From the Soul Motion Machine onwards, the Mechanized Douluo

Chapter 265 My greatest hobby in life is making friends with everyone! [Please subscribe! Please vote!]

The other Douluo elders, though surprised that Qian Daoliu had spoken this way, ultimately remained silent, tacitly agreeing to Chen Hong's suggestion. However, they also realized the importance Chen Hong held in Qian Daoliu's heart.

But logically speaking, didn't you two just meet today? How did you suddenly develop such a deep bond?

"You...you're Chen Hong?" Dugu Bo was shocked. Then, as if grasping at a lifeline, he stared in astonishment at Chen Hong, whose face always wore a faint smile, and exclaimed excitedly, "Chen Hong from the Technology Chamber of Commerce?! Yes, yes, yes! The Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well belongs to the Spirit Hall! No, if the elders of the Spirit Hall like the immortal herbs, they can take them too!"

Dugu Bo no longer cares about any magical herbs; his biggest goal now is simply to survive.

"Hmph! You're quite sensible!" Golden Crocodile Douluo snorted lightly, glancing indifferently at Dugu Bo, but did not say anything further about the immortal herb. He wasn't stupid; he was just momentarily blinded by the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, which was why he hadn't noticed his elder brother Qian Daoliu's unusual attitude.

Otherwise, given Qian Daoliu's personality, if he knew that the Earth Dragon Golden Melon was useful to Golden Crocodile Douluo, then Dugu Bo would not have been able to protect it at all.

Therefore, there is only one truth: Qian Daoliu and Chen Hong have other plans, and the Earth Dragon Golden Melon may really be insignificant in the face of their other plans.

However, even though he could treat immortal herbs as weeds and give up on them, Golden Crocodile Douluo is now very interested in what Qian Daoliu and Chen Hong said about the "greatest value of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye".

"If Senior Dugu wishes to make friends with the seniors of the Spirit Hall, then whether or not to offer the immortal herb is your own choice," Chen Hong said with a slight smile.

Dugu Bo certainly couldn't possibly consume all the rare and exotic herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. Compared to killing and robbing, Chen Hong preferred to take what he needed from each other.

"Of course! Of course!" Dugu Bo's eyes shone as he nodded repeatedly.

This is a life-saving fee—no, a friend's fee! Dugu Bo understood this, and judging from the other party's attitude, he wasn't going to get nothing. Compared to being killed by these super Douluo, the solitary Dugu Bo felt he preferred making friends with everyone.

Dugu Bo: My greatest hobby in life is making friends with you all!

"That makes things much easier." Seeing that Dugu Bo wasn't inflexible, Chen Hong felt relieved, at least he didn't have to worry about Dugu Bo clashing with Golden Crocodile Douluo and the others.

(Douluo Gatekeeper Dugu Bo: A conflict? Me, a level 98 Super Douluo?? How am I supposed to start a conflict?!)

After finishing dealing with Dugu Bo's matter, Chen Hong walked up to the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, and two purple halos quietly appeared in his black eyes!

Extending a finger to gently touch the large golden fruit of the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, an invisible spiritual fluctuation entered the body of the Earth Dragon Golden Melon through the finger, and condensed into mysterious golden divine patterns on its surface.

First Soul Technique - Sage! (Skills acquired after Soul Ring Intent are all systematic Soul Techniques)

A gentle spiritual force imbued the Earth Dragon Golden Melon with a Sage's Divine Rune. Subsequently, Chen Hong finally sensed a very faint fluctuation of consciousness.

"No, no. I'm afraid to eat it."

Chen Hong frowned slightly, feeling a little puzzled, but he suppressed his doubts for the time being and reassured him with gentle spiritual power: "Don't be afraid, I won't eat you, you should focus on your cultivation."

Seeing Chen Hong frown, Qian Daoliu beside him immediately cast a questioning glance at him. Chen Hong simply shook his head slightly, then reached out to the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, indicating that he should look.

As Chen Hong gestured, the surrounding Title Douluos all turned their curious gazes, and then they saw that there seemed to be a faint glow flickering on the Earth Dragon Golden Melon.

then,

rustle rustle

Suddenly, a gentle breeze arose, and inside the already misty Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye, a pale golden current began to slowly condense around the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, eventually forming a beautiful pale golden vortex of soul power!

"This is... a vortex of heaven and earth soul power?!" The titled Douluos around Chen Hong were all shocked, their eyes filled with doubt as they looked at the golden dragon melon, which was located in the funnel below the vortex of pale golden soul power and whose body was glowing with golden light because it had been flooded with a large amount of heaven and earth soul power and had not had time to digest it.

"The spiritual energy in the air here is viscous enough. Because there's so much spiritual energy, once the absorption rate accelerates, this siphon effect of spiritual energy occurs." Chen Hong looked strangely at the vortex of spiritual energy surrounding the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd, feeling the mottled ice and fire spiritual energy aura in the surrounding air, and frowned, saying, "The Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye can make plants grow tenfold. It's not because it happened suddenly, but because of the conflicting spiritual energy here. Only creatures with such resilient vitality as plants can survive?"

Upon hearing this, Qian Daoliu silently sensed the spiritual energy in the air and shook his head at the crowd, saying, "The spring contains a large amount of extremely cold and hot spiritual energy vortexes. If a spiritual master cultivates in this environment, their cultivation speed will increase, but within half an hour at most, they will suffer a qi deviation due to the accumulation of a large amount of conflicting ice and fire spiritual energy within their body. If they force themselves to cultivate, in severe cases, they may even explode and die!"

Qian Daoliu shared his observations of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well with Chen Hong. In short, the unique environment of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well makes it impossible for flesh-and-blood life to survive; only plant life can barely survive. Because the environment is so extreme, if flesh-and-blood life were to force itself to cultivate, it would either suffer a qi deviation at best, or die from its body exploding at worst.

Dugu Bo usually lived outside the valley of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, where Tang San also lived.

"Big brother, young friend Chen Hong, what's going on here?" Golden Crocodile Douluo looked at the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, whose body was condensed with almost visible spiritual power, with a shocked expression and asked in surprise.

Chen Hong and Qian Daoliu exchanged a glance before looking at Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other Title Douluos around them. Chen Hong slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air and then chuckled, "Although the immortal herbs seem to be a bit demanding in terms of developing sentience, judging from the current results, the Soul Technique: Sage can still influence the immortal herbs, and the effect is obvious, to the point that it can form such a spectacle as a soul power vortex in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well where the energy of heaven and earth is abundant."

"Well, to put it bluntly, my cultivation theory is sound. Within the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire, and with the blessing of the Sage's Soul Technique, plant-based organisms will possess a growth rate a hundred times faster than in the outside world!"

(End of this chapter)