Time passed like flowing water. In the blink of an eye, three months had gone by—loquats ripened red, banana leaves turned green.
Over these three months, Xiao Yan had fully mastered the medicinal properties of all the herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes, and his cultivation methods had been tested to near perfection.
Now, it was time to open the furnace and refine medicine.
Looking at the calm Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes, Xiao Yan said, "Old Poison Freak, take your granddaughter and retreat a bit farther. If anything goes wrong later, the energy released won't be something she can withstand."
Dugu Bo asked, "After preparing for so long, you really plan to test the medicine on yourself first?"
Xiao Yan slowly nodded. "Although I already understand your condition completely, a second evolution of a martial soul carries too many uncertainties. Compared to that, I'm more familiar with my own situation.
"And immortal herbs have extraordinary medicinal properties. Even though I'm now ninety percent confident, giving it directly to you still carries risks. Once I personally test the medicinal effects of the Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss, I'll feel much more assured."
That's right—he planned to consume the Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss himself.
After three months of meticulous research, his understanding of how to utilize immortal herbs had deepened even further, giving rise to a new idea.
Immortal herbs, at their core, were still plants. If, through this refining process, he could allow the Blue Silver Emperor to acquire medicinal properties—poisonous effects included, since poison was also a type of medicine—
Then the Blue Silver Emperor would undergo another evolution.
In the future, when condensing the Blue Silver Eternal Tree again, as long as the medicinal properties were perfectly balanced and sufficient energy was supplied, it might even directly produce pills that could accelerate human cultivation.
They could be used as reward items to stimulate cultivation speed.
Dugu Bo looked at Xiao Yan with a complicated expression. "Even though I know you're powerful, these medicines here aren't something you can just casually eat. Don't die."
Xiao Yan smiled. Unless he ate all the immortal herbs here at once, it would actually be quite difficult for him to die.
A moment later, a graceful figure appeared at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes.
It was Xiao Yi, who often came here to stand guard and assist during Xiao Yan's experiments.
Seeing Xiao Yi appear so suddenly, Dugu Bo was genuinely startled.
Such speed—and at such a young age, already possessing strength no weaker than mine. Another freak.
"This is Xiao Yi. She usually doesn't like talking. She's here this time to assist me with refining medicine," Xiao Yan introduced.
"Old man Dugu Bo," Dugu Bo said.
Xiao Yi gave a slight nod. She had already seen this old man several times before.
After briefly introducing himself, Dugu Bo asked, "Can't you refine the medicine alone?"
Xiao Yan shook his head. "No. I need someone to stabilize the medicine cauldron for me, to prevent it from being destroyed midway. Xiao Yi's martial soul and soul power are similar to mine—she's the most suitable candidate."
After explaining, the black-and-white bead in Xiao Yan's dantian suddenly trembled, instantly releasing a massive amount of pure energy. It flowed into his meridians and transformed into inner strength, joining the inner strength already present and circulating according to the Xuantian Skill.
Xiao Yan thrust both palms forward. Delicate strands of Blue Silver Emperor emerged from his palms and surged toward the center of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes.
In an instant, two extreme energies—scorching heat and bone-chilling cold—crashed directly into the Blue Silver Emperor.
Even though Xiao Yan was prepared, he was still slightly shocked by the ferocity of these two extreme forces.
He stomped the ground lightly and immediately increased his inner strength output. The burns and frost damage on the vines were instantly restored under a faint blue glow.
Seeing this, Xiao Yi's violet eyes blinked softly. She hadn't expected such power from this small pool.
Just approaching it was enough to damage Xiao Yan's vines.
As the vines reached the center of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes, Xiao Yan focused intently, controlling them to condense into the shape of a medicine cauldron.
The reason he waited for Xiao Yi to arrive before forming the cauldron was to let her first gain a rough understanding of the corrosive power of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes' energy.
Under the influence of the two opposing energies, something that Xiao Yan could usually form with ease now required considerable effort. Only after some time did he manage to condense a medicine cauldron roughly half a meter tall.
The cauldron was entirely blue-gold in color, gleaming with brilliance and extraordinary in appearance. Ice and fire divine dragons were engraved on its surface, vivid and lifelike, forming a twin-dragon-spitting-pearl motif.
Once the cauldron was complete, Xiao Yi's slender fingers shimmered with faint blue light as they traced gently through the air.
Following her movements, several Blue Silver Emperor leaves appeared, slowly forming a Taiji diagram before her slender waist.
Immediately afterward, a stream of blue energy burst forth and flowed into the medicine cauldron, taking over the task of stabilizing it.
After Xiao Yi took control, Xiao Yan gradually withdrew his own power.
Only after fully taking charge of the cauldron did Xiao Yi clearly realize how formidable the pool's energies were. Her inner strength surged forth in great waves.
Seeing that Xiao Yi had stabilized the cauldron, Xiao Yan quickly swept his hand over his storage jade belt and took out eighteen jade bottles. Half were filled with extremely hot spring water, the other half with extremely cold spring water.
Before the corrosive spring water could damage the jade bottles, he poured them all into the cauldron at once, preparing them to dissolve the medicinal properties later.
Though the extreme cold and heat restrained each other, the energy released in that instant still forced Xiao Yi to take a light step backward.
After adding the spring water, Xiao Yan immediately took out the petals he had harvested over the past days from the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Fiery Apricot Delicate—ninety-nine petals of each, a total of eighty-one pairs.
Many people naively believe everything must be either black or white—either good or bad.
Applied to medicinal herbs, this becomes the belief that herbs with toxicity must be bad medicine.
In reality, the so-called toxicity of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Fiery Apricot Delicate stemmed from their energy being too extreme—ordinary people simply couldn't endure it.
In the world where the Tang Sect originated, even those dozen or so powerful old Tang Sect elders couldn't refine even one of them alone.
But the Douluo world was entirely different.
With its various miraculous martial souls, ice-attribute and fire-attribute soul masters could consume the petals of these two immortal herbs as long as they found the right method.
If their strength was sufficient, even eating one whole immortal herb wouldn't be out of the question.
For them, such substances containing pure attribute energy were great tonics.
After consumption, not only would their physiques improve, but their soul power level and quality would skyrocket.
When the one hundred and sixty-two differently colored petals were dropped into the cauldron, a strange scene unfolded.
Because they had been well preserved, even after being harvested for three months, the petals still radiated their respective attribute glows.
The moment the opposing-energy petals touched, whether it was the icy aura or the blazing heat, both were instantly restrained, shrouded in a faint layer of white mist.
As the petals fell into the spring water within the cauldron, the powerful energies sealed inside them burst forth at once.
Xiao Yi was the first to bear the brunt of the violent energy collision inside the cauldron. Her Xuantian Skill inner strength flowed out unceasingly, maintaining the cauldron's stability.
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