Bestowing Medicine

The two Title Douluo whose renown was enough to intimidate the continent were now staring at Ning Yao in unison with strange looks in this cramped room.

Yet faced with those two scrutinizing gazes, Ning Yao, the person at the center of it all, merely shrugged indifferently.

"It isn't that I need a Title Douluo to cooperate with me. Only Ghost Douluo can help me."

As soon as those words fell, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo both fell silent.

An experiment that only Ghost Douluo in the entire world could help complete?

"Please explain yourself more clearly, Your Excellency Abundance. Otherwise, if something really happens to Old Ghost, it will be difficult for us to answer to Her Holiness the Pope."

Chrysanthemum Douluo spoke solemnly. Even now, he truly could not figure out what medicine Ning Yao was selling.

Ning Yao, on the other hand, remained calm and even flashed a grin.

Without saying anything else, he raised his hand.

As his palm opened, a green seed appeared in it.

Its appearance, aura, and even its effects were identical to the two pills he had given Skywater Academy.

"It's nothing much. I only need Ghost Douluo to swallow this pill and see what happens. I won't need him to do anything else."

"If you agree, I'll go with you to meet the Pope."

Ning Yao smiled. He had no other intentions; he simply wanted to see what would happen if he cured Ghost Douluo, who was practically a living corpse.

"Ghost Douluo, Your Excellency Gui Mei, do you dare to eat it?"

Ning Yao's smile made Gui Mei's eyes gleam again.

For all these years, he had always been the one who made others fear him. This was the first time he had been frightened by a complete stranger.

Looking at the pill in Ning Yao's palm, he clearly hesitated.

Chrysanthemum Douluo beside him also fell silent.

Eat the pill?

The two of them began examining the pill lying quietly in Ning Yao's palm, hoping to see through it.

But after a long while, both of them frowned.

They could not see through it. They could not make out anything at all.

Other than the undisguised aura of life and boundless vitality, they could discern nothing else.

In fact, from the way it looked, it was clearly an extremely high-grade healing pill.

But Ning Yao's experiment was just making Ghost Douluo eat a healing pill?

Let alone Ghost Douluo himself, even Chrysanthemum Douluo found it hard to believe.

"Abundance Douluo, can you guarantee that after I take this pill, you will truly return to Spirit City with us?"

In the end, Ghost Douluo gritted his teeth and raised a hand to take the pill.

But just as his fingers were about to touch it, he looked up at Ning Yao and asked through clenched teeth.

Ning Yao smiled and nodded.

"Of course. I swear it upon my martial soul."

Of course, whether he actually had a martial soul was none of their business.

After Ning Yao finished speaking, Ghost Douluo no longer hesitated and snatched the pill into his hand.

Seeing that Ghost Douluo was about to put the pill into his mouth, Chrysanthemum Douluo wanted to stop him. But when he thought of Bibi Dong's assignment, he ultimately could not bring himself to speak.

In the end, he could only watch nervously as Ghost Douluo swallowed the cake.

After swallowing the seed, Ghost Douluo shut his eyes tightly and waited for the experiment to begin.

But after waiting several seconds, he realized that nothing had happened to him.

He even felt warm all over.

Was it really just an ordinary healing pill? Could it be that Ning Yao was merely testing whether the two of them were sincere?

Was this a test?

Carefully opening his eyes, Ghost Douluo found that he really seemed to be fine.

Unable to help himself, he looked at Ning Yao in confusion.

"The experiment?"

"The experiment has already begun. Don't rush."

Ning Yao smiled faintly and said no more, simply watching Ghost Douluo quietly.

The power of abundance had already begun to take effect.

It was only producing positive effects for now, which was why Ghost Douluo had not reacted.

And judging by the way he looked, he probably had not noticed that his body had already begun to change.

Ning Yao simply watched in silence. Neither Chrysanthemum Douluo nor Ghost Douluo himself knew what exactly Ning Yao was looking at.

But the pill had already been swallowed, and they could not give up halfway. So neither spoke, and they began waiting for Ning Yao to say something.

Meanwhile, Ning Yao kept his attention fixed on Ghost Douluo's body.

Beneath the black robe and mask, Ghost Douluo's body had originally been cold and shriveled. That was the aftereffect of having died once, as well as the defining trait of a living corpse.

But now, that body was beginning to transform into that of a normal flesh-and-blood living being.

Everything within him was being reconstructed.

Only when the process was nearing completion did Ghost Douluo himself notice that something was wrong.

"No... something's wrong. This feeling..."

With a swish, he shot to his feet and looked tremblingly at his wrapped hands.

After several decades, this was the first time he had felt warmth in his body again.

This feeling...

He raised his head tremblingly and looked at Ning Yao.

"That pill..."

In an instant, he understood everything.

He understood what Ning Yao wanted to do, and why Ning Yao had said that only Gui Mei in the entire world could undergo this experiment.

What experiment? What condition? This was an immense blessing bestowed upon him, Gui Mei!

Feeling the warmth returning to his body, Ghost Douluo trembled all over.

This abnormal scene left Chrysanthemum Douluo dumbfounded.

Growing nervous, he stood and hurried to Ghost Douluo's side.

But the moment he grabbed Ghost Douluo's arm, he jerked his hand away on reflex.

It was warm?

At that moment, he was stunned as well.

He turned around and, together with Ghost Douluo, looked at Ning Yao, who was still bewildered.

Faced with their shocked gazes, Ning Yao nodded lightly.

"That's right. It's just a healing pill with a very simple effect. It's only a tiny, tiny bit stronger than the ones on the market."

Ghost Douluo no longer knew what to say.

Under the gazes of the other two, he slowly raised a hand to his robe.

Pulling aside the black robe revealed a head of jet-black long hair that seemed to have just grown in.

Then he placed his hand on the mask that had been fused to his face for decades...

Chrysanthemum Douluo watched nervously.

He had partnered with Old Ghost for decades, yet he had never once seen his true face.

In fact, let alone him, even their master, Pope Bibi Dong, had probably never seen it.

The black mask, along with several strands of hair, was removed.

It revealed Ghost Douluo's newly reborn face.

Dark eyes, fair skin...

When the two gloves came off, they revealed the same fair, newly formed flesh.

Ghost Douluo trembled as he touched his face, then touched every part of his body. Feeling skin as tender as a newborn's, his entire body shook.

Then, in the next instant—

Thud!

He dropped straight to his knees before Ning Yao, his fair forehead smashing heavily against the hard floor.

(Ghost Douluo is based on the original Douluo Dalu novel. The anime differs from the novel.)