Dugu Bo's Gender Swap

The moment Chen Xin said that, everyone present had different thoughts.

Dugu Bo:

"What kind of pill? Could it be a poison pill capable of controlling my life? If so, that would make sense... But can a poison pill refined by this brat really threaten me? Maybe I should put on an act later, lest I bring even greater trouble upon myself..."

Qian Renxue:

"Could it be the pill I took before? What is this supposed to mean? Weren't they fighting to the death just now? Why was this old fellow suddenly being rewarded?"

Because they knew different things, the two of them had vastly different thoughts.

But Jiang Xuan was different.

He truly knew exactly what effect this pill of his had.

After feeding it to Dugu Bo and watching him turn into a woman right before his eyes, Chen Xin would naturally assume that Jiang Xuan knew this pill had other side effects as well.

If that happened, his innocent and ignorant persona in front of Chen Xin would no longer hold up!

Should he refuse?

But if he refused, what reason could he give?

If Chen Xin noticed even the slightest flaw, he would be in serious trouble...

After thinking it over, Jiang Xuan finally gritted his teeth.

Forget it, he would give it to him!

He would take things one step at a time. After all, once Dugu Bo took the pill, he would receive a rebate in Merit Points. With that guaranteed reward, no matter what happened afterward, he would not lose too badly.

Having made up his mind, Jiang Xuan took a jade vial containing a Soul-Gathering Pill from his pocket and casually tossed it to Dugu Bo.

"Consider yourself lucky."

The instant he caught the jade vial, Dugu Bo's mouth twitched upon hearing those words.

What the hell? Jiang Xuan wanted to use a poison pill to control him, yet called it doing him a favor?

But on second thought, it really was doing him a favor.

After all, after taking this poison pill, he could at least keep his life. That was countless times better than dying here for no reason.

Taking another deep breath, Dugu Bo closed his eyes and swallowed the pill in one gulp.

"Come on, let me see just how skilled this brat is with poison!"

With that thought in mind, Dugu Bo began to sense the pill's effects carefully. Yet strangely enough, he could not detect even a trace of poison within it.

Not only was the pill not poisonous, it was actually increasing the Soul Power within his body!

Had that brat given him the wrong pill, or was he getting old and hallucinating?

Wasn't Jiang Xuan supposed to use a poison pill to control his life?

Why was he instead using such a heaven-defying pill to help increase his Soul Power cultivation?

Did Jiang Xuan think he could buy his loyalty with this little bit of sweetness?

Hmph! If that was what he thought, then he was looking down on Dugu Bo far too much.

Just as the old man was secretly scoffing in his heart, he suddenly noticed that his body seemed to be undergoing some changes.

"Just as expected! I knew there was something wrong with this pill. This brat truly had no good intentions! But it doesn't matter. As long as I know where the problem lies, with my understanding of medicinal principles, I'll definitely be able to solve it given enough time!"

Dugu Bo was initially brimming with confidence, but he soon realized something was wrong.

Why did his originally aged skin seem to be becoming smooth and tender?

Why did two soft lumps of flesh seem to have suddenly grown on his chest?

And most importantly...

Why did he suddenly feel a chill beneath his crotch?

It was as though he had lost something incredibly important...

[Congratulations, Host, for successfully giving away a pill]

[Merit Points rebate received: 10000]

Seeing the notification on the system panel, Jiang Xuan's mood instantly improved.

Including what he had left from before and the rebate from giving Qian Renxue a pill, he now possessed a total of 17,400 Merit Points.

(Qian Renxue had rebated 4,000, and he had 3,400 remaining from before.)

With so many Merit Points, he could probably raise his Soul Power to the level of a Soul Emperor, or even a Soul Saint, with a single click.

But Jiang Xuan could not rush things yet.

After all, the quality of one's Soul Rings was of paramount importance to a Soul Master.

Take Chen Xin from the original story, for instance. His highest cultivation could only reach level 97. The reason he could not raise his Soul Power to a higher level was not merely because he lacked sufficient opportunities; the most important reason was that he did not possess a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

In the current Douluo Continent, a Title Douluo without a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring had no hope of glimpsing the realm of the ultimate.

Therefore, before completing his physical strengthening, Jiang Xuan still needed to endure for a while longer.

Qian Renxue was dumbfounded at that moment.

She had originally thought the only side effect of the pill in Jiang Xuan's hand was making one's body smaller.

But after Dugu Bo took it, only the time it took to drink a cup of tea had passed before the old man's originally loose, aged skin became firm, supple, snow-white, and radiant. Combined with his now much softer and prettier face...

No matter how she looked at it, this was a woman!

What the hell?

Dugu Bo had turned into a woman?

This pill could actually reverse a person's gender while they were alive!

Unbelievable. Utterly unheard of!

Qian Renxue understood now.

What kind of reward was this?

For an old fellow like Dugu Bo, this was clearly the cruelest punishment!

But compared to the changes happening to Dugu Bo, what Qian Renxue cared about most at that moment was something else:

How exactly had Jiang Xuan done it?

If not for the presence of his elder, she truly wanted to question him thoroughly right then. But the occasion was wrong, so she could only suppress her doubts for the time being.

Little did she know that when a woman began to feel curious about and want to understand a man, that was the beginning of her downfall.

Especially on this Love Continent, where every woman seemed possessed by a love-struck mind...

Dugu Bo's mind was blank at that moment.

Looking at her fair, delicate hands, she unconsciously touched every part of her body from top to bottom. But the more places she touched, the colder her heart became.

After steadying herself for a moment, Dugu Bo took a deep breath. When she looked at Jiang Xuan again, her expression was as though she had seen a ghost.

"Y-You brat, what exactly did you do to me?! What kind of pill was that?! Why did it turn me into this?!"

Dugu Bo's voice trembled uncontrollably. It had clearly changed into the softer, more delicate voice of a woman.

Honestly, looking at Dugu Bo now, Jiang Xuan was momentarily dazed.

Snow-white hair draped over her shoulders, a delicate and charming face brimming with allure. Using Chen Xin as a reference... Dugu Bo's long legs were surely now enough to captivate countless people as well.

But that was not the key point.

The key was that Dugu Bo was skilled at both poison and healing, while the poison arts within her body could also backlash against her...

If she put on a long purple dress...

Holy shit, wasn't she basically a fusion of Medusa and the Little Fairy Doctor from another world?