Xiao Wu: Ah, Together?

"Master!" Ye Feng called out.

"No. This isn't child's play. The slightest mistake could cost you your lives." Sword Saint Chen Xin was resolute.

"Master, just let me try. Every strong person must undergo countless trials. If I succeed, I'll be completely transformed." Ye Feng said.

"No means no," Sword Saint Chen Xin said.

"Master, how about... this? Catch a soul beast, and we'll use it as a test subject. If nothing goes wrong, then allow us to temper our bodies according to my method." Ye Feng's eyes shifted as he proposed a solution everyone could accept.

"Fine," Sword Saint Chen Xin agreed.

Before long, Sword Saint Chen Xin truly did catch a soul beast. It was worth mentioning that it was only a ten-year rabbit.

Next, Ye Feng had Sword Saint Chen Xin use his Fifth Soul Skill, Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin, to bring the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot together. When these two medicinal herbs of opposing attributes were placed together, their extreme cold and extreme heat neutralized each other. Even someone standing only a meter away would not feel either force.

Ye Feng simultaneously plucked leaves from the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot. Holding the rabbit's mouth open, he forcibly stuffed both leaves inside.

Xiao Wu truly could not bear to watch such a scene. She softly tried to persuade him, "Ye Feng, isn't this too cruel?"

Ye Feng smiled at Xiao Wu and reassured her, "Don't worry. It'll be fine."

After the rabbit was forced to eat the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, alternating symptoms of cold and heat began appearing on its body. Carrying the rabbit, Ye Feng went to the edge of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and threw it into the poisonous waters.

A miraculous sight appeared.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well were all highly poisonous. Aside from showing pained, struggling expressions, the rabbit thrown into the well showed no signs of dying.

More than twenty minutes later, Sword Saint Chen Xin lifted the rabbit out of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Seeing that it was completely unharmed, he looked at Ye Feng and asked, "That man called Tang Jia San Shao really is just a beggar?"

Sword Saint Chen Xin had to admit that even he did not know that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass could counter poison with poison when combined. His instincts told him that this Tang Jia San Shao was no ordinary person.

Ye Feng rubbed his nostril with his index finger and nodded with a smile. "Master, can we temper our bodies now?"

"Mm." Sword Saint Chen Xin nodded.

"Xiao Wu, let's begin," Ye Feng urged.

"You want to bathe with me?" Xiao Wu's face flushed red as she asked in an odd tone.

"Yes. After all, we weren't the first ones to discover this place, and our time is limited. We should bathe together to save time. With it tempering your body, and since you're a soul beast, the age of the soul rings you gain is directly proportional to your body's strength. If you temper your body this way, your next soul ring could very likely become a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring, or even a Ten Thousand-Year Black Soul Ring." Ye Feng looked at Xiao Wu eagerly.

As a transmigrator, Ye Feng knew very well how beneficial this method of tempering the body was. In the original storyline, Tang San had used this method to temper his body, and his Fourth Soul Ring had ultimately become a ten-thousand-year soul ring.

Xiao Wu was a soul beast. Her first six soul rings had to be condensed by herself. The age of her first six soul rings was directly proportional to the strength of her body when she condensed them. The stronger her body became, the older the soul rings she condensed would be.

Of course, Sword Saint Chen Xin had told Ye Feng all of this as well.

"My second soul ring could be a ten-thousand-year soul ring?" Xiao Wu looked at Ye Feng with anticipation. She had to admit that his words were extremely tempting.

"Mm. What are you still worrying about? Let's begin." Ye Feng urged her.

"It's just... men and women should keep their distance." Xiao Wu reminded him quietly, resisting the idea.

"I don't care, so what are you worried about? Besides, you're already family to me. We're still young. What does it matter if we bathe together?" Ye Feng smiled, then turned away and stopped urging or persuading Xiao Wu. He reached out, plucked leaves from the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, placed them in his mouth, chewed once, and swallowed them.

When the leaves of the two Immortal Herbs with completely opposing attributes entered Ye Feng's stomach, he felt as if he had swallowed a block of ice and gulped down boiling water.

"Cold!"

In the next second, Ye Feng wrapped his arms around himself and shivered violently. Ice crystals began forming over his body.

This lasted only a second before the ice crystals vanished. Ye Feng's skin began turning red, like a piece of iron heated until it glowed.

"Hot!"

Extreme heat erupted within Ye Feng's body. Instinctively circulating his Soul Power, he blew apart the clothes on his body. He stood completely bare, without a thread on him.

"Ah!"

Xiao Wu cried out in shock. Her gaze curiously drifted downward before she blushed furiously and covered her eyes with her hands.

Ye Feng froze. The extreme heat within him began shifting into extreme cold. A thin layer of ice crystals appeared over the surface of his skin again.

"Cold!"

Ye Feng shuddered all over.

The alternating extreme cold and heat put Ye Feng's body through agonizing torment. The pain gnawed at his Divine Sense, yet also made him more alert.

Ignoring Xiao Wu, who had parted her fingers to secretly peek at his body, Ye Feng jumped into the Fountain of Life within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with a splash. The moment he entered the water, the extreme cold and heat generated within him were greatly suppressed. Though the pain did not disappear, it was at least within the limits Ye Feng could accept and endure.

"Xiao Wu!"

Sword Saint Chen Xin looked at Xiao Wu and said, "Whether you transform is entirely your own choice."

After saying that, Sword Saint Chen Xin stopped trying to persuade Xiao Wu as Ye Feng had done. Like a border sentry, he stood there guarding Ye Feng.

Xiao Wu hesitated for a moment as she watched Ye Feng tempering his body in the water. Then she looked at the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot. Her eyes became resolute, as though she had made up her mind. She plucked leaves from both herbs and swallowed them at the same time. Soon, alternating chills and heat appeared on her body as well.

Suppressing the pain in her abdomen, Xiao Wu lightly pushed off with the tips of her toes, leaped into the air, and jumped into the Fountain of Life within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Like Ye Feng, she began this rare and precious transformation.

Xiao Wu was deeply curious whether, after tempering her body this time, her second soul ring could become a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring.