Before Dugu Bo could inspect him, Little Sun transformed into a ball of light and dissipated, merging into Stone Monkey · Sun Qi's body.
Seeing this, Dugu Bo was greatly alarmed.
His Spirit had naturally disbanded; he might have damaged his origin.
He hurriedly checked Sun Qi's vital signs, and upon seeing them, he couldn't help but tremble and curse angrily.
"You brat, you're truly reckless!"
To get himself into such a state, was he even human?
At this moment, Sun Qi's entire body was ravaged, every tissue within his flesh and blood seared by extreme flames.
"You little brat, you only withstood the damage from the ice-fire balance, you're not completely immune to this level of ice or fire."
If it were a slightly weaker, singular ice or fire, it would be fine, because Sun Qi's body had absorbed too much ice and fire power. Weaker, pure ice-attribute power wouldn't be enough to break this balance for Sun Qi, and fire-attribute power was the same.
But Sun Qi, being reckless, chose to court death by using the extreme fire-attribute power from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, which had created his physique.
It would be a miracle if that didn't break the balance.
The more Dugu Bo examined him, the more alarmed he became. He found that Sun Qi's skin was scorched by fire-attribute power, while his insides were frozen, and even his internal organs had lost their vitality.
If not for his faint breathing and a slight rise and fall of his chest, Dugu Bo would have thought Sun Qi was already dead.
"After one trip out, he's become so overconfident!"
Dugu Bo paced anxiously in circles.
"You little brat, torturing yourself like this, even if I'm the Poison Douluo, I can't cure you. Don't even mention me, Chrysanthemum Pass, who specializes in pharmacology, wouldn't be able to save you either."
"Nine Heart Begonia might have a chance, but your injuries would require at least a six-ring Spirit Master to heal."
"Seriously, you still owe this old man three heaven and earth treasures. You can't just die like this; if you die, who will return my heaven and earth treasures?"
"Grandpa, stop mumbling. Sun Qi seems to still be alive."
"Of course he's still alive, but he's not far from death—" Dugu Bo said in an annoyed tone, then his voice suddenly stopped.
He looked at Sun Qi and noticed that Sun Qi's condition seemed much better than before.
Was this an illusion?
He rubbed his eyes and saw that Sun Qi's complexion had become a bit rosier, his chest rose and fell more noticeably, and most importantly, that faint spark of life had been rekindled and slowly stabilized.
"What's going on?"
Dugu Bo hurriedly returned to Sun Qi's side and carefully observed Sun Qi's changes.
He realized that the key to Sun Qi's recovery from such severe injuries was his vitality.
"Such tenacious vitality. As long as there's a trace of life, it can rapidly replenish itself."
While Dugu Bo marveled, he also noticed that Sun Qi's recovery ability from this vitality wasn't particularly strong; it was merely tenacious.
The so-called rapid replenishment only meant escaping a near deathstate.
Sun Qi's injuries were slowly recovering, but the more they recovered, the faster the speed, especially after reaching a certain point, it stopped recovering.
"In this state, a five-ring Nine Heart Begonia could fully heal him, but currently, Nine Heart Begonia is Leng Leng, and she's only a three-ring Spirit Master."
Dugu Bo stroked his chin with his right hand, beginning to ponder how to treat Sun Qi.
The most skilled healing Spirit in the entire continent was naturally the Nine Heart Begonia, but this Spirit had significant genetic issues. There were only two in each generation.
When the previous one died, the next descendant could awaken it. For example, if Ye Leng Leng's mother died, her child could awaken the Nine Heart Begonia. If she died, her grandchild would awaken the Nine Heart Begonia.
Of course, if the older one died late, the new descendant who awakened the Nine Heart Begonia Spirit would be delayed by several generations.
Because of this unique genetic mechanism, even though their Spirit was excellent, they didn't live well and always had to be extremely cautious.
Indeed, cautious.
Their lives were very cautious, to the point that Ye Leng Leng usually had to pretend to be aloof, not speaking much with her teammates, deliberately distancing herself from everyone.
There was no other way. If someone targeted her, and then she was swayed by their sweet talk and flattery, and actually got involved with them, her mother might die for no reason...
This was something that had truly happened in her bloodline, and not just once.
Dugu Bo could summon Ye Leng Leng, but he wasn't confident he could invite Ye Leng Leng's mother.
Mainly because Ye Leng Leng's mother had been missing for ten years, disappearing without a trace after sending Ye Lingling to Heaven Dou Royal Academy that year, and even Ye Leng Leng herself claimed not to know her whereabouts.
Of course, Dugu Bo didn't find this out by investigating Ye Leng Leng, but rather Xue Xing had mentioned it to him by chance.
As for how they could be sure that Ye Leng Leng's mother was truly missing, it was naturally because Xue Xing had sent people to track Ye Leng Leng around the clock for three years.
"Nine Heart Begonia won't work. Other healing Spirit Masters can also be used."
At the same level, Nine Heart Begonia was definitely stronger, but if it was a Spirit Elder against a Spirit Emperor or Spirit Saint, then Ye Leng Leng would, of course, be far inferior.
Dugu Bo considered the healing Spirit Masters above Spirit Emperor he knew.
"Two are in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, and one is in Spirit Hall."
These were the three highest-cultivation healing Spirit Masters he knew, all Spirit Saints.
The rest were only Spirit Emperors.
"This old man doesn't have very good relationships with them, only acquaintances. If I just ask them out of the blue, there's no way they'll agree to treat him while also keeping this brat's condition a secret."
"So, it's better to leave it to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School."
Sun Qi's recklessness was also because he became more arrogant after Gu Rong took him to hunt for Spirits, so let the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School treat him.
At the same time, Dugu Bo was also very curious about how Sun Qiachieved such powerful vitality.
Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.
"What's going on with this kid?"
He had just left his sight, and then as soon as he returned to the Sect, Dugu Bo brought Sun Qi to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Schoolalmost immediately, and Sun Qi was already half-dead.
Gu Rong couldn't help but stare at Dugu Bo with wide eyes.
"Old Bone, this kid's injuries have nothing to do with me. He brought it upon himself." Dugu Bo said, "What exactly did you do with him? How did this kid become so bold?"
Dugu Bo remembered that Sun Qi had always been very steady. When he wanted to temper his body with ice and fire before, he cautiously probed, then slowly adapted before jumping into the spring water.
But this time, he recklessly swam directly towards a fixed side.
"What's going on with his injuries? He actually encountered this level of ice and fire attributes simultaneously."
Ning Fengzhi also inspected Sun Qi's condition and couldn't help but ask Dugu Bo.
Dugu Bo replied impatiently, "You don't need to know. Just know that this kid courted death, and fortunately, this old man found him in time, otherwise he would have been cremated."
Ning Fengzhi didn't pursue the matter further; the urgent task was to treat Sun Qi.
He summoned the highest-ranking healing Spirit Master in the Sect.
Mu Sen, a level seventy-eight healing Spirit Saint with the Wood Spirit.
Mu Sen arrived in the main hall and, upon seeing Sun Qi's injuries, his eyelids twitched.
What kind of person could get himself into such a state?
Ning Fengzhi had already told him when he called him over that it was a tragedy of a reckless child nearly killing himself.