The Naive Dugu Yan

"It looked like Dugu Bo and that transmigrator Dugu Jue had protected her too well." Hearing Dugu Yan reveal nearly everything about the people around her in just a few sentences, Lin Yuan could not help but laugh.

After sighing inwardly, he turned serious. "Sorry, but I have never had a habit of entrusting my back to others."

"What would it take for you to turn around? How about I give you an Immortal Herb?" Seemingly afraid that Lin Yuan did not understand the value of Immortal Herbs, Dugu Yan added,

"As long as you're a Soul Master, eating one will immediately transform you. Several people came here claiming they could detoxify my grandfather, but my grandfather and younger brother killed them all because they were trying to swindle Immortal Herbs. I'll give you one, and you leave right away."

It seemed this world truly did not lack fools!

Learning that transmigrators had actually come knocking on their door, Lin Yuan sneered inwardly, though his expression remained unchanged. "Fine."

"Immortal Herbs can't be eaten carelessly. Tell me what your martial soul is, and I'll pick one for you. Once you take the Immortal Herb, leave quickly." Dugu Yan crouched in the pool, not daring to raise her head for a long while.

"A plant-type martial soul." Lin Yuan did not directly reveal his martial soul.

"A plant... then choose this..." As Dugu Yan spoke, she cautiously reached for the Soul Tool beside the pool, took out a jade box over a foot long, then summoned her martial soul and used her snake tail to hook the box and toss it to Lin Yuan.

Looking at the six soul rings on Dugu Yan's body—yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black—and her martial soul that had already evolved into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor, Lin Yuan's mouth twitched.

He did not rashly catch the jade box. Instead, he waved his hand, making it land steadily on the ground, then lifted the lid. Inside lay a large black jade bamboo shoot weighing roughly a pound.

Faint golden currents swirled around the jade shoot's surface. It was clearly an Immortal Herb.

"This is a shoot from the Black Jade Divine Bamboo, the only edible part of the Black Jade Divine Bamboo. Just peel off the skin and eat it, and it'll complete the transformation of your martial soul. All right, I've already given you the item. Leave quickly. If you don't, I'm calling someone."

Dugu Yan urged him anxiously.

"Then I shall take my leave." Lin Yuan raised a hand and drew the large black jade shoot into his grasp, storing it in the storage Soul Tool beneath his black robes.

As for the jade box, although Dugu Yan did not seem malicious, it was still best not to touch it. Being cautious was never wrong.

Lin Yuan flashed onto the wall. Just as he was about to leave, Dugu Yan's voice sounded behind him. "Wait, you haven't told me your name yet."

"Meeting is fate. We'll meet again someday." After saying that, Lin Yuan vanished into the night.

"Then you can at least tell me your age, right?" After all, he was the first man to see her naked. Before her mother and father left to travel the Soul Master world, they had told her that a girl's body could only be seen by her future husband.

So how could Dugu Yan not care?

His voice sounded young, but what if he was an old man?

After several seconds of silence, Lin Yuan's voice came from the darkness again. "Twelve."

"Twelve... the same age as my younger brother?" Dugu Yan crouched down and buried her entire head in the water, leaving only her large, watery eyes exposed.

A moment later, her head had become a steam engine.

After leaving the courtyard, Lin Yuan saw several massive, luxurious buildings outside.

Three sets of clothes—belonging to two men and one woman—hung beside the buildings.

The green armor obviously belonged to Old Poison, the purple dress belonged to Dugu Yan, and the young man's outfit, unsurprisingly, belonged to the transmigrator Dugu Jue.

"It seems only the three grandparents and grandchildren live here. I didn't expect to obtain an Immortal Herb suited to me so easily this time. What a windfall. Still, I should check whether there are other Immortal Herbs."

Among the Immortal Herbs, Lin Yuan cared most about the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot. Tempering his body was secondary; what mattered was that these things would allow him to fear neither spring within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.

That ability would be of great use to him in the future.

When Lin Yuan arrived at the Mandarin Duck Pot, he found its surroundings completely empty.

Only a very small number of roots and seedlings remained exposed.

"They really cleaned the place out. Were they that afraid someone would come steal from them?"

Lin Yuan did not dare delay. He swiftly located the roots of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot at the two ends of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, dug them out, then dug up the most conspicuous plant at the boundary of the Mandarin Duck Pot.

Lin Yuan guessed that this was the Aromatic Silk Beauty.

When he encountered poison-type Soul Masters in the future, it would be enough to serve as a trump card for victory.

As for the seeds of the other Immortal Herbs, Lin Yuan did not touch them. Even if he did, biting off more than he could chew would do him no good.

After all, Lin Yuan did not have that much time to gather Green Liquid to cultivate them.

After finishing everything, Lin Yuan returned to the mountain peak above the Mandarin Duck Pot, picked the direction opposite the one from which he had come, and used Blue Silver Pole Vault once more. He broke free from the poison array and left Sunset Forest overnight.

Meanwhile, after nearly an entire day of searching,

Dugu Jue and Dugu Bo searched dozens, even hundreds, of waterfalls before finally finding the location of the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone and the Seed of Life.

Unfortunately, someone had already beaten them to it.

"Chrysanthemum Pass, and Gui Mei? It's you two?" The ones who had arrived first were none other than Gui Mei and Yue Guan.

Seeing Yue Guan in golden armor with clawed gauntlets covering his hands, and Gui Mei, whose body radiated eerie ghostly energy and whose true appearance could not be seen, guarding the outside of the waterfall, Dugu Bo immediately flew into a rage.

Although Dugu Jue's appearance had allowed him to become a Titled Douluo several years earlier than in the original story, and although Dugu Jue had strongly insisted that he not go to Spirit Hall to receive his title,

he had simply given himself the title Poison.

After failing to recruit him, Spirit Hall had not sent anyone to hunt him down, and the two had not clashed with Dugu Bo.

However, six years ago, after the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect took several Immortal Herbs away,

Yue Guan and Gui Mei secretly infiltrated his herb garden just a few days later.

Although he ultimately drove them away,

the two had formed a grudge with Dugu Bo from then on.

Ever since then, on Dugu Jue's suggestion, Dugu Bo had gathered up all the Immortal Herbs.

Following the principle that the most dangerous place was the safest place,

they stored them in Dugu Yan's Soul Tool.

Even when several petty thieves sneaked in while he was away, they found nothing.

He killed them all as well.

After that, the Immortal Herbs were never stolen again.

"Old Poison? Why are you here?"

Upon seeing Dugu Bo, Chrysanthemum Pass felt more fear than shock.

Gui Mei, meanwhile, wore a grave expression.

After all, Dugu Bo was no longer the man he had once been.

Even among Spirit Hall's worshippers, his strength would rank near the top.

The last time, he had beaten the two of them so badly that they fled in disarray.

He had already left them with psychological scars.

It would be stranger if they were not afraid.

"Cut the nonsense, Chrysanthemum Pass. If you know what's good for you, hand over what's inside. Otherwise, don't blame this old man for showing no mercy."

Dugu Bo said coldly.