Fang Yuan's First Soul Skill

The two of them were now in an area of Sunset Forest where the life energy was particularly abundant. Fang Yuan found a high spot and looked around, immediately locating the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well lay in a hollow between mountain peaks. Dugu Bo had also set up a poisonous miasma around it for protection, leaving the entire mountain with pitifully sparse vegetation.

Compared to the dense forest where Fang Yuan and Tang San currently stood, the contrast in environment was obvious at a glance, allowing him to instantly determine the direction.

After getting his bearings, Fang Yuan led Tang San toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

After absorbing his first Soul Ring, Tang San's Soul Power Level had reached thirteen, and his physical condition had improved considerably. The two of them traveled even faster now.

Fang Yuan held Tang San's hand and sped along like the wind, arriving at the foot of a bare mountain before long.

Looking up from the foot of the mountain, it stood roughly two hundred zhang tall, with sparse vegetation. It lacked the plant aura found elsewhere in Sunset Forest; instead, the air carried a faint fishy stench.

"Poison?"

Tang San sniffed, immediately realizing that poisonous mist permeated the area, and his heart gave a jolt.

After carefully identifying it, he recognized its nature from the records in the Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record. It was Jade Phosphor Snake Poison, a sinister and deadly snake venom.

Tang San secretly pondered, This Jade Phosphor Snake Poison is fatal. Even with the Life Amplification soul skill, I couldn't last long in such dense venom. Strong liquor and realgar could counter this snake poison, but I don't have much of either. They might not be enough to get us through this poisonous mist.

With that thought, Tang San turned to Fang Yuan, considering how to explain the situation before them to his teacher.

However, Tang San was surprised to discover that his teacher, Fang Yuan, showed not the slightest trace of surprise or hesitation.

Tang San's thoughts raced. Teacher's cultivation is far beyond mine. He may not know the exact details of this poisonous mist, but there's no way he failed to notice it. Judging by his expression, he must have some other way of getting through it.

Fang Yuan looked at the poisonous mist before him, his heart utterly calm. He had long known that Dugu Bo, that old poisoner, treated the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well as his private treasure and had set up a poisonous barrier to protect it.

Naturally, Fang Yuan had his own means of dealing with this poisonous miasma.

He took Tang San's hand and said, "This should be the place. That treasure land is in the middle of this mountain. Let's go."

As he spoke, he prepared to lead Tang San straight up the mountain.

Tang San was alarmed. The two of them had not taken any protective measures. If they rashly entered the poisonous mist, they would likely both be in mortal danger before long.

He hurriedly warned Fang Yuan, "Teacher, my martial soul senses that something is wrong with the environment here. The air on the mountain may be poisonous."

Fang Yuan glanced at Tang San. As expected of a reincarnated outsider demon. His words are watertight.

If he had figured out it was poisonous through the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, then he had figured it out. Yet he claimed his martial soul sensed it.

Still, Fang Yuan understood Tang San's approach. Having wisdom from infancy was indeed conspicuous, so it was naturally best to avoid letting others notice anything abnormal.

He said to Tang San, "Don't worry. I naturally have a way to deal with the poison here."

Hearing this, Tang San finally relaxed. He knew his teacher was no reckless fool. He must have a way to handle it if he dared enter the poisonous mist.

However, after they had only taken a few steps toward the mountaintop, Tang San's face turned bluish-purple.

Within his body, the Mysterious Heaven Skill circulated at full speed, attempting to neutralize the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison he had inhaled, but it was merely a drop in the bucket.

"H-how could this be..."

With the poisonous gas entering his body, Tang San's mind grew unclear as well, as though a haze had clouded his thoughts.

Had something gone wrong with Teacher's method of dealing with the snake poison?

The instant this thought arose in Tang San's mind, he saw Fang Yuan move beside him.

Fang Yuan's first Soul Ring emerged beneath his feet, pulsing up and down around his body as it emitted a bright yellow glow.

Clearly, Fang Yuan had activated a soul skill.

Tang San's expression froze instantly.

After feeling the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison enter his body, before he could even say anything to Fang Yuan, he suddenly discovered that the snake poison within him had vanished in an instant.

Yet immediately afterward, with Tang San's next breath, another wave of Jade Phosphor Snake Poison entered his body through his nostrils.

Before Tang San could react, he was astonished to find that the snake poison inside him had vanished without a trace once more.

Was this Teacher's method for dealing with the snake poison? It was truly terrifying!

Tang San was shocked. If he had been on his own, he could have devised ways to counter the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison. But those methods would have been nothing more than preparing an antidote or fighting poison with poison.

Yet the method Teacher used to eliminate the snake poison was practically divine. It erased every toxin in the body in an instant, and Tang San could not grasp the principle behind it at all.

I wonder whether Teacher's method only works against Jade Phosphor Snake Poison, or whether it can counter other toxins as well. If it's the latter, then this method is simply the nemesis of every poison user in the world.

Tang San instinctively felt a sense of danger. After all, as a Tang Sect disciple, he was naturally among those who used poison most often.

However, the moment this thought surfaced, Tang San immediately dismissed it.

What a joke—this was his teacher!

If someone else possessed such a detoxifying method and directly countered Tang San, they would be courting death.

But if his teacher possessed such a method, wasn't that only natural? A teacher for a day was a father for life. A father restraining his son could not be more reasonable!

With that thought, the faint negative emotion in Tang San's heart immediately vanished, replaced by admiration for his teacher.

Fang Yuan turned to check Tang San's condition. Seeing him gaze at him with utter admiration rather than looking affected by the poison, he nodded slightly.

He had known all along that Dugu Bo, that old poisoner, had laid down poisonous miasma here. Without an appropriate means of dealing with it, how could he possibly have brought Tang San here?

First soul skill: As Before!

Fang Yuan's first soul skill had originated from a Rank Six Time Path Gu worm gifted to him by his senior brother in his previous life, and its effect was exceedingly powerful.

At its core, it turned a person's time back to their state from a few breaths earlier.

It was not merely effective against poisoning. Even if someone had been beheaded, cut in half at the waist, or beaten into pulp, As Before could restore them in an instant.

Such a healing effect was terrifying, whether in Fang Yuan's original world or here on Douluo Continent!

After being reborn on Douluo Continent, once he had absorbed his first Soul Ring and learned that he could choose Gu worms from his previous life as soul skills, Fang Yuan decided that his first soul skill would be As Before.

This healing ability, capable of reviving the dead and restoring flesh to bare bones, could bring enormous benefits in both battle and social dealings.

Relying on the As Before soul skill, Fang Yuan had acted as a healing Soul Master during the early stages. Its powerful healing effect made it easy for him to find teammates who could help him obtain Soul Rings.

Only after Fang Yuan obtained the next three Soul Rings and gained considerable combat power did he return to operating as a lone wolf.