As the Soul Skill was released, colorful poison powder swirled around Dugu Yuan.
As Yu Tianshuo approached, the poison powder entered his body with every breath.
But for him, with a miniature Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well already formed inside his body, the poison could no longer affect him.
Seeing this, Dugu Yuan's expression turned grave. He stopped advancing and flashed backward.
Where Yu Tianshuo couldn't see, Dugu Yuan's Fifth Soul Ring and Sixth Soul Ring lit up. From him, at the center, an invisible poison spread in every direction.
As Yu Tianshuo rapidly closed in, the poison touched his skin. Black spots appeared all over the parts of his body that hadn't undergone Dragon Transformation, looking utterly horrifying.
But even that couldn't stop him. He poured in more Soul Power, and golden dragon scales grew over the places where the black spots had appeared.
When the scales appeared, Dugu Yuan knew his Fifth Soul Skill had failed.
But at that moment, a smile of triumph spread across his face as his Sixth Soul Ring lit up once more.
Yu Tianshuo stopped in his tracks.
It wasn't that he didn't want to move. Blood was now streaming from all seven orifices, and pain flared in his head, as if his soul had suffered a grievous wound.
Yu Tianshuo was completely bewildered. By all rights, with his current poison resistance, poison targeting either the body or the mind shouldn't have been able to affect him.
So why had this happened?
Yu Tianshuo could only watch as blood flowed from his eyes, powerless to do anything. He couldn't even move...
No, wait! He could move again?
Looking at his miserable little junior, Dugu Yuan grinned and explained,
"Junior brother, what do you think of my Sixth Soul Skill?"
"This Soul Skill came from an extremely rare Explosive Poison Beast that Dad found for me back then."
"The effect of this Soul Ring is incredibly overbearing. The poison the opponent inhales explodes right inside their body, and they're guaranteed to be poisoned!"
"So, even you can't—"
Dugu Yuan was still explaining when Yu Tianshuo suddenly roared,
"Nine Dragon Protection Seal!"
In an instant, three dragon shadows appeared behind Yu Tianshuo.
They were far more solid than they'd been during his earlier melee with his classmates, and each dragon let out a soul-shaking roar.
When the roars ended, the three differently colored dragon shadows plunged into Yu Tianshuo's body.
As they entered him, his poisoned condition visibly began to improve.
Wiping the blood from his face, Yu Tianshuo smiled at Dugu Yuan—a smile that sent a chill down his spine.
Seeing it, Dugu Yuan gave an awkward smile and asked,
"Can we call it even, junior brother?"
Yu Tianshuo's smile widened. His icy words shattered his senior brother's hopes of making peace.
"Of course, no problem, senior brother. Just wait until I'm putting medicine on you!"
With that, Yu Tianshuo's Second Soul Ring blazed!
"Second Soul Skill, Ice and Fire Twin Dragon Transformation!"
As the Soul Skill took effect, two figures split away from Yu Tianshuo's body.
Both figures looked exactly like Yu Tianshuo.
Only their hair and scales were different. Their chilling smiles, however, were identical.
"Get him!"
As the words fell, all three of them charged at Dugu Yuan.
The sight was so terrifying that Dugu Yuan was scared out of his wits.
One of him was scary enough. Now there were two more! Were they trying to kill him?!
Without the slightest hesitation, Dugu Yuan struck a dashing pose and shouted the most spineless words imaginable.
"Junior brother! Spare me—"
That trailing cry wasn't an exclamation. It was Dugu Yuan screaming as he got beaten.
Yu Tianshuo's real body rushed in with an Ultraman-style flying kick, sending Dugu Yuan sprawling to the ground.
The red and blue clones piled in right after him, raining punches and kicks down on Dugu Yuan as he lay there, calling out their moves as they struck.
"Dragon Claw Strike!"
"Chaotic Dragon Fist!"
"One Breath Great Hand Explosion!"
"Break his—"
Hearing the red clone's idiotic idea to give their senior brother a particularly nasty blow, Yu Tianshuo's real body hurriedly stopped him.
"Holy crap! Not that one!"
Realizing he'd almost caused a disaster, the clone rubbed the back of his head with a sheepish grin and quickly apologized.
"Sorry, sorry. I got carried away by our earlier fight. Let's start over, let's start over."
Afraid the guy might cause more trouble, Yu Tianshuo took a brick out of his Soul Tool and handed it to the clone.
Taking the brick, the clone asked the real body,
"I've got this. What are you going to use?"
"Me? I'll just use this."
As he spoke, Yu Tianshuo took a folding stool out of his Soul Tool and started swinging it at his senior brother.
Seeing that the real body had a weapon too, the clone didn't hesitate to join the fun again!
Watching what was supposed to be a duel but was really a beatdown, Dugu Bo slapped his forehead.
This is unbearable to watch. If I'd known it would turn out like this, I should've just taken them along to find Soul Rings.
Still, Dugu Bo didn't try to stop the farce. So what if they were ganging up on his son?
If you were my disciple too, and helped our family solve its poison problem, I'd let you beat up my son as well.
Besides, Dugu Bo could tell that although Yu Tianshuo's every blow looked vicious, he was holding back.
He was probably just letting off steam after Dugu Yuan had caught him with a dirty trick.
And that was exactly what was happening. Although Yu Tianshuo looked as if he were beating his senior brother to death,
he was only putting on a show. At most, he'd leave his senior brother sore for a few days. Once he applied some medicine, he'd recover even faster.
This fight had also served as a warning to Yu Tianshuo. The Douluo Continent was full of unreasonable conceptual skills.
For instance, Bibi Dong's Sixth Soul Skill, Eternal Creation, and her Ninth Soul Skill, Immortality, as well as Xiao Wu's Fourth Soul Skill, Invincible Golden Body.
He needed to guard against conceptual Soul Skills in advance. This time, his senior brother had caught him off guard with his Sixth Soul Skill, Poison Explosion.
He'd been lucky this time; it was only a spar between senior brothers. In another situation, he could've been killed the instant the attack caught him by surprise.
Although the Firm Investment Device had formed inside his body, he still couldn't be sure whether it could revive him or restore him from the brink of death.
If it worked like the game, he'd have to die ten times before it activated and turned into Diamond Hands.
Who knew what that effect had become in the Douluo Continent?
Setting those thoughts aside, Yu Tianshuo stopped beating up his senior brother and withdrew his Second Soul Skill, Ice and Fire Twin Dragon Transformation.
Just as Dugu Yuan thought the fight was over, he felt Yu Tianshuo's presence change even more dramatically.
It seemed, maybe, probably, that after fusing back into one, his junior brother was going to hit him even harder.
Dugu Yuan asked in a trembling voice,
"It's over, right, junior brother?"
Yu Tianshuo still smiled as he replied,
"Not yet, dear senior brother!"
The stool came crashing down. Screams continued to echo from within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
"Ahhh!!!"
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