At the same time.
In the Heaven Dou Empire.
In Heaven Dou City.
At Dugu Manor.
The sun stood high in the sky.
Sunlight spilled across the vast courtyard.
Yet it could not dispel the mourning white that filled the grounds, nor the deathly silence and cold.
A breeze blew past.
The white mourning banners in the courtyard rustled.
Dugu Bo, still only a Soul Douluo, stood before the main gates with his hands behind his back, watching the long funeral procession slowly leave the city, his expression utterly grim.
Deep in his eyes.
There was nothing but sorrow he could no longer suppress.
He had always preferred living in Sunset Forest, where the surroundings were better suited to suppressing the poison within his body.
But today, he had no choice but to enter Heaven Dou City.
To see his daughter-in-law off on her final journey.
Yes.
Dugu Xin's wife had died!
Half a year earlier, Dugu Xin had taken his wife to the Star Dou Great Forest, hoping to find some exceedingly rare medicinal herbs to suppress the increasingly rampant poison within them both.
This was, in fact, the fate of Soul Masters with the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor martial soul.
For Soul Masters who possessed the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor martial soul.
Once they began cultivating, the poison would erupt from the depths of their martial soul and turn against their own bodies.
Dugu Bo and his son, Dugu Xin, could at least use their Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor martial souls to suppress it to some extent.
But Dugu Xin's wife could not.
Her martial soul was merely an ordinary tool martial soul.
It could not withstand the relentless erosion of the jade phosphorous serpent poison, day and night.
After they returned from the Star Dou Great Forest,