If You're Useless, You're Dead!

Impossible!

The disparity in soul power between the two sides was immense; she couldn't possibly have sensed it wrong!

Yet, the soul power fluctuations emanating from him right now didn't seem fake either...

Watching Dugu Yan, who was currently looking somewhat dazed and bewildered, Li Jingzhe couldn't help but offer a playful smile: "Do you know that there exists a type of Innate Poison Body in this world?"

"Innate? Poison Body?"

Dugu Yan chewed over these words repeatedly, her brows knitting together slightly.

She then heard Li Jingzhe continue: "This Innate Poison Body is a rare and special constitution that only comes into being when one is eroded by virulent toxins from within the mother's womb, yet survives due to the nourishment of the mother's life force, leading to a successful birth..."

As he spoke, Li Jingzhe looked at Dugu Yan with a playful expression and chuckled: "I wonder, have you ever heard of it?"

Mother's womb?

Virulent toxins?

Erosion?

Heard of it?

Dugu Yan's expression darkened. Had she only heard of it? This was practically a description of her!

"Brat! You had better give this young lady an explanation! Otherwise, I don't mind letting you taste the poison of a Title Douluo!"

Her cold, slit-like pupils glinted with icy light, and she didn't even notice when a bead appeared between her fingertips.

The bead was jade green; it was the Jade Phosphorous Serpent poison her grandfather had given her for self-defense—poison at the level of a Title Douluo!

She only needed to extract the tiniest wisp from it to make this guy know what it meant to wish for death!

"An explanation?"

Li Jingzhe glanced at the bead in Dugu Yan's hand, yet remained entirely unconcerned: "What do you want me to explain?"

"Aside from my family, only a few people in the Ye family know about these matters. You, where did you learn of this?"

Dangerous light flickered in Dugu Yan's eyes, and an aura of killing intent emerged from her body.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the room became tense.

Even Ye Lingling had already summoned her Nine Heart Begonia, looking as if she might strike at the slightest disagreement.

"Heh..."

Li Jingzhe, however, was unhurried. He even leaned back in his chair and crossed his legs, watching the two women who were ready for battle, and chuckled: "The secrets in your eyes are nothing to me. If we really want to talk about it, there is nothing in this world that I do not know."

A flash of mockery crossed Dugu Yan's eyes...

Simply arrogant!

If a Title Douluo had said this to her, she might have believed it...

But a mere Soul Master, spouting such nonsense about there being nothing in this world he didn't know?

Utterly ridiculous.

Even if this guy in front of her was a bit mysterious, and this pavilion had appeared quite abruptly.

Mysterious, just like that Tang San...

The problem that her family had struggled to solve for generations was, by Tang San...

Hm?

Dugu Yan's expression tightened: "Are you a subordinate of that scoundrel Tang San?"

If there was anyone else in this world who knew her family's secrets and might have leaked that information, it could only be Tang San!

"What exactly does Tang San want by sending you to contact me?"

Dugu Yan's aura was heavy; she was angry, truly angry: "If Tang San wants you to obtain something from me, I advise you to give up on that thought! Go tell Tang San that this young lady will absolutely not hold back at the Spirit Master Tournament! Tell him to wait and properly taste this young lady's new poison!"

"Lingling, let's go!"

With that, Dugu Yan grabbed Ye Lingling and turned to leave!

"Hey, I say, are you crazy?" Li Jingzhe watched the two women turning away, feeling completely exhausted.

"What did you say?"

Dugu Yan was already furious, and upon hearing Li Jingzhe continue to be insolent, she flew into a rage. Her martial soul was released, her soul rings shone, and a cold serpent body coiled around her. Her scarlet forked tongue flickered, and those eyes, filled with killing intent, stared fixedly at Li Jingzhe: "If you continue to be insolent, I don't mind using you to test my poison right now! I want to see if he, Tang San, can neutralize the poison of a Title Douluo!"

Li Jingzhe rolled his eyes.

"What the hell is Tang San? What kind of nonsense are you spouting?"

He just couldn't understand how this stupid woman had linked him to Tang San.

"You aren't one of Tang San's people?" Dugu Yan looked at him with suspicion.

"Me? Him? Heh..."

Li Jingzhe gave a mocking laugh: "That little punk, is he even worthy?"

Dugu Yan's aura deflated, and even her martial soul dissipated along with it.

Still, she furrowed her brows and couldn't help but ask, "Then how did you come to know these secrets?"

Naturally, she did not want to believe what Li Jingzhe had said earlier.

In her eyes, Li Jingzhe was not only spouting nonsense but also talking complete rubbish; there wasn't a single word of truth in his mouth.

To this, Li Jingzhe shrugged: "You don't believe me when I tell you, yet you keep asking? I call you stupid, and you're still stubborn about it?"

"What did you say?" Dugu Yan's willow-leaf brows shot up, showing signs of anger again.

Li Jingzhe curled his lip: "See? I call you stupid, and you still don't want to believe it? Look at what you've done to your perfectly good Innate Poison Body. Tsk tsk, I can only say that your Dugu family deserves its dwindling lineage."

"You bastard!"

Dugu Yan was furious, her aura surging once more!

Who was she? The granddaughter of Poison Douluo Dugu Bo, possessor of the rare Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul, and a gifted prodigy who was already a level 42 battle Soul Ancestor in her early twenties. Wherever she went, wasn't she pampered and coaxed?

Yet this bastard before her was provoking her again and again...

If she didn't give him a lesson he would never forget, wouldn't she be tarnishing the prestige of the Dugu family?

"You brought this on yourself!" Dugu Yan said coldly.

But unexpectedly...

"Swish!"

Her vision blurred as something blocked her sight.

"What is this?" She frowned slightly, unable to help but take two steps back...

Only then did she see that Li Jingzhe had unfolded the Thousand Spider Poison Hand, smiling faintly: "If you don't believe what I said, why not try it and see? You are a level 42 battle Soul Ancestor, after all; surely you can tell the difference between good and bad?"

Dugu Yan furrowed her brows, looking from Li Jingzhe to the Thousand Spider Poison Hand in his hand. A flicker of hesitation crossed her eyes, and she subconsciously looked toward Ye Lingling.

Ye Lingling shook her head gently: "Yanzi, don't listen to him..."

Before she could finish her sentence.

Li Jingzhe spoke again, his voice eerie: "This Thousand Spider Poison Hand is merely a poison technique. For ordinary people to practice it is extremely difficult, and it even requires paying a heavy price! But you... Dugu Yan, you are an Innate Poison Body naturally suited for practicing poison arts! You would achieve twice the result with half the effort! Any poison technique in your hands could potentially unleash power where one plus one is greater than two, and what's more, you could master any poison technique with ease! How about it? Don't you want to give it a try?"

Li Jingzhe's voice lingered in her ears like the whisper of a demon.

Dugu Yan's expression shifted repeatedly as she looked at Li Jingzhe, then at the Thousand Spider Poison Hand...

Hesitation, conflict...

Then she heard Li Jingzhe's voice ring out again: "If I'm not mistaken, although the fetal poison in your body has been cleared, it only treats the symptoms and not the root cause. But if you practice the Thousand Spider Poison Hand, you can transform the toxins in your body into your own strength! This isn't just beneficial for you personally; it could even save your family, your descendants... because of this one Thousand Spider Poison Hand, they could completely cast off that so-called 'curse'!"

Dugu Yan's throat bobbed, her eyes dazed and lost in thought.

Yes, just as Li Jingzhe said, if this Thousand Spider Poison Hand was truly as described, then their Dugu family really could be saved!

But...

She was afraid!

She was afraid it might be true, yet she didn't want to believe it.

And she was afraid it might be false, severing all hope...

"You aren't scared, are you?" Li Jingzhe suddenly remarked...

"Scared?"

Dugu Yan snapped back to reality, her eyes widening as she retorted angrily: "I, Dugu Yan, don't know the meaning of fear! It's just this so-called Self-Created Soul Skill, right? I'll try it then!"

As she spoke, Dugu Yan snatched the Thousand Spider Poison Hand.

In this moment, it was as if she had made up her mind.

"If this is useless, you're dead!"

She glared fiercely at Li Jingzhe once more.