Douluo Continent: Dragon's Journey Across the World

Chapter 56 The Effects of Ice and Fire Body Refinement

After studying and harvesting many immortal herbs, Yang Ping'an began to truly observe his new body.

The so-called "Ice and Fire Body Refinement" involves undergoing extreme hot and cold tempering under the influence of the Fiery Apricot Blossom and the Eight-Cornered Mysterious Ice Grass, and simultaneously through the spring of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye, ultimately cultivating the body's strength to an extreme level.

After undergoing the Ice and Fire Body Refinement, Yang Ping'an clearly felt that his physical fitness had improved significantly. Although his soul power level was still level 32, his muscles and skin had become as hard as iron. This cultivation had even penetrated into every drop of his blood and every inch of his bone marrow.

Especially after Yang Ping'an began to cultivate carefully, the speed of his cultivation increased significantly. The blockage in the circulation of his soul power in his body had disappeared, and all the meridians in his body became extremely unobstructed. His soul power flowed through his body like a surging ocean, not only continuous but also significantly stronger than the soul power originally stored in his body.

Not to mention that under the tempering of the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass and the Fiery Apricot, which are extremely cold and extremely hot, his entire body seems to have become impervious to water and fire. Neither ice nor fire can cause him any harm anymore. At least within the same realm, he is no longer afraid of water and fire.

Not to mention that due to the effects of both extreme cold and extreme heat toxins, the body's resistance to toxins has become extremely strong. The body seems to be truly immune to all poisons. At least, unless it is a rare and extremely potent poison, it will not be able to harm the body in the slightest.

Yang Ping'an gradually understood why Tang San insisted on choosing the Ice and Fire Body Refinement in the original story. This kind of training not only trains the body, but can even train the martial soul. It can be said that the body, soul, and even martial soul can be greatly improved in all aspects.

After summoning the Purple-Gold Mastiff, its entire body has changed dramatically. Its figure seems to have become more slender, unlike its previous chubby little pig appearance. In particular, its original purple-gold body has now turned mostly golden.

At this moment, although the Purple Gold Mastiff's limbs were still short, they had changed from being relatively weak to having powerful scales and claws, just like four real dragon claws. Moreover, each dragon claw showed sharp claws, indicating that both its strength and attack power had greatly increased.

The two bumps on his head also bulged out, like two newly born dragon horns.

Moreover, the current Purple Gold Mastiff has reached a length of five meters, and looks exceptionally fierce, especially its roars, which are like the cries of a dragon.

According to Yang Ping'an's current estimate, the Purple Gold Mastiff has at least evolved into a dragon-like creature, and could even be considered a young dragon. Another very surprising aspect is that the Purple Gold Mastiff can now possess a martial soul, just like its beast soul master, which can be said to have made up for its shortcomings in various aspects.

Throughout the original work, the Beast Soul is actually a very strange existence. Some flying Soul Masters can have two wings hanging on their backs, while other flying Soul Masters can actually ride Soul Beasts directly. There is no clear conclusion.

In fact, everyone can summon their Martial Soul. It just depends on the level of understanding and application of the Martial Soul. The higher the level of the Soul Master, the more they can bring out the full potential of their Martial Soul.

After examining his mind, Yang Ping'an felt a surge of excitement. The giant that had been standing in his mind was now able to open its eyes. Its entire body was bronze-colored, indicating that it had already achieved the bronze-level awakening of its main body's martial soul. Unfortunately, it was still far from the silver-level and gold-level awakening.

However, Yang Ping'an doesn't care anymore. As long as he confirms that he has a second martial soul and that the second martial soul can absorb soul rings, that's enough.

In particular, some silver patterns were actually visible within his bronze-colored body. If he further strengthened his body tempering and used various pressures to train, he would be able to awaken a second time sooner or later.

According to Yang Ping'an's estimation, even if his current innate soul power cannot reach the level of full innate soul power, it can at least reach the cultivation speed of geniuses with innate soul power at level seven or eight. This kind of improvement in the essence of cultivation may be the most important.

What shocked Yang Ping'an the most was that the dark gold bear claw on his right hand had actually become completely integrated with his body after being tempered by ice and fire. This was an unexpected surprise.

After sorting through all his gains, Yang Ping'an prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest alone.

Now that we have some resources for revenge, or rather, we have a certain level of strength, the next step is to cut off all opportunities for the original Tang San and remove all obstacles on our path to revenge.

Just as Yang Ping'an left the Star Dou Great Forest, Dugu Bo also returned to the Sunset Forest.

When Dugu Bo saw that the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well was completely barren, he instantly flew into a rage, even letting out a long roar that seemed to frighten away all the soul beasts within several miles.

This Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire has always been Dugu Bo's secret base. In addition to the many rare and precious herbs that originally grew there, there are also some medicinal herbs that Dugu Bo himself cultivated.

Although Dugu Bo searched through all the books in the entire Tian Dou royal family but couldn't find any information about immortal herbs, he was, after all, a man of great knowledge and naturally understood the value of those herbs.

In particular, the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum among these immortal herbs is the martial soul of his mortal enemy, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan. No one understands the power of the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum martial soul better than Dugu Bo. It is definitely a top-grade wood-attribute martial soul, otherwise Chrysanthemum Douluo would not have been able to cultivate to the level of Title Douluo.

If this extraordinary chrysanthemum falls into the hands of Chrysanthemum Douluo, who knows what level he can reach? I would be in real danger then.

Another point is that the plant growth rate in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye far exceeds that of the outside world. Even the herbs that Dugu Bo himself cultivates can grow rapidly. Those herbs that have been growing in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye for countless years have probably reached an astonishing level in terms of both age and efficacy.

I was only away for a few days, and all the herbs were completely looted, even the ones I planted were uprooted. It's infuriating!

Sure enough, Dugu Bo was so angry that he vomited blood. How could he not be furious that someone had stolen his home, a titled Douluo?

Dugu Bo carefully observed the entire Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye and instantly discovered the tunnel that Yang Ping'an had dug. With Dugu Bo's discerning eye, he could naturally tell at a glance that the tunnel was man-made, and even dug by someone with extremely sharp tools. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to dig a tunnel that was over a thousand meters long in just two days.

In other words, the thief who stole the herbs avoided his own poison array by digging a tunnel, and even avoided the traps he had set. This shows that the thief had been scheming and had been coveting his herb garden for a long time.

(End of this chapter)