The More You Think About It

A thin, green-haired middle-aged man appeared ahead. He held his hands behind his back and watched them warily.

"I knew it was you, Dugu Bo."

From the moment Pufferfish Douluo saw the poison outside, he had already guessed that Dugu Bo was behind it.

After all, there were only a handful of powerful poison users across the entire Douluo Continent. As a Soul Douluo, Dugu Bo was naturally at the pinnacle of that field.

Dugu Bo frowned at Pufferfish Douluo. He had never seen him before, yet the man knew who he was.

Judging by his aura, the man was certainly no pushover. He was very likely a powerful Titled Douluo.

Dugu Bo knew exactly how much he was worth. With his lousy poison that injured his enemies a thousand times while costing him eight hundred, never mind a Titled Douluo—even a Soul Douluo could beat the crap out of him.

So he changed his attitude and became amiable.

"This lowly one didn't know Your Excellency was here. Please forgive me."

Pufferfish Douluo was stunned. According to the rumors, wasn't Dugu Bo a strange old man?

He never showed anyone a friendly face, so why was he acting like a mouse that had just spotted a cat?

"We were just passing through Sunset Forest when we happened to catch the scent of a treasure. So we followed it here."

At Pufferfish Douluo's answer, Dugu Bo's eye twitched several times.

What a coincidence!

Was this guy a dog or something, with such a sharp nose? Couldn't he come up with a more reasonable excuse?

"To be honest, this is my family's ancestral medicine garden, passed down for dozens of generations. I can't make the decision myself!"

As he spoke, he even waved his hand as if troubled.

Chen Qi nearly burst out laughing at that.

An ancestral medicine garden—what a good one! If he didn't know that Dugu Bo had stumbled upon the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well by chance, he might actually have believed him.

"So what if it's ancestral? We're confiscating it today."

Pufferfish Douluo didn't care about any of that. Anything Qian Renxue wanted belonged to the Qian Family—and to the Spirit Hall.

Refusing to hand it over now meant making an enemy of the Spirit Hall.

Dugu Bo's expression darkened at those words. To him, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was as precious as his own lifeblood.

Someone was trying to take it from him today. In other words, they were trying to take away his roots.

"Your Excellency, I refuse. I can't accept this."

Boom!

A terrifying pressure surged from Pufferfish Douluo, crashing down on Dugu Bo like wave after wave.

Dugu Bo couldn't just stand there and take it. He released the pressure of a Soul Douluo as well, and the two forces immediately clashed in midair.

The powerful currents of air sent branches thrashing wildly, while every blade of grass and flower was ripped from the ground and hurled skyward.

Chen Qi shielded Qian Renxue, who had remained out of sight throughout this whole chapter. Frowning, he looked past Dugu Bo, who was stubbornly resisting, at the Immortal Herbs behind him.

They couldn't let the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well be destroyed because of the two men.

Just as Dugu Bo was about to lose, Chen Qi stepped forward and stopped Pufferfish Douluo from teaching him a lesson.

"Both of you, stop! Someone dying would be a small matter. Losing the Immortal Herbs would be the real loss. Dugu Bo, I'll ask you one more time: are you really unwilling to hand this place over?"

Dugu Bo was still dazed when the pressure suddenly vanished. After hearing Chen Qi's words, he nodded firmly.

"I already told you: this is my family's ancestral medicine garden. Even if I have to destroy it, I'll never hand it over!"

"What if I could cure the poison afflicting your family?"

What kind of thing was that to say?

Then again, he'd never heard of an ancestral medicine garden before.

Dugu Bo had been ready to fight them to the death just moments ago, but Chen Qi's words instantly changed his expression.

He was puzzled about how Chen Qi knew about his poison, but if the young man really could cure it, Dugu Bo would gladly acknowledge him as his master—even if it cost him the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Suppressing his thoughts, he asked Chen Qi, "Can you really cure my poison?"

Chen Qi nodded confidently.

"Of course. There isn't a poison in the world I can't cure!"

At last, it was Qian Renxue's turn to appear. They had spent so much time together, yet she had never heard that Chen Qi could cure poison.

"Chen Qi, you really know how to cure poison? Then why didn't you cure my grandfather when he was poisoned that day?"

Come to think of it, Qian Renxue was the one who had poisoned Qian Daoliu. That stuff she made—dogs wouldn't touch it.

Even a wolf would sew its own mouth shut and leave!

"Let's just forget about Grand Elder's poison. Even the King of Heaven couldn't cure it."

Dugu Bo listened, thoroughly bewildered. What was this about a grandfather being poisoned and the Grand Elder?

Wait...

The Grand Elder... was her grandfather?!

Only then did he notice the girl in front of him had gleaming golden hair. A mysterious golden-haired girl accompanied by a Titled Douluo—wasn't she the one from the Spirit Hall?

And she seemed to be the Grand Elder's granddaughter, the granddaughter of the peerless master of the skies.

Dugu Bo let out a long breath, relieved that he had stopped fighting. If he had hurt Qian Renxue, the Qian Family would have been uprooted.

"Um, excuse me for interrupting, but are you all from the Spirit Hall?"

Qian Renxue's disappointment showed on her face. She hadn't even said a word, yet they had already figured out who she was. Traveling around really wasn't any fun at all.

"Whether our identities matter or not, you only need to answer this: do you agree to my deal? I'll cure your poison, and you'll give me the medicine garden."

"I agree! I wholeheartedly approve!"

How could Dugu Bo dare refuse? Even if they didn't cure his poison and simply took the medicine garden, he wouldn't dare complain in the slightest now.

Chen Qi nodded. Dugu Bo knew how to read the room and understood what he should and shouldn't do.

"Good. Since that's settled, I'll cure your poison."

With that, he opened the System Shop and started looking for something to cure it.

In theory, teaching Dugu Bo the Mysterious Heaven Skill would be enough to suppress the poison in his body, but Chen Qi wasn't about to do that.

That lousy Mysterious Heaven Skill was so unlucky he wouldn't even use it to prop up a table. The System Shop had plenty of other techniques—countless techniques from all sorts of worlds, far too many to count. He just couldn't afford them.

After searching for a while, Chen Qi spotted a bottle of pills. The description said they could cure all poisons without any side effects; if the person taking them was already a poison user, their ability to use poison would improve as well. It was practically tailor-made for Dugu Bo.

He glanced at the price and immediately froze like a statue: a full hundred Favor Points, enough to buy him Fat House Happy Water for ten lifetimes.

But when he thought of the Immortal Herbs' value, he gritted his teeth and bought them.

Outside, Qian Renxue and the other two saw Chen Qi standing there in a daze and thought his shut-in habits had flared up again.

"Chen Qi, are you all right?"

Qian Renxue shook Chen Qi by the arm, bringing him back to his senses.

"I'm fine. I was just thinking about how to cure the poison, and I found this in my storage space."

Chen Qi took out the antidote pills. Ten pills sat inside a plain little ceramic bottle.

The moment he opened the stopper, an indescribable medicinal fragrance wafted out.

"Give it a try."