Icefire Yin Yang Well, Immortal Herbs Secured

Three days later, Dai Mubai arrived in Heaven Dou City, found an inn to stay at, gathered information, and waited for the right opportunity.

Before long, Dai Mubai learned that Prince Xue Xing's birthday celebration would be held in about half a month.

Prince Xue Xing had once saved Dugu Bo's life. That was precisely why Dugu Bo had agreed to serve as a royal retainer of the Heaven Dou Empire.

That old poisoner usually kept a low profile, spending all year at the Icefire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest suppressing the toxins in his body. But he would definitely attend Prince Xue Xing's birthday banquet, no matter what.

That would be the perfect chance to infiltrate the Icefire Yin Yang Well.

Dai Mubai carefully timed things as he waited quietly in Heaven Dou City, while also preparing the tools he would need: iron knives, jade knives, jade boxes, and so on.

Five days before the birthday celebration, Dai Mubai arrived in Sunset Forest ahead of time and lay in wait along the necessary route from the Icefire Yin Yang Well to Heaven Dou City.

To avoid arousing Dugu Bo's suspicion, he deliberately chose a mountain hollow a full twenty kilometers from the Icefire Yin Yang Well. Disguised as a lone Soul Master hunting Soul Beasts for Soul Rings, he could keep track of Dugu Bo's movements without alerting that old poisoner.

Three days passed. It was now noon, two days before the birthday banquet.

Dai Mubai, hidden among the treetops, suddenly sensed a terrifying aura sweep through the air nearby!

A streak of dark green light shot toward Heaven Dou City, vanishing beyond the horizon in the blink of an eye.

He hadn't expected Dugu Bo to value Prince Xue Xing so highly that he would return to Heaven Dou City two days early.

Dai Mubai continued lurking in silence.

After another two hours, once he had confirmed that Dugu Bo had gone far away and had not returned, Dai Mubai swiftly darted toward the poisonous miasma!

At full speed, the twenty-kilometer distance took only a moment.

Dai Mubai reached the edge of the poisonous miasma and stopped.

He cautiously circled around the poison barrier for a while. After probing for half an hour and confirming there was indeed no movement, he used the flight ability of his Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone to fly over the miasma.

As he crossed the poison barrier from high above, the view before him suddenly opened up.

It was a massive inverted-cone-shaped mountain hollow, as though some enormous creature had fallen from the sky and smashed a crater straight into the ground.

The hollow was at least several hundred meters across, and its walls were extremely steep.

Dai Mubai hovered at the top of the hollow and looked down.

The valley floor was shrouded in rising white mist, making it impossible to see clearly. He could only vaguely make out flashes of red and blue light below.

"So it's here..."

Dai Mubai suppressed the excitement in his heart and slowly drifted down along the steep mountainside.

The instant he landed, an indescribably strange aura rushed toward him.

It contained both extreme heat and extreme cold, two utterly opposing sensations flooding into his body at once!

"First Soul Skill, White Tiger Body Barrier!"

Dai Mubai instantly activated his Soul Skill. A pale golden shield emerged around his body, barely resisting the invasion of that aura.

He was inwardly shocked. If a low-level Soul Grandmaster came here, they probably would not last even a few minutes before being burst apart by this power of ice and fire.

Dai Mubai hurried to the center of the valley, where an extraordinary spring lay.

The spring water was divided into two streams, one red and one blue, gushing up from deep underground and converging within the spring.

The red spring water steamed with heat, its surface churning as a scorching aura filled the air.

The blue spring water radiated bone-piercing cold. A thin layer of ice crystals covered its surface, while white frosty mist drifted through the air.

One stream was hot and the other cold. They coexisted within the same space without infringing upon one another, yet formed a bizarre balance at their boundary, like yin and yang in the taiji—mutually generating and restraining each other.

All kinds of plants grew around the spring. Every one of them emitted incredibly dense energy fluctuations, their rosy glow shifting as enticing fragrances wafted from them.

Rare medicinal herbs worth fortunes in the outside world grew here everywhere like weeds!

Time was tight. Dai Mubai did not dare delay in the slightest. He had to finish quickly before that old poisoner returned!

Dai Mubai's gaze swept rapidly over the area before stopping before a large, leafless, pale pink flower.

It was the Aromatic Silk Beauty!

This flower was the bane of all poisons. With it in hand, he would not have to fear accidentally touching the other Immortal Herbs in the valley.

Dai Mubai dug it up whole, roots and soil included, and placed it in a prepared jade basin, which he held in his left hand.

With the Aromatic Silk Beauty protecting him, Dai Mubai quickened his pace.

Following the records of the Immortal Herb catalogue in his mind, he identified, excavated, and sealed them away one by one.

Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, Lovesick Heartbreak Red, Aromatic Silk Beauty, Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, Snow-Colored Swan Kiss... these were all immortal-grade herbs mentioned in the original work.

There were also herbs that had not been mentioned, such as Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, Primordial Unity Immortal Herb, Star Luo Spirit Pearl, Earth Dragon Golden Gourd, Black Jade Divine Bamboo, Windfeather Flower... and more.

Then there were the lesser immortal-grade herbs never mentioned in the original work, such as Dragonblood Lingzhi, Phoenix-Tail Mallow, Profound Yin Grass, and Solar Flame Fruit, along with more than a dozen top-grade medicinal herbs like the Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng King, Snow Silkworm, and Eighth-Grade Immortal Lingzhi.

Dai Mubai was like a swarm of locusts passing through, leaving not a blade of grass behind wherever he went.

In just over ten minutes, he had completely stripped the Icefire Yin Yang Well bare!

All the Immortal Herbs and medicinal herbs had been stored inside that Living-Object Storage Soul Tool, packed to the brim.

By his rough estimate, there were more than twenty kinds of Immortal Herbs, over ten lesser immortal-grade herbs, and an unknown number of top-grade medicinal herbs. Some of the same top-grade herbs even had multiple plants.

The Icefire Yin Yang Well truly deserved to be called the greatest opportunity on Douluo Continent!

After finishing everything, Dai Mubai stood beside the now-empty spring, his blazing gaze fixed on the final two Immortal Herbs growing by the water.

They were the greatest targets of this journey.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot.

These two Immortal Herbs, one yin and one yang, one cold and one hot, could forge an Ice-Fire Golden Body if consumed together. They would greatly strengthen the body and could even promote Martial Soul Evolution!

A trace of resolve flashed through Dai Mubai's eyes.

He quickly removed all his clothes and took off every Storage Soul Tool, placing them on the shore. Then he picked up an iron knife and a jade knife—the key to harvesting these two Immortal Herbs.

He first went to the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass. With a swift motion, he severed its roots with the iron knife and clamped it with iron tongs.

He then rapidly moved to the Infernal Delicate Apricot and cut through its roots with the jade knife.

Finally, he placed the two Immortal Herbs together. As the extreme cold and extreme heat collided, their two ultimate energies formed a brief balance.

The chance to consume them existed for only these few breaths!

Without hesitation, Dai Mubai stuffed both Immortal Herbs into his mouth at once and swallowed them!

The two Immortal Herbs melted the instant they entered his mouth. Before their medicinal effects could erupt, Dai Mubai hurriedly took out the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and consumed it as well.

Dai Mubai had carefully considered the medicinal properties before deciding to consume the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum now.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass was extremely cold, while the Infernal Delicate Apricot was extremely hot. Even if the two could neutralize each other, the effect would only last for an exceedingly brief moment.

To truly achieve a harmonious balance of yin and yang, he needed a neutral force to regulate them. Tang San had the Mysterious Heaven Skill as a regulator, but Dai Mubai had nothing like that.

Thus, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, an excellent neutral immortal-grade medicinal herb, was the most suitable thing to consume at this moment.

After consumption, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum could circulate one's qi through the limbs and blood through the eight meridians. It could also help hasten the absorption of the other two Immortal Herbs' medicinal power.

After all, Dugu Bo could return at any time. Time was extremely tight.