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Lu Yi climbed out at the boundary between the Yang Spring and the Cold Spring, then collapsed on the bank, facing the sky.
Seeing the Child of Nature emerge unscathed, the immortal herbs gathered around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well seemed to breathe a long sigh of relief.
While Lu Yi was merging with Octagonal, they had sensed the energy rampaging through his body.
Although his cultivation had soared rapidly at the time, his condition had not looked good.
And that was indeed the case.
Because his own martial soul shared the same affinity as the infernal delicate apricot, absorbing the octagonal mysterious ice grass meant forcibly introducing a conflicting energy into his body.
That conflict was no longer something the infernal delicate apricot's attributes alone could resolve.
Reconciling two completely opposing energies within one's body was an immensely difficult task in itself.
Even Electrolux had spent a long time merging the utterly opposing energies of necromancy and light into one.
Yet once Lu Yi began merging with Octagonal, there was almost no turning back.
Although Tang San had achieved Ice and Fire Body Tempering ten thousand years ago, his circumstances were different from Tang San's, after all.
First, their martial souls were different.
Neither of Tang San's martial souls leaned toward any particular attribute, whereas Lu Yi's second martial soul was clearly better suited to the infernal delicate apricot.
Second, their methods of merging were different.
Tang San had consumed both immortal herbs simultaneously, while Lu Yi had merged with their soul spirits one after the other.
Most importantly, there was an enormous difference in their ages.
This time, Lu Yi had learned a lesson: even when following someone else's successful experience, the difficulty could be worlds apart, and a single careless move might plunge him