It didn't take long before several old men carefully picked all the mature herbs.
"Teacher, Dugu Bo is, after all, a Titled Douluo. If we fight here and destroy this miraculous place, it wouldn't be good," Jiang Chen said.
Bibi Dong glanced at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and said, "Little Chen, stay here and watch over your senior sister. The rest of you, come with me outside to set up an ambush and capture Dugu Bo alive."
Jiang Chen nodded. "Teacher, rest assured. I will definitely take good care of Senior Sister."
Soon after, everyone else went up to the mountaintop and then moved to the forest ahead to set up an ambush, preparing to capture the returning Dugu Bo.
Whether it was Chrysanthemum Douluo or Ghost Douluo, either one could easily defeat Dugu Bo in a one-on-one fight. Moreover, there were two other Titled Douluo and: the strongest Bibi Dong. With the element of surprise, capturing Dugu Bo alive should present no accidents.
In the vast valley, only two people remained.
Hu Liena was still unconscious in the spring water, unaware of when she would wake up.
Jiang Chen wandered around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, sometimes on the extremely hot side, sometimes on the extremely cold side.
He had taken a liking to the fire poison and cold poison here.
The corpse poison in his body was extremely overbearing; even this terrifying fire poison and cold poison could be absorbed and fused.
Jiang Chen speculated that after his corpse poison absorbed the fire poison and cold poison, its power should become even more terrifying and might even gain the characteristics of fire poison and cold poison.
The intense fire poison and cold poison here were not fatal to him; instead, they served to temper his body.
The Eight Angled Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot had strong fire poison and cold poison inherently, but when the two were together, the toxins neutralized each other, turning into absorbable ice and fire energy that ultimately allowed the host to develop immunity to ice and fire.
So Jiang Chen guessed: if he directly absorbed the fire poison and cold poison here and tempered his body with these two toxins, would he also gain ice and fire immunity in the end?
The original novel did not mention this point; Jiang Chen was merely deducing it based on the characteristics of those two immortal herbs.
The intense fire poison and cold poison here were something even that old poison monster Dugu Bo did not dare touch too much; only someone with Jiang Chen's special physique would dare make such a shocking move.
However, the sensation of being tormented by extreme cold and extreme heat was far from pleasant. Jiang Chen gritted his teeth; when he could no longer endure the scorching heat, he would run to the other side to absorb the cold poison.
When he could no longer bear the extreme cold, he would run back to absorb the fire poison.
Under this alternating cold and heat, he actually felt his body's tolerance for fire poison and cold poison increasing rapidly.
Jiang Chen couldn't help but feel some joy in his heart; perhaps he really could refine an ice-and-fire-immune body.
If it weren't for the fact that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well countered all poisons and might dissolve the poison in his body, he would even want to go down and soak in it.
As time passed, the duration he could sit still on the extreme heat side and the extreme cold side grew longer and longer. Only when he reached the limit of what his body could endure would he get up and switch to the other side.
In addition to increased resistance to fire poison, and cold poison, he discovered that his physique was also slowly improving under the tempering of these two energies.
Everything was developing in a positive direction.
...
Four hours later, Jiang Chen, who was sitting cross-legged by the spring, suddenly opened his eyes and looked toward the center of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
The spring water there began to ripple, and immediately afterward, a graceful figure stood up from within the water.
Her clothes, soaked by the spring water, clung tightly to her body, fully revealing her stunning figure.
Her purple ear-length short hair was wet and somewhat disheveled, sticking to that peerlessly beautiful face. The sight made Jiang Chen's eyes go completely blank.
What a beautiful scene of a beauty emerging from the bath.
While enduring the intense fire poison, his nose suddenly felt hot, and blood uncontrollably flowed out.
Seeing Jiang Chen's dazed and silly appearance, Hu Liena couldn't help but chuckle. An extremely powerful aura of charm emanated from her, making Jiang Chen inwardly cry out that she was a seductress.
At this moment, Hu Liena no longer feared the two energies within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. She swam straight toward Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen hurriedly turned his head away.
"Little Chen, give me a hand," her pleasant voice rang out. Hu Liena had already reached the shore.
Jiang Chen had no choice but to extend his hand, grasping that astonishing softness, and pulled Hu Liena up.
Perhaps he used too much force, Hu Liena shot straight out of the water and pounced toward Jiang Chen, knocking him flat to the ground.
Jiang Chen swore he really hadn't used much strength; he suspected Hu Liena had jumped up on her own.
Being pinned down by Hu Liena like this for the first time, Jiang Chen couldn't help feeling nervous. He quickly pushed with his hands and flipped Hu Liena over.
He swiftly got up, turned around, and didn't dare let Hu Liena see his front.
Hu Liena didn't mind. She stood up and asked in confusion, "Where are Teacher and the others?"
"They went outside to ambush Dugu Bo," Jiang Chen replied.
"What's wrong with you? Why don't you dare turn around?" Hu Liena asked knowingly. She had clearly felt the change in Jiang Chen's body earlier.
That hard sensation had made her heart race.
"Alright, I'm going to change clothes. You better not peek," Hu Liena said.
She spoke calmly, but her heart was pounding wildly, almost jumping out of her chest. Her pretty face was covered in a blush, and her eyes kept staring at Jiang Chen's back.
Jiang Chen's body tensed. He could hear the wonderful sounds beside his ear, but he didn't dare turn back to look.
He was afraid that if he looked once, he would have to take responsibility.
The thick anticipation in Hu Liena's eyes turned into disappointment. How she wished Jiang Chen would turn around and look at her. But over all these years, Jiang Chen's heart had always been hung up on that girl named Xue'er, deliberately keeping a distance from her.
Thinking of how Jiang Chen's hand had been torn and bleeding when he picked the herb for her, and recalling the condition Jiang Chen had mentioned back then, Hu Liena's persistence in her heart suddenly wavered a little.
Accepting that Xue'er for the sake of her little junior brother… perhaps it wouldn't be so hard after all…
...
"Done."
Hu Liena wrung out the wet clothes she had changed out of and stored them in her soul tool.
Jiang Chen turned around and asked curiously, "Senior Sister, standing here, do you feel any discomfort?"
Hu Liena shook her head. She looked around and asked in confusion, "No, is there something special about this place?"
Jiang Chen smiled. "Your body immune to all poisons should have been achieved. This area is filled with intense fire poison; even Dugu Bo wouldn't dare stay here for long, yet you're perfectly fine."
Hu Liena was overjoyed. She suddenly rushed forward and planted a firm kiss on Jiang Chen's face.
"Senior Sister, don't do that. It wouldn't be good if the teacher saw," Jiang Chen quickly pulled back to create distance.
"So you're saying it's okay when Teacher can't see?" Hu Liena teased.
Jiang Chen turned his face away. "Senior Sister, you know what I mean."
At that moment, the ground trembled slightly. Both of them sensed an energy fluctuation coming from outside.
Then the energy fluctuation disappeared, and everything became calm again.
"Dugu Bo has probably been captured by Teacher," Jiang Chen said.
"Then let's go up," Hu Liena said, looking at Jiang Chen.
Without hesitation, Jiang Chen released his Thunder Light Wings and extended his hand toward Hu Liena.
"You held my hand when you flew me down earlier; my hand really hurt," Hu Liena complained. She swatted Jiang Chen's hand away and directly wrapped herself around Jiang Chen's body.
Jiang Chen's entire body stiffened. The heat he had just suppressed flared up again.
"What are you waiting for? Fly already," Hu Liena said, burying her head in Jiang Chen's chest and urging him.
Jiang Chen hurriedly flapped his wings and flew upward. He forced himself to think of other things to distract his attention.
But that hot, soft body made his own body escape the control of his mind and respond with the most instinctive reaction.
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