Battle with Poison Douluo

Mu Yuan said, "Let's fight outside, so we don't wreck this place."

Dugu Bo said, "Just what I wanted!"

The two left the valley. Before departing, Mu Yuan glanced at Tang San, whom Dugu Bo had tossed aside. After a moment's thought, he casually summoned several Wood Vines and bound the unconscious Tang San.

Once outside, Dugu Bo stood with his hands behind his back.

With his pride, he naturally would not make the first move against a junior like Mu Yuan.

Seeing this, Mu Yuan wasted no words. He brought his hands together and opened with the Wood Dragon.

The Wood Dragon, now sixty meters long, was summoned in an instant by Mu Yuan and came howling through the air.

Dugu Bo's expression changed, and he hurriedly dodged.

"Brat, did you really hunt that Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast by yourself?"

Mu Yuan smiled. "You'll find out if you try, Senior!"

With a thought, the Wood Dragon coiled its body and swept its long tail toward Dugu Bo. Any rocks or trees on the ground that touched the dragon's tail were snapped and shattered, sending dust flying everywhere.

Seeing this, Dugu Bo had already begun treating Mu Yuan as an opponent on his own level. He no longer dared hold anything back. Jade-green light burst from his body as he expanded into the wind, and his first seven soul rings all lit up.

"Emerald Scorpion Snake Emperor True Body!"

A massive emerald-green serpent appeared behind Dugu Bo. It was thirty meters long and as thick as a water vat, its emerald scales embedded along its body like jade. A pair of enormous green snake eyes stared coldly at the approaching Wood Dragon, its forked tongue flickering as thick green mist swirled around it.

"Hiss!"

The Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor flicked its tongue. The instant the Wood Dragon's tail swept over, it opened its huge jaws and bit down on it.

"Boom!"

As their strength collided, Dugu Bo's Martial Soul Avatar was forced steadily backward, carving a trench-like mark through the ground.

"What tremendous strength!"

Dugu Bo forcefully flung away the Wood Dragon he had bitten, his heart filled with shock. He had thought Mu Yuan's Wood Dragon was merely large, never expecting it to possess such immense strength as well.

His Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor was not a martial soul known for strength. Competing with the Wood Dragon in raw power was clearly unwise.

Dugu Bo retreated. The Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor puffed out its cheeks, and a foul-smelling poisonous mist instantly spewed from its mouth!

Under the corrosion of the toxic mist, Mu Yuan's summoned Wood Dragon became riddled with pits and holes. A layer of its thorn-covered hide was corroded away, while the poison mist rapidly spread toward Mu Yuan behind it.

Dugu Bo had keenly noticed the weakness of Mu Yuan's true body. He intended to bypass the Wood Dragon and directly attack Mu Yuan himself.

"Good timing!"

Mu Yuan laughed loudly. As expected of a Titled Douluo—an ordinary Wood Dragon was not enough to take him down.

"Sixth Soul Skill, Wood Man!"

Mu Yuan brought his hands together, and his blood-red sixth soul ring lit up.

The earth began to tremble as a colossal figure rose from the ground in an instant. Seventy meters tall, it resembled a small walking mountain.

The poisonous mist Dugu Bo had sprayed out was scattered with a casual wave of the Wood Man's hand.

Before the Wood Man, the thirty-meter-long Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor looked like nothing more than a small snake.

Dugu Bo opened his dry mouth, unable to say a word. At that moment, he fully believed that Mu Yuan possessed the strength to hunt a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast alone.

Standing atop the Wood Man's head, Mu Yuan controlled it as it swiftly strode toward the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor.

Despite its massive size, the Wood Man was not slow in the slightest. Every step of its heavy body caused a miniature earthquake.

Dugu Bo did not dare take it head-on. The difference in size between them was simply too great.

In a frontal clash, the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor could not possibly be the Wood Man's match.

Dugu Bo maintained his distance and dodged across the ground.

Meanwhile, Mu Yuan kept attacking him.

A seemingly ordinary punch from the Wood Man crashed down, and every impact against the ground erupted with a deafening boom. Deep craters were punched into the earth, mountain rocks shattered, and the entire mountain shook without end.

"I never thought I'd one day be chased around and beaten by a junior!"

Dugu Bo's face was filled with bitterness.

Elsewhere.

Tang San, in the valley below, woke up because of the immense sounds of battle outside.

"Where am I?"

Tang San opened his eyes to find a hot spring before him.

"Wait, that's—" Tang San stared at the sight before him, his body trembling uncontrollably from overwhelming excitement.

He had never imagined that he would see such a magnificent sight in this world.

Though he had never seen it before, a similar scene had been described in his memories.

The Tang Sect of his previous life had been an assassination organization, most skilled in the use of poison. The sect's records documented countless rare medicines—some highly toxic, others heavenly treasures. At the very end of those records were detailed descriptions of the three great treasure basins.

These so-called treasure basins did not refer to gold or silver, but three special natural environments.

Ordinary plants simply could not grow within the environments of the three great treasure basins, because they could not adapt to the unusual climate. Yet the three great treasure basins were the breeding grounds of all rare plants.

The three great treasure basins possessed uniquely blessed conditions, gathering the finest essence of the world and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Wasn't the scene before him exactly identical to one of the three great treasure basins described in the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record?

"The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. This is actually the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well?"

Tang San felt his heartbeat accelerating continuously. This uncontrollable excitement was appearing for the first time in this life. Even in his previous life, he had only felt it when he created Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus.

Not far in front of him, near the edge of the milky-white hot spring, was a cluster of things that looked like small insects.

"Snow Silkworm? The finest variety of cordyceps—the Snow Silkworm."

Tang San recognized the thing before him at a glance, and his heartbeat sped up further.

Then Tang San noticed another plant beside the Snow Silkworm. Its outer skin was yellowish-brown, while its cross-section was yellowish-red. Its single leaves grew alternately, its petioles were thin and curved, and its yellowish-green leaves bore small purple-spotted flowers. They were bent and strip-shaped, remarkably strange.

"Cinnabar Lotus? It actually grew this large?"

Tang San could not tear his gaze away. He hurriedly wanted to step forward for a closer look, but then he discovered that several Wood Vines had tightly bound his body, making it impossible for him to move freely.

"Where did these Wood Vines come from?"

Tang San raised his hands and pulled at them, but the Wood Vines were incomparably tough. Even using all his strength with both hands, he could not tear them apart.

Tang San's expression darkened.

He guessed that these Wood Vines might be connected to the person who had knocked him unconscious.

He simply did not know why that person had knocked him out, brought him here, and bound him to the ground with Wood Vines.

Constant rumbling came from outside. The sounds of battle somewhat resembled two massive soul beasts fighting, like the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Titan Giant Ape from before.

A sense of danger swiftly rose in Tang San's heart.

He reached into his Soul Tool and took out the Hidden Weapons he had forged before, using them to slowly cut through the Wood Vines around him.

But the Wood Vines were unbelievably resilient. Tang San cut at them for a long time until he was drenched in sweat, yet he only managed to leave a faint white mark.

Tang San panted lightly. Yet in the blink of an eye, even the white mark he had painstakingly cut out had healed.

"Damn it, how are these Wood Vines even tougher than the ones Mu Yuan summons?"