To Live or Die, That Is Always the Question (Bonus Update!)

"Elder Kong, this Alchemy Furnace you made is really quite good."

Ye Ling looked at the bronze Alchemy Furnace before him, taller than a man, and a satisfied look could not help flashing through his eyes.

"It's passable."

Kong Deming nodded noncommittally.

"I knew the Young Pavilion Master planned to use the Yang Spring of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to refine pills, so I specially added an anti-gravity levitation array to this Alchemy Furnace."

"In addition, this Alchemy Furnace also has a Spirit Gathering Array. When refining pills, it can absorb the energy of heaven and earth on its own and reduce the user's consumption."

"Not bad, not bad. I imagine using this Alchemy Furnace to refine pills will raise the chance of successfully making a Pill by quite a bit."

The more Ye Ling looked, the more satisfied he became.

Although this Alchemy Furnace was only a Level 8 Soul Tool, it had, after all, come from the hands of a Level 10 Soul Engineer like Kong Deming. Its quality was no worse than that of a Level 9 Soul Tool.

"Young Pavilion Master!"

Just as Ye Ling was continuing to explore the wonders of this Alchemy Furnace, Dugu Bo's full, resonant voice rang in his ears.

"Elder Kong, you can go attend to your work first."

Ye Ling first gave Kong Deming an instruction. Only after Kong Deming bowed and left did he turn his head to look toward Dugu Bo.

"Senior Dugu, this is your granddaughter?"

Apart from Dugu Bo, there stood beside him a young girl of about eleven or twelve.

The girl had purple hair and green eyes. Though she was still young, her figure already appeared extremely graceful.

Her looks could not be called breathtakingly beautiful, but she had a bewitching, exotic charm.

"Yes, Young Pavilion Master. This is my granddaughter, Dugu Yan."

Dugu Bo hurriedly nodded.

Beside him, Dugu Yan had never seen her grandfather, a Titled Douluo, treat another person with such respect.

Especially when that person was a youth who looked even younger than her. Her green eyes could not help sizing Ye Ling up.

"So handsome! No matter what angle I look from, this Young Pavilion Master is so handsome!"

It would have been fine if she had not looked, but the moment she did, Dugu Yan sank into Ye Ling's appearance, even becoming a little dazed.

She swore she had never seen such a good-looking boy before.

Clear and radiant, like a heavenly being.

After Ye Ling entered Heaven Dou City, the people he dealt with were all leaders of major forces or Titled Douluo with formidable strength.

Most of these people were men, and what they cared about more was the strength Mending Heaven Pavilion had revealed. They paid rather less attention to Ye Ling's own appearance.

"Yanyan, what are you spacing out for? Hurry up and come forward to greet the Young Pavilion Master!"

Seeing Dugu Yan in a daze, Dugu Bo could not help lightly knocking his granddaughter on the head.

"Greetings, Young Pavilion Master."

Dugu Yan's pretty face reddened slightly as she gave Ye Ling a slight curtsy.

"Miss Yan is Senior Dugu's granddaughter, so naturally, she can also be considered a member of my Mending Heaven Pavilion. There is no need for so much ceremony."

Ye Ling beckoned to Dugu Yan.

"Come forward. Let me take a look at Miss Yan's condition."

Dugu Yan nodded obediently. This appearance somewhat broke Dugu Bo's composure.

Why was the granddaughter who was usually so clever and mischievous in front of him as obedient as a young lady before the Young Pavilion Master?

People's joys and sorrows were not shared.

Dugu Yan had no mind to care about her grandfather's rich inner turmoil.

Now that she was closer, she discovered that this Young Pavilion Master's face truly did not have the slightest flaw.

She looked at Ye Ling's face with a little greed. This face was perfect, as though it were the Creator's most flawless work in the mortal world.

Ye Ling's Martial Soul was itself the Body Spirit Ancestral Witch Battle Body, and the Nine Revolutions Witch God Art he cultivated had also broken through the first layer, the Jade Bone Realm.

In particular, he had also absorbed a Right Leg Bone of the Undying Azure Emperor that surpassed a hundred thousand years.

This had caused his body to undergo repeated tempering and strengthening. By now, he naturally possessed the bearing of a banished immortal.

"Miss Yan, stretch out your wrist."

"Oh!"

Dugu Yan answered foolishly and subconsciously stretched out her arm.

Ye Ling reached out and pinched Dugu Yan's pulse with his index finger. A thread of Soul Power followed her meridians and made a circuit through her body.

This was also the pulse-taking method he had learned from Shennong's Materia Medica.

"Miss Yan is still young, so her situation is much better than Senior Dugu's."

Ye Ling withdrew his hand from her pulse, closed his eyes, and pondered for a moment before speaking to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.

"Young Pavilion Master, do you have a way?"

When Dugu Bo heard this, he immediately threw all those wild thoughts in his mind clean away and hurriedly asked in anxiety.

"I do, and there are two."

Hearing this, Ye Ling raised two fingers.

"The first is that I can thoroughly dissolve all the toxins in Miss Yan's body at once, but Miss Yan's Martial Soul will become a useless Martial Soul from then on."

This principle was easy to understand. The greatest characteristic of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul was its serpent venom.

If the serpent venom within the Martial Soul was completely dissolved, then the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul would naturally become a useless Martial Soul.

After all, a venomous snake with its fangs pulled out naturally would not live long.

"Young Pavilion Master, my Yan'er has innate rank seven Soul Power. If she truly becomes a useless Martial Soul, her whole life will be ruined!"

Dugu Bo's face turned deathly pale, and he hurriedly asked, "Then what about the second?"

"The second is that I can refine a Pill that can allow Miss Yan's Martial Soul Evolution, and may even evolve Miss Yan's Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison into true Ultimate Poison."

"But the process of Martial Soul Evolution is also extremely painful. If she cannot endure it, she will immediately suffer a backlash from the deadly poison and die on the spot."

Ye Ling did not hide anything either and directly stated the second method.

Although the system's mission was to resolve Dugu Yan's Martial Soul Reversal, and only by letting her Martial Soul evolve could he obtain the reward.

Although Ye Ling very much wanted to complete the system mission, he had no right to make a decision for someone else.

When it concerned one's own life, it could only be left to the person involved to choose.

"This..."

When Dugu Bo heard this, he fell into hesitation, and an incomparably conflicted expression appeared on his face.

Become a useless Martial Soul, or choose Martial Soul Evolution that might lead to death?

Life and death. This was forever a choice difficult to decide.

Beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, all three of them fell into silence.

"I don't want to become a useless Martial Soul. I choose the second method!"

Just as Dugu Bo was still locked in an inner struggle, Dugu Yan beside him suddenly spoke.

"If you make me become a useless Martial Soul, then you might as well kill me!"

"Yan'er, you still have to think this kind of thing over carefully. You can't be so rash!"

"This concerns your life, after all. It isn't child's play!"

Seeing this, Dugu Bo hurriedly spoke.

As Dugu Yan's only family member, he actually did not care how strong Dugu Yan became.

What he truly cared about was that his granddaughter could live safely and soundly.

When Dugu Yan heard this, she raised her rather heroic brows.

"It's my own matter. Can't I make the decision myself?"

"If Grandpa chooses the first method for me and makes me become a useless Martial Soul, then I'll die for you to see!"

A transitional chapter. Some things have to be explained, after all.

Of course, the main thing is the bonus update for the readers!

Thank you, dear readers, for your support!

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