Two waves of extreme energy rippled outward. Caught off guard, Dugu Bo staggered.
If not for the heavy armor condensed from Xiao Yan's Blue Silver Emperor covering his body, he would likely have been seriously injured in an instant by that surge of energy.
Activating his soul power, Dugu Bo dispelled the ice-and-fire energy clinging to him and stepped forward, asking, "Was it successful?"
After steadying Xiao Yi's body, Xiao Yan opened his palm, revealing the pill hovering above his hand.
"The Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss was added to it. I must consume it as soon as possible. If too much time passes, the poison inside the pill will multiply, making the refinement of its energy several times more difficult—and that would be dangerous."
Staring at the ice-and-fire-colored, glass-like pill in Xiao Yan's palm, Dugu Bo could clearly sense the vast energy contained within.
The pill was excellent—but not something just anyone could consume.
Even he, even the vast majority of Titled Douluo, would hardly be fortunate enough to endure the terrifying energy inside it.
"Then hurry up and take it," Dugu Bo said.
"It's not that simple," Xiao Yan replied with a bitter smile, shaking his head. "I need to return to the room to refine the medicinal power. You've been here for more than a day already—go back and rest. Now that the pill is complete, the overall situation is settled."
With that, Xiao Yan entered the vine house together with Xiao Yi.
Raising his left arm, Xiao Yan smoothly took out a jade bottle from his storage jade belt.
Inside the bottle was a medicinal liquid newly prepared from Looking-Through-Autumn-Water Dew—originally a fine medicine to assist spiritual cultivation.
At this moment, it was perfect as a catalyst for swallowing the Ice–Fire Glazed Pill.
As the pill entered his mouth, Xiao Yan immediately opened the jade bottle and poured the purple medicinal liquid into his mouth, drinking the entire bottle in one gulp.
The pill melted instantly upon entering, sliding down his throat together with the purple liquid.
In the blink of an eye, Xiao Yan felt scorching heat and bone-chilling cold erupt within his body, followed by violent poison and needle-like stimulation.
Multiple energies exploded simultaneously. If it were an ordinary person, they would have died instantly under such an impact. Even someone with Xiao Yan's extremely powerful physique couldn't help but change expression slightly.
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Xiao Yan actively guided the circulation of the Xuantian Skill.
Unlike others who cultivated the Xuantian Skill, not only had he opened the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, but after swallowing the Dark Devilgod Tiger's inner core, the Xuantian Skill had undergone a strange transformation. These two extraordinary experiences made his cultivation speed four times faster than ordinary practitioners.
Overall, his current cultivation speed was sixteen times that of a normal Xuantian Skill.
As the Xuantian Skill began to circulate at full speed, his vast inner strength guided the red, blue, and purple liquids that had entered his body.
Aside from the Lovesick Heartbroken Red, this mass of liquid contained the essence of all the immortal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin–Yang Eyes.
With a low buzz, the three-colored liquid completely ignored Xiao Yan's inner strength and recklessly released its ice-and-fire energy.
Under the impact of such extreme energy, Xiao Yan's tough meridians twisted like hemp ropes, a terrifying sight to behold.
The pain of his meridians being torn immediately caused Xiao Yan's body to convulse. His muscles tightened, brows knitted together, and cold sweat seeped out.
Having fused three soul beast soul rings, Xiao Yan's strength was no longer what it once was. Naturally, he wasn't afraid of the pill's energy and mobilized his pure inner strength to meet it head-on.
The pill's energy and Xiao Yan's inner strength began a fierce battle for territory within his meridians.
Xiao Yan's inner strength was more domineering. Upon colliding with the pill's energy, the devouring aspect of his inner strength activated, tearing away chunks of the pill's energy at any moment, wrapping them up, refining, and absorbing them.
If Xiao Yan himself had possessed ice-and-fire attributes, the conversion speed would not have been so slow. In that case, no matter how terrifying the pill's energy was, it would have been nothing more than meat on the chopping block.
Unfortunately, there was no "if."
Although the pill's energy seemed weaker, it was virtually inexhaustible. Moreover, since this wasn't its own body, it wreaked havoc without restraint.
As the two forces clashed repeatedly, five colors—red, blue, purple, black, and white—raced back and forth through Xiao Yan's meridians. In just a few minutes, his body was almost completely wrecked.
Such injuries could be restored through the circulation of the Xuantian Skill, and with immortal herb medicinal power assisting, recovery would be easy—but the pain during the process was almost unbearable.
Grinding his teeth tightly, waves of soul-deep agony made Xiao Yan's head spin.
He had anticipated this. Using the Looking-Through-Autumn-Water Dew medicinal liquid when swallowing the pill was precisely to stimulate his mind and prevent himself from fainting.
If he passed out, everything would be over.
Clenching his teeth, Xiao Yan decided to change tactics. Continuing to fight the pill's energy head-on, he might win—but it would definitely be a pyrrhic victory.
At this point, the pill's energy had already spread beyond the meridians. The warm flow of energy seeped into bones and flesh, directly acting on Xiao Yan's entire body. Cracks of ice-and-fire damage appeared on the clothing formed from the Blue Silver Emperor.
At his exposed heart area, fine cracks appeared, glowing red, blue, and purple.
This indicated that the pill's energy had already entered his bloodstream.
Under the dual extremes, Xiao Yan's blood continuously evaporated. Only a small portion could fuse with the pill's energy, while the evaporated blood mist surged toward the surface of his skin.
Starting from the cracks on his chest, it didn't take long before similar fine cracks spread across Xiao Yan's entire body, as if he were a clay figure on the verge of shattering—terrifying to behold.
The pain of his body nearly collapsing made Xiao Yan tremble violently. Cold sweat poured down his forehead like water.
Because his body radiated extreme heat and cold, the moment sweat droplets fell, they either froze or evaporated with a puff.
After personally experiencing the terror of the pill's energy, Xiao Yan shifted tactics. He used his inner strength to nourish and stabilize his body instead of confronting the pill's energy head-on.
After this adjustment, most of his inner strength was used to stabilize his body, allowing the pill's energy to rush through the meridians freely—as long as his body didn't shatter.
The pill's energy had no intelligence, surging like a flood, smashing through wherever it could.
When the pill's energy surged into all twelve main meridians, Xiao Yan secretly laughed and suddenly mobilized the inner strength of one meridian to resist.
Unrestrained for so long, the pill's energy naturally wouldn't tolerate resistance and immediately released even more power to reinforce that meridian's energy army.
Sensing the pill's energy strengthening, Xiao Yan didn't stubbornly resist. Instead, he gradually withdrew his inner strength back toward his dantian.
The pill's energy followed closely, plunging straight into Xiao Yan's dantian.
The moment it entered his dantian space, Xiao Yan revealed his true intent.
The black-and-white bead floating at the center of the dantian trembled violently, instantly releasing a mass of pure black-and-white inner strength that wrapped around the invading pill energy.
That bead contained seventy percent of his total inner strength. The pill's energy had been split into twelve streams—dealing with one of them was effortless.
The pill's energy, unaware of Xiao Yan's scheme, found that it couldn't take him down and was instead suffering continuous losses. It released even more energy in a frenzy to support the assault.
The meridian that had just recovered twenty to thirty percent was immediately ravaged again, riddled with holes by the berserk pill energy.
Fortunately, only one meridian was damaged; the others remained stable.
Although the destruction of a single meridian sent soul-shaking pain through his body, victory was in sight. Xiao Yan gritted his teeth, fully focused on refining and absorbing the pill's energy pouring through that meridian.
As he steadily absorbed the Ice–Fire Glazed Pill's energy, Xiao Yan finally felt a trace of comfort amid the intense pain—like a long, cool breeze brushing over the skin in the height of summer, indescribably soothing.
As the pill's energy was devoured, the originally smooth black-and-white bead suddenly sprouted countless edges, resembling a sea urchin covered in sharp spines.
Xiao Yan counted carefully—six sharp spines had grown, half red and half blue. As more pill energy was absorbed, new spines seemed ready to emerge.
Focusing intently, he noticed his black-and-white inner strength had also become tinged with red and blue light.
As time passed, the sea-urchin-like object in his dantian pulsed with light—strong, then weak—as the red-and-blue energy was gradually assimilated by his most fundamental inner strength.
Xiao Yan could clearly sense his inner strength growing stronger, now carrying both ice and fire attributes.
It was precisely this change in attribute that transformed the original cost—ten units of inner strength to heal one inch of meridian damage—into ten units restoring three to four inches instead.
This brand-new inner strength made the pill's energy seem like a distant relative. Though still resisting, the resistance was far weaker, allowing this inner strength to flow more easily and in greater quantity into the meridians.
Sensing the increasing speed of absorption and conversion, Xiao Yan's lips curved slightly upward. It was time to launch the counterattack.
Large quantities of his new inner strength surged into all twelve meridians. While restoring injuries, Xiao Yan also accumulated power, preparing to swallow all of the remaining energy in one go.
He had a very clear purpose in creating the Ice–Fire Glazed Pill.
Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Fiery Apricot were the ice-and-fire attributes he urgently needed.
The inclusion of the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower wasn't for its fire attribute, but for the energy it contained—to increase his inner strength.
During the pill's refinement, after adding the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Fiery Apricot, the massive addition of other ingredients served as groundwork for these immortal herbs' energy.
The inclusion of Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid, Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, Fiery Chrysanthemum, and Qiluo Tulip was also meant to increase inner strength.
They had no attributes, so they required little extra attention.
As for the Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss and the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Grade, aside from their poison attributes, Xiao Yan wanted to see whether they could push his inner strength to an even higher level.
The Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss was said to double poison effects—and that claim was indeed true.
If it could be absorbed into his inner strength, continuously amplifying toxic inner strength and further increasing cultivation speed, then—
By that time, even thousand-year inner strength could be achieved with ease within just a few years, even without fusing soul rings.
This was no unrealistic fantasy.
His current inner strength already exceeded three hundred years. With the Xuantian Skill's sixteenfold cultivation speed, even living an ordinary life for forty years would grant him thousand-year inner strength.
With such strength, he would likely rank among the top three among current soul masters.
Still, Xiao Yan had always held a bold conjecture regarding soul masters and soul beasts.
Whether soul masters or soul beasts—Titled Douluo or hundred-thousand-year soul beasts—none of them were the true limit. Somewhere, there might exist even more terrifying beings.
Thousand-year inner strength was far from his ultimate goal.
Power, after all, was always better the more one had.
As time passed, the Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss within the pill began to take effect. As the poison continuously intensified, the pill's energy suddenly surged.
The Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss itself had no poison. Its sole effect was to double and endlessly proliferate poison.
Of course, this proliferation had limits.
The Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss could only act on liquids. Solids and gases were unaffected.
To give a simple example: the air contains countless hidden bacteria and viruses. If the Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss worked on those as well, the Douluo world would have been destroyed long ago.
Or rather, in a world of powerful bacteria and viruses, the physical constitutions of living beings would have to be unbelievably strong.
But that clearly wasn't the case.
After Integration the pill, the Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss could only catalyze the fire–cold poison.
Facing this tidal wave of energy, the ascended Xiao Yan felt no fear—instead, he felt excitement.
He was no longer the man he once was.
The twelve meridians had accumulated enough of the new inner strength. Even if the pill's energy surged again and became even more powerful, Xiao Yan was completely unafraid.
While stabilizing his body, he began devouring this endless stream of newly generated energy.
The Ice–Fire Glazed Pill was itself a massive energy mass. Now that it had doubled again, the amount of energy contained within surpassed even that of the strongest hundred-thousand-year soul rings Xiao Yan had ever seen.
Although there was no explicit soul power level, Xiao Yan already knew from recent battles that he had reached the level of a Titled Douluo.
Each advancement among Titled Douluo required an unimaginably vast amount of energy. To cross that barrier demanded energy comparable to the sum of everything accumulated before reaching that realm.
Reaching Titled Douluo was already difficult enough—advancing further was even harder. Without the assistance of soul ring energy, breakthroughs became far more arduous, often requiring decades of accumulation.
Compared to ordinary soul masters, Xiao Yan was uniquely blessed. With the Xuantian Skill, its improvements, and many other factors, he had achieved his current accomplishments.
Now, absorbing all the energy of the Ice–Fire Glazed Pill would grant him a massive leap in strength.
Though Xiao Yan still knew nothing of godhood, he was now much closer to that threshold.
When the pill's energy within his meridians strengthened once more, Xiao Yan's entire body trembled violently. This energy was far more powerful than before.
Guiding the inner strength in his meridians, he slowly gnawed away at the pill's energy, circulating and absorbing it along the Xuantian Skill's pathways.
When he realized that the pill's energy no longer resisted at all, Xiao Yan decisively pushed the Xuantian Skill into full operation.
Under such refinement, he could faintly sense that his meridians, bones, muscles, and even blood cells were The force of heaven and earth ing the vast energy invading his body—rapidly strengthening in the process.
Kneeling nearby to guard him, Xiao Yi discovered in surprise that Xiao Yan's entire body radiated red-and-blue energy warmth. These two energies were no longer violent, but remarkably stable.
As he continued absorbing the pill's energy and fully controlling the changes in his body, Xiao Yan also noticed his blood evolving—bright red tinged with a faint, luminous blue.
It was said that bloodlines were tied together, bound by kinship.
Now that Xiao Yan's blood had changed, it could be said that he no longer had any biological connection to Tang Hao whatsoever.
He naturally welcomed this change. Being related to trash like Tang Hao was truly eight lifetimes of bad luck—now, the separation was finally complete.
At the same time, as he absorbed the pure energy of the Ice–Fire Glazed Pill, Xiao Yan was overwhelmed with joy.
The catalyzed pill energy was far stronger than that of a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
Based on his estimates regarding soul masters surpassing level one hundred, this was a terrifying amount—perhaps even thousand-year inner strength would still fall short in comparison.
With such an energy mass available for absorption, he could even aim for ten-thousand-year inner strength, or higher.
Immortality—who had never imagined it?
Now that a relatively clear path lay before him, he would seize this opportunity with everything he had.
Having adapted to the pill's energy impact, Xiao Yan's body became as steady as a mountain.
The Xuantian Skill once again ran at full speed, not only absorbing the pill's energy, but also drawing in the surrounding the force of heaven and earth.
After absorbing the Ice–Fire Glazed Pill's medicinal power, Xiao Yan's physique improved once more. Absorbing The force of heaven and earth became easier, and massive amounts of it continuously poured into his body.
However, despite the abundance of this The force of heaven and earth, after multiple stages of refinement, only a small amount of inner strength remained to merge into the strange sea-urchin-like object in his dantian.
The quality of his inner strength had once again risen to a higher level.
Though the quantity was small, it was still better than nothing. Dripping water forms rivers; drops can pierce stone. Accumulated over time, it would reach a terrifying level—this was precisely how most who reached Titled Douluo accumulated their soul power.
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