Ice and Fire Golden Body! Ultimate Poison Merges with Ice and Fire-Ice Poison and Fire Poison?! (Please add to your collection!)

Two whole months had passed!

Ever since Yan Yan had jumped in, there had been no movement on the surface, apart from the occasional bubble.

If Yu Nan hadn't kept assuring him that Yan Yan's vital signs were stable, Dugu Bo would have gone mad and drained the entire pool by now.

"Senior... It's been two whole months. Yan Yan, she..."

Dugu Bo's voice was hoarse, trembling slightly as he asked in his heart.

"Why are you in such a hurry? We're at the critical moment."

Yu Nan's voice was still lazy, but if one listened closely, it carried a note of solemnity:

"This girl's physical foundation was a little worse than I'd expected, so fusing the two Immortal Herbs took longer than usual.

"But after a long accumulation comes a sudden breakthrough. This is the moment she breaks free of her cocoon and becomes a butterfly!"

As soon as he finished speaking,

the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, which had been as still as a mirror, suddenly erupted without warning!

Gurgle, gurgle—!

Huge bubbles surged frantically up from the bottom, as if the entire pool were boiling.

Immediately afterward, the spring water, red on one side and white on the other, began spinning wildly, forming a massive whirlpool.

Extreme cold and terrifying waves of heat collided, crushed against one another, and fused at the center of the whirlpool!

Boom—!!!

A pillar of light, woven from red and blue and finally shimmering with brilliant golden rays, suddenly shot skyward from the center of the whirlpool, piercing the clouds!

Within the pillar of light, a slender yet powerful figure burst through the waves like a True Dragon emerging from the water!

"Yan Yan!"

Dugu Bo sprang to his feet, staggering from sheer excitement.

In midair, Dugu Yan's long hair streamed around her.

She had soaked in the spring for two whole months, and the inner armor that had once clung to her body had long since been corroded away by the power of ice and fire.

But at that moment, there was no awkward exposure at all.

Because of her skin!

Her once fair, tender skin now gleamed with a strange luster, smooth as jade and tough as gold.

A faint pattern of purplish-gold dragon scales shimmered beneath her skin.

Like the most perfect natural armor, it covered all the vital parts, at once divine and bewitching.

Water droplets couldn't cling to her at all. Like mercury rolling off a lotus leaf, they slid away in an instant.

"Haah—!"

Dugu Yan's eyes snapped open in midair.

Her left eye was icy blue, her right eye fiery red!

Then the two colors vanished in an instant, returning to those noble purplish-gold vertical pupils.

She let out a soft cry, gracefully stretched her body in midair, then drifted lightly down to the bank.

She hadn't summoned her Martial Soul or used Soul Power to protect herself.

Barefoot, she simply stepped onto the ground beside the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where scorching heat and bitter cold alternated.

Hiss!!!

A plume of white vapor rose from the ground where she landed.

But Dugu Yan's expression didn't change. It was as if she had stepped onto the carpet in her own home; she felt no discomfort at all.

"This... What is this...?"

Dugu Yan raised her hand in disbelief, staring at her crystalline arm, which seemed to hold boundless explosive power.

She could clearly feel that the terrifying aura of ice and fire, which had nearly suffocated her before, now felt incredibly familiar.

It was as if she were the master of ice and fire!

What's more, after two months of tempering, the Poison Dragon bloodline within her, which had once been somewhat restless,

had completely fused with her body, becoming inseparable.

"How do you feel?"

Yu Nan's phantom slowly appeared and circled Dugu Yan once, offering his satisfied assessment:

"Skin like ice and snow, bones like refined gold."

"Unaffected by water or fire, impervious to every poison."

"Congratulations, girl. You've cultivated one of the finest physiques in the world—the Ice and Fire Golden Body!"

"Ice and Fire... Golden Body?"

Dugu Yan murmured to herself, feeling the Bloodline Power surging through her like a mighty river. Her eyes were full of shock.

She casually threw a punch at a nearby rock.

She hadn't used Soul Power—only the strength of her body.

Thud!

The hard granite was directly punched in, leaving a fist mark several inches deep.

Cracks like a spiderweb spread all around it!

"This strength... It's increased at least several times over!"

Dugu Yan looked at Dugu Bo in delight:

"Grandpa!

"I did it!

"I'm not afraid of the spring water anymore, and my body... It's so strong!"

Dugu Bo was already in tears. He rushed forward, wanting to embrace Dugu Yan.

But wary of her strange state, he could only stand there helplessly, nodding again and again:

"Good!

"Good!

"Good!"

"You're alive—that's what matters!

"It's good that you've grown stronger!"

"Thank you, Senior!

"Thank you for giving her a new life!"

As he spoke, Dugu Bo was about to kneel before Yu Nan's phantom.

At that moment, he was truly convinced.

If before, it had been fear and self-interest,

now he had been utterly won over by Yu Nan's ability to turn the rotten into the miraculous.

And he even felt a hint of admiration!

He had wanted to kill Yu Nan.

When left with no other choice, Yu Nan had offered up Dugu Yan in sacrifice.

Yet he was still thinking of Dugu Yan, hoping to cultivate her into a god!

"All right, enough with the empty gestures."

Yu Nan waved his hand, and a gentle force held Dugu Bo up:

"This girl has laid the foundation for her body. From now on, absorbing Soul Rings and Soul Bones won't risk her body exploding."

"But this is only the beginning."

Yu Nan floated in front of Dugu Yan and pointed at her mismatched eyes, the corners of his mouth curling into an amused smile:

"Girl, now that you've cultivated the Ice and Fire Golden Body, your Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison...

"No, it's Poison Dragon Venom now. It should change along with you."

"You now have not only Ultimate Poison in your body, but Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire as well."

"Try circulating your Soul Power and see if anything surprises you."

At his words, Dugu Yan drew a deep breath and slowly raised her right hand, its surface covered in faint dragon-scale patterns.

She focused her mind, and Soul Power surged forth.

Her Soul Power used to be deep purple, with a sickeningly sweet, foul stench.

But now...

"Buzz—"

As she circulated her Soul Power, a strange energy gathered in her palm.

Its base color was still purple, the sign of deadly poison.

But two utterly different streams of energy were clearly entwined within the purple.

One was crystalline ice blue, radiating a piercing chill;

the other was a blazing, violent crimson, flickering with bursts of fire.

Ice and fire—two attributes that should have been utterly incompatible.

Yet now, harmonized by the domineering purplish-gold poison power, they coexisted in a strange and perfect balance.

Together, they formed a slowly spinning vortex of three colors.

"Go!"

Dugu Yan gave a light cry and casually flung the vortex at a huge Ironwood tree a short distance away, one so wide it would take three people joining hands to encircle it.

There was no earth-shaking explosion.

The three-colored vortex soundlessly sank into the trunk the instant it touched.

The next moment, a sight that made one's scalp crawl unfolded.

Crack, crack, crack—

The entire left half of the enormous Ironwood was instantly covered in thick ice, its leaves frozen into ice sculptures.

But the right half suddenly burst into roaring flames, its bark scorched black and curling under the heat.