Dugu Yan vs. Tang Feng!

Tang Feng's spiritual power followed the vines into her body.

"Better than yesterday."

"That's because I cooperated."

"You didn't break free yesterday either."

"I didn't want to affect your treatment."

"I know."

Dugu Yan froze.

She had thought Tang Feng would keep arguing, but he unexpectedly admitted it outright.

After those calm words fell, she did not know how to respond.

Ye Lingling stood nearby, watching the two of them.

Dugu Yan's wrist was held suspended by the vines.

Tang Feng stood before her, much closer than he had been on the first day.

Dugu Yan's once-arrogant expression had already softened.

She occasionally looked at Tang Feng, her gaze lingering for a moment before quickly shifting away.

When the treatment ended, Tang Feng prepared to withdraw the vines.

Dugu Yan suddenly spoke.

"Wait."

"Is there anywhere else that hurts?"

"No."

"Then let go."

Dugu Yan lowered her head to look at the vines wrapped around her wrist.

"I just wanted to ask, what exactly is this martial soul of yours?"

"Blue Silver Emperor."

"A Blue Silver Emperor can carry poison?"

"Mine is different."

"Both your left and right hands are different?"

"You saw it."

"You really aren't planning to explain?"

"When your grandfather arrives, ask him."

Dugu Yan looked up.

"You're so sure he'll come?"

"You've already sent him a message."

"You were the one who told me to send it."

"So he'll come."

Dugu Yan pursed her lips.

"What if my grandfather doesn't come?"

"Then I'll keep suppressing it."

"You'll keep treating me?"

"You pay me."

"I don't have any money."

"Then put it on the tab."

"Until when?"

Tang Feng withdrew the Ruination Blue Silver Emperor.

"Until your grandfather comes."

Dugu Yan watched him turn and leave.

"Tang Feng."

"Hmm?"

"If my grandfather comes, don't talk nonsense."

"What would I say?"

"Don't say you bullied me."

"Wasn't that what you spread around?"

Dugu Yan's face immediately turned red.

"That was to lure Grandpa here."

"I know."

"You know, yet you keep bringing it up?"

"Because you explain it every time."

Dugu Yan stood there without speaking for a long while.

Ye Lingling passed by her.

"Yanyan, your face is red again."

"Lingling!"

The third day ended.

The setting sun sank into the academy courtyard.

Dugu Yan stood beside a stone table, raising her hand to stretch her shoulders and neck.

The pain that had appeared every night in the past had completely vanished.

She circulated her Soul Power.

Jade-green light flowed through her body without bringing any stabbing pain.

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul appeared behind her.

The serpent phantom coiled around her, its poisonous mist lingering only across the surface of her body instead of continuing into her meridians.

Dugu Yan lowered her head and looked at her palm.

It had been a long time since she had been able to circulate her Soul Power so easily.

"Tang Feng."

Tang Feng, who was tidying the herb garden, turned around.

"What is it?"

"Fight me."

Tang Feng looked at her.

"Why?"

"I want to see how strong you really are."

"You've only just recovered."

"It's only a spar."

"You use poison."

"I'll control the range."

Tang Feng did not agree immediately.

His gaze fell on Ye Lingling.

Ye Lingling was watering the herbs. Upon hearing their conversation, she raised her head.

Tang Feng spoke.

"The two of you together."

Dugu Yan's expression changed at once.

"I'm enough on my own."

"The poison in your body hasn't been completely cured."

"I just want to test your control."

"Ye Lingling will handle the healing."

"I don't need her help."

"Then don't fight."

Dugu Yan looked at his calm face.

Ye Lingling set down the watering can and walked between them.

"Yanyan, Tang Feng is right."

"You've only just recovered. You can't drag this out too long."

Dugu Yan raised a hand and pointed at Tang Feng.

"You're looking down on me?"

"No."

"Then why are you asking Lingling to join me?"

"Because the two of you together will put more pressure on me."

Dugu Yan was left speechless by those words.

She drew a deep breath as jade-green light spread through her body again.

"Fine."

"Then let me show you the coordination between the two of us."

Ye Lingling put away the Nine-Hearted Begonia and walked toward the open space in the courtyard.

Dugu Yan followed close behind.

She stood beside Ye Lingling, her jade-green hair falling to her waist.

"Tang Feng, when you lose later, don't say we bullied the new junior."

Tang Feng raised his left hand.

Dark-blue light glowed in his palm.

The vines of the Ruination Blue Silver Emperor slowly spread across the ground.

"Come at me together."

Dugu Yan immediately bristled.

Two yellow Spirit Rings rose beneath her feet at the same time.

The jade-green serpent phantom bared its fangs behind her.

"Then let's begin."

The open space in the courtyard.

Two yellow Spirit Rings slowly revolved beneath Dugu Yan's feet.

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent completed its possession.

Her jade-green eyes narrowed into slits. She pressed her legs together and lowered her waist slightly.

Fine snake scales emerged along her arms.

Poisonous mist spread from her side, and several nearby flowers and plants rapidly withered yellow.

Ye Lingling stood more than ten meters away.

Her white academy uniform clung to her slender figure, while her blue hair fell behind her shoulders.

The Nine-Hearted Begonia bloomed in her palm.

Two yellow Spirit Rings rose at once.

Dugu Yan raised her right hand.

"Tang Feng, I won't hold back."

Tang Feng stood on the other side of the courtyard.

Dark-blue vines curled around his feet, fine serrations spreading along the edges of the grass.

"Begin."

Dugu Yan's first Spirit Ring suddenly lit up.

"First Soul Skill!"

"Jade Phosphorous Red Poison!"

Pale-red poisonous mist merged into her body.

Her aura immediately surged.

With a twist of her waist, she charged swiftly toward Tang Feng.

The distance between them rapidly shrank.

Dugu Yan raised her palm.

A large mass of jade-green poisonous mist burst from her palm, covering the center of the courtyard in an instant.

The poisonous mist spread across the ground.

Wherever it passed, grass and plants withered, while large green stains appeared across the stone slabs.

Tang Feng raised his left hand.

The Ruination Blue Silver Emperor rapidly grew.

Dozens of dark-blue vines shot from the ground, weaving into a wall before him.

The poisonous mist crashed into the vine wall.

Sizzle!

The jade-green serpent venom continuously corroded the vines.

Tiny holes appeared across the surfaces of the grass leaves.

Seeing this, Dugu Yan sped up again.

"Even your Blue Silver Grass can't stop my poison."

She passed through the toxic mist.

Her emerald-green hair streamed behind her.

Her palm, covered in snake scales, avoided the frontal wall of vines and struck at Tang Feng's shoulder from the side.

Tang Feng shifted sideways.

A Destruction Vine swept out along the ground.

Dugu Yan raised her leg and stepped over the vine.

Her waist twisted in midair, and her other long leg kicked toward Tang Feng's chest.

Tang Feng did not retreat.

More vines grew from the cracks between the stone slabs.

Two vines blocked Dugu Yan's lower leg.

Three others coiled toward her waist and wrists from different directions.

Dugu Yan turned her arm.

Thick toxic mist covered the surface of the vines.

The serrated grass leaves rapidly turned green.

Using the vines for support, she landed. The instant her toes touched the stone slabs, she pulled back to widen the distance.

Tang Feng glanced at the vines that had turned green.

Dark purple patterns slowly lit up.

The Jade Phosphorous Serpent Venom that had invaded the vines was immediately broken down by the power of destruction.

The green traces quickly vanished.

The broken grass leaves grew back.

Dugu Yan stopped.

"You can directly devour even snake venom?"