Treating Dugu Yan

"Pant, pant, pant—"

Yu Tianheng, Shi Mo, Shi Mo, Osler, Yu Feng... and the other Heaven Dou Royal Team Reserve members selected by Qin Ming

were running laps around Heaven Dou Royal Academy, gasping for breath and panting nonstop.

They were all Soul Elders. If they could use Soul Power, they would not have been exhausted to this extent.

But Qin Ming did not allow them to use Soul Power.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy occupied an enormous area, enclosing an entire mountain range within its grounds.

Running laps around the academy meant running around the entire mountain range.

Qin Ming required them to complete ten laps before sunset.

Ten laps around the mountain range without using Soul Power.

It was practically a show of force.

"This... Qin Ming... is absolutely insane. He actually wants us... to run ten laps around the mountain range... Is this really a training requirement... a normal person could come up with?"

Dugu Yan was drenched in fragrant sweat and could barely speak clearly, yet she still could not help complaining:

"The reason he became a Soul Emperor... at thirty, could it just be... because he was talented? Maybe it... actually has nothing to do with running."

Su Chen sighed in admiration. Dugu Yan was rather clever; she had seen through the truth right away.

Qin Ming had become a Soul Emperor by thirty because of his talent, not because he ran.

Su Chen's physical constitution was far beyond ordinary. He had consumed fifteen-hundred-year Whale Rubber and possessed three Soul Rings beyond the limit, making his physique even stronger than that of a Soul Ancestor.

Running would not tire him out, but he truly did not want to run.

Rather than running, he would rather go bask in the sun. His physical constitution and Soul Power would still rise rapidly.

"I don't want to run either. With the time spent running, I might as well cultivate my Soul Power."

"I'm going to challenge Qin Ming and let him know he isn't qualified to teach me."

Ye Lingling was exhausted as well, her fair face covered in beads of sweat. As an auxiliary Soul Master, her physical constitution was even worse than Dugu Yan's.

When she heard Su Chen say he wanted to challenge Qin Ming, she anxiously tried to persuade him:

"Xiao Chen, maybe forget it... Teacher Qin Ming is a Soul Emperor... You're only a Soul Elder... You can't possibly be his match."

"Heh!" Su Chen was not afraid of Qin Ming at all.

"He isn't even a Soul Emperor with the optimal Soul Ring configuration. What's there to fear? Maybe his fifth Soul Ring has a lower cultivation age than my third Soul Ring."

As the two spoke, Dugu Yan's little face turned pale and her vision swam. Her body had already been in poor condition due to the poison's corrosion.

Running without being allowed to use Soul Power had pushed her stamina to its limit.

Suddenly!

Dugu Yan's vision went black. She lost consciousness and fell toward the ground.

Su Chen reacted quickly and caught her in his arms.

"Cold! So cold!"

Dugu Yan's eyes were closed as she murmured hazily, her body trembling faintly beyond her control.

The poison entrenched in her internal organs erupted at that moment, making her feel as though she had fallen into an icy abyss.

Su Chen did not feel as if he were holding a person, but rather a block of ice.

Although Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan had been at odds while vying for Su Chen's attention, they had still been friends for several years. Dugu Yan's collapse terrified Ye Lingling as well.

"Yanyan, don't scare me!"

"Nine-Hearted Begonia, heal!"

Ye Lingling threw the prohibition against using Soul Power to the back of her mind, summoned her martial soul, and began treating Dugu Yan.

Pink light, accompanied by fluttering petals, flowed into Dugu Yan's body.

Unfortunately.

It had no effect whatsoever.

Dugu Yan was not injured. This was poison from her own martial soul. The Nine-Hearted Begonia was indeed miraculous and could pull anyone back from the brink of death, but it had no way of neutralizing the Jade Phosphorous Serpent's martial soul poison.

Seeing that her treatment was ineffective, Ye Lingling completely panicked and said helplessly:

"Why is this happening? What exactly is wrong with Yanyan?"

Holding Dugu Yan, who was like a block of ice, Su Chen could not possibly stand by and watch as her poison flared up.

"Let me try."

Su Chen tried channeling his supremely yang Soul Power into Dugu Yan's body.

In an instant, the supremely yang Soul Power transformed into Golden Crow True Flame, sweeping through Dugu Yan's body under Su Chen's control.

He controlled the flame's temperature. As it tempered her internal organs, the effect was unexpectedly excellent. The incomparably rigid and yang Golden Crow True Flame truly was the nemesis of Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison.

The deathly pallor on Dugu Yan's little face visibly began to regain some color.

"What's going on?"

Sensing the fluctuation of Soul Power, Qin Ming hurried over.

He had initially worn a stern expression, intending to severely reprimand whoever had used Soul Power.

But as soon as he arrived, he saw that Dugu Yan had collapsed unconscious.

He saw Su Chen channeling his Soul Power into Dugu Yan's body.

Qin Ming became somewhat flustered as well. He knew Dugu Yan's background.

She was the granddaughter of Poison Douluo Dugu Bo.

If Dugu Bo found out that his precious granddaughter, Dugu Yan, had been trained into unconsciousness during training,

that old poisoner would not care that he was a teacher at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

As Su Chen helped Dugu Yan suppress the deadly poison, he said:

"Yanyan's health is poor, and her constitution tends toward yin and cold. There's an abnormal energy in her body, like a bone-deep disease. Perhaps it's a stubborn ailment she has carried since childhood."

"Teacher Qin Ming, I'll take Yanyan to rest first. We won't be participating in today's training."

Qin Ming hesitated for a moment. Training was important, but his future was more important. He did not want to train Dugu Yan into ruin and then receive a gut-rupturing, belly-rotting treatment from Dugu Bo.

"Go. Take good care of Dugu Yan. Notify the academy if there are any problems."

Su Chen picked up Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling followed anxiously behind. The three of them left the track together.

Dugu Yan remained unconscious for the entire night. Throughout the night, Su Chen and Ye Lingling took turns caring for her.

The next day, as the sun rose in the east, warm sunlight streamed through the window and fell upon Dugu Yan's little face, which had regained its color.

Her eyelashes fluttered, and then she opened her eyes.

"So comfortable. It's warm inside my body, like there's a little stove in me. Since I was little, I've never felt this comfortable."

Dugu Yan rubbed her eyes and stretched lazily.

Then she was shocked by the changes within her body.

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison that had made her entire body icy cold had been completely stripped away. No Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison remained entrenched in her internal organs.

Dugu Yan turned to look at Su Chen, her large purple eyes filled with excitement and confusion. Tilting her head, she asked hesitantly.

"Xiao Chen, was the... illness inside my body cured by you?"

Su Chen sat beside the bed and nodded with a faint smile.

"That cold energy in your body happened to be restrained by my supremely rigid and yang Soul Power, so I simply helped you strip it away."

Dugu Yan excitedly covered her mouth with her hand.

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison that had plagued her for years had actually been resolved so easily.

"Xiao Chen!"

"Thank you, thank you so much!"

"I really don't know how to express my gratitude. How about I give myself to you? From now on, I'm yours!"

Dugu Yan excitedly hugged Su Chen, her red lips falling on his face like raindrops.

"Calm down! Stop kissing me!"

"You haven't eaten anything since yesterday. Get up and go to the cafeteria for something to eat first, so your body can recover faster."

How could Dugu Yan have any appetite? After getting up, she left the academy.

She could not be selfish. Her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison had been resolved, but her grandfather was still suffering from it.

She had to tell her grandfather the good news. There was a way to solve the snake poison of their Jade Phosphorous Serpent lineage.