The Man Himself Arrives

Early the next morning, Hua Jieyu and Lin Feng arrived at the clinic together. Lin Feng sat at the consultation desk in the front hall, while Hua Jieyu went to rest in the back courtyard.

Before they left, Lin Feng asked Hua Jieyu, "Mom, if Dugu Bo suddenly lashes out, will you have time to react from the back courtyard?"

Hua Jieyu smiled. "You can let him try." Lin Feng quietly gave his mother a thumbs-up. Mom really has guts. A Spirit Saint telling a Titled Douluo to try making a move. Still, he felt more reassured.

Not long after the doors opened, an old man with green eyes and hair and a pale complexion entered. Lin Feng inwardly complained, When people get old, they really need less sleep. He came so early in the morning.

Lin Feng cupped his hands to Dugu Bo in greeting. "Greetings, Your Excellency Dugu. Please, have a seat." Then he instructed Lin An to prepare tea.

Dugu Bo did not sit down and spoke directly. "You know me?"

Why ask such a stupid question? There isn't another person in the entire Douluo Continent with that appearance, Lin Feng thought. "Your Excellency Dugu's appearance is probably one of a kind in the entire Douluo Continent. You are not hard to recognize."

Dugu Bo asked, "You were waiting for me?"

Lin Feng replied, "Dugu Yan suffered a loss here yesterday, and I told her she had been poisoned. Whether she believed me or not, she would definitely go back and complain. So it is no surprise that Your Excellency came today."

Dugu Bo said, "You said Yan Yan has been poisoned. Boy, you have gained a bit of fame and forgotten who you are, haven't you? I am the Poison Douluo. How could my granddaughter possibly be poisoned?"

"Whether Dugu Yan has been poisoned, Your Excellency should know very well," Lin Feng said. "Just as Your Excellency should know whether you yourself have been poisoned. You are the renowned Poison Douluo—how could you not know?"

Lin Feng felt Dugu Bo's aura suddenly surge, only for it to pause the next moment. As if he had thought of something or sensed something, Dugu Bo withdrew the pressure he had raised. "Boy, do you know the consequences of spouting nonsense before me?"

Lin Feng acted as though he had felt nothing and continued, "Then Your Excellency may take it as nonsense. After all, I am not the one who feels miserable when the sky turns overcast and it rains. Nor am I the one who suffers unbearable pain at midnight. And it is not my descendants who will be deeply afflicted."

Dugu Bo was shocked. Even Dugu Yan did not know about the symptoms in his body, yet this boy had exposed them the moment he opened his mouth. He slowly sat down in the nearby chair and calmed himself. "I underestimated you. Since you can say all that, do you have a cure?"

"Let me take Your Excellency's pulse first." Lin Feng examined Dugu Bo's pulse, confirming his earlier guess. He then continued, "May I ask how Your Excellency views the poison within your body?"

Dugu Bo said, "This is the poison inherent to the Jade Serpent Martial Soul. It has been passed down through the Dugu Clan for generations, striking fear into outsiders while causing my own family great suffering."

"Your Excellency Dugu, I see things differently," Lin Feng said. "In my opinion, neither your poison nor Dugu Yan's poison came from your Martial Souls."

"How is that possible?" Dugu Bo asked. "If the poison did not originate from the Martial Soul, how could it be passed down generation after generation? And why would my son have died so young?"

"Your Excellency, please hear me out first. On the Douluo Continent, everyone can awaken a Martial Soul. There are countless varieties of Martial Souls, each with different uses. Yet under the Heaven and Earth Laws, no Martial Soul, regardless of its type, will harm its host—not even a Poison attribute Martial Soul. Even Food System Martial Souls can absorb Poison attribute spirit rings and produce food without poison.

"If Martial Soul poison could poison its own host, there would be no Poison attribute soul masters left in this world. They would have died out long ago. And in terms of poisonous might, the current Pope's Death Spider Emperor is likely far stronger than Your Excellency's Jade Serpent Emperor. She is fine, so naturally the Dugu Clan should be fine as well."

"What you say makes sense," Dugu Bo said, "but how can you prove that you are right? These are merely your guesses."

"To be honest, I'm a little speechless," Lin Feng said. "Your Excellency Dugu, have you done nothing but cultivate without learning any Martial Soul knowledge? Yesterday, I used wine and fire to neutralize the Jade Serpent Poison. That method is hardly rare, yet Dugu Yan clearly knew nothing about it. Now it seems Your Excellency probably does not know either."

Dugu Bo was left speechless by the retort, because he truly did not know. All these years, he had only known how to cultivate and search for ways to detoxify himself. He guarded a medicinal garden filled with peerless treasures, yet he did not recognize the herbs within it and did not dare consume them.

Seeing his embarrassment, Lin Feng did not wait for an answer and continued, "Therefore, there is only one possibility for the Jade Serpent Martial Soul's poison to affect its soul master's body: when an ancestor of the Dugu Clan absorbed a certain Poison attribute spirit ring, the poison of that spirit ring mixed with the Jade Serpent Poison and caused the Martial Soul to mutate. It may also have been a Martial Soul Evolution, but because the poison was unbalanced and there was insufficient energy, the mutation or evolution failed, resulting in the current situation. The poison entered the bloodline, affecting not only the soul master but also passing down through the bloodline from generation to generation. This is not entirely without benefits. The poison of the Dugu Clan's Martial Soul should also be gradually growing stronger with each generation. It is just that later generations will likely die younger and younger. The stronger they become, the earlier they die."

As Dugu Bo listened to Lin Feng's analysis, it made more and more sense. Generations of the Dugu Clan had also been proving this analysis. Yet Lin Feng's final conclusion left him deeply powerless, even despairing. A Titled Douluo of his stature actually began to feel disheartened.

Seeing Dugu Bo in that state, Lin Feng thought, Damn, I hit him too hard. He hurriedly added, "Your Excellency Dugu, do not despair yet. I never said it cannot be cured. In fact, I have more than one solution."

Dugu Bo instantly felt as if he had returned from hell to heaven. "Ah! Boy—no, little Divine Doctor, are you telling the truth?"

Lin Feng found it a little amusing. Even a Titled Douluo could not remain calm when faced with matters of life and death. "It is true. But first, I need to confirm one thing with Your Excellency. Once it is confirmed, I will provide the appropriate detoxification plan, and the payment will depend on the plan. What does Your Excellency think?"

"No problem," Dugu Bo said. "Tell me. What do you need to confirm?"

"When I examined the poison within Your Excellency's body, one thing greatly surprised me," Lin Feng said. "Given the state of the poison in your body, under normal circumstances, Your Excellency should not have lived to this day, much less broken through to become a Titled Douluo. Yet not only are you alive and well, your cultivation is also above Rank 90. Therefore, I guess that Your Excellency either possesses a supreme treasure of Yin-Yang Harmony or has a treasure ground of Yin-Yang Harmony. Only the aura of Yin-Yang Harmony could suppress the poison within your body and even help you break through to the Titled Douluo realm. Am I correct?"

Dugu Bo felt that he had truly been shocked again and again today. He had never expected a nine-year-old child to expose his most deeply hidden trump card through deduction alone. Compared to Lin Feng's earlier analysis of his poison, this was even more unbelievable. If he knew that Lin Feng merely held the script and was inventing the process from the result, he might have wanted to slap Lin Feng to death. Dugu Bo gave Lin Feng a deep look. "I rarely admire anyone, but today, you have truly won my wholehearted respect. I do indeed have a medicinal garden. Deep within it lies a spring where two extreme auras, scorching heat and freezing cold, coexist in perfect balance. I rely on that aura to suppress the poison within my body and break through to Titled Douluo."

"It really is it! The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye!" Lin Feng said.

"You know it?" Dugu Bo asked. "What is this Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye?"

"The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye is a natural treasure basin for medicinal herbs," Lin Feng said. "Ordinary plants and ordinary people cannot survive there, but for heavenly treasures, it is an exceptional place to grow. It can accelerate their growth by more than tenfold. Judging by the ice and fire aura spreading around it, which can suppress the poison within Your Excellency's body and help you break through, it must have formed over a period measured in Hundred-thousand-year units."

"I feel as though I am illiterate in front of you," Dugu Bo said. "I am a Titled Douluo, yet I can barely understand what you are saying."

"I say, Old Sir Dugu, Martial Soul cultivation is not merely about Soul Power, spirit rings, and soul skills," Lin Feng said. "Although it may sound like a joke for a Soul Grandmaster like me to say such things before a Titled Douluo like you, that is simply the truth. Martial Soul knowledge and spirit beast knowledge—having a deep understanding of such things benefits a soul master's cultivation and can even greatly increase a soul master's strength."