Ice-Fire Poison Gas Bomb

"No matter what secrets that little rabbit carried, as long as the time came, they would eventually be revealed."

As Dugu Feng pondered, he arrived in Spirit City, where fine iron ingots were sold.

He planned to use the wisdom bestowed upon him by the God of Forging to forge a few little gadgets to help Dugu Yan win this tournament championship.

At first, he had not paid much attention to the tournament, but after seeing how seriously Dugu Yan took it,

he decided to lend a hand.

What he intended to forge was an initial version of the Ice-Fire Poison Gas Bomb.

Using his First Soul Skill, Toxic Toad Devouring Breath, as the foundation, he would use ice-attribute Soul Power to freeze it into granules.

He would then store them inside an iron container and use fire-attribute Soul Power as the fuse.

A safety pin would be placed in between.

As long as the safety pin was pulled, fire-attribute Soul Power could be injected into the frozen Toxic Toad Devouring Breath.

Then, using the clash between fire- and ice-attribute Soul Power, the poison gas bomb would detonate.

The poison gas would spread outward.

This poison gas primarily corroded a soul master's Soul Power and numbed their meridians. It was not life-threatening, mainly targeting the body's nerves, and its advantage was its speed.

Since it targeted not life itself but the body's nerves, its primary effects were paralysis and erosion of a soul master's Soul Power.

After purchasing a large amount of materials, Dugu Feng specifically acquired a large iron furnace.

Then, outside Spirit City, he found an uninhabited place and began forging.

With the help of Ultimate Fire, the metals were quickly refined.

Dugu Feng then directly summoned the Forging Hammer and placed the refined metals beneath it, using the weight of the descending hammer.

He compressed all the metals into a single iron disc.

Dugu Feng then performed a second forging.

Although he had inherited the forging wisdom of the God of Forging, some flaws were unavoidable during his first attempt at practice.

Fortunately, he had bought plenty of metal, and after several rounds of forging, he gradually became more proficient.

Before long, he forged many metals that reached the Hundred-Forged Grade.

After all, to withstand both ice and fire Soul Power, the metal had to be sufficiently durable. If it were forged from ordinary iron,

it would deform before long.

Only Hundred-Forged metal could barely endure it.

For long-term storage, Thousand-Forged Iron would be necessary.

However, since these poison gas bombs were all disposable, using Thousand-Forged Iron would clearly be wasteful.

As one bottle-shaped casing after another was completed, Dugu Feng unleashed his First Soul Skill, Toxic Toad Devouring Breath.

Poison gas swirled around him.

Using the Ultimate Ice attribute, Dugu Feng froze the poison gas into granules and placed them into the bottles.

He then sealed them.

He then used Ultimate Fire as the triggering mechanism.

The outer layer of the triggering mechanism that stored Ultimate Fire was specially coated with a layer of Ultimate Ice Soul Power to lower Ultimate Fire's temperature.

Otherwise, even Hundred-Forged Iron could not withstand the flames of Ultimate Fire.

Even so, Hundred-Forged Iron could not endure Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Ice's dual ice-fire attributes for long.

But it would not be a problem for a short period.

Dugu Feng deliberately lowered Ultimate Fire's temperature.

After all, Ultimate Fire was not the primary killing method. It was merely the fuse used to trigger the poison gas bomb.

Looking at the first poison gas bomb in his hand, Dugu Feng thought for a moment before deciding to reserve an additional Soul Power Port.

Before use, Soul Power could be injected into the Soul Power Port, which would channel it into Ultimate Fire and make Ultimate Fire more powerful.

Then the safety pin could be pulled, allowing the enhanced Ultimate Fire to collide with Ultimate Ice, making the resulting explosion even more powerful.

Dugu Feng then threw out the first poison gas bomb in his hand.

Sure enough, just as he had expected, because Ultimate Fire's temperature had been deliberately lowered,

it did not explode immediately after being thrown, instead waiting several seconds.

With a muffled bang, several cracks appeared in the poison gas bomb made from Hundred-Forged Iron, and poison gas surged out through those fissures.

Riding the shockwave produced by the explosion, it rapidly spread outward.

"Too slow. It might still be in time against ordinary people, but against soul masters, there is a full three or four seconds of opening."

"If those soul masters react, they could just kick the poison gas bomb back. Around one second would be acceptable."

"Three or four seconds is too long. It seems I need to study it again."

Over the next few days, Dugu Feng remained there, researching his Ice-Fire Poison Gas Bomb.

With Dugu Yan on the Imperial Fighting Team, reaching the semifinals would absolutely not be a problem.

After repeated failures, corrections, and research,

Dugu Feng finally developed an Ice-Fire Poison Gas Bomb with suitable power. Its explosion range was roughly within twenty meters.

The poison gas itself could spread as far as one hundred meters.

It mainly depended on the environment. In an enclosed space, this Ice-Fire Poison Gas Bomb would be an absolute killing move.

Dugu Feng also made several other Ice-Fire Poison Gas Bombs, but what they contained was not his First Soul Skill, Toxic Toad Devouring Breath.

Instead, they contained the Devouring Poison Gas from his Third Soul Skill.

As he condensed his Soul Core,

the Poison-Enhancing Bloodline altered by the Crimson Swan Kiss finally fully took effect!

It could now increase the power of ordinary lethal poisons by three thousand times.

And as his strength continued to rise, that power would likely increase even further. Of course, it also depended on the poison; against toxins that were already extremely potent,

the bloodline's amplification effect would greatly diminish. Even so, the toxin's power remained far from negligible.

For example, the poison gas inside this Devouring Poison Gas Bomb was nowhere near as gentle as the Toxic Toad Devouring Breath of his First Soul Skill.

Once inhaled, not only would Soul Power be rapidly devoured, but even life itself would be swallowed by the poison gas.

Dugu Feng had prepared these Devouring Poison Gas Bombs for himself, so he had not used ice-fire Soul Power as a trigger.

After all, if he needed to use them himself, he could directly generate and inject ice-fire Soul Power.

Therefore, these Devouring Poison Gas Bombs had a longer storage life.

They were meant to prevent enemies from taking advantage of him when his Soul Power was exhausted.

One always had to keep a few trump cards in reserve.

He had mixed all this Devouring Poison Gas with his own blood, making it even more powerful!

Dugu Feng could now be considered a walking biological weapon.

If he self-destructed his Soul Core, a Super Douluo might escape unharmed, but anyone below a Super Douluo would either die or be left crippled.

An ordinary Titled Douluo would only have a sliver of hope if they held their breath, used Soul Power to create a barrier around themselves, and escaped the poison gas's range as quickly as possible.

As for Soul Douluos, they would essentially be certain to die.

The Soul Power shields they condensed were definitely inferior to those of a Titled Douluo.

Of course, if someone could force Dugu Feng to self-destruct, that would prove that the opponent was extremely powerful.

They definitely would not be an ordinary Titled Douluo.

Dugu Feng stored the Devouring Poison Gas Bombs in the system space.

Because time was short, the remaining materials could only make twenty-five more.

As for the Ice-Fire Poison Gas Bombs, he made nearly forty.

He added his own blood to several of them, increasing their power three thousandfold.

However, their range did not change.

He specially marked those few. Unless absolutely necessary, he did not recommend that Dugu Yan use them.