The course of treatment went as follows.
First, Dugu Bo had to relinquish all control over his inner core, allowing Tang San to refine it together with the other four jade phosphorous emperor poisons.
Once it had been refined into an Azure Heaven Five Immortal Pill, Dugu Bo would swallow it.
He would digest its medicinal power to improve and strengthen his poison arts, transforming his jade phosphorous serpent emperor poison into jade phosphorous five emperor poison, so that the five poisons would generate and restrain one another in an endless cycle.
Then he would no longer have to fear being plagued by jade phosphorous serpent emperor poison. Each poison would be restrained, yet would also grow.
Since Dugu Bo was skilled at using poison, they could dispense with the step of neutralizing its toxicity.
Once the process was complete, Dugu Bo's poison would only become fiercer and more vicious!
His cultivation would soar, too! Skyrocket!
Now, filled with apprehension, Dugu Bo tried to sever his connection to the essence of more than half his cultivation, preventing any unexpected disturbance from either side from affecting the other.
This required tremendous courage and absolute trust in Tang San.
Recalling how Tang San had spent the past few days neither eating nor drinking, silently devoting himself heart and soul to refining medicine for him, Dugu Bo steeled himself and sealed off the exchange of energy between himself and his inner core.
"I can only maintain this for an hour. That's the limit of how long I can suppress my instincts. You'll have to move quickly."
It was like having someone cut off their own hands, wait half an hour for them to be modified, then have them reattached.
It was exceedingly difficult. Tang San therefore dared not delay. He nodded and immediately