The master and disciple exchanged a smile.
Just then, a guard from Heaven Dou Royal Academy arrived outside the courtyard and reported with a bow, "Your Majesty, there is news of the items you were looking for!"
Lu Xiao looked puzzled as Du Busi took the letter from the guard and read it.
After arriving in Heaven Dou City yesterday, Du Busi had sampled all the city's delicacies before hiring many people to search for Thousand-Year Dragon Marrow Gel and Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Ginseng!
Thousand-Year Dragon Marrow Gel was refined from the source essence of an inferior dragon's entire skeleton. After being steeped in the passage of a thousand years, it became a warm, milky-white gel—congealed but not solid, melting upon contact with body heat!
The origins of Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Ginseng were equally extraordinary. It grew atop the corpse of an ancient dragon, nourished by dragon blood and cradled by dragon bones until it matured into a spiritual ginseng.
Though neither could enhance the body and raise Soul Power like an Immortal Herb, their value in tempering the flesh was not the least bit inferior to Immortal Herbs.
Du Busi's gaze swiftly swept across the letter. The lazy look on his face abruptly vanished, and a flash of delight appeared in his eyes.
"Interesting. I didn't expect these two heavenly treasures to be in the hands of the same person!"
He muttered softly, then casually passed the letter to Lu Xiao beside him.
Lu Xiao hurriedly accepted it and read it word by word.
The handwriting on the letter was neat and clear. Both heavenly treasures were in the Ye Family Medical Clinic in western Heaven Dou City.
He looked up at Du Busi and asked tentatively, "Master, you're not planning to just rob them, are you?"
Du Busi shot Lu Xiao an irritated glare. "Do I look like that kind of person? Don't you have a Soul Bone over sixty thousand years old? We'll trade for them!"
With that, he grabbed Lu Xiao and flew through the air toward western Heaven Dou City.
By the time Xiao Wu woke from her sleep, she was the only one left in the vast courtyard!
The Ye Family Medical Clinic was not far from Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
Far from the prosperity and clamor of the imperial city, the road was paved with bluestone, with gray-tiled brick houses on either side. It was full of everyday life, without the slightest trace of the imperial city's splendor and extravagance.
At the street corner stood an ancient locust tree, its canopy blotting out the sky. Beneath it hung a faded black wooden signboard, bearing simple ink characters—Ye Family Medical Clinic.
There were no gilded decorations, no sect totems, and no royal insignias. It was simple and unadorned.
The clinic's doors stood open, and a faint herbal fragrance permeated the air.
Inside the main hall, the tables and chairs were old. Several commoners waited in line for consultations while a kind-looking elderly man focused on taking a patient's pulse, his movements practiced and gentle.
This man was the current head of the Ye Clan, Ye Hesong.
Du Busi focused his gaze on him and said in surprise, "I didn't expect this man to be a Soul Sage!"
Lu Xiao nodded, his gaze sweeping over the entire clinic.
The clinic had an ancient layout. The front hall was used for consultations and dispensing medicine, while the faint bubbling of medicinal furnaces came from the rear courtyard. Other than the scent of ordinary herbs, there was no other smell in the air.
"Let's go in and take a look!"
The master and disciple stepped into the clinic's main hall.
The wooden threshold creaked softly. The commoners waiting in line instinctively turned to glance at them before casually turning back.
Only Ye Hesong, who was taking a pulse, paused abruptly with his fingertips.
Without revealing anything, Ye Hesong withdrew his fingers, wrote a prescription for the patient before him, instructed the medicine apprentice nearby to prepare the herbs, and quickly sent away all the patients.
Within moments, the bustling clinic hall fell utterly silent.
He slowly raised his head. His kindly brows carried a touch more gravity as he looked directly at Du Busi and said, "You two distinguished guests have come from afar. I fear you are not here because of illness or injury?"
Du Busi grinned. "Sharp eyes. My disciple and I are not here seeking treatment, but wealth!"
The atmosphere instantly froze.
Lu Xiao rolled his eyes at Du Busi, stepped forward, and bowed. "Senior, we heard that you possess Thousand-Year Dragon Marrow Gel and Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Ginseng, so we have come specifically to seek the medicine."
"Where did you distinguished guests hear of these two items?"
Ye Hesong's tone was guarded. "These two items are inherited treasures of the Ye Clan and are not for sale."
"Senior, we are not here to force a purchase, nor will we take them by force."
Lu Xiao took half a step forward and said calmly, "We came here specifically to trade one item for another."
As he spoke, Lu Xiao took out the Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone inherited from the Clear Sky Sect from his Storage Soul Guidance Device!
The moment the dark-golden right-arm Soul Bone appeared, its heavy Soul Power instantly filled the entire hall!
Ye Hesong frowned slightly. "Come with me to the rear courtyard!"
A hint of amusement flashed through Du Busi's eyes as he silently shielded Lu Xiao behind him.
The master and disciple followed Ye Hesong into the rear courtyard.
At the center of the courtyard, an old man in gray robes reclined quietly in a wicker chair.
He was thin and long like a spear, with sunken cheeks. His disheveled hair and beard were both dark green, and his eyes gleamed like emeralds.
His entire person gave off an illusory feeling, as though he were a phantom.
Lu Xiao recognized him at once, and his heart jolted. Dugu Bo!
Du Busi glanced at the gray-robed elder. "I didn't expect anyone to be able to cultivate a Martial Soul like the Jade Phosphorous Serpent to the Title Douluo realm!"
"Who are you?"
Dugu Bo rose to his feet, his Soul Power sharp and chilling. His gaze toward Du Busi was filled with apprehension!
He could not see through the cultivation of the man before him. This man's cultivation was far above his own!
Du Busi said lightly, "Body Sect! Du Busi!"
As his voice fell, poisonous mist churned around Du Busi. Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, red, red, red—nine Soul Rings slowly rose beneath his feet!
Feeling that tyrannical poison, Dugu Bo's eyes were filled with shock!
His poison dominated the world, and he had cultivated his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul to the realm of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, earning the title of "the world's number one poison Soul Master."
Yet when he saw the poisonous mist around Du Busi, he discovered that Du Busi's poison was far more tyrannical and far purer than that of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Martial Soul!
Facing a Soul Master with higher Soul Power and stronger attributes than himself, there was no chance he could escape.
Thinking of this, he hurriedly withdrew his Soul Power and ingratiatingly moved the wicker chair before Du Busi. "I did not know Senior was visiting. Please, have a seat!"
Dugu Bo. Du Busi withdrew his aura and sat grandly in the wicker chair. "I want to exchange a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone for the Ye Clan's Thousand-Year Dragon Marrow Gel and Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Ginseng."
As he spoke, he placed the Soul Bone of over sixty thousand years on the table beside him.
Dugu Bo gave it a cursory inspection and immediately saw that the bone was of exceptional quality. He could not help reminding Ye Hesong in a low voice, "Old Ye, even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect might not be able to produce a Soul Bone of this quality."
Ye Hesong's expression was complicated.
At first, when he saw Du Busi casually take out a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone, he had feared that the man intended to murder and seize their treasures, which was why he had called Du Busi into the rear courtyard.
But now that he had witnessed Du Busi's terrifying strength, his thoughts had changed!
Ye Hesong looked at Du Busi and slowly said, "I want to make a deal with Your Majesty using these two heavenly treasures!"
Du Busi raised an eyebrow slightly. "What deal?"
Ye Hesong coughed twice and said with a solemn expression, "I want my granddaughter to enter into a childhood betrothal with your disciple."
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