"Grandpa Patriarch, Auntie Zhu, I'm going to absorb those two Immortal Herbs. Please guard me!"
As he spoke, Dai Tianfeng came to the edge of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, picked the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, the two immortal-grade medicinal herbs, and swallowed them both at once.
The next instant!
Two diametrically opposed forces, one cold and one hot, collided explosively inside him.
One moment, Dai Tianfeng gave off a startling, scorching heat; the next, he radiated a chill that froze to the marrow.
The two utterly opposite pains compounded each other. Even with Dai Tianfeng's current physical strength, his entire body trembled, and he seemed ready to faint at any moment.
He grunted several times and leaped!
Splash!
He plunged into the waters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well where red and blue met!
The spray was exceedingly strange!
Half of it evaporated into the air, while the other half landed as frost!
The sudden scene left Dai Xiu and Zhu Na staring in bewilderment.
"This is bad!"
Dai Xiu reacted almost instantly and flashed to the edge of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He was just about to jump in and see what had happened to Dai Tianfeng when an overwhelming sense of danger washed over him.
His instincts told him that if he jumped in like that, he would surely die.
"What's that little fellow Tianfeng doing? How could he dare jump into a place like that?" Zhu Na's expression was exceedingly grave.
She was actually quite fond of Dai Tianfeng.
Not only was his talent unparalleled, but he also had a particularly sweet tongue.
"It must be because of those two herbs. I can still sense Tianfeng's life force."
Dai Xiu spoke worriedly. "That means his life probably won't be in danger for the time being?"
"What do we do now?" Zhu Na looked at Dai Xiu.
"We can only keep waiting." Dai Xiu shook his head.
He had no other way. He couldn't very well jump into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and fish Dai Tianfeng out.
Even if he could, Dai Xiu feared ruining this opportunity of Dai Tianfeng's.
Meanwhile, Dai Tianfeng was undergoing unimaginable pain.
The extreme heat of the Yang Spring and the extreme cold of the Yin Spring poured madly into his body like whales swallowing rivers and seas, forming a strange balance with the medicinal power of the two Immortal Herbs.
His bones shattered and reformed, his meridians tore and widened, and his body was tempered again and again.
Only after an unknown length of time did Dai Tianfeng gradually grow accustomed to the pain.
Only then could he spare the attention to control his Soul Power and refine the two forces.
Time passed, second by second.
Bubbles rose ceaselessly in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Dai Xiu paced anxiously beside it.
The qilin child of his White Tiger Lineage had suddenly jumped into that strange spring, and there had been no word from him since.
How could Dai Xiu not be anxious?
If he hadn't been constantly monitoring Dai Tianfeng's life force with the spiritual power of a Titled Douluo, he would almost have thought something had really happened to him!
But simply waiting like this wasn't a solution either.
Just then, an extremely furious, aged voice suddenly rang out.
"Damnable thieves, you dared steal from this old man! You're courting death!"
A green-robed figure flashed down to the bottom of the valley.
He was an old man with a gaunt face, a pallid, bloodless complexion, and long hair as green as poisonous grass.
This man was none other than Poison Douluo Dugu Bo.
Dugu Bo swept his gaze over his medicinal herb garden, and his whole mood turned foul.
In the past, Immortal Herbs and spirit medicines had covered the ground here.
Now look at it: not a single hair remained, just a barren stretch.
Even the seedlings had been dug up!
Were they even human?
"You deserve to die!"
Dugu Bo's face darkened as he unleashed the full, terrifying pressure of a Titled Douluo.
Brilliant Soul Rings rose one after another from beneath his feet.
Yellow! Yellow! Purple! Purple! Black! Black! Black! Black! Black!
He didn't know what uses these immortal-grade herbs had.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have guarded a mountain of treasure in vain for so many years, only for someone else to reap such an enormous windfall.
But anyone who saw their base ravaged like this would hardly be in a good temper.
Much less Dugu Bo, a man who was neither wholly righteous nor wholly evil, who always acted according to his own whims, and who was narrow-minded to boot.
Dai Xiu was in no mood to waste words with Dugu Bo.
The White Tiger Martial Soul possessed him!
An incomparably domineering pressure erupted.
Immediately afterward, nine Soul Rings-yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black-rose in succession from beneath his feet.
"White Tiger Martial Soul, nine rings... You're from the Star Luo Imperial Family!"
Dugu Bo cried out in shock, "How is that possible?!"
In the eyes of the world, the Star Luo Imperial Family was stronger than the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, but certainly not by much.
The Heaven Dou Imperial Family at least had Dugu Bo as an imperial guest elder in name.
The Star Luo Imperial Family had no Titled Douluo holding the fort!
So where had this nine-ringed White Tiger Soul Master come from?
No, even if his Martial Soul was a White Tiger, that didn't necessarily mean he was from the Star Luo Imperial Family.
To tell the truth, Dugu Bo had no attachment to the Heaven Dou Empire, but Prince Xue Xing had saved his life.
It was precisely for that reason that Dugu Bo had agreed to become a guest elder of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
During the Heaven Dou Palace Coup, he had willingly involved himself in such a thankless task.
"Nothing in this world is impossible!"
Dai Xiu sneered repeatedly, his voice full of disdain. "Do you think everyone's like those good-for-nothings in the Xue Family, who've left the vast Heaven Dou Empire practically torn to pieces?!"
The Star Luo Empire had only one Dai Family, but the Heaven Dou Empire had more than the Xue Family.
That didn't just mean the sects; there were also many nobles with their own fiefdoms, local emperors in all but name.
"This old man admits defeat this time. You may leave!"
Dugu Bo didn't argue. He waved a hand as he spoke.
He desperately wanted to strike and avenge the hatred in his heart.
But reason told him he was no match for this man.
Even among Titled Douluo, there were differences in strength.
His title was "Poison," and his poisons were unmatched beneath heaven.
But against a Titled Douluo, poison was clearly not nearly as effective.
Although the White Tiger couldn't compare to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, it was still a first-rate, top-tier Beast Martial Soul.
Moreover, if Dugu Bo's guess was correct, that woman was most likely from the Hell Spirit Cat Zhu Family.
The Hell White Tiger, the Martial Soul Fusion Skill of the White Tiger and Hell Spirit Cat, was renowned far and wide.
If he confronted them head-on, it would be like striking a stone with an egg.
After weighing the difference between their strengths, Dugu Bo's anger ultimately vanished into nothing.
Forget it. It wasn't as though he knew what those herbs were good for anyway!
What he truly valued was this place.
After all, Dugu Bo's survival under the fierce backlash of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison, and his cultivation to the Titled Douluo realm, were inseparably tied to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
He also needed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well now to suppress the deadly poison in his body and prolong his life.
And Dugu Yan would need this place in the future as well.
So as long as they didn't seize this place by force, Dugu Bo could endure it.