Immortal Herb Codes Are Better Created Than Memorized

Xia Yuan smiled without offering much explanation.

Dugu Bo glanced at him. "So what background do you have, brat? Aren't you afraid the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan will retaliate against you?"

Xia Yuan shook his head. "Ever since I could remember, I've lived in a village. I was merely fortunate enough to possess Innate Full Soul Power, but I have no idea what background I might have."

"Innate Full Soul Power?" Dugu Bo paused mid-motion, then casually took a sip of tea.

"Since you have Innate Full Soul Power, your Martial Soul should either be a top-tier Martial Soul or have undergone a favorable mutation."

Xia Yuan did not hide it. "To be honest, Senior Dugu, my Martial Soul is a Mutated Blue Silver Grass."

"A Mutated Blue Silver Grass?" Dugu Bo considered it briefly. "It seems the degree of mutation in your Martial Soul is quite high."

"Or perhaps one of your ancestors possessed the bloodline of some top-tier Martial Soul."

As expected of Dugu Bo. His judgment was far superior to the Grandmaster's.

Xia Yuan's actual circumstances differed from everyone else's, but that was only because he had a cheat.

If an ordinary Douluo native had been in Xia Yuan's situation, then Dugu Bo's conclusion would have been the only possible explanation.

That explanation could even predict the existence of Twin Martial Souls.

For a while, neither of them spoke. Dugu Bo had wanted to ask whether Xia Yuan liked Dugu Yan, but remembering that Dugu Yan had not admitted it earlier, he abandoned the thought.

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet, brat. How old are you now?" Dugu Bo asked.

"It has been just over a year since my Martial Soul awakened."

"What?" Dugu Bo abruptly rose to his feet.

He looked Xia Yuan up and down, his eyes as though he were looking at a monster.

"No wonder I always felt you looked rather young."

Then, Dugu Bo's eyes grew somewhat heated.

The Dugu Clan had inherited the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul to this day, and every generation had faced a fate the family could not escape.

Perhaps, maybe, just possibly... if Xia Yuan and Dugu Yan came together, there might be a chance to improve things?

While Dugu Bo was still pondering, Xia Yuan had already decided how to broach the subject.

Rather than memorizing Immortal Herb codes, it was better to create Immortal Herb codes!

"Senior Dugu, may I ask you two questions?"

Dugu Bo replied without hesitation, "Go ahead, ask."

"Do you have a medicinal garden?"

Dugu Bo instantly came back to his senses. "How did you know?"

"Didn't Senior Dugu already figure it out just now?" Xia Yuan said. "My Martial Soul is mutated and possesses certain special talents."

Medicinal herbs were plants too. It made sense.

Dugu Bo slowly nodded. From the moment Xia Yuan had discovered him, he had known that Xia Yuan possessed something unusual.

"Since that is the case, I am curious about something." Xia Yuan paused. "Since Senior Dugu has a medicinal garden, you must understand medicinal principles."

"Why don't you use your knowledge of medicine to treat the poison within your own body?"

In an instant, a terrifying pressure erupted.

Dugu Bo looked at Xia Yuan. After pondering for a moment, he withdrew the pressure he had instinctively released.

"I bear poison in my title. How could I possibly be poisoned? Who told you that I was poisoned?"

"Of course, you did yourself," Xia Yuan said. "If you weren't poisoned, you would have merely laughed at those words, wouldn't you?"

"You sly little brat." Dugu Bo's expression turned solemn. "Still, I'm curious. How did you see that I was poisoned?"

"Could your Martial Soul possibly tell whether someone has been afflicted by toxins?"

Xia Yuan explained, "My Martial Soul possesses a life attribute and can vaguely sense a person's state of life."

Xia Yuan was not deceiving Dugu Bo. He really could do that, though the prerequisites were rather complicated. It was not something he could determine with a casual glance.

But it was enough to bluff Dugu Bo.

Everything he was doing now was merely to lure Dugu Bo into taking him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well of his own accord.

As for whether he would succeed and how much time it would take, that was beyond Xia Yuan's control.

At the very least, with no background to rely on, this was the only way he could deal with Dugu Bo for now.

"Do you have a way to detoxify me?" Dugu Bo asked.

"I do have one method," Xia Yuan said, "but it can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause."

"But if we truly treat the root cause, I'm afraid all of Senior's poison-based cultivation would be wiped away. Are you really willing to accept that?"

The so-called method that treated the symptoms but not the root cause was naturally the Soul Bone Toxin-Accumulation Method Tang San had used.

By using medicinal herbs as guidance, it forced the toxins in the body into the Soul Bones.

Of course, though it was said to use "medicinal herbs," the only thing that truly worked was Tang San's blood.

If Dugu Bo personally consumed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot, all his cultivation would vanish immediately.

But after Tang San consumed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot, his blood could transform the medicinal potency of the two Immortal Herbs into a gentler form.

That way, it could take effect on Dugu Bo without dissolving his cultivation.

However, toward the end of the treatment, its effects would grow weaker and weaker.

Dugu Bo had accumulated too many toxins in his body and had already adapted to their presence. Using the excuse that completely clearing them out might instead be harmful, he stopped the treatment once it had mostly worked.

Although Xia Yuan did not possess Tang San's profound expertise in identifying herbs and concocting poisons from a past life, he could imitate the method directly.

When it came to plants, his Martial Soul was much stronger than anyone imagined.

It would not be difficult to find herbs that promoted circulation and relaxed the sinews, then disguise them as medicine meant to treat Dugu Bo.

Naturally, Dugu Bo could not be allowed to witness that process.

Dugu Bo himself knew a little about medicinal herbs. If he spent some time on it, he could likewise roughly identify the herbs Xia Yuan used.

But without the most crucial medicinal catalyst, Dugu Bo would never succeed no matter what he did.

That catalyst was precisely why Xia Yuan could not let Dugu Bo watch.

Dugu Bo pondered for a long while before asking, "Brat, are you certain you can truly treat my body?"

"Not only yours," Xia Yuan replied. "Dugu Yan's problem can also be resolved using this method."

The moment Xia Yuan brought up Dugu Yan as well, Dugu Bo immediately lost his temper.

As Dugu Yan's biological grandfather, he naturally knew that the toxins in her body had been present since she was in the womb.

It was simply that Dugu Yan's cultivation was still low and she had not cultivated for long, so the issue had yet to show itself.

If his own problem could not be resolved, he did not care if he died. What worried him was Dugu Yan.

That was also why, although he had long known that Yu Tianheng seemed to have taken an interest in his granddaughter, he had not stepped in to stop it.

"Hmm..." Dugu Bo kept examining Xia Yuan. "I suddenly feel that perhaps a large age gap isn't such a problem after all..."

Xia Yuan:?

I see you as a resource, yet you want to become my grandfather?

"How about this? Tomorrow, I'll personally take you to request leave from the academy."