Little White Mouse Dugu Bo

"You're dead, and sooner or later Da Ming and Er Ming will be hunted down by Spirit Hall too!"

"Most importantly... if you die, who will avenge your mother?!"

Mother!

Those two words were like twin blades, viciously piercing the deepest line of defense in Xiao Wu's heart.

Bibi Dong! Spirit Hall!

That lofty female pope, that enemy who had cruelly murdered her mother right before her eyes!

Tears burst from Xiao Wu's eyes.

That's right, I can't die. If I die in this sunless basement, what will happen to Mom's vengeance? What will happen to Da Ming and Er Ming?

Endless humiliation, resentment, hatred, and despair intertwined, finally turning into a shrill wail of grief.

"I'll talk... I'll tell you everything..."

Xiao Wu collapsed onto the ground like a lump of mud, the light utterly gone from her eyes.

Under Gu En's repeated psychological bombardment and precise strikes at her weaknesses, the mental defenses of this Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft-Boned Rabbit were completely shattered.

Half an hour later.

Gu En walked out of the underground prison cell with satisfaction.

The method for Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to condense a Soul Core had already been fully imprinted in his mind—an extreme technique that forcibly created spatial collapse within the dantian or sea of consciousness through the rapid rotation of soul power, ultimately forming a solid vortex of soul power.

"Simple, crude, yet it goes straight to the origin of power."

As he walked, Gu En mentally deduced the workings of this secret technique.

"However... this method was meant for soul beasts. Human meridians may not be able to withstand such violent soul power collapse."

"If Xiao Wu tampered with anything in there, or if humans and beasts simply have incompatible constitutions, forcibly condensing one will end in the body exploding."

Gu En stopped and stroked his chin.

"Looks like I need to find a little white mouse to test it first."

An old man with green hair, who spent every day studying poisons, immediately appeared in his mind.

"Dugu Bo's Poison Pellet is essentially an inferior, incomplete Soul Core. He couldn't be more perfect for testing the waters."

Gu En calculated coldly to himself.

If Xiao Wu had lied, or if the technique was flawed, Dugu Bo would explode and die.

For the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, that would amount to nothing more than losing its weakest Titled Douluo. It would not be a significant loss, and they could use it to discern Xiao Wu's true limits.

If the technique worked and Dugu Bo successfully condensed a Soul Core, not only would it completely resolve the poison backlash, but his strength would surely increase tremendously!

Then the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would gain a vastly strengthened, utterly loyal enforcer who would be deeply grateful to him.

This deal was guaranteed profit with no risk!

Half a day later, in a secluded secret chamber at the rear mountain of the sect.

Dugu Bo sat cross-legged on a stone bed, his brows tightly furrowed as he circulated his soul power, trying to suppress the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison within his body, which had become faintly restless after the loss of his Poison Pellet.

"Senior Dugu."

Gu En pushed open the door and entered, wearing the gentle smile of a junior.

Dugu Bo hurriedly rose to greet him.

"No need for such formality, Senior."

Gu En walked up to Dugu Bo, took out a parchment scroll he had just copied from his robes, and handed it over.

"What is this?"

Dugu Bo accepted it doubtfully.

"I recently consulted ancient texts and combined them with Senior's previous Poison Pellet theory to deduce a supreme secret technique tailored specifically for you—the Soul Core Condensation Method!"

Gu En lied without blushing, his gaze incomparably sincere.

"As long as Senior follows this method and rapidly compresses and rotates the poisons and soul power in your body at the dantian, you will ultimately form a solid Soul Core."

"Not only will it allow you to completely turn the backlash of the poisons to your own use, it will also make your soul power inexhaustible and help you break through your current bottleneck!"

"A Soul Core?!"

Dugu Bo stared wide-eyed at the exquisitely ingenious yet astonishingly bold soul power circulation route on the parchment.

He was an expert in poisons and inner pellets. With a single glance, he saw the heaven-defying quality of this technique! This was practically an evolution path custom-made for his Poison Pellet!

"Young Master... such a heaven-defying secret technique, you... you're really giving it to me just like that?"

Even Dugu Bo's hands were trembling.

He had originally thought that Gu En took away his Poison Pellet merely to control him.

He had never expected Gu En to actually deduce a cultivation technique for him—and to produce such a peerless manual that Titled Douluo across the continent would fight to the death over!

"Since Senior has joined my Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, we are family. Family does not speak as strangers."

Gu En patted Dugu Bo on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Senior, cultivate quickly. I will personally stand guard for you."

"Thank you, Young Master, for granting me a new life! From now on, this old man's life belongs to you!"

Dugu Bo was so moved that tears streamed down his face. He immediately changed his form of address to Young Master, then knelt on the floor and heavily kowtowed to Gu En.

How could he have known that the gentle-faced youth before him was calculating how to clean up the poison blood all over the room if he exploded to death shortly?

"Begin."

Gu En retreated to the edge of the secret chamber and secretly activated the Vast Sea Body Shield in case anything went wrong.

Dugu Bo took a deep breath, sat cross-legged, and began frantically mobilizing the soul power within his body according to the route on the parchment.

Boom—!

The air inside the secret chamber instantly became violent.

At Dugu Bo's dantian, the jade-green poisonous mist and soul power began to grind and rotate fiercely.

The speed grew faster and faster, gradually forming a terrifying vortex of soul power.

"Ah!!!"

Dugu Bo let out a pained roar. Fine threads of black blood seeped from his skin, the result of his meridians tearing under the extreme compression.

Gu En watched coldly from the corner, his spiritual power fixed tightly on the changes within Dugu Bo's dantian.

"The collapse has begun..."

At the center of the vortex within Dugu Bo's dantian, an extremely powerful inward pull suddenly appeared.

The poisons and soul power that had originally been raging wildly instantly collapsed madly toward a single central point under that suction!

Bzz—!

A dazzling jade-green radiance erupted from Dugu Bo's body, even piercing through the walls of the secret chamber.

Immediately afterward, an aura several times more powerful than before, yet incomparably condensed, surged skyward like an awakening giant dragon!

Dugu Bo suddenly opened his eyes. The murkiness and coldness were gone from those snake pupils, replaced by pure jade-green divine light.

He examined his dantian internally and saw a Soul Core the size of a longan, crystal-clear throughout like a solid emerald, slowly rotating there. With every turn, it exhaled and absorbed incomparably pure Jade Phosphor Snake Emperor Poison Force, completely free of backlash!

"It... it worked!"

Feeling the surging, ceaseless power in his body, Dugu Bo trembled with excitement.

He had been stuck at rank ninety-one for a full ten years!

And now, with this Soul Core, he had not only completely escaped the torment of the poisons, but his soul power had also naturally broken through that solid barrier!

Rank ninety-three!