"Given your current condition, each episode should last for more than two hours."
"And every night, around midnight."
"You feel stabbing pain like needles in the top of your head and the soles of your feet."
"Your entire body convulses for at least an hour."
"I don't need to describe that unbearable process, do I?"
"If it weren't poisoning, would you have symptoms like these?"
"Not only have you been poisoned, but the poison has already seeped into your bones and marrow."
"I'm only curious why you aren't dead yet."
"The poison in you simply can't be suppressed by Soul Power."
"Y-You, how did you know?"
Dugu Bo could no longer suppress his shock and blurted it out instinctively.
Gu Xuan's description was as though he had witnessed it firsthand.
This was Dugu Bo's greatest secret. Even his closest granddaughter knew nothing about it.
How could he not be shocked when Gu Xuan spoke of it?
"So there really is something to this."
Dugu Bo had calmed down by then.
He quietly watched Gu Xuan, the astonishment in his heart steadily growing.
At that moment, Gu Xuan continued,
"Based on my analysis, your symptoms will continue to worsen."
"Although I still don't understand how you've managed to suppress this deadly poison and keep it from acting up."
"You must have consumed some kind of heavenly treasure."
"But that heavenly treasure can't protect you forever."
"In a few years, even if the poison doesn't kill you, the agony of its backlash will torture you to death."
Uncertain light flickered in Dugu Bo's eyes.
Everything Gu Xuan had said was precisely his greatest source of suffering.
Behind his formidable strength, he endured torment beyond ordinary imagination.
Every episode left him neither able to live nor die.
That kind of pain simply could