Ice and Fire Fusion! Nirvanic Rebirth

Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Infernal Delicate Apricot!

In terms of quality, these two were not the best among the many Immortal Medicines, but when fused together, they were undoubtedly the most exceptional things here.

Although consuming two Immortal Herbs at once came with enormous danger, this was Fang Xuan's best choice!

Sitting beside the spring, he hesitated briefly. Then determination filled his eyes, and he finally began to act.

Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass were both true Immortal Herbs. They could not be cut with metal, or their effects would be greatly diminished. Only a jade utensil could harvest them without risk.

Fortunately, Fang Xuan happened to have an ancient jade shovel seized from an enemy in his Spatial Ring. With its help, he harvested the two great Immortal Herbs without damaging them.

When the two Immortal Herbs were gathered before Fang Xuan, their extreme cold and extreme heat strangely vanished.

A layer of snow-white frost covered Infernal Delicate Apricot's fiery-red leaves, while blazing red heat shrouded the icy white tips of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

Cold and heat melded together, neutralizing one another!

The two Immortal Herbs counteracted each other. For ten seconds, their properties of extreme cold and extreme heat would be neutralized. This was also the best time to consume them.

If he missed this window, the two Immortal Herbs would corrode each other, their Medicinal Power completely destroyed and their effects lost!

Now!

Fang Xuan's eyes lit up. Without the slightest hesitation, he picked up the two Deadly Poison Immortal Herbs, tossed them into his mouth, and began chewing them in large bites.

"Mm~ They're kind of tasty."

Although both Immortal Herbs contained Deadly Poison, they truly tasted rather good. It was like cool ice cream paired with a fragrant hot dog, alternating between hot and cold, sweet and delicious.

However, before long, Fang Xuan's body suddenly trembled, and his expression turned ugly at once.

"Ah... so hot!"

Rolling heat surged through his limbs and bones. Fang Xuan felt as if he had been thrown into a blazing volcanic crater. The blood in his veins seemed to boil instantly, and his whole body turned blood-red, nearly melting beneath the terrifying heat.

This was the extreme heat of Infernal Delicate Apricot ravaging his body. Veins bulged on his sweat-soaked forehead, his face twisted in unbearable agony, and his body trembled continuously as though seized by spasms.

Forcing himself to endure the excruciating pain, Fang Xuan gritted his teeth and sat in meditation, circulating the Ice Phoenix Martial Soul within his body to use the power of ice to ease the suffering caused by the extreme heat.

Under these circumstances, he had to remain clear-headed. He absolutely could not pass out from the pain, or everything would be over.

Under the effects of the Ice Phoenix Martial Soul, the blazing aura was temporarily suppressed. Fang Xuan's pain eased slightly, and some color gradually returned to his face.

But before he could catch his breath, a terrifyingly powerful force of extreme cold erupted, directly freezing his lower body into ice!

"Hiss! Damn it, so cold!"

After the heat came the bitter cold. Fang Xuan knew that the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass was unleashing its Medicinal Power. He clenched his teeth and desperately circulated his Soul Power, enduring the cold's assault.

This was like Great Sage Equal to Heaven trapped inside Grand Supreme Elderly Lord's Eight Trigrams Furnace—alternating between freezing cold and scorching heat, suffering until he wished he were dead.

But Fang Xuan clearly did not possess Mister Sun's indestructible body. No matter how strong his willpower was, his body could no longer endure the repeated torment of Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass. Cracks began spreading across his skin, and streams of blood dyed his entire body red.

The time has come...

He had endured this agony for three full minutes solely to wait for the Medicinal Power of the two Immortal Medicines to take effect. Fang Xuan slapped his right hand against the ground, releasing a burst of force that shattered the earth. Using the rebound, his frozen body plunged headfirst into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes!

Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass—these Immortal Herbs of extreme heat and extreme cold—were a perfect match for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, where yin and yang likewise merged!

The spring water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes contained an unimaginably terrifying power of ice and fire. Should an ordinary person accidentally fall in, death would be certain. Even a Title Douluo like Dugu Bo would likely find it difficult to escape unharmed.

Yet Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass had been nurtured by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes. They inherited its cold and heat, and the two were intimately connected.

Thus, after consuming the two Immortal Medicines, Fang Xuan was not immediately swallowed by the spring water. Instead, he struggled bitterly within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, suffering pain even worse than before, liable to explode and die at any moment!

During this process, the immense energy contained within the two Immortal Herbs rapidly merged into his body, continuously strengthening Fang Xuan.

Ice and fire tempered his body, remaking him from the marrow up!

Submerged in the spring water, Fang Xuan could feel his body undergoing an earth-shaking transformation.

"This... this is..."

Suddenly, a miraculous sight unfolded!

Within his Dantian, the Nine Heart Begonia bloomed gracefully and swayed gently. Its milky-white, gentle energy guided the violent energies of extreme cold and extreme heat raging through his body, directing them in an orderly flow along his meridians.

It continuously soothed, dissolved, and absorbed them!

"The Nine Heart Begonia is helping me absorb the two Immortal Medicines?!!"

Feeling this miraculous change, Fang Xuan was utterly shocked.

As a top-tier plant-type Martial Soul, the Nine Heart Begonia had actually resonated with the Immortal Herbs. Their brilliance complemented one another, gradually stabilizing the violent ice and fire and continuously transforming them into Fang Xuan's own strength...

It was nothing short of miraculous!

Fang Xuan remembered that in the original Douluo story, Tang San had consumed Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot. Although he had cultivated a golden body immune to all poisons, because his own strength had been insufficient, the immense Medicinal Power of the two Immortal Herbs had settled within his body without being fully absorbed.

As a result, consuming the two Immortal Herbs had not raised Tang San's Soul Power Level. It had only given him a body immune to all poisons!

But now, under the Nine Heart Begonia's catalysis, Fang Xuan crazily absorbed the immense Medicinal Power of the two Immortal Herbs, and his Soul Power surged madly!

He leaped directly from Level 22 to Level 25!

Then—

Level 26!

Level 27!

Level 28!

It was still rising wildly...

Of course, the process remained extraordinarily painful, a veritable hellish torment!

Although the Nine Heart Begonia helped neutralize the effects, Fang Xuan's level was too low. Time and again, he could not withstand the overwhelming Medicinal Power of the Immortal Herbs. His skin repeatedly split apart, and even his body exploded several times, crimson blood dyeing the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes red.

Fortunately, he had the Nine Heart Begonia to heal his injuries. His body collapsed again and again, then repaired itself again and again, only to collapse once more and be repaired once more...

Fang Xuan had never seen what hell looked like, but he imagined it was perhaps not much different from what he was experiencing now!

Not until deep into the night did this agonizing ordeal finally end!

Boom!

The surface of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes exploded, and a tall, muscular figure leaped out. It traced a graceful arc through the air before landing lightly on a clean patch beside the spring!

The man wore nothing at all, completely naked. His ivory-jade skin gleamed, and his powerful, well-defined muscles bulged. He looked like an unparalleled treasure body freshly forged in a furnace!

"Level 30!"

Fang Xuan clenched his fist and felt the immense Soul Power within him. A wild delight appeared on his handsome face, and a burst of unrestrained laughter echoed through the quiet valley...