Are Immortal Herbs Private Property? The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well Revealed to the World!

In Firmament-Time Space, at the edge of the Soul Hunting Forest.

Lin Fan strolled along a woodland path on his way back.

Perched on his shoulder, the Mandala Snake Soul Spirit had shrunk to the thickness of a finger. Its blue body curled close as it nuzzled his earlobe and flicked its tongue gently.

Before Lin Fan's eyes, on a system panel only he could see, the golden progress bar held fast at an astonishing number:

[Current Sage Roleplay Level: 80%!]

[Notice: The main quest is nearing its ultimate completion. Host, keep going. Thoroughly cleanse the original body's selfish karma and strive for a 100% epic rating!]

"Tch. Eighty percent already."

Lin Fan plucked a stalk of foxtail grass from the roadside and put it between his teeth. With his hands behind his head, he began reviewing his progress at an easy pace. "I thought breaking the chain of Soul Beast slaughter would clear the game outright. Turns out its standards are pretty strict. It won't give me full marks unless I carry selflessness through to the bitter end."

Tang San's sickening misdeeds from the original story flashed through his mind like scenes from a revolving lantern.

"I've shared the secret manual, torn up the theory, and even saved the Soul Beasts... What could the last twenty percent of selfish karma be?"

Mockery flickered in Lin Fan's eyes.

"What else? Tang San's most vile, shameless plunder of resources: the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well in Sunset Forest!"

"That immortal-grade herb garden, born of heaven and earth, was nature's supreme gift to the mortal world. But Tang San used detoxifying Dugu Bo as an excuse to rip up the man's garden by the roots! Every peerless Immortal Herb that could defy fate and mend a flawed Martial Soul became his private property. He stuffed the lot into the hands of that little seven-person clique, the Shrek Seven Devils!"

"To secure his divine authority and his faction's interests, he left countless commoners with broken Martial Souls to suffer and die! Ten thousand years later, he even turned the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well into his family's private garden, laid down a poison formation, and had his lackeys' divine senses torment the living beings of the lower realm!"

"He hoarded everything so ruthlessly he'd leave nothing for future generations, and he calls himself the Sea God? He calls that justice?!"

The contempt in Lin Fan's eyes reached its peak.

He stopped, spat out the grass stalk, and pulled his lips into a wild, almost crazed sneer.

"Fine! System, you want to see a Saint without a single flaw? Today I'll show you what it means for the treasures of heaven and earth to be shared by all living beings!"

"Immortal Herbs are meant to make gods? Bullshit! They came into this world to relieve suffering and mend the damaged souls of all!"

Nuoding City, central square.

This was the busiest, most prosperous part of the city.

Ordinarily, commoners gathered here amid an endless din.

Today, though, under the blazing midday sun, things were different.

Lin Fan, the child prodigy who had publicly torn up the Grandmaster's manuscript at Notting Academy that morning and released the complete Mysterious Heaven Skill, had hauled a heavy wooden table to the very center of the square!

"Look! It's that peerless prodigy from Holy Soul Village!"

"Good heavens! What's coiled around his shoulder? It has no bloody aura. Is that a living Soul Beast?!"

Commoners and Soul Masters surged in like a tide, packing the square so tightly that not even water could pass through.

Lin Fan remained composed, his plain clothes stirring in the breeze.

From inside his robe, he took a thick stack of coarse paper and a brush heavy with black ink.

He raised the brush and set it to paper!

His wrist swept across the sheet like a soaring dragon, leaving bold, vigorous characters behind:

"Douluo Herbal Compendium: Complete Guide to Immortal-Grade Alchemy"!

Then, as Lin Fan wrote at astonishing speed, he drew on the inner power in his Dantian. His young voice, filled with compassion, rang across the sky like a chant of the Heavenly Dao:

"All living things under heaven bear flaws! Where there is a terrible illness, there must also be a cure!"

"The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum is balanced and gentle. Once consumed, its energy courses through the limbs and its power flows through the blood, helping a Power Attack System Soul Master forge an unbreakable golden body!"

"The Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid has an exceptionally pure medicinal nature. Those whose Martial Souls have stagnated and whose cultivation has stalled can consume it to cleanse impurities from their meridians, gaining the fruits of decades of hard training!"

"Lovesick Heartbreak Red is a divine treasure of deepest feeling. It can bring the dying back to life and restore flesh to bare bone. It can even suppress the backlash of any Martial Soul under heaven! To pick it, one must be wholehearted and free of distracting thoughts..."

"The Infernal Delicate Apricot, paired with the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, uses extreme heat to counter extreme cold. Together, they can remake the body and wash away the mottled bloodline of a Trash Martial Soul!"

Lin Fan's brush flew. Onto paper, in black and white, he set down the properties, picking methods, medicinal combinations, and refinement formulas for every immortal-grade herb—secrets once confined to the most precious inner pages of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, secrets the Tang San of the original story would rather have died than share!

And that was only the appetizer!

After writing the properties of the final Immortal Herb, Lin Fan took up his brush and drew a map in the blank space, his strokes precise down to the smallest detail!

It showed a ring-shaped valley where two springs, one hot and one cold, met in the form of a taiji!

"This place is called the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well! It lies thirty li northeast of Sunset Forest's Core Circle!"

Lin Fan slapped his brush down on the table and stood atop it, looking over the dumbstruck Soul Masters in the crowd.

"A ten-thousand-year poison miasma surrounds it, but grind realgar, garlic, and Purple Blood Vine into a powder in a three-to-one ratio and coat yourselves with it. You'll be able to pass through unharmed!"

"The Immortal Herbs there belong to no one person! They are heaven and earth's gift to all living beings!"

"The world has suffered from Trash Martial Souls for too long! It has suffered from flawed bloodlines for too long!"

"Great clans monopolize resources, and gods regard us as straw dogs! But today, I, Tang San, reveal this place, this map, and this method to the world!"

"All who were born disabled, all whose mutated Martial Souls have brought them torment, all commoners who have spent their lives unable to advance beyond level ten—"

"Go! Go to Sunset Forest! Find the Immortal Herbs that will change your fate! Take back the heaven-defying gift that should have belonged to every living soul under heaven!!"

Those words, that map, and that complete guide to Immortal Herbs—

Lin Fan posted them on the Nuoding City notice board.

[Detected: Host has completely broken free of the selfish desire to monopolize resources!]

[You have returned every immortal-grade herb born of heaven and earth to the countless living beings! You have shared the power to defy fate equally across the mortal world!]

[Your vision has surpassed gods and buddhas, shining across past, present, and future!]

[Sage Roleplay Level has broken through the threshold and soared to 98%!!!]

Beyond the Firmament, in the real world.

It was the era of the Peerless Tang Sect, ten thousand years later!

If making the cultivation technique and Soul Spirits public in the previous chapters had merely smashed the barrier between classes,

then Lin Fan's revelation of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the complete guide to immortal-grade herbs struck at the heart of the matter. It was as if he had dug up the ancestral grave of Tang San, the God King of ten thousand years later, and laid it bare beneath the blazing sun!

Outside the freshman dormitory at Shrek Academy.

Thud!

Someone dropped heavily to their knees.

Tang Ya, the current leader of the Tang Sect, was a young woman who had always been willing to pay any price to restore her sect. The moment she saw the detoxifying properties of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot on the Firmament, along with the map of Sunset Forest,

all strength left her body. As though every last bit of her spirit had been drained away, she collapsed onto the cold stone path!

"So... the poison from the Blue Silver Grass mutation could have been cured with just one Immortal Herb..."

"Then why did I have to become an Evil Soul Master?! Why were my parents slaughtered?! What were all those Tang Sect leaders who died wretchedly, generation after generation, as their Martial Souls degenerated over these ten thousand years?!"

Tang Ya raised her head toward the towering statue of the Sea God in Shrek Square. The admiration she had once held was gone from her eyes; in its place burned a hatred that cut to the bone.

"Ancestor Tang San... you've been a god for ten thousand years! You watched the Tang Sect fall! You watched your descendants suffer as their Blue Silver Grass degenerated!"

"You had an entire garden of divine medicines and Immortal Herbs in your hands! Yet you wouldn't leave even one herb, even one leaf, to the mortal world—or to the Tang Sect that raised you!!"

"You're no ancestor! You're a shameless bloodsucker who drained the sect's fortune dry, then kicked everyone aside once you'd had your fill!!"

Beside Tang Ya,

Bei Bei's face was ashen. He could not say a word. The openhearted selflessness of that six-year-old boy on the Firmament was like an invisible slap that shattered all his pride and dignity as the Tang Sect's eldest disciple!

And not far away,

eleven-year-old Huo Yuhao's eyes were bloodshot.

Deep in his Sea of Consciousness, a fragment of the Holy Necromancer Electrolux's divine consciousness let out a long sigh of disgust. "Child... I have traveled through countless planes, but I have never seen a god so utterly shameless. The child on the Firmament is the true pure-hearted saint. As for the god above your heads... he is a hypocrite to the core. Sickening."

Huo Yuhao clenched his teeth and looked up at the Firmament.

He recalled what was recorded in Shrek Academy's ancient texts: every member of the first Shrek Seven Devils had consumed Immortal Herbs, creating a legend that could never be replicated.

But what happened after that generation?

In ten thousand years, Shrek had never again seen the miracle of an entire team blessed with god-level talent!

Because that man had... hoarded all the Immortal Herbs for himself!

He used them to build his own faction in the Divine Realm, while trapping the lower-ranked cultivators of the entire Douluo Continent in a mire of mediocrity!

And it was not only the Tang Sect and Shrek.

In the imperial palace of Mingdu, within the Sun Moon Empire,

"Pass down our decree!!"

The Sun Moon Empire's emperor sprang from his dragon throne, eyes shining with excitement. Losing all composure, he overturned the imperial desk before him.

"Dispatch the Royal Soul Engineer Corps at once! Take the highest-grade excavation Soul Tools and march through the night to Sunset Forest!"

"Follow the Firmament Saint Master's diagram for passing through the poison and dig! Dig up the soil and Immortal Herbs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and transplant every last bit of them to Mingdu!!"

"Shrek monopolized the path to godhood for ten thousand years. Today, its own ancestor has broken that monopoly! The age when commoners can become gods has arrived!!"

That night, the entire Douluo Continent went mad!

Countless Soul Masters and commoners who had once fought until their heads bled over a flawed Soul Ring now frantically copied the Immortal Herb illustrations on the Firmament. With red-rimmed eyes, they raced toward Sunset Forest!

The bloodline barriers that Spirit Hall, the Two Great Empires, and Shrek Academy had built together over centuries were swept away in that instant by a single map from Lin Fan's hand!

And that blow finally tore away the Divine Realm's last shred of cover!

In the Divine Realm, at the Sea God Temple,

raging Destruction Divine Thunder and Life Divine Light ripped the magnificent temple apart, reducing it to ruins!

The Golden Trident of Sea God Tang San, once dazzling, had dimmed and was now riddled with cracks.

Tang San, his hair in disarray, was pinned down against the wreckage of the God King Throne.

Before him stood the God of Destruction, thunder blazing around his body and killing intent filling his eyes.

"Tang San! What do you have to say for yourself?!"

The God of Destruction's icy voice rang throughout the God Realm Committee.

"The Firmament has revealed the truth to countless worlds! The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was the heart of Douluo Continent's Dragon Vein. It should have nurtured every living thing on the continent!"

"But after becoming a god, you secretly altered the laws of the lower realm and forcibly made the well your private forbidden ground! You set up a poison formation, stationed a Divine Realm Beast to guard it, and cut off every path to the heavens for mortal cultivators!"

"Day after day, you proclaim that gods must not interfere with the lower realm. Yet you turned its most precious spiritual vein into the Tang family's private vegetable garden!!"

"I... I didn't!"

Tang San coughed up golden Divine Blood. His handsome face twisted like an evil spirit's as he screamed his defense in despair.

"I did it to protect the balance of nature! Immortal Herbs have spirits. If commoners were allowed to pick them at will, the continent's spiritual energy would be exhausted! I was thinking of all living beings under heaven! You don't understand! None of you understand!!"

Smack—!!

A crisp blow charged with divine power cut off Tang San's feeble excuse!

The one who struck him was, astonishingly, the gentlest among them, she who held authority over life itself: the Goddess of Life!

Now her eyes were red, her face filled with disgust.

She withdrew her hand and looked down at Tang San, sprawled on the ground like a dead dog. Her voice trembled as she pronounced judgment.

"Tang San, put away that sickening face of yours."

"Even a six-year-old child knows how long the disabled have suffered. He knows to set aside his own interests and give cures and opportunities to those in need."

"Yet you, a God Realm Enforcer with an endless lifespan, would rob commoners of even their last chance to live!"

"Protecting balance? All you protected was your own lofty, selfish rule, with no room for anyone but yourself!!"

"Strip him of his God King crown! Seal the Asura God Sword!"

The God of Destruction stepped forward with a thunderous tread. His nine Destruction Divine Rings flared, and his voice boomed like ten thousand thunderclaps.

"From this day forth, Tang San is stripped of his enforcement authority on the God Realm Committee! Take him to the God-Demon Prison Abyss to await trial!!"

Crack—!!!

With the Goddess of Life's preparations in place and the God of Destruction pressing him down in fury,

a generation's hypocritical God King stood exposed by the pure, true selflessness of the six-year-old boy on the Firmament.

At last, he fell from his pedestal!

Meanwhile,

within Firmament-Time Space,

Lin Fan finished posting the notice and stretched with satisfaction.

He heard the crisp system notification beside his ear—[Current Sage Roleplay Level: 100%! Congratulations, Host! You have achieved the perfect Saint persona and cleared the second scenario!]—and a contented smile touched his lips.

"Job done."

Lin Fan brushed the dust from his clothes, hummed an unfamiliar tune from Blue Star, and strolled toward the setting sun with his hands in his pockets.

"Man, it feels damn good to be a spendthrift Saint who tells the whole world every secret he knows!"