An Invitation from Suotuo City's Nobles

"Su Xing, may I ask you a question?"

That evening, Yu Tianheng found Su Xing, looking somewhat hesitant.

"Sure!"

Su Xing nodded.

"Although this is a little presumptuous, I still want to ask. If you can't answer, just pretend I never said anything. After all, I'm the one being rude!"

"How did your Self-Created Soul Skill condense Lightning onto your body? Wouldn't it hurt you?"

Yu Tianheng had wanted to ask this for a long time and quickly voiced the question.

"That has to do with a fortuitous encounter I had!"

"I once ate a magical fruit and discovered that I was immune to Lightning! But I can only completely resist my own Lightning. I can't fully resist an enemy's Lightning!"

Hearing Yu Tianheng's question, Su Xing smiled faintly before explaining.

He had prepared this answer long ago!

Su Xing naturally knew that Spirit Masters on the Douluo Continent could not be immune to their own Lightning. He had only been able to condense Lightning into his body and develop Lightning Release Armor after undergoing Lightning Body Tempering and gradually adapting to it.

Lightning Body Tempering was Su Xing's most important source of strength, something he would never reveal. That was why he had long since thought of an explanation.

Besides, this world already had all sorts of magical plants. Even Tang San's Blue Silver Grass was immune to both water and fire!

"...A fortuitous encounter?"

"I see!"

Yu Tianheng sighed in disappointment, then accepted it. Indeed, without a fortuitous encounter, no Spirit Master could fuse Lightning into their body without being injured.

"Do you still have that fruit?" Though he held little hope, Yu Tianheng still asked expectantly.

"No. Afterward, I learned it was a treasure and went back to look for more, but unfortunately, I never found another one!"

Su Xing shook his head. It had never existed in the first place, so how could there be any more?

Yu Tianheng could only leave in disappointment.

Su Xing could only feel sorry for him. Lightning Body Tempering was his most important source of power, and he would never reveal it.

Besides, even if he told Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianheng might not dare believe it or attempt it. To master Lightning Body Tempering, one first had to blow up their Spirit Ring.

"Tianheng, how did it go? Did he tell you?"

After Yu Tianheng left, Dugu Yan had apparently been waiting outside for him.

"He did, but it was an ability he gained through a fortuitous encounter..." Seeing Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng knew what she was asking. He shook his head, speaking with a trace of regret.

Yu Tianheng then told Dugu Yan what Su Xing had said.

"A mysterious fruit?"

"My grandfather has plenty of strange flowers and rare herbs, but most of them are highly poisonous. Even he doesn't dare touch them carelessly!"

"Some aren't poisonous, though. I just don't know what would happen if you ate them. Want me to take you to have a look sometime?"

Hearing Yu Tianheng's words, Dugu Yan could not help thinking of her grandfather Dugu Bo's secret Medicine Garden.

"Your grandfather's Medicine Garden? Forget it!"

The moment Yu Tianheng heard it belonged to Poison Douluo Dugu Bo, he immediately lost interest, instinctively assuming it was full of poisonous flowers and herbs planted by Dugu Bo.

"Fine, forget it if you don't want to! Ordinary people can't even get in without an antidote. My grandfather set up poisonous miasma there!"

Dugu Yan snorted irritably. She knew Yu Tianheng did not particularly want to have contact with her grandfather.

Yu Tianheng smiled awkwardly and said nothing further, quickly changing the subject instead.

In any case, he still did not really dare meet Dugu Yan's grandfather, Dugu Bo. Who knew whether the man would accept that his granddaughter had a boyfriend?

"So Dugu Yan really knows about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and she has been there!"

"That makes sense. That place benefits those who cultivate poison techniques. Dugu Bo loves his granddaughter so much that it would be normal for him to have taken her there!"

"I just didn't expect Dugu Bo to have set up Poisonous Miasma there. I hadn't considered that before!"

After Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng left, Su Xing emerged from the concealed spot behind them.

Su Xing had not intentionally eavesdropped. He had merely happened to be heading out as well.

Who would have thought he would overhear Dugu Yan's words?

This confirmed for Su Xing that Dugu Yan really knew the location of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

He also learned that Dugu Bo had set up Poisonous Miasma around it, making the place extremely dangerous.

If someone entered without preparation, they would not even know how they died.

"This is a little troublesome! I don't cultivate poison techniques, so I can't make antidotes!"

Only then did Su Xing realize that even if he successfully found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he would not be able to enter it easily.

"But it isn't too difficult. I just need a protective suit and a gas mask."

"Or there's another way: get the antidote from Dugu Yan!"

Where there was a problem, there would naturally be a solution.

Identifying the problem was what mattered most.

Over the next few months, Su Xing got to relive academy life.

It was hardly pleasant. Heaven Dou Royal Academy's discrimination against commoners had always existed, and those looks of contempt never left Su Xing.

Even after they learned that Su Xing had joined the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Martial Soul Team's First Team, nothing changed.

Under such circumstances, Su Xing simply could not integrate into the academy.

So Su Xing stopped caring and focused on his own studies.

Besides cultivating every day, Su Xing spent most of his time reading.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy was quite good in this regard. The academy had collected a great many books and reference materials of all kinds, including records of geographical environments and Spirit Beast distributions...

Many of them were things Su Xing could not have bought before, even with money.

Unfortunately, he could find no records regarding Immortal Herbs!

Although Su Xing was disappointed, he was not surprised. Not only did the academy lack such records, even the Heaven Dou Empire did not have them.

If the Heaven Dou Empire did have them, Dugu Bo, as a guest official of the Heaven Dou Empire, could not possibly have been unaware.

Yet Dugu Bo had been unable to recognize those Immortal Herbs either, which showed that there were no records concerning them within the Heaven Dou Empire.

Of course, if one insisted that Dugu Bo had never collected such information himself, there was nothing Su Xing could say.

That was simply impossible. Who would guard a pile of herbs with immense power without looking for information to understand them?

In a little over four months, Su Xing's Soul Power directly broke through the level 30 bottleneck and soared to level 33!

However, Su Xing himself knew that this had not greatly improved his strength.

What made him powerful was his physical strength. His Physical Body Level was still in the forties. It had improved considerably and was currently around level 48, but it had not yet broken through level 50.

Of course, compared with people his age, that was already terrifying.

However, Spirit Masters on the Douluo Continent generally had equal Physical Body Levels and Soul Power Levels, and no one had ever classified them separately. Thus, no one knew that Su Xing's overall strength was nearly level 50!

"Four months have passed, and all I know is that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well is in Sunset Forest!"

"Dugu Yan hasn't gone even once. Or perhaps Dugu Bo took her there, but that would be beyond my ability to discover!"

"Today, some nobles from Suotuo City came to the academy and invited us to compete at Suotuo City's Great Soul Arena!"

"So I'm about to run into the Shrek Seven Devils!"