Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well

"Your Majesty, how is the Blue Silver Empress?"

"She's already dead."

Zhu Huang gave them a rough account of what had happened, and everyone burst into furious curses at Tang Hao and Qian Xunji.

Although, aside from Tao Yaoyao, none of them had been especially close to the Blue Silver Empress, they were all Soul Beasts, so they naturally shared the same hatred for the enemy.

"Although the Blue Silver Empress self-destructed, she possessed the Profound Truth of Immortality. I brought back her seed of life, so she can still be revived."

"She can still come back to life?"

Tao Yaoyao's face filled with surprise and joy. Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were already rare to begin with, and females were even rarer. She truly did not want the Blue Silver Empress to be killed by humans just like that.

"Yes. Next, I'm going to a place that will make it easier to revive her. You all continue subduing the remaining Soul Beasts."

"As you command!"

After Zhu Huang passed the Demon God Art on to Shi Lie and answered some of Da Ming and the others' questions about their cultivation, he flew toward the Heaven Dou Empire.

A day later, he arrived at Sunset Forest.

With just a slight release of his Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast aura, he overawed the many Soul Beasts in Sunset Forest, and from them learned the location of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

A dozen or so minutes later, Zhu Huang arrived on a hill about five hundred meters high.

It was already night. Ordinary people would not have been able to see much of the scenery outside, but for the Spider Emperor, there was little difference between night and day. He could see that beneath the hill lay an inverted cone-shaped deep valley. The top of the valley was covered by clouds and mist, and thick steam rose from within, damp and heavy, carrying the smell of sulfur.

"This is the place!"

Zhu Huang flew straight down and landed in the valley.

The valley was not very large, but its spiritual energy was dense. Alternating currents of heat and cold rushed into his face, making Zhu Huang feel faintly uncomfortable.

"The extreme cold and heat here even make me a little uncomfortable. If it were an ordinary Soul Master, they probably wouldn't last fifteen minutes here without being killed or badly injured."

He looked at the strange hot spring before him.

The hot spring was not large, but it was divided into two parts. Within the oval pool, the spring water was actually two different colors: milky white and vermilion.

Even more peculiar was that although they were in the same pool, they were clearly separated, neither encroaching upon the other, always remaining on their own side.

The billowing steam rose precisely from the boundary between the two kinds of spring water, constantly ascending until it reached the mouth of the mountain, where it slowly dispersed.

This was the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the treasured land formed from the corpses of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings after their deaths, a place that nurtured vast quantities of immortal herbs. It could be called the greatest treasure basin on Douluo Continent.

Although Zhu Huang's main purpose in coming here was to revive the Blue Silver Empress, he also valued the immortal herbs here greatly.

Even though, at his current level of cultivation, immortal herbs were no longer of much use to him, they could be used to nurture the younger generation.

Within the Heavenly Demon Creation Art that Zhu Huang had inherited, there were records of all kinds of heavenly treasures and earthly marvels, as well as the correct methods for absorbing them.

After all, in the ancient age of myth, heavenly treasures and earthly marvels had been everywhere. Things like divine medicines of immortality could let one attain the Dao and ascend with a single stalk, and things like flat peaches could grant immortality with a single fruit. The immortal herbs of Douluo Continent would not even be worth mentioning in that age of myth.

Zhu Huang walked around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. There were traces of human activity here, and even poisonous herbs that had been transplanted over.

Clearly, Dugu Bo had already discovered this place and made it his own medicinal garden.

The only thing was, he did not know whether Dugu Bo had already broken through to Titled Douluo at this time. Also, he did not know whether his son was dead yet.

If he was not dead, Zhu Huang could take the opportunity to do Dugu Bo a favor and plant a chess piece in the human world.

Zhu Huang sized up those medicinal herbs.

Although he had never seen these herbs before, by comparing them with the methods for identifying and analyzing herbs recorded in the Heavenly Demon Creation Art, he could determine their medicinal properties and how to consume them with a bit of time.

Zhu Huang did not touch those immortal herbs for the time being. He found a place with a decent environment and planted Ah Yin's seed. Then he dripped a few drops of his own blood into it. The dense power of death contained within his blood immediately stimulated the vitality within the seed of life, causing it to burst forth on its own.

At the same time, the essence and energy contained in Zhu Huang's blood were also absorbed by the seed, becoming its nourishment.

The surrounding spiritual energy also rapidly gathered over. Almost visibly to the naked eye, the seed of life began to sprout, and a tender Blue Silver Grass with golden veins broke through the soil and grew out.

"At this rate, it'll probably take a few months to fully revive Ah Yin."

Zhu Huang recalled the original work. It seemed to have said that after Ah Yin died, she would revive after forty-nine days, but that referred to taking root and sprouting again. To recover her human form would take at least several years.

In the original work, Ah Yin had sacrificed everything, including her body and soul, and Tang Hao had planted her in a small cave where the sun never shone. Later, after she was transplanted to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, even with Tang San's help, it still took many years before she was truly revived.

The current situation was not quite that severe. Dying by self-destruction was ultimately much better than sacrifice. At the very least, her origin was still there. As long as there was sufficient energy supplied, she would recover after cultivating for a few years.

By the time he finished all this, the sky was already bright.

"I'll go buy some jade boxes first, then get a storage Soul Tool. After that, I'll come back and harvest the immortal herbs."

The Heavenly Demon Creation Art naturally also contained content on refining artifacts, but his current strength was still insufficient, and he was not willing to spend that time refining some spatial treasure. Human storage Soul Tools were quite good too; he could get one to use first.

Zhu Huang flew out of the valley, asked for directions, and flew toward Heaven Dou City.

Half an hour later, he arrived before a huge city.

From far away, he could already see the city walls with flags fluttering atop them. The walls were a hundred meters tall, all built from the hardest granite. Above and below the walls, every patrolling and stationed soldier wore full armor and held a long spear. The grim killing aura emanating from them showed just how elite they were.

The towering city gate was fully ten meters tall and also ten meters wide, enough for six riders to pass side by side. Beside it were two smaller gates, each also five meters tall and wide. Passing pedestrians could only enter through the side gates, while the central gate remained tightly shut.

Three large Douluo characters were carved atop the city wall. Zhu Huang glanced at them a few times and actually did not recognize them, but he knew they had to be the three words "Heaven Dou City."

That was right. This was Heaven Dou City, one of the two largest cities on Douluo Continent, and also the capital of the Heaven Dou Empire.

"I'm a Soul Beast, and in the human world I'm practically penniless. I should earn some money first."

Zhu Huang felt his pockets. He had only a few dozen Gold Soul Coins, and even those had been picked up from the corpses of soul masters who had died in the Star Dou Great Forest. It was barely better than nothing.

"Making money is as easy as breathing for me. I could sell any two soul bones for a sky-high price."

"Or I could show a little strength, and plenty of people would come begging to hand me money."

As the ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest, Zhu Huang naturally lacked no soul bones. Although the drop rate for soul bones was painfully low, there were so many soul beasts that countless were born or died every day. Even if only one dropped in a month, gathered together, that was no small number.

Under Zhu Huang's order to scour the mountains and seas, basically every soul bone left scattered throughout the forest had ended up in his pocket. The number of soul bones he possessed would scare people to death if it got out.