Bipolar Slowing Domain

"Why don't you two elders take them now? I'll..."

"Hey!" Yue Guan frowned, interrupting Jun Yan.

"Didn't I just say so? From now on, you're our brother, and I'm your big brother Yue Guan."

"As for him..." Yue Guan pointed at Gui Mei and said casually, "Just call him Old Ghost."

"Huh?" Gui Mei turned to look at Yue Guan. "Chrysanthemum Guan, what do you mean by that?"

Before Yue Guan could answer, Gui Mei pulled Jun Yan over and said, "From now on, call me Big Brother Gui, and just call him Chrysanthemum Guan."

Jun Yan could only nod in helpless acquiescence. "All right, all right, I'll remember."

Yue Guan paid no attention to Gui Mei's jab. Instead, he said to him seriously:

"Old Ghost, when you take this Immortal Herb, eat only the petals, then suck the stamens last. That will let you absorb its effects. You also need to use Soul Power to activate it. Remember, you must keep your heart calm and your mind at peace to absorb its essence."

"I understand." Gui Mei took the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone to a corner and began absorbing the Immortal Herb's medicinal power as Yue Guan had instructed.

"Then I'll start too?" Yue Guan said, looking at Jun Yan.

"Mm, I'll stand guard for you both here," Jun Yan said.

Yue Guan sat down where he was. First, he plucked off the sky-reaching stamens and swallowed them, then ate the petals one by one. Once he had finished, he immediately began cultivating on the spot to refine the medicinal power of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.

As Yue Guan meditated, a gently swaying Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum suddenly appeared above his head. Immediately afterward, wisps of golden energy emerged from his body and gathered toward the chrysanthemum overhead.

As the golden energy poured in, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum slowly swelled, growing larger and radiating dazzling light.

Once the chrysanthemum had swelled to its greatest size, a pillar of golden energy appeared beneath it, its lower end connecting to the crown of Yue Guan's head.

As a constant stream of energy flowed from the chrysanthemum into the crown of Yue Guan's head, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum began to shrink back to its original size.

Yue Guan, who had been sitting cross-legged, was now lying spread-eagle on the ground. His limbs were noticeably more swollen than before, and soft cracking sounds came constantly from the bones in his body.

His nine Soul Rings also flashed rapidly with dazzling light. Low growls like rumbling thunder occasionally sounded in his throat, and his whole body trembled to a peculiar rhythm.

A faint jade hue was spreading across Gui Mei's body as well. It was the energy of the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone.

Before long, the jade-colored energy dimmed until it turned gray, a sign that Gui Mei's own Soul Power was absorbing and transforming the energy of the Immortal Herb.

As the two absorbed the Immortal Herbs' energy, the energies around them began to resonate across the distance. A gold-and-silver domain enveloped an area of several dozen meters around them.

Sensing that something was wrong, Jun Yan hurriedly flew away.

At first, Jun Yan noticed nothing amiss within the gold-and-silver domain.

Suddenly, a breeze blew past, and a medicinal herb right at the edge of the domain swayed in the wind.

But then a strange sight unfolded. There was nothing unusual about the herb while it was outside the domain, but when it swayed into the domain, it suddenly slowed down.

When it emerged again, it returned to normal.

"Is this time slowing down?"

Jun Yan opened his palm, and a Wood Spike grew from it.

With a casual flick, he sent the Wood Spike flying toward the domain.

The instant the Wood Spike touched the boundary, it abruptly slowed, flying through the domain at an almost sluggish pace.

Only after it left the domain did it regain its original speed and plunge headfirst into the mountain wall. From this, it was clear that what the domain slowed was not speed, but time.

Seeing this, Jun Yan could not help exclaiming, "The power of time really is wondrous!"

Before long, Yue Guan and Gui Mei both woke up, and the gold-and-silver domain vanished with them.

Gui Mei said joyfully, "This feels wonderful! Not only has my Soul Power risen by one level, but I can also feel that I'll cultivate faster from now on."

Yue Guan could not hide the delight on his face either. "That's right, I feel it too. Such is the wonder of an Immortal Herb!"

A single level of Soul Power might not sound like much, but they were Titled Douluo. At their level, even gaining one level in a year would be considered fast.

Besides, the greater effects of Immortal Herbs lay in the future. Faster cultivation was an extremely, extremely powerful effect for any Titled Douluo.

"Congratulations, big brothers!" Jun Yan hurriedly cupped his hands and offered his congratulations.

Gui Mei stepped forward and patted Jun Yan on the shoulder. "We have you to thank for this."

Yue Guan nodded in agreement and said with a smile in his eyes, "Yes. If you hadn't given us the Immortal Herbs, how could we have gained so much?"

"Oh, right, big brothers, would you like to try your Martial Soul Fusion Skill? While you were absorbing the Immortal Herbs, a gold-and-silver domain appeared. It seemed to have the effect of slowing time."

Gui Mei frowned. "Slowing time? Our domain is indeed gold and silver, but doesn't it only stop things?"

Yue Guan believed Jun Yan completely and said to Gui Mei, "There's no point thinking about it. Since Little Brother Jun Yan brought it up, let's give it a try."

"All right, let's try it."

With that, silver flames erupted from Gui Mei's body, while golden flames rose from Yue Guan's.

The two had just prepared to clasp hands and unleash their Martial Soul Fusion Skill when the flames around them converged first. Then a ring of gold-and-silver light spread out, covering a hundred-meter radius in an instant.

"This..." Yue Guan and Gui Mei stared at each other in bewilderment.

Yue Guan explained to Jun Yan, "This is the Bipolar Slowing Domain. It can slow time within the domain, except for the two of us. We decide how much to slow it, up to a maximum of six times. Right now, it's twice as slow."

But the domain was so large that Jun Yan had already been caught inside it.

So although Yue Guan was not speaking quickly, his words sounded extremely fast to Jun Yan, who could not make out what he was saying at all.

Jun Yan said, "I think I'm being affected by the domain."

To Yue Guan, his words came out slowly, but he could understand them.

"Then we'll undo it," Yue Guan said to Jun Yan, deliberately slowing his speech.

Jun Yan hurriedly raised a hand to stop him. "No, not yet. Let me see what your Martial Soul Fusion Skill looks like at full power first."

Yue Guan and Gui Mei exchanged helpless looks, then nodded. "All right!"

The two suddenly flew toward each other and clasped all four hands together. Their bodies abruptly merged.

All Jun Yan saw was the gold-and-silver light in the domain growing much denser. The next second, he saw Yue Guan and Gui Mei standing before him with smiles on their faces.