Gulp—!
He swallowed it in one mouthful.
The next moment.
Boom—!
The effects of the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew immediately began to show.
He felt as if his mental power had been ignited, rapidly surging upward.
This sensation of his mental power skyrocketing was practically comparable to when he had first awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan. His mind had entered an ethereal state, which showed just how much this Immortal Herb, the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, had helped him.
Once the surge in his mental power ended.
He slowly opened his eyes. The pattern of the Mangekyō Sharingan in his eyes seemed to have undergone a subtle change.
And he.
Took a mirror from his Soul Tool.
One look.
"One Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew actually caused my Mangekyō Sharingan to transform again. My Mangekyō Sharingan should have advanced into the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan now!"
Taichu was not particularly surprised by the further evolution of his Mangekyō Sharingan. After all, he had awakened it directly in a fit of rage back then. With the help of an Immortal Herb, advancing to the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan was hardly unexpected.
And as his Mangekyō Sharingan advanced.
His mental power surged.
"With my current mental power, I should be able to withstand the Soul Shock produced by a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring."
Taichu silently speculated.
But in truth, he had no real confidence. He had never dealt with a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast before. The strongest Soul Beasts he had faced in the past had only been several Thousand Year Soul Beasts, and he had killed them all in a single exchange.
The gap between Thousand Year Soul Beasts and Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts was as vast as heaven and earth.
So...
Having never fought a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast, he did not dare claim with certainty that his mental power surpassed theirs.
But this problem was actually quite easy for him to solve.
"I'll just find a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast to test it on when the time comes."
As long as his First Soul Skill could instantly kill a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast as well, that would mean their mental power was nothing special. Then he would certainly be able to endure the Soul Shock produced by a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
He slowly rose to his feet.
At the same time, his gaze swept over the two people some distance away.
However.
Perhaps because he had absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew rather quickly, the two were still undergoing their transformations and had yet to awaken when he finished.
"I should hurry up and absorb the last two Immortal Herbs."
Taichu withdrew his gaze, then looked toward the two Immortal Herbs beside the spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass!
Infernal Delicate Apricot!
He knew that due to the special nature of his Martial Soul, all Soul Skills produced by the Soul Beasts he absorbed in the future would be Dojutsu. Kamui was an incredible life-saving skill among Dojutsu, but there were still other methods in this world that could kill a person.
For instance, poison!
To put it bluntly, if Dugu Bo poisoned him, he truly would have no way to deal with it.
That was why he needed these two Immortal Herbs even more.
After consuming these two Immortal Herbs.
He could gain Ice Immunity and Fire Immunity. If he completely refined them, he could even obtain an Immune to All Poisons Body.
At that point.
He would no longer have to worry about someone trying to harm him through poison.
Afterward.
He took out the things he had prepared long ago from his Soul Tool, then used jade to cut the two Immortal Herbs. Only after finishing all that did he remove the Soul Tool from his body.
Then.
"Lightning Style—Lightning Body Flicker!!!"
Lightning crawled over Taichu's legs like little snakes. The moment he moved, his speed became terrifyingly fast.
Naturally, he could not possibly touch the two Immortal Herbs with his bare hands. Their effects were simply too powerful; if he touched them carelessly, his hands would either be frostbitten or burned.
He merely used jade pieces to lift the two Immortal Herbs and toss them onto the shore.
When the two Immortal Herbs came into contact.
The scorching and freezing extreme auras instantly subsided. He hurriedly stuffed the two Immortal Herbs into his mouth and swallowed them.
Standing beside the spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
He quietly waited for the two Immortal Herbs to take effect.
After the time of two breaths.
An icy force plunged him into freezing cold, only for a blazing force to follow, making him feel like a crab being roasted alive. The effects of the two Immortal Herbs had begun to flare up.
He immediately leaped into the spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
And he.
Fell unconscious within the spring.
Time galloped like a whipped horse, while the sun and moon flowed like falling blossoms.
Neither Dugu Bo nor Dugu Yan sensed how quickly time passed during their Martial Soul transformations.
When they awoke.
A long time had already passed.
"Hahaha—!"
"This old man has never felt so good before!"
Dugu Bo was the first to awaken, bursting into laughter. He could clearly sense that the toxins embedded deep in his bones had all been dissolved. His body felt incomparably light, as if a tremendous burden had been lifted.
"Little..."
"Where is that brat?"
Dugu Bo instinctively wanted to find Taichu and share his joy, but after looking around, he found no trace of him. In the end, his eyes fell upon a Soul Tool ring lying beside the spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and his expression immediately changed drastically.
In the blink of an eye, he arrived beside the spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and picked up the Soul Tool ring.
"This..."
He frowned and looked around. Then realization dawned on him.
"Young people these days really have guts. He actually wanted to use the powers of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot to forge a body immune to ice and fire, impervious to all poisons! Does he not know how dangerous the spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well is? He really is not afraid of death!"
Though Dugu Bo said that, worry appeared on his face as he looked at the Ice and Fire Spring.
That boy was the grandson-in-law he acknowledged.
If something happened to Taichu, then with his talent, Dugu Bo would have lost a grandson-in-law who could become a Peerless Douluo. Not to mention, Yanyan had a rather favorable impression of Taichu. If something truly happened, how was he supposed to explain it to her?
However.
The more a person feared something, the more likely it was to happen.
"Grandfather, where is Little Brother Taichu?"
Dugu Yan had finally completely digested the medicinal effects of the Immortal Herb and awakened from her Martial Soul transformation.
But upon awakening, she only saw her grandfather standing beside the Ice and Fire Spring. She did not see Taichu anywhere.
"Th-that brat? That brat is now, in, in..."
Her sudden question caught Dugu Bo off guard, leaving him unsure of how to answer.
But at that moment.
Boom—!!!
It was as though an explosion had occurred within the Ice and Fire Spring. A figure leaped out of it and landed safely on the shore.
"Hahaha—!"
"My Ice Immunity, Fire Immunity, and Immune to All Poisons Body are complete!!!"
Taichu let out the signature wild laughter of the Uchiha clan.
However.
He did not notice that Dugu Yan had already covered her face. Yet the gaps between her fingers seemed a little too wide, completely failing to conceal the eyes that kept staring. Meanwhile, Dugu Bo's face darkened at once.
Dugu Bo directly threw Taichu's Soul Tool at him.
"I know you're well-endowed, brat, but do you really have to show it off like this?! Put your clothes on already!"
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