Dugu Bo

"What's wrong?"

Dugu Yan asked Bai Xiao like a girl next door, as if she really had no idea.

"Right, didn't you say you like collecting herbs? My grandfather has a medicinal garden, how about you come with me to take a look during the break?" Dugu Yan asked Bai Xiao in a soft voice.

If I go to your grandfather's medicinal garden with you now, your grandfather will deal with me on the spot! Bai Xiao muttered inwardly.

"You'd better accompany me to the library instead! I'm very interested in the books at Heaven Dou Royal Academy."

So the two of them walked hand in hand toward the Library Pavilion, leaving behind a trail of heartbroken women and men (the men wounded by the sight of girls fighting over Bai Xinghe).

After three months of effort, Bai Xiao used his naked-eye memorization method to read through all the proper and improper books in Heaven Dou Royal Academy. In reality, Bai Xiao had Rem organize, classify, and store the information from the books.

As an artificial intelligence carrying a part of Bai Xiao's soul and brain, Rem could help Bai Xiao develop his brain from another angle. Storing and organizing knowledge was something Rem could easily do.

The only drawback was that it required Bai Xiao to scan with his naked eyes (meaning staring wide-eyed at books). Bai Xiao's eyes became bloodshot from reading, and now no matter what he looked at, it seemed like a book.

From then on, a legend about a study god spread throughout the academy.

Back then, Bai Xiao had spent two weeks reading books on basic knowledge, then ran straight to the school committee and asked the principal to grant him permission to read higher-level knowledge.

Meng Shenji criticized Bai Xiao on the spot. "Can you finish reading these in two weeks? You must have just skimmed through them!"

Bai Xiao refused to accept it on the spot and asked Meng Shenji to quiz him. Meng Shenji decisively tested Bai Xiao, only to become more and more startled and shocked with each question.

Bai Xiao answered all of Meng Shenji's questions correctly, and extremely quickly and accurately. Almost the second the question was asked, the next second Bai Xiao stated the answer.

Meng Shenji almost went crazy back then. "How can there be such a genius in this world? And he's a student at our school! Hahaha! Heaven bless the royal family! Heaven bless Heaven Dou!" The more he spoke, the more deranged he became.

The commotion startled the other two Soul Douluos on the school committee.

The two of them immediately concluded that Meng Shenji had gone crazy and knocked him out while he was standing there laughing.

As a result, after waking up, Meng Shenji uttered the three ultimate questions of life: "Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?"

From that day on, a rumor as legendary as the study god spread around the campus: "The principal is a lunatic."

Ever since then, the look in Meng Shenji's eyes when he looked at Bai Xiao became somewhat strange—containing three parts admiration, three parts anger, three parts concern, and the remaining one part a sense of suspicion.

"Suspecting who on earth he was, where he was, what he was doing, where he came from, and where he was going."

From then on, Bai Xiao received permission to read anything at will, beginning his daily book-grinding routine.

Meanwhile, Dugu Yan accompanied Bai Xiao to the Library Pavilion every day, reading some books, occasionally giggling foolishly, and from time to time glancing at Bai Xiao.

One day, Bai Xiao felt the time was right, looked at Dugu Yan with a deadpan expression, and said,

"Yan'er, from the first moment I saw your green hair and the faint fishy smell that occasionally emanates from your body, I suspected something..."

Before Bai Xiao could finish, Dugu Yan burst into tears. Sobbing as she cried, she said, "I'm sorry, Xinghe, I lied to you. My martial soul is highly toxic, it will be passed down to descendants, and partners will also be infected. I didn't mean to lie to you..."

The instant Dugu Yan cried, Bai Xiao felt himself locked onto by an aura of killing intent. As Dugu Yan continued to speak, that killing intent grew increasingly intense.

Bai Xiao knew right then and there that it was Dugu Bo.

When Tang San went to Shrek, Tang Hao protected him from the shadows, beating Tang San when he was bullied and even giving Zhao Wuji a fierce thrashing. How much more so for Dugu Bo, that ultimate granddaughter-spoiling maniac!

Bai Xiao lost his composure on the spot and hastily said, "No, I mean I can detoxify your martial soul and improve your cultivation talent!"

"What?!"

Two sounds of shock.

One came from the weeping Dugu Yan, who had stopped crying, her entire face stunned, her brain seemingly having stopped functioning.

As for the other,

A flash of green light crossed the air, and Dugu Bo instantly appeared in front of Bai Xiao, grabbing Bai Xiao by the collar with both hands and lifting him into midair.

Seeing Bai Xiao lifted up by Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan snapped back to reality and hurriedly shouted, "Grandfather, you mustn't hurt Xinghe!!"

"Hmph, this brat dared to make my granddaughter cry, I must teach him a lesson!" Dugu Bo tried to comfort Dugu Yan.

"No, Grandfather, it's just that I misunderstood Xinghe's meaning!" Dugu Yan hurriedly explained.

"Um, can you let me say a few words?" Bai Xiao, hoisted into the air by Dugu Bo, weakly said.