Ye Family Medical Clinic! Dugu Bo Appears!

Master and disciple exchanged a smile.

Just then, a guard from Heaven Dou Royal Academy arrived outside the courtyard and bowed as he reported, "Your Majesty, there is news about the things you were looking for!"

Lu Xiao looked puzzled as Du Busi took the letter from the guard and read through it.

After arriving in Heaven Dou City yesterday, Du Busi had sampled all the city's delicacies, then hired many people to inquire about the whereabouts of the Thousand-Year Dragon Marrow Gel and Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Ginseng!

The Thousand-Year Dragon Marrow Gel was refined from the essential essence of an inferior dragon's entire skeletal structure. Nurtured by a thousand years of time, it became a warm, milky-white gel—congealed but not solid, melting upon contact with body heat!

The Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Ginseng was no less extraordinary in origin. It grew atop ancient dragon corpses, nourished by dragon blood and cradled by dragon bones, eventually maturing into a spiritual ginseng.

Though neither could enhance one's physique while raising Soul Power like an Immortal Herb, their value in tempering the body was not the least bit inferior to Immortal Herbs.

Du Busi's gaze swiftly swept over the letter. His previously lazy expression abruptly vanished, and a flicker of delight flashed through his eyes.

"Interesting. I never expected these two heavenly treasures to be in the hands of the same person!"

He murmured softly, then casually passed the letter to Lu Xiao at his side.

Lu Xiao hurriedly took the letter and read it word by word.

The handwriting on the letter was neat and clear. Both heavenly treasures were located 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 steal them, are you?"

Du Busi shot Lu Xiao an irritated glare. "Do you take this old man for that kind of person? Don't you have a soul bone over sixty thousand years old? We'll trade for them!"

As he spoke, he grabbed Lu Xiao and shot 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 bustling splendor of the imperial city, the streets were paved with blue stone slabs and lined with gray-tiled brick houses, brimming with the life of ordinary people and devoid of the imperial city's 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 a few plain inked words—Ye Family Medical Clinic.

There were no gilded decorations, no sect emblems, and no royal markings. It was simple and unadorned.

The clinic's doors stood open, and a faint herbal fragrance wafted through the air.

Inside the main hall, the tables and chairs were old. Several commoners were lined up for consultations, while a kind-faced old man focused on checking a patient's pulse, his movements skilled and gentle.

This man was Ye Hesong, the current head of the Ye family.

Du Busi studied him closely and said in quiet surprise, "I didn't expect this man to be a Soul Sage!"

Lu Xiao nodded, his gaze sweeping across the entire clinic.

The clinic had an ancient layout. The front hall was for consultations and dispensing medicine, while faint bubbling sounds from boiling medicine 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!"

Master and disciple stepped into the clinic's main hall.

The wooden threshold creaked softly. The commoners waiting in line subconsciously turned to glance at the two of them before casually turning back.

Only Ye Hesong, who was taking a patient's pulse, paused abruptly.

Without revealing anything, Ye Hesong withdrew his fingers, wrote a prescription for the patient before him, instructed the medicine boy beside him to prepare the herbs, and quickly sent away all the visiting commoners.

In mere moments, the once-noisy clinic hall fell completely silent.

He slowly raised his head. A hint of gravity appeared in his kindly features as he looked directly at Du Busi. "You two honored guests have come from afar. I presume you are not here due to any illness?"

Du Busi grinned. "Sharp eyes. My disciple and I aren't here seeking treatment. We're here seeking valuables!"

The atmosphere instantly froze.

Lu Xiao rolled his eyes at Du Busi, stepped forward, and bowed. "Senior, we heard that you possess the Thousand-Year Dragon Marrow Gel and the Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Ginseng. We came specifically to seek medicine from you."

"Where did you two honored guests hear about these items?"

Ye Hesong's tone was wary. "These two items are heirloom treasures of the Ye family. They are not for sale."

"Senior, we do not intend to force a purchase, nor will we resort to robbery."

Lu Xiao took half a step forward and said calmly, "We came here specifically to trade one item for another."

With that, Lu Xiao took out the Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone inherited from the Clear Sky Sect from his Storage Soul Guidance Device!

The moment that dark-gold 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 trace of amusement flashed through Du Busi's eyes as he quietly moved to shield Lu Xiao behind him.

Master and disciple followed closely behind 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, while his eyes gleamed like emeralds.

His entire being 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 old man and said, "I never expected someone to cultivate a martial soul like the Jade Phosphorous Serpent to the Titled Douluo realm!"

"Who are you?"

Dugu Bo rose to his feet, Soul Power radiating sharply around him as he looked at Du Busi with deep wariness in his eyes!

He could not see through the cultivation of the man before him. This man's cultivation was far above his own!

Du Busi said calmly, "Body Sect! Du Busi!"

As his words fell, poisonous mist churned around Du Busi, and nine Soul Rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, red, red, red—slowly rose beneath his feet!

Feeling that domineering poisonous power, Dugu Bo's eyes filled with shock!

His poison dominated the world, and he had cultivated his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul to the level of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, earning himself the title of "the world's number one poison Soul Master."

Yet when he saw the poisonous mist surrounding Du Busi, he realized that Du Busi's poison was far more domineering and far purer than that of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Martial Soul!

Facing a Soul Master whose Soul Power surpassed his and whose attribute was stronger than his own, he had no chance of escaping.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly withdrew his Soul Power and fawningly moved the wicker chair before Du Busi. "I did not know a senior had arrived. Please, have a seat!"

Du Busi reined in his aura and sat down grandly in the wicker chair. "I want to exchange a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone for the Ye family's Thousand-Year Dragon Marrow Gel and Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Ginseng."

As he spoke, he placed the Soul Bone, which was more than sixty thousand years old, onto the table beside him.

After giving it a brief once-over, Dugu Bo could tell that the bone was of the highest quality. He could not help but glance at Ye Hesong beside him and quietly remind him, "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 produce a sixty-thousand-year Soul Bone, he had feared that the other man intended to kill and rob them, which was why he had called Du Busi into the rear courtyard.

But now that he had seen Du Busi's terrifying strength, his thoughts had changed!

Ye Hesong looked at Du Busi and slowly said, "I would like to make a deal with Your Excellency using these two heavenly treasures!"

Du Busi raised an eyebrow slightly. "What deal?"

Ye Hesong coughed twice, then said with a solemn expression, "I want my granddaughter to enter into a childhood betrothal with your disciple."