Dugu Bo's Transformation, Jade Phosphor Becoming a Dragon

A few days later, Dugu Bo came to bring Chen Ming back to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. After returning, Chen Ming told Dugu Bo about recent events and began preparing medicine to treat him using his own methods.

Strictly speaking, if Ye Renxin had come along, Chen Ming would have dared to use more methods. But comparatively speaking, Chen Ming did not dare let Ye Renxin know about the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

After all, for a healer, this place was simply too dreamlike. Moreover, a Martial Soul like the Nine Heart Begonia could also gain an enormous boost in cultivation speed within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. Once Ye Renxin learned of it, he would cling here even if he had to shamelessly squat here forever.

And after all, this was Dugu Bo's territory. Although Chen Ming could make use of quite a few of the medicinal herbs here, the final say still rested with Dugu Bo.

Chen Ming did not want to become Tang San, treating Dugu Bo purely as a tool, stripping the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well bare and then treating it as his own backyard.

Even after all these years, Chen Ming clearly remembered the uncontrollable disgust that had welled up inside him when he saw Dugu Bo allow Tang San to pick whatever herbs he wanted, only for Tang San to directly empty out the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. He had stopped reading for a long time afterward.

Even if someone let you choose freely, that did not mean they told you to rob their home. And that line about "I merely chose everything"... With such a huge appetite, was he not afraid of bursting? He did not leave even a single medicinal herb for Dugu Bo, the local owner?

When he had first encountered it, he had been reading the beautified manga version of Douluo Continent, and it had already shocked him this much. After growing a little older and reading the novel version, he felt even more strongly that Tang San had plenty of issues.

Yet in the end, Chen Ming had still forced himself to finish the entire Douluo series.

Chen Ming shared his thoughts with Dugu Bo. Dugu Bo also fell silent for a long while before finally shaking his head.

"I trust Ye Renxin, but every additional person who knows about this place means one more concern. Once I get through my weakest period, perhaps I'll talk to him about it."

"Then you can decide for yourself, Senior." Chen Ming said no more and began preparing medicine for Dugu Bo.

The medicinal herbs within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well were generally very old, and their effects were excellent. But Chen Ming did not simply use the oldest ones; he used the ones with the most suitable age.

Using the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma as the main ingredient, Chen Ming combined it with dozens of other herbs and packaged them separately. He began addressing Dugu Bo's condition through every kind of preparation, from medicinal powders and pills to potions.

During the first several weeks, under Chen Ming's harsh medicine, Dugu Bo lost nearly twenty jin. A fine Titled Douluo had been reduced to looking like a frail old man in his twilight years. Only through nourishment from various medicines, powders, and potions did Dugu Bo regain more than ten jin over the following period.

Acupuncture, bloodletting, cupping, gua sha, massage...

Oral medication, topical application, injections...

Within three months, Dugu Bo lost a total of two hundred jin and gained a total of two hundred and fifty jin.

As the stubborn old toxins within Dugu Bo's body were continuously scraped away and expelled, he felt weak, but his condition kept improving.

After three months of uninterrupted treatment, nearly ninety percent of the toxins within Dugu Bo's body had finally been removed. The remaining ten percent could not be expelled for the time being and could only be released gradually afterward.

Through Chen Ming's constant guidance and medicinal treatment, Dugu Bo gradually became able to sense the disordered locations of his toxins. Though he did not understand the principles behind it, he could suppress himself to stop the secretion of toxins or accumulate them to a certain point before directly releasing them outside his body, thereby preventing future uncontrolled toxin buildup.

When the second phase of treatment was declared complete, Dugu Bo's Soul Power rose. It was not merely a one-level increase; he rose two levels at once, advancing from a rank ninety-one Titled Douluo directly to a rank ninety-three Titled Douluo.

Driven by his cultivation, Dugu Bo looked much younger overall. If he had previously looked to be in his sixties, he now appeared to be a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties.

His originally green hair had been shaved clean during treatment. The hair that grew back was a rich, glossy black. His aura was steady, his blood and vitality abundant, and a restrained gleam rested in his eyes. His temples bulged, a sign of abundant Soul Power.

His once withered, sallow cheeks had become rosy like a baby's, while his shriveled, gaunt skin had regained youthful fullness. His formerly thin, emaciated body had become broad and powerful after gaining weight, and his entire bearing now carried a steady strength.

Now, Dugu Bo felt that he alone could defeat three of his former selves. Even his Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Martial Soul, which had originally reached the limits of the Jade Phosphor Snake, showed signs of advancing a step further.

If he unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar, Dugu Bo would find four protrusions had already appeared upon its body, while two small horns had emerged from its snake head. It was clearly on the verge of transforming from a snake into a flood dragon.

Given the foundation of Dugu Bo's Martial Soul, the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Martial Soul itself was already infinitely close to a True Dragon. Once it truly transformed into a dragon and underwent a qualitative change, the power it unleashed would be unimaginable.

But even merely transforming toward a flood dragon, combined with his body's recovery, breakthrough in Soul Power, and many other factors, had made Dugu Bo's close-combat ability far stronger than before. He was no longer that fragile Spirit Master who could only use poison.

If not for his unsuitable Spirit Skills and lack of physical enhancement, it would not have been impossible for him to switch to the Power Attack System now.

Dugu Bo had originally thought about making Chen Ming his granddaughter's husband. But after several months of treatment, Dugu Bo completely abandoned that idea.

If he had not feared ruining such a gifted genius who had broken his curse and possessed limitless potential, Dugu Bo would have wanted to slaughter a chicken, burn yellow paper, and swear brotherhood with Chen Ming—not asking to be born on the same year, month, and day, but only to die on the same year, month, and day.

As for Chen Ming's requests, Dugu Bo now granted whatever he wanted. Even if Chen Ming said he wanted a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone, Dugu Bo would immediately thump his chest and agree, first going to see whether there were any Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Spirit Beasts. If there were none, he would wait until later and personally kill one for Chen Ming in the Star Dou Forest.

And throughout these more than three months, Chen Ming had not been idle either.

After absorbing his second Spirit Ring, Chen Ming had already reached rank twenty-three. He gained another rank while studying medicine. After returning to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, he began using the knowledge he possessed to formulate medicines.

After a period of exploration and failure, Chen Ming used the medicinal knowledge he had accumulated from every direction, along with some inspiration from the novels he had read in his previous life, to successfully break through the limits of medicinal arts in this era of the Douluo World. He refined pills that could truly be called elixirs.