Capturing Dugu Bo

"Collect!"

That was the last sound Dugu Bo heard before losing consciousness.

Grandpa was gone.

Right before her eyes, he had suddenly vanished.

Dugu Yan was shocked and was about to call for help when the Yellow Soul Ring on the little boy before her lit up. His figure flickered, and he vanished too.

News of Dugu Bo's capture soon reached the three education committee members of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy through Dugu Yan.

After hearing Dugu Yan's account, the three hesitated, not daring to search on their own. For one thing, they didn't know who had captured him or where he had been taken. For another, anyone capable of capturing Dugu Bo in an instant had to be at the Titled Douluo level, and was likely among the very strongest Titled Douluo.

As for the claim that the person who had captured Dugu Bo looked like a boy and had only one Yellow Soul Ring...

Wasn't that a joke? It was probably some kind of Soul Skill used to fool people and muddy the waters.

All things considered, this was simply not something the three committee members could get involved in. The urgent matter was to report it to the imperial family and let the Heaven Dou Emperor decide what to do.

Meanwhile, after Tang Feng collected Dugu Bo into the King Ball, he entered Sage Mode and raced nonstop toward Sunset Forest.

A sweep of his divine sense made it perfectly clear where the dangers and powerful Soul Beasts were.

After half a day of travel, Tang Feng reached the outskirts of the poison array Dugu Bo had set up outside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before nightfall.

A dense, emerald-green mist hung there year-round, never dispersing.

Tang Feng took an antidote pill he had prepared beforehand from his storage soul tool ring. It had been developed according to the contents of the medicine and poison sections of the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.

It could barely hold the poison at bay for the time it took an incense stick to burn, enough for Tang Feng to pass through the poison array and enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

As soon as he entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Tang Feng smelled a strong, somewhat pungent odor of sulfur mixed with rotten eggs.

But that was all.

Looking at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, which was exactly as described in the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, Tang Feng smiled.

Good grief, it really recorded everything—even Qiankun Asking Love Valley, the place where the God of Love fell in Douluo II.

As for the third treasure basin, for some reason, Tang Feng couldn't find it no matter how hard he looked.

Infernal Delicate Apricot, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Aromatic Silk Beauty, Aromatic Silk Beauty, Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Lovesick Heartbreak Red... Tang Feng gazed at the various Immortal Herbs growing around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, excitement surging within him.

That old good-for-nothing Dugu Bo was sitting on a mountain of treasure without knowing it.

He specialized in poison and had occupied this place for decades, yet he didn't even know what the herbs here were good for. His store of knowledge wasn't even as extensive as Yang Wudi's or Jixiang's, who had only learned a little medicine on Sea God Island.

A pure shock wave.

Gathering his thoughts, Tang Feng first went over to the Aromatic Silk Beauty and took a deep breath from its stamen. At once, his mind cleared and his whole body relaxed.

Next, Tang Feng went to the boundary between the ice and fire springs of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Forcing himself to endure the freezing cold and scorching heat around him, he took an ordinary dagger and a jade dagger from his storage soul tool ring.

With the aid of his divine sense, Tang Feng flung the two daggers in different directions, toward the centers of the ice and fire springs. The blades precisely severed the stems of the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot growing there, and the two Immortal Herbs fell to the ground.

Tang Feng stripped off all his clothes and put everything he could into the system storage.

Clap!

He clapped his hands together. Sage Mode: Wood Release Power.

Two wooden pillars grew from where the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot had fallen. Enclosing the Immortal Herbs, they rapidly lengthened and extended toward Tang Feng.

The two wooden pillars opened, revealing the Immortal Herbs inside. At that moment, the sensation of being caught between ice and fire vanished instantly. Seeing this, Tang Feng hurriedly took out both Immortal Herbs and stuffed them into his mouth together.

"As expected of Immortal Herbs, they melted in my mouth."

"They were even a little tasty, sweet and delicious, with fragrance spilling everywhere."

His praise lasted only a moment before the herbs' medicinal power began to take effect.

In the space of a breath, Tang Feng's body changed back and forth between ghastly white and crimson several times.

His eyes closed, his consciousness faded, and with a splash, Tang Feng plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and sank to the bottom.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already the next morning.

Inside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Tang Feng no longer felt any discomfort, even though he was in spring water that could kill an ordinary Titled Douluo outright.

"It's time to let Dugu Bo out."

Tang Feng had other uses for the King Ball. Using it to hold Dugu Bo was like using a butcher's cleaver to kill a chicken.

He took the King Ball out of the system storage and tossed it onto the shore.

Release!

Tang Feng quickly said:

"Dugu Bo, don't attack, or I'll collect you again!"

Without waiting to see whether Dugu Bo had heard him clearly, he immediately collected him again.

Release!

"Dugu Bo, don't attack, or I'll collect you again!"

Collect!

Release!

"Dugu Bo, don't attack, or I'll collect you again!"

Collect!

After repeating this ninety-nine times in succession, Tang Feng finally released Dugu Bo without collecting him again.

During that time, Dugu Bo had gone from trying to attack, only for Tang Feng to dodge every attempt from within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, to spitting out a bouquet of curses, then to begging for mercy in every way he could, and finally to silent resignation.

"Oi."

"Can you hear me, Dugu Bo?"

Tang Feng hid in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, with only his head sticking out.

Dugu Bo, his spirit worn away by the torment, plopped down on the ground and looked at Tang Feng with nothing left to live for.

"Yes, yes, yes. Stop collecting me."

"Good, as long as you can hear me. If I said there was just a misunderstanding between us, would you forgive me?" As he spoke, Tang Feng raised the King Ball in his hand as though he were about to collect Dugu Bo again.

Hearing this, Dugu Bo hurriedly raised his hands in surrender.

"I forgive you! I forgive you! I've forgiven you! Really, stop collecting me!"

"That's wonderful. Don't move around. I'll explain exactly what the misunderstanding between us was."

Tang Feng remained hidden in the hot spring, with only his head exposed and one arm holding up the King Ball, as he told Dugu Bo about the misunderstanding between them.

"Blah blah blah..."

"Yadda yadda yadda..."

After listening for a while, Dugu Bo finally understood.

The strange boy soaking in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before him, whose Soul Power seemed to be only at level twenty, wanted this patch of land that Dugu Bo used to alleviate the poison in his body.

In return, he offered to rid Dugu Bo of the poison.

If Tang Feng hadn't been soaking in spring water that would kill even Dugu Bo on the spot if he entered it, Dugu Bo would have thought he was lying.

"Can you really rid me of the poison?" Dugu Bo asked excitedly.

"Yes, and the poison in your granddaughter too."

Dugu Bo was astonished.

"What do you mean? Are you saying my granddaughter really has the same poison as me?"

"What else? Your poison can be passed down to your descendants. If it isn't removed, in the near future your granddaughter will end up just like you are now, or even worse."

Dugu Bo's expression changed abruptly, frightened by Tang Feng's words. Dugu Yan was his everything, and he didn't want to see his precious granddaughter tormented by poison.

"If you really can rid my granddaughter and me of the poison, I'll give you this place!"

"I don't want anything here anymore. I'll give it all to you."

"As for the grudge between us... ahem... the misunderstanding, I'll act like none of it ever happened. How about it?"

Tang Feng was overjoyed. "Now you're talking! Oh, right, can you give me the Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch too?"

Dugu Bo: "..."