Detoxification and Cultivation

"..."

Dugu Bo opened his mouth at Li Yu's words, but he did not know what to say.

In the end, he followed Li Yu's instructions, walked over to him, turned his back to him, and sat down cross-legged.

Still.

Accepting treatment from another person like this was clearly a rare experience for Dugu Bo.

Especially when that person was such a beauty—this was truly a first for him.

His body remained tense, as though he were the devastatingly beautiful woman instead.

"Sigh!"

Li Yu let out a soft sigh and said helplessly, "Your Excellency, I'm not even nervous. What are you nervous about?"

As a Titled Douluo, Dugu Bo's senses were exceptionally sharp.

With his mind constantly on edge, even though the two were half a meter apart, he could still clearly feel the warm breath Li Yu exhaled while speaking.

His old face could not help but redden.

At his age, he was actually less composed than a young girl!

"This old man isn't nervous. I'm merely lowering my defenses. Otherwise, with your cultivation, let alone detoxifying me, I'm afraid you..."

Dugu Bo tried to explain himself, but as he spoke, he felt that it did make sense.

His thoughts immediately became clearer. "Detoxification will inevitably require physical contact, which is why this old man deliberately changed clothes. It is also to make things easier for you."

After saying that.

Dugu Bo secretly praised himself for being clever. Sure enough, he had not lived all these years for nothing.

Behind him, however, Li Yu's lips twitched slightly.

No, you old monster, who asked about you changing clothes?

What exactly are you explaining?

And who even cared?

At that thought, Qian Renxue's figure flashed through Li Yu's mind.

Although he was currently wearing female attire, deep down, he still considered himself a man.

Thus, when Dugu Bo had brought him here, he had not panicked as a woman normally would.

But while he knew these things himself, Qian Renxue did not.

Moreover, Qian Renxue, who was playing "Xue Qinghe," was herself a peerlessly beautiful woman.

Naturally, she understood even better how dangerous feminine beauty could be!

And she understood the risks involved even more clearly.

So, after Dugu Bo had taken him away, what was Qian Renxue doing now?

Did she not care?

Or was she worried?

Li Yu's lips curled slightly. He already had the answer in his heart.

Qian Renxue was the "stubborn" type.

Although they had only spent a day or two together so far.

From some of her instinctive reactions, however, Li Yu could tell that she already held a place for him in her heart.

Shaking his head.

Li Yu turned his attention back to what was before him.

Looking at Dugu Bo, who had already lowered his defenses, Li Yu's thoughts shifted, and the Devouring Fangs he had just hidden appeared once more.

This time, however, to conceal them, the two Devouring Fangs only extended sharp tips from beneath his nails, merging with the nails of his index and middle fingers.

Without close inspection, they might have been mistaken for some sort of decoration.

In terms from Li Yu's previous life, it looked as though he had applied nail art.

But this was the key to resolving the poison that had plagued Dugu Bo for so long!

Without the slightest hesitation.

Li Yu pressed two fingers directly against the center of Dugu Bo's back.

The Devouring Fangs easily pierced through his clothes before touching Dugu Bo's skin.

Clang!

It was like striking metal or stone.

Dugu Bo's body trembled, and he instinctively tried to release his martial soul.

But in the next instant, he restrained himself and compressed the Soul Power that had begun to surge outward back into his body.

Pfft!

As Dugu Bo withdrew his defenses, the Devouring Fangs met no further obstruction and easily pierced his skin!

But they stopped there, the White Fangs advancing no further!

Not because they could not, but because this was already enough.

"Devour!"

At the same time, Li Yu activated the soul skill attached to the Devouring Fangs.

In an instant, the Soul Power within his body began circulating in a strange manner. It flowed into the Devouring Fangs, then rippled into Dugu Bo's body.

Like a fish entering water.

The Soul Power rippled in circles, and strands of unknown energy resonated with it before flowing back along with the ripples and entering the Devouring Fangs once more.

After passing through the Devouring Fangs, those strands of unknown energy seemed to be filtered, transforming into the purest Soul Power and merging into Li Yu's body!

"It really works!"

Li Yu's spirits rose. Although the increase was tiny, it was a genuine improvement!

This proved that the Devouring Fangs truly could "devour" poison to raise his Soul Power.

Though he had expected this.

The feedback from practice was ultimately different from theory.

Now that it had been confirmed, Li Yu, who had appeared calm while secretly holding his breath all along, finally relaxed.

He then devoted himself even more fully to his "cultivation."

As for Dugu Bo before him.

When Li Yu's Soul Power entered his body in such a crude manner, anger rose in Dugu Bo's heart.

He had almost immediately concluded that Li Yu was making a fool of him.

Who detoxified someone by piercing their skin, then recklessly pouring their own Soul Power into the "patient's body"?

Either the healer had absolute confidence in their medical skills, or they were a fucking idiot!

In Dugu Bo's eyes, with Li Yu's Soul Power at only level thirty-one, he was clearly the latter—a fucking idiot.

But that thought lasted only an instant before disappearing.

The Soul Power Li Yu had sent into his body was like ripples spreading across a lake in a gentle breeze, without the slightest sense of discord.

Nor did it provoke any resistance from the Soul Power within Dugu Bo's body.

It was as though the two had always been one and the same!

This...

Was this truly something a Three-Ring Soul Grandmaster could accomplish?

Stormy waves surged through Dugu Bo's heart, and he immediately began treating Li Yu with the utmost seriousness.

Then.

He sensed that the mixed toxins within his body began to ripple along when they encountered those waves of Soul Power.

Then, just like that, they left his body!

This was bad!

Yet beneath his joy, the first thought that arose in his heart was that something had gone wrong.

While the toxins remained in his body, he could still suppress them.

But if they entered Li Yu's body along with the Soul Power, then with Li Yu's strength as a mere Three-Ring Soul Grandmaster, suppressing them would likely be impossible.

Thus.

His Spiritual Power immediately settled on Li Yu.

But in the next moment, he froze again.

He could clearly sense that after those toxins entered Li Yu's body, they transformed into exceptionally pure Soul Power!

They then merged into his body, becoming part of his Soul Power!

Li Yu could actually absorb the power of toxins to cultivate and raise his own Soul Power!

This once again left him incredulous, but the truth was right before him, leaving no room for doubt.

At the same time.

He also understood why Li Yu had demanded his poisons as payment!

Li Yu was outright treating him as a cultivation resource!

Yet Dugu Bo did not feel the slightest dissatisfaction.

As long as Li Yu could resolve the affliction within his body, what did it matter if he became a cultivation resource? He was willing to oblige!

He would even remember the favor Li Yu had done him!

If Li Yu needed anything in the future, so long as it did not violate his principles, he would agree to it.

Li Yu did not know what Dugu Bo was thinking, nor did he know that in such a short time, his standing in Dugu Bo's heart had undergone a complete transformation.

Immersed in his own world, he slowly raised his Soul Power.