Choosing Immortal Herbs

Chapter 43 Choosing Immortal Herbs

After most of the day had passed, the soul core within Dugu Bo's body finally condensed. The poisonous soul core, formed from solid soul power, was located in his dantian, drawing in external soul power and slowly rotating clockwise.

His breathing gradually returned to normal, and the green hair on his head completely disappeared without a trace, turning into the pale hair color of a normal old man. As time passed, a few streaks of black could even be vaguely seen, and even his face began to look a few years younger.

Soul cores do not increase a Soul Master's level; they only increase the Soul Master's total Soul Power reserves, Soul Power recovery speed, and enhance the Soul Master's recovery ability and endurance in battle, indirectly strengthening the Soul Master's combat power.

However, Dugu Bo was an exception. His soul power had been continuously circulating over the years to suppress the poison in his body. As a result, he had not leveled up since breaking through to the Title Douluo level. But this did not mean that he had not cultivated at all. On the contrary, maintaining this state was much more difficult than meditating and cultivating under normal circumstances. This allowed him to accumulate far more power than he could under normal circumstances. Until today, during the process of soul core condensation, this accumulation was no longer used to suppress the poison, but was released and became part of the soul core, which also allowed him to advance in rank one after another.

Tang Hao was a similar case. He suppressed the hidden ailment in his body for many years by combining his soul power and the ninth soul skill, without stopping for a moment. As a result, after his severed limbs regenerated, his cultivation level increased instead of decreased, because the stagnant blood in his body was squeezed out when his limbs were severed.

The process of condensing the soul core has ended, and the entire process has been recorded with mental power. There's not much left to see. Dugu Bo has entered a deep meditative state, and it's Yinlan's turn next.

To clarify beforehand, Yinlan has no intention of consuming the so-called immortal herbs "Eight-Cornered Ice Grass" and "Blazing Apricot Blossom," which are said to be able to form "small ice and fire Yin-Yang eyes" within the body.

To be honest, it's pretty useless, practically worthless. After consuming these two immortal herbs, not only will it not increase your strength, but because of the so-called "small ice and fire Yin-Yang Eye," you will also be unable to consume other immortal herbs. In the end, all you will gain is an improvement in physical fitness, "ice and fire immunity," and "immunity to all poisons."

She's going to develop the Blue Silver Emperor build along a pure life path in the future. "Immunity to all poisons" is something she'll inevitably have in the future, so there's no need to lose sight of the bigger picture and obtain it in this way in advance. As for the so-called "immunity to ice and fire," it's not very valuable. Not to mention encountering Qian Renxue later on, even in the early stages, Tang San was still being blasted around by Huo Wu and frozen to the point of questioning his existence by Shui Bing'er. He even considered switching to the Clear Sky Hammer. And that's before he even encountered the ultimate attribute. What would happen if he did encounter the ultimate attribute?

Eating these two things together is a joke. I don't know what Tang San and Yu Xiaogang have learned over the years. They have a preconceived notion that there are no naturally born "elemental users" in the world. They have brought their previous martial arts worldview into the equation, believing that no one in this world can absorb these two immortal herbs alone and that they must be eaten together, otherwise they will be poisoned to death.

However, the poison of these two immortal herbs is not true poison, but rather cold poison and fire poison born from the extreme of their attributes. The best way to make the most of these two immortal herbs is to use them separately and give them to soul masters with ice and fire attributes respectively, so that their martial souls can transform into their ultimate attributes.

Even inside this hot pot, there grow two medicinal herbs that can be eaten separately to suppress cold poison and fire poison, respectively—the premium cinnabar lotus and the premium snow silkworm.

Therefore, Yinlan didn't even glance at the inside of the pool, focusing all her attention on the other immortal herbs around her.

The first thing she noticed was the huge plant, which was entirely purple, with a golden chrysanthemum at the top of its central stamen.

The Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum, when consumed, circulates Qi throughout the limbs and unblocks the eight meridians, enabling one to cultivate an indestructible body. Its effect on physical fitness far surpasses that of consuming "Eight-Cornered Mysterious Ice Grass" and "Fiery Apricot Delicate Grass" together by many times.

Next came a crystal-clear fairy herb, as pure as a green lotus root.

Narcissus Jade Skin and Bones, Nourishing Muscles and Strengthening Bones, Unblocking the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, Perfectly Complements Qi and Qi Rong Tong Tian Ju, with No Conflict in Their Medicinal Effects.

The two immortal herbs mentioned above are enough to raise Yinlan's physical strength to a new level. Combined with her current physical attributes enhanced by the Life Gold, it is not impossible for her second spirit ring of the Clear Sky Hammer to reach ten thousand years. At the same time, her strong physical body is also enough for her to wield the excessively heavy Clear Sky Hammer martial spirit.

Yinlan's gaze shifted and landed on a golden tulip.

The Qiluo Tulip, when consumed, allows one to absorb the essence of heaven and earth, the radiance of the sun and moon. Wherever there is sun and moon, cultivation can be accelerated, and it can also enhance the wearer's noble aura. Furthermore, if the wearer has a plant-type martial soul, it can also grant them, to a certain extent, the ability to command plants of lower rank than the immortal herb. Yinlan didn't really care about the nobility or anything like that, and she didn't understand this nonsensical thing, but she guessed that this immortal herb should be able to help her Blue Silver Grass martial soul evolve into the Blue Silver Emperor ahead of time.

Next, there was a snow-white eight-petaled orchid.

The Eight-Petaled Celestial Orchid strengthens the body's foundation and removes useless impurities. Its medicinal properties are mild and mellow. Although it is easily absorbed, its potent effects require a long time to fully absorb. This makes it ideal for accumulating one's own foundation and can also increase cultivation speed. To a certain extent, it can complement the Qiluo Tulip.

These two immortal herbs are currently the most suitable for a second martial soul. They enhance the plant's inherent ability to absorb the essence of heaven and earth to improve cultivation speed, while also preventing Yinlan's foundation from becoming unstable and adding sufficient life essence.

In addition, there is a magical herb that can enhance two martial souls at the same time.

It was a bamboo with a jade-like luster and a dark sheen.

The Jade Bamboo is a divine herb with extremely strong effects on both weapon and plant martial souls. It greatly enhances the strength, hardness, weight, toughness, rigidity, and other aspects of the martial soul itself. In the Douluo Continent III era, Tang Wulin almost chose this divine herb.

Finally, there is that immortal herb, which is also known as the "all-purpose" herb because of its spiritual properties, and will never conflict with other immortal herbs.

The ability to gaze intently through the autumn waters can cultivate fiery eyesight, allowing one to see through all strange objects and greatly enhance mental strength and eyesight. It directly raised Tang San's Purple Demon Eye to a whole new level, reaching a height he had never achieved in his previous life. It even gave Tang San's Purple Demon Eye the ability to actively release mental shocks.

These six herbs are the ones Yinlan can think of right now. Not only do their medicinal effects not conflict with each other, but some of them can even complement each other, achieving a synergistic effect greater than the sum of their parts.

"I want power, I want to become the strongest in this world, truly possess the ability to be independent of others, to control my own life, and to protect everything I cherish," Yin Lan said, holding up the rare and precious chrysanthemum under the gaze of Yin Luo and Gu Yue Na. "And then, I will no longer let myself have regrets!"

Three shifts

Let me answer some more questions from readers.

The latest novel is first published here!

Well, sometimes it's not about whether I explain or not. First of all, this is my writing style, and I can't change it overnight. I have to take it slowly. When I revise my drafts, I also revise this part, reducing useless descriptions as much as possible and finding some cases that are conclusive enough.

Because some readers will keep asking, asking why you do this, where this setting comes from, whether it's something you created yourself, but some things are really official settings.

Some terms are indeed unfamiliar to readers who have only read the first installment of the Douji series. For example, the Soul Core section in these two chapters sometimes gets asked repeatedly in the paragraphs. Considering that this is a novel, I think it's better to explain things clearly in the text. Replying to readers in private posts is less effective than creating a discussion thread on a forum.

Take, for example, the three limits of land, sea and air in Douluo Continent I. Looking at the entire Douluo series, the three of them are not very good. Without a soul core, they can't even compete with the Star Dou ferocious beasts (their endurance is too poor, and they run out of mana before they can use a few soul skills). However, there are quite a few readers who believe that Qian Daoliu alone can kill the entire Star Dou group (including Di Tian).

To make matters funny, there are still a few of my readers who don't know Di Tian and think that the strongest in Star Dou are the Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape. They're not here to cause trouble; they've simply only read the first installment of the series.

Finally, as I mentioned in the previous chapter, if I hadn't brought up the conflict between the new and old gods, I guess many readers wouldn't have realized that there was such a thing as an obstacle to expanding the divine realm (after all, in the original work, only Tang Shenwang was constantly talking about the great calamity).

(End of this chapter)