Detoxification

In the quiet atmosphere, about two hours passed. Bai Xiao's face was covered in sweat, and he dropped onto the ground, not wanting to get up at all.

This round of medicine-making had drained him heavily. Even after transforming himself into a Body Martial Soul, Bai Xiao felt utterly exhausted, every muscle limp, sore, and aching, with no strength left to use.

Dugu Yan, who had been lost in thought over the question, "What should our future child be called?", finally came back to her senses and ran toward Bai Xiao, who was lying on the ground.

Dugu Yan sat on the grass beside Bai Xiao, placed his upper body across her long legs, and gently wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with her personal handkerchief.

Dugu Yan lightly swept her loose hair behind her ear with her right hand. At that moment, she looked at the sleeping Bai Xiao with complicated emotions.

"It's this fool! He makes me angry every day. Back in the library, he only looked at books and never at me. It was the same in the medicinal garden. He makes me so angry, yet I still like you this much!"

Looking at Bai Xiao, who had passed out from exhaustion on her lap, Dugu Yan could not help but feel a pang of heartache, and a trace of pity entered her eyes.

"You're so dependable, so talented, so outstanding. What a pity that you fell in love with me. What a fool..."

After an unknown amount of time, Bai Xiao woke up. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw Dugu Yan looking down at him from above. Judging from the sensation at the back of his head and his angle of view, Bai Xiao concluded that he was lying on Dugu Yan's lap.

This moved the straight-laced Bai Xiao deeply. As expected of his wife. This feels amazing! he sighed inwardly.

Dugu Yan looked at Bai Xiao with a calm expression. Bai Xiao was filled with thoughts, and seeing what seemed to be tears at the corners of her eyes, he said tenderly, "Yan'er, you cried."

Dugu Yan's pretty face immediately reddened after hearing that. She lowered her head, and Bai Xiao thought she was shy. Just as he was about to say something else, Dugu Yan seemed to awaken some incredible trait. Bai Xiao only felt the world spin around him, and the next second, his face had an intimate encounter with the dirt.

When Dugu Yan heard Bai Xiao say, "Yan'er, you cried," she felt a surge of embarrassment and anger.

The tears at the corners of her eyes had come from yawning after watching over Bai Xiao for so long that she had become sleepy.

Moreover, Bai Xiao had been resting his head on her legs the entire time. Even though she was a Great Soul Master in her twenties, she could not hold on forever. While Bai Xiao was asleep, it had been fine, but after waking up, he still did not want to get up and simply kept lying there quietly.

Even Dugu Yan's gentlest mood had been worn away. Coupled with Bai Xiao's provocation, she finally could not endure it any longer. She grabbed Bai Xiao's head with one hand and pressed his face into the dirt.

"I wasn't crying! And why didn't you get up after waking up? My legs are numb!" Dugu Yan said, her face full of embarrassment and anger.

Bai Xiao: ...My wife is really strong!

Nearby, Dugu Bo calmly brewed tea. Watching the two of them make a fuss, he said, "Youth is wonderful!"

Now that Dugu Bo's Lineage Martial Soul problem was about to be solved and his granddaughter had found someone she acknowledged, Dugu Bo felt that his life was complete. So, he had let it all go.

His only hobbies now were watching the two of them bicker, occasionally brewing tea, and playing chess with Prince Xue Xing—a retired sort of life.

Bai Xiao pulled his face out of the dirt and called Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan over, preparing to detoxify their snake venom.

"Through my research, I discovered that the reason your Lineage suffers backlash from the Jade-Scaled Snake Venom, Grandpa, is because of your Martial Soul," Bai Xiao explained.

"Martial Soul?" Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo asked at the same time.

"That's right. As the saying goes, success comes from the Martial Soul, and ruin comes from the Martial Soul.

"Your Martial Soul grants you an extremely powerful poison attribute, but because it is a Beast Martial Soul—

"Every time you use Martial Soul Possession, the venom merges with your body. If your Martial Soul were a Weapon Martial Soul, you could simply inject the poison into the Weapon Martial Soul and never worry about it backfiring on you.

"But because your Martial Soul is a Beast Martial Soul, I adopted another method: transferring the poison into a Soul Bone. That way, you can use poison while ensuring that you will not suffer backlash from it!"