Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement, Five Times Speed!

"Senior, please step back ten zhang. No matter what happens, do not approach me, and certainly do not attempt to probe me with your soul power."

Dugu Bo was taken aback by the unquestionable tone in Xue Yao's voice, but seeing the desperate, do-or-die resolve in the youth's eyes, he obediently retreated.

With Dugu Bo dismissed, Xue Yao took a deep breath.

These two immortal herbs were the embodiment of extreme poison; for an ordinary person, let alone consuming them, even a slight touch would result in being instantly frozen into an ice sculpture or reduced to ashes.

But Xue Yao had his own trump card!

"Wind, rise!"

Xue Yao thrust his hands forward, his thirty-six-level soul power erupting without reservation.

His affinity for the wind element was pushed to its absolute limit at this moment, and two tangible, cyan-colored *Wind Blade*s instantly crossed the distance of several dozen meters, striking precisely at the stems of the two immortal herbs.

"Cling! Cling!"

Two crisp snapping sounds echoed.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot were simultaneously severed from the soil, lifted by two miniature tornadoes and suspended in mid-air.

The moment they lost their roots, the radiance of the two immortal herbs dimmed sharply, as if they were about to wither at any second.

"Now!"

Xue Yao slammed his hands together.

In mid-air, the red and blue extreme immortal herbs collided violently, carried by the raging winds!

A miraculous scene unfolded.

The moment the frigid Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass touched the scorching Infernal Delicate Apricot, the originally tyrannical ice and fire energies canceled each other out within a few breaths, neutralizing into a peaceful, red-and-blue intertwined medicinal mass.

But Xue Yao knew this peace was merely a fleeting illusion; if he did not consume them within ten breaths, their medicinal efficacy would dissipate into the heavens and earth.

Xue Yao opened his mouth, and the medicinal mass was precisely guided by the wind into his throat, where he swallowed it down.

The instant the immortal herbs entered his stomach, Xue Yao felt no discomfort, only a hint of sweet, cooling sensation.

However, only a second later!

A terrifying energy, impossible to describe in words, exploded within Xue Yao's internal organs!

The moment the briefly neutralized ice and fire energies touched human flesh, they erupted with the raw, violent, and destructive power inherent to supreme immortal herbs!

"Ah--!"

Even with a will as tenacious as Xue Yao's, he could not help but tilt his head back and let out a shrill, agonizing scream.

His body was instantly split in two!

On the left side, a thick layer of ice-blue crystals spread at a speed visible to the naked eye, even his eyebrows and hair frosting over with extreme cold.

On the right side, his skin turned into a red-hot iron, with wisps of white steam rising from his crimson flesh!

Extreme cold! Extreme heat!

Two diametrically opposed, terrifying forces turned his dantian into a battlefield, engaging in a frenzied slaughter!

"What terrifying energy..." Dugu Bo watched from afar, stunned; he dared not touch either of those two forces!

If it were an ordinary Soul Elder, they would have exploded and died within a thousandth of a second of consuming these herbs, as their flesh and meridians could never withstand such extreme tearing.

But on the edge of life and death, the "trump card" Xue Yao had prepared in advance played a vital role!

"Hum!"

Just as the ice-fire storm was about to shatter Xue Yao's meridians, the lingering medicinal power of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum within him was fully ignited! A dazzling dark golden light bloomed from the depths of his bones, shielding his heart and main meridians with a death grip!

No matter how the ice and fire forces raged, that golden barrier, though trembling violently, refused to collapse!

Extreme pain hammered at Xue Yao's mind, attempting to shatter his sanity.

But the mental ocean, just recently expanded by the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, kept him absolutely clear-headed!

Pain! Heart-wrenching, soul-tearing pain!

Every inch of his muscle was being frozen and then scorched by fire; every nerve was shrieking in the throes of collapse.

"It's not enough... if I rely only on internal digestion, I will be exhausted to death!"

Xue Yao endured the splitting headache, forcing open his eyes—one ice-blue, one crimson—and locked his gaze onto the churning Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well ahead.

"Bang!"

His legs pushed off the ground, and he leaped high, crashing straight into the intersection of the red and blue springs!

"Kid! Have you lost your mind?!" Dugu Bo cried out in shock. That spring was a forbidden death zone that even he dared not tread upon lightly!

But Xue Yao could no longer hear him.

The moment he fell into the core of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the vast, frigid, and scorching spring water outside found a vent, crazily drilling into his body through his pores, echoing the violent medicinal power of the herbs within him!

"Ahhh--"

Beneath the surface, Xue Yao's body convulsed violently. This was a true furnace of hell!

The external spring water was refining his flesh, while the internal immortal herbs were tempering his organs.

Yet, under the staunch protection of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, this inhuman torture gradually underwent a miraculous transformation.

The originally violent and mutually repulsive forces of ice and fire, caught in a cycle of constant tearing and mending, began to circulate along his meridians in accordance with some profound, mysterious trajectory.

After extreme destruction comes extreme rebirth.

Time ticked away, second by second.

Three full hours passed.

The once violently churning spring water gradually calmed, and those heart-wrenching screams had long since vanished.

Dugu Bo, standing on the bank, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. Just as he assumed Xue Yao had been reduced to nothing and was preparing to dive in regardless of the consequences—

"Splash!"

A light sound of water breaking echoed.

At the confluence of the red and blue springs, a slender, upright figure slowly emerged from the surface.

Xue Yao's eyes were tightly shut, resembling a perfect sculpture forged in divine fire. His skin, once fair, now possessed a translucent, crystalline luster like mutton-fat jade, and deep within that skin, a red and a blue divine light faintly flickered, rotating in alternation like a Taiji diagram.

Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement, complete!

At this moment, Xue Yao possessed a heaven-defying constitution that would drive every ice, fire, and poison master on the Douluo Continent to despair—immune to all poisons, immune to both ice and fire!

From now on, whether it was the ten-thousand-year profound ice of the Far North, the hellish magma from the depths of a volcano, or even the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor poison that Dugu Bo took such pride in, to him, they were nothing more than a gentle breeze!

Xue Yao slowly opened his eyes, a flash of purple-gold light vanishing in an instant. He leaped lightly, his body as weightless as a feather, landing steadily on the bank.

"You... you succeeded?" Dugu Bo felt the terrifying, restrained aura emanating from Xue Yao and swallowed hard.

How could this be an eight-year-old boy? This was nothing short of an ancient beast draped in human skin!

Xue Yao did not reply; he lowered his head slightly, feeling the earth-shattering changes within his body.

The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum had previously only granted him an indestructible skeletal frame, but now, after the tempering of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot, every inch of his muscle, every meridian, and even every cell had been forged to an unfathomable degree of strength!

"I wonder how much of a load this body can handle now?"

A fanatical smile curled the corners of Xue Yao's mouth. He snapped his head up, and the wind element within him erupted.

"Second Soul Skill, Ride the Wind!"

"Hum!" A cyan wind ring lit up beneath his feet. Speed increased by 120%!

"Double stack!"

"Hum!" The wind ring intensified, and Xue Yao's figure blurred. 240% increase!

"Triple stack!"

"Boom!" The air was torn asunder, and Xue Yao's presence nearly vanished from Dugu Bo's perception. 360% increase! This had been his limit before absorbing the immortal herbs.

But now, Xue Yao's expression remained as calm as water; his breathing wasn't even the slightest bit disordered! The sense of strain that once caused his meridians to sting felt as if it didn't exist at all!

"Not enough! Keep going!"

A sharp light flared in Xue Yao's eyes, and he let out a low growl in his heart.

"Fourth stack!"

"Hum—bang!"

Four dazzling cyan wind rings overlapped beneath Xue Yao's feet, erupting with a thunderous sonic boom! 480% speed increase!

The violent airflow blew the surrounding flowers and plants into disarray, and even the water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was whipped into a water tornado several meters high!

Dugu Bo turned pale with shock, instinctively channeling his soul power to protect himself.

In that moment, he felt a terrifying pressure from this Soul Elder of only level thirty-six that belonged only to an agility-type Soul Saint!

Yet, Xue Yao's revelry continued.

"Fifth... stack!!!"

With Xue Yao's roar, the soul power within him poured out without reservation.

"Rumble—!!!"

The instant the fifth cyan wind ring exploded, the air ceased to be a resistance and was instead shattered by sheer force!

600% terrifying speed increase! A limit-breaking leap of five times his base speed!

"Swish—!"

Dugu Bo only saw a flash of cyan lightning streaked with red and blue light pass by; even his vision failed to fully track Xue Yao's movement.

The next second, a violent hurricane exploded behind Dugu Bo.

Xue Yao had appeared silently atop a massive boulder dozens of meters behind him.

No pressure at all!

This body, tempered by ice and fire, had perfectly borne the terrifying tearing sensation brought on by the quintuple stack!

"Five times the sound barrier—this is true movement technique, nothing more than the pinnacle of speed."

Xue Yao slowly clenched his fist, feeling the terrifying power at his fingertips capable of tearing through space, his smile wild and unbridled.

Immune to all poisons, master of ice and fire, six-fold extreme speed!

From this night on, in this vast Douluo Continent, he, Xue Yao, finally possessed the ability to protect himself!