I, Yu Xiaogang, Raised a God!

Dugu Bo was a little dumbfounded himself. He had actually made the list.

A moment ago, he had been showing off, convinced this ranking of tragic lives had nothing to do with him.

He hadn't expected the slap in the face to come so quickly.

He had actually made the list!

And it was being broadcast across the entire continent!

Beside him, Xue Beng stared at Dugu Bo's name on the list, first stunned, then secretly delighted.

Dugu Bo was on his side, after all!

Making the list meant a generous reward. If Dugu Bo grew stronger, Xue Beng's trump card in the struggle for the throne would grow stronger too!

His eyes shone. He could only hope the reward would be powerful enough to defy the heavens!

Then he could bask in a little of its glory himself!

At the Imperial Heaven Dou Academy's Martial Arts Arena.

Dugu Yan was sparring with Yu Tianheng.

When the three characters for "Dugu Bo" appeared on the screen in the sky,

Dugu Yan froze.

"Has Grandpa still not let it go? Is he still worrying about me?"

She didn't need to think to know what had put her grandfather on the list: the Dugu Family's curse, which clung to them like a maggot burrowing into bone.

Yu Tianheng hurried to comfort her:

"Yan Yan, I'm sure your grandfather will be fine."

"Maybe this will give him a chance to obtain some divine treasure and become even stronger."

Eyes reddening, Dugu Yan nodded firmly.

[Poison Douluo Dugu Bo. Martial Soul: Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor. Level 91 Titled Douluo. Possessor of the Medusa Skull.]

[The Dugu Family's power came at a terrible price.]

[Generation after generation, the Dugu Family had struggled in the venom of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.]

[Once the poison stained their eyes and hair, it invaded their organs. The day it reached its peak was the day a Dugu Family Soul Master died.]

[Dugu Bo was no exception. From birth, he had been steeped in deadly poison.]

[He trained desperately to slow its spread. Only by becoming a Titled Douluo could he have a chance to live.]

[At thirty-five, he became a level 59 Soul King.]

[By then, the poison had long since stained his hair and eyes.]

[His wife died in childbirth, poisoned herself; his son, Dugu Xin, had been poisoned in the womb and was born with a full head of green hair!]

[Holding his son, a young Dugu Bo swore, "Xin'er, once I become a Titled Douluo, we'll be saved!"]

[But fate was always full of cruel turns.]

[On the very day Dugu Bo broke through to Titled Douluo, his son died when the poison erupted. Dugu Bo did not even have time to help him!]

[That day, clutching his son's body, Dugu Bo wept until he was a man made of tears!]

[He had mastered the most formidable poison arts under heaven, yet he could not protect his own son.]

Set against mournful music, the image of Dugu Bo sobbing his heart out

made everyone across the continent feel the pain in his heart.

For all his power, he had watched the people closest to him slip away, one by one.

People said Dugu Bo was neither righteous nor wicked, and not quite right in the head!

After enduring grief like that, who could have remained normal?

At the sight, tears streamed down Dugu Yan's face.

Back then, her grandfather had been trapped by the power of his breakthrough to Titled Douluo. He could not pull away in time.

If he had forced it to stop, even he would have exploded and died!

But she had been too young to understand. She had cried and made a scene, even blaming him for standing by while her father died!

Now she saw that her grandfather had been the one grieving most.

She turned to Yu Tianheng, her face wet with tears, and choked out:

"I want to see Grandpa."

Yu Tianheng nodded, his heart aching for her.

Meanwhile, Poison Douluo watched the screen in the sky.

He gripped his teacup tightly, forcing himself to appear calm.

Why?

Why did that screen have to tear open those painful memories for everyone to see?

He snorted coldly.

However deep his pain, his pride as a Titled Douluo demanded that he maintain a powerful man's dignity before Xue Xing and Xue Beng.

Beside him, Xue Xing and Xue Beng exchanged a glance. Alongside their sympathy for the powerful man, calculation stirred in their minds.

Who would have thought the fearsome Poison Douluo had such a painful weakness?

Perhaps they could use Dugu Yan, his sole surviving blood relative, to bind him even tighter to the royal family's chariot!

Elsewhere, at Shrek Academy.

Yu Xiaogang watched the images on the screen without a shred of sympathy. He sneered:

"Serves him right. He threw his weight around, and this is what he gets for playing with poison."

Liu Erlong found his words rather harsh.

To her, Poison Douluo might have been neither righteous nor wicked, but when it came to the people he loved, he was a real man.

She couldn't help silently comparing Yu Xiaogang, who had avoided his feelings for years, with the weeping Dugu Bo.

For a moment, she even felt Xiaogang fell short of Dugu Bo.

She hurriedly pushed the thought away.

Nearby, Tang San was surprised by the scene too.

He had never imagined that imposing Titled Douluo had lived through something like this.

Hidden in the shadows, Tang Hao stared coldly at the screen, his heart filled with haughty disdain:

Hmph. His wife died of illness? His son died from poison?

What was any of that beside my blood-deep hatred for Spirit Hall, which hunted me across the continent and forced me to watch Ah Yin sacrifice herself?

If Dugu Bo ranks ninth, I, Tang Hao, must at least be in the top three!

He wanted to see what reward ninth-ranked Dugu Bo would receive.

At Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong immediately seized on the information the screen had revealed:

Dugu Bo possessed an extraordinarily precious Head Soul Bone—and it was the Medusa Skull!

"Heh. Lucky old man. And now he's exposed a trump card like that."

Bibi Dong gave a cold laugh. Killing intent had already taken root in her heart:

Next time, I'll send people to surround and kill that old poisoner, then take the skull!

Standing nearby, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan raised a hand with his fingers delicately curled and said in a lilting voice:

"Oh my, that old poisoner really has had a hard life."

"I'll go a little easier on him next time we meet."

By the lake at the Imperial Heaven Dou Academy.

Phainon baited his fishhook

and remarked:

"That old poisoner has had it rough, but putting everything else aside, the old man's got style."

Qian Renxue glanced at him, surprise flashing through her eyes.

That was what Phainon took from all this?

Dugu Bo was best known for his poison, after all.

Most people would have been afraid of him.

But Phainon? He was leisurely judging whether the man had style?

Qian Renxue's mind raced as she filled in the blanks:

Of course! Only someone far stronger than Poison Douluo, someone utterly unafraid of poison at that level, could be so calm about it!

Brother Phainon really is a peerless powerhouse hiding his strength!

After reaching that conclusion,

Qian Renxue's desire to win Phainon over grew even stronger.

Dugu Bo's story was moving, but to her in the guise of Xue Qinghe, he was Xue Beng's backer—and her greatest potential opponent!

[That year, Dugu Bo was seventy. After a lifetime of hardship, only one granddaughter remained at his side.]

[Yet that sole granddaughter had also inherited the serpent venom that was their fate!]

[Whenever the sky turned overcast and rain fell, an itching numbness gripped her ribs; late at night, needle-like pain stabbed through the crown of her head and the soles of her feet, and her whole body convulsed...]

[Later, Dugu Bo hunted down Tang San, a child of fortune.]

[But to his utter surprise, with death before him, Tang San swore he could completely purge the poison from both grandfather and granddaughter!]

[And because of that cure, the two went from enemies to friends. A mighty Titled Douluo and a young boy formed a friendship that spanned generations.]

As the screen continued to unfold, Dugu Yan was stunned!

There really was a way to purge the poison!

But then she stamped her foot in frustration:

"What kind of lousy screen is this? Why won't it show the whole cure? It's dangling it in front of us on purpose!"

She pushed open the VIP room door.

Dugu Bo was delighted to see his granddaughter.

But he spoke to her somewhat awkwardly:

"Grandpa humiliated Tang San and the others just this morning. Just like the screen showed, I was planning to hunt him down afterward."

To Dugu Bo, this was damned embarrassing!

He had been going to kill the boy, only to end up needing him to save his life?

The boy had him pinned down from beginning to end!

Hearing this, Dugu Yan hurriedly said:

"Grandpa, forget about saving face! The screen already spoiled it—you two end up friends despite the difference in your ages!"

"For the future of the Dugu Family, what does a little embarrassment matter if we can get the cure?"

Meanwhile, Prince Xue Xing's expression was as complicated as if he had swallowed a fly.

If Tang San saved Dugu Bo, wouldn't Dugu Bo owe Tang San his life?

But Xue Xing could not afford to lose Dugu Bo's support.

Gritting his teeth, he promptly raised the stakes:

"If necessary, I'll take Xue Beng with me and apologize to Tang San in person."

Xue Beng fumed inwardly: Damn it. I'm a prince, and I have to beg some country commoner?

He had just given Tang San and the others a dressing-down.

Then the screen revealed this, and he turned out to be the clown?

The tables had turned completely!

[Afterward, Tang San obtained Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, one of the three great treasure troves, laying the foundation for his future ascension as the Sea God and the Asura God.]

[Once Dugu Bo was fully cured, the bottleneck that had held him back for years shattered, and his Soul Power rose straight to level 92!]

[Years later, during the battle against the Spirit Hall Empire at Jialing Pass, Dugu Bo used his wide-ranging poison attacks to sway the course of the battle single-handedly!]

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Those few brief scenes nearly made countless people stop breathing.

This was earth-shaking news!

The entire continent erupted!

Soul Masters everywhere trembled.

Spirit Hall had founded an empire?

What about the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire?

Did Spirit Hall truly intend to swallow the world?

And there were the Immortal Herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!

What kind of divine treasure could lay the foundation for someone to become a god?

The screen had spelled it out plainly: that boy Tang San would not only become a god, but would attain Dual Godhood as both the Sea God and the Asura God!

What kind of heaven-defying child of fortune was he?

In an instant, the whole continent went wild!

High above, in the Divine Realm.

The Sea God and the Asura God were dumbfounded too.

We both chose the same successor?

At Shrek Academy.

When Yu Xiaogang saw the last revelation on the screen, he burst out laughing:

"Hahahaha! I, Yu Xiaogang, raised a god—and one with Dual Godhood!"