Dragon Bones Beneath the Twin Springs

Within the valley of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, red and white mist swirled, unable to conceal the lingering energy ripples that had only just subsided.

Dugu Bo stood at the edge of the cliff, his eyes fixed on the figure that had just stepped out of the massive cauldron. The shock in his heart refused to fade for a long time.

"You... you..." Dugu Bo opened his mouth, yet found himself momentarily speechless.

He had roamed the continent for decades and considered himself well-traveled and knowledgeable, yet he had never seen such a bizarre method of cultivation!

Was this kid... even human?

Xiao Yin slowly turned around and looked at Dugu Bo, a faint smile curling across his lips. "Senior, I did not disappoint you. I gained a little."

"A little?"

Dugu Bo nearly choked on his own saliva. He pointed at Xiao Yin, his voice rising several octaves. "You call this a little?!

You brat practically punched a hole in the sky! That commotion just now nearly tore my entire valley apart! You... you drew the ice and fire power into your body, and you were actually fine?!"

"Just luck."

Xiao Yin spoke lightly, but his gaze had already fallen upon the Ice-Fire Twin Springs.

"Now that my physical body has taken initial form, neither water nor fire can harm me. I intend to use the power of these twin springs to temper myself further, solidify my foundation, and accumulate strength to completely resolve the lingering poison in Senior's body later."

"What?! You want to enter the springs?!"

Dugu Bo's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. He took a single step to Xiao Yin's side, pointed at the spring water, and spoke with unprecedented gravity.

"Kid! Have you lost your mind?! These Ice-Fire Twin Springs were formed from the convergence of the world's ultimate yin and yang powers!

The water of the Yang Spring can melt gold and iron! The water of the Yin Spring can freeze and shatter the soul!

I have lived here for decades, yet even I do not dare venture deep within! Even if you have forged a body of bronze and iron, going down recklessly means certain death!"

He was not exaggerating.

No one understood the terror of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well better than he did.

The energy contained in the depths of those springs was enough to kill a Title Douluo!

Xiao Yin remained calm and casually took out a piece of jade. "Senior, do not worry. I know my limits. By the way, please take this jade. It contains my Mental Mark. If I live, the jade remains; if I die, the jade shatters.

That way, regardless of how long I remain below, Senior will know my condition."

"Hmph! You brat have the audacity to defy heaven itself! Even I cannot stop you!"

In the end, Dugu Bo gave a heavy snort and accepted the jade, tacitly agreeing.

"Be careful! Do not actually get yourself killed! I do not want to risk the life I just got back to fish you out!"

"Senior, just wait for good news." Xiao Yin smiled faintly and said no more.

He drew a deep breath. Soul Power circulated through his body, which began to emit a lustrous glow.

Splash!

Water sprayed everywhere!

The instant Xiao Yin's body touched the spring water, the expected rupture of his body did not occur!

The warm dark-gold radiance over Xiao Yin's body flowed endlessly, forcefully withstanding the assault of ice and blazing fire!

"It really works!"

Xiao Yin steadied himself and endured the water pressure as he dove deeper!

He did not know how far he had descended, but the pressure around him had already become terrifying, even causing space itself to distort slightly!

Just as Xiao Yin felt that his physical body had reached its limit and was about to give out—

A warped barrier of light appeared in the spring water ahead!

"This is it!" A sharp gleam burst from Xiao Yin's eyes! Then, with a thought—

Seal-Breaking Talisman!

A strange talisman engraved with countless mysterious, twisted runes appeared out of thin air in Xiao Yin's palm.

The instant it appeared, the surrounding spring water seemed drawn toward it and rippled faintly.

"Open for me—!"

Xiao Yin shouted low and poured Soul Power into the Seal-Breaking Talisman with all his might!

Buzzz—!

The Seal-Breaking Talisman instantly erupted with blinding Chaos light!

Countless twisted runes seemed to come alive, breaking away from the talisman and wrapping around Xiao Yin as they slammed fiercely into the enormous barrier ahead!

Riiip—!!!

Passing through the spatial rift torn open by the Seal-Breaking Talisman, the scene before Xiao Yin changed completely in an instant!

An immense shock, like an invisible sledgehammer, smashed brutally into his heart and nearly made him forget to breathe!

The left half was an inferno that could burn away the eight wildernesses!

Dark-red light filled his vision. Below lay a rolling, boiling sea of crimson-gold magma!

The heat distorted space, and the air was scorching enough to seem like solidified flame!

Stretching across the center of that magma sea was a gigantic dark-gold and crimson dragon skeleton, large enough to make one's soul tremble!

It stretched for more than a thousand meters, winding like an ancient mountain range!

Its ferocious dragon head was raised high, its broken horns pierced the heavens, and its enormous wing bones spread halfway open, covering nearly half the magma sea!

Strands of tangible crimson-gold flames coiled and burned around the skeleton, emanating the ultimate fire source capable of incinerating all things!

Fire Dragon King!

The right half was an ice prison frozen for eternity!

A bleak blue-white radiance filled the air. Below was a pitch-black ice field that exuded an aura of absolute deathly silence!

The cold froze space itself, and the air was so icy it seemed as though even time would freeze!

Upon the ice field lay another incomparably massive ice-blue dragon skeleton!

Its form resembled that of the Fire Dragon King's skeleton, but its entire body was covered in bones that seemed carved from ten-thousand-year black ice!

Its enormous dragon head hung low, as though gazing upon eternal ice. Ice-blue ghostly light that could freeze souls lingered within its eye sockets!

Visible absolute-zero cold air spread around the skeleton, freezing fine black cracks into space!

Water Dragon King!

Two God King-level dragon skeletons!

One fire, one water—ultimate opposites!

A terrifying dragon might originating from the God King level, even after endless ages had passed since their deaths, still pressed heavily upon Xiao Yin's soul like tangible mountains!

In an instant, he felt as tiny as dust, and even breathing became incomparably difficult!

What the hell... did I come down too early... They're so huge... how am I supposed to eat them?!

"Roar—!!!"

However, at the very instant Xiao Yin's mind was overwhelmed by the terrifying pressure of the two kings' remains—

A sudden change occurred!

Within the hollow eye sockets of the Fire Dragon King's colossal skeleton, that quietly burning mass of crimson-gold flame abruptly surged!

A dragon roar filled with savage brutality thundered through the entire underground space!

It was not a real sound, but a roar that acted directly upon the soul!

Immediately afterward, the ice-blue ghostly light within the Water Dragon King skeleton's frozen eye sockets also flared brilliantly!

An equally frigid dragon roar followed close behind, carrying a chill that pierced the soul and forming a terrifying soul resonance with the Fire Dragon King's roar!

Buzzz—!

The entire underground space shook violently!

The crimson magma sea surged into towering, raging waves!

The pitch-black ice field split apart, revealing enormous bottomless ice chasms!

Two phantom dragon souls condensed from pure flame and frost struggled into existence above the two God King skeletons!

The fire dragon soul was crimson-gold all over, its scales and claws raised as terrifying flames coiled around its body!

The water dragon soul was entirely ice-blue, majestic and ferocious, radiating absolute cold!

They were not remnant souls with clear consciousness, but shadows of slaughter condensed solely from instinct after being dead for far too long!

Within their hollow dragon eyes remained only the most primal savagery and Destruction!

Xiao Yin's aura as a forcible intruder instantly became the fuse that ignited these two powder kegs!

Xiao Yin:...

Fine. Let it all be destroyed!