Yin-Yang Balance

Wang Chen's physical strength continued to grow, and at the same time, his resistance to ice poison and fire poison grew stronger and stronger. His refinement speed for the Fiery Apricot Delicate and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass also increased steadily.

A quarter of an hour later, Wang Chen had completely refined both immortal herbs, the Fiery Apricot Delicate and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

Wang Chen let out a long breath and summoned his exclusive Martial Soul. He discovered that the Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul had undergone tremendous changes. The flames within the furnace had transformed into a fiery dragon shape that swam inside.

Meanwhile, the furnace walls, once rusty bronze, had become coated in frost-white ice.

At the same time, the original patterns on the bronze walls vanished, replaced by a white ice dragon. The ice dragon was not fixed in place but swam across the bronze walls.

With every circuit it made, the ice dragon exhaled a stream of frigid energy. This cold energy clung to the bronze walls, helping them withstand the scorching of the dragon-shaped flames within the furnace.

That was right. The flames inside the Alchemy Furnace had now transformed, but the furnace's bronze had not yet completed its transformation.

The origin power of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass attached itself to the bronze walls, allowing them to withstand the power of the flames within the furnace.

This created a perfectly balanced state similar to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, preventing Wang Chen's Alchemy Furnace from shattering.

As Wang Chen sensed his Alchemy Furnace, he learned that if he wanted his Martial Soul to evolve, he needed to use metal-element origin power to make up for the metal-element origin power lacking in the furnace's bronze.

Metal-element origin power?

Wang Chen knew where to find it: beneath the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.

The Silver Dragon King was there, along with Di Tian and the other leaders of the soul beast race.

Among them, the Silver Dragon King possessed a vast quantity of the peculiar metal known as Living Gold. As long as Wang Chen refined enough Living Gold, he could certainly evolve the bronze walls of his Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul and ultimately evolve his Martial Soul.

However, beneath the Lake of Life, even a rank ninety-nine Ultimate Douluo would be in danger of perishing, let alone his current self.

Although he now possessed the Divine Spark Seed and could borrow divine power, the Silver Dragon King was an existence even stronger than a first-class god. If he went there to cause trouble, he would likely only end up being suppressed.

Fortunately, aside from absorbing Living Gold and other strange metals to strengthen the furnace walls, he could also enhance the metal-element origin power of his Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul by absorbing metal-element soul rings.

Wang Chen put away his Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul, then sensed the Meridian Martial Soul within his body.

At that moment, the Meridian Martial Soul seemed to have transformed into a peculiar passage.

Gold and silver colors appeared along the walls of the passage.

The gold carried an aura of masculine force and fire, while the silver carried an aura of feminine softness and ice.

Masculinity and femininity reached a strange balance within his meridians.

Of course, the main reason Wang Chen's meridians possessed such an unusual balance was not because he had refined the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Fiery Apricot Delicate, but because of the Strange Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Narcissus Jade Muscle Grass.

One of the Strange Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and Narcissus Jade Muscle Grass was masculine, while the other was feminine. Both were herbs that primarily affected the meridians, establishing the framework for their transformation.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Fiery Apricot Delicate then filled that framework with more complete masculine and feminine origin power.

"Fortunately, the Meridian Martial Soul completed its transformation without needing any additional attribute origin power. I'll have more freedom when choosing soul rings in the future."

Wang Chen withdrew his consciousness from the meridians within his body and looked at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye before him.

The ice and fire power that had once been filled with toxicity and corrosive force toward him had now become exceptionally gentle, completely devoid of destructive power.

Wang Chen looked at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye. "In my previous life, someone said that the bones of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King lay underground here, along with their remnant souls and soul rings. Today, I'll see whether that's true."

Then Wang Chen took a deep breath and plunged directly into the spring.

As Wang Chen descended deeper, he felt the ice and fire power within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye growing stronger and stronger, as did the ice and fire poison.

Wang Chen circulated his cultivation technique to absorb this ice and fire power while continuing to dive.

At the very bottom, Wang Chen discovered a peculiar shape resembling a Taiji yin-yang fish.

The Taiji yin-yang fish consisted of red and blue halves.

The red half contained dense fire-element energy, while the blue half contained dense ice-element energy.

The fire-element energy and ice-element energy had reached a strange balance here.

At that moment, the Taiji yin-yang fish continuously drew in the surrounding ice-element energy and fire-element energy to sustain the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye's miraculous creation.

Seeing such a miraculous scene, Wang Chen felt both shocked and disappointed.

He was shocked by nature's divine craftsmanship, by its ability to seize the wonders of heaven and earth.

He was disappointed because there were no bones of the Ice Dragon King or Fire Dragon King underground, no remnant souls of the Ice Dragon King or Fire Dragon King, and no million-year Ice Dragon King soul bones or soul rings. Damn it, there were no million-year Fire Dragon King soul bones or soul rings either.

Wang Chen recalled the original work's description: the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye had naturally formed from the spiritual veins of heaven and earth, gathering two types of earth-vein energy—ultimate ice and ultimate fire—into a yin-yang balance that nourished each other.

When he thought of the Silver Dragon King beneath the Lake of Life and Di Tian within it, he understood.

If the bones and remnant souls of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King truly lay beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, the Silver Dragon King might not have cared, but Di Tian certainly would not have ignored them.

With Di Tian's desire to revitalize the soul beast race, he would definitely have saved the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.

He would never have allowed the origin power of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King to be drawn away to nourish the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.

Even if the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King had been at odds with the Silver Dragon King and Di Tian, Di Tian could still have devoured their origin power to increase his own strength.

He certainly would not have allowed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye to devour the origin power of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King for nothing and waste it.

Wang Chen sighed, then swam upward.

After leaving the ice and fire spring, Wang Chen once again carefully examined the medicinal herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye. After confirming that not a single valuable herb had been left behind.

Getting out was convenient as well; he only needed to follow the tunnels the soul beasts had already dug.

After arriving outside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, Wang Chen did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he began searching through Sunset Forest.

His Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul needed to absorb a soul ring from a metal-attributed soul beast.

When it came to metal-attributed soul beasts, the first thing Wang Chen thought of was the Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear.

However, the Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear clan lived in the Star Dou Great Forest, not Sunset Forest.

Moreover, Darkgold Dreadclaw Bears were a species one could only encounter by chance. At present, he did not have the ability to get others to help him search for a thousand-year Dreadclaw Bear.

Besides, the Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear might be under Bear Lord's protection. A large-scale search could draw Bear Lord's attention.

If that angered him and he decided to retaliate, then even with the Divine Spark Seed, Wang Chen could only flee in miserable disgrace like a grandson.

Aside from the Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear, Wang Chen also thought of the martial soul of Spirit Hall's Second Priest—the Golden Crocodile King.

The Golden Crocodile King was also a soul beast with ultimate metal affinity. It might not be inferior to the Darkgold Dreadclaw Bear.