The Real Reason

When they arrived at the place where they usually studied herbal knowledge and conducted experiments, Zhou Liang pulled Dugu Yan over and began asking about the things that had puzzled him.

Although Dugu Yan was only eleven or twelve, she had begun studying poison arts at the age of six. With five or six years of experience, she was more than capable of teaching Zhou Liang, who had only just begun.

"Have you really only been studying for a few months?" Dugu Yan asked in disbelief as she thought about the questions he had just raised.

"It really has only been a few months. After all, before I had Soul Power, I couldn't combine poison with Soul Power." After speaking, Zhou Liang stretched out his left hand. A blue-icy glow appeared, and waves of cold air rose from it.

"Some of the questions you asked were things I only realized I should ask after studying poison arts for two or three years. Yet you noticed them after just a few months. You're much better than I am." Dugu Yan looked at Zhou Liang with admiration.

After all, poison was her specialty, yet even she felt admiration for Zhou Liang's speed of learning.

"Maybe it's because my senses are stronger. I can easily perceive changes in poison."

As Zhou Liang spoke, he watched Dugu Yan in front of him and placed his blue-icy left hand on the table. He wanted to test his theory.

Sure enough, Zhou Liang's guess was correct. Although Dugu Yan continued speaking with him normally, her gaze kept drifting toward that icy-blue left hand.

So it really is because of the Red-and-Blue Power. The power of the Red-Blue Buff, combined with the strange Ice-and-Fire Poison formed by those two herbs, can actually suppress the poison in her body. Add in the unique charm of the Hundred States of Life Meditation Technique, and that's why this aloof, beautiful venomous snake has been so proactive!

Zhou Liang smiled at the thought, raised his icy-blue left hand, and gently waved it back and forth in front of Dugu Yan.

Her gaze followed it twice before she realized what she was doing. Her face instantly flushed bright red.

"What are you doing? I'm explaining things to you. Why are you waving your hand around?" Dugu Yan spoke with a straight face, but her crimson cheeks had already given her away.

"You seem very concerned about my Cold Poison. If there's anything I can do to help, you can just say so. After all, the knowledge you've explained has been very helpful to me as well." Zhou Liang extended his hand toward her and looked at Dugu Yan.

Dugu Yan looked at the blue-icy hand before her, then at Zhou Liang. After nodding, she said, "Don't move!"

After saying that, she reached out with a slightly flushed face and grabbed his icy-blue left hand. Instantly, Dugu Yan felt an incomparably pleasant sensation spread from her hand through her body.

It was a feeling she had never experienced before. An overwhelming sense of ease and comfort flowed through both her arms, only gradually weakening after reaching her shoulders before disappearing.

Dugu Yan did not look up at Zhou Liang. She merely said one sentence.

"From now on, don't move your hand."

Zhou Liang nodded. "All right!"

Upon hearing that, Dugu Yan pulled his icy-blue left hand closer.

At once, a sensation unlike anything she had ever felt spread throughout her body. The Soul Power within her began to stir, and the feeling of ease and comfort nearly made Dugu Yan moan.

Fortunately, she restrained herself and did not embarrass herself on the spot. Still, this resolved the doubt in her heart.

Zhou Liang's poison can make me feel this way. Could it be a poison that complements the Jade-Scaled Serpent Emperor Poison, or perhaps one that can evolve the Jade-Scaled Serpent Emperor Poison? It's a pity Grandfather isn't home, or I could ask him.

Dugu Yan became lost in thought.

"It's getting late. I'll explain more to you tomorrow."

After saying that, Dugu Yan abruptly stood up. Reluctantly releasing Zhou Liang's hand, she turned and ran outside.

Zhou Liang watched her graceful figure hurriedly retreat, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly.

I didn't expect the Red-and-Blue Power to have such an effect. Before I've even figured out how to win over this Bronze Ticket, it has already run into my hands!

Zhou Liang had not actually guessed the true reason. The Red-and-Blue Power alone was not powerful enough to produce such an effect.

Within the entire monster system of Honor of Kings, the Red-Blue Buff was stronger than ordinary monsters, but weaker than dragon-type creatures such as the Storm Dragon King.

The reason they were stronger than ordinary monsters was because they possessed a certain amount of dragon bloodline and carried Dragon Vein Power.

The tattoo on Zhou Liang's back also possessed Dragon Vein Power, while the most fundamental power of those two herbs actually came from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After stimulating each other, they had Awakened a tiny trace of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's most essential power.

This power stimulated the Dragon Vein Power of the Red-Blue Buff. Once the two powers underwent Fusion, they were instantly amplified, causing Zhou Liang's Ice-and-Fire Poison to gain Dragon Vein Power.

That was the true reason for her initiative. It was also why, in the original story, she ended up with Yu Tianheng.

As the number one Beast Martial Soul on Douluo Continent, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon likewise possessed Dragon Vein Power. Combined with the power of lightning, it similarly attracted Dugu Yan.

If not for that, how could anyone have made such an aloof venomous snake fall in love with him?

But now, that person was Zhou Liang. The combination of the Red-Blue Buff and Ice-and-Fire Power had made Zhou Liang's Dragon Vein Power stronger than that of anyone his age, including those from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

This peculiar attraction was destined to make Dugu Yan fall into Zhou Liang's hands. What was more, Zhou Liang's Dragon Vein Power had fused with his Ice-and-Fire Poison.

Not only did this captivate Dugu Yan, whose Martial Soul was snake-type, it could also suppress the poison within her body, lighten her body, and make her feel far more at ease.

And so, several months passed. Dugu Yan came running over almost every day. Though she used teaching Zhou Liang about the things he did not understand as an excuse, every time she arrived, she would grab his blue-icy left hand. Sometimes, even while blushing—

A few days later, Liu Erlong returned with good news.

The other side had agreed to all of Zhou Liang's demands and would sell the three kinds of pills nationwide at low prices.

As for producing the three kinds of pills, Liu Erlong recruited a group of people to carry out the steps Zhou Liang had divided up, one by one.

Dividing the process this way also kept the formulas for the three kinds of pills well protected, while the extremely low prices served as another form of protection.