Icefire Immortal Herbs, the Body Martial Soul's Second Awakening!

His Soul Power had reached level forty-nine, only a single step away from level fifty.

After absorbing the Qiluo Tulip, Ning Chen drew the fully evolved Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda back into his body.

He returned to the spring at the Icefire Yin-Yang Well. This time, his gaze fell on the two immortal herbs growing beside it: the Blazing Apricot Delicate and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

Even if he could not obtain ultimate attributes, he could at least gain immunity to both ice and fire. Naturally, Ning Chen would not pass up these two immortal herbs.

However, one of the herbs was extremely cold while the other was extremely hot; conventional methods could not harvest them at all.

But Ning Chen had long developed storage bags based on the Introductory Guide to Dao Refining and his research into storage soul tools.

Though they were certainly inferior to true storage bags from the world of cultivation, they were more than sufficient in Douluo Continent.

Ning Chen took out two storage bags, walked up to the Blazing Apricot Delicate, and directly stored the immortal herb in one of them.

The moment the herb entered, the storage bag immediately showed signs of instability.

This was one of the lowest-grade storage bags he had made, utterly incomparable to the one capable of storing the Windrider Airship.

Seeing that the low-grade storage bag was about to collapse, Ning Chen hurried to the other side of the spring and stored the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass in the other bag.

Like the first one, this storage bag also faintly showed signs of instability.

Ning Chen did not dare waste any time. He swiftly stripped off all his clothes and soul tools, protected himself with the Soul Power of the Nine Yang Divine Skill, and leaped straight into the point where the ice and fire spring waters met.

At the same time, he hurriedly took the Blazing Apricot Delicate and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass from the two storage bags that were on the verge of collapse.

Nine Yang Soul Power surged outward, tightly wrapping the two immortal herbs before he rapidly stuffed them into his mouth.

The instant the herbs slid down his throat, indescribable agony swept through his entire mouth!

The medicinal power of the Blazing Apricot Delicate scorched his tongue and esophagus like magma, as if it were about to reduce his entire body to ashes.

Immediately afterward, the extreme cold of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass surged forth. Frost rapidly spread from within his mouth, freezing over the burning sensation, only to bring another bone-deep, piercing pain.

Extreme heat and extreme cold, two utterly opposing forces, crazily collided and intertwined within his body.

Half of Ning Chen's body turned red like heated iron, while the other half became pale as ice and snow. Steam constantly rose from his skin, while frost condensed over it.

The two powers used his body as their battlefield, launching a fierce tug-of-war.

Ning Chen gritted his teeth and circulated the Nine Yang Divine Skill with all his strength.

Pure Yang True Qi surged through his meridians, guiding the two violent medicinal forces as he tried to bring them into balance.

The process was excruciating. His consciousness teetered on the verge of fading several times, but each time, the warm current of the Nine Yang Divine Skill pulled him back.

Gradually, with the Nine Yang Divine Skill operating at full force and the aid of the Icefire Yin-Yang Well, the two powers finally found a delicate balance within his body.

The heat of the Blazing Apricot Delicate no longer burned him. Instead, it transformed into a warm current that merged with his blood and bones.

The chill of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass was no longer bone-piercing either. It became a cool energy that settled into his meridians and internal organs.

The two powers complemented each other and began to be truly absorbed and fused by his body.

A faint red-and-blue aura appeared over Ning Chen's body, and the blood vessels beneath his skin became vaguely visible.

Half of them flowed with crimson light, while the other half flowed with icy blue radiance.

The two lights met at his chest and slowly sank downward, ultimately converging at his heart.

Thump!

His heart suddenly gave a violent beat.

Ning Chen's entire body shuddered as an unprecedented sensation surged from his chest.

The Heart Martial Soul he had never truly cultivated before actually began actively absorbing the medicinal power of the immortal herbs that had been refined by the Nine Yang Divine Skill under the cleansing force of the two herbs!

The yang force of the Blazing Apricot Delicate and the yin chill of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass intertwined and fused within his heart, transforming into a strange energy that began tempering the essence of his Heart Martial Soul.

Ning Chen could clearly feel that every beat of his heart was stronger and steadier than the last, as though a sleeping giant beast was slowly awakening.

Silver-white patterns emerged across his body, spreading outward from his heart and following the paths of his blood vessels until they covered his entire body.

The patterns gleamed with a metallic luster and faintly emanated an ancient, powerful aura.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

His heartbeat grew louder and louder. At first, it was merely a vibration within his chest, but gradually, even the surrounding air began to resonate faintly with its rhythm.

Ripples spread across the surface of the Icefire Yin-Yang Well, expanding outward with him at their center.

Ning Chen lowered his head and looked at his chest. Beneath his skin, a hazy glow shone from where his heart lay.

At first, it was only a faint speck of light, but as more medicinal power from the immortal herbs poured in, it grew brighter and more intense, as if a star were taking shape within his chest.

Then, streak after streak of silver-white patterns spread from his chest.

Wherever the silver-white patterns passed, his skin took on a jade-like sheen, as though some mysterious force were reshaping his body.

The patterns were not still. They slowly flowed beneath his skin as though alive, and with every movement, they emitted a faint silver halo that made the surrounding spring water glimmer with specks of starlight.

Ning Chen could feel that his heart was undergoing some kind of qualitative transformation.

This was not merely an increase in strength, but a fundamental leap, like ordinary iron cast into a furnace and transformed into refined steel after endless tempering.

Every contraction and expansion of his heart was more powerful than before. The blood it pumped carried purer energy, flowing through every meridian and every inch of flesh in his body.

At that moment, his five senses became extraordinarily sharp.

He could hear bubbles bursting deep within the spring, sense the slightest changes in every trace of temperature in the air, and even catch the path a falling leaf traced through the air hundreds of meters away.

The entire world became clearer than ever before in his eyes.

The silver-white patterns continued spreading until they gradually covered his entire body.

The patterns shimmered beneath his skin with a metallic gleam, faintly radiating an ancient and powerful aura. It was a power that surpassed the Martial Soul itself and pointed directly to the origin of life.

Only then did Ning Chen finally understand.

The immense medicinal power of the two immortal herbs had, by sheer coincidence, triggered the second awakening of his Body Martial Soul!

And it was a Silver Awakening!

The second awakening of a Body Martial Soul was divided into three levels.

Black Iron Awakening increased overall strength by roughly thirty percent.

Bronze Awakening increased it by roughly sixty percent.

But he had achieved Silver Awakening, which directly doubled his overall strength and would also awaken a unique innate divine ability belonging to Body Martial Souls.

In the future history of the Body Sect, everyone who achieved Silver Awakening was an extraordinary genius. So long as they did not die prematurely, they would almost certainly become a Title Douluo!