Dugu Bo Knelt and Begged, Subduing the Poison Douluo

Dugu Yan had not meant to call Li Qinglian a pervert.

It was just that what she had seen at a glance had truly shocked her.

She had only ever seen such a thing on horses and donkeys before.

So she lost control of her emotions for a moment.

She truly could not understand how His Highness the Crown Prince could endure it.

Even ordinary women might not be able to handle it, let alone His Highness the Crown Prince...

"My heavens."

"Pfft."

"Look at you. You scared that little girl away."

As Li Qinglian rose from the bath and began dressing, a familiar voice sounded beside his ear.

Li Qinglian's entire body stiffened.

He knew that voice far too well.

"Sister Na? Why are you here?"

Li Qinglian's expression turned somewhat unpleasant.

He knew that Gu Yuena had a strand of divine consciousness within the Dragon Abyss Realm and could communicate with him at any time.

"I come to take a look from time to time, and while I'm at it, I follow you around to familiarize myself with the human world."

Gu Yuena's amused voice drifted over.

"I just didn't expect you to be so... capable. No wonder you frightened that little girl."

Li Qinglian curled his lips after hearing that.

He shook the droplets of water from his body and put on his clothes.

"Does someone like Dugu Yan even count as a little girl?"

"Ye Lingling would be more like it."

Dugu Yan was carefree and boisterous, practically like a tomboy.

Ye Lingling was calm and reserved. She really might have been frightened.

Li Qinglian could not be blamed for that.

After all, he was a soul beast that had taken human form. His body proportions could not possibly be exactly the same as a human's.

Besides, when molding his form after transforming, Li Qinglian had been a little selfish.

Li Qinglian walked out of the room.

Dugu Yan immediately hurried over to him.

"Li Qinglian, just now..."

"Just now, I was wrong. I really didn't mean to say that about you. I'm not the kind of girl who makes trouble for no reason. I was just too shocked."

Dugu Yan lowered her head and stared at her toes, her voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz.

"Shocked?"

Hearing that word, Li Qinglian felt oddly amused, though a smile played at the corners of his lips.

"Mhm."

The blush at the girl's ears had already spread down to her neck.

Li Qinglian was momentarily dumbfounded.

Could it be that, just as Gu Yuena had said, he had really scared Dugu Yan?

Just as Li Qinglian was about to say something, an incomparably heavy and icy aura suddenly crashed down from beyond the courtyard gate.

Like a collapsing mountain, like the gaze of an abyss.

It was the pure pressure of a Titled Douluo, carrying a dark green aura of deadly poison. Like an invisible giant hand, it descended upon Li Qinglian's head.

Crack!

The dust in the air seemed to freeze in that instant. The thin bamboo in the courtyard bent low, and even the sunlight dimmed slightly.

Li Qinglian's steps paused faintly.

His body truly felt that pressure.

The pressure of a Titled Douluo was absolutely no easy matter for his current cultivation.

Yet he did not retreat, bend his back, or even furrow his brow.

He merely raised his head and met those eyes.

Beyond the courtyard gate, Dugu Bo stood with his hands behind his back. His deeply sunken eyes locked onto Li Qinglian like those of a hawk, a ghostly green chill flickering deep within his pupils.

He made no unnecessary movements. Simply standing there, he was like a silent mountain of poison, radiating a suffocating sense of oppression.

That aura carried probing, warning, and scrutiny.

He wanted to see just how capable this youth, whom even Qian Daoliu regarded highly, truly was.

Dugu Yan abruptly turned her head. Seeing her grandfather like that, her expression changed slightly.

"Grandfather! What are you doing?!"

Dugu Bo did not respond. His gaze remained fixed on Li Qinglian.

That gaze was cold and sharp as a blade, as though he intended to see through Li Qinglian completely, inside and out.

Li Qinglian stood where he was, neither dodging nor avoiding, and he did not summon his martial soul.

He simply looked back at Dugu Bo calmly. Deep within his eyes, a golden-white point of light quietly lit up, like an imperceptible star shining in a pitch-black night sky.

Pure Heart Eyes.

All Things Revealed.

That layer of dark green pressure gradually became clear in his vision.

It was no longer an indistinct, chaotic force of momentum, but layer upon layer of traceable energy structures, like crystalline facets, each one distinct.

He could see the long-standing toxins within Dugu Bo slowly eroding his organs. He could see the paths those toxins traveled through his blood.

He even saw something else.

When Dugu Bo released his pressure, the toxins within his body circulated thirty percent faster.

The corner of Li Qinglian's lips lifted slightly.

He took a step forward.

Just one step, yet the oncoming pressure seemed to strike an invisible wall and abruptly halted mere inches before him.

Dugu Bo's pupils shrank slightly.

Standing behind that frozen pressure, Li Qinglian's voice was so calm that he did not sound like a twelve-year-old facing a Titled Douluo.

"Senior Poison Douluo, if you wish to test me this way, there is no need. Your pressure means nothing to me. But for every bit more soul power you exert, the poison in your body will backlash another bit harder."

"Seventy percent of your left lung has already been corroded by toxins. Your right kidney as well. Every time you circulate your power, your chest feels faintly tight, doesn't it?"

Dugu Bo's expression froze instantly.

For the first time, fear appeared in those cold, hawk-like eyes.

He stared fixedly at Li Qinglian as though looking at a monster.

It would have been understandable if Li Qinglian could see through Yanyan.

But he was a Titled Douluo!

A dignified Titled Douluo, yet he had no secrets at all before this youth.

But this youth before him...

Had seen through everything.

He could even clearly perceive the extent to which the toxins had spread throughout his body.

The pressure slowly receded like a falling tide.

"Dugu Bo pays respects to Your Highness the Saint Son."

"I beg Your Highness the Saint Son to bestow divine medicine and save my granddaughter and me."

"If Your Highness the Saint Son is willing to show us mercy, then this life of mine will belong to Your Highness from now on. From this day forth, if Your Highness tells me to go east, I will never go west."

Dugu Bo bent his knees and knelt on the ground.

He knew.

Before survival, any dignity was worthless.

Moreover, he was not merely begging for his own life, but for the survival of his family.

Only he and Dugu Yan remained in the Dugu Clan. If they died, the Dugu Clan would cease to exist!

"Grandfather!"

Dugu Yan's pupils contracted. Seeing that even her grandfather had knelt, she hurriedly knelt beside him.

She had never expected that her grandfather was poisoned too, and that his condition was even worse than hers.

"Your Highness the Saint Son, please save my grandfather and me."

"As long as you are willing to save us, I can give you whatever you want."

"Even if I must give myself to you..."

Tears glimmered in Dugu Yan's beautiful eyes.