Douluo: One Man Returns, Heaven-Defying Seal Smashes Tang San to Death

"Tch..."

Dugu Yan curled her lips. Just as she was about to follow him, her expression suddenly changed. Her pretty face turned deathly pale, and the veins beneath her skin became bluish-purple.

"Argh..."

The intense pain made Dugu Yan's delicate body tremble. She collapsed to the ground with a thud, crying out in agony.

Hearing the sound, Lu Yu stopped and turned around. Seeing Dugu Yan in that state, his brows immediately furrowed.

This seemed to be...

Poisoning?

Lu Yu immediately understood. It must have been because she had absorbed the Nine-Section Jade Viper soul ring. The toxins of the Nine-Section Jade Viper had fused with her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul, causing a toxic backlash.

In the original story, the toxins that had accumulated in Dugu Yan's body for years erupted when she was nineteen. Yet they had erupted ahead of time!

But after giving it some thought, Lu Yu understood...

After all, in the original story, the Nine-Section Jade Viper had not become Dugu Yan's soul ring!

Dugu Bo must have feared that his granddaughter would be unable to withstand the erosion of the poison, which was why he had chosen another soul beast for her third soul ring.

Yet yesterday, when Dugu Yan had absorbed the soul ring, Dugu Bo had not stepped in to stop her for some reason.

"This is troublesome..."

Lu Yu quickly stepped forward. He certainly could not let Dugu Yan die in front of him. Even if Dugu Bo showed himself, he would be helpless in this situation.

An expert in poisons did not necessarily know how to cure them. Otherwise, Dugu Bo would not have spent most of his life being eroded by the toxins of his own Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.

If Dugu Yan died like this, Lu Yu did not need to think to know that Dugu Bo would definitely kill him in a fit of rage.

With that in mind, Lu Yu gritted his teeth. Lightning burst from his fingertips as he reached out and pressed a finger against Dugu Yan's chest.

Strands of lightning seeped in through Dugu Yan's chest before rapidly spreading throughout her body.

The Yang Five Thunders were supremely yang and supremely fierce, the bane of all evil and filth. Snake venom was inherently yin, so it naturally fell within the Yang Five Thunders' range of suppression.

Thus, Lu Yu planned to use the Yang Five Thunders to help Dugu Yan purge the toxins from her body.

However, the Yang Five Thunders were also far too domineering. One misstep could damage Dugu Yan's body and might even cleanse away the innate poison of her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul.

If that happened, the foundation of her Martial Soul would be damaged. Dugu Yan's cultivation would regress, and she might even be unable to advance for the rest of her life. In that case, Dugu Bo would be even more likely to kill him!

Therefore, despite possessing spiritual power comparable to that of a Soul Sage, Lu Yu still found it extremely taxing.

In the distance, Dugu Bo, who had remained hidden in the shadows, panicked the instant he saw his granddaughter collapse as her poison flared up. At the same time, he realized the gravity of the situation.

But just as he was about to reveal himself and rush over, he saw that the brat who had saved his granddaughter yesterday was actually manipulating lightning to expel the poison from her body.

Dugu Bo flew into a rage and immediately wanted to step forward and kill the brat.

Lightning was supremely yang and supremely fierce. If he let that brat act recklessly, his granddaughter's Martial Soul would likely be crippled!

A distance of several hundred meters was crossed in an instant for Dugu Bo.

Yet when he silently appeared behind Lu Yu and was about to strike down with his palm, his raised hand froze in midair.

Dugu Bo saw that as wisps of electric light swirled around Dugu Yan's body, the bluish-purple veins beneath her skin gradually returned to normal. Even her complexion was slowly becoming rosy again.

If Lu Yu had harmed Dugu Yan's Martial Soul or body, her complexion could not possibly have improved. Instead, her aura would have become weak and unsteady, and she might even have bled from all seven orifices.

This discovery made Dugu Bo temporarily abandon the thought of attacking Lu Yu. Instead, he watched the two of them with rapt attention. The moment he noticed anything wrong, he would immediately kill Lu Yu and save his granddaughter.

More than ten seconds later, Lu Yu suddenly withdrew his hand and dropped onto the ground. Beads of sweat covered his forehead as he gasped for breath, his face slightly pale.

Controlling the Yang Five Thunders with such extreme precision had taken less than half a minute, yet it had nearly drained all of his spiritual power.

If Lu Yu had not cultivated the Yin Five Thunders to mastery in his previous life and possessed a deep understanding of and control over lightning, then even with the spiritual power of a Soul Sage—or even spiritual power at the level of a Title Douluo—he might not have been able to exercise such exquisite control.

One had to know that Douluo Continent had no shortage of people with high-quality Thunder Martial Souls, such as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!

Yet even so, had Dugu Bo not still failed to resolve the inherited Martial Soul backlash?

That proved that even those superpowerful experts with Thunder Martial Souls could not control such supremely yang and fierce lightning with perfect precision as it circulated through another person's body.

Of course, if Lu Yu cultivated his Thunder Arts to perfection, accomplishing this would be effortless.

By then, Dugu Bo had vanished from behind Lu Yu and hidden himself in the distance. Looking at Lu Yu slumped on the ground and his granddaughter, whose complexion had returned to normal, his eyes were filled with shock.

The brat had actually done it! A One-Ring brat had expelled nearly a tenth of the toxins from his granddaughter's body without harming Dugu Yan in the slightest!

Just now, Dugu Bo had even considered forcibly abducting the brat and taking him back to cure his granddaughter's poison.

As for the poison in his own body?

The brat was too weak to help him yet.

But he immediately dismissed the thought, because he did not dare!

Sending lightning into a body left no room for even the slightest error. The consequences of a mistake would be unimaginable.

Dugu Bo did not dare force Lu Yu through strong-arm tactics. What if the brat chose to die together with his granddaughter?

He did not dare gamble!

He could only befriend him and find a way to win him over. He could not offend him!

Thinking of this, Dugu Bo could not help feeling frustrated.

He was a dignified Title Douluo, yet he had to figure out how to curry favor with a One-Ring brat. If word got out, he might as well throw away his old face...

But he did not know that while Lu Yu had been helping Dugu Yan expel the poison, he had already noticed Dugu Bo silently appearing behind him.

Lu Yu had been gambling—gambling that Dugu Bo would not dare touch him!

That was precisely why he had dared to reveal his Thunder Arts!

This would be his lifesaving trump card, as well as his greatest leverage for getting a share of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!

When Lu Yu recovered, he discovered that Dugu Yan was still unconscious.

Thinking of Dugu Bo watching covetously from the shadows, Lu Yu wanted to send this trouble away as soon as possible.

Without another word, he scooped the girl up around the waist and ran toward the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Half an hour later, at the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.

"You're saying... you passed out too?" Dugu Yan looked at Lu Yu with a face full of uncertainty.

Lu Yu nodded, his expression deliberately grave.

"Yeah. When I heard the sound, I turned around and saw you fall to the ground in pain. Even your veins had turned bluish-purple, so I went over to check on you."

"But then everything suddenly went black, and I lost consciousness."

As he spoke, Lu Yu rubbed the back of his head and added, "Thinking about it now, I was probably knocked unconscious..."

"If it had been a soul beast, we couldn't have reached the edge of the forest unharmed."

"I think someone wanted to drive us away without taking our lives!"

Listening to Lu Yu's well-reasoned analysis, then recalling what had happened before she passed out, the suspicion in Dugu Yan's eyes gradually faded.

This was not the first time she had suffered a backlash from her snake venom. The familiar pain, along with Lu Yu's description, made her guess that her poison had suddenly flared up.

As for why she had survived, and why the toxins in her body had even subsided somewhat?

Dugu Yan looked around and curled her lips.

The old man had probably been following her in secret all along. Seeing her poison flare up, he must have knocked Lu Yu unconscious before helping her stabilize the snake venom in her body.

Thinking about how the old man had watched from the shadows while she was being chased by the Nine-Section Jade Viper earlier, yet had done nothing, Dugu Yan immediately grew furious.

She did not doubt Lu Yu's words. After all, Dugu Yan could never have imagined that the Martial Soul snake venom which even her grandfather could do nothing about had been dealt with by this child with One-Ring cultivation.

At that moment, Lu Yu suddenly said, "Another mile ahead lies beyond the Star Dou Great Forest. Our deal ends here."

He then held out his hand and stared at Dugu Yan.

Dugu Yan froze for a moment before remembering their agreement.

After hesitating for a while, she gritted her teeth, removed a ring from the index finger of her right hand, and tossed it to Lu Yu. With a proud expression, she said, "Look at you! Do you think your big sister would go back on her word?"

"This is a storage Soul Tool. Consider everything inside a gift for you!"

Lu Yu caught the ring and put it on without the slightest hesitation. Smiling, he said, "Thanks."

Then, without another moment of hesitation, he turned and left.

Dugu Yan suddenly called out, "Hey! Didn't you say someone wanted to drive us out? If you go back now, aren't you courting death?"

Without turning around, Lu Yu waved his hand. "I'll go deeper in from another direction. No matter how strong that person is, they can't possibly seal off the entire Star Dou Great Forest, right?"

Watching his back gradually disappear into the forest, Dugu Yan gave a delicate snort and stomped her foot.

"Yan Yan, have you taken a liking to that brat?" An aged, hoarse voice suddenly sounded behind her.

As if she had expected it, Dugu Yan did not even glance at the old man who had suddenly appeared behind her. She turned and walked out of the Star Dou Great Forest.