Threatening Dugu Bo

"Wait!"

"Dugu Bo, if you kill me, your granddaughter, who's riddled with poison, will be coming down to keep me company before long!"

Seeing Dugu Bo's second Soul Ring slowly light up, Lu Yi hurriedly shouted.

The second Lu Yi finished speaking, he felt an immense force clamp down on his neck.

"Boy, what did you say? Say that again."

Dugu Bo tightened his right hand slightly, slowly lifting Lu Yi by the neck as he stared at him with dangerous eyes.

"Your granddaughter inherited poison from birth, carrying it in her womb. Combined with the backlash from her Poison Martial Soul and the worsening effects of poison-attribute Soul Rings, within a few years her meridians will burn, and she'll die from the Pain of Ten Thousand Ants Gnawing Bones!"

Lu Yi gripped Dugu Bo's arm with both hands and used every ounce of strength to force out each word.

"Boy, you're courting death!" Dugu Bo flew into a rage upon hearing Lu Yi's words and immediately prepared to squeeze him to death.

"Grandpa, wait!"

Just as Lu Yi felt the pressure around his neck growing stronger, believing he had lost his gamble and ready to die, Dugu Yan suddenly stopped Dugu Bo.

Bang!

Hearing Dugu Yan's words, Dugu Bo flung Lu Yi viciously into a nearby tree trunk, then turned to look at Dugu Yan anxiously.

"Grandpa, is what he said true?"

Seeing the expression on Dugu Bo's face, as though he did not dare face her, Dugu Yan had already guessed the answer. Still, she could not help asking him.

"It's true."

At Dugu Yan's question, Dugu Bo closed his eyes. Two streams of tears slid down from the corners of his eyes as he answered in a voice full of grief.

"Then how much longer can I live?" Having learned that she was poisoned, Dugu Yan asked Dugu Bo with a pale face.

"Yan Yan, you won't live past thirty." Dugu Bo turned his head away and spoke with a grief-stricken expression.

Upon hearing this devastating news, all color drained from Dugu Yan's face. Looking at Dugu Bo, who did not dare face her, she could not help wanting to step forward and demand why he had kept it from her. But she tripped over her own feet and fell to the ground.

"You old bastard, that's bullshit. If she stops cultivating and remains at her current level, she definitely won't live past twenty-five."

"If she continues cultivating and absorbing Soul Rings, then Rank 40 will be the day she dies!"

Lu Yi struggled to climb to his feet. Feeling the agonizing pain throughout his body, he shouted at Dugu Bo with the reckless air of someone who had nothing left to lose.

That old bastard had no sense of fair play. Throwing him aside was not enough—he had even used Soul Power to beat the hell out of him.

"Boy, do you think I can't kill you just because Yan Yan stopped me?"

Hearing Lu Yi's words, Dugu Bo flashed to his side, kicked him to the ground, and planted his right foot on Lu Yi's chest. His voice was full of menace.

"Then kill me. Kill me, and there won't be anyone left in this world who can save her!"

Lying on the ground, Lu Yi gave a bitter smile and threatened Dugu Bo.

In order to obtain Immortal Herbs from Dugu Bo in the future, Lu Yi had specifically studied poisons under Tang San for three years. He did not dare boast about anything else, but when it came to poisoning caused by hereditary factors, he had no fewer than nine solutions.

After all, he had spent a full three years researching this type of poisoning.

He just had not expected events to outpace his plans. The method he had originally intended to use to trade for Immortal Herbs from Dugu Bo now had to be used to save his own life and Wang Shu's.

"So you have a way to save Yan Yan?" Hearing this, Dugu Bo eased the pressure of his foot and asked.

"I do, but you have to take me to the place that suppresses the poison in your body!"

"You old bastard are poisoned so badly that you should have died long ago, yet you're still alive. Take me there, and I have absolute confidence that I can save her. I can even save you!"

Lu Yi stared fixedly at Dugu Bo as he spoke.

"Grandpa, you too..."

Dugu Yan raised her head and stared at Dugu Bo in disbelief. She had never imagined that her grandfather, whom she had always believed to be the foremost poison user in the world, was also severely poisoned. For a moment, the image of Dugu Bo in her heart crumbled.

"Yan Yan, Grandpa has wronged you!" Dugu Bo lifted his foot from Lu Yi's chest. Two streams of hot tears flowed from his eyes as he spoke in anguish.

"Boy, answer me. Without that treasured place that suppresses the poison in my body, how certain are you that you can save Yan Yan?"

With a wave of his hand, Dugu Bo used Soul Power to lift Lu Yi from the ground, staring at him intently as he asked.

"Without that treasured place, I'm sixty percent confident. But Dugu Yan would have to have all her cultivation destroyed!"

Lu Yi stared straight into Dugu Bo's eyes as he answered.

Of course, he was bluffing Dugu Bo. Even without the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, he was absolutely certain he could save Dugu Yan using the methods he had learned from Tang San. She would only need to stop using poison from then on.

But he had already offended Dugu Bo today. If he could not seize this chance to enter Dugu Bo's Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, then he might never have another chance to obtain the Immortal Herbs within it.

"Fine. Then I'll take you to my treasured place. But if I discover that you've been lying to me, I'll make you wish you were dead!"

Dugu Bo grabbed Lu Yi by the collar and lifted him up, his voice full of threat.

"You make it sound like I haven't been in a life-or-death situation ever since I ran into you, you old bastard!"

Looking at Dugu Bo's sour face, Lu Yi suppressed the urge to spit in his face and snarled.

"Ha ha ha, you've got guts!"

Dugu Bo was so furious at Lu Yi's words that he laughed instead.

"Today, I'll see whether you two can keep your lives in my hands!"

With that, Dugu Bo grabbed Lu Yi and Wang Shu by their collars, wrapped Dugu Yan in Soul Power, and flew with them toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.

As Lu Yi watched the Star Dou Great Forest grow farther and farther away below, he silently prayed that Flender would not be scolded to death by his teacher when he returned. He also wondered what his teacher would do upon learning that he had gone missing.

Watching the Star Dou Great Forest vanish completely into the distance, Lu Yi wore a bitter expression. How had he happened to run into Dugu Bo in the Star Dou Great Forest? The two of them should have met in a more dignified manner.

But Lu Yi soon had no energy left for such wild thoughts, because that shameless Dugu Bo had not used Soul Power to shield him from the wind at all. To make him suffer a little more, Dugu Bo had even sealed Lu Yi's own Soul Power.

Faced with the fierce winds tearing through the air, Lu Yi could only close his eyes and endure them with his body.

Time slowly passed. Just when Lu Yi felt as though an entire year had gone by,

Dugu Bo gradually came to a stop. They had arrived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.