Over here, Chrysanthemum Douluo carried a pile of flowers and herbs toward a stone chamber to the side.
Su Yu also began to patrol his territory, looking to see if there were any other Immortal Herbs he could pick.
He wouldn't have noticed if he hadn't looked, but there was an Immortal Herb here suitable for Qian Renxue!
The Immortal Herb was perfectly round, its shape closely resembling a plump mango. However, its skin didn't have the texture of ordinary fruit flesh; instead, a faint halo of light, as if condensed from sunlight, flowed across its surface. Upon closer inspection, fine specks of light floated slowly on its surface, exuding a pure and warm sacred aura.
"This is..."
A thought stirred in Su Yu's mind, and the records from Chrysanthemum Douluo's ancestral tome immediately surfaced.
"Holy Light Spirit Sprout!"
The tome stated that this herb grew by absorbing the pure holy light of heaven and earth, providing unimaginable benefits to Martial Souls of the sacred attribute. If the Martial Soul also contained the fire attribute, it would allow the two powers to nourish each other, giving rise to even greater might.
He immediately thought of Qian Renxue—her Six-Winged Angel Spirit was the perfect fusion of the sacred and fire attributes. This Holy Light Spirit Sprout seemed tailor-made for her.
Su Yu carefully crouched down, watching the "golden mango" quietly suspended in the faint light by the spring. The sacred aura mingled wonderfully with the surrounding ice and fire energies.
He didn't act rashly. Instead, he first probed it with his Soul Power to confirm it was perfectly mature. Only then did he take out a special jade box, carefully transfer the Holy Light Spirit Sprout into it, and store it away properly.
Su Yu found a flat rock by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and sat down, taking the Autumn Water Penetrating Dew out of his Soul Guidance Device.
His fingertips caressed the Autumn Water Penetrating Dew, the dewdrops condensed on its leaves shimmering with a faint purple hue. He took a deep breath and placed the Immortal Herb in his mouth. A clear, slightly bitter juice instantly melted and slid down his throat into his stomach.
In just a moment, a warm current rose from his lower abdomen, flowing through his limbs and bones like a fine stream of water. He could clearly feel his Soul Power, which had been stuck at a bottleneck, begin to loosen. Like a bamboo shoot in soil soaked by spring rain, it quietly grew upward, showing faint signs of a breakthrough.
But what concerned him more was that after circulating once through his body, the warm current surged entirely toward his eyes.
In an instant, it felt as if his eye sockets were being filled with warm spring water, accompanied by a subtle stinging sensation, as if something was quietly being reshaped at the back of his eyes.
Su Yu subconsciously closed his eyes, yet he could "see" a purplish-gold ball of light spinning and condensing in his mind. The Sharingan faintly emerged behind his eyelids, clearer than ever before.
The vapor from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well swirled around him, intertwining with the rising Soul Power in his body to form a light mist. He could feel the heat in his eyes growing more and more distinct, but it wasn't a searing pain. It was more like the transformation of a pupa into a butterfly; old barriers were dissolving, and new power was being born.
After an unknown amount of time, as the warm current gradually subsided, Su Yu slowly opened his eyes. A purplish-gold light rippled out from the depths of his pupils.
The Sharingan, which originally had only a single tomoe, now clearly displayed two interconnected tomoe, rotating with a strange rhythm.
He subconsciously looked up at the sky. The tiny flying insects that were once fleeting blurs now appeared to be moving in slow motion under the gaze of his Two-Tomoe Sharingan. Even the subtle air currents stirred by their flapping wings were clearly discernible. This ability to capture dynamic motion was more than twice as strong as before.
"Two-Tomoe..." Su Yu murmured, his fingertips trembling slightly, the joy in his heart beyond words.
Just as he was about to push himself up from the ground, the Soul Power in his body suddenly boiled over like a lit bonfire. The energy from the Autumn Water Penetrating Dew had not yet completely dissipated, and it now surged wildly through his meridians, crashing against the barriers of his Soul Power.
"Buzz—"
In the blink of an eye, his Soul Power, which had been stuck at level twenty-six, soared like a hot knife through butter, landing steadily at level twenty-seven. But the momentum didn't decrease in the slightest—level twenty-eight, level twenty-nine...
The bottlenecks were shattered one after another as if they were made of paper, until his Soul Power jumped to level thirty. Only when it touched the barrier between a Soul Grandmaster and a Soul Elder did the surging tide slowly recede and gradually calm down.
Feeling the unprecedented fullness of Soul Power within him, Su Yu felt as if his entire body was brimming with inexhaustible strength. Level thirty meant he would soon obtain his third Soul Ring, and his strength would undergo another qualitative leap.
He slowly stood up and stretched his limbs, his bones letting out a series of crisp cracks. The Two-Tomoe Sharingan quietly faded from his eyes, returning to their usual appearance.
Su Yu turned his gaze to the nearby Octagonal Mystic Ice Herb and Blazing Apricot Delight.
Yin-Yang Icefire Body Tempering. Once completed, his Wood Release would gain dual immunity to water and fire! And perhaps, after this Yin-Yang Icefire Body Tempering, his Sage Body could also evolve!
At this thought, Su Yu extended a Wooden Vine from each hand, plucking a leaf from both the Octagonal Mystic Ice Herb and the Blazing Apricot Delight!
Two completely different forces, one cold and one hot, collided within the Wooden Vines, nearly tearing them apart inch by inch.
Without a hint of hesitation, Su Yu raised his hands and put both strange leaves into his mouth at the same time.
In an instant, two completely different powers exploded within his body.
A frigid chill, as if he had been plunged into an ice cavern, spread madly through his meridians. Everywhere it passed, his blood seemed to freeze, and a bone-piercing cold seeped from his marrow. The other, a wave of heat, felt like being thrown into a furnace. The scorching air burned his internal organs, as if it would turn his flesh and blood to ash. Even his breath carried a searing pain.
"Ugh."
Su Yu let out a muffled groan. Cold sweat instantly beaded on his forehead, but as soon as it appeared, it was forced into a half-frozen, half-evaporated state by the alternating cold and heat in his body.
He gritted his teeth against the excruciating pain that felt like his very marrow was being churned, and with a leap, he plunged straight into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Half of his body was immersed in the scorching, magma-like pool, while the other half was soaked in the frigid, ice-condensed water.
The water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well instantly enveloped Su Yu. The scorching magma pool made half his body feel as if it were being devoured by fire, his skin on the verge of melting. Meanwhile, the extreme cold of the ice pool crazily drilled through the bones of his other side. Even his breath turned to white mist, as if he would be frozen into an ice sculpture in the next second.
The two forces inside his body took the opportunity to wreak even more havoc. The cold and hot energies, like two out-of-control flood dragons, crashed and fought wildly within his meridians, bringing a tearing pain wherever they passed.
Su Yu clenched his jaw, sweat mixed with the vapor from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well trickling down his forehead. He knew this was the power of the two Immortal Herbs fighting against each other, and also battling with his body. Only by borrowing the power of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well could he stabilize this destructive energy.
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