Dragon Duke? Do You Know Three Qi Return? And You Dare Call Yourself That?

Qian Ni lowered his head expressionlessly. The Acid-Blood Bladder in his hand, which had been on the verge of modification, now split open with a crack.

Yellow-green acidic blood leaked from the fissure, dripping onto the ground with a sizzling sound.

The soil, fallen leaves, and pebbles instantly began to smoke, corroding and melting away into blackened ruin.

"Failed? The uneven thickness of the bladder caused a crack!

"My proficiency in Microscopic Particle Manipulation is sufficient! So the reason must be...

"External pressure interference! And also...

"My soul power happened to break through at this moment!"

Level thirty-seven!

That was Qian Ni's current soul power level!

While circulating Ultimate Power and studying Material Reconstruction, his soul power had steadily increased and already reached a critical threshold!

With just the slightest provocation from Meng Shu's Soul Douluo pressure, he immediately crossed that shallow threshold!

Like incredibly sensitive skin being triggered, he entered level thirty-seven.

Those two internal and external factors made Qian Ni's hand tremble, causing the Acid-Blood Bladder modification to fail.

Without hesitation, he pinned this failure on Meng Shu.

How could this be my problem!

Even if I bear one percent of the blame, don't you bear the other ninety-nine percent?!

Qian Ni rose from the sedan chair.

After remaining motionless for days on end, he was completely unaffected. He had long since grown accustomed to it!

The Shrek Seven Monsters turned around, and upon seeing Qian Ni's gloomy expression, instinctively took a step back.

No! The people behind us aren't allies! X7

Meng Shu was about to make a move. Of course he was an enemy!

The seven monsters reacted swiftly. Dai Mubai grabbed Zhao Wuji and retreated to the side, clearing the space between Qian Ni and Meng Shu.

Zhao Wuji was still utterly confused.

Even Meng Shu could not understand why the Shrek group had reacted that way.

But he would soon understand.

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding! Hehe." Chao Tianxiang was still trying to smooth things over.

"My old man is just impatient. Young people, don't overreact!"

Chao Tianxiang was about to grumble at her husband and ease the tension.

Then Qian Ni suddenly vanished!

In the next moment, he appeared like a ghost before the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny, startling them both.

Meng Shu spun his dragon staff, his heart filling with caution.

After her brief shock, Meng Yiran's gaze became dazed once more.

So fast! So powerful! So handsome...

Qian Ni still held the failed Acid-Blood Bladder in his right hand. Yellow-green Alien blood seeped through its crack, trickling down the outer surface and corroding the ground.

Sss—sss—

The unpleasant sound echoed through the air.

"You call yourself the Dragon Duke?"

Qian Ni's face remained expressionless. He had merely been focused on his research these past few days, not dead. He knew perfectly well everything that had happened outside.

He simply had not wanted to distract himself dealing with it.

Meng Yiran? Her looks were decent enough, but as a lackey...

Sorry, still got a long way to go!

Qian Ni's utterly disrespectful attitude thoroughly enraged Meng Shu.

Even if this was the boy his granddaughter fancied, he had to teach him a lesson!

Otherwise, if they really became family, wouldn't his granddaughter have to suffer his attitude every day?

"You can withstand my aura. You're not bad.

"But boy, when facing an elder vastly stronger than yourself, you must show respect!"

Strength? What is he talking about? Qian Ni frowned, but he still had questions, so he let it slide.

After examining Meng Shu's appearance for a while, he asked earnestly.

"Humanoid? Do you know the Human-as-Dragon Gu Refinement Method?"

Meng Shu did not understand what he meant, and the confusion and displeasure on his face deepened.

"Boy, what are you talking about?"

Qian Ni asked again, "You don't? Then do you know Dragon Escorts the Honored Guest, Three Qi Return?"

This seemed to be an extremely important question, one that would determine Qian Ni's attitude toward Meng Shu.

Meng Shu was thoroughly enraged by the incoherent questioning. No longer heeding his granddaughter's pleas, his face reddened as he growled in a low voice.

"Boy, I've tolerated you for long enough!"

Seeing that Meng Shu was clearly furious beyond measure, Zhao Wuji's heart jolted as he prepared to say something.

Yet Qian Ni unexpectedly let out a sigh of relief.

His gaze sharpened as he spoke slowly.

"You don't know this, and you don't know that. You don't even have dragon horns, yet you dare call yourself the Dragon Duke?

"Who gave you the courage? Liang Jingru?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a terrifying, alien pressure erupted from Qian Ni.

It forcefully drove back Meng Shu's Soul Douluo aura!

"Good boy! You—" Meng Shu was so furious he could barely speak.

Qian Ni could not be bothered to waste words on him. His soul power erupted as he possessed his martial soul!

Lone Azure-Gold Wings spread behind his back!

Buzz!

Three ten-thousand-year soul rings appeared at once!

Black!

Black!

Black!

The pitch-black colors instantly robbed the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny's family of their ability to think.

When the pitch-black first ten-thousand-year soul ring on Qian Ni's body began to flash, the watching Shrek Seven Monsters felt their hearts skip a beat.

But immediately afterward, they realized that terrifying Cursed Speech was not aimed at them.

The seven monsters instantly adjusted their mindsets, their eyes gleaming as they eagerly awaited what came next!

Even Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong, Qian Ni's lackeys, could not help widening their eyes.

The Dragon Duke was indeed a Soul Douluo.

But Qian Ni was even more shocking to them!

A Soul Douluo with trash rings versus a newborn cheat dog with three ten-thousand-year rings!

Being able to witness this battle would make the ticket price worth it even if they died!

Qian Ni did not disappoint them.

"Dragon Duke? Heh. Go reclaim your awe for the world, Soul Douluo!"

He opened with the utterly bottomless Cursed Speech once again!

No, it was not merely Cursed Speech! It was a combined soul skill of Cursed Speech and his third soul skill, Flower Bloom!

The terrifying curse words of newborn hell drifted eerily into the Dragon Duke's ears.

"Anus Knows Flavor!"

In an instant, under the effect of an invisible force, Meng Shu felt a subtle change occur within his body!

A faint electrical current spread from his intestines, and abnormal sensations connected to his brain!

Sour swelling... fishy stench...

No, it was ten times, twenty times, a hundred times more intense than that!

A horrifying flavor bomb exploded through Meng Shu's sensory nerves!

An instantaneous urge to vomit seized his entire consciousness! The twisted nausea made him want to throw up his whole stomach!

Even his dragon staff martial soul, which he had always taken pride in, was tossed aside.

He had no attention left for anything else!

At certain moments, human intuition could be terrifyingly sharp!

Just as a woman could find proof of a man's affair in the reflection off an utterly ordinary spoon.

Based on decades of life experience.

Meng Shu's intuition told him at once...

Dense clusters of taste buds had grown inside his ass!

Terror! Nausea! Horror!

How the fuck could such a newborn soul skill exist in this world?!

He wanted nothing more than to use his dragon staff to cut open his own stomach and scrub it clean!

Third soul skill—Flower Bloom!

It could grow any body part on an enemy's body and connect it to their senses!

First soul skill—Cursed Speech!

Through the power of words, it made the stimulation of the sense of taste surge! Explode! Skyrocket!

Was that enough?

Qian Ni was not satisfied. Over these past days, countless ingenious ideas had arisen in his mind, but all lacked practical testing.

Aside from angering him at first, Meng Shu's arrival brought him nothing but delight!

Qian Ni bared his teeth in a grin.

The voice of hell began chanting again.

"Testicular Torsion!"

The instant the first syllable rang out, Dai Mubai could not help revealing an excited, twisted smile.

"That's right! That's right!

"This is what I wanted to see!"

Human joys and sorrows were not shared, but at this moment, Dai Mubai and Meng Shu could share them!

Crack!

A crisp sound of tendons and flesh twisting rang out...

Before Meng Shu could escape the previous hell, he was dragged into an even deeper, darker, more terrifying purgatory!