Tang San, From This Day On, the Offensive and Defensive Roles Have Reversed!

"Enough." Di Tian interjected, continuing with the explanation Zhu Wu had just conveyed to him through mental transmission while standing on his shoulder. "Tian'er will not leave for training until he breaks through to Soul Elder. It is still too early for that. I brought him here today so he could enter the Saint Pool for cleansing."

"I'm the first person in the sect to receive this honor in a hundred years," Zhu Wu added with a smile.

"The Saint Pool?" Dugu Bo looked puzzled, then his eyes widened. "Don't tell me he's going to jump into that pool?"

"That's right." Zhu Wu smiled. "Only our Illusory Beast Sect has a way to let someone enter the Saint Pool and temper their body without harm. Of course, the price is extremely steep."

"So not just anyone gets the chance to enjoy it. Hehe, only top geniuses like me qualify."

It was really that incredible? Dugu Bo was stunned. He did not dare let even the slightest bit of that hot spring water touch him.

Yet the Illusory Beast Sect actually had a way to let someone jump in and bathe!

"Our Illusory Beast Sect has remained hidden for many years and knows little about the outside world." Di Tian continued, "Otherwise, I would not have spared you today. Of course, I still cannot trust you now. Therefore, I will only treat the symptoms of the poison in your body for the time being."

"This subordinate understands!" Dugu Bo said respectfully.

If it had been him, he would not have trusted someone immediately either. Setting aside the fact that he had intruded into their territory, this was their first meeting after all.

Di Tian nodded and continued, "If I am not mistaken, the deadly poison in your body originates from your martial soul. It may be the source poison produced by your martial soul contaminating your flesh, or perhaps you absorbed deadly poison along with Poison Attribute soul rings in the past."

He could tell all that with one look? Dugu Bo was utterly shocked.

"Of course, none of that matters." Di Tian continued. "The method to treat the symptoms is simple: use medicine to strip away the poison, then find a vessel capable of holding the poison in your body and transfer it there. The most suitable vessel is undoubtedly a Soul Bone."

"First, a Soul Bone is a dead object and cannot be poisoned. Second, it can be absorbed into the body, making it convenient to transfer the poison."

"However, precisely because a Soul Bone is a dead object, there is bound to be a limit to how much it can hold."

"Once it exceeds its capacity, it will no longer be detoxification. Instead, it will instantly detonate all the deadly poison stored within the Soul Bone."

"At that point, you will undoubtedly die!"

Fuck, this was practically tying a timed poison bomb to his body. Dugu Bo's scalp went numb.

As a master of poison, he naturally understood both the advantages and hidden dangers of such a method.

"Relax. Even a thousand-year Soul Bone will be enough to tide you over for several years." Di Tian continued. "However, I will not prepare a Soul Bone for you. As you are now, you are not qualified to receive such a reward."

"So you must find a way yourself."

"As for the medicine needed to strip away the poison, there are suitable herbs in this Medicine Garden that can be used to prepare it."

"Now, you may leave and make preparations for the Soul Bone."

"Senior, what about my Granddaughter?" Dugu Bo hurriedly asked.

"They are merely a few detoxifying medicines. I cannot be bothered to make a separate trip for them, so I will prepare them all at once," Di Tian said flatly.

"Thank you, Senior." Dugu Bo hurriedly expressed his gratitude. He asked no further questions and left without the slightest hesitation.

Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were good, but they could not compare to his life and fortune.

"Zhu Wu, can your body still hold on?" Once Dugu Bo had gone far away, Di Tian turned and asked.

Zhu Wu shook his head. "I'm fine. The Dual Polarity Qi around here is strong, but it is still inferior to the Gold of Life."

"Di Tian, go down and investigate the Dragon Souls of the Ice Fire Dragon Kings."

"As for me, I'll be jumping into the spring soon to absorb the medicinal effects. That will likely take some time, so there's no need to keep watch over me."

"Alright." Di Tian nodded. Zhu Wu had already told him through mental transmission about taking the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot together for Ice Fire Body Tempering, then jumping into the spring to speed up the absorption of their medicinal effects. Greatly strengthening his body while increasing its resistance to both ice and fire attributes would indeed be highly beneficial for Zhu Wu's upcoming cultivation of that Mental Power Cultivation Method.

Without delay, Di Tian flew straight toward the place where the springs met and plunged headfirst into it.

With his True Dragon body, descending from the confluence posed no danger.

"Luckily, the original novel described things clearly enough. And thanks to absorbing the Gold of Life, I remembered everything. Otherwise, I really wouldn't be sure how to pick these immortal herbs that were explicitly described in the original novel." Zhu Wu sighed inwardly as he strode forward, deep in thought.

"As for the rest, there's Ten Thousand Demons King."

Heh heh, Tang San. From this day on, the offensive and defensive roles between us have reversed... The corners of his lips curled upward.

He quickly walked to the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, crouched down, and took a dagger from his Soul Tool.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass had to be harvested with an object made of gold or iron, while the Infernal Delicate Apricot required jade.

Tang San had used the Mystic Jade Hand in the original novel, but Zhu Wu did not possess the Mystic Jade Hand. Therefore, before heading to the Star Dou Great Forest for training, he had gone to Notting City and bought a pair of Jade Scissors.

He could not afford the expensive kind, but wouldn't the cheap kind do? As long as it was jade, why ask for anything more?

The next moment, he summoned Little White and said generously, "Little White, eat whichever plant you think will benefit you the most."

"On the condition that what you eat doesn't conflict with these two plants I'll be eating later," he added, casually pointing at the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot.

Although he did not understand herbology, Little White possessed an innate talent for sensing Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

He believed Little White could tell them apart. Otherwise, it would not have led him specifically to herbs that nourished qi and blood before.

"As for the others that either I or you can eat, we'll choose them together later. We'll take whatever needs to be taken."

Little White nodded, transformed into a Hummingbird, circled the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass once, then flew above the Infernal Delicate Apricot and hovered there briefly. After that, it flew elsewhere and inspected every herb within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

In the end, it stopped beside a blood-red dragon ganoderma.

"The Ninth Grade Dragon Ganoderma mentioned in the original novel?" Zhu Wu immediately guessed.

Herbs prefixed with "ninth grade" were generally nothing ordinary. Take ginseng, for example: the original novel had explicitly stated that ten thousand years made one grade, and a ninth-grade Super Ginseng King could rank among the finest immortal herbs. In his view, this Ninth Grade Dragon Ganoderma was likely no lesser. Moreover, it would be immensely beneficial for enhancing dragon bloodlines. Otherwise, Little White would never have ignored the other ten-thousand-year Ginseng Kings and chosen this Ninth Grade Dragon Ganoderma in the end.

So why had Tang San not given it to Yu Xiaogang in the original novel, instead giving him the Nine Treasures Purple Ganoderma? Was it because he did not know its exact effects, or because he feared Yu Xiaogang would not be able to withstand it?

While he was thinking, Little White had already returned to its original form, landed atop the Blood-colored Ganoderma's cap, and began gnawing at it frantically.

Zhu Wu waited quietly until only a small section of root remained level with the ground. Little White then transformed into a Hummingbird again and flew back.

"Chirp." It hiccupped from time to time in midair, bobbing up and down as though drunk.

The medicinal potency must be considerable. Zhu Wu smiled.

"Little White, go back."

"Chirp." Little White raised its head in response, then plunged into Zhu Wu's chest and vanished.

Then Zhu Wu felt warmth rise from his chest. His blood began to circulate faster, and his heartbeat gradually quickened.