Recruiting Dugu Bo
"Senior Dugu, we meet again!" Lu Yuan looked down at Dugu Bo, who was lying on the ground in a disheveled state, with a faint smile in his voice.
To be honest, he didn't expect that Long Xiaoyao would just throw him down from mid-air. Looking at the deep pit on the ground, Dugu Bo must have been seriously injured.
However, considering that he is Titled Douluo, he should be fine. Titled Douluo shouldn't be this weak.
Long Xiaoyao slowly descended and stood not far from Lu Yuan.
He didn't have a good impression of Dugu Bo, after all, this guy had once tried to attack the master. So when Long Xiaoyao found him, he captured him without saying a word, sealed his Soul Power, flew here, and then threw him down from mid-air.
Anyway, since the Lord said he was captured, he did not go against the Lord's wishes by doing so.
"Cough cough!" Dugu Bo coughed a few times, spitting out the dust in his mouth. He had no choice. His Soul Power had been sealed by Long Xiaoyao, and he had fallen from such a height. Although he was a powerful Titled Douluo and was not seriously injured, he still had a mouthful of dust.
Spitting out the dust from his mouth, Dugu Bo got up and brushed off the dust and mud clinging to his clothes. Looking at the tall, handsome young man in front of him, Dugu Bo's expression was somewhat complicated.
"It's you?" Dugu Bo recognized him at a glance. Wasn't this young man Lu Yuan who had caused a ruckus at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy two years ago?
Didn't they say they had already left the Heaven Dou Imperial City?
Why is he back again?
And why did they come back and cause me trouble?
Recalling how Long Xiaoyao had captured him in one move, sealed his Soul Power, and held him like a chick in his hand, Dugu Bo felt a sense of powerlessness. The gap between him and Long Xiaoyao was like the gap between Soul Master and an ordinary person, as vast as heaven and earth, leaving him utterly powerless to fight back.
"It's me. It's been two years. How have you been, Senior Dugu?" Lu Yuan said with a smile.
"Look at me, am I alright or am I hurt?" He was a Titled Douluo, and he was thrown from mid-air like a chick, covered in dust and dirt. With Dugu Bo's temper, how could he tolerate this? So his tone was very sharp.
If his Soul Power hadn't been sealed, he would probably be fighting desperately by now.
After all, Dugu Bo had an unusually eccentric temperament, and he wasn't really afraid of death.
"Watch your tone!" Long Xiaoyao said calmly.
In his eyes, what was Dugu Bo, a mere level 91 Titled Douluo, anyway? He was just the weakest among the Title Douluos, yet he dared to speak to his master like that.
"It's alright, Old Long. After all, we invited them here, so we should give them some face!"
"Besides, it's normal for him to be a little irritable after being thrown around like that!" Lu Yuan said with a slight smile.
"Hmph!" Dugu Bo snorted and said, "Boy, although I am far from being a match for the Dragon Emperor Douluo beside you, I am not someone to be humiliated. If you want to humiliate me, you might as well just kill me with one strike. Let's see if I, Dugu Bo, will even frown."
"I have no grudge against Senior Dugu, so why would I want to kill you? The reason I had Old Long invite you here is naturally because I have important matters to discuss with Senior Dugu," Lu Yuan said.
"Is this how you hire people?" Dugu Bo scoffed.
"Hehe, it was Old Long who was in the wrong. I apologize to you on his behalf. Old Long, please release Senior Dugu's Soul Power!" Lu Yuan said.
"Yes, Master!" Long Xiaoyao nodded, patted Dugu Bo, and instantly released the Soul Power seal on Dugu Bo, making Dugu Bo a Titled Douluo- level powerhouse once again.
Feeling his Soul Power replenished again, Dugu Bo nodded in satisfaction. The feeling of having his Soul Power sealed and being powerless was far from pleasant.
Although he is Titled Douluo, he is known for his poison and follows the path of control. His physical body is not considered strong among Titled Douluo. If his Soul Power were sealed, he would not even be able to defeat Lu Yuan in his current state. Although he is not completely powerless, any Soul Sage could easily defeat him.
Unlike Tang Hao, who specializes in physical strength and, in the original story, doesn't use his Martial Soul but relies solely on his physical strength to easily defeat Zhao Wuji, Dugu Bo is different. His physical body is weaker than others of the same level.
"What brings you here, kid?" Dugu Bo asked.
"It's like this, I want to create a force in the Heaven Dou Imperial City and would like to invite Senior Dugu to join me," Lu Yuan said.
"Join a faction? I'm used to being a loner and I don't like joining any factions. You've come to the wrong person." Dugu Bo refused on the spot.
"Senior Dugu, don't be so quick to refuse. My invitation to you to join is naturally out of sincerity," Lu Yuan said.
"Oh, I'd like to see what sincerity you have to offer that might move me," Dugu Bo said with amusement. He wasn't the kind of person who was obsessed with power, and it wouldn't be so easy to win him over.
"I'll remove the deadly poison from your body and also cure your granddaughter Dugu Yan of the Azure Serpent Venom. Do you think that's sincere enough?" Lu Yuan said with a smile.
"What did you say?" Dugu Bo's expression changed drastically, his eyes filled with shock. How did this kid know he was poisoned?
"Are you telling the truth?" Dugu Bo asked hurriedly.
"Of course it's true. I never lie. If I'm not mistaken, Senior Dugu is already terminally ill. It's just that the extreme cold and heat of the Icefire Yin Yang Well here are suppressing it for you, so you are still alive. But in reality, the poison you have been poisoned is already very serious."
"Whenever it's cloudy or rainy, you will experience a numb and itchy sensation in your ribs, which will gradually intensify. It will occur once at noon and once at midnight, and each time it will last for more than an hour. Also, every night around midnight, you will experience a needle-like stabbing pain on the top of your head and the soles of your feet, along with spasms throughout your body, which will last for at least half an hour."
"The feeling of this poison taking effect, even if it's not worse than death, is definitely not pleasant. Senior Dugu, you must be suffering a lot while you're alive, which is why you're not afraid of death at all."
"You, how did you know? You can see my illness with just your eyes?" Dugu Bo's eyes were filled with disbelief. This young man had actually described his illness word for word. Could he really remove the poison from his body?
"This bit of poison is nothing to me. I am an alchemist!" Lu Yuan smiled faintly. The system's reward had already been issued when he was searching for Immortal Herb. The contents of "Complete Elixir Dao Guide" were already deeply engraved in his mind.
Although I have no practical experience, I have personally refined elixirs.
However, Lu Yuan was perfectly clear about these theoretical issues.
Even Tang San, Tang Sect, could see the symptoms, let alone him who had integrated all the contents of "Complete Elixir Dao Guide". How could a sect that only studied poisons to harm people in a low-level martial arts world compare with the alchemists in the fantasy world? They were not even on the same level.