Icefire Yin-Yang Well

Time slipped by as grandfather and granddaughter talked, and before long, noon had arrived.

The carriage did not stop for even a moment, carrying the group deeper into Sunset Forest. Dugu Bo released his aura, intimidating and driving away the surrounding Spirit Beasts, protecting the carriage as it moved smoothly onward.

Before long, the carriage brought them to a stretch of poisonous fog, then strained and refused to go any farther.

When Dugu Bo saw the carriage stop, he knew they had arrived.

"Little Monster, wake up. We're here." Dugu Bo woke Wu Tong, then led the two of them down from the carriage.

Looking at the poisonous fog before him, which seemed like a natural barrier, Wu Tong pretended to be confused and said, "Where is it? Where's the legendary Icefire Yin-Yang Well?"

"It's inside this poisonous fog. This is a Detoxification Pill. After you eat it, follow me in, and whatever you do, don't run around. Otherwise, even I won't be able to save you."

Dugu Bo took out three pills, swallowed one himself, and handed the remaining two to them. After they had taken them, he gave a solemn warning.

Wu Tong and Dugu Yan sensed Dugu Bo's seriousness and nodded gravely to show they understood.

Immediately after, Dugu Bo brought the two of them through the poisonous fog and arrived on a cliff. He pointed toward the area below, wreathed in mist and flashing with red and blue light.

"Little Monster, that's the Icefire Yin-Yang Well you were talking about."

Wu Tong circulated his Soul Power, and his Mind's Eye activated in an instant. He easily saw the scene within the mist. There, a strangely shaped pool immediately entered his view.

It was a pool like a yin-yang Taiji Diagram, circular as a whole, containing two kinds of spring water.

One was icy blue, constantly giving off a bone-chilling cold. The other was crimson red, its spring water churning endlessly as rolling heat rose from it.

The two different springs embraced each other like the yin-yang fish of a Taiji Diagram, clearly divided yet perfectly unified.

The cold and heat rising from the two different springs converged in the air and instantly turned into water vapor, spreading across the entire mountaintop.

"The Icefire Yin-Yang Well. This really is a masterpiece of nature!"

When Wu Tong saw the Icefire Yin-Yang Well below, a spring that resembled a yin-yang Taiji Diagram, even though he had known about it long ago, seeing it with his own eyes still left him deeply shaken, and he could not help praising it aloud.

"How about it, Little Monster? This precious land of mine is beautiful, isn't it? There are many rare medicinal herbs around the Icefire Yin-Yang Well, some of them extraordinary just by appearance. I just don't know whether there are any medicines that can help treat us."

Seeing Wu Tong's stunned expression, Dugu Bo began to introduce it. After learning from Wu Tong that this precious land was called the Icefire Yin-Yang Well, Dugu Bo had also started using that name for the place.

"Old Master, don't worry. The Icefire Yin-Yang Well is a fine place. We'll definitely be able to find medicine that can treat you. Because this precious land can not only help you suppress your poison, it's also the best Medicine Garden.

The books record that the Icefire Yin-Yang Well is one of the three great treasure basins of the world. Ordinary plants can't grow here at all, because they can't adapt to this special climate, but this place can shorten the growth time of rare and precious plants by dozens of times.

Simply put, if a Lingzhi Mushroom grew in any one of the three great treasure basins for ten years, it would have the effect of a hundred-year Lingzhi Mushroom. From that, you can see that the Icefire Yin-Yang Well absolutely deserves to be called a paradise for medicine, so there's no way it would be lacking in precious herbs."

When Wu Tong heard Dugu Bo's question, he explained.

"So that's how it is. No wonder so many precious medicines grow here in clusters."

After hearing Wu Tong's explanation, Dugu Bo nodded in understanding.

"However, there's one thing the two of you need to pay attention to, especially you, Yan'er. You absolutely must not stay beside the Icefire Yin-Yang Well for too long. Although this place is a paradise for plants, it is very unfriendly to people.

The area around the Icefire Yin-Yang Well is filled with powerful Ice-Fire Qi. That Ice-Fire Qi forms the mist there and will gradually erode a person's body. If they cannot leave in time, they will inevitably explode and die. Although it can be resisted with power, even with my cultivation, I don't dare stay there long."

Dugu Bo then spoke solemnly to the two of them, especially to Dugu Yan. He gave repeated, earnest warnings, as if he wished he could pour every point she needed to pay attention to directly into Dugu Yan's head.

Wu Tong rolled his eyes at the sight. This old fellow really was...

"Don't worry. Since I know about the Icefire Yin-Yang Well, I naturally know about the things I need to watch out for. Old Master, you'd better explain things properly to Sister Yan. I'll go ahead."

Wu Tong said that casually, then impatiently rushed toward the distant Icefire Yin-Yang Well.

Dugu Bo looked at Wu Tong's hurried back, sighed, and shook his head. Then he stopped paying attention to Wu Tong. After all, the other party was right. Since Wu Tong knew about such a precious land, how could he not know the things he needed to pay attention to?

He immediately turned back and continued explaining the precautions to Dugu Yan.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Wu Tong had already arrived at this peerless treasure land, a true masterpiece of nature, in just a short time.

Walking into the Ice-Fire mist, Wu Tong circulated the Crimson Wheel Sutra. Scorching True Qi flowed out through his body, directly evaporating the surrounding mist and resisting the Erosion of the Ice-Fire Qi.

"Hm? This environment seems to boost cultivation of the Crimson Wheel Sutra." Wu Tong sensed the active Lesser Sun True Qi inside him and felt puzzled. Near the Icefire Yin-Yang Well, the Lesser Sun True Qi had actually sped up its circulation, around thirty percent faster than usual.

After thinking it over carefully, Wu Tong suddenly understood. Although the Icefire Yin-Yang Well existed in the form of ice and fire, the principle and logic of Fusion and mutual opposition were similar to the concept of Taiji yin and yang complementing and clashing with each other.

His Crimson Wheel Sutra was itself a cultivation method of the extreme yang path, but what was too rigid was easily broken. The principle and logic of the Icefire Yin-Yang Well explained the idea of combining hardness and softness, of yin and yang coexisting, causing Wu Tong's originally forceful True Qi to develop a trace of supple strength.

That was what allowed the Lesser Sun True Qi's circulation speed to increase. Moreover, the appearance of supple strength also made that scorching, fierce Lesser Sun True Qi more condensed and more profound. Its circulation speed and efficiency rose greatly, and compared to before he came in, Wu Tong's combat strength had increased by at least about fifty percent.

"This really is my blessed land. Not only can it speed up cultivation, it also has all kinds of rare treasures and Immortal Herbs."

After figuring it out, Wu Tong stopped paying attention to the matter of his True Qi. After all, this was a good thing too.

Instead, he turned his gaze toward the herbs beside the Icefire Yin-Yang Well.

Cinnabar Lotus, Snow Silk Cocoon, Nine-Leaf Ginseng, Lingzhi Mushroom, even Tianshan Snow Lotus... all sorts of herbs, hundreds or thousands of years old, were present. Herbs that would originally require different planting locations, different periods, and different times in order to grow now appeared here in clusters, as though they completely ignored their own growth conditions.

Looking at this miraculous sight, Wu Tong could not help feeling secretly amazed. To think such a place actually existed in the world.