Qian Renxue's Delusion of Subduing Him, Qian Sha Yu's Heart of Iron

Dugu Bo listened to She Long and Ci Xue's mockery, his eyes nearly splitting apart.

He looked around. The once lush medicinal garden had long since been stripped bare by Tang San.

The mountains and fields were filled with nothing but barren, muddy pits.

Even the Blue Silver Emperor left behind by Tang San's mother had been uprooted without a trace.

Then he looked at the three formidable enemies before him.

An indescribable sense of bleakness and absurdity welled up in Dugu Bo's heart.

He had worked for Tang San for so long for nothing.

He had fought desperately for Tang San's cause, nearly losing his life in Heaven Dou City.

Yet Tang San had not even left him a single immortal herb to save his life, instead sweeping away every last resource.

When he left, he had not even bothered to write a note of farewell.

He had simply treated Dugu Bo as a free tool he could discard at any time.

And now, Spirit Hall's death sentence had arrived ahead of schedule.

What bitter irony.

At the bottom of the valley, the atmosphere was so heavy it seemed on the verge of solidifying.

Dugu Bo's mind raced wildly.

He rapidly ran through every possible way to break the deadlock.

There were three Titled Douluo on the other side.

Using such a lineup against a weakling like him in a one-on-one fight was simply crushing him from an entirely higher level.

Worse still, behind him stood his granddaughter, who possessed only the cultivation of a Soul King in her fifties.

Forget killing them in return—

He did not even have the right to risk his life.

His chance of victory was zero!

His chance of survival was also zero!

After calculating everything, only abyssal despair remained.

Dugu Bo looked at Qian Sha Yu, standing proudly in the air, and the light in his eyes gradually faded.

He, Dugu Bo, had roamed the continent for his entire life.

Arrogant and unruly, eccentric by nature, he had never bowed his head to anyone.

Even when facing Chrysanthemum Douluo back then, he had dared to curse him straight to his face.

But today, the spine he had held straight his entire life finally bent.

He could not let the Dugu family line end!

Dugu Bo took a deep breath, making his decision.

He stepped forward and stood in front of Dugu Yan.

His proud head lowered, and his voice carried a humble plea.

"Qian Renxue, I admit defeat today."

"I will no longer interfere in the affairs of Heaven Dou City."

"Kill me or flay me, I will accept it all."

"But Yan Yan has nothing to do with the palace coup. She has never even been an enemy of Spirit Hall."

"Spare her life, and you may take this old man's life whenever you wish."

His hoarse voice echoed through the empty valley.

Behind him, Dugu Yan seemed to have been struck by lightning.

In her memories,

her grandfather had always been that peerless Titled Douluo who looked down even on the emperors of the two great empires.

But now, for her sake, her grandfather was actually begging his enemies in a low voice.

"Grandfather!"

"Don't beg them!"

"These beasts from Spirit Hall will never let us go!"

Tears streamed down Dugu Yan's face, and her voice trembled with sobs.

"Shut up!" Dugu Bo turned around and shouted harshly. "Stand properly for this old man!"

Dugu Bo lowered his head toward Qian Sha Yu once more.

His full head of green hair looked especially weathered in the howling wind.

The once mighty Poison Douluo

was now merely an old man in his twilight years, desperately begging for his granddaughter's life.

The dead end had been set. Life and death now rested entirely on Qian Sha Yu's whim.

"Wait!"

"Qian Sha Yu, this is an opportunity!"

Qian Renxue suddenly spoke from within the Sea of Spirit.

"What opportunity?"

"Of course, the opportunity to subdue Dugu Bo!"

"His poison is an unquestionable large-scale weapon of mass destruction on a battlefield!"

"If we can subdue him and make him a dog of the Worship Hall, the military foundation of our current Heaven Dou regime will increase tremendously!"

The more Qian Renxue spoke, the brighter her eyes became.

She tried earnestly to persuade him,

attempting to put the reins of reason on the Second Personality of this crazed slaughter demon king, Qian Sha Yu.

"Heh." Qian Sha Yu let out an incomparably arrogant sneer.

"Subdue him?"

"What a ridiculous joke!"

"A worker's loyalty depends entirely on empty promises. Power built by subduing outsiders is nothing more than a castle in the air that scatters with a single gust of wind."

"Today, he can bow to you for his granddaughter. Tomorrow, he can stab you viciously in the back for her."

"These days, mountains can collapse when you rely on them, and people can run when you rely on them."

"A true powerhouse can only step onto the peak of this age by relying on his own strength!"

"The submission of others can turn into betrayal at any moment."

"Only by utterly crushing your enemies and trampling them beneath your feet is the eternal, unchanging truth!"

Qian Sha Yu's overbearing words directly cut off all of Qian Renxue's persuasion.

The crimson demonic intent in his eyes surged ever higher.

His gaze locked from above onto the old poison freak at the bottom of the valley.

Dugu Bo was bent at the waist, his green hair whipping wildly about, the corners of his eyes nearly tearing apart.

"Qian Renxue, this old man begs you to spare Yan Yan!"

The old poison freak's pleading voice echoed through the valley, carrying deep despair amid its desolation.

A cruel, wicked curve lifted at the corner of Qian Sha Yu's mouth.

"Let her go?"

"What nonsense are you dreaming of?"

"Tools die from talking too much. Workers have no human rights!"

Qian Sha Yu lightly flicked his sleeve.

She Long, the Snake Lance Douluo, and Ci Xue, the Porcupinefish Douluo, who had long been waiting to strike, transformed into two dazzling afterimages and shot through the air.

Dugu Yan, with only a little over fifty levels of Soul King cultivation, did not even have time to react before her arms were seized by their large hands.

"Grandfather!"

Dugu Yan let out a miserable cry.

"Yan Yan!"

Dugu Bo's eyes nearly burst apart,

and Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison surged violently around him.

Like a crazed tiger driven into a corner, he prepared to charge forward and fight for his life.

Clang!

Qian Sha Yu drew the Slaughter Blood Sword and pointed it diagonally downward.

The frigid sword aura directly sliced the stone slabs beneath Dugu Bo's feet into powder.

"I'll give you a chance to save her."

"You will fight me alone!"

"As for whether Dugu Yan will leave this valley alive today, that depends entirely on whether your next performance is desperate enough to please me."

Qian Sha Yu's voice carried no warmth at all, like Yama himself deciding life and death.

"!!!"

Dugu Bo immediately stopped.

His heart sank completely into an icy abyss.

The blood-haired demon king before him was a monster capable of fighting even Sword and Bone, two Super Douluo.

In a one-on-one battle, he had no chance of victory whatsoever.

But as he looked at Dugu Yan, whose face was pale as she was held hostage by the Snake Lance Douluo,

the fear in Dugu Bo's eyes turned into desperate resolve.

There was no way back.

Then he would burn these old bones to ashes and tear off a piece of the enemy's flesh with his life!

"If you want to touch this old man's granddaughter, step over this old man's corpse first!"

Dugu Bo threw back his head and roared, the sound waves shattering the surrounding collapsed rock walls.

The soul rings on his body erupted with brilliant radiance.

His natal poison, the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison, poured forth completely and without restraint at that instant.

Thick, ink-like emerald poison mist spread over a vast area in an instant, swallowing the world within a thousand meters with a force that seemed capable of sweeping across all creation.

She Long and Ci Xue immediately retreated several thousand meters with Dugu Yan.

The moment rocks touched the poisonous mist, they sizzled as they melted into viscous black water.

The ruined mud pits, already stripped bare by Tang San, along with the surrounding vegetation, were completely reduced to scorched earth and rotten sludge.

The entire Icefire Yin-Yang Well battlefield had completely transformed into a poisonous prison of despairing silence.

This was poison capable of slaughtering an entire city!

"Turn into pus and blood for this old man!"

Dugu Bo roared,

controlling the towering emerald waves of poison as they crazily crashed toward Qian Sha Yu in midair.

Qian Sha Yu stood expressionlessly in the void, coldly watching the storm of countless poisons sweep toward him.

"This is the capital you pride yourself on?"

"This alone is far from enough!"

Qian Sha Yu gave a wild, icy laugh.

The towering baleful aura inherent to the Slaughter Demon Body violently awakened.

The Slaughter Domain fully unfolded in response.

Dazzling bloodlight erupted like a blazing sun, releasing endless radiance and forcibly smashing an opening through the green poison prison that filled the sky.

Blood Qi Barrier!

Extremely dense and scorching killing intent condensed out of thin air, forming a crimson barrier like searing lava.

The Jade Phosphorous poison mist spreading to within ten meters of him was instantly eroded by that incomparably terrifying blood qi the moment it touched the bloody barrier.

Scorching explosions rang through the valley, yet the violent poison mist could not advance even a single step.

It failed to corrode even the corner of Qian Sha Yu's robes.