Medusa's Gaze

This was a test for Dugu Bo.

Xiao Dong was still young and didn't understand that one should always be wary of others. Naturally, the two of them, as her elders, had to take extra care.

At that moment, Bibi Dong had already begun drawing her own blood.

"Using my blood as a catalyst can get rid of the stubborn toxins in your body. Later, we can find a chance to get you a high-quality Spirit Bone, which should initially resolve the poison in your body. However, a Spirit Bone can only hold so much, so this is merely treating the symptoms, not the root cause. Later, I'll find you a way to truly resolve the poison."

As she spoke, Bibi Dong handed the blood she had drawn to Dugu Bo.

Looking at the blood in his hand, Dugu Bo was dumbfounded.

What was all this?

Such a simple method could resolve the poison that he had spent half his life trying and failing to deal with.

Why did it seem so unreliable?

Bibi Dong then briefly explained the principle behind it. Dugu Bo was, after all, something of an expert in the art of poison, and he quickly understood the key to the problem.

Once he understood the crux of it, Dugu Bo was stunned.

He had never imagined the solution could be so simple.

All he had to do was find a substitute similar to a venomous snake's poison gland.

He wasn't unaware of the principle behind it. His thinking had simply been limited, and he had never considered this approach.

After hesitating for a while, Dugu Bo swallowed a drop of blood and made a preliminary attempt.

Once he confirmed that the blood could indeed counter the stubborn poison in his body, his heart immediately began to burn with excitement.

It was true. All of this was actually true.

Bibi Dong didn't pay much attention to Dugu Bo's excitement. After dealing with the matter, she devoted herself wholeheartedly to meditation, striving to bring herself into the best possible condition.

Throughout this time, Dugu Bo not only refrained from making any rash moves but also stayed by Bibi Dong's side, guarding her at all times.

After experiencing how the venom could be suppressed, Dugu Bo wasn't completely loyal to Bibi Dong, but at least in their current circumstances, he had crossed the threshold in his heart.

Two days later, Gui Mei returned.

To find the Soul Beast Xiao Dong needed, he had searched every location Dugu Bo had provided before finally finding his target.

It was a Medusa that had just broken through the twenty-thousand-year mark.

Its exact age could only be determined after the Soul Ring was absorbed.

"Xiao Dong, kill it!"

After beating the twenty-thousand-year-old Medusa to the brink of death, Gui Mei tossed it in front of Bibi Dong.

After Gui Mei appeared, Yue Guan also showed up right behind him.

"I hope I get a Petrification Soul Skill!"

With a thought, Bibi Dong activated Martial Soul Possession. One sharp spider leg stabbed straight into the wound on the Medusa, delivering the killing blow.

As the Medusa died, a black Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring appeared.

This wasn't Bibi Dong's first time absorbing a Soul Ring, so she was quite experienced.

She smoothly activated her Martial Soul and drew in the Soul Ring.

The next moment, an immense power surged into Bibi Dong's body.

The power of a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring was simply too strong.

If she hadn't undergone Ice and Fire Gold Body Refining, if the Soul Rings she'd absorbed before hadn't all exceeded their age limits, and if she hadn't consumed Whale Rubber of various ages, then the instant this mighty force entered her body, Bibi Dong would certainly have died on the spot.

On top of that, the dead Soul Beast's remnant soul madly battered her spiritual power.

For Bibi Dong, she could withstand both the impact of the Soul Power and the turbulence in her soul.

She was fully capable of it. At most, the process would be painful.

Seeing that Bibi Dong showed no unusual reaction to the Soul Ring, Yue Guan and Gui Mei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Absorbing this Soul Ring took an extremely long time. Only after a full two days and two nights did Bibi Dong finish.

Fourth Soul Ring: twenty thousand eight hundred years.

Fourth Soul Skill: Petrification.

It could also be called Medusa's Gaze, exactly as Bibi Dong had guessed.

After successfully obtaining the Soul Ring, Bibi Dong didn't immediately check her Soul Power. Instead, she took a notebook from her Storage Soul Tool and immediately recorded the hypotheses she had confirmed, along with her insights and thoughts from the process of absorbing the Soul Ring.

Only then did she check her Soul Power.

Level 45!

This really was beyond her expectations, but on second thought, it made perfect sense.

She had broken through to Level 40 a month and a half ago, and she hadn't stopped cultivating since. The three medicinal herbs she'd taken hadn't increased her Soul Power by much, but they had still helped somewhat. And the Soul Ring was twenty thousand years old.

If her strength had only increased to Level 44, Bibi Dong would have thought that was a little low.

"Thank you, uncles. I succeeded."

Bibi Dong gathered her thoughts and looked at Yue Guan and Gui Mei with gratitude.

She was very satisfied with the Soul Skill this Soul Ring had granted her.

Her only regret was that she still hadn't obtained an External Soul Bone.

She had absorbed three Soul Rings beyond their age limits, and still hadn't obtained an External Soul Bone. That left her quite disappointed.

"What's this..."

Just as Bibi Dong was feeling disappointed, she sensed a fluctuation of Soul Power from the nearby Medusa's corpse.

It was clearly the fluctuation of a Spirit Bone.

All three of them had long since detected the Spirit Bone's presence with their abilities.

Yet none of them had stepped forward to claim it.

Even Gui Mei, who had gone out to hunt the Soul Beast, hadn't thought of claiming this Spirit Bone for himself.

Not long ago, Xiao Dong had found him a fifty-thousand-year Head Soul Bone. Naturally, Gui Mei thought this one should belong to Xiao Dong.

After all, it had come from the Soul Ring she had absorbed.

Even if Xiao Dong didn't absorb it, it should still be hers.

Seeing this, Bibi Dong immediately understood what Gui Mei meant.

She went forward, dug out the Spirit Bone, and found it was a fine Ten Thousand Year Left Arm Bone in excellent condition.

Looking at the crystalline, Soul Power-radiating twenty-thousand-year Left Arm Bone, Bibi Dong hesitated briefly, then tossed it to Dugu Bo beside her.

"Fuse with the Spirit Bone and try to suppress the poison."

Bibi Dong didn't fuse with the bone herself. Even though she knew that when a Soul Ring and Spirit Bone came from the same Soul Beast, they gave a Soul Master a special bonus.

But a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone was enough to make up for any shortfall.

She wasn't going to compromise like that.

"This..."

"You're giving me this Spirit Bone?"

Dugu Bo stood rooted to the spot, staring at the Spirit Bone in his hands.

This was a Spirit Bone, not a head of cabbage.

And Bibi Dong had just given it to him.

It was impossible to say he hadn't coveted this Spirit Bone at all.

The moment he sensed its presence, he had been tempted.

But he also knew that trying to snatch the Spirit Bone in front of two Quasi-Titled Douluo would mean he truly didn't want to live.