The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well

When the Tongyuan Flower's Spirit Ring had completely merged into Su Wen's body, he finally finished absorbing his First Soul Ring.

"Whew~"

He took a deep breath and opened his eyes. Ye Yuan'er's lovely face, full of concern, was right in front of him.

"How do you feel?"

Ye Yuan'er raised her snow-white wrist and wiped the sweat from his forehead with her jade-like hand.

"Kind of bloated, but full of strength. I feel like I could plow two mu of land without getting tired!"

Su Wen was quite excited. The power of the six-hundred-year-old Spirit Ring had brought him straight to level twelve.

"Pfft!"

Ye Yuan'er couldn't help laughing, then wore a proud expression. "A six-hundred-year-old First Soul Ring! My Xiao Wen might be the first person on the entire continent to have one!"

"What's your Spirit Skill?"

Su Wen carefully sensed his First Soul Ring before answering, "Underworld Marriage!"

Ye Yuan'er: "?"

"It can force a Soul Marriage Contract with a deceased life-form. It ignores species and rules, forcibly summoning the other party's soul into my First Spirit Skill. From then on, our lives and deaths are bound together. The other party retains all the memories and combat experience they had while alive, and can temporarily possess a body. Their Soul Power will be the same as mine. If I'm level twenty, she'll be level twenty. If I become a Titled Douluo, she'll be one too."

"If I die, she dies. If she falls in battle, she'll return to my First Spirit Skill, with a one-month cooldown before she can be revived."

"The condition for activating the Spirit Skill is that I must be within one meter of the other party's corpse."

Su Wen's Spirit Ring hadn't given him any combat power, yet it was extraordinarily special.

Any life-form that had already died—even one with only a lingering consciousness—would be unable to refuse.

He remembered that the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Spring had been formed by the Ice and Fire Dragon King. There was a female dragon in there, wasn't there?

"Ah, this..."

Ye Yuan'er was astonished. If he managed to get a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast—

With the powerful body of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast, once Xiao Wen became a Titled Douluo, she could take on three or four Titled Douluo at once.

After her surprise faded, she inexplicably began to feel uneasy.

"Xiao Wen, don't tell anyone about this Spirit Skill for now. Come on, let's head back."

Ye Yuan'er summoned her Blazing Spirit Kite. Since she had obtained the Spirit Ring, there was no need to stay here any longer.

She took him by the hand and rose into the air. The two of them stood on the Martial Soul, ready to return the way they had come.

"Aunt Ye, there's a foggy valley over there. Remember where it is."

Su Wen kept his eyes on the forest below. He had come to Sunset Forest specifically to find the location of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Spring first.

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was in a valley, and the valley was surrounded by poisonous mist.

It was easy to spot.

As one of the three great treasure troves on the Douluo Continent,

it held an important opportunity that had helped the Shrek Seven Devils become gods.

There was no way Su Wen would pass it up.

At this point, Dugu Bo had surely already claimed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

He had a bad temper and was difficult to reason with. Tang San had nearly died at his hands.

Although Dugu Bo was a Titled Douluo, he was known as the weakest of them. Ye Yuan'er, as an eighty-ninth-level Soul Douluo, could certainly fight him. But with Su Wen there, Ye Yuan'er would surely be distracted.

Su Wen could only wait until Ye Yuan'er broke through to become a Titled Douluo before coming back for the Immortal Herbs.

"Is there something there?"

Ye Yuan'er suddenly flew toward the valley filled with poisonous mist.

Ye Yuan'er's body was surrounded by blazing flames, protecting her and Su Wen as they slowly descended into the valley.

The poisonous mist they approached was burned away by the flames. Some of it even evaporated before it could get close.

Ye Yuan'er moved quickly. In barely two breaths, she was standing in the valley.

Her beautiful eyes swept across the scene. At a single glance, she froze in place.

The valley was covered in vines. Beneath them lay a spring, its waters milky white on one side and crimson on the other.

The two kinds of water flowed close together without crossing into each other, creating a strange sight.

Even from a distance, Ye Yuan'er could clearly sense the spring's opposing waves of scorching heat and bitter cold. It felt extremely dangerous.

"Aunt Ye, why did you come straight in?"

"Huh? You told me to remember this place. How was I supposed to remember it if I didn't come in?"

Ye Yuan'er curiously studied her surroundings. "Xiao Wen, what is this place? The spiritual energy here feels so rich, but the extreme cold and heat are intense. Cultivating here for a long time would be beneficial, but it could also damage your foundation!"

Su Wen didn't answer right away, instead keeping a wary eye on their surroundings. "Aunt Ye, be careful. Someone probably lives here. It could even be a Titled Douluo!"

Ye Yuan'er had already been on guard, but Su Wen's words put her on high alert.

Every Titled Douluo on the continent was a well-known figure.

There were very few of them.

This place was fairly close to Heaven Dou City.

There was a Poison Douluo in the city who specialized in poison techniques and had a terrible relationship with Spirit Hall.

"Xiao Wen, how do you know there's a Titled Douluo here?"

Ye Yuan'er used her spiritual power to probe the area but found nothing. She did, however, find traces of someone having lived here.

"Hehe, I'm just guessing. Aunt Ye, if no one's here, let's hurry down and pick some things. I read about this place in a book. It's definitely a treasure trove, with rare natural treasures inside."

Su Wen could tell, too.

Dugu Bo wasn't here.

Otherwise, with his temper, he would have rushed out as soon as a Soul Douluo trespassed on his territory.

The two of them approached the spring, where all kinds of strange flowers grew in abundance.

There were over a hundred of them. Su Wen spotted the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

Even without having read the Immortal Herb Catalog, he could recognize it by the shape of its flower.

Besides those, Su Wen also saw the other Immortal Herbs from the original story.

Beside the Immortal Herbs was a small plot of land that had been cleared by hand. Many medicinal herbs had been planted there, likely poisonous ones cultivated separately by Dugu Bo.

"Xiao Wen, someone really has been here. This soil's been turned over, and everything planted in it is poisonous herbs. Could this really be Poison Douluo's territory?"

Ye Yuan'er was a little worried. Although Dugu Bo was called the weakest Titled Douluo, he was still a Titled Douluo. If they fought, the outcome would be anyone's guess.

"Maybe it is. Aunt Ye, don't tell me you're scared?"

"Go on, get out of here. I've never been afraid of anyone."

"Hehe, Aunt Ye, do you know what this place is? I read that the plants around the spring are all Immortal Herbs."

Su Wen explained the benefits of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Spring to Ye Yuan'er. Every Immortal Herb was a rare treasure.

Consuming one wouldn't guarantee a person could become a god, but becoming a Titled Douluo was certain.

How did Su Wen know? He blamed it all on books. As for which book, he had read so many that he couldn't remember.

"Aunt Ye, I can't recognize them all, but I do know a few!"

Su Wen pointed to two Immortal Herbs beside the spring. One was fiery red all over and shaped a bit like a cabbage. The other was a white, eight-pointed flower with an ice-crystal-like stamen at its center.

"These are the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot. Either one is deadly poison on its own, but taking them together can make you immune to all poisons, grant Ice and Fire Immunity, and temper your body with ice and fire. If I take them, my Second Soul Ring will definitely be purple."

"And that big chrysanthemum—isn't it exactly the same as Chrysanthemum Douluo's Martial Soul? It's the top-grade Immortal Herb, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum. Eating it can open the eight meridians in your limbs and help you cultivate an indestructible body."

"The Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, the Aromatic Silk Beauty, the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid..."

"Besides those, there are plenty more I don't recognize, but I'm sure they're all Immortal Herbs or close to it."

Su Wen remembered most of the Immortal Herbs from the original story, but didn't recognize the rest.

Ye Yuan'er listened, dumbfounded. She hadn't expected these flowers to have such powerful effects.

Becoming a god at level one hundred was the stuff of legends, yet a single Immortal Herb could give someone a chance to become a deity.

If an ordinary person had told her this, she might have been skeptical.

But Su Wen was different.

He was the most important person in her life.

Ye Yuan'er instinctively asked, "Th-then what should we do now?"

"We didn't come prepared, and we didn't even bring tools for picking them... But we can't leave empty-handed!"

Su Wen hurried over to the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, then crouched down.

He dug it up, roots and all.

Afterward, he restored the spot, making sure he left no trace.

Then he went to the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid and dug it up the same way, soil and all.

"Aunt Ye, let's leave for now. We can come back for the other Immortal Herbs next time."

Su Wen was determined to get the Immortal Herbs.

Now that he had found the place, he could come back prepared next time.

"Mm!"

Ye Yuan'er answered, knowing they couldn't stay any longer. Dugu Bo could return at any moment.

She carefully removed any traces they might have left behind, then used her Soul Power to lift Su Wen onto the Blazing Spirit Kite. The two of them quickly flew away from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

They left Sunset Forest and flew hundreds of miles before Su Wen finally let out a quiet breath of relief. Dugu Bo probably wouldn't find out.