Chapter 73: Persuasion

"Hmph, what are you looking at? Do you think becoming a Titled Douluo is just about pure cultivation?"

Any Titled Douluo, if inherently interested in theory, would have research efficiency several times higher than that of ordinary scholars.

This is simply because the vast majority of things in theory, they have experienced personally.

A Titled Douluo, when it comes to the details of Martial Spirit cultivation, has their own experiences.

In addition, the harmony between a Titled Douluo and their Martial Spirit makes their research on the states between themselves and the Martial Spirit even more adept.

"How is it? What's the effect?"

Su Wen used the Fire Demon Style to temper his body, introducing the surrounding heaven and earth energy to refine himself.

Dugu Bo was also curious about the effect.

"The effect is very good. I feel that my fire attribute resistance has improved significantly. As for the ice attribute resistance, it has somewhat lagged behind."

Su Wen has exceptional control over his body, being highly attuned to even the slightest changes through careful perception. Therefore, he has a precise understanding of his own transformations.

Xiao Zhan's Fire Demon Style body-tempering technique is designed to help Spirit Masters adapt to flames and train their resistance to fire. Now, using heaven and earth energy infused with an extreme fire aura for tempering, the effects can be easily imagined.

Su Wen initially practiced on the outskirts, utilizing the heaven and earth energy imbued with an extreme blend of ice and fire auras to temper himself and strengthen his resistance. As time passed, he gradually moved towards the spring's center.

Throughout this process, Su Wen's progress can be described as rapid, approaching the spring at a considerable speed. Dugu Bo repeatedly confirmed that Su Wen could withstand the erosion before allowing him to practice in closer proximity.

"Kid, you're moving too fast."

After three months of this training, Su Wen could now practice right beside the spring.

Certainly, this is only a short-term practice. For true and sustained long-term training, he needs to go to a location more than thirty meters away from the spring. However, even this is already quite astonishing.

Su Wen, however, remains calm. He is well aware of the reasons behind his remarkable efficiency. High fusion is just one aspect of it. Another factor is the development of his receptivity to the Book, gradually moving towards the direction of internalizing recordings. This involves personally experiencing the tempering of two kinds of forces, engraving them onto his Martial Spirit bit by bit in a form similar to knowledge. This process helps him rapidly adapt to both forces.

At this moment, the Book Martial Spirit is truly being developed by him. Besides these two points, there is also the visualization technique.

Now, the library in Su Wen's Sea of Consciousness has transformed, resembling a scene with an Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well surrounded by numerous floating books. Though it may seem illogical, Su Wen imagined and visualized it, and the effect is surprisingly good.

"Grandpa Dugu, I'd like to try those two rare herbs," Su Wen said.

Dugu Bo still had a hesitant expression. Over the past three months, besides practicing the Spirit Fusion Technique Su Wen provided and exploring techniques to address his own toxin issues, he had been focusing on studying the properties of these two medicinal herbs. Through his meticulous research, he found that the toxicity of these two herbs is likely purely ice and fire poison.

Interestingly, from Su Wen's perspective, intentionally comparing the strength of the two poisons, Dugu Bo discovered that the ice and fire poisons within these two herbs seem to be highly consistent in intensity, providing a potential possibility of mutual neutralization!

Of course, there is both good and bad news.

"Xiaowen, I carefully studied these two poisonous plants. They are different from the peripheral ones; they aren't just contaminated by the extreme ice and fire forces here, but they are inherently extreme in their respective attributes."

Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot are, in fact, extreme ice and extreme fire respectively.

The ice and fire poisons within them are not born under the influence of external heaven and earth energy; instead, they seem more like toxins derived from their inherent extreme powers.

In reality, Su Wen has known this for quite some time. Theoretically, these two medicinal herbs shouldn't reach the level of extremeness.

In Douluo Land, there exists a Spirit Beast similar to them, the Red Eyed Ice Toad, which has nearly extreme ice and fire attributes. However, because it took the path of poison, it ended up trapping itself and couldn't truly evolve into extreme ice or extreme fire. On the contrary, the Ice Jade Scorpion, by abandoning the poison attribute, achieved extreme ice.

At the same time, the Spirit Beasts known by Su Wen with extreme ice attributes didn't have the derivative of a poison attribute.

Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot should be similar to the Red Eyed Ice Toad. However, due to growing near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and absorbing the heaven and earth energy of extreme ice and extreme fire over an extended period, they evolved into true extreme ice and extreme fire.

"I still want to try."

"You need to know, the chances of failure are very high, and once you fail, you could die!"

"I've prepared as much as possible. I'll use the medicinal power of the two herbs to sustain my vitality. When the two extreme forces clash, I'll jump into the spring, undergoing mutual tempering both internally and externally to achieve balance. This way, I can avoid being shattered by the force explosion."

Listening to Su Wen's plan, Dugu Bo's eyelids twitched.

"Xiaowen, I won't allow you to take such a risk."

"Grandpa Dugu, Spirit Master cultivation is never smooth sailing. If you encounter opportunities and lack the courage to seize them, how can you achieve great success?" Su Wen's expression was resolute.

"Moreover, Grandpa Dugu, speaking honestly, in the eyes of Titled Douluo like you, is my leap-level absorption of a Soul Ring and the addition of a thousand-year-old Spirit Ring really that impressive?"

Upon hearing Su Wen's question, Dugu Bo fell silent. For a Titled Douluo, the impact of having one less hundred-year Spirit Ring and gaining a thousand-year-old Spirit Ring is indeed not significant. At most, it gives a lead in the earlier stages, but as cultivation progresses into Spirit Emperor and even Spirit Saint levels, this advantage will slowly be diluted. Unless one consistently maintains this kind of advantage.

"You lad, are you thinking of reaching a fourth ring with a ten thousand years old Spirit Ring?" Dugu Bo exclaimed. If Su Wen were to truly obtain a ten thousand years old fourth ring, his advantage could be maintained until Titled Douluo. There is still a gap between having five ten thousand years old Spirit Rings and six, and maintaining the lead in each ring could potentially lead to absorbing a hundred thousand years old Spirit Rings when reaching the eighth ring someday.

Even if there is a slight gap in the eighth ring and you can't find a hundred thousand years old Spirit Rings, there's still a chance in the ninth ring! Two opportunities. This way, the chance of obtaining a hundred thousand years old Spirit Rings is indeed twice as high as others.

"If that's the case, then go ahead and give it your all," Dugu Bo said. "If something happens to you, I'll pass on the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower to Xiao Zhan, and the Golden Dragon Sweet Potato will be sent to your Grandpa Jerry."

Su Wen rolled his eyes. "Can't you be a bit more optimistic?"

He reached for the prepared equipment. Seeing the iron pieces and jade stones in Su Wen's hands, Dugu Bo smirked. "Seems like you're quite professional about this."

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