Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well

Dugu Bo fell silent for a long while after hearing him out.

He quickly weighed the matter in his heart. This treasured place mattered to him solely because it could help suppress the backlash of the serpent venom within his body.

If the poison in his body could truly be completely cured, then this place would indeed lose much of its significance to him.

Though handing it over so readily pained him a little, compared to curing his own poison, it seemed acceptable.

Besides, the masked child before him spoke and acted with remarkable composure. He was clearly not someone an ordinary family could raise.

And Serpent Spear Douluo She Long stayed at his side every step of the way, making it obvious that he was an extremely important figure.

"Fine. I agree." Dugu Bo finally nodded.

The corners of Zhang Fei's mouth curled up beneath his mask.

"However," Dugu Bo abruptly changed his tone, "if the method you mentioned does not work, I will still come back. Even if I cannot take this place back, I will do everything in my power to destroy it."

Zhang Fei replied, "Fine. Then I'll tell you how to cure the poison now."

He paused, quickly sorting through what he remembered, then said, "You need a spirit bone from one of the limbs. The older it is, the better—preferably one with poison attributes. Then force all the poison in your body along your meridians and into the spirit bone, using it as a vessel to seal the poison away."

"That way, you will no longer suffer backlash from the poison. As for the poison remaining in your flesh and bones, simply use a few ordinary antidotes to assist with treatment. In as little as half a year or as much as a year, the poison will be completely purged. During these six months, I will allow you to continue coming here to suppress the poison."

Upon hearing this, Dugu Bo immediately revealed an enlightened expression.

He had lived for so many years, always thinking about how to suppress the poison, yet he had never considered the idea of "transferring" it.

A spirit bone could perfectly merge with a soul master's body. Using it as a container for poison would neither affect the spirit bone's enhancement effects nor permanently solve the backlash problem. It truly was an excellent solution.

If it were a poison-attributed spirit bone, it could even increase the power of its spirit bone skill, achieving two goals at once.

Dugu Bo gave Zhang Fei a deep look and said in a low voice, "Fine. I will believe you for now. This place is yours first. I'll go back and try the method you mentioned. If it works, I will acknowledge this deal, and I will never refuse you in the future."

With that, Dugu Bo did not linger any longer.

His gray-green robe billowed as he rose from the ground, transforming into a dark-green streak of light that tore through the air toward Heaven Dou City. He soon vanished beyond the distant horizon.

Zhang Fei stood where he was and watched Dugu Bo depart, secretly guessing, That old poisoner is probably rushing back to find a spirit bone.

Given Dugu Bo's relationship with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, he should be able to obtain one or two ordinary ten-thousand-year spirit bones from them.

As for how to force the poison into it, that was Dugu Bo's own problem.

She Long stood beside Zhang Fei. Watching him dismiss Dugu Bo with just a few words, the corner of his mouth twitched. "You... him... I... I really don't know what to say."

Zhang Fei took off his mask and let out a breath, then grinned at She Long. "Grandpa, let's go. Let's take a look inside."

She Long rolled his eyes at him and asked no further questions. Raising his right hand, he released a soul power shield that enveloped them both.

"Let's go." She Long pulled Zhang Fei into the poisonous miasma.

The mist of the poisonous miasma churned, but it was repelled from the surface of the soul power shield and could not come anywhere near them.

A Titled Douluo's control over soul power had already reached perfection, far beyond what ordinary soul masters could compare to.

As they walked, She Long asked tentatively, "Xiao Fei, since when did you understand medicine?"

Walking at She Long's side, Zhang Fei casually replied, "I only know a little... just a little..."

She Long snorted, clearly unconvinced. "You could tell at a glance that Dugu Bo was poisoned, and you call that knowing a little?"

Zhang Fei chuckled and scratched the back of his head without answering.

There was simply no way to explain it, so he could only play dumb and muddle through with an idiotic grin.

Seeing that the boy would not give him anything, She Long sighed. There was a hint of sentiment in his voice as he said, "If your martial soul had not also awakened as Serpent Spear, inherited from my line, I would truly wonder whether you were my biological grandson."

Zhang Fei's heart suddenly tightened. He knew full well that he had been acting a little too "abnormally" lately.

He quickly put on his usual cheeky grin and teased in a lighthearted tone, "It's obviously because I've read more books than you! You don't like reading, and now you won't even let me study?"

Without another word, She Long raised his hand and smacked Zhang Fei on the back of the head.

With a crisp smack, Zhang Fei's head jerked downward.

"You little brat!" She Long glared and scolded, "If this old man hadn't been too poor to afford books when I was young, would it be your turn to show off in front of me? Aren't you able to study under such good conditions now entirely because of me?"

Zhang Fei rubbed the back of his head and bared his teeth, but inwardly he muttered, Why does that sound so familiar? Elders everywhere really are all the same.

Zhang Fei immediately forced a smile. "Grandpa is right, Grandpa is right. This is called the student surpassing the master. You laid such a solid foundation that I can stand so high."

"Now that's more like it!" She Long snorted, turned around, and continued forward.

While they chatted and laughed, the two of them unknowingly passed through the poisonous miasma, and the view before them suddenly opened up.

They both stopped involuntarily.

The exit of the poisonous miasma lay at the foot of a small hill. The hill was not very tall, no more than a hundred meters by estimation.

Standing at the base of the hill, they could clearly see steam rising from its summit.

She Long brought Zhang Fei up with a light tap of his toes against the ground, his body floating effortlessly to the top of the hill.

Once they had steadied themselves, both looked down and held their breath in unspoken accord.

Before them lay a massive inverted cone-shaped basin, as though some colossal object had fallen from the sky and smashed such a crater into the earth.

The basin was at least several hundred meters in diameter, and its walls were extremely steep.

Looking down, they saw its bottom shrouded in rising white mist. Everything was hazy and indistinct, and they could only vaguely make out flickering lights below—one red and one blue.

She Long scooped Zhang Fei up, his body sinking downward as he slowly floated along the steep mountainside with him.

The moment they landed, a strange aura rushed at them.

It was difficult to describe. It possessed both extreme heat and extreme cold, two utterly opposing sensations pouring into their bodies at once.

Zhang Fei felt as if something were eroding his organs, bringing tearing pain that made him let out a muffled groan.

She Long reacted swiftly, protecting him with soul power and forcefully isolating the two corrosive energies outside.

"The air here contains an extremely overbearing energy. Be careful, and don't stray too far from me."

Zhang Fei nodded. The corrosive sensation had already disappeared.

Of course, he knew what was happening. It was the extreme ice and fire energy unique to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

The spring water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well contained extreme ice- and fire-attributed auras. If low-level soul masters remained here for too long, their meridians would be torn apart by the two extreme energies, and they would inevitably explode and die.

If She Long had not protected him with soul power in time, even this brief moment would have cost him dearly.