Full Restore with Game-Like Properties

"First, let's try the simplest method." Flender pointed at his own head.

"In the inheritance I received, there were many records of ancient common knowledge and various secrets, including a constitution known as Poison Heal."

"Those with this constitution would not be eroded by any deadly poison containing Soul Power. They could even make use of poison in turn to heal themselves."

"Only later did people discover that this was not a constitution, but a power born from one that could be imitated and used."

Flender lied through his teeth. Poison Heal, an Ability from the Pokémon world, could be transferred or copied through moves or related effects.

If it could be applied to Dugu Bo and then completely refined by him, he could most simply turn his own poison into something he could use.

Meanwhile, Professor Oak had already sent this energy through a red packet in the Chat Group. There was no shortage of Pokémon at Oak Research Lab.

"What? A Poison Heal constitution?!"

Dugu Bo was astonished. He had practically never heard of such a constitution.

"Don't doubt it. I'll prove it through action. Lower your guard now. I have the relevant operational energy here. Prepare to receive it."

Flender did not say much else. He would let Dugu Bo try it first.

Samuel Oak's Red Packet · Skill Swap · Poison Heal

The target was Dugu Bo. The Poison Douluo hesitated for a moment, but ultimately opened his body and mind, preparing to receive this energy.

As the energy of the Poison Heal Ability entered his body, Dugu Bo immediately felt a change within him.

The poison lurking in his body like sulfuric acid, which corroded him from time to time, seemed to have changed its face, becoming warm and healing.

His lower ribs felt as though they were soaking in a hot spring, and the bone pain that had once plagued his entire body faded away, replaced by a comfort that felt like ascension.

Dugu Bo's expression changed, and he nearly groaned from the comfort spreading through his body.

At that moment, the Jade Phosphorous Emperor Serpent Poison transformed from a double-edged sword that harmed the enemy by a thousand while injuring its wielder by eight hundred into the best medicine for Dugu Bo.

The barrier that had restrained Dugu Bo's ninety-first level Soul Power for so long also faintly showed signs of cracking.

"This, this..."

Dugu Bo's tone became excited. Only after Flender reminded him did he manage to calm down.

"Hurry and memorize the feeling of this circulation. It won't last long."

Hearing this, Dugu Bo immediately focused his mind and desperately tried to remember the new energy flowing through his body, doing everything he could to replicate it.

However, when the energy of the Poison Heal Ability finally dissipated, Dugu Bo had failed to replicate it.

The Jade Phosphorous Emperor Serpent Poison returned to its original state, and all of Dugu Bo's previous comfort vanished at once. In an instant, he fell from heaven back into hell.

"Cough!"

He spat out a mouthful of old blood. After the backlash of the Jade Phosphorous Emperor Serpent Poison, Dugu Bo seemed to have suffered serious injuries, and his aura immediately became weak and unsteady.

"Again!" Dugu Bo was like a gambler who had lost everything, his voice filled with grief, indignation, and unwillingness.

"One more time. I already remember that feeling. One more time, please!"

Dugu Bo practically crawled to Flender's feet, begging bitterly, terrified that Flender would say that had been the last one and there were no more.

What was more terrifying than despair was gaining hope, only to lose it again.

"There are more." Flender looked at the crazed Dugu Bo and tried to keep his tone level.

"However, Senior, given your current condition, you may not be suited to receive this energy again."

Dugu Bo had suppressed himself for far too long. He had lost his father in childhood, his wife in middle age, and was about to lose his son in old age. He no longer wanted to lose any family members.

Now that hope lay before him, he only wanted to seize it with everything he had.

Seeing the exceptionally handsome Dugu Bo in such a state, Flender could not help but sigh inwardly.

But as he had said before, the Poison Heal effect was a method of operating energy, equivalent to a Self-Created Soul Skill under the Douluo worldview.

With Dugu Bo's current mentality, like a drowning man clutching at a straw, he would absolutely be unable to master it steadily.

"..."

"Yes. I understand."

Dugu Bo forced himself upright and closed his eyes, but a few murky tears still fell.

Finally, finally... Xin'er, wait for Father. You can be saved.

After Dugu Bo finally managed to calm his emotions, Flender also borrowed other medicines from Professor Oak.

"Although the Poison Heal effect is the best method for healing and assisting you, the reason you can suppress that poison now is because you are a Title Douluo with sufficiently powerful Soul Power."

"But I assume your child does not possess that level of Soul Power. I have other methods here that can cure your poison, though they may not be the best methods."

"What?! There's more?"

The newly recovered Dugu Bo shot to his feet. He had no idea how many times this was that he had been shocked.

"It's only a possibility."

Flender opened Professor Oak's new red packet, while marveling at the richness of the Pokémon world.

Full Restore, one of the strongest healing items under the Pokémon game worldview, could fully restore a Pokémon's HP and remove any negative status.

It also worked on people, because under the Pokémon worldview, humans were also a kind of Pokémon. In ancient times, some humans had even borne children with Pokémon.

"This is..."

Dugu Bo examined the spray bottle's modern-looking design before him and could not help feeling slightly puzzled.

He had never seen anything like it before. Could this be the aesthetic of a god?

"Why isn't it the best option?"

Flender first dropped a single drop into his own mouth. After confirming to Dugu Bo that it was harmless, he had Dugu Bo drop one into his mouth as well.

Dugu Bo did as instructed. The instant that drop of Full Restore entered his mouth, the Jade Phosphorous Emperor Serpent Poison within him began to boil.

Dugu Bo could feel that as the medicine entered his body, a trace of the Jade Phosphorous Emperor Serpent Poison within him was instantly worn away, but a trace of Soul Power was worn away as well.

His poison had long since fused with his Soul Power. Destroying the poison meant destroying his cultivation.

But soon after, as Dugu Bo instinctively circulated his Martial Soul, that trace of poison and Soul Power immediately recovered.

"This..."

"Although this medicine can detoxify you, the poison in your body has long been bound to your Soul Power. By the time it wears away all the poison in your body, most of your Soul Power will have been worn away as well.

"But your Martial Soul is the very culprit behind your poison. Once you operate your Martial Soul, that poison will still return. It treats the symptoms, not the root cause.

"Fortunately, for your child, removing the poison from his body will save him. As for his future cultivation, that will depend on you."

Flender explained. Full Restore was, after all, an item born from game mechanics. Even after using it on a poisoned Pokémon, that Pokémon could still be poisoned again later.

It could also cure the negative statuses of Poison-type Pokémon without affecting their inherent nature.

Besides, under the Pokémon worldview, Full Restore seemed unreasonable but was actually perfectly logical.

Because that world truly had Arceus. The so-called laws of the world could be shaped however it wished.

Dugu Bo said nothing more. He only gripped the Full Restore in his hand tightly, as though he were holding the entire world.