is still as big as ever!"

Looking at the grand cultivation scene, Zhu Zhuqing sighed, then closed her eyes and began refining the Soul Power with all her strength.

Sunset Forest!

Zhu Zhuqing moved through the forest like an elf within the shadows.

Although Sunset Forest was not comparable to the Star Dou Great Forest, it was still a large gathering place for soul beasts.

Trying to find Dugu Bo's lair in such a vast forest was truly quite difficult.

But Zhu Zhuqing had an enormous advantage over others. Other soul masters wandering through the forest would be attacked by soul beasts and the like.

But Zhu Zhuqing did not need to worry. She only had to search, as no person or soul beast could sense her presence at all.

However, this method was not without drawbacks. She could not activate Martial Soul Fusion to cultivate.

Fusion cultivation caused too much of a disturbance. Cultivating in a soul beast forest might attract unnecessary trouble.

Every day Zhu Zhuqing spent searching was equivalent to delaying her cultivation for another day.

But since Zhu Zhuqing had decided to search, she would not give up.

Still, this was not entirely without benefit. Zhu Zhuqing could now meditate around the clock.

Even without deliberately controlling it, she could have her body autonomously absorb the Soul Power of heaven and earth by dedicating only a portion of her attention to it.

Its speed was far inferior to the fusion Meditation Method, but compared to an ordinary Meditation Method, it was already not much slower.

She searched the forest for an entire month, a full month.

At last, Zhu Zhuqing found a mountain valley shrouded by a Poison Array.

"Finally, I found it!"

Seeing the enormous Poison Array, Zhu Zhuqing nearly burst into tears.

This Poison Array had little effect on Zhu Zhuqing. Her Shadow Stealth avoided most physical damage, while Dugu Bo's poison was basically all physical attacks.

After all, could this poison really poison even shadows out of existence?

With a Shadow Stealth, Zhu Zhuqing directly slipped toward the center of the poisonous mist.

Within the world of shadows, she and the Poison Array existed in entirely separate worlds. The lethal Poison Array did not affect her in the slightest.

"Ah!"

The moment she broke through the Poison Array's blockade, just as Zhu Zhuqing stepped inside, she heard a scream that made her hair stand on end.

The scream was incomparably shrill and scalp-numbing, nearly causing her to lose control and slip out of her Shadow Stealth state.

"Gasp, could that be Dugu Bo?"

Hearing the scream, Zhu Zhuqing raised her head and looked at the sky.

All right, it was indeed already the middle of the night. She simply had not paid much attention because darkness did not affect her.

"That sounds way too miserable, doesn't it?"

Just from hearing the screams, Zhu Zhuqing could empathize with the sheer agony involved.

For a Titled Douluo to let out such screams, she reckoned it was pain she would never want to experience in her lifetime.

Although the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could suppress Dugu Bo's poison and stop it from continuing to erode his body,

the damage it had inflicted before would not be undone.

It could be said that if not for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo would not merely be in pain now. He would probably have died without anyone knowing where he had gone!

Zhu Zhuqing glanced toward the source of Dugu Bo's screams. It was a cave beside a cliff.

The place where she stood was also beside a cliff.

She quietly moved forward for some distance, and a mountain valley obscured by white mist came into Zhu Zhuqing's view.

"It should be down there!"

Looking at the white mist blocking her sight, Zhu Zhuqing guessed that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well should be beneath it.

After glancing once more toward Dugu Bo's location, Zhu Zhuqing quietly ran down the cliff. A ninety-degree cliff?

In Zhu Zhuqing's eyes, it was not much different from flat ground!

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Some time after Zhu Zhuqing entered the white mist, Dugu Bo emerged from the stone chamber with a pale face, supporting himself against the stone wall.

"I-I made it through another day!"

Dugu Bo raised his head and looked at the full moon in the sky, smiling miserably.

If not for Dugu Yan, he truly did not want to live in such pain!