Dugu Bo Is My Second Grandfather

Sunset Forest, Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye

A black-haired youth sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion, his eyes slightly closed. The energy of heaven and earth flowed around him and, with every breath he took, surged into his body like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

After roughly half an hour, the youth abruptly opened his eyes. A glint flashed through his black pupils, while a layer of pale blue radiance rippled across his body.

Pop!

With a strange sound, the youth's aura suddenly rose by a level.

"I broke through! The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye truly deserves to be one of the three great treasured lands. The energy of heaven and earth here is unbelievably dense. I rose a whole level in just half a month!"

The youth muttered to himself, his childish face brimming with delight.

Dugu Yang, the nephew-grandson of the famed Poison Douluo, had been brought by Dugu Bo to cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye after awakening the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul.

Yet no one else knew that Dugu Yang had another identity: he was a transmigrator.

"The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul can be considered a top-tier beast martial soul. In particular, it possesses Jade Phosphor Snake Poison, one of the most powerful means of defeating the strong while weak. Better yet, Dugu Bo became my Second Grandfather. With his protection, along with this treasured land before me, I may not be unable to replace Tang San!"

Dugu Yang clenched his fists, his ambitions blazing.

He had never been someone content with an ordinary life. In his previous life, while still young, he had relied on his far-sighted vision and exceptional courage to invest in an internet company, earning more money than others could make in ten lifetimes.

Now that he had come to Douluo Continent, he naturally did not want to become an ordinary Soul Master and live out his life in mediocrity.

He wanted to become a Titled Douluo, a Limit Douluo, or even a God King who ruled the Divine Realm.

That would naturally be extremely difficult, but Dugu Yang believed that where there was a will, there was a way. Besides, he possessed such uniquely favorable conditions.

"The most important thing for me now is to cultivate to Level 10 as soon as possible, then obtain my First Soul Ring..."

A contemplative look flashed through Dugu Yang's eyes.

To many Soul Masters, the greatest purpose of a soul ring was to grant a Soul Master a soul skill.

However, Dugu Yang believed that soul skills were merely abilities attached to soul rings. Their true purpose was actually to improve the quality of one's martial soul.

Take Tang San's Blue Silver Grass as an example. His First Soul Ring came from a Mandala Snake. After successfully absorbing it, the Blue Silver Grass gained a paralytic toxin. This was no different from fundamentally improving the martial soul itself, making it far more useful than some Entanglement soul skill.

Of course, if Dugu Yang's martial soul had been Blue Silver Grass, he definitely would not have absorbed a Mandala Snake soul ring. Instead, he would have selected a soul ring based on Blue Silver Grass's own traits.

What was Blue Silver Grass's greatest trait? Not poison, but the vitality of "wildfires cannot burn it all away; when spring winds blow, it grows anew."

If one could absorb a life-attribute spirit beast's soul ring, one would possess undying, indestructible vitality.

Naturally, Dugu Yang had no intention of reminding Tang San.

Leaving everything else aside, Dugu Yang had no favorable impression of Tang San simply because of Dugu Bo.

In the original story, because of Tang San's skill with poison, Dugu Bo had asked him for a method to resolve the Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul Drawback.

Tang San had indeed given him one: force the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison within his body into a spirit bone and use the spirit bone to store it.

This method could indeed save one's life, but it was equivalent to crippling one of one's own spirit bones.

If there had been no other method, then this one would naturally have been excellent.

No matter how important a spirit bone was, it could not compare to one's life.

But the key was that there were other methods, and they were a hundred times better than destroying one's own spirit bone.

Dugu Yang looked toward the Immortal Grade Spirit Grass growing within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye. Among them were several plants capable of resolving the Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul Drawback once and for all, permanently eliminating any future danger.

For example, the Aromatic Silk Beauty, the Nemesis of All Poisons, could neutralize every deadly poison as long as one held it.

The Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot could refine one's body into one immune to all poisons. Mere Jade Phosphor Snake Poison could be neutralized with ease.

Did Tang San not know? Of course he knew. Otherwise, why would he refine the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot for himself, then take away the Aromatic Silk Beauty as well?

The reason he did not say anything was simple: he wanted to monopolize all the Immortal Grade Spirit Grass.

One could see as much from the fact that, ten thousand years later, the Dugu clan no longer existed in the world, while the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye had become a forbidden ground of the Tang Sect.

"Pure and spotless Young Master Tang San? Heh... truly hypocritical to the extreme."

Dugu Yang sneered. Now that he was here, he would never allow Tang San to take even a single flower or blade of grass.

Shaking his head and no longer thinking about that hypocrite, Dugu Yang focused on what mattered most: improving himself.

"The selection of soul rings must be based on a martial soul's inherent traits, thereby improving, refining, or even evolving it. The Jade Phosphorous Serpent's greatest trait is poison, so I need to absorb poison-attribute spirit beast soul rings to make the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison of my martial soul stronger, more compounded, and perhaps even evolve it into Ultimate Poison!"

Light flashed repeatedly in Dugu Yang's eyes. It was common knowledge in the Soul Master world that poison-attribute Soul Masters could defeat stronger opponents while weak, but that only applied to Soul Masters below the rank of seven-ring Spirit Saint.

After reaching the rank of seven-ring Spirit Saint, one could easily expel deadly poison from one's body with powerful Soul Power.

Poison Soul Masters who lost the advantage of their deadly poison were inferior to other Soul Masters in other aspects, making them weaker among those of the same rank.

Moreover, the higher their cultivation, the greater the disparity became.

Otherwise, Dugu Bo, the Poison Douluo, would not have been known as the weakest Douluo.

But Dugu Yang did not see it that way. The only reason Poison Soul Masters could not compare to other Soul Masters after the seven-ring Spirit Saint rank was that the grade of their poison could not keep up with their cultivation.

They said a Spirit Saint could expel poison from the body, but what if my poison took effect in an instant? Before you could even circulate your Soul Power, you would already be dead.

A Titled Douluo had a strong Physical Body and high Poison Resistance? That was only because your poison was too weak.

A Titled Douluo of the same rank could withstand Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphor Snake Emperor Poison, but what about Jade Phosphor Five Emperors Poison? And if they could withstand that, what about Ultimate Poison?

Dugu Yang did not believe that a Soul Master of the same rank could withstand Ultimate Poison, not even a Titled Douluo.

Of course, Ultimate Poison was Dugu Yang's ultimate goal. For now, his objective was merely to first gather the Jade Phosphor Five Poisons.

"Jade Phosphor Scorpion, Jade Phosphor Toad... Absorbing a particular Jade Phosphor Spirit Beast would allow me to gain one type of Jade Phosphor poison. But that would mean I need four soul ring slots to complete the Jade Phosphor Five Poisons. That is not very cost-effective. It would be ideal if a single soul ring could grant me all five Jade Phosphor poisons..."

Dugu Yang pondered silently, considering a feasible method.

Just then, two figures descended from the sky and landed on a patch of open ground nearby.

One was an elderly man with a tall frame, dark green hair and beard, and a terrifying aura emanating from his entire body.

He was none other than the Poison Douluo, Dugu Bo.

Dugu Yang hurried forward and respectfully said:

"Second Grandfather."

Beside Dugu Bo stood a purple-haired maiden with delicate features and fair skin. She appeared to be around the same age as Dugu Yang.

"Looks like you have not slacked off these past few days. You have already broken through to Level 6. Xiaoyang, you have done very well."

Dugu Yang had just broken through, and his aura was still unstable, so Dugu Bo naturally saw through it at a glance.

Dugu Bo was also quite satisfied with his diligent nephew-grandson.

As a Titled Douluo, he understood that a Soul Master needed talent, opportunity, and strength of character alike to achieve great things.

Although Dugu Yang's talent was somewhat lacking, his strength of character far surpassed that of others his age.