The method of treatment.
This was exactly what Jiang Nanchen had been waiting for Dugu Bo to say.
If you hadn't said so, I really would have gone to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well myself to raid your immortal herbs.
"Yes!"
This could be considered a case of baiting the willing fish.
"Yes!"
Dugu Bo's heart suddenly stirred with excitement.
There was a way!
After that brief surge of excitement,
Dugu Bo calmed down again.
Was it really true that Jiang Nanchen knew how to detoxify him?
"Is that true?"
Dugu Bo needed to make sure.
He could be a guinea pig, so long as the detoxification succeeded. Then the Jade Phosphorous Serpent venom would no longer plague him.
"It's true. Why would I deceive you, Senior?"
Jiang Nanchen spoke with utmost seriousness. "Whenever Senior's venom flares up, Dugu Bo's skin takes on a bluish-green tint, his meridians burn with waves of pain, and his entire body feels as though ten thousand ants are gnawing at his bones. Cold sweat soaks through his clothes, his body convulses without end, Jade Phosphorous poison vapor seeps faintly from within him, and his internal organs are all eroded by toxins, leaving him in unbearable torment."
His meaning was clear: deceiving Dugu Yan would bring him no benefit whatsoever.
Dugu Yan was his friend as well. There was no reason for him to deceive her.
Dugu Yan's heart skipped a beat.
Well, damn. Did this kid install surveillance on me or something? How does he know everything?
Why did it feel like I was the old man here, while he was the grandpa?
This kid was no simple person. Everything he said sounded perfectly practiced, and he carried an inexplicable confidence.
"Little Nanchen, if you really can do it, I'll owe you a huge favor."
Dugu Yan had never expected the person who could detoxify them to be right before her. It was simply wonderful.
So wonderful that it felt unreal.
"Yanyan, don't get too excited. Detoxification requires some special herbs. Otherwise, the toxins can't be eradicated completely."
Jiang Nanchen spread his hands, looking deeply troubled.
I've already entered the redemption code. The reward should be issued now.
"Little Friend Nanchen, this old man has a medicinal garden with many herbs. I can take you there to have a look. Perhaps we'll find what you need."
Dugu Bo thought of the medicinal garden in Sunset Forest. He did not recognize many of the herbs there and did not dare pick them carelessly.
"If that's the case, we can go take a look tomorrow. It just happens to be the weekend."
Jiang Nanchen gave a brief reply.
He had finally agreed. All that remained was to head out tomorrow.
Dugu Bo nodded rapidly. "Good, good, good! Little Friend Nanchen, thank you so much. This old man agrees to everything you've said."
It was class time, so Dugu Bo did not linger and quickly left the academy.
After he left, Dugu Yan said, "We should get going too."
Jiang Nanchen agreed and headed to the training grounds with Dugu Yan.
The day passed quickly.
As the weekend arrived and the sun was about to rise,
Jiang Nanchen was awakened by Qian Renxue. Since he had already informed her the night before, she had come specifically to speak with him.
"Since you're going with Dugu Bo, let Porcupinefish Douluo accompany you. With a slight disguise, Dugu Bo won't recognize him."
Jiang Nanchen had no objections and instead nodded. "Since Big Brother Crown Prince says so, then Uncle Porcupinefish can come with me. Besides, I'll give Big Brother Crown Prince a few surprises when the time comes."
Qian Renxue leaned back in her chair and smiled. "What surprises? Tell me."
Jiang Nanchen shook his head. "Heaven's secrets must not be revealed."
"You're making it sound quite mysterious." Qian Renxue shot Jiang Nanchen an irritated look.
He acted so mysterious every day, but if he could earn Dugu Bo's trust,
then once Xue Ye was completely dead and she successfully ascended the throne, she could spare Dugu Bo's life.
After all, he was a Titled Douluo with area-of-effect abilities, and his poison techniques were extremely formidable. She still admired him greatly.
The previous Pope had tried repeatedly to recruit him, but Dugu Bo had refused every time. Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo had then hunted him down together, leaving him seriously injured. Only after Prince Xue Xing intervened to save him did he survive and retire into seclusion within the Heaven Dou Empire.
Qian Renxue sat upright, her gaze returning to Jiang Nanchen as her expression grew more serious. "Nanchen, are you sure you can do this? That old monster Dugu Bo has an eccentric temperament, and his poison is even more—"
Jiang Nanchen nodded furiously, a trace of helplessness appearing on his face. "Yes, yes, I can. Big Brother Crown Prince, you're so annoying. You nag like an old lady."
He had been confident from the start, but Qian Renxue kept asking him the same thing over and over until he felt calluses forming in his ears.
"Little Nanchen, you really have no respect for your elders." Qian Renxue snorted lightly and raised her hand as though to rap him on the head, but withdrew it midway. She had realized that this child responded to gentleness, not force. The more she talked, the more he found her irritating.
As they spoke, footsteps sounded outside, followed by Porcupinefish Douluo's voice. "Young Master, this subordinate has prepared the luggage and may depart at any time."
Jiang Nanchen's eyes lit up, and he immediately rose to head outside. "I'm going to eat first. I need to be full before I have the strength to travel."
Before his words had even faded, he had already dashed out of the study like smoke, afraid that Qian Renxue would grab him and continue lecturing.
Qian Renxue watched his swiftly vanishing back and shook her head helplessly, though the corners of her lips rose unconsciously.
"That child runs faster than a rabbit." Qian Renxue turned to instruct Porcupinefish Douluo, "Keep a closer eye on him during the journey. Don't let him touch anything in the medicinal garden carelessly. Report immediately if anything happens."
"This subordinate understands." Porcupinefish Douluo bowed in acknowledgment, secretly finding it amusing.
The young master complained about the trouble, but she cared more about this little fellow than anyone.
After breakfast, Jiang Nanchen headed toward Heaven Dou City's southern gate with Porcupinefish Douluo, who had disguised himself as an ordinary attendant.
Porcupinefish Douluo had concealed all traces of his Soul Power. Dressed in plain gray short garments, he looked like an ordinary guard, without the slightest bearing of a Titled Douluo.
At the southern gate, Dugu Bo and his granddaughter had already been waiting for some time.
Dugu Yan leaned against the carriage, standing on tiptoe as she looked this way. The moment she spotted Jiang Nanchen, she immediately came forward with a smile.
"Little Nanchen, you're finally here. We've been waiting for quite a while." Dugu Yan's gaze swept over Porcupinefish Douluo behind Jiang Nanchen, and she asked curiously, "Who is this?"
"An attendant His Highness the Crown Prince sent to protect me. It's good to have someone looking out for me on the road," Jiang Nanchen explained casually.
Dugu Yan nodded in understanding, finding it perfectly reasonable.
Her grandfather's strange temper was famous across the continent. It was only natural that His Highness the Crown Prince would not feel at ease letting a six-year-old child travel alone with them and would send someone along.
Dugu Bo, however, narrowed his eyes slightly. As a Titled Douluo, his senses were incredibly keen. Even though Porcupinefish Douluo had deliberately concealed his aura, he could still faintly detect a considerable Soul Power fluctuation from him.
He merely took the disguised Porcupinefish Douluo to be a fairly powerful Soul Master, and this also showed just how highly the Crown Prince regarded Jiang Nanchen.
"Now that everyone's here, let's set out. Sunset Forest is still some distance from the city."
They boarded the carriage, and its wheels rumbled as it left the city gate, heading toward Sunset Forest.
Porcupinefish Douluo sat in the corner of the carriage with his eyes closed, resting quietly without speaking a word the entire way, diligently playing the role of an attendant.
He paid no mind to Dugu Bo's probing. No matter how capable Dugu Bo was, he could not possibly tell that he was a Titled Douluo. At most, he would assume he was a Soul Sage.
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