The Dugu Family Riddled with Poison.

Dugu Bo spread out his body and leaped straight down the mountainside before him, where the bottom could not be seen.

With one experience behind him, Li Chang'an was already familiar with the process. He sprang lightly after him, following him as they fell into that bottomless valley...

The wild wind howled around them. Li Chang'an had no doubt that if he fell like this, he would end up smashed to pieces.

Fortunately, while they were still in midair, Dugu Bo released a vast surge of Soul Power that wrapped around him, bringing him along to land lightly on the ground.

The thick mist dispersed. Before his eyes was a valley.

A hot spring divided into two colors came into view.

The rolling steam that had risen from the mountaintop moments ago had been produced from the point between the two hot springs, constantly surging upward until it slowly dispersed at the mountain pass.

"Grandpa, why did you bring me here?" Only after arriving here did Li Chang'an ask in confusion.

"If you want to marry Yan Yan, your current physique still isn't enough. You need a body immune to all poisons." As Dugu Bo spoke, he pointed at the Ice Fire Immortal Herbs growing on the two sides of the lake. His meaning went without saying.

The poison of their Jade Scale Serpent Family did not only harm themselves. Even those who were overly close to them would unconsciously be poisoned through long years of contact.

After all, if toxins were hidden within one person's body, then when they engaged in negative-distance contact with another person, those toxins would naturally be transmitted into the other party's body, causing that person to be poisoned as well!

The principle was similar to spreading a virus.

That was why, regardless of whether the Dugu Family took wives or married off daughters, the partners they chose were basically all owners of martial souls with poison resistance.

But even so, through long years of contact, as the toxins accumulated more and more heavily in the body, their partners often could not last too long either. For example, Dugu Bo's wife, as well as his son and daughter-in-law... all of them had died from the Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison carried by the martial soul!

At first, Dugu Bo had thought Li Chang'an's martial soul was the same as his own, the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, and should not fear Dugu Yan's Snake Toxin. But through later understanding, he discovered that this boy's martial soul was not actually a pure Jade Scale Serpent Soul. Instead, it belonged to a half-serpent, half-sword martial soul. An extremely rare positive mutation of a martial soul!

Although, in essence, it possessed a part that belonged to a serpent, it was mainly still a Weapon Soul and could not undergo Martial Soul Possession. Therefore, Li Chang'an would not be poisoned by his own Snake Toxin like they were. But conversely, in Dugu Bo's mind, this boy's poison resistance was probably only at the level of an ordinary person.

If in the future, when he and Dugu Yan performed the affairs of husband and wife, Li Chang'an would probably inevitably be poisoned too... If he died young, then it would be another tragedy!

So, for the sake of his granddaughter's future happiness, Dugu Bo had told her that she temporarily could not do that sort of thing with Li Chang'an. He had truly gone to great pains.

And today, in his eyes, was the time to solve the problem.

Previously, Li Chang'an had once told him that the two immortal herbs growing on either side of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, one ice and one fire, could forge a golden body immune to all poisons if taken together. At the time, he had not been too certain whether it was true or false. Now that he had confirmed the authenticity of the immortal herbs, he decided to let him take these two immortal herbs.

As for why he did not take them himself?

The main reason was that Li Chang'an had told him that after taking them, the medicinal power of the immortal herbs might also dissolve the toxicity within his martial soul. When the time came, if the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor lost its poison, wouldn't that be the end of everything?

So right now, the person most suited to taking these two immortal herbs was only Li Chang'an.

But Dugu Bo actually did not know that Li Chang'an feared poison the least. Because of his unique mutated martial soul, it possessed the function of absorbing toxins. Therefore, no matter what deadly poison he was afflicted with, he could use his martial soul to dissolve and absorb the toxins.

He could even solve the poisoning problem that had troubled their Dugu Family for so long. It was just that this solution treated the symptoms rather than the root cause. Even if Li Chang'an sucked out all the poison in their bodies, as long as their martial souls still carried poison, they would start being poisoned again as they used them.

This method could not solve the problem once and for all. It was the same as forcing all the poison into a Soul Bone, purely treating the symptoms instead of the root. So Li Chang'an had not said it aloud, instead thinking that after he became a God, he would see whether he could thoroughly help them solve the problem. In the end, he had not expected Dugu Bo to misunderstand and think he feared toxins, so he planned to make him a body immune to all poisons.

It had to be said, the timing really was perfect.

Li Chang'an had just been worrying that one immortal herb to strengthen his body might still not be enough to pass the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud's test, yet before he even opened his mouth, Dugu Bo had taken the initiative to bring him over to eat immortal herbs and forge a golden body.

There was nothing to say. Benefits delivered right to his door—only an idiot would refuse.

With a casual wave of Dugu Bo's hand, a large octagonal white flower growing at the center point of the Eagle Spring in the distance fell at once. In an instant, a wave of cold air spread out, and a faint layer of white frost appeared on the surrounding medicinal herbs.

Although this medicinal herb was also an immortal product, it was not beneficial. On the contrary, it was a rare and deadly poison. Even a powerful expert like Poison Douluo Dugu Bo would absolutely not dare to remain by its side for long.

This item was called the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, an extremely cold flower grade that could chill a person's heart and freeze their central nerves numb. Within ten meters of this grass, the cold air was bone-piercing. If one stayed slightly too long, cold poison would attack the heart, and there would be no cure. Forget eating it; even standing beside it would bring misfortune.

After Dugu Bo cut down the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass with a blade formed from Soul Power, he once again waved his hand toward the other side of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the central position of the Blazing Yang Spring.

This time, his target was a plant that looked like a cabbage yet was fiery red from top to bottom. Soul Power turned into a rope, directly lassoing this fiery-red medicinal herb and uprooting it.

This plant was the exact opposite of the extremely cold Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass from before. It was a deadly immortal product possessing top-grade Fire Poison, the "Infernal Delicate Apricot." This item grew only in scorching-hot places and could survive even in magma. All of its effects were precisely opposite to those of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

Immediately afterward, Dugu Bo brought both hands together toward the center. At once, the ice and fire yin-yang immortal herbs that had been picked from the left and right were pulled by Soul Power and collided together.

A miraculous scene occurred.

The two immortal herbs that had been extremely cold and extremely hot just moments ago had both their cold and hot auras vanish at the same time when they collided.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass was covered in a faint layer of red light, while the Infernal Delicate Apricot was covered in a faint layer of white mist. They had clearly affected each other.

Seeing this scene, Dugu Bo finally let out a complete breath of relief. After all, the recorded method of consuming these two immortal herbs was far too bizarre, and the risk was great. If the records were wrong, Li Chang'an's little life would be completely finished.

Now, after seeing that once these two immortal herbs collided, their auras truly mingled just as Li Chang'an had said, temporarily neutralizing each other's toxicity, he finally believed that there should be no problem with the method of consuming these two immortal herbs.

"Chang'an, there isn't much time. Hurry and take them," Dugu Bo urged as he looked at him.

After these two immortal herbs intersected with each other, although they would be restrained by the other's aura, after ten breaths, their effects would also completely vanish. And within these ten breaths was precisely the best time to take them.

Li Chang'an nodded, then quickly strode forward and grabbed the two immortal herbs. He stuffed them straight into his mouth in huge bites, chewed a few times, and finally swallowed them all.