The instant Lan Tian jumped into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he felt as though he had been torn in half.
At the point where the cold spring and hot spring met in the center of the basin lay an exceptionally peculiar area. The spring water was distinctly divided into deep blue and crimson halves, with a blurred transitional band between them where the temperature alternated.
The spot where he jumped in happened to straddle that boundary. The left half of his body sank into the cold spring, while the right half was enveloped by the hot spring.
Two utterly opposing forces, extreme cold and extreme heat, surged into his body at once and collided wildly within his meridians, like two savage beasts tearing and wrestling through his flesh and blood.
The medicinal effects of the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass exploded in his abdomen, resonating with the ice-and-fire power of the spring water and forming a tempering energy far fiercer than consuming either immortal herb alone.
Using his body as their battlefield, those energies surged back and forth through every inch of skin, every meridian, and every bone, branding the ultimate extremes of cold and heat into the deepest parts of him.
Blue frost energy poured in from his left side, instantly freezing the left half of his body a bluish purple. A thick layer of white frost formed over his skin, and even his eyelashes and hair became coated in ice crystals.
Red heatwaves surged in from his right side, scorching the right half of his body crimson and blisteringly hot. Fine cracks spread across his skin as steaming bubbles rose in torrents from the hot spring.
The two forces crashed violently at the center of his chest. The agony was like countless