Regret, Wings Won't Help You Fly

Dugu Bo's face darkened, and he wasted no more words.

He did not know? Then he would beat him until he did!

The other party would rather threaten him with his granddaughter than release his martial soul. Clearly, that martial soul was highly recognizable; once exposed, the consequences would be endless!

"Martial Soul Avatar!"

Dugu Bo roared, holding nothing back any longer.

The next moment, a massive emerald-green serpent over thirty meters long rose from the ground. Its ferocious head lifted high, its cold vertical pupils looking down on everything. Even the people outside Dugu Manor could clearly see that enormous, heart-stopping serpent body.

A terrifying pressure spread like collapsing mountains and roaring seas. Every powerful expert in Heaven Dou City looked in horror toward Dugu Manor, while many nearby Spirit Masters and civilians had already begun fleeing this place of trouble in panic.

"Third soul skill, Jade Phosphorous Soul-Confusing Array."

In an instant, an even thicker poisonous fog than before exploded outward. The mist churned and swallowed half of Dugu Manor in the blink of an eye.

Deep within the poisonous fog, the old man's sight, hearing, and even perception were suppressed to varying degrees. The pungent poison gas continually eroded the Soul Power protecting his body, letting out sizzling sounds of corrosion.

The old man was now stuck in a dilemma. In his heart, he had already cursed the bastard who provided the intelligence a thousand times over!

This Dugu Bo's strength was far beyond what the reports described! If this continued, unless he used his martial soul, he would undoubtedly lose. But once he used his martial soul and exposed his identity, he would face this madman Dugu Bo's relentless, death-defying pursuit and revenge!

At this moment, the old man truly regretted it! He regretted why he had just had to run his mouth and make that threat!

He had not expected Dugu Bo to be so difficult to deal with, much less that this fellow would be like a mad dog. He had merely gained the upper hand verbally, yet Dugu Bo actually wanted to fight him to the death without another word!

At least ask me what my purpose is first! Can we follow the proper procedure or not? Are Spirit Masters on the continent all this short-tempered nowadays?!

In the end, the family's safety still won out over pride. The old man took a deep breath and spoke helplessly. "Wait! Your Excellency Dugu, I think we can talk first! Let's discuss this properly!"

However, what answered him was not words, but a strange, deathly pale beam of light. It pierced through layer after layer of poisonous fog and silently shot out from an extremely tricky angle behind him!

It was precisely Dugu Bo's trump-card soul bone skill—Medusa's Gaze!

Caught off guard, the old man only felt a bone-piercing chill envelop his entire body. Though he wanted to dodge, the beam was too fast; in his normal state, there was no way he could avoid it!

Pfft!

The beam did not produce a loud boom. Instead, it strangely merged directly into his body. The next moment, the old man felt his entire waist and abdomen instantly go numb, losing all sensation.

He looked down in horror and saw the skin on his abdomen turning gray-white and stiff at an astonishing speed. Signs of petrification had actually appeared!

"Damn it! This is Medusa's petrifying gaze! Dugu Bo, you forced me to do this! White Tiger Possession!"

At the moment of life and death, the old man could no longer afford to keep disguising himself. If he did not use his martial soul now, he feared he really would die here!

With an enraged roar, brilliant white light shot into the sky, so dazzling it even temporarily dispersed the surrounding poisonous fog.

An incomparably domineering aura of a king erupted. The old man's muscles swelled section by section, bursting through his upper garment, and a clear "king" character mark appeared on his forehead!

"White Tiger martial soul... the Star Luo Dai Clan! Good, very good!" Dugu Bo's voice, cold to the extreme, drifted from all directions within the poisonous fog. The undisguised killing intent in it made the old man's heart tighten.

"Dugu Bo, today I acted presumptuously. I will leave now, and we can let this matter end here. How about it?" the old man asked with a dark expression, a hint of negotiation entering his tone.

His martial soul had already been exposed. Unless he could completely kill Dugu Bo here, he would have to back down today.

"Presumptuously? Now you know you were wrong? Too late!"

Dugu Bo's voice was filled with mockery. "Today, you will stay here! Your Star Luo Dai Clan will likewise pay the price for your stupidity!"

"Impudent! Dugu Bo, don't refuse the respect you're being given!"

Hearing this, the old man instantly flew into ashamed anger. "If this old man wants to leave, you are not qualified to stop me! I advise you to think carefully. Don't forget, you still have a precious granddaughter!"

Unexpectedly, Dugu Bo's voice suddenly calmed at this moment. His furious emotion vanished without a trace, and his tone somehow became composed and confident.

"Leave? You can try leaving and see whether you can walk out of the gates of my Dugu Manor today."

The old man's brows furrowed tightly when he heard this, and an ominous premonition rose in his heart. He did not understand where Dugu Bo's confidence came from.

But he knew that today's matter could no longer be accomplished, and staying any longer would be useless. He snorted coldly, his Soul Power surging, and was about to force his way out of the poison array.

But before he could move, the thick poisonous fog covering the sky was suddenly withdrawn by Dugu Bo himself, dispersing like a receding tide.

The scene outside also clearly entered the old man's eyes.

But the sight before him made the anger on the old man's face freeze instantly. His pupils shrank sharply to the size of needle tips, and a chill shot from the soles of his feet straight to the crown of his head. In an instant, his complexion turned as pale as paper!

At this moment, above Dugu Manor, besides that thirty-meter-long Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, there were four other figures quietly hovering in midair, looking down at him coldly.

At the same time, the power of a domain that made every hair on his body stand on end pressed down like the collapsing sky!

It was a magnificent yet deadly radiance of red and blue. Within this domain, he felt the circulation of his Soul Power become incomparably sluggish, and his body had grown at least twenty percent heavier!

Four... no, three Title Douluo!

One of them gave him a sense of pressure even more terrifying than any expert he had ever encountered in his life!

Had he... fallen into a trap?

The old man's mind went blank. He began to suspect whether a spy had appeared beside him, or even whether someone within Star Luo wanted to borrow another's blade to kill him and seize power!

But reality left him no time to think. He saw the young man in the air, surrounded like the moon among stars, gently wave his hand.

The figures to his left and right suddenly released their martial souls. A bewitching chrysanthemum and a ghostly phantom appeared, and two utterly different yet equally terrifying auras instantly locked onto him below. Without another word, they charged at him to kill.

"Super Douluo? And two of them?"

The old man was instantly frightened bloodless. While retreating frantically, he screamed hoarsely toward the sky, "Misunderstanding! This is all a misunderstanding! Someone must be sowing discord and trying to borrow a blade to kill! Your Excellencies, please hear my explanation!"

Unfortunately, Ju Douluo and Ghost Douluo paid no attention to his cries at all. Whether it truly was a misunderstanding or merely an excuse, they would beat him first today and talk afterward.