The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Encountering Dugu Bo and Tang San

Lin Luo had long wanted to do something for Qian Renxue.

He felt he owed her far too much.

At first, he had chosen to become a parasite in the girl on a whim.

He had simply thought that Qian Renxue, as a woman of lofty status in the original story, would be very safe and have abundant resources.

Proud as he was of being a God King, he had regarded Qian Renxue as nothing more than a vessel to help him rebuild his divine body.

When Qian Renxue had wanted to kill him, Lin Luo had even felt hostility toward her.

But as time passed,

the changes in Qian Renxue's own feelings gradually began to affect him as well.

Things were developing in a direction Lin Luo had never imagined, and there was no stopping them.

These were all things Lin Luo had never imagined could happen before he became a parasite.

For instance,

Qian Renxue would stroke her belly every day and chat affectionately with him.

She would buy him baby clothes.

She would stay up late to knit clothes and shoes for him herself.

She would ask Granny Qiongsi about the baby's health every day.

To help him grow normally, she would eat food she had no need for herself.

She would protect him, even when the "enemies" were her grandfather and mother.

Washing clothes, washing diapers, bathing him, feeding him milk, soothing him to sleep-she handled it all alone.

Even Lin Luo himself, the baby, felt that raising a child was an incredibly arduous task that demanded patience.

Yet Qian Renxue handled everything with great care and thoroughness.

She was also worried that the child was too young, so she kept putting off her return to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.

This was a plan she had prepared for so many years, yet she had put it on hold for a full eight months. One could imagine how much pressure she was under.

She had not made some grand, earth-shaking sacrifice.

But in Lin Luo's heart, her greatness needed no further words.

If a gift could bring a smile to Qian Renxue's face, Lin Luo was willing to devote care and patience to it.

It had nothing to do with any exchange of benefits.

It was simply because he loved Qian Renxue deeply too.

Looking at Qian Renxue, who was still silently cultivating in meditation beside him, Lin Luo pondered seriously.

He now faced two problems.

First, the Spatial Teleportation reward could only be used once every twenty-four hours.

That meant he would have to spend a day in the Sunset Forest.

Second, the Sunset Forest was a forest, after all. Besides the threat of Soul Beasts, there should also be miasma in the air.

That was easy to solve. Among his one-time rewards was an item that concealed his presence, the Concealment Cloak. Although it only lasted an hour, he had thirty cloaks in stock.

As for the miasma, it would certainly pose some threat to a baby's body, but there should not be much of it around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After all, even Tang San had been able to stay there safely.

Besides, in three months, his Martial Soul would gain the ability to Purify All Things. By then, the effects of that little bit of miasma would be practically nonexistent.

The only problem he would have to face was not coming home for twenty-four hours.

Qian Renxue will probably kill me...

Still, if he brought back Immortal Herbs, Qian Renxue could probably guess what Lin Luo had been doing during the day he was missing.

As for where a little baby had gotten them?

Sorry, I'm a baby. I can't talk, so even if I wanted to explain, I couldn't.

Once he had sorted everything out, Lin Luo used the Spatial Teleportation reward.

In just one second, Lin Luo vanished silently from the bed. Qian Renxue was meditating and did not even realize her baby was gone.

When he opened his eyes again, he felt muddy earth beneath him.

The calls of all kinds of insects, birds, and beasts filled his ears. Lin Luo looked up and saw verdant branches towering into the clouds above, while a profusion of colorful flowers surrounded him.

But those were not flowers. They were Immortal Herbs of various colors.

Some Immortal Herbs swayed from side to side as if they were alive. They looked beautiful, and some even had the texture of colored glaze or glass.

Directly ahead were two pools of water, one red and one blue.

Lin Luo did not dare approach them. After all, his current body could not withstand them.

All right, now that I'm here, I'll take as much as I can.

Let's see if there's something like a storage bag among the one-time rewards...

There really was one, though it was called the Vajra Bag.

It had a capacity of only about half a cubic meter. Its function was to be indestructible; nothing could tear it.

But the reason it was a one-time reward was that it could only be filled once. Once anything was taken out, the bag would disappear.

Enough talk. Time to harvest.

To prevent direct contact with the Immortal Herbs from harming him, Lin Luo took out another one-time reward, the Mind-Controlled Mechanical Arm.

Soon, a white ring was fastened around his head, with a mechanical arm about a meter long extending from its front.

The mechanical arm could only perform basic grabbing motions, and it was only a little stronger than an ordinary adult.

So most of these one-time rewards were of little use, but it was good enough that this one could come in handy now.

Lin Luo did not recognize many of the Immortal Herbs, so he could only pick out the ones that looked familiar and pull them up!

This should be the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum. Pull!

Aromatic silk beauty, pull!

Lovesick Heartbreak Red, pull!

Cockscomb phoenix sunflower, pull!

Eight-petal immortal orchid, pull!

Aromatic silk beauty, pull!

Narcissus jade muscle bone, pull!

Nine-grade purple ganoderma, pull!

Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, pull!

Blood Swan Kiss, pull!

Lin Luo dragged the Vajra Bag through the Immortal Herbs, while the mechanical arm hovering in front of his head followed his gaze in search of the next target.

But Lin Luo suddenly discovered that the Vajra Bag had run out of space.

It can only hold ten Immortal Herbs?

As luck would have it, those ten were the only Immortal Herbs that looked familiar to him. He did not recognize any of the others.

Just as Lin Luo was about to end his operation and find a secluded place to use the Concealment Cloak, his gaze suddenly fell on two Immortal Herbs near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

The octagonal mysterious ice grass and the infernal delicate apricot.

My Martial Soul currently has two tags: Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Ice.

These two Immortal Herbs should be useful to me.

After a moment's thought, Lin Luo crawled toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

He did not dare get too close. Instead, he used his mind to extend the mechanical arm, stretching it just far enough to touch the two Immortal Herbs.

Pull!

Pull!

Sure enough, when the mechanical arm touched the two Immortal Herbs, one coated it in frost, while the other nearly heated it red-hot.

Good thing I used the mechanical arm. After all, I don't have Mysterious Jade Hand.

But here's the problem: where do I put these two Immortal Herbs?

With that thought, Lin Luo continued checking his one-time rewards. He really had no more Vajra Bags, nor did he have any other bag-type rewards.

He did, however, spot a time-limited reward called the Preservation Chamber.

It was a space-type reward that could store items directly within it for up to three years.

Lin Luo used it immediately. A light shone from his body, engulfing the two Immortal Herbs lying on the ground.

Finally, that's done. Now I just have to wait.

But just then, Lin Luo suddenly heard two sets of footsteps.

Without hesitation, he immediately used a speed reward to find a spot in a corner, then covered himself with the Concealment Cloak.

In that instant, Lin Luo's position blended completely into the surroundings, and his presence was concealed as well. He, however, could clearly see what was happening outside.

The man approaching wore green armor and looked somewhat like the Dugu Bo Lin Luo remembered. Following behind Dugu Bo was a boy around ten years old.

With just one look, Lin Luo recognized him as Tang San.

Enemies really do meet on narrow roads. To think I'd run into Tang San today.

But suddenly, goosebumps broke out all over Lin Luo's body.

Wait, shouldn't Tang San only be ten right now?

He hasn't even gone to Shrek Academy yet, so how could he possibly know Dugu Bo?!