Ice-Fire Immortal Herb! Leaping into the Two-Elements Spring

"Body tempering?"

Dugu Bo watched Qian Renyuan walk toward the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, his brows drawing tighter and tighter.

"Your Highness, this old man knows your methods are extraordinary, but these two medicinal herbs are absolutely no ordinary things."

He raised a hand and pointed toward the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass near the Cold Spring.

"Within several zhang of that cold grass, even stone can be frozen. The other fire herb is the same. The moment an ordinary Soul Master gets close, their body will be burned by the extreme heat."

"Even a Titled Douluo would not dare endure these two extreme forces at the same time."

Qian Renyuan did not stop walking. As he moved, he said, "Of course ordinary Soul Masters couldn't withstand it."

The corner of Dugu Bo's mouth twitched slightly.

He had almost forgotten that the six-year-old child before him had never considered himself an ordinary Soul Master.

Jiangmo Douluo walked near the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, the Coiling Dragon Staff already gripped in his hand.

As Qian Renyuan's protector, he could block a Titled Douluo for him, and he could also take him away when danger arrived.

But faced with this spring before him, one that even spiritual power struggled to probe deeply into, Jiangmo Douluo, for the first time, felt somewhat at a loss.

"Your Highness, do you need this subordinate to pick the medicinal herbs for you?"

"No need."

Qian Renyuan stopped between the Cold Spring and the Hot Spring.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot grew on either side. They were not far from each other, yet they were shrouded in completely different auras.

To pick them, he could not touch either one first.

Once the two medicinal herbs left the places where they grew, their medicinal power would erupt rapidly. Contact with either one alone could make a body freeze and shatter, or burn to ash, in an extremely short time.

Qian Renyuan raised his left hand. Dense black light surged from his palm, and the Black Lotus began to rotate before him. Two strands of black Soul Power extended from its lotus petals, respectively approaching the two Immortal Herbs.

When the first strand of black light entered the range of the Cold Spring, a layer of white frost immediately condensed on its surface.

Just as the other end of the black light approached the Infernal Delicate Apricot, it was lightly distorted by the burning heat.

Qian Renyuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he continued pouring Soul Power into the Black Lotus.

The Dark Gold Veins on the Black Lotus gradually lit up.

The frost covering the surface of the black light began to crack, and the flames were also forced back to the vicinity of the Infernal Delicate Apricot.

The two strands of black Soul Power simultaneously wrapped around the roots and stems of the Immortal Herbs.

"Rise."

As Qian Renyuan closed his palm, the two streams of black light exerted force at the same time.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot swayed gently, broke off near their roots, and flew toward the center of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

After the two Immortal Herbs left the places where they grew, the medicinal power they had accumulated over many years completely lost its restraint.

Crack!

Large sheets of white frost spread from around the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, freezing the ground into crack after crack.

Crimson flames rose from the Infernal Delicate Apricot, and several nearby rocks rapidly turned red. Signs of melting even appeared on their surfaces.

The Black Lotus hovered between the two Immortal Herbs, its twelve lotus petals unfolding outward.

Drawn by the devouring force, the cold air and flames surged toward the lotus core at the same time. Yet they did not truly sink into the Black Lotus; instead, they were firmly confined around the Immortal Herbs.

Dugu Bo watched this scene, unable to hide the astonishment in his eyes.

He had once tried to approach these two medicinal herbs, but before he had even come within three zhang, the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor poison in his body had shown signs of losing control.

Not only had Qian Renyuan picked both Immortal Herbs at the same time, he could also use his martial soul to isolate their power.

"Wouldn't it be fine to just devour the medicinal power?"

Dugu Yan suddenly asked.

She had personally seen the Black Lotus refine the Snowy Swan Kiss and knew this Black Lotus possessed an extremely powerful devouring ability.

"Of course it would."

Qian Renyuan controlled the two Immortal Herbs to fly toward him.

"But that would only strengthen the Black Lotus. It wouldn't temper my body."

The Black Lotus could directly refine the power of the two Immortal Herbs, but that would make this opportunity lose most of its value.

What Qian Renyuan wanted was to use the two extreme medicinal powers to thoroughly temper his meridians and flesh.

The two Immortal Herbs stopped before him. Qian Renyuan raised both hands, destruction aura covering his palms as he grasped them separately.

Frost and flame rapidly spread along his arms.

In the blink of an eye, his left arm had been frozen snow-white, while his right arm had turned crimson.

Dugu Yan subconsciously held her breath.

Just standing nearby, she could feel the biting chill and scorching heat rushing against her face.

Qian Renyuan was caught between the two forces, and the impact he endured would only be even more terrifying.

"Your Highness, you cannot delay."

Dugu Bo reminded him in a grave voice.

"The longer those two herbs remain in your body separately, the greater the danger."

Qian Renyuan naturally understood. The power released by the Black Lotus wrapped around the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot, and the two Immortal Herbs shattered, respectively turning into a mass of ice-white medicinal liquid and a mass of fiery-red medicinal liquid.

Qian Renyuan opened his mouth and swallowed both masses of medicinal liquid into his belly at the same time.

The instant the two forces entered his body, his entire body suddenly went rigid.

The extremely cold medicinal power erupted first. Ice-white light spread from his abdomen, and the blood swiftly drained from Qian Renyuan's skin. A layer of white frost covered his hair and eyebrows.

His breathing had only just slowed when fiery-red light rose right after it.

The white frost rapidly melted. Qian Renyuan's body temperature began to soar wildly, and an abnormal crimson flush appeared across the surface of his skin. Even the ground beneath his feet began to give off faint white smoke.

Cold and scorching heat alternated without pause. The two medicinal powers crashed against each other inside Qian Renyuan's body, and everywhere they passed, his meridians felt as if they were about to be torn apart.

The Black Lotus hovered above his head, its petals turning continuously as it swallowed part of the out-of-control medicinal power into the lotus heart, but did not directly refine it.

Qian Renyuan clenched his teeth and guided the two forces to circulate along his meridians.

The power of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass passed through the left half of his body, while the power of the Infernal Delicate Apricot flowed into the right side.

The medicinal powers that had originally clashed with each other collided continuously at the center of his body, finally forming a chaotic vortex of ice and fire.

Qian Renyuan's body swayed.

Jiangmo Douluo immediately stepped forward.

"Your Highness!"

"Stand down."

Qian Renyuan's voice was somewhat hoarse, but he had not lost his calm.

Jiangmo Douluo's steps halted, the veins on the back of the hand gripping the Coiling Dragon Staff bulging.

He could already clearly sense that the Soul Power inside Qian Renyuan's body was constantly spiraling out of control. If this had been any ordinary soul master, their body would have long since been destroyed by the two types of medicinal power.

"Not enough."

Qian Renyuan raised his head and looked at the spring water before him, distinctly divided into red and white.

The two great Immortal Herbs could only allow the ice and fire forces to temporarily reach a balance inside his body. If he wanted to thoroughly refine this power into his body, he still needed the spring water within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to complete the final step.

Dugu Bo understood his intention and swiftly blocked the front of the spring.

"Your Highness, you cannot go in!"

"The temperature deep within the spring is even more terrifying than those two Immortal Herbs. Even with the medicinal power protecting your body, you may not be able to withstand it."

Qian Renyuan did not stop, and said in a deep voice, "Move aside."

"This is not the time to show off."

Dugu Bo had only just pledged loyalty to Qian Renyuan, so naturally he could not watch him die in his own medicinal garden.

"If something happens to you, how is this old man to answer to the Pope?"

Qian Renyuan glanced at him. "You do not need to answer to anyone. What you need to do is obey orders."

Dugu Bo was momentarily unable to speak.

Qian Renyuan walked past him and stood at the edge of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

The spring water churned endlessly beneath his feet, and cold air and waves of heat slammed into his body at the same time.

The two medicinal powers inside him, which had already been out of control, were affected by the aura of the spring water and instantly became even more violent.

A trace of resolve flashed through Qian Renyuan's eyes. An opportunity like this would only come once.

If he did not even dare touch the two Immortal Herbs and the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, then what right did he have to trample the entire continent beneath his feet?

Qian Renyuan took a step forward.

Splash!

His body fell directly into the place where the red and white spring waters met.

The surging spring water swiftly closed over him, and in the blink of an eye, his figure was completely swallowed.

Jiangmo Douluo rushed fiercely to the side of the spring, but he could not sense any trace of Qian Renyuan's aura.

"Your Highness!"