Cultivation Surges, Grand Titles for All Aren't a Dream

"Grandfather, what's wrong?"

Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had finished planting trees and, seeing the commotion over here, came running over.

Now, noticing Dugu Bo's face full of shock and daze, not knowing what was happening, she asked with some concern.

Dugu Bo did not answer.

He raised a trembling hand, pointing at the crude monster-dropping opening.

His lips quivered for a long time before he finally squeezed out a sentence.

"It... it went up..."

"My soul power... went up!"

These words shocked everyone.

The whole scene fell dead silent.

Ye Guanlan and Mu Qingyu exchanged a glance, both seeing the alarm in each other's eyes.

At Dugu Bo's level.

A ninety-first-grade Title Douluo.

Wanting to raise a single grade of soul power was measured in years.

Sometimes, even years might not bring a half-step of progress.

But now.

Just by swinging a sword once, killing a skeleton frame that wasn't even a soul beast.

His soul power actually went up?

This wasn't a Monster Grinding Tower.

This was clearly a heavenly ladder to the path of godhood!

"Let me try too!"

Ye Guanlan could no longer hold back. He snatched the Stone Sword and squeezed to the front.

"Smack!"

Another Zombie fell.

Ye Guanlan swung his sword.

Experience entered his body.

This eighty-third-grade Soul Douluo reacted even more dramatically than Dugu Bo.

"This..."

"At this rate of improvement... it's faster than a month of closed-door meditation!"

"This is... this is just too ridiculous!!"

Gu Changge watched these country bumpkins who had never seen the world, a slight smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

Can't handle this already?

If he built a Dark Room Tower or a Piglin Tower later.

When the experience flooded the screen like a waterfall.

Wouldn't they just pass out on the spot?

"Uncle Ye, don't get so worked up. This is all just small stuff."

Gu Changge said with a laugh.

"Now that this tower is built, it's our private property."

"From now on, we'll take turns grinding here."

"Aim to make everyone a Title Douluo as soon as possible."

If these words had been spoken before, they would have been dismissed as utter madness.

But now.

Looking at that monster endlessly falling down.

Everyone's breathing grew heavy.

This wasn't a monster.

It was clearly walking cultivation!

And then!

What then?

Of course, start grinding!

As long as it can't be ground to death, grind it to death.

Ye Guanlan gripped the Stone Sword and charged ahead with a roar.

"Thud!"

The dull sound of a heavy object hitting the ground echoed from the Monster Grinding Tower.

A Zombie lay sprawled in the gap behind the barrier, its legs twitching weakly.

Dugu Yan stepped forward.

The Stone Sword in her hand thrust out steadily, taking the Zombie's life.

"Urgh—"

The Zombie dissipated into white smoke.

Several emerald specks of light burst from the void and shot swiftly into her chest.

Dugu Yan savored the thrill of growing stronger as the experience poured into her.

Even though she had lost count of how many times she had felt this today.

She still found this effortless path to power almost unreal.

"Changge, I'm at level forty-nine!"

She turned her head to look at Gu Changge beside her.

Her voice was soft as she spoke.

"Keep it up. Aim to hit level fifty before dark. Tomorrow we'll go get your spirit ring together!"

Gu Changge smiled and praised her.

But his gaze wasn't on Dugu Yan.

It was on Dugu Bo nearby.

At that moment, Dugu Bo stood before a taller, larger Monster Grinding Tower with an even higher grinding efficiency.

The Stone Sword in his hands had become a blur, nearly sparking from the speed.

Yet he felt no fatigue; instead, a manic grin spread across his face.

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

Monsters inside the tower fell like raindrops hitting the ground, one after another.

The Stone Sword in Dugu Bo's hands whirred and slashed without pause.

And the experience, like countless Fire Flies of green light, fell like a sky full of stars, never stopping.

Faced with this scene, Dugu Bo's motivation to grind naturally soared higher and higher.

Because this Monster Grinding Tower was just too satisfying.

His spirit power had long since stagnated.

To have broken through to the Title Douluo realm with his inherently flawed Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul, and to have evolved that very Martial Soul into the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor, had already drained nearly all of his potential.

If he couldn't resolve the problem of his Martial Soul's poison backlash, then the ninety-first level strength of a gatekeeper Title Douluo

was the highest he could ever reach.

Even if, worn down by time, he might manage another level or two, the fatal nature of the poison backlash

meant that even if he could advance, he dared not do so by even a single level.

Because the Dugu family's Martial Soul was inherently flawed from birth.

The poison didn't just corrupt the body;

it was a chronic affliction intertwined with their very spirit power.

To recklessly raise his spirit power without solving this problem would be actively courting death.

Thus, Dugu Bo himself had long since given up.

The strength of a ninety-first level gatekeeper.

He had accepted it!

Because that was his fate.

But now, everything was different.

Gu Changge's arrival.

The appearance of the Monster Grinding Tower.

The situation where Soul Power became half-bound to the Experience Bar.

Everything was different.

Before, it had kept him on edge.

The Soul Power levels he dared not raise, even when given the chance.

Now, they could no longer be his shackles.

Because this method—grinding monsters in the tower to raise Experience Level, which in turn drove Soul Power Level upward—

Had, surprisingly, only ever increased pure Soul Power.

It did not cause the backlash poison carried by his own Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Martial Soul to rise in tandem.

It was like two mana bars.

One bar carried a poison like bone-gnawing maggots, capable of killing him at any moment.

The other bar was pure mana, without any poison at all.

Originally, these two bars had been on the same level.

Both at the height of rank ninety-one.

But now, under the boost of the Monster Grinding Tower, The poison-free bar had become the core of his strength, and it had begun to rise.

Thus, his power grew.

Yet the backlash poison could not increase by even a single point.

Stacked together, this method of improvement

Was like constantly pouring clean water into a bucket stained black by ink.

Though this pouring could not completely remove the original ink, In the process of continuous infusion, the original ink would be steadily diluted.

And this dilution was the best gospel for Dugu Bo.

For every fraction it was diluted, the pain of the Jade Phosphor Serpent Venom's backlash he suffered would lighten by a fraction.

Even, if it could be diluted to a certain degree, Relying on the Poison Pill he had condensed in his early years by staking his life, He had considerable confidence that he could completely subdue and master this damned Jade Phosphor Serpent Venom that had plagued him his entire life.

So, under these circumstances, How could the Stone Sword in Dugu Bo's hand not spark?

As for him monopolizing a taller, larger, more efficient Monster Grinding Tower...