Chapter 108: You Are Nothing but Pigs Awaiting Slaughter!
When absorbing Fiery Apricot Jiao Shu's soul bone, it did not conflict with the external soul bone of the Darkgold Terrorclaw Bear. Instead, the two fused together in a strange yet seamless manner.
According to the principles of the five elements, fire should restrain metal. Before the fusion, Lin Yun had already prepared himself for severe backlash from the two conflicting soul bones.
Yet unexpectedly, the two harmonized perfectly, fusing as if they were meant to be one.
Gazing at the gauntlet on his hand, gleaming with golden dragon scales and fiery crimson patterns, Lin Yun fell into thought.
Clang—
Five sharp claws sprang from the gauntlet, not from the fingertips as before, freeing all five of Lin Yun's fingers completely.
"Wolverine?" Lin Yun was stunned.
No, Wolverine only had three claws. His version was clearly the upgraded plus-and-max edition.
Handsome!
However, his soul power level hadn't increased much. After all, an external soul bone was not a standard part of the human body. It even required absorbing the soul master's own energy to grow. Thus, even though Fiery Apricot Jiao Shu's Hand Armor Bone was a hundred-thousand-year soul bone, it only raised Lin Yun's level from forty-seven to forty-eight.
Not much, but acceptable. For a fattened pig like her, being able to bring Lin Yun this level of improvement meant she had fulfilled her duty perfectly.
Shouldn't you be thanking Sister Meat Pig now?
Next came the Ice and Fire Body Refinement.
Lin Yun glanced around but sensed nothing unusual, which meant Tang San had not left any divine sense here.
That was reasonable. The outer perimeter already had a vast Bi Phosphor Poison Formation as a safeguard. Adding divine sense inside would be redundant. Moreover, divine sense was not eternal—it consumed energy. After ten thousand years, even if Tang San had left some, it would have long dissipated.
Across the entire Douluo Continent, Lin Yun estimated that only Tang Hao, A Yin, the Golden Tree of Shrek, and the Haotian Sect's Niu Tian and Tai Tan still carried remnants of Tang San's divine sense.
Oh, and there was also Wang Dong, the daughter of a god-king who had recently descended from the divine realm, within whose spiritual sea Tang San had likely left a mark.
That should make five places in total.
Even then, Tang San had probably hidden these from the God of Destruction. After all, the God Realm was no longer Tang San's personal domain. Normally, a deity could only leave divine sense in their own inheritance site—Tang San had clearly bent the rules.
"No divine sense—good. Though it means I can't fulfill Di Tian's wish of leaving a claw mark on you, that can wait." Lin Yun mused silently.
Since Tang San had left no precautions behind, Lin Yun could now act without restraint within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!
"Bing'er, watch carefully. If any of them dares to resist, don't hold back—just slap them to death," Lin Yun ordered, glancing at the rich, energy-laden immortal herbs surrounding him before turning to the Ice Empress.
"Rest assured, Respected One. Not a single one of them will dare cause trouble. Whoever tries anything, this Empress will make them wish for death!" The Ice Empress's adorable face curved into a cruel grin.
To Lin Yun, the expression was more cute than intimidating—he even felt an urge to pat her head. But to the immortal herbs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, her words were a genuine death sentence.
"How can you treat us like this? Aren't you afraid of heavenly punishment?" the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Product shouted angrily.
"Heavenly punishment?" Lin Yun laughed.
He extended his hand, pointing one by one at the immortal herbs that had already reached the hundred-thousand-year level, his expression filled with scorn. "Are you really unfamiliar with heavenly punishment? If I'm not mistaken, none of you will survive your next tribulation, will you?"
"Living in fear of heavenly punishment every day, and yet you dare to mention those words before me?"
Lin Yun's words silenced the immortal herbs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well completely.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was indeed a sacred land that nurtured plant-type soul beasts, but those that grew within it had almost no combat strength. Even with their immortal herb foundation, their fighting power was far inferior to that of a normal hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
They couldn't even compare to the lowest tier of battle-oriented soul beasts—perhaps not even to a ten-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was nothing more than a breeding ground to fatten them up for slaughter.
"Remember this—you are nothing but pigs awaiting slaughter. Your only purpose is to provide nourishment." Lin Yun's tone was icy as he spoke, his cold gaze fixed on the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Product. "Bing'er, keep an eye on that one. If it dares to utter one more word, don't waste time—kill it immediately."
"Yes, Respected One." The Ice Empress nodded with a chilling smile and walked toward the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Product. Her right hand transformed into the Scorpion Claw of the Ice Empress, gripping the stem of the flower firmly.
The Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Product had no doubt that if she spoke even one more word, the Ice Empress would crush her in an instant.
Silence. Nothing but silence.
The phrase "pigs awaiting slaughter" was deeply humiliating, yet in Lin Yun's eyes, it was nothing less than the truth. Even if all the herbs united, they still couldn't match the Ice Empress—the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion who had survived four hundred thousand years of heavenly tribulation.
The Ice Empress could slaughter them all with ease.
As for self-detonation to perish together?
They lacked the courage. Even pigs facing the butcher's knife would still cling to life. When there remained even a sliver of a chance to survive, who among them would willingly throw that away?
The most hot-tempered, Fiery Apricot Jiao Shu, was already dead—her essence drained, her corpse lying beside the fiery spring. That served as the most vivid warning. Anyone could be the next Fiery Apricot Jiao Shu.
No one wanted to be the next Fiery Apricot Jiao Shu.
Selfishness, cowardice, and greed for life—these words perfectly described the immortal herbs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
"Heh." Lin Yun let out a cold, mocking laugh, then swallowed both the Fiery Resin and the Icy Dew in one gulp. As the medicinal power surged through him, he leapt straight into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Only the Ice Empress remained, her cold gaze fixed on the trembling herbs, quietly guarding and waiting for Lin Yun's return.
Of course, Di Tian continued to conceal himself in the shadows. If the Ice Empress ever lost control, the true body of the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King would descend upon the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. The immortal herbs would then experience a terror far beyond what they had felt during the Snow Empress's incomplete soul descent in the original timeline.
That time, the Snow Empress had not even been whole, yet she had nearly frightened them to death. Compared to that, the presence of a peak-state Di Tian would be absolute despair.
With those two guardians standing watch, Lin Yun felt completely at ease. He dove deeper into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and began his Ice and Fire Body Refinement.
During the process, he also swallowed the Qiluo Pill produced by the Fragrant Qiluo Immortal Product.
The Ice and Fire Body Refinement itself granted him a golden body immune to both extreme heat and cold, as well as resistance to poison. With the Qiluo Pill added, Lin Yun's physical constitution would rise to unprecedented heights—no poison on the entire Douluo Continent would ever be able to harm him again.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well soon fell into silence. If one ignored the murderous aura radiating from the Ice Empress and the trembling immortal herbs surrounding her, it was as though nothing had happened at all.
(End of Chapter)
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