Gathering Immortal Herbs Didn't Necessarily Require a Password

Then, he could take them out when needed and store them away when not.

Several ideas could be derived from this approach.

The first was to directly find a soul bone, absorb it, and then transfer the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor's toxins into the soul bone.

He could use the toxins within the soul bone when needed and leave them stored there when not.

However, the original novel never developed a method for extracting toxins from a soul bone when needed.

Wang Chen did not know whether Tang San had been unwilling to share it or simply did not know how.

The second was to study the Jade Phosphor Serpent Venom Sac like Dugu Bo had done and create something like a poison pill.

Dugu Bo had done fairly well in this regard. If he had possessed an auxiliary martial soul like Wang Chen's meridians martial soul and developed the corresponding cultivation technique, he presumably could have refined poison pills that could be stably controlled.

But unfortunately, Dugu Bo did not possess the abilities of a meridians martial soul and could not obtain the corresponding cultivation technique.

Following this line of thought, one could actually try directly removing the venom sacs of Jade Phosphor Serpents or other soul beasts and making them into portable venom sacs.

Whenever the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor martial soul generated toxins, Dugu Bo could promptly transfer them into the venom sac he carried with him.

This could likewise achieve an effect similar to storing the toxins in a soul bone.

At the same time, without much loss of strength, once the venom sac was full, he could empty it out—using it whenever he wanted and clearing it whenever he did not.

The final option was to directly store the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor's toxins in a storage soul tool.

This would likewise allow him to use the venom sacs of soul beasts such as Jade Phosphor Serpents to store poison.

After all, in the Douluo world, Tang San's deadly hidden weapons, such as Yama's Sticker and Guanyin's Tear, could be kept in storage soul tools. There was no reason the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor's toxins could not be stored in a soul tool.

If ordinary soul tools could not store the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor's toxins, then he could simply find one refined from special materials.

Wang Chen did not know whether Dugu Bo's family was incompetent or whether everyone on the Douluo Continent was incompetent, but they could not even think of these methods.

Only after thoroughly studying all the information did Wang Chen leave the inn.

Wang Chen was not heading to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye. He was going to do something else.

Walking down the streets of Heaven Capital City, Wang Chen spotted a girl of thirteen or fourteen in plain sight. She had long dark-purple hair, emerald-green vertical pupils, pale and cool-toned skin, and an oval face. Her slender, toned figure was graceful and alluring.

She walked with a brisk wind in her step, her nails dyed emerald green, giving her a peculiar charm.

Wang Chen knew that she was Dugu Bo's granddaughter, Dugu Yan—and today's target.

In the original novel, after Tang San had been captured by Dugu Bo, he analyzed the poisoning symptoms caused by Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphor Serpent martial soul and persuaded him.

By telling Dugu Bo that the poison could be stored in a soul bone, Tang San temporarily suppressed the flare-up of the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor's poison.

To repay the favor, Dugu Bo handed his herb garden over to Tang San.

At the same time, he became Tang San's lackey and bodyguard.

Wang Chen did not dare guarantee that he could persuade Dugu Bo with just a few words.

Therefore, Wang Chen had no intention of obtaining the immortal herbs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye through mere words.

He intended to use the Dream God Head Soul Bone's ability to plant a seed in Dugu Yan's sea of consciousness—a seed of nightmares, and also a seed that would resolve the problem of the Dugu family's Jade Phosphor Serpent martial soul's deadly poison backfiring upon its wielder.

Once this seed erupted, it would plunge Dugu Yan into a nightmare state.

To outsiders, Dugu Yan would seem as though she had been struck by some soul skill: unconscious and asleep, occasionally mumbling that she was going to die.

This was to make Dugu Bo worry that Dugu Yan might die, causing him to remain by her side.

At the same time, he would seek healing soul masters in Heaven Dou City to treat the symptoms afflicting Dugu Yan.

That way, Dugu Bo would have no chance to go to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye while Wang Chen gathered the immortal herbs and spiritual medicines there.

Of course, Wang Chen did not truly intend to push Dugu Yan to the brink of death.

In reality, within Dugu Yan's dream, someone would teach her the several methods Wang Chen had mentioned for resolving the problem of the Dugu family's martial soul poison backfiring upon soul masters.

Other than the illusion of lethargy, nightmares, and being affected by a soul skill, the dream would have no harmful effects on Dugu Yan.

On the contrary, it would make Dugu Yan remember the several methods she had learned in the dream to resolve the toxin backlash of her family's Jade Phosphor Serpent martial soul.

Wang Chen was not doing this to take revenge on Dugu Yan. He was doing it to ensure that, while collecting immortal herbs and medicinal materials at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, Dugu Bo would not rush there because he needed to suppress the pain caused by the poison backlash within his body.

Although, with the Divine Spark Seed, Wang Chen could suppress Dugu Bo on the spot even if Dugu Bo caught him gathering herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.

But doing so would consume a considerable amount of faith power.

Using the head soul bone skill on Dugu Yan, however, required no faith power.

Both methods would prevent Dugu Bo from interfering with his collection of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye's immortal herbs, but acting against Dugu Yan cost far less and was much safer.

Naturally, Wang Chen chose to act against Dugu Yan.

Besides, if acting against Dugu Yan failed and he could not keep Dugu Bo in Heaven Dou City to find a healing soul master for her—

If Wang Chen truly encountered Dugu Bo at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, it would not be too late to use the Divine Spark Seed and expend faith power then.

The hand Wang Chen hid inside his sleeve moved in a certain pattern, drawing upon the power of his head soul bone and condensing a transparent seed of spiritual power smaller than a mung bean.

With a flick of his hand, the spiritual seed immediately shot free.

Silently, it entered Dugu Yan's sea of consciousness and took root there.

In half a month, the seed would mature and erupt, pulling Dugu Yan into the Dreamweaving Space cast by Wang Chen.

The instant the spiritual seed entered Dugu Yan's sea of consciousness, she frowned, as though something had suddenly pricked her.

There was no pain, no sensation of a needle. It was more like walking beneath a willow tree and having one of its branches brush against her.

But there were no willow trees, or any trees at all, along the road Dugu Yan had taken.

Dugu Yan touched her forehead and frowned.

Seeing Dugu Yan stop where she stood, Ye Lingling asked in confusion, "Yan Yan, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

Ye Lingling's martial soul was the Ye family's inherited martial soul, the Nine-Star Begonia—the continent's finest support-type martial soul.

The Nine-Star Begonia had only one soul skill: area-wide healing for everyone.

No matter how many soul rings it absorbed, and no matter how old those soul rings were, that would never change.

The Nine-Star Begonia possessed tremendous healing power. As long as someone had not yet died, and the wielder of the Nine-Star Begonia had sufficient soul power, they could be saved.

Of course, such an overwhelmingly powerful existence basically did not exist in reality.

After all, a person's soul power had its limits.

Of course, that was not because the Nine-Star Begonia was inadequate, but because soul masters were inadequate.