Immortal Grade Medicinal Herb

"Thank you for your help this time, Chief Yang." Lin Rong returned the lone-copy illustrated guide to Yang Wudi and cupped his hands in thanks. "We'll meet again in Heaven Dou City in four months!"

Yang Wudi was quite surprised upon hearing this, then said in realization, "I didn't expect Old White Bird to have told you even this!"

"Four months from now will be the biennial gathering of our Single Attribute Four Great Clans. This time, it's the Strength Clan's turn to host."

"Oh, right. The Strength Clan is in Heaven Dou City, and you're also in Heaven Dou City. Maybe that old ape told you instead!"

"Neither," Lin Rong replied calmly. "This is hardly a secret. Since I had a request for Chief Yang, of course I investigated things beforehand. Otherwise, what if we had traveled all this way only to find you absent from your residence?"

After saying that, Lin Rong hesitated inwardly over whether he should tell Yang Wudi about Tang San.

But after thinking it over carefully, he decided against it.

When speaking with others, the greatest taboo was revealing too much to someone one barely knew, especially when the other party was far stronger than oneself.

Yang Wudi had a fiery temper. If Lin Rong told him about this in person, it might very well lead to severe and unforeseen consequences.

Rather than tell him now, it would be better to let him discover it himself.

Besides.

Four months later, Tang San would only be eight years and three months old, with Soul Power still below rank twenty.

He would not be able to defeat Yang Wudi head-on like in the original story, nor could he win over this martial arts fanatic through strength.

Without the two Immortal Grade Medicinal Herbs, Aromatic Silk Beauty and Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, Tang San would also be unable to win over Yang Wudi, a fanatic for medicinal herbs, through his knowledge of herbs.

Therefore, no matter what, Tang San would be unable to subdue the Breaking Clan four months later.

If he could not subdue the Breaking Clan, then even if Bai He wished to submit to Tang San—

The Speed Clan, which came as part of the Breaking Clan's package, would not submit to Tang San either.

Perhaps the Defense Clan would join for Tai Tan's sake, but that would not matter much.

After all, among the Single Attribute Four Great Clans, the Defense Clan's specialty—construction—was the least noteworthy in terms of value.

Since that was the case, Lin Rong had no need to interfere, lest he be caught in the crossfire of Yang Wudi's rage.

Thus, Lin Rong stood and bid Yang Wudi farewell. "Chief Yang, we have troubled you greatly this time. We'll take our leave."

On the road back to Heaven Dou City.

Lin Rong had been constantly considering the matter of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.

Now that he had the antidote in hand, and had memorized the harvesting and preservation methods for all kinds of rare medicinal herbs—

With that to rely on, he could pass through the poison array Dugu Bo had set up at any time and harvest the rare herbs within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.

Everything was ready; all he lacked was the right opportunity.

He only needed to wait for a day when Dugu Bo was not at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, then harvest all those herbs.

However, due to the backlash from his martial soul, Dugu Bo was plagued by virulent poison.

And because the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye's environment of extreme cold and heat could suppress the poison in Dugu Bo's body—

That old man spent at least seven or eight days out of every ten at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, using its special environment to ease the extreme pain caused by the poison eroding his body.

Therefore, the timing of his trip to harvest the herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye had to be chosen with utmost care.

It had to be a day when Dugu Bo would absolutely not go to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye. Only then could everything be foolproof.

In fact, there really was such a day: the birthday of Dugu Bo's granddaughter, Dugu Yan.

Dugu Bo had lost his father in his youth, his wife in middle age, and his son in his later years. He doted immensely on this sole granddaughter.

Therefore, on Dugu Yan's birthday, Dugu Bo would definitely stay with his granddaughter for the entire celebration and go nowhere else.

It had taken quite some effort to learn Dugu Yan's exact birthday.

Now, Dugu Yan was already fourteen and would turn fifteen in roughly three months.

Lin Rong, meanwhile, needed at most one month to return to Heaven Dou City from the Star Luo Empire, so there was more than enough time.

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, one of the world's Three Treasure Basins, contained a total of eleven Immortal Grade Medicinal Herbs:

Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Eight Petal Immortal Orchid, Silken Tulip, Lovesick Heartbreak Red, Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, Water Lily Jade Bone, Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Infernal Delicate Apricot, Snow Swan Kiss, and Aromatic Silk Beauty.

Among them—

Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, when consumed, could cultivate Fiery Golden Eyes, allowing one to see through countless wondrous things.

The second realm of the Marrow Cleansing Scripture, Perfect Wisdom and Self-Awareness, allowed one to see through any person, matter, or object in the world after reaching that level. Its effect was remarkably similar to absorbing Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.

Presumably, after consuming Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, he would be able to greatly accelerate his progress toward the second realm of the Marrow Cleansing Scripture.

Silken Tulip absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, and the radiance of the sun and moon.

The essence of heaven and earth aside, the sun and moon themselves were also a type of celestial body, perfectly compatible with Grandpa Yu's Star Disc. Naturally, they would be given to Grandpa Yu to absorb.

There was no need to say more about the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower. It would be given to Ma Hongjun to purify his phoenix flames, allowing his Martial Soul to evolve into a true Fire Phoenix.

The Aromatic Silk Beauty was an unparalleled poison-repelling Immortal Herb. Within ten paces, it rendered one immune to all poisons, and the fragrance it emitted could even neutralize myriad toxins. Such an Immortal Herb naturally could not be handed over to outsiders.

The Snow Swan Kiss was not poisonous in itself, but once even the slightest trace of it came into contact with something, any virus in the affected area would multiply hundreds or thousands of times over.

Such a trump card had to remain under his own control.

As for the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot, these two highly toxic Immortal Herbs could not be taken away and could only be absorbed on the spot.

But he had no desire to absorb these two highly toxic Immortal Herbs and cause the Nine Bend Vine Dragon Martial Soul to develop the attributes of ice poison and fire poison.

The opposing attribute of life was death, followed by destruction.

If the Nine Bend Vine Dragon were to develop new attributes, they had to be those two—not allowing ice poison and fire poison to contaminate its bloodline.

Likewise, if Grandpa Yu absorbed them, they would also contaminate the purity of his Star Power.

Since they could not be taken away, and there was no suitable person to absorb them, the only choice was to destroy these two highly toxic Immortal Herbs.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass would be thrown into the extremely hot spring, while the Infernal Delicate Apricot would be thrown into the extremely cold spring, letting ice and fire counter each other and melt away together.

As for the remaining four Immortal Grade Medicinal Herbs, he would keep them for now and decide what to do later depending on the circumstances.

Furthermore, aside from the rare medicinal herbs within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, all the soil nourished by the springs of extreme cold and extreme heat also had to be taken away.

The Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng in his possession was only a little over five thousand years old.

With that soil, the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng would grow to ten thousand years in less than three years.

The Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng was naturally of the eighth rank and evolved upon reaching ten thousand years.

Only then, when the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng had grown to ten thousand years, could it truly rival the Ten Thousand Year Nine-Rank Ginseng King and qualify as one of the two core items for his Seventh Soul Ring.

Although doing this was somewhat like draining the pond to catch the fish, harming the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye's long-term development.

But since the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye was still occupied by Dugu Bo, unless he could get rid of him, this was the only way.