When Lin Ye awoke, his whole body felt heavy. He opened his eyes to find thick mist all around him, with a strange scent hanging in the air, partly fragrant and partly pungent.
"This is..."
Lin Ye propped himself up and looked around.
Amid the swirling mist, he saw two springs nearby, one crimson as lava, the other deep blue as ice.
The red and blue waters intertwined where they met, sending up clouds of white mist like an immortal paradise.
Many exotic flowers and herbs grew around the springs, each with a different shape, all radiating rich energy.
The sight startled Lin Ye.
This was the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!
But before he could get excited, a powerful wave of weakness swept through his body. His expression changed, and he hurriedly examined his internal condition.
"Just as I thought... I've been poisoned." A look of understanding crossed Lin Ye's face.
A strange, deadly poison was eating away at his meridians. Its potency was fierce and overbearing, with a distinctly chilling quality.
This method, this one-of-a-kind style... it could only be that old poison fiend-Poison Douluo, Dugu Bo!
Still, this was entirely within Lin Ye's expectations.
He had begun his plan several days earlier, the moment he entered Sunset Forest.
Along the way, he had seemingly followed the group without a care, while secretly scattering medicinal powder he had painstakingly refined around the area.
The powder served two purposes: first, it dispersed the forest's common miasma and low-level poisonous creatures; second, its scent and composition were extremely unusual. To Dugu Bo, who had spent his entire life immersed in the art of poison, it was as conspicuous and enticing as a torch lit in the darkness.
He was betting that Dugu Bo would secretly protect his granddaughter, Dugu