The other alchemists, with the help of the elders, also passed through the poison array.
"Let's go up," Jiang Chen said, taking the lead and leaping upward.
The mountain was about five hundred meters high and extremely steep, yet Jiang Chen moved across it as if walking on flat ground, his speed astonishingly fast.
It was currently noon, and the sun was quite fierce.
Although everyone present had high cultivation, they still couldn't avoid breaking into a sweat.
Ten minutes later, Jiang Chen reached the mountaintop and stopped.
The others arrived one after another, with Hu Liena being the last to reach the top. Her fragrant sweat covered her forehead, and she was slightly panting.
In front of Jiang Chen, the terrain was rather peculiar. It was an inverted cone-shaped mountain depression. The place where they stood was the edge at the top of this depression, and thick hot vapor rose from the bottom, forming a dense white mist right before their eyes.
The air here was extremely humid and carried a faint sulfurous smell.
"It's the same," Jiang Chen thought to himself.
"Little Chen, is the place you mentioned down there?" Hu Liena asked curiously, peering downward.
"That's right, it's just below. Let's go down," Jiang Chen replied.
"I'll go down first to check," Ghost Douluo said. His body floated lightly as he jumped downward.
Following the cliff face, with his Title Douluo strength, there would be no danger for him.
A few minutes later, Ghost Douluo reappeared before the group.
"There's no danger below."
"Little Chen, I'll leave your senior sister in your care," Bibi Dong said, then jumped down.
In front of so many eyes, she naturally would not use her soul bone's flight skill; exposing torn clothes would damage her dignified image.
The four elders began leading the alchemists downward.
The reason these alchemists were brought along was that these old men had spent decades dealing with medicinal herbs and had rich experience in picking them without damaging their medicinal properties.
The thick white mist blocked the view of what was below. Hu Liena stared hard for a long time, but still couldn't see how deep it was.
"Little Chen, how are you going to take me down? It looks really high down there," Hu Liena said, looking at Jiang Chen with pleading eyes.
Jiang Chen felt a little helpless. If he were alone, he could jump down just like those Title Douluo; his movement technique was superb, and descending along the cliff face posed no problem.
But bringing Hu Liena along was another matter.
With a thought, he released his Thunder Light Wings.
The two-meter-wide wings that shimmered with lightning instantly appeared before Hu Liena.
Jiang Chen had never told Hu Liena what his soul bone skill was. Now that this majestic and domineering pair of wings appeared, they immediately captured her full attention.
"So cool!"
Looking at Hu Liena's eyes sparkling with little stars, Jiang Chen felt quite speechless.
"Come on," he said, directly grabbing one of her arms and leaping toward the white mist.
Hu Liena let out a sharp scream, struggled for a moment, then clung tightly to Jiang Chen's body with all her strength.
Falling from such a height, how could she not be afraid? Her mind went blank for a while. Even after Jiang Chen landed with her, she still hadn't recovered.
Jiang Chen paid no attention to Hu Liena and immediately turned his gaze toward the scene inside the valley.
At the center of the valley was a circular hot spring. Though the spring wasn't large, strangely, the water inside had two colors: one side was vermilion red, the other milky white. The two colors each occupied one half of the pool and did not mix.
The red side emitted astonishing heat, while the white side was exceptionally cold. The rolling steam rising upward was produced exactly where the two liquids met.
"There really is such a magical place." Even Jiang Chen felt a little shocked.
His gaze swept across the shores surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and he immediately saw countless spirit herbs growing there.
Suddenly, his eyes sharpened, and he shouted, "Stop!"
At that moment, the alchemists were extremely excited and were quickly moving toward the herbs, intending to pick them.
Jiang Chen felt nervous. Among these were not only various rare spirit herbs, but also even rarer immortal-grade herbs. Many of them required special picking methods. If these old men ruined them, he would want to die from regret.
He had originally planned to use those immortal-grade herbs for himself and some close people; how could he bear to let these old men have them?
With these old men's alchemy skills, using immortal-grade herbs to refine pills would simply be a waste. The effect might not even be as good as eating them directly.
The old men froze and stopped, looking at Jiang Chen in confusion before turning their gazes toward Bibi Dong.
"You all come back first," Bibi Dong said.
Reluctantly, a few of them walked back, still glancing back at the herbs from time to time with eyes full of longing.
"Little Chen, can't we pick the herbs yet?" Bibi Dong asked curiously.
Jiang Chen shook his head. "No, Teacher. May I pick some of the herbs first?"
Bibi Dong was stunned for a moment, then nodded. "Go ahead."
"His Holiness the Pope, this…" The old men anxiously spoke up. Letting a young boy like Jiang Chen pick them wasn't just ruining the spirit herbs?
Bibi Dong said nothing. The dignified and imposing look in her eyes alone made the old men shut their mouths.
Jiang Chen walked up to the spirit herbs, feeling quite excited.
Among them were poisonous herbs and various tonic herbs. Some were native, while others had been transplanted here by Dugu Bo later on.
Jiang Chen first went to a large, pale pink flower. According to the description in the book, he recognized it as the "Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Product." It was the bane of all poisons. Its fragrance could prevent any poison from taking effect within its range, though it had no detoxifying properties.
Seeing Jiang Chen pick the Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Product and store it in his storage soul guide device, the alchemists' eyes turned red.
They had noticed this large flower earlier. If not for Jiang Chen's shout, they would have already picked it. Now it had been claimed by this kid.
"His Holiness…" one alchemist said discontentedly.
"Silence!" Bibi Dong harshly interrupted him. "The alchemy techniques you know were taught by him to me, and then I taught them to you. This place was also brought here by him. Do you understand these spirit herbs better than he does?"
The alchemists were immediately stunned, mouths agape, rendered speechless by Bibi Dong's words.
The miraculous alchemy techniques actually came from this youth.
Any trace of dissatisfaction in their hearts instantly vanished. When they looked at Jiang Chen again, there was even a hint of admiration. They had already decided that when they had the chance, they must ask Jiang Chen to guide them in alchemy.
Hu Liena, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and the others were equally shocked. They knew very well the power of those pills and never imagined they came from Jiang Chen.
At this moment, Jiang Chen had no time to pay attention to these people. He kept moving around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, picking every immortal-grade herb that was described in the book.
He also collected some herbs that weren't described but clearly looked extraordinary.
The area near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well contained terrifying fire poison and cold poison. The closer one got, the stronger they became. Even Jiang Chen began to feel slightly uncomfortable after staying near them for a long time.
Half an hour later, Jiang Chen finally stopped. His gaze turned toward both sides of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. On the extreme cold side and the extreme heat side, each grew a unique immortal-grade herb.
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