Dugu Yan's Mind-Blowing Experience

"All right, all right, I won't tease you anymore." Dugu Yan finally behaved herself, though she still could not help secretly laughing. Dugu Bo looked like an angry, puffed-up cat even when she was mad now—completely harmless.

Little did she know that Dugu Bo had deliberately acted this way because the person before her was her granddaughter. She was actually happy as well. Though her previous demeanor had carried the dignity of a grandpa, it had always felt as though something stood between her and her granddaughter. This appearance had unexpectedly brought them much closer.

So Dugu Bo actually knew how cute she looked. She was deliberately acting like this so her granddaughter would play around with her more.

"By the way, isn't Young Master Ming here?"

Dugu Yan looked around expectantly. When she failed to spot Ming Lunyu, she became somewhat disappointed.

Dugu Bo's heart skipped a beat.

Oh no. Looking at Yanyan like this, she likes Young Master! Well, that makes sense. Young Master is basically a human-shaped succubus. It would be strange if girls did not like him. But Yanyan cannot like him! If you like Young Master, what will Grandpa do? Could it be that our grandfather-granddaughter... Actually, maybe it is not impossible...

"That definitely will not work! It will attract a Divine Beast!"

"Huh?!" Dugu Yan jumped at Dugu Bo's sudden strange cry. "What Divine Beast?"

"Nothing!" Dugu Bo sternly gripped Dugu Yan's shoulders. "Yanyan, answer me honestly. What do you think of Young Master?"

"What do I think?" Dugu Yan thought for a moment, then answered with a faint blush, "Young Master Ming is extraordinarily handsome, like an immortal cast down into the mortal world. He exudes a noble and refined air, and he is immensely talented and powerful. Most importantly, he helped me and saved Grandpa. He is the benefactor of our clan, and I am very grateful to him..."

"Only grateful?" Dugu Bo pressed urgently.

"Uh... for now, only grateful... If possible, I..."

"No!" Dugu Bo shook her head fiercely, her twin ponytails nearly whipping out afterimages. "You cannot like him! Because... because..."

"He is mine!!!"

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

Dugu Yan's facial muscles twitched, and her eyes shook violently. "Grandpa, what did you just say?!"

Dugu Bo gasped for breath. "I said, I like Young Master!"

"Wait, Grandpa, you mean you like Young Master Ming? A hundred-year-old old man like you fell for a young man who could be your granddaughter's husband?!"

"That is perfectly normal, isn't it?" Having admitted the truth, Dugu Bo gradually became more righteous. "I am not an old man anymore. I am now a green-haired, twin-tailed, qipao-wearing loli who is even younger than you. What is wrong with liking men?"

"Young Master gave me a second life and saved our Dugu clan from dire straits. He is devastatingly handsome, just like you said, and he has the bearing of a leader, overflowing masculine charm, and he treats me so gently. What is wrong with me falling for him?"

"I am Young Master's Contractor. My life belongs to Young Master now. I am one of the people Young Master trusts most. Young Master is practically my entire remaining life. What is wrong with me falling for Young Master?"

"Besides, we have done everything except make love. It is impossible for me not to like him!"

By the final sentence, Dugu Bo was already shouting at the top of her lungs, becoming the last straw that crushed Dugu Yan.

Dugu Yan collapsed weakly to the ground, her entire body wrapped in the four words: utter disbelief.

Her lips opened and closed, but not a single sound came out.

This was too mind-blowing! How could something like this happen?!

Dugu Yan could not understand it. Just moments ago, she had felt that after Grandpa became a girl, the distance between them had seemed to shrink considerably. How had things suddenly become...

The prolonged silence was deafening.

After a while, Dugu Yan finally regained a little strength.

"Actually, Grandpa, I can understand you. After all, I am the same way. Whenever I look at Young Master Ming, my heart cannot help but flutter. I am also glad that you took the initiative to tell me this. Luckily, my feelings toward Young Master Ming are more like the way a man admires a beautiful woman. If you had told me any later, it would be hard to say how things might have ended..."

"After Grandma passed away, Grandpa, you must have accumulated so much emptiness and loneliness. You must also have longed for romantic affection, right? Young Master Ming is a good person. Meeting him was our good fortune. He will definitely take good care of you... I wish you happiness!"

Dugu Yan wore a complicated expression, caught between laughter and tears.

On one hand, she had only just been about to enter the stage of secretly falling in love with Ming Lunyu, only to suffer heartbreak. And the one who had stolen him from her was her own grandpa!

On the other hand, she was truly happy that Dugu Bo had found someone to belong with. Over the years, Dugu Bo had always seemed cold and proud, a lofty Titled Douluo. Yet only Dugu Yan, her granddaughter, could vaguely understand the loneliness in her heart. Now, Dugu Bo finally had a strong emotional pillar to rely on. Dugu Yan felt sincerely fortunate and happy for her.

Grandpa and granddaughter looked at each other, then suddenly burst into laughter. They hugged each other, laughing until tears came out.

How should she put it? Dugu Yan had let it go.

Ten minutes later, after they had sorted out their emotions, the two sat side by side on the steps of the Wooden Cabin as though nothing had happened, eating spirit fruits picked around the Ice and Fire Twofold Polarity Eyes.

With their synchronized hamster-like chewing motions and highly similar appearances, they looked nothing like grandpa and granddaughter. They looked more like sisters.

"Grandpa, do you think it is still appropriate for me to call you Grandpa? You are already a girl." Dugu Yan smiled mischievously.

"What? Are you trying to deny me as your grandpa now?" Dugu Bo raised a delicate brow.

Dugu Yan repeatedly waved her hands. "No, no, I did not say that. I was just thinking that calling you Grandpa does not seem right anymore. Should I call you Grandma instead? Or... Sister? Or younger sister?"

As she spoke, she gestured at the difference in their heights, then hurriedly got up and ran away.

But Dugu Bo caught her the very next moment, shoving both hands under Dugu Yan's arms.

"That tickles! Grandpa, I was wrong!"

"Sister, was it?"

"I really was wrong! Spare Yanyan!"

"Younger sister, was it?"

"Ah!!! Grandpa, not there!"

The echoes reverberating through an empty valley, mournful and lingering, were no more than this.

After the excitement died down, Dugu Bo began telling Dugu Yan about everything that had happened recently, leaving Dugu Yan clicking her tongue in amazement.

"I never expected Yang Wudi to fall into Young Master Ming's clutches too. It looks like he has another beloved consort now~ So, Grandpa, are you confident about becoming the Empress?"

"Still being cheeky?" Dugu Bo flicked Dugu Yan on the forehead.

Making her granddaughter stick out her little pink tongue.

"Then where is Senior Yang Wudi now? Can I meet her?"

"Wudi? If nothing unexpected happens, she should be at the Breaking Clan's territory. Today is the day for their clan meeting. But she will come over tonight. She is obsessed with my little treasure ground. Come to think of it, thanks to her, we have figured out the uses of most of the heavenly treasures here."

"Amazing!" Dugu Yan looked at her with admiration. "Grandpa has always been completely clueless about these things. I never expected Senior Yang Wudi to know even more than Grandpa!"

Dugu Bo snorted unhappily. "She only knows a little more about medicinal herbs..."

Clearly, she had selectively forgotten how she had once begged Yang Wudi to help her find suitable immortal herbs.

She then went on to talk about establishing Sunset Advanced Spirit Master Academy at Ming Lunyu's suggestion.

Dugu Yan revealed a troubled expression. "Young Master Ming and Miss Ma are both entering the next tournament! It looks like the championship is guaranteed to be theirs."

"Isn't the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team you are on pretty good too? Even if you cannot win the championship, you can at least fight for a spot in the top four, right?"

At the mention of this, Dugu Yan became even more irritated and began complaining. "Grandpa, you do not know this, but lately, the Imperial Dou Team..."

As Dugu Yan explained, Dugu Bo roughly understood what had happened.

Here was the situation: To give the Imperial Dou Team practical combat experience, improve their teamwork, and build their confidence, their supervising Teacher Qin Ming had organized challenges at Great Soul Arenas across the land.

Everything had gone smoothly, and they had won all the way through. But when they reached Suotuo City, the opposing team turned out to be from Qin Ming's old academy—and they only had six members. Under the banner of fair competition, Qin Ming had the Imperial Dou Team remove one member as well.

Then they lost. After Dugu Yan's Martial Soul Evolution, her poison had become far more potent. Yet it was blocked by a Blue Silver Grass Spirit Master on the other side. That guy used underhanded tricks, throwing out large amounts of strong liquor, strange powders, and other things that heavily suppressed Dugu Yan.

After that, her teammates were useless. They could not withstand the pressure and were picked off one by one. With only Dugu Yan left, she simply surrendered.

Unlike Dugu Yan, the others drooped like frost-bitten eggplants. The key was that their Teacher not only failed to encourage them, but even mocked them to their faces, saying it was only natural that they had lost.

As Dugu Yan spoke of this, she gritted her teeth. "Losing once after a streak of victories can indeed temper one's arrogance and teach people that there is always someone stronger out there. But as a Teacher, no matter what, he should have offered a few words of comfort! Fine, if he did not want to comfort us, but instead he said it was only natural that we were inferior to them, that they were students of Shrek Academy and were bound to be strong... What kind of nonsense was that?! He should stop being our leader and get lost to that Shrek Academy!"

After that, Yu Tianheng, their captain, ran off alone. No one knew what he discussed with the opposing team's leader, but in any case, he switched sides and joined them.

That move completely shattered the Imperial Dou Team's cohesion.

Even the captain quit, so what was the point of having a team? If the captain could defect, did that not prove the team was hopelessly weak?

From that day onward, the Imperial Dou Team was filled with an attitude of giving up.

Dugu Yan, who had taken over as captain, was exhausted too. She felt that the team was already finished. Their captain was gone, and their Teacher's heart was no longer with them.

"This is too ridiculous! They might as well disband! Does Heaven Dou Royal Academy not still have a first team? Let them carry the load instead!" Dugu Yan said furiously.