Ice Fire Body Tempering, Another Transformation!

"Ye Yu, do you still have any of those grenades?"

Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

As they prepared to take Dugu Yan out again to hunt for her third Spirit Ring,

Dugu Bo wanted to see whether they could use the same method as before to help Dugu Yan obtain an External Soul Bone.

Feeling somewhat excited and eager, he asked Ye Yu.

Unfortunately,

making Sugar-Explosive Hand Grenades on the Douluo Continent was no simple matter.

Ye Yu had to make both the gunpowder and the sugar himself.

The grenade fragments were made from costly rare metals.

The grenade casings had also been commissioned at great expense from the most skilled blacksmith in Heaven Dou Imperial City, taking quite some time to forge.

Over more than half a year,

Ye Yu had only made three, and Dugu Yan had already used them all.

"Grandpa, there aren't any left. They're very troublesome to make."

"I only made three over all this time, and Yanyan has already used them all."

Ye Yu smiled helplessly and shook his head.

Without any grenades,

Dugu Bo could only personally take action this time to help Dugu Yan hunt for a Spirit Ring.

After searching through Sunset Forest,

Dugu Bo eventually helped Dugu Yan kill a Stone Poison Underworld King Snake that was over fifteen hundred years old.

After absorbing the Stone Poison Underworld King Snake, Dugu Yan gained her Third Spirit Skill: Jade Phosphorus Ash Poison!

The effect of this Spirit Skill was to release gray poisonous mist capable of eroding Soul Power and life force.

Once one's Soul Power and life force had been completely eroded by the Jade Phosphorus Ash Poison,

the body would gradually petrify from the outside inward.

In the end, it would become a stone statue!

Besides that, Dugu Yan also possessed the First Spirit Skill: Jade Phosphorus Red Poison, and the Second Spirit Skill: Jade Phosphorus Black Poison.

The effect of Jade Phosphorus Red Poison was to stimulate the nerves.

For a short period, it could increase the poisoned person's attack power and speed by twenty percent each.

But every medicine carried some toxicity, not to mention the Jade Phosphorus Red Poison, which was poison to begin with.

Once the duration of the Jade Phosphorus Red Poison ended,

the poisoned person would enter a state of nervous exhaustion, with both their physique and energy dropping by forty percent.

If they could not receive treatment in time, they would even suffer irreversible nerve damage.

However, while poisoned,

receiving treatment from the life force of Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia martial soul could offset this negative effect.

As for the Second Spirit Skill, Jade Phosphorus Black Poison,

it allowed her to release either black venom with extremely potent corrosive power, or black poisonous mist with slightly weaker corrosive power.

Its corrosive power was enough to eat through even stone.

Its might was exceptionally formidable!

After helping Dugu Yan obtain her third Spirit Ring,

Dugu Bo brought Ye Yu and Dugu Yan back to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

"Ye Yu, are you sure you plan to consume these two immortal herbs?"

Although he had already learned before leaving that Ye Yu intended to consume the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot to strengthen his Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine martial soul once more,

when he saw Ye Yu take out a jade knife and jade boxes,

use the jade knife to harvest the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot and place them into the jade boxes,

then divide them into several roughly equal portions,

Dugu Bo still could not help asking.

"I'm sure!"

Ye Yu smiled faintly and answered with utmost seriousness.

"Don't worry, Grandpa. It'll be fine."

"As long as I consume these two immortal herbs together according to the method recorded in that ancient text, nothing will happen."

"On the contrary, they can temper my body and strengthen my martial soul!"

"If I want to become strong, I'll definitely need to take risks."

"But I'm confident!"

Having once touched the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot out of curiosity,

and suffered quite badly as a result,

Dugu Bo was honestly still worried.

But Ye Yu insisted, and with a helpless sigh, he could only agree.

Under the anxious gazes of Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan,

Ye Yu walked toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

After making his preparations, he stood at the edge of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, used his Soul Power to draw a portion of Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot into his hand, stuffed them into his mouth together, and swallowed them.

In an instant, Ye Yu felt waves of bitter cold and blazing heat alternately surge from his abdomen, swiftly circulating throughout his body.

It immediately caused Ye Yu to feel incomparable agony.

One moment, his body seemed to be in an icy wasteland at absolute zero, as if it were about to freeze into pieces.

The next, he felt as though he were submerged in magma, his body seemingly about to ignite and melt away.

Under Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan's watchful eyes,

Ye Yu's face was twisted in pain as the color of his body continuously changed. Icy blue and fiery red alternated back and forth; one moment, frost formed on his body, and the next, billowing heat rose from him.

Yet Ye Yu could endure this pain.

Once he realized the medicinal effects had begun to take hold,

he gritted his teeth and leaped into the center of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Splash!

Water sprayed into the air, colliding and turning into rolling white mist.

After sinking into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well,

Ye Yu quickly lost consciousness amid the agony of extreme cold and extreme heat.

But his body continued to be tempered as ice and fire alternated.

At the same time, the ultimate ice-and-fire medicinal power of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot within him continuously reacted with the entirely different ice-and-fire spiritual energy in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

They transformed into an endless stream of pure spiritual energy that nourished Ye Yu's body.

"He's fine?"

"Then it seems that consuming these two immortal herbs this way and using this pool known as the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to refine their medicinal power really is feasible!"

Standing beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well,

Dugu Bo finally sighed in relief when he saw that Ye Yu had not encountered any problems after jumping in.

Later, after sending Dugu Yan back,

Dugu Bo returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and watched over Ye Yu as he underwent Ice Fire Body Tempering.

Although he had previously opposed Ye Yu being with Dugu Yan,

that had been the right choice for him to make as a grandfather concerned for his granddaughter's future.

He did not believe he had been wrong.

Now that he had accepted Ye Yu,

Dugu Bo genuinely regarded him as his future grandson-in-law.

In the blink of an eye, a month passed.

After completely digesting the medicinal power of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot he had consumed,

Ye Yu, who had been sleeping within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, finally awoke.

He climbed out of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and put on his clothes.

Hearing the movement, Dugu Bo, who had been cultivating in a cave above the nearby cliff face, emerged.

He took out the food he had prepared from his Storage Spirit Tool.

"How is it? Want something to eat?"

Dugu Bo asked.

"Thank you, Grandpa!"

Ye Yu had not expected Dugu Bo to still be here looking after him. Feeling deeply warmed and grateful, he thanked him and ate something.

Afterward, he consumed another portion of Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.

He jumped into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and continued the Ice Fire Body Tempering.

In the blink of an eye, nearly a year passed.

Ye Yu finally succeeded in consuming all the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot and completing the Ice Fire Body Tempering.

After getting dressed, he stood at the edge of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Ye Yu took a deep breath. With a thought, he summoned the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine martial soul once more.

For a moment, amid a burst of silver-blue light,

a Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine martial soul appeared. Its entire body was as crystalline and translucent as blue crystal, with long, narrow leaves and golden veins.

Its main stalk continuously split into branches of vines that were likewise like blue crystal, hanging down and spreading in all directions.

After completing the Ice Fire Body Tempering,

the Blue Silver Spirit Jade Vine had undergone quite a few changes compared with before.

Not only had its vines become much thicker in diameter, but they were also covered in many scarlet-red and icy-blue patterns.