"What..."
Dugu Bo stared at Yu Shuangbai, who had plunged straight into the icy blue spring, his green pupils trembling violently.
He couldn't help turning to look at Snow Empress beside him.
"Senior, this..."
As the man who had made this place his own medicinal garden for so many years, Dugu Bo knew all too well how powerful the spring water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was.
It was the fusion of extreme cold and Ultimate Fire.
Even with the formidable Soul Power of a Titled Douluo, he wouldn't dare remain in the spring for long.
Let alone step directly into it.
He wasn't worried about anything else.
But he was counting on Yu Shuangbai to cure the poison afflicting him and Dugu Yan.
He absolutely didn't want anything to happen to him.
"Xiao Shuangbai knows his own limits."
Though Snow Empress's eyes still held a hint of concern, they showed far more trust.
She believed that if Yu Shuangbai had chosen to do this, he must be confident he could manage it.
Hearing this, Dugu Bo said no more.
After all, Snow Empress, his guardian, hadn't objected. It would be inappropriate for an outsider like him to say too much.
Since Snow Empress was so unconcerned, Yu Shuangbai must have some means beyond his understanding.
He stepped into the icy blue spring.
Bone-chilling cold rushed at him with the spring water.
It engulfed Yu Shuangbai from all sides.
The powerful cold would be enough to freeze an ordinary Soul Emperor solid in an instant.
Yet Yu Shuangbai showed no sign of pain.
On the contrary, a faint look of comfort even crossed his face.
This frigid environment might have been unbearable for anyone else.
But to Yu Shuangbai, who possessed the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul, it was a rare treasure trove.
However, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well wasn't made up of cold springs alone.
The deeper he went, the less distinct the boundary between the two springs became.
Then came the heat.
Feeling the increasingly dangerous temperatures below, Yu Shuangbai furrowed his brow.
With the Ice Dragon King Martial Soul, Yu Shuangbai wasn't afraid of the cold from the icy spring.
But he couldn't face the heat with the same composure.
The reason the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's opposing forces of ice and fire could exist in such harmonious unity was largely that their strength was not so different.
Ultimate Ice was counterbalanced by Ultimate Fire.
For Yu Shuangbai, whose cultivation was only at the Soul Elder level, to withstand the Ultimate Fire spring in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was clearly asking too much.
But he soon found a way to deal with it, and his eyes lit up.
"Ice, heed my call."
With a thought, Yu Shuangbai drew the frigid spring water around him toward himself.
The blue water flowed over him like silk.
It formed a protective shield made of the freezing spring water.
Just in time, it blocked the scorching water approaching him.
The method worked, and Yu Shuangbai remained unharmed by the hot spring.
By channeling an endless flow of freezing spring water to resist the scorching water, Yu Shuangbai finally reached the very bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Passing through a veil of white light, Yu Shuangbai arrived in another space.
It lay deep in the earth beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, a vast cavern forgotten by time.
There wasn't a speck of dust in the air, because no wind stirred here.
A silence, frozen for millions of years, ruled over everything.
Even sound itself seemed long dead.
The cavern walls were no ordinary rock. They were covered in massive energy crystals that glimmered faintly in the darkness.
Two corpses, so immense they defied imagination, lay at opposite ends of the cavern.
Yu Shuangbai knew that these two corpses were the reason he had come.
The former kings of the Dragon Clan.
The Ice and Fire Dragon Kings!
The Fire Dragon King's remains lay across a dark red stone platform.
It was over a hundred meters long, its limbs spread wide, its posture still charged with the force of battle from the moment it fell.
Its scales, which should have been golden-red or crimson, had lost all color. They were now a lifeless patchwork of charred black and dark gray.
Many scales had curled up or broken off, exposing bones just as black beneath.
And yet, though it had been dead for countless millennia, the fire element within its remains had not dissipated.
Heat seeped slowly and steadily from every bone and every remaining scale, distorting the air for several yards around it.
This was, unmistakably, the source of the scorching spring in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
To the right lay the Ice Dragon King's body.
It was about the same size as the Fire Dragon King, its entire form a translucent icy blue, its surface covered with naturally formed frost crystals.
Unlike the Fire Dragon King's battered remains, the Ice Dragon King's body had been preserved far more completely.
The pattern on every scale was clear, like an exquisite ice sculpture, masterfully crafted.
But it had not escaped damage.
On closer inspection, several bones along its left ribs were broken and caved inward.
A wound ran through its chest and abdomen, the ice crystals along its edges long since shattered.
An endless chill seeped from its body, thickening the layer of ice beneath it and spreading outward in web-like patterns.
That outflow of frigid energy had formed the blue freezing spring in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
The two dragon corpses lay about twenty paces apart.
Yu Shuangbai stopped a short distance in front of them.
The vague calling within him grew clearer still.
The Ice Dragon King Martial Soul's excitement reached its peak.
Yu Shuangbai instinctively activated his Ice Dragon King Martial Soul.
At his action, the two Ice and Fire Dragon King corpses, which had lain silent, changed.
As though a switch had been flipped, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in the two Dragon Kings' dead, hollow eyes.
Then two clear dragon roars rang through the empty cavern.
Two enormous dragon souls, one blue and one red, rose abruptly from the bodies of the Dragon Kings.
The ice and fire elements in the cavern surged to a fever pitch.
Yu Shuangbai's face paled slightly.
The Ice and Fire Dragon Kings had once been powerhouses who had nearly reached the God King level.
Though the passage of time had worn them down after their deaths, the might they released was still beyond anything a mere Soul Elder like Yu Shuangbai could match.
But he didn't retreat even half a step. He simply looked at the two enormous dragon souls before him.
Beneath their vast dragon souls, Yu Shuangbai looked impossibly small.
Yet he remained neither servile nor overbearing. He placed one hand over his chest and bowed slightly.
"This junior, Yu Shuangbai, pays his respects to the two seniors."
At the same time,
the two enormous dragon souls were also sizing Yu Shuangbai up.
Though the dragon might had drained the color from his face, he remained calm and composed.
A flicker of approval passed through the eyes of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King souls, but vanished almost at once.
The Ice Dragon King soul spoke in a clear, deep voice:
"Human, you have barged into our burial place. State your purpose."
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