Tempering the Eyes in Ice and Fire, Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils!

The Merit-Based Martial Soul Transformation Method-this was the path Sun Shan had tailored for Dugu Bo.

After the problem with his own Martial Soul was resolved.

Dugu Bo was deeply grateful to Sun Shan:

"Little Monster, if you run into trouble in the future, come find this old man. I'll have your back!"

Sun Shan chuckled. "Then the herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well..."

"Pick whatever you like. This old man doesn't know their worth anyway. Leaving them in my hands would be like casting pearls into darkness," Dugu Bo said sincerely.

Sun Shan did not decline either; he agreed and accepted.

The Silk Gauze Sky Chrysanthemum can go to Chrysanthemum Douluo. He's always taken good care of me.

The eight-petal immortal orchid can go to Hu Liena. As for the other immortal herbs, I'll see how things go.

Sun Shan harvested all the mature immortal herbs around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and took them away.

For the sake of sustainable growth, however, Sun Shan carefully left their roots, rhizomes, and seeds behind.

After all, blindly seizing heavenly treasures and earthly riches and cutting off their roots would go against heaven's principles.

After putting away these immortal herbs, Sun Shan turned his deep gaze toward the two springs at the very center of the valley.

Extreme cold intertwined with scorching heat, their might terrifying.

If an ordinary Soul Master approached this place.

It would take only moments for the cold poison and fire poison of these two springs to harm them.

One of the few methods was to consume octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot together, transforming the deadly ice and fire poisons into tempering for the body.

Thereby forging a constitution immune to both water and fire.

Sun Shan, however, had no need for such trouble.

As leisurely as though strolling through his own back garden, he walked straight to the springs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

To Sun Shan's freakish constitution, the so-called extreme cold and scorching heat were no more than a gentle breeze and fine rain.

They did not even qualify as a tickle.

Without hesitation, Sun Shan plunged headfirst into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

If I remember correctly, the corpses of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings should be here.

After descending to a certain depth.

Sun Shan spotted two dragon skeletons entwined together.

Just as he reached out to touch them, a sudden change occurred.

Two powerful consciousnesses awakened.

They were the lingering consciousnesses of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings.

Roar!

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well instantly began to boil.

The extreme cold and scorching heat underwent a qualitative change at that moment.

Sun Shan felt as though the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings were using his body as a battlefield to continue their mortal struggle from life.

Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire were both within his body.

Sun Shan snorted coldly:

"Mere dead things, yet you dare play at gods and ghosts? Be suppressed!"

The blood and Qi around Sun Shan surged, seeming to form an Eight Trigrams Furnace.

It imprisoned both the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings entirely within his body, quietly refining them.

No matter how the two Dragon Kings' lingering power struggled.

Sun Shan simply sat cross-legged, unmoving as a mountain.

As time passed.

One day, two days, then a week later.

Within the Eight Trigrams Furnace formed from the blood and Qi inside Sun Shan, the power of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings had been completely refined.

Only two dragon markings remained, one red and one blue.

With a thought, Sun Shan activated his eye technique, Purple Demon Eye, and the two dragon markings swam toward his pupils.

Cultivating Purple Demon Eye should normally have been a gradual process.

Because the eyes were the most fragile part of the human body.

Cultivation was very slow.

Thus, affected by factors such as lifespan and talent, the vast majority of those who cultivated this eye technique struggled to bring it to full mastery even over their entire lives.

Only a freak like Sun Shan could cultivate this eye technique through such brute force.

In an instant.

The twin dragons circled within Sun Shan's pupils before finally becoming the finest nourishment.

Sun Shan felt his vision suddenly brighten.

He shot out of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, two beams of golden light surging from his eyes into the clouds.

Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils, perfected!

Sun Shan discovered that he could now see many things he had been unable to observe before.

The flow of energy between heaven and earth.

The circulation of Soul Power within the bodies of Soul Beasts and plants.

This terrifying ocular power gave Sun Shan a deeper understanding of the Martial Soul world.

Dugu Bo, who had been standing guard nearby, noticed the disturbance and hurried over.

Sun Shan smiled. "You've used the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor to save more than a dozen people these past few days. Impressive!"

Dugu Bo froze. "Little Monster, how did you know?"

"I saw the circulation of Soul Power inside your body. I saw the changes in the core of your Martial Soul!"

Dugu Bo's scalp tingled:

"You're becoming more and more like a monster!"

After offering his thanks, Sun Shan bade Dugu Bo farewell.

I haven't returned to Spirit Hall in so many days. Everyone must be worried sick.

The moment Sun Shan entered the city, he saw a golden streak of light racing toward him.

It was Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, bringing Hu Liena with him.

"You bastard, where the hell have you been!"

Before Sun Shan could explain, the girl's soft, fragrant lips sealed his mouth.

Hu Liena rose onto her tiptoes and boldly, passionately wrapped her arms around Sun Shan's neck.

Sun Shan noticed that Hu Liena's palms were scorching hot and her fingertips were trembling.

Even so, she still could not bear to pull away.

As though she wanted to swallow Sun Shan whole.

Naturally, Sun Shan found such a scene difficult to resist, letting the girl take from him wildly.

After a long while, their lips and tongues parted, and Hu Liena contentedly swallowed a silver thread into her mouth.

The girl's pretty face flushed fiery red with embarrassment.

"Where... did you go? I thought I'd never see you again." Hu Liena's voice choked, carrying a hint of tears.

"I was just about to explain, but then you threw yourself at me and..." Sun Shan said, looking somewhat awkward.

"You shameless, filthy rogue!" Hu Liena pounded Sun Shan hard with her little fists, as though acting spoiled.

"Ahem!" Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan coughed. "That's enough. This old man didn't come here to eat your dog food."

Hu Liena stamped her foot. Realizing how wildly she had just acted, she awkwardly buried her head in Sun Shan's chest, too embarrassed to face anyone.

Sun Shan immediately explained his extraordinary encounters over the past few days to Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Hu Liena.

His account was nine parts truth and one part falsehood; anyone would have struggled to tell the difference.

Hu Liena was deeply shocked:

"So, Brother Sun, not only has your Soul Power reached rank forty, but you also obtained an Ice and Fire Dragon Kings torso bone and an Externally Attached Soul Bone!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guang furrowed his brows and cautioned him:

"Boy, you shouldn't have told me all this so openly. What would you do if I had the wicked thought of killing you for your bones?"

Sun Shan shook his head. "One of you is my beloved, and the other is my elder. If I can't trust you, who can I trust?"

Chrysanthemum Douluo laughed:

"Hahahaha! You really are a boy after my own heart. When you and Nana get married, I'll be your witness!"

"Grandpa Chrysanthemum, you shameless old man!" Hu Liena snapped.

Sun Shan immediately took out the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum and gave it to Chrysanthemum Douluo.

Chrysanthemum Douluo's eyes went wide at the sight of this immortal herb.

With an immortal herb like this to help me, becoming a Limit Douluo might not be beyond my reach!

Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan thought to himself.

The next moment, he returned the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum to Sun Shan and said sincerely:

"I'd be lying if I said I didn't want it, but I'm already old. Using an immortal herb like this on me would be a waste."

Chrysanthemum Douluo patted Sun Shan on the shoulder, then spoke to Hu Liena with great solemnity:

"You two are the hope of Spirit Hall's next generation, so you should refine it."

"Senior, you've misunderstood," Sun Shan explained. "I've already eaten a similar immortal herb. Eating another won't do much."

"As for Nana..." Sun Shan brushed his fingertips over the storage ring on his right hand and took out an eight-petal immortal orchid.

"This one suits her better!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan was so shocked that his mouth remained open for a long time. After a lengthy silence:

"What an extraordinary encounter. It seems heaven is aiding our Spirit Hall!"

Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan no longer declined.

Hu Liena kissed Sun Shan gently on the cheek and readily accepted the immortal herb as well.

The two immediately began refining them.

Just as they focused all their attention on refining the immortal herbs.

Sun Shan immediately summoned Stock-Simulating Meow Meow and activated his Soul Skill.

Bet on Hu Liena!

Bet on Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan!

Two intangible, insubstantial strands of golden fortune wound around their bodies.

Both felt their bodies suddenly grow lighter, a wonderfully refreshing sensation.

Chrysanthemum Douluo's Martial Soul was itself a singular velvet sky chrysanthemum, an extremely rare Martial Soul of the same quality as the Blue Silver Emperor.

And this immortal herb, the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum, was simply a 200% match for him.

As Chrysanthemum Douluo refined the immortal herb's medicinal power.

Chrysanthemum Douluo quietly attained an indestructible diamond body, completely filling the original shortcomings of his singular velvet sky chrysanthemum Martial Soul.

The rank ninety-five bottleneck that had troubled him for years vanished entirely.

The Soul Power he had painstakingly cultivated over the years surged forward like mighty rivers.

"Congratulations to Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan. Soul Power has broken through to rank 98!"

"Bet reward: the ages of all Soul Rings increased by 30,000 years!"

"Bet reward: one Two-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring!"

"Bet reward: Eight Spider Lances Soul Bone quality increased!"

Immediately afterward, Hu Liena also completed her absorption of the immortal herb.

The eight-petal immortal orchid had gentle, mellow medicinal properties. It could strengthen foundations and nourish vitality, remove impurities from a Martial Soul, and accelerate a Soul Master's cultivation, with its medicinal effects lasting all the way to rank seventy.

As the immortal herb's medicinal power took effect.

Hu Liena's Demon Fox Martial Soul underwent an astonishing transformation.

Behind the demon fox grew one new tail, then two... a full nine tails.

Perhaps it should now have been called a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox!

As her Martial Soul evolved, Hu Liena's bearing also changed tremendously.

She became even more radiant and captivating.

Beyond the fox's original seductive charm and fatal allure, she now possessed a touch of immortal grace, noble and pure.

Like an immortal maiden descending from the nine heavens into the mortal world, stirring the surging desires of ordinary mortals.

Yet leaving them unable to reach her, their hearts tormented as though clawing at their ears and scratching their cheeks.

Even with Sun Shan's current firm will, Hu Liena's shy appearance left him somewhat dazed.

Had it been an ordinary Soul Master, Hu Liena probably would not even have needed to use a Soul Skill.

With every frown and smile, her opponent would fall beneath her pomegranate skirt, unwilling to awaken for a long, long time.

"Congratulations! Hu Liena's Martial Soul has evolved into the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox!"

"Congratulations! Hu Liena's Soul Power has increased by 7 ranks!"

"Bet reward: the ages of all Soul Rings increased by 20,000 years!"

"Bet reward: Martial Soul Second Awakening!"

"Bet reward: Soul Power increased by 7 ranks!"

Sun Shan's presence surged, and he immediately sat cross-legged to begin absorbing his fourth Soul Ring.

A short while later, the Soul Ring's absorption was complete.

His Soul Power rose to rank 47!

The ability this two-hundred-thousand-year fourth Soul Ring granted Sun Shan was called:

"Superhuman Intelligence!"

Sun Shan suddenly discovered that his Martial Soul, Stock-Simulating Meow Meow, had changed.

Where there had originally been a fat cat holding a screen in his hand, there was now suddenly a blue-and-white-striped egg.

The surface of the giant egg bore the face of a big, fat blue fish.

It gave off a deep blue glow, as though alive.

Sun Shan had a feeling that as long as he continued increasing his Soul Power, he could finish hatching this giant egg, and then he would gain the power to overturn the entire Soul Master World.

Even the power to change the entire human race!

Once everyone had finished cultivating.

Hu Liena suddenly tugged at the corner of Sun Shan's clothes, her expression somewhat strange.

Hu Liena asked:

"Do you have another woman out there?!"

"Uh..." Sun Shan answered earnestly, "Not for now."

"Heh." Hu Liena flung a stack of letters into Sun Shan's arms.

There were a dozen or so letters in total, all sent from Shrek Academy, with cute, adorably dopey rabbit designs printed on the envelopes.

Sun Shan knew without even guessing that Xiao Wu had written them.

"Did you read the letters?"

"What kind of person do you take me for?" Hu Liena puffed up her cheeks. "Even if you really do have someone else, I'm confident I'm better than her!"

Sun Shan let out a long breath and agreed, "Yes, yes, yes, you're the best."

A round of praise finally coaxed Hu Liena into leaving.

He opened the envelopes and finished reading.

Sun Shan immediately understood what Xiao Wu was thinking.

"So she wants to thank me for saving her life and make a clean break while she's at it."

After a little thought, Sun Shan wrote a reply:

"When the moon climbs above the willow tips, we meet after dusk."

After specifying the time and place of their meeting, he sent the letter back to Shrek Academy.

Inside Shrek Academy.

After reading the letter, Xiao Wu's heart stirred with budding romance.

A thousand thoughts filled her mind, and she immediately began rummaging through her wardrobe.

"How should I meet that guy?"

As the saying went, a woman adorned herself for the one who admired her.

Recalling Sun Shan's strange tastes, Xiao Wu's pretty face burned, her cheeks flushing crimson.

Her gaze immediately landed on the maid outfit Sun Shan had bought for him earlier.

Xiao Wu changed into that classic black-and-white maid outfit.

Looking at herself in the mirror, she murmured:

"I'm not deliberately trying to please him. I'm just going to thank him a little, that's all."

At dusk, Xiao Wu quietly slipped out of Shrek Academy to have a secret rendezvous with Sun Shan.

But Xiao Wu did not realize that a pair of cold, sinister eyes had been watching her from the shadows for a long time.

That person was none other than Tang San.

Once Xiao Wu had left her room.

Without permission, Tang San quietly broke into Xiao Wu's bedroom.

First, he viciously pawed at the undergarments Xiao Wu had left beside her bed.

He greedily breathed in Xiao Wu's scent.

Ever since that day when Tang San had backed down before the Titan Giant Ape in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xiao Wu had never spoken another word to him in private.

Tang San's heart had already darkened after a liquidation left him with enormous debts and his Soul Bone mutation failed.

Now, he had grown even more twisted.

Then his gaze landed on the letter Sun Shan had written to Xiao Wu.

Endless flames seemed to flicker in Tang San's eyes as he spat through gritted teeth:

"Sun Shan, you again!"

"Xiao Wu, oh, Xiao Wu, it turns out I had you wrong all along!"

Tang San mocked himself:

"Xiao Wu, are you really so desperate to throw yourself into another man's arms?"

Tang San's gaze turned vicious:

"You cheating bitch and bastard, I'll make you pay!"

His figure flashed, and Tang San charged straight toward the site of their rendezvous.

A fierce romantic battlefield was about to erupt!

But who would end up the losing dog?