"Can you cure the poison in my body?" Dugu Bo finally cast aside his pride and could not help asking.
Lan Xue said coolly, "Even if I can, I won't cure you. You'll only end up worse off than me. Kill me, then. Perhaps you're no longer afraid of death yourself. After all, few live to seventy. But your beautiful granddaughter probably won't last as long as you have, much less possess your endurance to bear the ever-increasing pain. Her poison will flare up even more violently than yours, because she was steeped in this toxin from the moment she was in her mother's womb."
For the sake of survival, Tang San began making his final effort. When he had first met Dugu Yan, the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Soul Master, he had already harbored suspicions based on her appearance. As far as he knew, no one in this world had hair and eye colors like Dugu Yan's. Combined with the Jade Phosphorous Serpent venom she had used later, he had already reached a conclusion.
Now that he had met Dugu Yan's grandfather, this old monster before him, Tang San was even more certain of his judgment. Dugu Yan had indeed inherited her grandfather's martial soul and possessed formidable poison abilities, but she had also inherited the poison's backlash. Every word Tang San spoke was true. Even someone as arrogant as Dugu Bo had no way to refute him.
"What makes you think I should believe that you can cure the deadly poison in my body?"
This time, Tang San simply remained seated cross-legged on the ground. "Do we need to prove it to you? You're going to kill us anyway. Someone like you is nothing but a scourge on the world. If I saved you, I'd merely be aiding a