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 completely exhausted. Every muscle in his body was limp, sore, and aching, leaving him utterly without strength.

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, rested his upper body on her long legs, and gently wiped the sweat from his forehead with her personal handkerchief.

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

"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 herb 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 feeling a pang of heartache, and a trace of pity appeared in her eyes.

"You're so dependable, so talented, so outstanding. It's a shame 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 Bai Xiao, who was such a straight-laced man. As expected of my wife. This is amazing! Bai Xiao sighed inwardly.

Dugu Yan merely looked at Bai Xiao with a calm expression. Bai Xiao had countless thoughts running through his mind, 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, and she lowered her head. Bai Xiao thought she was embarrassed and was just about to say something else when Dugu Yan seemed to awaken some incredible trait. Bai Xiao only felt the world spin around him, and in the next instant, his face had an intimate encounter with the dirt.

When Dugu Yan heard Bai Xiao say, "Yan'er, you cried," she felt a burst of shame and indignation.

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

Moreover, Bai Xiao had been resting on her legs the entire time. Even though she was a Great Soul Master in her twenties, she could not keep enduring it. It had been one thing while Bai Xiao was asleep and unaware, but after waking up, he still did not want to get up and just kept lying there quietly.

Even Dugu Yan's gentlest feelings had been worn away completely. With Bai Xiao's words provoking her further, she finally could not hold back. She grabbed Bai Xiao's head with one hand and pressed his face into the soil.

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

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

Beside them, Dugu Bo calmly brewed tea. Watching the two of them bicker, he said, "Being young is wonderful!"

Now that the Martial Soul problem in Dugu Bo's Lineage was about to be solved, and his granddaughter had found someone she acknowledged, Dugu Bo felt that his life was complete. He had become at peace with everything.

His only hobbies now were watching the two of them fool around, brewing tea now and then, and occasionally 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 so he could detoxify them of the 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 failure 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 and wield your Martial Soul, 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 would not need to worry about the venom backlashing against you at all.

"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!"