Ice Fire Protection, Hundred Poison Relief (1)

The expression on Dugu Bo's face vanished, again returning to the previous chill. Indifferently looking at Tang San, he said:

"What did you eat here that makes you fearless even before my Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor poison?"

Tang San didn't hide it, saying:

"After you brought me here yesterday, I thought it over several times and took the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Precious Apricot."

"Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Infernal Precious Apricot? What are those?"

Dugu Bo had never even heard these two names.

Tang San nodded,

"They're two kinds of poisonous herbs that grew on precisely opposite sides of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, each absorbing the essence of the extreme yin or extreme yang to grow."

Listening to Tang San's explanation, Dugu Bo seemed to recall something,

"You're speaking of those two plants with extreme cold and torrid heat? Those two could be eaten?"

Because of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Precious Apricot's somewhat special nature, he clearly remembered these two plants. Those two were just two of many plants around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

He had tried it out before, and even with his spirit power he was unable to stay too long next to any kind of poisonous plant. Dugu Bo knew that these two kinds of herbs both contained cold and fire poison.

Extremely potent.

As a result of not being clear on their medicinal properties, he had never used them rashly.

Because there was only one each of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Precious Apricot, Tang San didn't fear letting Dugu Bo know,

"That's right, these two kinds of plants are both poisonous. If an ordinary person got within ten meters of them, they would freeze or turn to ashes in a very short time, let alone eating them. However, just like yin and yang mutually subdues each other, ice and fire mutually controls each other. When these two kinds of herbs were mixed together, they neutralized each other, greatly reducing the toxicity. But that was also the only opportunity to take them. After taking them, the mutual rejection of ice and fire changed into mutually complementing each other, the effect transforming the body. Further using some methods to increase the absorption, the effect was Ice Fire Protection."

"Good, good Ice Fire Protection."

Dugu Bo looked at Tang San with a moved gaze, inwardly somewhat hesitant.

Although he wasn't clear on the method of taking the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Precious Apricot, he knew the medicinal properties of these two kinds of plants were extremely potent, and naturally he understood Tang San couldn't have fully absorbed their properties already. If he drank his blood, perhaps... Only, he said these two plants had to be absorbed with a special method, and he didn't know what that was.

Thinking of this, Dugu Bo probing asked:

"And you relied on these to restrain my three kinds of poison?"

Tang San smiled calmly, saying:

"One could say so. Old freak, after you brought me here I discovered how you could survive the poison side effects. It's precisely because of this Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's effect. The extremely cold yin water and blazing hot yang water have an extremely potent suppressive effect on all poison. The spring waters themselves are even more inimical to poison, and ordinary people would be unable to endure this environment, even a powerful spirit beast couldn't survive. But to you this place is useful and harmless. It's precisely the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's atmosphere that has restrained the poison within you. Even if cultivating here isn't enough to dispel your poison, at least guaranteeing you will live to be a hundred is not problem. Only..."

Dugu Bo couldn't help asking:

"Only what?"

Tang San sighed, saying:

"There was still another important reason I ate the Infernal Precious Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass. It was to be able to live in this place. These two kinds of herbs mingled together is actually equivalent to a small scale Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, only its effect in fighting poison isn't as terrifying as the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well itself. I have come up with two ways to remove your poison, the first is to simultaneously take these two kinds of herbs, and afterwards rely on your formidable spirit power to absorb their properties. Like that I have at least an eighty percent chance of being able to cure you."

Dugu Bo's expression gradually became ice cold,

"However, you've eaten them."

Tang San smiled calmly:

"Old freak. Let me finish first."

Since he dared confidently tell Dugu Bo about this, he was naturally reasonable,

"Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Precious Apricot are classified as immortal treasure precious herbs, even though they're highly toxic, there's no need to doubt the evaluation of these immortal treasures. True, they can dissolve the poison in your body, but at the same time it will get rid of your body poison skills, do you want that?"

"This..."

Dugu Bo looked distracted. He had originally thought to take the plan, but hearing Tang San's words he immediately hesitated.

Tang San saw Dugu Bo vacillating, and said:

"It's fine if you don't believe me. My blood contains the properties of both herbs, I can draw some to let you try it. However, don't blame me if your cultivation diminishes."

"No need to try, you little freak."

Dugu Bo said regretfully,

"How do you know this?"

Tang San said unruffled:

"I found a book when I was small, and within was written down a lot of strange things, the book had a golden section, and I learned all these things from the book."

"Just now you said there were two methods of detoxifying me, what's the other one?"

Dugu Bo asked.

Tang San said:

"I only have a sixty percent confidence in this second method, but it wouldn't impact your strength. Of course, your granddaughter's poisoning is still shallow, I have a hundred percent confidence in helping her recover. This method also isn't complex. The reason you're suffering the side effects is mainly because of your poison skill cultivation method. It would be fine if you possessed a tool spirit, all that would be required would be for you to condense the poison within your spirit, and all the issues would be easily resolved. But right now you have a beast spirit, and as a result the poison fuses with your body. Even though your spirit power is able to transfer and suppress it, it has already long ago become part of your body, thereby causing maximum harm to your body. If you want to retain the toxin in your body, without letting it injure you, you have to find a parasitic body to act as a repository for the poison. I think that with your strength you should have a spirit bone."

Dugu Bo was also an old veteran with regards to poison, and immediately understood Tang San's words, the jade light in his eyes brightening,

"You're saying, that if I forced the poison in my body into my spirit bone, it wouldn't harm me?"

Tang San nodded, saying:

"Just like that, and your granddaughter is the same. As long as you find her a suitable spirit bone, and have her force the poison into her spirit bone when cultivating poison skills, then there wouldn't be any issues. Just like me right now, even though I possess poison in my body, it's all within Blue Silver Grass and the external spirit bone Eight Spider Lances, so of course where wouldn't be any issues for me."

Dugu Bo frowned,

"This old man has cultivated the Jade Phosphor Serpent Spirit for seventy years, my body has already long ago fused with the poison. It won't be easily forced out, it's no good, perhaps the side effects will only grow worse. Little freak, you aren't teaching me to commit suicide?"

Tang San indifferently said:

"This is the only feasible way. Of course you wouldn't directly use spirit power to force it out, like you said, that wouldn't have a good result, and would on the contrary cause even more powerful backlash. You have to do it in conjunction with certain medicines, gradually filtering out the poison in your bones and energy channels bit by bit, focusing it in the spirit bone. This is a very long process, not something that can be done in a day or two. After all, right now your whole body is poisonous. That's why I say I only have a sixty percent certainty. Only one thing is certain, even if it's impossible to gather all of your poison within the spirit bone, it will at least substantially alleviate the pain you have to endure right now, are you willing to try it?"

Dugu Bo looked at Tang San, a reserved light in his eyes,

"Little freak, I've wanted to kill you repeatedly, do you really want to help cure me? Aren't you worried I will kill you after being detoxified?"

Hearing Dugu Bo say this, Tang San knew that he already believed him, and calmly said:

"Regardless of whether you believe me, I will never reject poison. On the contrary, I'm very fond of it. And there is perhaps only one person as poisonous as you on the entire Continent. As far as I'm concerned, the process of treating you is also an experimental process. As for whether you would renege, even though I can't be sure, I can explicitly tell you that killing me will also mean your granddaughter's death. I can treat you here, and when I treat your granddaughter I want to invite the teachers to observe. After treating her, there will be no relation between you and me. What do you think?"

Dugu Bo pondered it, saying:

"Fine. Little freak, there are very few people I admire, you are one. I believe you. We'll do everything as you say. I, Dugu Bo, will always keep my word, and as long as you cure me and my granddaughter, there will be no issues with the three things I promised you, and I further won't kill you. But, right now I'll first ask you to eat this. My old life might not be of much value, but I still want to live a few more years. If you kill me, then I'll take you with me."

While speaking he opened his mouth, spitting out a green light, precisely a jade green pearl. Under Dugu Bo's control the jade green pearl slowly floated over to Tang San. Tang San extended his right hand, letting it fall into his palm. He didn't know precisely what this thing was, but he still clearly remembered that when Dugu Bo had eliminated the True Saint Dragon, this was what he had used.

Tang San said with a wry smile:

"Having me eat something you spit out, this seems a bit nauseating."