I Said I Saw This World's Future, but You Wouldn't Believe Me Either

Just as Dugu Yan's worldview was undergoing a massive earthquake.

Ye Qing opened his eyes.

His black eyes shone like stars, the golden light hidden within.

He slowly rose to his feet and looked down at his hands.

Soul Power surged through his meridians, a strength he had never felt before.

"Innate Full Soul Power!"

Although level ten was merely the starting point in the world of Soul Masters.

For a former piece of trash with only level-three Soul Power, this was already a heaven-defying change of fate!

His Martial Soul was no longer that useless Wild Flower Martial Soul that could only be mocked.

It had become an unknown Nine-Leaf Green Lotus!

Crystal-clear and flawless, sacred and solemn.

Ye Qing felt the earth-shaking changes within his body, and his entire body trembled.

"Ha ha ha ha ha!"

He could not help throwing back his head and laughing, his laughter unrestrained and excited.

"It worked!"

"It really worked!"

"A heaven-defying change of fate! Who else can do that!"

He laughed like a madman, yet his eyes reddened slightly.

Ever since he had transmigrated into this world, he had known he was trash.

In Douluo Continent, a world where the strong preyed upon the weak, talent like his condemned him to be a mere extra for life.

He refused to accept that.

Why should Ye Qing become trash after transmigrating here?

Now, he finally had a chance to turn his life around!

Immortal Grade herbs really could change one's fate against the heavens!

His useless Martial Soul had mutated and evolved, while his Soul Power had reached Innate Full Soul Power!

"Ye! Qing!"

A teeth-gritting voice interrupted his wild laughter.

Dugu Yan grabbed his collar, her jade-green eyes practically spitting fire.

"What exactly did you do?"

"Why did your Martial Soul change? Why did your Soul Power soar?"

"Explain it clearly to me!!!"

With every sentence, she shook Ye Qing by the collar, rattling him like a drum.

She desperately wanted to know the answer!

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Dizzy from being shaken, Ye Qing hurriedly raised his hands in surrender. "I'll tell you! I'll tell you, all right?"

After Ye Qing's explanation, Dugu Yan finally released his collar.

Not because she had calmed down.

But because she needed both hands to hold up her chin so it would not fall to the ground.

"Imm... Immortal Grade?"

Dugu Yan repeated the unfamiliar term, her jade-green eyes clearly spelling out, "Are you kidding me?"

"You're saying that flower in my grandfather's Medicine Garden, the one that looked good for nothing except being pretty, was some kind of... Immortal Grade?"

"More precisely, it's called Aromatic Silk Beauty."

Ye Qing straightened the collar she had wrinkled, wearing a smile that said, I know you're in a hurry, but don't panic.

"Immortal Grade herbs—things that belong only in heaven, rarely seen in the mortal world."

"The effects of Aromatic Silk Beauty are simple. It can help a Soul Master break through the limits of their talent and evolve their Martial Soul."

"Evolve... a Martial Soul?"

Dugu Yan looked at the crystal-clear Nine-Leaf Green Lotus beside Ye Qing, then thought of the three-petaled Wild Flower from before.

From a useless Martial Soul to a lotus Martial Soul!

From level-three Soul Power to Innate Full Soul Power!

"..."

Dugu Yan fell silent.

Her gaze landed on Ye Qing's face, her expression as complex as an emotional pie chart.

"My grandfather... He guarded that entire garden of herbs for decades, only to use them as ordinary poisonous plants?"

"That's not quite right."

Ye Qing corrected her, "Your grandfather didn't use them as poisonous plants. He only knew poisonous plants and knew absolutely nothing about anything else."

"Those Immortal Grade herbs had been growing in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for so many years. Aside from occasionally pulling out a few as poison ingredients, the old man spent the rest of the time letting them bask in the sun."

"Do you know what that means?"

"What?"

"What a waste!"

Ye Qing looked utterly heartbroken, as though he had seen someone use an eighty-two Château Lafite to cook hot pot.

Dugu Yan: "..."

Though she did not want to admit it, after witnessing Ye Qing's changes after consuming the Aromatic Silk Beauty, she truly could not refute him.

"How do you know all this?"

Dugu Yan stared intently at Ye Qing with her jade-green eyes.

"My grandfather is a Titled Douluo. He has played with poison and herbs for decades, yet even he did not know what those Immortal Grade herbs did. You, a—"

She paused and swallowed the words "ordinary person" before they left her mouth.

Fine, this guy was no longer ordinary.

Innate Full Soul Power, a mutated Martial Soul—he was undeniably a genius in the making.

Though he had started cultivating rather late, he was still someone with potential.

Ye Qing spread his hands. "I only read about it in a lost ancient tome."

"Then how did you know that Immortal Grade herb was in my grandfather's Medicine Garden? And how did you know my grandfather even had this garden?"

Dugu Yan pressed him step by step. "Surely that ancient tome didn't even mark the exact location of my grandfather's Medicine Garden?"

"The tome said that Immortal Grade herbs often grow where extreme cold and extreme heat meet."

"And your grandfather's poison cultivation just happens to require such an environment to suppress the toxins in his body, so I deduced—"

"Do I look like an idiot?" Dugu Yan interrupted him.

"Keep making things up. Go on, if you've got the nerve!"

"..."

Ye Qing fell silent for a second.

Then he chose honesty. "Fine, you don't look like an idiot."

"Then tell me the truth, damn it!"

"I can tell you the truth... Actually, I saw this world's future."

"..."

Dugu Yan stared deeply at him.

She assumed he simply did not want to tell the truth.

Unexpectedly, she did not press him any further.

"Hmph, forget it if you don't want to say."

She folded her arms, her tone returning to its usual cold pride.

"Everyone has secrets. I won't force you."

"Oh?"

Ye Qing was slightly stunned.

This girl seemed easier to talk to than he had imagined.

Still, what he had just said was true. He was someone who had read this world's script.

Unfortunately, even if he told the truth, Dugu Yan would not believe him.

"Tell me now—were you planning to use Immortal Grade herbs to detoxify my grandfather and me?"

Dugu Yan abruptly changed the subject, and her gaze sharpened once more.

Ye Qing's expression also turned serious.

He nodded, then shook his head.

"What does that mean?"

Dugu Yan frowned. "First you nod, then you shake your head. Are you playing riddles?"

"Yes, and no."

Ye Qing raised a finger and began explaining. "Immortal Grade herbs can indeed cure the bloodline poison of your Dugu Family's Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul."

"But!"

"But what?"

"If you consume the Immortal Grade herbs directly, they can remove the poison, but there is one consequence: while detoxifying you, they will also erase the poison cultivation that comes with your Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul."

Ye Qing's expression was unusually solemn. "In other words, you can survive, but you will lose all the strength you gained from poison cultivation."

"For a Titled Douluo and Soul Master whose foundations lie in poison, you should understand better than I do what losing that poison cultivation means."

Dugu Yan froze.

Lose their poison cultivation!

Her grandfather, Dugu Bo, bore the title Poison. He was the foremost poison user on the continent, and all his cultivation rested upon the poison arts of his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul.

If he lost his poison cultivation, he could survive, but his strength would plummet to the bottom.

She herself did not care much.

She was still young, and her poison cultivation was not particularly deep.

At worst, she could stop using poison and cultivate something else in the future.

But her grandfather had cultivated poison arts his entire life.

To simply give them up... the old man would probably rather die from the poison than agree.