Although the Dugu Family was powerful and had its own inheritance, there were ultimately problems with their cultivation.
Even if they possessed powerful Soul Ring combinations, they mostly followed the methods of ordinary Soul Masters—exploring new Soul Skills in the hope of finding ways to alleviate the toxic backlash of their family's Martial Soul.
Moreover, with such a major flaw in their Martial Soul, they would not seek out other scholars to help devise some so-called Detoxification Method. Instead, they researched it themselves.
Thus, generation after generation, a family that played with poison had accumulated considerable knowledge regarding Martial Souls. Dugu Bo in particular, having reached an extremely high level in his research on toxins, had developed his own approach to researching Martial Souls as well.
In the past, Dugu Yan had not understood why her grandfather, after becoming a Titled Douluo, had turned to studying theoretical books.
Now, she vaguely understood.
"Xiao Wen, Teacher Xiao Zhan, my grandfather once said that there are Stone Monsters over fifty thousand years old deep within Sunset Forest. That is also where the Stone Monster Tribe gathers. However, many Stone Monsters still live outside that area, so let's search the outskirts."
"Fifty thousand years?" Su Wen was startled.
Among the many records on Stone Monsters he had read, there had never been one with such a high cultivation age.
The highest was still a thirty-thousand-year Stone Monster discovered in Star Dou Great Forest by a Soul Master a thousand years ago, according to the records of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
It seems I can't completely trust public records in the future either, Su Wen thought.
It was not that the public records were wrong, but that what they documented might truly be incomplete.
"Stone Monsters that are fifty thousand years old