Su Ming remained completely unfazed and said:
"Don't worry about how I did it. I figured it out through experimentation."
"Okay, okay, let's call it even. Hurry up and adjust the toxins in your body."
Dugu Bo didn't say anything else. He hadn't been that angry to begin with. After observing Su Ming's Soul Power fluctuations again, he realized that Su Ming had reached level 40.
"Weren't you already level 40? Don't you need my help hunting a Soul Beast? Besides, Yanyan was already level 38 when she took the Immortal Herb. You gained six levels of Soul Power from two Immortal Herbs. Wouldn't Yanyan gain three levels from just one?"
"Come on, I'm doing this for your sake. Hurry up and use the Snake Pill Method to gather the toxins that are easy to clear from your body into your Snake Pill. It should take no more than two days. There'll still be plenty of time to hunt afterward."
Su Ming felt a little sorry for Dugu Bo. The backlash from his Martial Soul's toxins had tormented him day and night.
"You've been suffering from those toxins for over a decade. Don't you want to get rid of them as soon as possible?"
"Fine, fine. Yanyan, keep an eye on things."
With that, Dugu Bo flew to the spot where he'd previously suppressed the toxins and began cultivating the Snake Pill Method in seclusion.
A day after Dugu Bo went into seclusion, Dugu Yan finished refining the medicinal power and woke up.
As soon as she woke, Dugu Yan stood and stretched her limbs, then circulated her Soul Power. Her Soul Power had risen to level 40.
Her cultivation speed had increased. She was about to share the good news with her grandfather when she looked around and found no one there. She only saw Su Ming; her grandfather was nowhere to be seen. So she asked Su Ming:
"Su Ming, where's my grandfather?"
Instead of answering, Su Ming handed her the materials on the Soul Core Method and the Snake Pill Method. Dugu Yan was puzzled, but she took them and began to read.
After a while, Dugu Yan finished reading the materials in her hands and understood what Dugu Bo was doing. She turned to Su Ming and asked:
"Su Ming, which one did my grandfather choose?"
"The Snake Pill Method. He's gathering the toxins that have built up in his body over the years into his Snake Pill."
"He'd originally planned to help you hunt for your fourth Soul Ring before dealing with the toxins in his body."
"But after I talked him into it, he decided to gather the toxins that are easiest to clear into his Snake Pill first. It should take about two days to get the initial purification done. One day has already passed."
"Got it. Keep digging up your herbs. I'm going to see my grandfather."
After saying that, Dugu Yan ran toward the place where Dugu Bo was cultivating in seclusion.
Su Ming didn't stop her. He simply went back to digging up herbs.
A day later, the agreed-upon time arrived. When Su Ming didn't see Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan come down to join him in hunting for Soul Rings, he realized Dugu Yan must have started persuading her grandfather to finish gathering the toxins first.
Another three days passed, and the two of them still hadn't come down. Su Ming figured Dugu Bo had decided to finish the process first. As for why Dugu Yan hadn't come down to chat with him or discuss cultivation, Su Ming had no idea.
By then, more than twenty days had passed since Dugu Bo began gathering the toxins into his Snake Pill. Su Ming had dug up all the Immortal Herbs he wanted, and had prepared everything he planned to sell or give away.
He used the Creation Furnace to extract the essence from the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, added a few other medicinal herbs, then refined two Phoenix Nirvana Pills with the Creation Qi from the furnace. He planned to give them to Wang Sheng and Ma Hongjun.
He extracted the essence from the Aromatic Silk Beauty with the Creation Furnace, added Creation Qi, and refined two pills. A single pill could upgrade the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasures.
He planned to sell them to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. The Star Luo Spirit Pearl was also suitable for gemstone-type Martial Souls, so he'd see what price the sect was willing to offer. If it was high enough, he'd refine it into a pill and sell that to them too.
He also extracted the essence from the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum with the Creation Furnace, added Creation Qi, and refined two pills. One was for Dai Mubai, and he'd keep the other.
Of course, he'd also refined pills that could evolve dragon-type Martial Souls. And since he'd lied to Dugu Bo earlier, saying there were only nine Immortal Herbs and that the two divine king corpses had created a blessed land, there were naturally far more Immortal Herbs than that. There were plenty more he wouldn't list one by one.
Su Ming had also refined some pills that could greatly increase Soul Power, which he planned to give to the dean and the others.
Besides that, he'd converted a large quantity of ordinary medicinal herbs into Creation Qi. The conversion rate was low, but there were plenty of herbs. He'd gathered around 1,000 units in total. (Ten threads make a strand, ten strands make a line, and ten lines make a unit. One unit equals 1,000 threads.)
Su Ming planned to hunt a Thunder Hell Vine that was over ten thousand years old for his fourth Soul Ring.
The Thunder God, a First-Level God, had fallen. When absorbing the Soul Ring, Su Ming wanted to use the Creation Furnace to improve the Thunder Hell Vine Soul Beast's Thunder God bloodline, so he could obtain the Thunder God Divinity Fragment that remained within its bloodline.
Su Ming was lounging on a recliner, thinking about soon acquiring the Thunder God's divinity. It was only a fragment, but he was still thrilled. After all, becoming a god meant immortality.
Though, if he had enough Creation Power, the Creation Furnace could also grant him eternal life. But no one ever complained about having too many divinity fragments.
As Su Ming lay in the rocking chair, he was already picturing the glorious scene of himself wielding the Thunder God's divinity. Just then, the words "Little Monster" interrupted his fantasy.
Su Ming turned his head. Sure enough, it was Dugu Bo, looking young again, and Dugu Yan.
"Hey, Old Monster. You've regained your youthful appearance, so I take it you've finished condensing your Snake Pill. You really are handsome. With a face like that and the cultivation of a Titled Douluo, you won't have any trouble finding a good wife."
"And Sister Yan Yan, what attribute are you planning to evolve your Martial Soul into?"
After condensing his Snake Pill, Dugu Bo had reached level 94. He'd probably become a Super Douluo within a few months.
"Go on, get out of here! What kind of thing is that to say?"
"Little Monster, Yanyan and I have already discussed it. She's chosen to become a true dragon with both ice and poison attributes. If you were a few years older, I'd have tried to set you and Yanyan up. Too bad she already has a boyfriend."
Hearing that, Dugu Yan immediately began to whine at Dugu Bo.
"Grandpa! Grandpa!"
"Alright, alright, I'll stop! I'll stop!"
After hearing "ice and poison attributes," Su Ming thought for a while, then said to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan:
"Good. Since she's chosen to evolve into a true dragon with both ice and poison attributes, I've already decided which Soul Beast to hunt for her fourth Soul Ring."
"The Cold Poison Scale Dragon Lizard lives in the Extreme North Land. With Sister Yan Yan's current physique, she can easily absorb one that's over eight thousand years old."
Dugu Bo was decisive when he heard Su Ming recommend a suitable Soul Beast. After all, both of them had already put off getting their fourth Soul Rings for more than twenty days.
"Alright, then let's go."
Dugu Bo was about to take them flying toward the Extreme North Land when Su Ming hurriedly called out to stop him.
"Wait, Old Monster!"
"Use my Martial Soul to fly there. And first, let's go back to Heaven Dou City. We've been away for over twenty days, and I need to update the dean and the others."
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