"Fine. Take me to your herb garden. Don't disturb me for a day."
Brushing the dust from his clothes, Tang San calmly agreed to Dugu Bo's request.
Dugu Bo swept his gaze over him, then turned and headed out of the cave. "Follow me."
Bai Ge rose and hurried after him. The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well—one of the goals he had planned for so long—was finally within reach.
Only after leaving the cave did they discover that it was surrounded by a dense forest.
They were currently atop a hill roughly five hundred meters tall in the heart of the forest.
Before long, led by Dugu Bo, Tang San and Bai Ge reached the summit.
This was an inverted-cone-shaped valley. The mountaintop where they stood formed its rim. Hot air rose from within the valley, humid and carrying the distinctive scent of sulfur.
"There's a hot spring here?" Tang San blurted out in surprise.
Dugu Bo shot him a glance. "Kid, you really do know quite a lot."
Tang San said, "It's not like I wouldn't recognize the smell of a hot spring.
"Could your herb garden be by the hot spring? That would indeed be a good place."
Hot springs themselves were not suitable for nurturing plants because they contained too many minerals. But some special plants were different.
What they needed were precisely the minerals and heat within the spring water.
As far as Tang San knew, quite a few highly poisonous plants grew this way.
"Follow me."
Dugu Bo moved, leaping directly off the pitch-black mountainside before them, where the bottom could not be seen.
With the thick mist, the darkness of night, and the steep cliff, Dugu Bo's figure vanished into the vapor in the blink of an eye.
Dugu Bo had failed at