Chapter 51: Bibi Dong's Evil Idea Exploiting Lin Chen
After Dugu Yan condensed her poison core, she would no longer be affected by toxins. She would be able to control her poison-attribute power perfectly and no longer worry about dying from poison someday.
As for Dugu Bo, he had already condensed a crude version of a poison core. If he used the poison pill method in Lin Chen's possession to condense a proper poison core,
Not only would it completely resolve the deadly poison in his body, but his combat power would also increase significantly, allowing him to shed the title of the weakest Titled Douluo on the continent.
He would become a Titled Douluo capable of both large-scale attacks and single combat, with his threat level rising exponentially.
As for the system-rewarded alchemy technique, that was even more significant.
With this alchemy technique, Lin Chen could refine immortal herbs into medicinal pills, making full use of them without worrying about wasting their medicinal power.
In the original story, Tang San and the other members of the Shrek Seven Devils directly consumed immortal herbs raw; it was practically a waste of heaven-sent treasures.
"System, infuse these two rewards into me."
Lin Chen called out to his system internally.
As soon as he finished speaking, two streams of light appeared and flowed directly into his forehead, imparting both the poison-core method and the alchemy technique to him.
"Hmm? The pill formulas for various immortal herbs are included as a bonus."
After receiving the knowledge infusion, Lin Chen couldn't help but sigh at how considerate the diary system was. Now he had no worries about refining immortal herbs into pills.
In the next room,
Dugu Yan also began receiving her hidden diary copy reward for the day.
[Congratulations, "Yan Will Come Back." The reward you received this time is: "Innate Soul Power increased by 0.25 levels."]
(This can enhance talent and increase meditation cultivation speed.)
"Yesterday's reward was the same. Two days together, that's already a 0.5-level increase. So nice."
Seeing the notification pop up in the diary copy, Dugu Yan's crescent-shaped eyes curved with excitement.
An increase in innate soul power was different from a simple increase in soul power.
Besides directly raising one's soul power level, innate soul power also increases meditation cultivation speed.
Sure enough, hidden rewards were on a completely different level compared to check-in rewards; the rewards were far more generous.
A 0.5-level increase in innate soul power had already allowed her to feel her meditation speed improving.
In a few days, perhaps Dugu Yan would experience the cultivation speed of a genius with full innate soul power.
At that moment, the group chat interface:
[I Am a Little Princess: Sister Yan, I didn't expect your family to be quite wealthy. Even Lin Chen is eyeing it.]
[I Am a Little Princess: By the way, what exactly are immortal herbs? Does anyone know?]
[A Little Fox: I'm not sure exactly what kind of treasure they are, but judging from Lin Chen's diary, immortal herbs can improve a soul master's talent and even evolve their martial soul.]
[A Cat Longing for Freedom: I didn't expect Sister Yan's family to be so rich. I also want an immortal herb to evolve my martial soul, waaa.]
[I Have No Mother: Speaking of grass… it seems our group already has one.]
[Green Grass: ???]
[Green of Grass: I'm just an ordinary Blue Silver Grass. Even if you ate ten of me, your martial soul wouldn't evolve.]
[Yan Will Come Back: Uh… to be honest, even I don't know what these immortal herbs are. Grandpa never told me. I also don't know what the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well is.]
Seeing the chat messages, Dugu Yan felt full of confusion.
She had only just realized that her family might actually possess considerable hidden wealth.
But the key point was that her grandfather, Dugu Bo, had never mentioned it to her.
If immortal herbs could evolve martial souls, then if they really had them, her grandfather wouldn't possibly withhold them from her.
That left only one possibility.
Thinking this, the corner of Dugu Yan's mouth twitched wildly.
"My grandfather, Dugu Bo… couldn't it be that he doesn't recognize immortal herbs?"
Aside from that guess, she couldn't explain why her family seemed wealthy while she knew nothing about it.
"Immortal herbs… does Yue Guan's martial soul, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, count as an immortal herb?"
Bibi Dong crossed her legs as she leaned back on the Pope's throne, a puzzled expression appearing on her face.
As one of her right-hand subordinates, Bibi Dong naturally understood Yue Guan's martial soul, a beautiful plant-type martial soul.
Yet the fact that he had cultivated to the level of Titled Douluo proved that the quality of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum was no weaker than that of top-tier martial souls.
Out of curiosity, Bibi Dong summoned Yue Guan to the Pope's Hall, hoping to ask him about it.
After all, Yue Guan truly had research into flowers and plants. Perhaps he could explain something.
Before long,
Yue Guan's figure appeared in the Pope's Hall. Looking at Bibi Dong, he respectfully asked:
"Your Holiness, what are your orders?"
The last time Bibi Dong summoned him, it had been to deal with Tang Hao. He wondered what it was this time.
"Yue Guan, I called you here to help answer some questions."
"Is your martial soul one of the legendary immortal herbs? And what do you know about immortal herbs?"
Bibi Dong pointed toward Yue Guan as she spoke slowly, curiosity shining in her beautiful eyes.
"Your Holiness, my martial soul, the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, is indeed an immortal herb."
"As for knowledge about immortal herbs, if I claim second place, no one in the world would dare claim first."
Hearing this, Yue Guan straightened his chest proudly, his face filled with confidence. His martial soul had always been his pride.
He believed no martial soul in the world was as beautiful as his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
"Oh? Then do you know about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well?"
Seeing Yue Guan so confident, Bibi Dong brought up the question that had been on her mind.
"The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well?"
"I've never heard of it. But I do know quite a lot about immortal herbs. Your Holiness, let me tell you."
Yue Guan was just about to begin explaining the different types of immortal herbs to show off his passion.
After all, hardly anyone had ever seriously listened to him talk about such things, even his good friend Ghost had always been perfunctory.
Now that Bibi Dong showed curiosity, Yue Guan couldn't suppress his excitement to share.
But in the next moment,
Bibi Dong interrupted him.
"That won't be necessary, Yue Guan. You may leave."
Since Yue Guan didn't know about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, she had no interest in listening to him talk about flowers and plants.
"That little brat actually ran off to Heaven Dou City. So disobedient… looks like I'll have to find time to visit you again."
Thinking of Lin Chen, the corner of Bibi Dong's lips curved slightly upward as one "evil" idea after another surfaced in her mind.
That little brat was now her source of amusement.
She had to make sure to exploit him properly.
As for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Bibi Dong didn't think much of it. She might as well leave the immortal herbs there for Lin Chen; she assumed there probably weren't many anyway.
Immortal herbs capable of evolving a martial soul into a super martial soul couldn't possibly grow everywhere.
In a single location, having two or three such treasures would already make it a peerless holy land.
What Bibi Dong never imagined, however, was that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well truly was filled with immortal herbs everywhere.
If she had known, she might have gone to find Dugu Bo overnight and claimed that treasure land for herself.
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