Borrow Your Granddaughter for a Few Days of Research

"Yanyan, come out..."

Dugu Bo's voice was full of helplessness.

After Dugu Bo finished speaking, a young woman walked out of the valley. It was none other than Dugu Yan.

She had short, deep-purple hair and looked spirited and dashing.

But what drew Ying Chengfeng's attention most was her pair of green eyes.

Those eyes were extremely strange, and Ying Chengfeng couldn't help frowning as he looked at them.

"What are you staring at? Never seen a beauty before?" Dugu Yan said irritably when she noticed Ying Chengfeng staring at her "face."

Her grandfather had been injured by someone on his side. How could she possibly be pleasant to him?

"A beauty? You think you qualify?" Ying Chengfeng replied disdainfully.

In Ying Chengfeng's view, Dugu Yan was only decent-looking, and she still fell short of Yu Feiyan.

And she dared to call herself a beauty?

Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan both looked displeased at those words.

Ying Chengfeng, meanwhile, fell into a brief reverie before looking at Dugu Yan again.

"Before we fight, I'll ask you a question."

Dugu Yan scoffed. "You little brat, I'll beat you until you cry in a moment! Let's see if you'll still get the chance to ask me anything."

With that, she released her Martial Soul.

A Jade Phosphor Snake appeared behind Dugu Yan.

The Jade Phosphor Snake flicked its tongue, its vertical pupils fixed intently on Ying Chengfeng.

Two yellow Soul Rings appeared beneath Dugu Yan's feet.

"Kid, show me your Martial Soul."

Ying Chengfeng tilted his head and said calmly, "There's no need for Soul Rings."

He didn't rely on Soul Skills anyway.

Although releasing his Soul Rings would increase his combat strength,

he wasn't about to go all out against a level-24 Dugu Yan.

He only needed to make the slightest move!

At that moment, Ying Chengfeng looked at Dugu Yan again.

She was around 1.6 meters tall, taller than him.

Ying Chengfeng said coolly, "I don't like looking up when I talk."

"So sit down."

With that, Ying Chengfeng raised his hand slightly.

A powerful wave of Soul Power spread out in every direction.

The air seemed to grow much denser.

The air had grown denser?!

It completely overturned everything everyone present thought they knew.

And that density seemed to gather into a gigantic palm, invisible yet tangible.

The palm pressed straight down on Dugu Yan's shoulder.

"Crack, crack, crack—"

It sounded like bones grinding out of place.

"Ah!"

Dugu Yan let out a scream and collapsed to the ground, utterly graceless.

Her two Soul Rings flickered on and off.

Finally, the Soul Rings slipped out of her control and vanished into her body.

Ying Chengfeng began walking toward Dugu Yan, who was sitting on the ground.

When he reached her, he crouched down and stared straight into her eyes.

"Were your eyes green from birth?"

This was extremely important to Ying Chengfeng.

He wanted to study Yu Feiyan's Martial Soul and change it as much as possible.

And Dugu Yan, right in front of him, was a fine test subject.

Dugu Yan hadn't expected Ying Chengfeng to ask such a question.

She pressed her lips together and glanced at her grandfather, Dugu Bo.

At that moment, Dugu Bo wore an expression of heartache and helplessness.

He didn't dare make a rash move.

Ying Chengfeng addressed Dugu Yan again. "Answer my question."

"Yes," Dugu Yan replied in humiliation.

For the first time in her life, someone had bullied her like this.

Her grandfather was a Titled Douluo. Everyone who met her treated her with respect.

Even the nobles did the same.

And now, a boy who looked several years younger than her was bullying her.

It was a stain on her life that could never be erased!

But after hearing her answer, Ying Chengfeng fell into thought.

After a while, Ying Chengfeng continued, "Have you ever felt that something was wrong with your eyes?"

"For example... some kind of activity?"

Dugu Yan had no idea what he meant. Looking mortified, she said, "I don't know."

Ying Chengfeng looked helpless. He wasn't particularly fond of using his brain in the first place.

He liked talking to clever people because it saved him a lot of trouble, but Dugu Yan clearly wasn't clever enough.

Ying Chengfeng simply looked at Dugu Bo and said, "Does your poison have activity? How did you do it?"

Dugu Bo also looked mortified.

What kind of questions were these? They were far too profound!

Dugu Bo walked over to Dugu Yan and helped her up before saying, "You've won. The Herb Garden is yours."

With that, he prepared to leave with Dugu Yan.

Ying Chengfeng didn't press his advantage.

But he still hadn't figured out the answer, so naturally he couldn't let them leave.

Ying Chengfeng said, "You and your granddaughter are both deeply poisoned. Are you really going to leave?"

At that, Dugu Bo stopped in his tracks.

He looked at Ying Chengfeng with suspicion.

Dugu Bo knew that his granddaughter had been affected by the poison ever since she was born;

but how could he, the mighty Poison Douluo, possibly be poisoned?

"Kid, you're talking nonsense!"

Ying Chengfeng shrugged and looked at Dugu Bo. "The stronger your Soul Power, the stronger your poison."

Hearing that, Dugu Bo snorted. "If my poison wasn't strong, how could I be called Poison Douluo?"

Ying Chengfeng shook his head. "You absorbed many Soul Rings with poison attributes. Your poison has activity, but you can't control it."

"And part of that activity was passed down to your descendants."

Dugu Bo frowned. "What are you trying to say?"

"Let me borrow your granddaughter for a few days of research," Ying Chengfeng said calmly.

Dugu Bo's face turned utterly grim.

"You've gone too far! First you wanted to borrow the Herb Garden, and now you want to borrow my granddaughter too?"

He turned to Azure Luan Elder, looking ready to die together if they couldn't come to an agreement.

Behind Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan felt an overwhelming sense of humiliation.

She burst into tears.

This was too much!

"Grandpa, I don't want to be studied! Please take me away!" Dugu Yan was genuinely aggrieved now.

Ying Chengfeng looked at Dugu Yan and said, "If you don't get this poison removed, you won't live past thirty."

At that, Dugu Yan looked at her grandfather, Dugu Bo.

But her grandfather wore a trace of sorrow.

Could she really not live past thirty?

Ying Chengfeng continued, "If you cooperate with my research, I'll cure you."

Come to think of it, Dugu Yan was strange.

He remembered that in the original story, Tang San's Realgar Wine had actually broken her poison?!

It was downright ridiculous.

Was Realgar Wine really anything special?

Still, Dugu Yan's poison really was pathetic.

If Realgar Wine could break it, curing it wouldn't be difficult either.

At that moment, Dugu Yan hesitated for a few seconds, then looked at her grandfather.

Dugu Bo looked at Ying Chengfeng as well and asked, "Can you really cure Yanyan?"

"It's not difficult. Eliminate the activity of the poison in her body, then use Soul Power to force it out," Ying Chengfeng said calmly.

Dugu Bo frowned. "Then how do you eliminate the activity of the poison in the body?"

Ying Chengfeng looked at him like he was an idiot and said, "Increase the activity of the cells in your body. They'll eliminate the activity of the poison on their own."

"There's a second method, but it's more difficult. Still, it'll make you stronger."

"But..." Ying Chengfeng stopped halfway through.