Heaven-Burning Fire, Absolute Ice!

The Infernal Delicate Apricot carried a blazing red radiance capable of incinerating all things!

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass bore a ghastly white chill that could freeze the soul!

The two Immortal Herbs of utterly opposing attributes plunged into the cauldron's mouth at the same instant!

Boom—!!!

At the instant the two Immortal Herbs fell into the cauldron!

It was like splashing ice water into boiling oil!

Or casting lava into extreme cold!

Inside the cauldron was a chaotic void!

Two unimaginably immense and extreme energies erupted at once!

The crimson Heaven-Burning Fire and ghastly white Absolute Ice were like two primordial savage dragons, violently crashing against each other amid the chaotic currents!

Pfft!

Outside the cauldron, Xiao Yin was struck as if by a heavy blow. His face instantly turned deathly pale, and he spat out a mouthful of blood!

He forcibly steadied his mind. The seals formed by his hands changed frantically as his spiritual power poured into the cauldron without reserve. He controlled the chaotic currents within with all his strength, trying to reconcile the two violent energies!

Fuse for me...! Xiao Yin roared inwardly!

Bzzzz—!

The Black Cauldron shone brilliantly!

Crimson and ghastly white light intertwined and entwined, gradually forming an enormous Ice-Fire Taiji Diagram!

A strange energy slowly gathered at the center of the Ice-Fire Taiji Diagram!

Now!

A fierce light shot from Xiao Yin's eyes, and he hesitated no longer!

His figure flashed, turning into a streak of light as he threw himself directly into the cauldron's mouth!

"Xiao Yin, you brat! Have you gone mad?!"

From the distant cliff face came Dugu Bo's furious, alarmed roar as he jolted upright!

Though he had been stabilizing his cultivation, how could such terrifying energy fluctuations escape his notice?

But Xiao Yin had already vanished.

Inside the cauldron was a chaotic void.

Xiao Yin appeared instantly at the center of the slowly revolving Ice-Fire Taiji Diagram!

Boom—!!!

The instant he appeared!

The ice and fire powers, which had temporarily maintained a delicate balance, seemed to find an outlet and erupted into chaos!

On the left, the Heaven-Burning Fire transformed into countless crimson fire serpents. Carrying terrifying heat that could burn the eight wilds to ash, they crazily burrowed into his body!

Wherever they passed, his skin instantly blackened and charred. His meridians seemed to have been thrown into a furnace, emitting sizzling sounds of scorching!

On the right, the Absolute Ice turned into innumerable ghastly white ice spikes. Bearing an ultimate chill that could freeze the soul, they savagely pierced into every limb and bone of his body!

Wherever the cold reached, the parts that had just been scorched instantly froze!

Ice! Fire! Two extremes!

Ultimate destruction! Ultimate pain!

"Urrrghhh—!!!"

Even with Xiao Yin's willpower, he could not help letting out a shriek so miserable it scarcely sounded human!

His body twisted violently amid crimson and ghastly white light!

His skin repeatedly shifted between charred blackness and frozen cracks. He was like a shattered porcelain vessel forcibly glued back together, covered in horrifying fissures!

The instant his blood flowed out, it was either evaporated or frozen, forming strange red-and-white crystals!

This pain far surpassed anything he had endured before!

Yet, at the very edge of destruction!

A surge of vitality from the origin of the Taotie Martial Soul was completely unleashed!

The Ice-Fire Taiji Diagram spun faster and faster, while the strange energy born at its center—

That Chaos Power, fused from destruction and rebirth, was like sweet rain. As the powers of ice and fire destroyed him, it forcibly seeped into every minute corner of Xiao Yin's body!

Destruction! Restoration! Destruction again! Restoration again!

Rebirth amid destruction! Transformation amid pain!

Xiao Yin's consciousness rose and fell in waves of agony, nearly drowned beneath them.

But he clung desperately to the last trace of clarity in his mind, wildly guiding the Chaos Power to temper every inch of flesh, every meridian, every bone!

His skin continually peeled away amid scorching blackness and icy cracks, revealing skin beneath that glimmered with a faint dark golden sheen!

That skin looked soft, yet it was incomparably resilient and contained terrifying strength!

His meridians continuously widened and reformed amid burning and freezing fractures!

Under the searing heat and the invasion of cold, his bones rang with the clear clang of hammer striking iron!

Even his blood became thicker and heavier through repeated tempering of boiling and freezing, brimming with vigorous life force!

Outside the cauldron.

The scene in the valley was terrifying beyond measure!

The enormous Black Cauldron floated above the twin springs of ice and fire, its entire body trembling violently!

The left half of the cauldron was red as heated iron, radiating a temperature capable of burning all things to ash and turning the waters of the Yang Spring below into soaring white vapor!

The right half was covered in thick mystical ice, ghastly white cold spreading outward as even the surface of the nearby Yin Spring froze into icy blooms!

At the cauldron's mouth, a pillar of red-and-white energy erupted like a volcano, shooting into the heavens and stirring the valley mist into an enormous vortex!

Terrifying ice-and-fire energy fluctuations spread outward like tangible waves, battering the four walls of the valley!

Had Dugu Bo not cultivated this place for many years and laid down powerful restrictions, and had the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well's own energy field not stabilized it, the mountains would likely have already collapsed and the earth split apart!

Dugu Bo had long since forcibly emerged from his closed-door cultivation. Standing at the edge of the cliff, his emerald pupils were filled with unprecedented horror!

He stared fixedly at the enormous cauldron, like a furnace of heaven and earth, sensing within it an aura that made even him, a Title Douluo, tremble with fear. Stormy waves churned in his heart!

"What... what has this brat done?! He drew the power of ice and fire into his body to refine it? This... this is utter madness! How could he possibly endure it?!"

Dugu Bo muttered to himself, his voice carrying a tremor he himself had not noticed.

He prided himself on being unrivaled in poison and acted with ruthless ferocity, yet Xiao Yin's madness toward even himself made his scalp go numb!

Time passed amid terrifying roars and surging energy.

One day... two days...

The Black Cauldron's trembling gradually calmed.

The crimson and ghastly white glow on its walls no longer raged so violently, instead beginning to draw inward.

The energy pillar pouring from the cauldron's mouth slowly contracted as well, eventually dispersing.

Bzzzz—!

A clear, lingering cauldron cry echoed throughout the valley!

A figure slowly drifted out from within the cauldron, landing at the edge where the twin springs of ice and fire met.

It was Xiao Yin!

At this moment, he was utterly different from before entering the cauldron!

His clothes had long since turned to ash under the powers of ice and fire, yet a faint dark golden halo enveloped his body.

His exposed skin was no longer bronze, but a restrained ivory white, smooth and delicate.

The lines of his muscles were fluid and perfect, neither exaggerated nor knotted, yet they held explosive power!

He stood quietly there, straight as a pine.

Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement!

Success!

An aura of pressure, like that of a primordial savage beast, slowly spread from his body!

That aura contained the extreme powers of ice and fire, yet they had been perfectly fused into a purer, more fundamental force!

He lightly clenched his fist.

Crack!

His finger bones rubbed together, producing a crisp sound like clashing metal and jade!

A pure sense of strength flowed through his fingers, as though he could crush mountains barehanded!

Feeling the reborn changes within his body, Xiao Yin's lips slowly curved into a satisfied smile.

"If I had simply consumed them directly like Tang San, wouldn't that have been a terrible waste!"

Using the Chaos Power of his third soul skill, Xiao Yin had perfectly and completely refined the essences of the Immortal Herbs, combining them for his absorption and refinement.

Discard the dross and retain the essence.

"This... is the true Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement!"