Barely a breath later, he leaped.
With a plop!
Lin Xiao's body sank directly into the center of the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire.
There, half was a boiling crimson spring, like magma, and the other half was an azure, freezing cold.
"Boy!"
Dugu Bo's pupils constricted, his heart nearly leaping out of his throat. He instinctively rushed forward.
Even a Titled Douluo like him wouldn't dare touch the center of that spring.
But Lin Xiao's earlier words, "Don't worry about me," suddenly echoed in his mind.
His outstretched hand froze in mid-air.
Dugu Bo suppressed the turmoil within him, his teeth clenched, a vein in his forehead throbbing slightly.
He stared intently at the center of the spring, holding his breath, his entire soul power secretly energizing, ready to respond at any moment.
The tension in his throat brought a long-lost sense of nervousness to even this Poison Douluo, who had roamed the continent for years.
Time passed, minute by minute.
The center of the spring was unusually calm, with only the slow flow of icy blue and crimson.
The expected energy explosion and screams were absent.
Yet Dugu Bo, his nerves tense, dared not relax.
He could clearly sense that Lin Xiao's aura, though largely blocked by the icy and fire spring, remained present and remarkably steady,
without the slightest sign of disturbance.
Another stick of incense passed.
Lin Xiao's aura was not only steady, but even hinted at a deeper, richer quality.
The surprise in Dugu Bo's eyes gradually gave way to a hint of disbelief.
This kid... could really handle it?
He slowly exhaled, his clenched fists gradually loosening.
It seemed Lin Xiao wasn't acting rashly.
Calming his mind, Dugu Bo found a clean rock on the shore and sat cross-legged.
He decided to protect Lin Xiao from there.
However, at this moment, Lin Xiao was enduring an unimaginable baptism of ice and fire.
The immense medicinal power of the two immortal herbs exploded within him.
Half bone-chilling cold, half searing heat.
These two forces clashed frantically, attempting to destroy the body that dared to contain them.
Intense pain surged like a tide, threatening to tear apart his consciousness.
But Lin Xiao, clinging to a clear mind, silently activated the Dragon Divine Art.
Mysterious energy pathways flowed through his body, channeling, organizing, and absorbing the violent energies of ice and fire. Crackling, crackling,
crackling... His bones crackled and reformed under the tempering of ice and fire, growing stronger.
Muscle fibers were repeatedly torn and repaired, their inherent strength steadily increasing.
His skin alternated between an icy blue frost and a faint crimson sheen.
His physical strength was increasing at an astonishing rate.
However, the soul power within his dantian fluctuated only slightly, failing to reach the expected breakthrough.
It seemed as if all the energy had been absorbed by his body and elsewhere. Buzz!
Behind Lin Xiao, a pair of crimson dragon wings uncontrollably spread out. It was his external soul bone—the Crimson Flame Dragon Wings!
At that moment, the wings seemed to come alive, greedily absorbing the remaining energy of the immortal grass within their body, as well as the pure ice and fire energy emanating from the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire.
The crimson glow gradually faded.
The left dragon wing began to take on a deep icy blue.
The right dragon wing grew even hotter, its flame patterns threatening to burst into flames.
The auras of ice and fire began to blend and balance on the dragon
An even more powerful and mysterious aura emanated from the evolving external soul bone.
The Crimson Flame Dragon Wings were transforming towards dual attributes of ice and fire!
After a long moment,
the raging energy within Lin Xiao finally subsided.
It was as if he had undergone a profound baptism, the immense medicinal power of the immortal grass absorbed and fused with his body and the [Dragon Divine Art].
He slowly opened his eyes, a fleeting flash of icy blue and crimson light in them.
The ice-fire spring water, once powerful enough to melt steel or freeze a soul, now bathed him in a warm, comfortable sensation,
as if it were just an ordinary hot spring. The Yin-
Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire, which kept strangers away, no longer posed any threat to him.
With a thought, Lin Xiao floated lightly out of the water, landing steadily at the boundary between cold and heat at the center of the spring.
Dugu Bo, on the shore, had been staring intently at the surface. Seeing Lin Xiao emerge unharmed, his heart, which had been hanging in the balance for so long, finally settled back down.
But the shock in his eyes was even greater than before.
"This kid... really did it! And he even possesses a one-in-a-million external soul bone. Oh... my! What kind of little monster is this?"
Lin Xiao ignored Dugu Bo's gaze, instead carefully sensing the astonishing changes in his body.
It felt as if molten lava and ice flowed beneath his skin, brimming with explosive power.
His bones had become incredibly tough, with a faint jade-like luster.
His physical strength alone was likely on par with any Soul Sect master.
More importantly, he had developed a near-perfect immunity to the extremes of ice and fire. His
body was brimming with vitality, and his recovery ability far surpassed anything before. Even ordinary injuries would heal in an instant.
"Buzz!"
Driven by his thoughts, a pair of brand-new dragon wings suddenly unfolded from his back.
The left wing was a deep icy blue, as if carved from aeons of black ice, emitting a chilling chill.
The right wing burned a fiery crimson, like flowing magma, the air slightly distorted by the intense heat.
The two diametrically opposed forces of ice and fire achieved a perfect balance and coexisted within these dragon wings.
The Scarlet Flame Dragon Wings had fully evolved.
"Ice and Fire Demon Dragon Wings..."
Lin Xiao mentally named the newly formed wings.
He could clearly sense that these wings not only retained their original flight capabilities but also contained a whole new power.
The original external spirit bone skills had also undergone a transformation.
He would need to slowly discover the specifics over time,
but there was no doubt that their power was far greater than before.
Despite this quantum leap in strength, Lin Xiao suppressed his excitement.
His gaze penetrated the surface of the Ice and Fire Spring, darting towards the bottomless depths.
Fragments of memories from his past life surfaced in his mind.
The formation of the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire was linked to the fallen Dragon Kings of the Divine Realm.
The Ice Dragon King, the Fire Dragon King.
Were their remains truly buried beneath this spring?
If so... did that also mean the presence of the Dragon King's remaining spirit bones?
Once this thought arose, it spread like a vine, instantly taking over his mind.
Without the slightest hesitation
, Lin Xiao plunged into the water again with a splash, diving towards the depths of the spring.
The ice and fire energy he had just adapted to no longer hindered him as he descended.
However, the deeper he went, the more an unimaginable and terrifying pressure pressed in from all sides.
(End of this chapter)