Reborn, Di Tian Arrives

"Master, I'll set out right away." After saying this, Di Tian headed for Sunset Forest at top speed to investigate.

"Grandpa." A little girl approached a white-haired old man.

"Yan Yan."

This grandfather and granddaughter were Tang San's benefactors in Douluo Continent: Dugu Bo and his granddaughter, Dugu Yan. Without them, Dugu Yan's fate might have been different.

Without their Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, it was anyone's guess whether Tang San could have defeated Spirit Hall. Later, the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well even became an important place for unorthodox sects. Yet Dugu's family never appeared again in The Peerless Tang Sect, Legend of the Dragon King, or even Ultimate Douluo. It was obvious that their bloodline had died out.

The reason was simple: Tang San's treatment method was flawed from the start.

Tang San had proposed two solutions:

Take both the Ice and Fire Immortal Herbs to neutralize the poison (sacrifice one's cultivation): Dugu Bo would consume the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, using extreme cold and heat to neutralize the accumulated poison in his body. But Dugu Bo's Soul Power was deeply bound to his poison. Once the poison was gone, his poisonous techniques would be useless, leaving him an ordinary Titled Douluo.

Store the poison in a Spirit Bone and use pills to guide it (retain one's cultivation): Pills made with Tang San's blood, tempered by ice and fire, would help Dugu Bo gradually "filter" the free-floating poison that was corroding his organs and compress it into a Spirit Bone. In the original story, Dugu Bo used a Head Soul Bone. This would stop the poison from turning back on him while allowing him to retain his poisonous techniques.

In the end, Dugu Bo chose the second method. He successfully stopped the poison from attacking his internal organs and bone marrow, while retaining the poison of his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.

But there was a problem. Injecting the poison into a Spirit Bone might solve Dugu Bo's problem, but had anyone considered that Spirit Bones had a limited capacity? What was he supposed to do once the bone was full and could no longer hold any more poison?

What was Dugu Yan supposed to do?

On Earth, people had already conducted experiments proving that everything had a limit to how much it could hold.

For instance, a university professor had once performed an experiment for his students using water vapor. Compressed, it turned into water. Compressed further to its limit, the water turned into high-density ice. But how could high-density ice be compressed any further?

The same principle applied. What would Dugu Bo do once the poison inside his Spirit Bone reached a point where it could no longer be compressed?

The same went for Dugu Yan.

"Grandpa, no matter what, we can't let Tang San take advantage of us this time."

Dugu Yan spoke up. At this moment, both she and Dugu Bo had another identity: they were reincarnators.

"I trusted Tang San with all my heart, but he turned out to be a hypocrite." Dugu Bo was furious. Tang San had picked every single Immortal Herb, leaving none behind. They could grow back later, but by then, his granddaughter was already dead.

"After that great battle ended, Grandpa, you sacrificed the entire Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and I was the only one who inherited it. But I never had a husband, so I guarded it alone. I never expected that..."

(Note: Dugu Bo dies in the animated version, so I'm following the animation here. That will make Dugu Bo's family hate Tang San even more.)

"The treatment method Tang San gave us was flawed from the start! Spirit Bones have limits. His method was to transfer the poison into a Spirit Bone, but what were we supposed to do once it reached capacity? How could we keep transferring the poison? That's how I died! Tang San is so underhanded. His goal was to occupy the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well forever and steal something that belonged to our family."

Dugu Yan hadn't called out to Tang San as she lay dying, but the problem was that Tang San's treatment method was clearly flawed. Wasn't he just hoping that once Dugu Bo's whole family was dead, he could claim the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well as his own?

The fact that Dugu's family never appeared in the later Douluo Continent series was the best proof. Even their Martial Soul and surname never showed up. Was that not proof enough?

Some people said Tang San was decent in the first Douluo Continent story. But even at the very beginning of that story, he hadn't exactly done anything admirable.

"I trusted Tang San so much, but this was how he treated me. I gave everything in the battle against Spirit Hall. I even sacrificed myself, yet my granddaughter still died like this..."

Dugu Bo had been reborn after his death, so he didn't know what happened later. He only learned the truth after discovering that his granddaughter had also been reborn and she told him what came afterward. Only then did he realize that his entire family had been made fools of!

"Grandpa, we have so many Immortal Herbs now. We don't know whether Tang San has been reborn, but we can use these herbs to evolve our Martial Souls. If our Martial Souls evolve, maybe we can avoid this poison.

Why should we give them to Tang San?"

Dugu Yan's reasoning made sense. With so many safeguards, they could simply keep the herbs for themselves and strengthen their family. Why give them to Tang San?

"That makes sense, but I don't know what these Immortal Herbs do. I have to find someone who understands them. I know who that person is, but I don't want to see him..." The person Dugu Bo was talking about was Chrysanthemum Guan, Yue Guan.

Dugu Yan could guess who he meant. After all, she'd spent so long with her grandfather that she knew a thing or two about his past.

"Grandpa, there are so many people on the continent. Surely some of them understand Immortal Herbs. For instance, the Breaking Clan knows about them. Why don't we recruit them?

The Breaking Clan was once abandoned by the Clear Sky Sect, too. If we use Immortal Herbs to recruit them, we should be able to bring them over. Then we can use the herbs to evolve our Martial Souls.

And Grandpa, don't forget, you're a Titled Douluo. Yang Wudi is only a Soul Douluo. We'll be the ones in charge."

After hearing Dugu Yan's suggestion, Dugu Bo agreed that it was viable. He had been part of the Tang Sect and knew Yang Wudi well.

Yang Wudi hated the Clear Sky Sect with all his heart, so they should be able to recruit him.

Besides, Dugu Bo was a Titled Douluo. Yang Wudi wouldn't dare do anything to betray him.

"Then let's set out now."

Just as Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan were about to leave, a figure approached them, radiating an immensely powerful aura.

"Not good!" Dugu Bo hurriedly shielded Dugu Yan behind him. She was his only granddaughter.

"May I ask who you are?" Dugu Bo could sense that the other party was definitely a Titled Douluo—and stronger than him.

"This Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well belongs to us now. Leave at once, and I'll spare your lives!" Di Tian shouted.

"!!!"

"!!!"

The two of them were stunned when they heard this. How could anyone know where the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well was?