Dugu Bo

With two previous experiences under his belt, Lu Shiyuan began absorbing his second Soul Ring with practiced ease.

This time, the situation was just as perilous, but he had experience dealing with it now, making it considerably safer than the previous two times.

After a full day and night, a deep-purple Soul Ring appeared beside him.

Feeling the successive breakthroughs coming from within the tent, Xiao Feiyu knew that Lu Shiyuan had succeeded.

Xiao Wu hurried back from outside, tossing all the firewood in her arms onto the ground.

"Feiyu, did Brother succeed?"

"Yes. Judging from this aura, I think Xiao Yuan's second Soul Ring has reached six thousand years."

As soon as she finished speaking, Lu Shiyuan lifted the tent flap and walked out with a smile. "Feiyu, you're incredible. My second Soul Ring really is six thousand years old."

His second Soul Skill was called [Void Rift]. Its effect was to tear through space and create three spatial rifts. Each rift could deal 100% physical damage to an enemy while inflicting an additional 5% Soul Power drain per second. Each rift could last no longer than five seconds.

Don't think this skill was weak just because it lacked mental attacks and slowing effects. The locations where the three spatial rifts appeared were entirely under Lu Shiyuan's control.

In other words, compared to the obvious attack trajectory of Time Blade Pierce, Void Rift was virtually impossible to guard against.

Perhaps an enemy would be celebrating having just dodged a lethal attack, only to step into a spatial rift Lu Shiyuan had prepared in advance the very next second.

Zero startup frames. Let's see how you dodge that.

"Not a bad Soul Skill." Xiao Feiyu was delighted. Xiao Yuan had taken another solid step down the path of becoming stronger. "What level is your Soul Power now?"

"Level 24. I diverted part of the Soul Power to increase the age of my Soul Bone."

Lu Shiyuan had already been at level 20 for three months. Combined with the boost from a six-thousand-year Soul Ring, the total increase was definitely far greater than four levels.

Yet he still kept his level under control and did not raise it too quickly.

He transferred all the excess Soul Power into his Soul Bone. Its age was now close to twenty-five thousand years.

The three of them were all quite satisfied with this trip to Sunset Forest.

"Xiao Yuan, rest for another day. We'll head back tomorrow," Xiao Feiyu suggested.

Lu Shiyuan nodded. His task was complete anyway, so it did not matter when they returned.

Who would want to camp out in the woods when they had a perfectly good villa to stay in?

Seeing Lu Shiyuan agree, Xiao Feiyu was just about to start cooking when her beautiful brows abruptly rose.

"Who's there?!"

The surroundings were deathly silent. Lu Shiyuan and Xiao Wu said nothing, merely circulating their Soul Power to its limit.

They both trusted Xiao Feiyu. Since she had said so, there had to be something nearby!

Soon, a green-haired old man emerged from the woods with a girl in tow.

Lu Shiyuan froze for a moment. It seemed his luck was pretty good.

This green-haired old man should be Dugu Bo, while the girl who looked only a few years older than him should be Dugu Yan.

Dugu Bo felt miserable. He had only wanted to take his granddaughter home, yet he had unexpectedly encountered a Titled Douluo here.

And the aura emanating from her was far stronger than his own.

Dugu Bo's one-on-one combat ability had always been absurdly weak. Among all the known Titled Douluo, there was not a single one he could defeat in a duel.

Dugu Bo's true strength lay in his poison. His toxins, said to kill anyone below the rank of Titled Douluo upon contact, could clear out a large area at once.

But Dugu Yan was here too. He could hardly grit his teeth and poison his own granddaughter along with everyone else.

After thinking it over, he adopted a very humble posture.

"Your Excellency, I am merely passing through and mean no harm."

Wariness still lingered in Xiao Feiyu's eyes, though she was no longer as tense as before.

Lu Shiyuan was wondering how to get close to Dugu Bo in order to obtain clues about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well when Xiao Feiyu spoke.

"Leave this place, or I will..." Before she could finish, Lu Shiyuan grabbed her hand.

A smile flashed through Xiao Feiyu's eyes, though she frowned on the surface and bent down to listen as Lu Shiyuan whispered a few words to her.

Then, feigning surprise, she asked in a voice just loud enough for Dugu Bo and his granddaughter to hear, "You want to help them remove their poison?"

Now that was what you called a born actor.

Xiao Feiyu played along flawlessly, so flawlessly that even Lu Shiyuan failed to notice anything unusual.

Dugu Bo had initially breathed a sigh of relief. Especially when he heard that the other side bore no ill will and merely wanted him to leave with his granddaughter, he had felt that he had encountered good people today.

Who could have expected Lu Shiyuan to say that he could remove the poison afflicting both him and his granddaughter?

He quickly stepped forward twice and was just about to speak when Xiao Feiyu released her Martial Soul without hesitation.

How could Xiao Feiyu not know what kind of person Dugu Bo was? Though he possessed a somewhat unyielding pride, he did not treat anyone of lower status or standing as human at all.

If they did not give him a small shock, there would be no way to proceed afterward.

There was an advantage to dealing with people like him: as long as you displayed sufficient strength, whether negotiating cooperation or making demands afterward, he would agree readily enough.

A powerful aura instantly flooded the area. Dugu Bo's pupils contracted sharply, and Xiao Feiyu's Soul Ring configuration left him nearly speechless.

"Yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black, red?"

What the hell kind of Soul Ring configuration was that?

Why was her second Soul Ring already a Thousand-Year Soul Ring, and her fourth Soul Ring already a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring?

Even more terrifyingly, her ninth Soul Ring was a blood-red Soul Ring!

That was the mark of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

As a Titled Douluo, there was no way Dugu Bo would not know something that even ordinary Soul Masters knew.

He understood better than anyone the common knowledge that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would definitely drop a Soul Bone.

In other words, this formidable Titled Douluo before him not only possessed a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring, but also had at least one Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone on her body.

As for her remaining slots, even if they were not Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, she had to possess several Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, right?

As the weakest Titled Douluo, how many Soul Bones did Dugu Bo have?

The answer was zero.

If they started fighting, even if they were at the same level, this woman could beat him into dried snake in no time.

Not to mention that the terrifying aura erupting from her made her, at the very least, a Super Douluo.

Dugu Bo withdrew the foot he had just stepped forward with. While resisting the aura Xiao Feiyu had unleashed, he anxiously explained, "Please calm your anger, Your Excellency. I had no intention of harming this young man. It is simply a matter of life and death for my granddaughter and me, so I was somewhat anxious!"