Beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Yan stared at the clearly divided red and white spring waters, breathing rapidly as her body trembled.
The smell of sulfur assaulted her nose. Her instincts told her that this strange hot spring looked calm, but was actually terrifying beyond measure.
"Do I really have to go in?"
She turned around, her beautiful eyes fixed on Qian Ni as she sought a reason from him.
"If I go into the spring, I'll become stronger, right?"
Qian Ni thought for a moment, then shook his head with a smile.
"No. It'll kill you.
"Though these two springs aren't as powerful as the Scarlet Flower, they're still a fairly famous sight on Douluo Continent.
"If ten Titled Douluo went in, perhaps half of one could crawl back out."
Dugu Yan hesitated. If it would kill her, why did Qian Ni want her to enter?
Had he already grown tired of playing with her and wanted to watch her suffer?
Qian Ni lightly flicked his wrist. The wind in the valley gathered and swept over the Immortal Herbs growing on both sides of the spring.
"The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect ambushed Dugu Bo because of the Immortal Herbs here.
"The fact that they can't use them now doesn't mean they never will. Do you want them to succeed?
"They killed your grandfather, and now they want to kill you. They'll use your family's Immortal Herbs to evolve their Martial Souls, then make their sect flourish.
"Can you accept that?"
Qian Ni spoke one sentence after another, each word carving fiercely into Dugu Yan's heart.
Gradually, she calmed down, and her body stopped trembling.
"What... should I do?"
In the end, she still chose to trust Qian Ni. She had no other path left.