Taking Down Dugu Yan?

"Got it, got it, Grandpa, stop talking." Dugu Yan's voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz.

"When he comes out, Yan Yan will thank him properly."

Seeing his granddaughter's shy appearance, Dugu Bo was overjoyed.

He knew there was hope. As long as Yan Yan did not reject him, with the young master's looks and strength, winning her over would only be a matter of time.

By then, the Dugu Clan's relationship with the young master would become even closer.

Outside the poison formation, grandfather and granddaughter waited quietly, each occupied with their own thoughts.

Meanwhile, deep within the poison formation, at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eyes.

Ning Chen was enduring pain beyond anything ordinary people could imagine.

He was naked, his entire body submerged in the spring where red and blue met.

The water had just risen past his neck, leaving only his head above the surface.

At that moment, his body had become a battlefield.

The left half of his body was enveloped by the scorching Yang Spring, continuously giving off white steam.

The right half was wrapped in the Extreme Cold Yin Spring, his skin deathly pale and covered in a thick layer of frost.

Inside his body, the medicinal effects of the Blazing Apricot Delicate and Star Anise Ice Crystal Grass were madly nourishing his meridians and flesh.

Extreme heat and extreme cold clashed relentlessly within him.

Ning Chen gritted his teeth tightly, his features twisted together from the unbearable pain.

Hold on! I have to hold on! Ning Chen roared wildly in his heart.

He mobilized spiritual power comparable to that of a Soul Sage, desperately controlling the two energies inside him and preventing them from directly bursting through his meridians.

At the same time, the Evil Fire within him sensed the invasion of foreign energy and began to grow restless.

Dark-red Evil Fire surged from deep within his bone marrow, attempting to devour the ice and fire energies.

But the ice and fire energies were incomparably tyrannical, colliding head-on with the Evil Fire.

The three forces formed a three-way stalemate within Ning Chen's body.

The process was ten thousand times more painful than being sliced alive.

Yet Ning Chen did not make a sound. He knew this was an unavoidable step in Ice Fire Body Tempering.

As long as he endured it, the strength of his physical body would reach a terrifying level, and the Evil Fire within him might even be completely tamed.

Time passed second by second.

The red and blue energies in the spring flowed continuously through Ning Chen's pores and into his body.

One hour passed.

A layer of black impurities began to seep from Ning Chen's skin.

These were deep-seated impurities within his body, forcibly expelled by the ice and fire energies.

An hour and a half passed.

Ning Chen's breathing became increasingly labored, and his spiritual power had been drained to its limit.

Controlling the three violent energies within his body was simply too exhausting.

Two hours passed.

Just then, the three energies within Ning Chen suddenly reached a critical point.

The ice and fire energies, which had originally been resisting each other, abruptly fused together. Forming an even more terrifying force, they crashed directly toward the Evil Fire inside Ning Chen.

Boom!

Ning Chen's body jolted violently.

That collision had completely exceeded Ning Chen's limit.

"Aah!"

Ning Chen threw back his head. Unable to endure any longer, he let out an incomparably agonized scream.

The scream echoed through the empty valley, piercing through layers of poisonous mist and reaching the ears of the grandfather and granddaughter outside.

Dugu Bo, who had been sitting on a rock with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them. He sprang straight up from the rock.

"Not good! The young master is in danger!" Dugu Bo's expression changed drastically as he cried out.

He knew all too well how terrifying the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eyes were.

Even he, a Titled Douluo, did not dare approach that kind of extreme energy.

Though the young master was extraordinarily gifted, he was only level forty-four after all.

If something went wrong inside and he was consumed by that spring water, it would all be over.

Dugu Bo was truly panicking. If the young master died here, Pope Bibi Dong would definitely turn the entire Sunset Forest upside down, then flay Dugu Bo alive and grind his bones to ash.

Standing beside him, Dugu Yan heard Ning Chen's agonized scream, and her heart instantly leaped into her throat.

"Ning Chen!"

Dugu Yan cried out anxiously. Without even thinking, she turned and charged straight into the poisonous mist.

Her mind was filled with the image of Ning Chen saving her before. She absolutely could not let anything happen to him.

"Yan Yan, stay close to me!"

Dugu Bo shouted, immediately releasing a mass of green soul power that enveloped both himself and Dugu Yan.

Grandfather and granddaughter rushed into the poisonous mist one after the other at top speed.

The poisonous mist rapidly swept past them. As she ran, Dugu Yan anxiously prayed in her heart:

Ning Chen, you must be all right. You're so strong—how could anything happen to you...

In less than two minutes, grandfather and granddaughter broke through the poisonous mist and arrived in the valley of the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eyes.

The moment they emerged from the mist, both were utterly stunned by the sight before them.

Directly above the Ice Fire Yin Yang Eyes, roughly three meters above the water's surface.

Ning Chen was floating in midair.

His eyes were tightly shut, his brows deeply furrowed, and his expression was filled with pain.

Two layers of exceptionally dense light enveloped his body.

On the left was scorching vermilion light, while on the right was icy dark-blue light.

The two lights were tightly entwined around Ning Chen's body.

Not only that, but the spring water below seemed to be boiling as well.

Energy surging from the red and blue spring waters transformed into two columns, pouring continuously into Ning Chen's body in midair.

The air throughout the valley was churned by that immense energy, whipping up fierce winds.

Seeing Ning Chen wrapped in those two terrifying forces, Dugu Yan grew so anxious that tears nearly fell from her eyes.

"Grandpa, hurry and save him! He looks like he's in so much pain!"

Dugu Yan grabbed Dugu Bo's arm and shouted, her voice trembling with tears.

She moved as if to rush toward the spring, intending to pull Ning Chen out.

"Stop!"

Dugu Bo fiercely grabbed Dugu Yan's arm and pulled her back.

Dugu Bo's expression was exceptionally grave. He stared fixedly at Ning Chen in midair without blinking.

"Grandpa, why are you stopping me? Hurry up and save him!"

Dugu Yan stamped her feet anxiously, struggling desperately to break free from Dugu Bo's grip.

Dugu Bo firmly pressed down on his granddaughter's shoulders and shouted:

"Yan Yan, calm down! Don't panic!"

"Look carefully at the energy fluctuations around the young master!" Dugu Bo pointed at Ning Chen in midair and quickly explained.

"Those two ice and fire forces may look violent right now, but they have already formed a marvelous balance within the young master's body!"

"The red and blue energies are restraining each other while simultaneously remaking the young master's body. This is an extraordinarily rare tempering process!"

Dugu Bo was a Titled Douluo, after all. His insight was far beyond Dugu Yan's.

At a glance, he could tell that although Ning Chen was suffering, his life was not in danger.

"If I rashly intervene and interrupt him now, the moment an outside force enters, it will instantly shatter the balance in his body."

"Then those two violent energies will explode directly inside him."