"Lu Yuan, why are you so excited?"
Qian Renxue frowned slightly, as though she had picked up on something from Lu Yuan's reaction.
"Well..."
Hesitation crossed Lu Yuan's face. Qian Renxue currently had two Titled Douluos at her side: Snake Lance and Pufferfish.
Dugu Bo had already discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but Qian Renxue's forces were certainly stronger than him, guarding the place alone.
The question was, how should Lu Yuan bring it up with Qian Renxue?
"Lu Yuan, have you already found a Soul Beast you want for your third Soul Ring? Is it in Sunset Forest?"
Qian Renxue widened her eyes and stared at Lu Yuan with curiosity, eager to see his response.
Lu Yuan remained silent in thought for a good while before an idea suddenly came to him.
"Well, Young Master, I actually have an enormous secret to tell you."
"What secret?"
Hearing those words, Qian Renxue froze for a moment, then grew curious again.
"Do you know His Eminence Chrysanthemum Douluo's Martial Soul, the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum?"
"Of course. It's a top-tier plant Martial Soul."
Lu Yuan guided their conversation deeper and deeper.
"The singular velvet sky chrysanthemum isn't just a Martial Soul. That plant exists in reality, and it's an immortal herb!"
"I have heard that the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum is an immortal herb, but haven't immortal herbs long since vanished from the Douluo Continent? Aren't they just baseless tales?"
Qian Renxue lowered her head and spoke half to herself, then suddenly shuddered as though something had occurred to her. She raised her head and looked at Lu Yuan in astonishment.
"Wait, you got so excited earlier when you heard me mention hunting for a Soul Ring in Sunset Forest. Could there be a singular velvet sky chrysanthemum there?"
"Much more than that~"
Seeing that the conversation had finally reached the immortal herbs in Sunset Forest, Lu Yuan hurriedly waggled his eyebrows, then turned solemn again.
"You may not know this, Young Master, but one of my ancestors was a Soul Douluo. He discovered a spring covered in immortal herbs in Sunset Forest, but he wasn't strong enough. Powerful Soul Beasts attacked him repeatedly, and he had no choice but to abandon it."
"Something like that actually happened?" Shock appeared on Qian Renxue's face.
"Wait, why are you telling me all this? Could you be..."
"Exactly."
Seeing that Qian Renxue had understood his implication, Lu Yuan stopped beating around the bush.
"That treasure trove full of immortal herbs would probably need a powerful Titled Douluo to guard it before we could hold on to it. So I'd like to ask you, Young Master, if you can enlist the help of a Titled Douluo from Spirit Hall in the future, please help me reclaim that land filled with immortal herbs."
"As for payment, how about you take your pick of more than half the immortal herbs in that treasure trove?"
"Hahaha!" Qian Renxue suddenly burst out laughing.
"Lu Yuan, you've done me a tremendous favor."
Qian Renxue had been fretting over this very matter. She had spent nearly ten years undercover in the Heaven Dou Empire, posing as its male Crown Prince. Wasn't it all to prove her worth as the Spirit Hall Young Master, especially to that woman?
Bibi Dong, you still have no idea what an enormous fortune you've let slip through your fingers.
With Lu Yuan's information about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Qian Renxue felt certain that her value to Spirit Hall had increased enormously.
"Why wait? Come on, let's find that land full of immortal herbs right now." Qian Renxue looked excited.
"But..."
Lu Yuan feigned hesitation. Qian Renxue saw only his outward concern and confidently addressed it.
"Are you worried about finding a Titled Douluo? Don't worry. Remember She Long, whom you met when we first encountered each other? That's his real name. The title he's truly famous for is Snake Lance Douluo."
"What!"
After hearing Qian Renxue's words, Lu Yuan pretended to be dumbstruck.
"So I actually met an exalted Titled Douluo up close and even chatted with him!"
This boy really hasn't seen the world. If I told him that Grandpa was worried about my safety and secretly stationed Porcupinefish Douluo at my side as well as Snake Lance Douluo, I wonder what his expression would be.
Qian Renxue chuckled, leaving Lu Yuan secretly puzzled, unsure what clever idea she was hiding now.
Sunset Forest.
In the vast core of Sunset Forest, no one dared casually set foot in those towering, dense woods unless they were a Soul Douluo, a Titled Douluo, or part of a group of Soul Saints.
After all, although Sunset Forest could not compare to the Star Dou Great Forest, it was still the Douluo Continent's second-largest destination for Soul Masters of Soul Elder rank and above seeking Soul Rings.
Compared with ordinary Soul Hunting Forests, the quality and density of Soul Beasts here were on an entirely different level.
"Young Master, is that treasure trove of immortal herbs inside a poisonous mist the boy mentioned even real? We've searched for days without seeing so much as a shadow of it. Could he be playing us for fools?"
An old man with graying hair and a purple robe flew through the air alongside Qian Renxue, who had summoned her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul. Drawing close to her, he spoke in a somewhat aggrieved tone.
Judging by the extraordinary aura of his cultivation, he was another Titled Douluo, just like She Long.
He was none other than Qian Renxue's other guardian Douluo, Porcupinefish Douluo.
After hearing Porcupinefish Douluo's words, Qian Renxue lowered her eyes and fell into thought.
Once their Spirit Hall party reached the outskirts of Sunset Forest, Lu Yuan, Qian Renxue, Snake Lance Douluo, and Porcupinefish Douluo had separated from the main group and entered Sunset Forest to search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Lu Yuan teamed up with Snake Lance Douluo, with whom he was more familiar, while Qian Renxue paired up with Porcupinefish Douluo. Since Lu Yuan did not know even the general location of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the two teams had spent several days searching blindly through Sunset Forest's core.
Yet there was still no trace of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Aside from fine words, Lu Yuan could offer no information to help them find it beyond the fact that its perimeter was shrouded in poison from jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers.
With so little useful information and so much time wasted without any results, Porcupinefish Douluo had begun to resent Lu Yuan.
At that moment, Qian Renxue shook her head.
"I believe him. Let's search for a few more days."
While Porcupinefish Douluo and Qian Renxue were talking, a streak of dark golden light flew toward them from afar.
It was Snake Lance Douluo, carrying Lu Yuan in his arms as he came to find them. The moment Porcupinefish Douluo saw Lu Yuan, his anger flared.
However, since Qian Renxue, his mistress from Spirit Hall, was not angry with Lu Yuan, Porcupinefish Douluo could hardly lose his temper.
"Still no clues about that land of immortal herbs?"
Qian Renxue was also growing weary of searching for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and her voice was weak and rather dejected.
"Huh?"
"No, we found a huge ring of poisonous mist released by jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers over there. Unless something unexpected has happened, the land of immortal herbs Lu Yuan mentioned should be inside."
Lu Yuan and Snake Lance Douluo spoke in turn. As Snake Lance Douluo spoke, he pointed in the direction where they had discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
"What!" Qian Renxue and Porcupinefish Douluo were dumbstruck. Just moments ago, they had been debating whether to leave Sunset Forest, only for Lu Yuan and Snake Lance Douluo to return with news that they had located the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!