Boss, is it really okay for us to take and eat like this?

Although the battle with Dugu Bo was exhilarating, Ye Guchen felt it was somewhat incomplete; after all, Dugu Bo was not a pure sword cultivator.

"Sword Dao Chenxin, I must spar with you when the opportunity arises."

Ye Guchen muttered to himself, unknowingly arriving beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

"Sky Dream Ice Silkworm mentioned something about Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow down below last time."

With that, Ye Guchen cast a sliver of his consciousness into the Bead Space.

"Tian Meng, come out and get to work."

The chubby Tian Meng was released from the Bead Space.

"Boss... at your service."

Ye Guchen pointed toward the spring water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

"Follow me down. We're going to retrieve the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow you mentioned."

"Boss, you finally remembered! I've been craving it so much!"

Ye Guchen patted its head.

"Look at you, can you even eat it in that state?"

Tian Meng covered its head.

"Hehe, just looking at it is satisfying enough..."

With that, man and worm leaped into the cold spring.

Descending nearly five hundred meters, the spring eye suddenly opened up, revealing a chamber with a radius of several hundred meters.

Without a moment's hesitation, the two entered.

The first things to come into view were two massive dragon skeletons, from which waves of dragon might radiated.

"Boss..."

By now, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had already hidden behind Ye Guchen.

Ye Guchen understood the situation; these must be the remains of Xiao Lan and Xiao Huo.

Ye Guchen grabbed Tian Meng and pulled it out from behind him.

"What are you panicking for? You've already met their masters!"

Tian Meng looked innocent. "Boss, are you talking about those two silly dragons?"

Ye Guchen nodded. "Exactly, so what is there to fear? Just charge in."

Not long after descending, Tian Meng's voice came through, incoherent with excitement.

"We're rich! Boss! We're rich! There's at least thirty times more Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow here than the piece I finished before!"

Seeing its behavior, Ye Guchen punched it on the head.

"What? Your legs aren't shaking anymore? Look at how pathetic you are."

Yet, the trembling of his own hands betrayed that Ye Guchen was not as calm as he claimed.

"You are responsible for collecting all the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow; I'm going to check the fire spring."

Tian Meng was still incredibly excited; as soon as Ye Guchen gave the order, it rushed to a ten-meter-long pillar of cold marrow and began licking it.

Ye Guchen covered his face, unable to bear the sight, and swam toward the fire spring.

As soon as he entered the fire spring, he saw scattered pieces of crimson iron ore.

"This is... Flame Gold Essence!"

"The highest-grade fire-attribute metal on record, exceptionally rare."

Ye Guchen slowly landed, picked up a piece of Flame Gold Essence the size of a palm, and examined it.

"The fire-attribute energy contained within—this is definitely it!"

Flame Gold Essence was not only extremely hard, but more importantly, the metal itself contained vast amounts of compressed fire-attribute energy. This meant that if it were forged into an offensive Soul Tool, the power grade of that Soul Tool would automatically increase by one level!

At this moment, the hand holding the Flame Gold Essence could not stop trembling.

"I'm rich!"

If he remembered correctly, the last time Flame Gold Essence appeared in records was thirty years ago, and that piece was only the size of the one in his hand, yet it had sold at auction for the astronomical price of nearly ten million Gold Soul Coins.

Ye Guchen scanned his surroundings; there were at least a hundred palm-sized pieces of Flame Gold Essence, with even more smaller ones, and most importantly, beneath the dragon bones, there were two pieces the size of washbasins!

"I'm rich!"

Just like Tian Meng, Ye Guchen used trembling hands to collect the Flame Gold Essence piece by piece.

Two incense sticks later, Ye Guchen and Tian Meng sat slumped atop the dragon skull.

Their eyes held no fatigue, only the joy of a bountiful harvest.

While collecting the Ten Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, Tian Meng had also found a pile of Ice Extreme Divine Crystal.

"Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, I'm marking this down as a major contribution for you!"

Ye Guchen scanned his surroundings; at this moment, only two massive dragon skeletons remained within the cave.

"Dragon bones are also incredibly precious items!"

Ye Guchen rubbed his hands together.

Seeing Ye Guchen's expression, Sky Dream Ice Silkworm immediately understood that he intended to dismantle the dragon skeletons and take them away as well.

"Boss, is it really okay for us to take everything like this?"

Hearing this, Ye Guchen flicked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm on the forehead again.

"The two Dragon King seniors have been dead for so long, their remains left unattended; I am merely gathering their bones for them. What would you know?"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm rubbed his head, "Is that so?"

Immediately after, Ye Guchen summoned his Bead Martial Soul for the first time. Relying on his own strength to move them would take forever; wouldn't it be better to just take the whole thing?

The moment the Bead Martial Soul appeared, it caused the space to tremble.

Ye Guchen's soul power was instantly drained by more than half.

"No time to waste!"

Ye Guchen was shocked by this terrifying consumption. He hadn't even done anything yet, and simply maintaining its manifestation required such a horrific amount of energy!

Not daring to delay, Ye Guchen quickly stored the two dragon skeletons and retracted the Bead Martial Soul.

Even though Ye Guchen had been as swift as possible, sixty percent of his soul power had still been consumed!

Ye Guchen sat on the ground, weak, yet his eyes were filled with excitement.

Such terrifying consumption must mean its power is inevitably immense. If I can fully master it, I fear even a God King would be nothing more than this!

Just as Ye Guchen was imagining the future, the excited voice of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm reached his ears.

"Spirit Bone!"

"Spirit Bone?!"

One wave had barely subsided when another rose; the surprises today were truly continuous!

Ye Guchen quickly arrived at Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's side and saw him swimming toward him, carrying two glowing orbs.

"Boss! Two God-level Spirit Bones!"

Before they were even close, he could already feel that immense dragon might.

Both Spirit Bones were arm bones, but unlike other Spirit Bones, these were full-arm bones, including the entire arm and the metacarpal bones!

Ice and fire, one left and one right, formed a perfect set.

Ye Guchen took the two Spirit Bones, and two diametrically opposed auras of freezing cold and scorching heat instantly spread through his body; his left hand felt bone-chillingly cold, while his right hand burned unbearably.

"God-level Spirit Bones..."

He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the shock in his heart.

Ordinary Spirit Bones were only the bones of a specific body part, but the two before him were complete arm bones including the metacarpals, and even the phalanges were perfectly intact!

What was even rarer was that ice and fire, one left and one right, were a natural pair.

Although his body in the Dou I timeline had been tempered by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, it was still far inferior to his body in the Dou II timeline, which could directly acquire eighty percent of the physique of all his tamed beasts.

Ye Guchen made a prompt decision: both of these Spirit Bones would be absorbed by his Dou I body.

Besides, wasn't there still the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in the Dou II timeline?

"Tian Meng, guard me."

Ye Guchen did not hesitate; he sat cross-legged atop the dragon bones and pressed the two Spirit Bones against his arms.

The moment the Spirit Bones touched his skin, they acted like living creatures, merging directly into his flesh and blood!

"Hiss—"

Even with Ye Guchen's composure, he couldn't help but gasp.

The pain was not merely intense; it was the alternating torture of ice and fire.

He felt as if his left hand were frozen by ten-thousand-year glacial ice, his blood threatening to solidify, while his right hand felt as if it were being poured with magma, his bones threatening to melt.

Even more terrifying was that the two forces spread upward along his arms, colliding at his shoulders and erupting with even more violent agony!

However, for Ye Guchen, who possessed immunity to both ice and fire and had been tempered by the pain of death multiple times, this level of pain was nothing.