Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well! Taking the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum!

Pushing aside the hanging vines and branches, a gust carrying both extreme cold and extreme heat rushed toward him.

Huang Yun's eyes lit up slightly. He slipped sideways into the passage and sped along the narrow stone path toward its depths.

The rock walls on both sides of the path were covered in dense moss and vines, their colors far brighter and richer than ordinary plants. Fine ice crystals coated some leaves, while others gave off visible waves of steaming heat.

Two utterly different environments coexisted harmoniously within this passage, clearly divided yet completely undisturbed by one another.

After turning a corner, his view suddenly opened up.

Huang Yun stood on a stone platform at the entrance to the valley. At the sight of the paradise-like world before him, even his breathing paused.

The valley was not large, only a few hundred meters across, enclosed by cliffs on all sides like a bowl formed by heaven and earth.

At the center of the valley lay a tranquil spring, divided into two halves. One half blazed with heat, white steam rolling across its surface while a crimson glow faintly shone from beneath the water.

The other half was cold as frost, with fragments of floating ice scattered across its surface and chill mist filling the air.

The two springs met in the center, forming a strange taiji pattern. They merged without mixing, radiating heaven-and-earth energy so dense it was nearly tangible.

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Around the spring, rare plants of every conceivable shape grew in dense clusters.

Some were blood-red from root to tip, their leaves flowing with a flame-like luster.

Some were as clear as ice sculptures, every leaf exuding bone-piercing cold.

Others looked completely unremarkable as they grew in the corners, yet emitted extraordinarily unique fluctuations of energy.

Huang Yun's gaze swept across the plants, and his heartbeat quickened involuntarily.

He recognized several Immortal Herbs mentioned in the original story.

Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, Infernal Delicate Apricot, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass...

Every one of them was a peerless treasure.

What a pity. I don't have a Soul Tool that can store living things. Otherwise, I'd take them all.

Time is limited. I can only choose one.

Huang Yun thought to himself.

He had no idea when Dugu Bo would return.

In the end, he transformed into a bolt of Lightning and shot into the basin.

His gaze locked onto the golden flower.

The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

Extreme speed required a powerful body to support it.

As long as his physical body became hard enough in the future, he could turn his own body into the most terrifying weapon and, empowered by extreme speed, ram his enemies to death outright.

Moreover, this Immortal Herb could grant him an Indestructible Vajra Body.

He could not consume two Immortal Herbs within a short period of time.

Otherwise, he would have taken the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew as well. But as long as he waited around three months for the medicinal power of this Immortal Herb to finish digesting, he could still return and consume it.

If circumstances allowed, he still hoped to take them all.

He did not want to leave even one for Tang San and the others.

Unfortunately, he had no means of storing living things.

He could only choose the best option.

Huang Yun stopped hesitating. He bent down and carefully dug up the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, roots and soil included, then held it in his palm.

The golden flower trembled faintly in his hand, releasing warm energy that flowed into his meridians and made every pore on his body relax.

Time was limited. He had to consume it as soon as possible.

This place was dangerous. He could not remain here for long.

Thus, after filling the disturbed ground back in, he used Teleportation and swiftly vanished from the basin.

Tang San had only just entered Shrek Academy. There were still at least three years before Tang San arrived here.

Over those three years, he would act as quickly as possible.

Huang Yun's figure moved like a silent bolt of Lightning, darting at extreme speed through the dense canopy of Sunset Forest.

His left hand tightly gripped the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum. The golden flower trembled faintly amid his high-speed movement, its warmth seeping through his palm and into his meridians, quickening his heartbeat and accelerating the rush of blood through his veins.

I need to find somewhere safe quickly.

As he raced onward, he rapidly scanned the terrain below.

The region around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had long been left behind. There was still no sign of Dugu Bo turning back, but that did not mean he was safe.

A Titled Douluo's senses covered an enormous range. If that Old Poison returned and saw that the soil in the basin had been disturbed, he would certainly fly into a rage and search the mountains. By then, he would turn everything within dozens of miles upside down.

Huang Yun knew clearly that concealment was what he needed most right now.

He flew low along the mountainside for about the time it took to drink a cup of tea when his gaze suddenly fixed on a rock wall concealed by dense vines.

The surface of that rock wall looked completely ordinary, but Huang Yun's senses were sharp. He noticed a small patch of soil beneath it that bore signs of being washed by running water. The vines were unevenly distributed as well, and behind several thick hanging vines, a narrow crack was faintly visible.

He slowed and landed on the grass before the rock wall, then reached out and pulled aside the thick vines.

Sure enough.

The entrance to a naturally formed cave was revealed. It was not large, barely wide enough for one person to squeeze through sideways, but it seemed to lead somewhere deeper within.

Huang Yun squeezed inside sideways and walked seven or eight steps through the narrow passage before the space suddenly widened.

The cave interior was roughly four or five zhang across, with enough height for him to stand upright.

The walls were made of natural limestone, dry and smooth. Fine sand covered the ground, and some dried beast bones lay in the corners. It was clear that a Soul Beast had once lived here, but the cave had been abandoned for a long time.

The air carried a faint earthy smell, but there was no dampness, and the ventilation was decent.

Huang Yun nodded in satisfaction.

He turned around, carried several suitably sized stones from inside the cave to pile against the inner side of the entrance, then pulled over some vines from outside to cover the opening again, ensuring that nothing unusual could be spotted from the outside.

After confirming that everything was secure, he returned to the center of the cave and sat down cross-legged.

He took out the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum from his clothes. The golden flower emitted a soft glow in the dim cave. Its layered petals bloomed like a chrysanthemum, each one shining with a crystal-clear golden luster. At its core rested a dense golden mass that seemed almost solidified, continuously radiating abundant energy.

"This is the one."

Huang Yun took a deep breath. Without further hesitation, he put the entire Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum into his mouth, chewed it up, and swallowed it.

The instant the petals entered his mouth, a scorching yet rich current of warmth surged straight down his throat and spread through his meridians toward every part of his body at astonishing speed.

Immediately afterward, even greater energy exploded from his dantian, like countless boiling rivers flooding every meridian in his body at once—overbearing and immense.

He could clearly feel his skin, muscles, bones, and even internal organs being permeated, washed, and tempered by golden energy.

Fine golden patterns appeared across the surface of his bones. Under the impact of that energy, his muscle fibers became tighter and tougher, while an invisible membrane seemed to form and solidify beneath his skin.