Dugu Bo: I Wanted to Show Off, but Ended Up Becoming a Guide

Dugu Yan shuddered, her pretty face flushing bright red.

She stared at the green orb Li Yifei had condensed in his hand again, her eyes filled with longing and a trace of shyness.

"Brother Yifei... I..."

Li Yifei did not wait for her to finish babbling. He simply reached out and pinched her chin.

The gesture was somewhat domineering, yet it made Dugu Yan's heart skip a beat.

"Open your mouth."

Dugu Yan obediently closed her eyes and felt the warm liquid slide down her throat.

A moment later.

A dazzling green light erupted from her body as well.

Her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul was evolving too.

Though it had not transformed directly into a dragon like Dugu Bo's, its serpentine body had become semi-transparent, radiating an aura that was both sacred and bizarre.

That was... the Jade Heavenly Serpent!

A god-tier Martial Soul that existed only in legend, capable of controlling every poison under heaven!

Their poisons had been cured.

Their lives had been saved.

Their futures had been completely rewritten by Li Yifei with just two blades of grass.

No one in the Chat Group spoke anymore.

Everyone was desperately trying to process what they had just witnessed.

The world-shattering impact had nearly crashed their minds.

Bibi Dong especially.

She slumped on the Pope's Throne, staring at the calm young man in the livestream, an unprecedented sense of defeat rising within her.

The knowledge she had always been proud of, the authority she had always been proud of.

Before that man, they were simply a joke.

"What... does he want?"

Bibi Dong murmured to herself.

Meanwhile, Li Yifei had not thought that much about it at all.

He merely glanced at the energy feedback on his Wristwatch and nodded slightly.

"The conversion rate for this low-grade energy is decent."

"Next..."

He looked deeper into Sunset Forest.

According to the Wristwatch's scan, somewhere within lay a source with incomparably terrifying energy fluctuations.

Hot and cold alternated, cycling endlessly.

That was a true... energy-rich zone.

"Old man."

Li Yifei spoke, interrupting Dugu Bo's wild ecstasy.

Dugu Bo immediately rose to his feet, as respectful as a little eunuch.

"Please give your orders, sir!"

"Take me to that place with the hot and cold springs."

Li Yifei pointed in the direction indicated by the scanner.

Dugu Bo froze.

Hot and cold springs?

Was sir referring to... that forbidden place of death which even he did not dare approach?

"Sir, that place is extremely dangerous. Those springs..."

Dugu Bo instinctively wanted to dissuade him.

But upon seeing Li Yifei's calm gaze, he immediately shut his mouth.

Dangerous?

Before this monster, was there anything in this world that could still be called dangerous?

"Yes! This old man will lead the way at once!"

Dugu Bo straightened his chest, his entire body brimming with vigor.

He now felt that he could slap a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to death with one palm.

The three figures flickered and vanished from the Herb Garden.

In the Chat Group.

[World's Number One Princess: Hurry up! Hurry up! Little Yanzi, don't cut off the livestream!]

[Is Jade Not Jade: Holy shit, there's more? We're going treasure hunting now?]

Liu Erlong sent an emoji of rubbing her hands together.

She had a feeling that what came next might be even more shocking than Martial Soul Evolution.

Li Yifei followed behind them with a leisurely expression, though he was reviewing the "operation" in his mind.

That old man really was lucky.

The Wristwatch intelligence had given the gene recombination plan for the "Jadeite Dragon Blood Vine" and "Emerald God Serpent Marrow Fruit" only an eighty-three percent success rate.

That seventeen percent chance of failure would mean Martial Soul collapse at best, or immediate bodily explosion at worst, leaving behind a puddle of green protein.

He had originally prepared an emergency plan: if it failed, he would use a drop of Water of Life to forcibly pull him back from death's door.

Now, it seemed he had saved a drop of Water of Life.

His core objective had never been saving people, but collecting this world's energy system and genetic samples.

Dugu Bo and his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor were merely the first ideal experimental specimens.

Soon, a valley shrouded in red and blue mist appeared before them.

In the livestream, everyone was stunned by the strange sight.

[World's Number One Princess: Wow! This place is so beautiful! Half flames, half ice crystals!]

[Little Ice Cube: This isn't beautiful... it's terrifying. Two extreme energies have actually achieved perfect balance within a single space. That defies all logic.]

[Is Jade Not Jade: Who cares whether it makes sense? We've struck it rich, struck it rich! Anything growing in a place like this has to be treasure!]

Li Yifei had no interest in their astonishment. Across his retina, countless streams of data reorganized like cascading waterfalls.

[High-concentration mixed energy field detected.]

[Analyzing surrounding plant energy responses...]

[Target: Infernal Delicate Apricot. Energy purity: 89%. Excellent fire-element affinity. Can be used for fire-attribute genetic optimization.]

[Target: Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass. Energy purity: 91%. Stable ice-element structure. Can be used to stabilize mutated genes.]

[Target: Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum...]

Li Yifei stopped at the edge of the valley and began identifying and collecting the plants one by one.

He moved quickly. Whenever he reached a spot, he simply plucked the Immortal Herbs that could cause bloody conflict in the outside world, then... just held them in his hands.

Dugu Bo, following behind him, was dumbfounded.

Did this lord not have a Storage Soul Tool?

After hesitating for a moment, he finally gathered his courage, pulled an ink-green brocade pouch from his robes, and respectfully offered it over.

"Sir, this is this old man's Storage Soul Tool, known as the 'Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch.' Its space is not large, but it should be enough to hold these Medicinal Herbs."

Li Yifei glanced at him without speaking and accepted the pouch. The Wristwatch emitted an almost imperceptible blue beam.

[Scanning target: low-grade spatial folding device. Material: Hollow Ghost Willow Wood. Energy source: activated by Soul Power. Structure rudimentary, spatial stability poor.]

Though the space was somewhat small, it was usable.

More importantly, it could store living things. Its value was enormous!

He casually tossed the several Immortal Herbs he had just picked inside, then continued his great "harvesting" endeavor.

Watching him sweep through the place like it was a vegetable garden, Dugu Bo's heart ached so badly it twitched, yet he did not dare utter a single word.

Before long, Li Yifei arrived beside that spring.

One half was crimson as blood, the other crystal blue.

The two springs were sharply divided, yet twisted around each other at the boundary, raising misty vapor into the air.

"Sir, you absolutely must not approach!" Dugu Bo's voice changed. "This spring is incomparably overbearing. The shore is manageable, but once you touch it, even a Titled Douluo will instantly be corroded by extreme cold poison and fire poison, leaving neither corpse nor bones behind!"

Li Yifei seemed not to hear him.

He walked to the spring's edge, slowly extended his right hand, and reached into the rising mist.

[High-concentration free energy detected.]

[Analyzing energy penetration effects...]

[Physical cell activity increased by 0.08%... energy penetration efficiency low...]