Breaking the Defense, First Use of the Beast Seal

"In short, you are the victor. You can take the herb garden now, or you can kill me, but do not even think about controlling or subduing me!"

"This is my bottom line!"

At this point,

Dugu Bo seemed to recall something and suddenly asked Niu Gao, "By the way, if you intend to kill me, could you at least tell me where you come from first?"

"Let me die knowing the truth."

Meeting Dugu Bo's curious gaze,

Niu Gao said calmly, "I am Niu Gao, the current patriarch of the Defense Clan!"

Upon hearing this,

Dugu Bo's pupils suddenly contracted, as though he had heard something unimaginable.

Once he came back to his senses,

his face filled with shock. "What!!! You're Niu Gao, the patriarch of the Defense Clan?"

"How is that possible?"

"I've seen the Defense Clan's 'Plate Armor Giant Rhino' Martial Soul before. It clearly didn't look like yours... Could it be... that all your Martial Souls mutated?"

"But that can't be right either!"

"As far as I know, after the Defense Clan was targeted and purged by Spirit Hall eleven years ago, its overall strength greatly declined. The new patriarch had only just broken through to the Soul Sage realm... yet you are an eighty-ninth-rank Soul Douluo!"

"Could it be... could it be that after your Martial Soul mutated, despite already being past the optimal age for cultivation, you improved by an average of two ranks of Soul Power per year?"

Looking at the utterly shocked Dugu Bo,

Niu Gao recalled what Jin Feng had said earlier. An idea suddenly came to him, and he said, "Let me correct you. Six years ago, I was still a seventy-fifth-rank Soul Sage. My Martial Soul had not mutated either. It was still the Plate Armor Giant Rhino."

"!!!"

"How is that possible?"

Dugu Bo could not help crying out, "In other words, after your Martial Soul mutated, it took you only six years to rise from a seventy-fifth-rank Soul Sage to an eighty-ninth-rank Soul Douluo, and you even gained the combat strength of a Titled Douluo?"

"How did you do it?"

At this,

Niu Gao raised an eyebrow. "It's actually very simple. You only need to cultivate the techniques of the Beast God Sect!"

"The Beast God Sect?"

"What kind of force is that?"

Hearing the name "Beast God Sect" for the first time, Dugu Bo looked utterly bewildered. "Has your entire Defense Clan joined it?"

"That's right."

Niu Gao nodded slightly, his voice brimming with temptation. "So, would you like to join the Beast God Sect?"

"A Titled Douluo can cultivate the highest-grade version of the Beast Scripture in the Beast God Sect. This technique can not only evolve beast Martial Souls, but also increase cultivation speed by 500%..."

"!!!"

"What did you say?"

"A 500% increase in cultivation speed, and it can even evolve beast Martial Souls!"

As Niu Gao's words fell,

Dugu Bo was left dumbfounded. He simply could not believe what he had heard.

After quite a while,

he finally recovered from his shock.

An inexplicable thought arose in his heart: perhaps he had rejected them too hastily earlier.

After all,

if what Niu Gao said was true,

then joining the Beast God Sect Niu Gao spoke of would be far too tempting...

In Dugu Bo's eyes,

even someone like Niu Gao, whose talent should have limited him to at most eight rings, had evolved his Martial Soul and risen from a seventy-fifth-rank Soul Sage to an eighty-ninth-rank Soul Douluo in just six short years after joining the Beast God Sect and cultivating the Beast Scripture.

If it were him, a person of exceptional talent who had still cultivated to the realm of Titled Douluo despite the flaws in his inherited Martial Soul, his improvement would only be even more terrifying!

While thoughts raced through Dugu Bo's mind,

Bang!

Jin Feng's figure

suddenly leaped down from the Golden Horned Behemoth's back in midair and landed beside his grandfather, Niu Gao.

Looking at the wavering Dugu Bo,

Jin Feng decided to add more fuel to the fire. Studying Dugu Bo's unusual appearance, he said quietly, "Dark green hair, vertical pupils gleaming with a blue light, sunken cheeks, bluish-gray skin without a trace of color, and a fishy, rotten stench of poison on your body..."

"It seems you are deeply poisoned, Dugu Bo?"

"For a Titled Douluo known as the continent's foremost poison expert to be poisoned... combined with the fact that your wife died in your middle age, your son died in your later years, and the Dugu line has only a single heir in each generation, it should be the poison of your Martial Soul, shouldn't it?"

"Do you want to completely resolve the poison of your own Martial Soul and the flaws in the Jade Phosphorous Serpent lineage's Martial Soul, so that your granddaughter and descendants will no longer suffer from Martial Soul poison and can live out the rest of their lives in peace?"

"!!!"

Hearing Jin Feng expose the secret of his poisoning,

Dugu Bo's pupils contracted sharply.

He instinctively exclaimed, "You can deduce that I have been poisoned by my Martial Soul and that my family's inherited Martial Soul is flawed just from my physical characteristics and family situation? You... who exactly are you?"

Before Jin Feng could speak,

Niu Gao, standing nearby, introduced him with a proud expression. "This is my grandson, Jin Feng, the strongest genius of the Defense Clan... Perhaps you have not heard this name, but that's fine. My grandson also has a title: the Blade Demon."

"The Blade Demon!"

"The continent's number-one genius who achieved nine hundred consecutive victories at the Great Soul Arena and, with the cultivation of a three-ring Soul Elder, defeated hundreds of four-ring Soul Ancestors?"

Looking at the dumbstruck Dugu Bo before him, Jin Feng nodded slightly. "That's right. The 'Blade Demon' you mentioned is me!"

Seeing Jin Feng nod,

Dugu Bo was shocked once again.

He only felt that he had heard far too much today, so much that he could barely process it all at once.

Just then,

Jin Feng continued, "Dugu Bo, your talent is strong, and your cultivation speed is fast. That is why you can barely suppress the poison through your own formidable strength!"

"But I heard that you have a granddaughter..."

"I imagine you do not want to see your granddaughter suffer the same fate as you in the future, enduring the corrosion of Martial Soul poison every day, living a life worse than death... or even dying young, causing the Dugu bloodline to be completely cut off, do you?"

At those words,

Dugu Bo immediately pictured his granddaughter Dugu Yan suffering the same agonizing backlash from her Martial Soul as he did. The defenses in his heart instantly crumbled.

Then,

he abruptly raised his head and looked at Jin Feng and Niu Gao with firm resolve in his eyes. In a deep voice, he said, "As long as you can help Yan Yan and me resolve the corrosion of our Martial Soul poison, I am willing to join the Beast God Sect!"

Seeing this,

Jin Feng nodded slightly.

He then sliced open his finger and suspended a drop of golden-red blood above his left palm.

Immediately afterward,

Jin Feng pressed together the index and middle fingers of his right hand. Golden light shimmered at his fingertips as he traced an inexplicable symbol through the air.

Very soon,

a Beast Seal formed from Jin Feng's Soul Power appeared in midair.

With a thought from him,

the Beast Seal in the air suddenly shrank countless times and fused into the drop of golden-red blood hovering over his left palm.

The Beast Seal from before

was precisely a technique from the soul-control secret art, the Soul-Contracting Beast Seal.

During the past several years of training,

Jin Feng had successfully reached the introductory stage of this secret art.

After fusing the Beast Seal into his own blood,

no matter how high the other party's cultivation was, as long as they used blood fused with the Beast Seal as a catalyst to cultivate the Beast Scripture, they would become absolutely loyal to him afterward and never betray him.

At this moment,

looking at the blood Jin Feng offered him,

Dugu Bo asked with a puzzled expression, "Aren't you asking me to join the Beast God Sect? Why are you giving me a drop of blood? And what was that Beast Seal you fused into the blood earlier?"

Facing Dugu Bo's confusion,

Jin Feng said calmly, "I am the leader of the Beast God Sect. Only by consuming my blood will you qualify to cultivate the Beast God Sect's technique, the Beast Scripture."

"As for that Beast Seal from earlier, aside from containing the Beast God Sect's core cultivation technique, the Beast Scripture, and its concealment technique, Beast God Concealment, it also contains certain special restrictive measures to prevent you from betraying our sect."