Dugu Bo Wasn't Here? Then Go All In!

The night was as black as ink.

When Lin Ye left the inn, he did not alert anyone.

Faint soul power fluctuations still came from Zhu Zhuqing's room. She was probably cultivating.

"Big kitty, sorry. This trip is too dangerous, so I can't take you with me."

Lin Ye stood on the windowsill of the inn's second floor and glanced westward by moonlight,

then leaped out.

Sunset Forest.

It was roughly a hundred li from Heaven Dou City. Though it was not as large as the Star Dou Great Forest,

the density of soul beasts within was extremely high, especially in the core region, where many thousand-year and even ten-thousand-year soul beasts lurked.

Lin Ye kept the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's senses activated the entire way, pushing his detection range to the limit.

Along the way, he sensed the auras of at least seven or eight thousand-year soul beasts.

Lin Ye did not linger to fight.

Whenever he encountered one, he went around it. If he could not avoid it, he suppressed his aura and circled around from the flank.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Supreme Evil Aura itself carried immense intimidation. After sensing his presence, most of those thousand-year soul beasts retreated on their own.

That saved him quite a bit of trouble.

After an unknown amount of time.

The air ahead began to change.

A pungent, fishy stench drifted from the depths of the dense forest, so strong it nearly corroded his nostrils.

Lin Ye stopped, his gaze fixed on the area before him.

Every tree ahead had withered. Their branches were an eerie dark purple, while their bark was covered in densely packed corrosion marks.

A layer of translucent pale green mist also blanketed the ground.

So this was the poison miasma.

It was precisely the outer defensive line Dugu Bo had set up.

"Old man, your poison really is formidable."

"Unfortunately, you ran into me."

Lin Ye then took a deep breath, and his eyes suddenly turned crimson.

"Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, possess me."

Buzz!

Black evil energy instantly spread from Lin Ye's body,

while two purple Soul Rings slowly lit up beneath his feet.

Lin Ye then activated the wind attribute first.

Whoosh!

A visible wind barrier condensed around his body,

and it blew away all the poisonous mist within one meter of him.

The moment the pale green mist touched the edge of the wind barrier, it was torn into wisps and drifted away to both sides.

Immediately after,

"Second Soul Skill, Evil God Guard."

At that moment, a spherical barrier woven from black evil energy, purple lightning, and violent wind condensed once more inside the wind barrier.

Thus forming a double layer of protection.

The wind barrier outside dispersed the poisonous mist, while Evil God Guard inside blocked all infiltration.

"Everything's ready. Let's go."

Lin Ye then plunged headfirst into the poisonous mist.

The pale green fog surged in from every direction, growing denser the farther in he went.

Eventually, the mist nearly became semi-liquid, clinging thickly to the surface of the wind barrier.

Its corrosiveness was absurdly strong.

Several flying insects that accidentally entered the poison mist sizzled the instant they touched it, turning into puddles of black water in less than two seconds.

Lin Ye glanced at them, and his scalp instantly tingled.

Damn, no wonder no one could break in.

Worthy of a Titled Douluo!

At this concentration, forget Great Soul Masters—even Soul Kings and Soul Emperors probably could not withstand it.

But for Lin Ye, the effects of this double protection were unexpectedly excellent.

The wind barrier kept the poisonous mist a meter away, while the evil energy of Evil God Guard even produced some sort of repulsive reaction with the poison mist.

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's supreme evil energy itself possessed extremely strong corrosive properties.

The two corrosive attributes clashed against each other, instead creating a vacuum zone.

The poison mist could not touch him at all.

After Lin Ye sprinted for three minutes,

the scene before him abruptly changed.

The poison mist stopped sharply at a certain threshold, as though blocked by an invisible barrier.

And beyond that barrier,

a circular pool roughly thirty meters across rested quietly in the center of the ground.

A distinct dividing line split the pool into two halves.

The left half was deep red, its surface constantly bubbling with fine bubbles as heat waves rose from it.

The right half was dark blue, with a thin layer of ice crystals covering its surface and an oppressive chill radiating from it.

This pool was the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!

Two utterly opposing extreme energies coexisted perfectly within this small space.

But what truly made Lin Ye's breath catch was not the pool itself.

It was the Immortal Herbs surrounding it.

"Fuck..."

Lin Ye sucked in a cold breath.

Around the edge of the pool, all kinds of strange plants grew densely together.

On the red side stood a proud plant, crimson from stem to leaf, its petals flickering like flames.

It was the Infernal Delicate Apricot.

On the blue side grew a cluster of herbs with eight leaves arranged in the shape of a star anise, their surfaces covered in mysterious ice.

It was the Star Anise Mysterious Ice Grass.

At the boundary between ice and fire, a golden chrysanthemum radiated dazzling light. A golden flower stem that seemed to reach the heavens could faintly be seen amid its stamens.

It was the Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

Besides those, many other spiritual medicines that Lin Ye could not name but could tell were extraordinary were scattered around the pool.

In the original story, Tang San had used these Immortal Herbs to forcibly raise the talents of the Shrek Seven Devils by an entire level.

Now, they all belonged to Lin Ye.

"Sorry, Little Bastard. First come, first served!"

A faint smile curled Lin Ye's lips,

then he quickly released his spiritual power to scan the surroundings.

Lin Ye was shocked to discover that there was no one here.

There was not a trace of human aura nearby.

It seemed Dugu Bo was not here tonight!

"Not bad luck. Since that's the case, let's get to work!"

Lin Ye no longer hesitated. He rushed straight to the pool's edge and took out the Storage Jade Pendant from his robes.

He took out his harvesting tools,

and moved with extreme speed.

Not a second was wasted.

Star Anise Mysterious Ice Grass, collected!

Infernal Delicate Apricot, collected!

Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, dug out whole, collected!

Before long,

one plant, two plants, three plants...

Lin Ye's movements were both swift and steady.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the finest Immortal Herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had been completely stripped clean.

Even the pendant's five cubic meters of storage space had been stuffed to the brim.

Lin Ye then patted the dirt from his hands, turned, and prepared to leave.

However,

at that moment,

"Oh?"

A voice cold to the bone came from the rock wall overhead.

"I'd like to see just who it is... who dares trespass into my medicine garden."

Upon hearing that unfamiliar voice,

every hair on Lin Ye's body stood on end.

He abruptly looked up.

Under the moonlight,

a gaunt figure had appeared at some unknown time on the rock wall above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

The man's body was thin, his face withered, and his narrow eyes glimmered with an eerie green light in the darkness.

Buzz—

Nine Soul Rings rose beneath his feet.

Two yellow. Two purple. Five black.

All nine rings emerged.

The pressure of a Titled Douluo descended fiercely onto Lin Ye's shoulders like an invisible mountain.

The newcomer was none other than the Poison Douluo—Dugu Bo!

The moment Lin Ye saw Dugu Bo, his heart jolted.

This was bad.

That old man had actually returned!

Dugu Bo stood atop the rock wall, looking down at Lin Ye from above.

His eerie green eyes swept across the empty medicine garden, and his pupils abruptly contracted.

"Empty. It's all empty..."

The medicinal herbs he had tended for over a decade were now gone without a single plant left.