In this era of the Douluo Continent, the concept of Body Martial Souls did not yet exist.
It was only after the Body Sect rose that Body Martial Souls truly stepped onto the stage of the Douluo Continent and formed their own lineage.
To evaluate the potential of a Body Martial Soul, one looked at how close the martial soul was to vital organs — the more important the organ, the greater the potential.
Lin Yang, who possessed the Demon God Body martial soul, had his entire body as the martial soul. Its potential naturally ranked at the very top.
Body Martial Souls had a special trait: they could undergo second awakening.
The levels of second awakening were divided into three tiers: Black Iron, Bronze, and Silver.
Only upon reaching the Silver tier of second awakening was there a high possibility of achieving the Golden tier third awakening.
Lin Yang's goal was clear — Silver-tier second awakening.
He naturally did not know the secret method for second awakening, but it essentially involved facing life-or-death situations or breaking through shackles under extreme environments, causing the martial soul to undergo qualitative change.
And the current Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was undoubtedly the most perfect location.
He continued diving downward.
Two zhang, three zhang, five zhang…
The pressure around him increased exponentially with depth.
The two completely opposite energies — extreme cold and extreme heat — pressed in from all directions like invisible giant hands, trying to crush and grind him into paste.
Lin Yang could clearly hear cracking sounds coming from his body — the sound of bones being squeezed and grinding against each other, as well as the popping of capillaries.
The massive immortal herb energy within his body was also constantly resisting.
Yet he still clenched his teeth and kept diving deeper.
Thirty zhang!
All the capillaries in Lin Yang's muscles burst open at once. Blood seeped out from his skin.
The moment those bloodstains appeared, they were wiped clean by the surrounding cold and yang springs.
"Demon Transformation!"
Lin Yang roared lowly. His body instantly entered Demon transformation state. The pressure around him lightened considerably, and he continued diving.
Forty zhang!
The terrifying pressure struck again. This time, even the Demon God Body showed signs of being unable to hold on. His bones creaked, and his muscles trembled in spasms.
Lin Yang knew he had reached his limit.
He stabilized his body, adapted for a few seconds, then resolutely detonated the ice-and-fire energy within him.
The fragile balance he had barely maintained was instantly shattered.
Boom!
The ice-and-fire energy went completely berserk!
The two completely opposite energies — extreme cold and extreme heat — clashed, tore, and strangled wildly inside his body.
His blood vessels burst apart in an instant. His flesh was repeatedly tortured between freezing and burning. Even his bones became like fragile glass, covered in dense cracks, as if they would shatter at the slightest touch.
Pain! Extreme pain!
This feeling made Lin Yang recall the scorching pain from being burned by the sun back then — and it was even worse! It was like being endlessly tormented in an ice-and-fire hell.
Demon God Body, aren't you supposed to be able to devour anything? Then devour this for me!
As if hearing Lin Yang's inner roar, after withstanding the initial impact, the Demon God Body's ultra-fast regeneration finally began to activate.
Streams of violent ice-and-fire energy were devoured by the Demon God Body.
On the surface of Lin Yang's body, the shattered blood vessels, the spasming and twitching muscles beneath the skin, and the brittle bones underwent constant cycles of collapse and reconstruction.
Every tear brought bone-deep pain; every healing brought new tearing.
The intense pain surged like tidal waves, one wave after another crashing against his consciousness, as if it would never end.
From the beginning — gritting his teeth and trembling all over — Lin Yang eventually reached numbness!
When pain reached its extreme, he could no longer feel it!
Yet within that numbness, Lin Yang tightly guarded a trace of clarity in his mind, refusing to let himself faint. Once he fainted, the frenzied energy would tear him into pieces.
At the same time, Ah Yin above, through the bloodline connection between her and Lin Yang, also sensed the pain he was currently enduring.
She shook her stems and leaves frantically. Her roots spread madly toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
She wanted to go down. She wanted to help him!
Perhaps Ah Yin only had the simplest consciousness at the moment, but precisely because it was simple, it appeared incredibly pure.
The moment her roots touched the spring water, they were instantly frozen into fragments or burned into ashes.
Ah Yin did not retreat.
A faint blue light rose from her body. A vast life force poured into her roots, supporting them as they continued to delve into the lethal spring water.
Once, twice, three times…
During these repeated attempts and probes, the Demon blood that had already taken root inside Ah Yin began to fuse with her origin at a deeper level.
Beneath the spring water, no one knew how much time had passed.
It could have been an instant, or perhaps more than ten hours.
Lin Yang slowly opened his eyes.
Strangely, his originally pure black pupils had now turned into a gradient from red to blue. Occasionally, a flash of sharp light passed through them, like a meteor streaking across the night sky.
He floated naked in the spring water, his body slender and seemingly emitting a faint silver-white glow.
"I succeeded…"
Silver-tier second awakening!
Lin Yang murmured to himself. He carefully sensed everything about himself, especially the Demon transformation state under second awakening.
Penetrating Vision!
The moment Penetrating Vision activated, Lin Yang immediately noticed the anomaly — the range seemed to have become much larger.
Previously, Penetrating Vision could only cover about three zhang around him. Now the range had expanded at least twofold, possibly even farther.
In his "vision," the world was no longer simply transparent. Instead, it was filled with flowing energy trajectories. Red ones, white ones — intertwining and tearing at each other. Everything was crystal clear to him, almost like a perception-type domain.
What did this represent? It meant he could not only see through an opponent's movements but also discern the weaknesses of energy attacks.
In addition, his body had undergone earth-shaking changes.
The density of his muscle fibers had increased at least threefold. Every muscle was like a steel cable, tightly arranged. If he wished, he could unleash terrifying power at any moment.
His bone density had also increased several times, like steel ingots that had been hammered millions of times — incredibly hard.
His blood vessels were equally tough. The speed of blood flow… was astonishingly fast!
Even his heart rate had doubled from before. His heart contracted powerfully. Every pump of blood felt like a hydraulic press at work, sending blood throughout his entire body.
Was this what Silver-tier second awakening was like?
Lin Yang raised his hand and slowly clenched his fingers. Creaking sounds came from his knuckles — the sound of pure power.
And this feeling — it felt way too good!
With a thought, his spirit rings appeared beneath his feet. When he saw their colors, he couldn't help but grin.
His originally black, purple, and yellow spirit rings had all turned black — meaning they had all become ten-thousand-year spirit rings. The first spirit ring had even broken through twenty thousand years.
It seemed the Demon God Body had not only absorbed the energy of the two immortal herbs but also quite a bit of the energy contained in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
He could clearly sense that a large portion of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's energy was gone.
However, there was no need to worry about destroying the unique environment here. It wouldn't take long for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to recover to its original state.