That dragon roar made everyone except Huang Long gasp sharply in shock.
Even Sea Dragon Douluo could clearly feel that the roar had made the Sea Dragon martial soul within him feel threatened!
Immediately afterward, everyone saw a dark green dragon-shaped phantom emerge behind Dugu Yan.
Huang Long and the others stared at the dragon phantom in astonishment.
Though it had a dragon's four claws, its shape resembled a snake more closely. It had only a single horn on its head, and its entire body was covered in dark green scales.
"What kind of martial soul is this?" Sea Dragon Douluo froze slightly.
Why did this dragon look so different from both his Sea Dragon and the Holy Son's Yinglong?
Though his Sea Dragon lacked a dragon's four claws, it at least looked like a dragon.
As for the Holy Son's Yinglong, there was no need to even mention it. It was a true dragon, possessing not only four claws but also a pair of wings.
But Dugu Yan's... no matter how he looked at it, it seemed like nothing more than a snake with legs.
"This is my new martial soul. It's called the Jade Phosphorus Poison Flood Dragon," Dugu Yan replied.
Huang Long smiled. "A horn atop its head, a snake-like body but with four claws—this should be a flood dragon."
"A flood dragon?"
Everyone looked utterly bewildered.
In their understanding, dragon-type martial souls were either true dragons or sub-dragons. They had never heard of flood dragons before.
Dugu Bo hurriedly asked, "Could it be that her martial soul hasn't fully evolved? Could there be some flaw?"
Dugu Yan also looked anxiously at Huang Long, her heart rising to her throat.
Huang Long shook his head. "Flood dragons can also be considered a type of sub-dragon. Legend has it that when snakes cultivate for five hundred years, they transform into flood dragons."
"They grow scales and four legs, but have either no horn or only a single horn on their heads, making them look like enormous snakes."
"As for this martial soul, it isn't that it failed to evolve completely. Rather, the purity of the true dragon bloodline within it is insufficient, so it can only evolve into a flood dragon for now."
"But as long as she continues cultivating, acquires more sub-dragon-type soul rings, and strengthens her true dragon bloodline, she may one day evolve into a true dragon."
Only after hearing this did Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan finally breathe a sigh of relief.
As long as there were no flaws, it was fine.
Dugu Bo did not want his granddaughter's martial soul to develop some problem just after evolving.
Dugu Bo straightened his collar and solemnly cupped his fists toward Huang Long in salute.
"Kid, thank you!"
"Not only did you cure the Jade Phosphorus Snake Venom that had plagued this old man for years, you even helped Yan Yan evolve her martial soul once more."
"From today onward, you are the benefactor of the Dugu Family!"
"Please accept this old man's bow!"
Huang Long merely smiled and waved his hand. "Your Excellency, there's no need to be so polite. Besides, didn't you use the herbs in this herb garden to trade with me? We both got what we needed."
Only then did Dugu Yan notice that something seemed to be missing around them.
The herb garden that had been covered in medicinal herbs moments ago was now bare, with only a small portion remaining.
"You took all the herbs!"
Dugu Bo also noticed that his herb garden had nearly been stripped clean, leaving him torn between laughter and tears.
"You really didn't hold back, kid. You took so many herbs from my garden."
Huang Long smiled. "You don't recognize these immortal herbs anyway. Leaving them here would be useless, so why not let me take them and put them to proper use?"
"Fine!"
Dugu Bo smiled helplessly.
"But one matter is one matter. You cured the poison in both Yan Yan and me, and this old man must repay that debt."
"If you need anything in Heaven Dou City in the future, just come find me. This old man will definitely help you settle it."
"Alright!"
Huang Long nodded with a smile, then suddenly asked, "But you really won't consider it?"
"About that..."
Dugu Bo scratched his head awkwardly.
It was not that he did not want to agree, but he had previously promised Prince Xue Xing of the Heaven Dou imperial family that he would do three things for them.
He had only completed two of them so far, leaving one final matter.
Huang Long understood his difficulty and did not press him too much. Instead, he smiled and said, "No need to rush. Once I've absorbed these two herbs, we can have a proper talk."
Dugu Bo nodded lightly, then saw Huang Long pick up the two herbs, one red and one white. His pupils suddenly contracted.
If he was not mistaken, those two herbs should have been the ones growing near the spring, right?
Those two herbs contained extremely tyrannical fire poison and cold poison!
He had once caught a soul beast to test it. A soul beast over ten thousand years old had been instantly tortured to death by either the fire poison or the ice poison.
This was no joke!
"Kid, you want to absorb them? They're highly poisonous!"
Sea Dragon Douluo, Sea Maiden Douluo, and Xiao Wu's expressions changed drastically at once.
Huang Long, however, remained unfazed and directly swallowed the two immortal herbs one after the other.
"It's fine. Although these two herbs are highly poisonous, they also counteract each other."
"As long as they're taken consecutively within ten breaths, their toxicity can be neutralized."
"Then, by using the energy of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to temper the body, one can forge a physique immune to both ice and fire."
The moment he finished speaking, he felt two violent currents of energy collide within his body!
It hurt!
It felt as though a pair of giant hands inside his body were tearing apart every inch of his flesh and meridians!
"It's time. Uncle Sea Dragon, help me watch over everyone!"
Huang Long hurriedly tossed aside his storage Soul Tool and some of the things on his person, leaving only his clothes on, then turned and leaped into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
With a splash, water sprayed into the air as his entire body sank into the spring.
Dugu Yan and Xiao Wu's pupils contracted sharply, and their faces turned pale in an instant.
"You brat, are you crazy?!"
Dugu Bo shouted angrily as he rushed forward, intending to pull him out of the water.
Even a Titled Douluo like him could not endure the ice and fire energy within this water. The kid had jumped straight in—could he possibly survive?
Huang Long wiped the water from his face and forced a smile through the tearing pain in his body. "I'm fine!"
"The ice and fire energy in this water will help me rapidly absorb the energy of those two immortal herbs and temper my physique into something even purer."
"So don't worry about me. I'll be fine soon."
As he spoke, he closed his eyes and plunged down to the bottom, using the ice and fire energy in the pool to balance the immortal herb energy within his body.
Strangely enough, the moment he entered the water, the ice and fire energy inside him instantly reached a point of balance.
Not only did it stop hurting, but that energy continuously nourished his limbs and bones, making his body even stronger.
However, just as he circulated his Soul Power and eagerly absorbed the energy of the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass—
He failed to notice that, at the bottom of the pool thousands of zhang below, two enormous dragon corpses lying across the lakebed suddenly trembled faintly.
Though both had long since turned into bare bones, eerie red and white lights flickered within their eye sockets, as if they still had eyes.
"Lord... this is the Lord's aura."
"Father..."
The next moment—
Two weak female voices suddenly entered Huang Long's ears.
Huang Long was still refining the ice and fire energy of the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass. Hearing the two voices, he froze slightly.
How could there be two voices beneath the water?
Had he encountered ghosts?
Huang Long suddenly recalled the legend of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. It was said that the well had formed after the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings under the Dragon God had fallen here.
Their corpses lay at the bottom of this spring, and the ice and fire energy emitted by those corpses had created this unique Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Could those two voices belong to the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings?
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