We're All Titled Douluo—Can't We Talk This Out? The Price of Knowing a Secret!

High above, the savage aftershocks of Soul Power tore the roiling clouds to shreds.

Snake Lance Douluo She Long and Ci Xue Douluo were locked in battle with the enormous Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor avatar.

An icy Soul Power transmission entered their minds.

"Either capture him alive or kill him on the spot. Do not let him escape alive!"

It was Qian Renxue's voice.

Cold, domineering, and brooking no defiance.

She Long and Ci Xue paused slightly.

They exchanged a glance.

In that instant, the old brothers read the shock in each other's eyes.

The young mistress had issued a kill order!

"Hahaha!"

"Old Prickly, did you hear that? The young mistress has spoken!"

She Long burst into laughter, and the Soul Power he had been holding back instantly erupted in full force.

Yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black!

Nine dazzling Soul Rings shone in unison.

The Violet-Cyan Serpent Spear erupted with blinding lightning, its tip radiating monstrous killing intent that tore through space.

"Since the young mistress has spoken, we can't let him live!"

Ci Xue Douluo's eyes flashed with the same savage light.

His massive Pufferfish Martial Soul swelled.

Countless venomous bone spines gleamed with an eerie black sheen.

Dugu Bo was dumbfounded.

He had been twisting his enormous serpent body, spewing poisonous mist while secretly plotting his escape.

In Dugu Bo's mind, they were all dignified Titled Douluo, exalted beings standing at the very peak of the continent.

Fighting was just exchanging a few blows and showing off one's strength.

Then both sides would take a step back, sit down peacefully, and discuss terms, right?

He had even prepared his arguments.

As long as these two uninvited guests withdrew from his medicinal garden, the matter would be settled.

But who could have expected it?

The two men who had been dragging out the fight just moments ago

suddenly went berserk as though they had taken some kind of mad drug.

"What the hell? Are you two lunatics?"

Dugu Bo was so furious his eyes nearly popped out as he cursed.

"We're all respectable Titled Douluo. Can't we talk this out?"

"Enough nonsense, old poisoner. Blame your bad luck."

She Long thrust out his spear.

Countless violet-cyan serpent phantoms howled down from the sky, their savage strikes forcibly cutting off the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's roar!

Dugu Bo completely panicked.

He was best at bullying weaklings.

What he feared most was this kind of head-on battle between Titled Douluo.

One of these old bastards possessed terrifying offensive power, while the other was covered in spines and utterly unafraid of his Jade Phosphorous poison!

"Damn it, what do they want? Are they really trying to kill me?"

Dugu Bo ground his teeth, terror surging wildly in his heart.

As long as the green hills remained, there would be no shortage of firewood!

If he retreated deep into his poisonous barrier and used the terrain to his advantage, he might still be able to escape!

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor lashed its tail, whipping up towering green waves.

Using the poisonous mist as cover, Dugu Bo transformed into a beam of sickly green light and shot toward the gap in the valley to his left!

"Trying to run? Did you ask my Violet-Cyan Serpent Spear?"

She Long sneered as his eighth Soul Ring flashed with black light!

"Eighth Soul Skill, Twin Spear Fang Thrust!"

A dazzling bolt of violet-cyan lightning ripped through space, striking diagonally into Dugu Bo's path with flawless precision.

The violent shockwave blasted a ravine dozens of meters wide through the entire ridge.

Dugu Bo was forced to halt abruptly.

Before he could change direction, Ci Xue Douluo's rain of poisonous needles swept toward him from behind.

The left side was sealed.

The right side was blocked.

Snake Lance hung overhead.

Poisonous spines barred the way below.

"Damn it!" Dugu Bo's expression had never been uglier.

Half an hour passed.

Dugu Bo was drenched in cold sweat.

His green hair was soaked through and plastered to his gaunt cheeks, leaving him in a wretched state.

He had tried seventeen different escape routes.

Every single time, these two old bastards, working in perfect coordination, had forced him back.

"Bastards! Get out of my way!"

Dugu Bo's eyes split with rage.

With a roar, he mobilized all his Soul Power. The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor opened its bloody maw and spewed out clump after clump of poisonous mist.

But She Long and Ci Xue gave him no chance to catch his breath.

Another half hour passed.

The sun sank in the west, and the lingering light dyed the horizon blood-red.

The prolonged, intense clash rapidly drained the already wounded Dugu Bo's Soul Power.

"Smash it!"

She Long seized the moment when Dugu Bo's old strength was spent and new strength had yet to arise.

Soul Power flooded through his body, and the Violet-Cyan Serpent Spear transformed into a towering pillar that pierced heaven and earth, smashing viciously into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor's vital point.

Crack!

A crisp shattering sound rang through the valley.

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor avatar, dozens of meters long, exploded in midair and scattered into countless fragments of green light.

"Thud!"

Dugu Bo plummeted from a height of a hundred meters and crashed heavily into a pile of rubble, vomiting a huge mouthful of black-red blood!

His face was deathly pale, his green robes torn to rags, and a large section of his chest had caved in.

More than half the meridians in his body had ruptured. He did not even have the strength to stand.

The renowned Poison Douluo had been reduced to a prisoner.

Qian Renxue withdrew her gaze in the distance.

"Xian'er, the battle on your grandfather's side with Elder Ci Xue is over."

She took She Xian's hand. "Come on. Let's go see this arrogant Poison Douluo."

She Xian let out a breath of relief.

Fortunately, they had not let that old poisoner Dugu Bo escape.

Now he was truly meat on the chopping block.

The two strolled down the mountain and arrived at the outskirts of the poisonous barrier.

At this moment,

the once-arrogant Dugu Bo was kneeling on the rocky shore with his hair in disarray.

He was covered in blood, and Ci Xue Douluo had viciously nailed both his hands behind his back with bone spines, leaving him unable to move.

She Long stood on the left with his spear held across his body.

Ci Xue stood guard on the right.

When Qian Renxue and She Xian arrived,

She Long and Ci Xue did not hesitate. They simultaneously dropped to one knee and cupped their fists with both hands.

"Young Mistress, we have fulfilled your orders. The old poisoner has been completely subdued."

"Young Mistress, please decide his punishment!"

The sight was utterly shocking to Dugu Bo.

With difficulty, Dugu Bo raised his gaunt face, smeared with blood and poison spots.

His crimson serpent eyes were filled with incomparable shock and horror.

They knelt?

Two Titled Douluo elders of Spirit Hall had actually dropped to one knee before someone wearing a mask?

And they kept addressing that person as... Young Mistress.

Dugu Bo's body trembled violently, and his throat made a wheezing sound like a bellows.

Who exactly were they?

In all the world, aside from the lofty Pope, who else could make two Titled Douluo humble themselves so completely?

Young Mistress... Spirit Hall's Young Mistress...

Dugu Bo felt as though his mind could no longer process it.

He had never heard that Spirit Hall's Pope had a child!

Dugu Bo watched She Xian and Qian Renxue approach step by step.

He felt an unprecedented terror of life and death engulf him!

It seemed he had learned an extraordinary secret.

Everyone knew that learning a secret came at a price.

Then... did he still have any chance of surviving?