Dugu Bo's Submission, in Two Words: "Follow Your Heart"! Why Is There NTR Too?

That was like kicking cotton!

There he was.

Dugu Bo, who just a second ago had been brimming with murderous intent, ready to unleash a slaughter.

Now looked as though someone had clamped a hand tightly around his throat.

Strange choking rattles rose from his throat.

"How... how is this possible?!!!"

His eyes went perfectly round as he stared in disbelief at the red-haired woman before him.

Thud!

Without a moment's hesitation, Dugu Bo slid straight onto his knees.

Fast, precise, and decisive!

"My lady, I'm sorry!" he cried.

As for why...

That question had to be directed at what the woman before Dugu Bo had just done.

As Dugu Bo unleashed his soul power pressure without hesitation.

Leng Yaozhu gave a soft, disdainful laugh and extended her delicate, fair-skinned hand.

Snap!

She snapped her fingers.

As that snap rang out.

Screee!

A clear, ringing phoenix cry echoed through the forest.

A pair of crimson wings slowly unfurled behind Leng Yaozhu.

One, two, three... a full nine soul rings slowly rose from beneath Leng Yaozhu's feet.

They circled her body in a perfectly ordered formation.

Six black, three red!

Those three red soul rings, each representing the hundred-thousand-year level.

Radiated a suffocating, blood-colored light, illuminating the entire forest like an Asura hell.

A pressure so terrifying that words could not describe it.

Like a bottomless abyss, it bore down on Dugu Bo without restraint.

Before that power.

The poison and soul power Dugu Bo took such pride in were instantly suppressed completely.

At that moment, he was like a tiny skiff tossed violently upon a sea of howling storms and towering waves.

He could be smashed to pieces at any moment.

And Leng Yaozhu was that unfathomable ocean, reigning over everything!

That was the gulf between an ordinary Titled Douluo and a Limit Douluo.

Moreover, Leng Yaozhu was no ordinary Limit Douluo.

In the era of Douluo III, twenty thousand years later, she was one of the ten demigods whose might shook the entire Federation.

Never mind a mere rank-ninety-one Dugu Bo.

Even if they brought over Qian Daoliu of the Spirit Hall, the man said to be invincible in the skies, to face Leng Yaozhu.

He would have been reduced to taking a one-sided beating.

The gap between those two eras lay not merely in their systems of soul power cultivation.

There was also four-word Battle Armor, which could make one plus one greater than two.

"My lady, this humble one is Dugu Bo. My martial soul is the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor. I am a rank-ninety-one Titled Douluo, with the title Poison."

"I currently serve as a retainer under Prince Xue Xing of the Heaven Dou Empire."

"I'll hand over everything valuable I have right away. If it isn't enough, I can return to the Heaven Dou Empire immediately to fetch more for you!"

Dugu Bo's will to survive reached its peak at that moment.

He laid his entire background bare, even throwing away his dignity.

His meaning was already obvious: he, Dugu Bo, wanted to submit.

He had stayed by Xue Xing's side because of a debt of gratitude from the past.

Now, he had a better choice!

Throughout his life, Dugu Bo had followed just two words: "follow your heart"!

What else could he do?

He could neither beat her nor escape.

If he died here today, Yanyan would be left all alone.

With all the enemies he had made over the years, Yanyan would never live to see tomorrow!

Even if he did not care about his own old life, he had to secure a way for his granddaughter to survive.

If he knelt quickly enough, and did it well enough.

Perhaps Dugu Yan could ride the coattails of a mighty figure like Leng Yaozhu.

Even if that did not work, the little boy beside Leng Yaozhu looked promising to him too.

Yanyan could become childhood sweethearts with the boy, or they could even arrange a childhood betrothal.

Then, even if his own poison eventually backfired and killed him, he would have no lingering worries about Dugu Yan.

Leng Yaozhu had never expected Dugu Bo to be such a coward.

"Heh, you certainly know what's good for you!"

Leng Yaozhu withdrew her pressure.

The crimson wings behind her dissolved into flecks of fire.

She casually extended a fair, jade-like hand and curled it upward, signaling for him to hand over his belongings.

Dugu Bo felt as though he had been granted a pardon and did not hesitate in the slightest.

He immediately held out his Storage Soul Tool with both hands, presenting it with utmost respect.

Everything valuable he owned was inside.

After paying his protection money.

Dugu Bo pulled Dugu Yan in front of him from where she stood behind him, still utterly bewildered and unaware of what was happening.

"Come, Yanyan, greet this lady!"

He wanted Dugu Yan to show her face before Leng Yaozhu and leave a stronger impression.

Leng Yaozhu looked over the rather cute little girl before her, with her short, pale-purple hair.

Leng Yaozhu quietly asked Lu Xuan beside her, "This girl is quite pretty. Little Xuan, would you like her to follow you?"

Leng Yaozhu had her own calculations too.

As the illustrious Heavenly Phoenix Douluo, she could hardly keep doing the work of an entire faction all by herself.

Wouldn't that make her a beast of burden?

She needed to recruit some subordinates too.

And Dugu Bo was reasonably acceptable.

He also had some influence behind him.

When the time came, she could simply leave all the dirty, exhausting work of running errands and finding things to Dugu Bo and his people.

She could stay peacefully by Lu Xuan's side and focus on being his guardian.

Lu Xuan looked Dugu Yan up and down, then nodded in satisfaction. "Sure. I happen to need a sparring partner for actual combat!"

Having Leng Yaozhu beside him was already enough.

But Leng Yaozhu was far too powerful to make a suitable sparring partner.

Dugu Yan's strength was closer to his, and a punching bag he could spar with without holding back was important.

Hearing Lu Xuan agree, Dugu Bo was overjoyed. He immediately seized the opening and spoke with a face full of flattery:

"My lady, young master! This humble one also has an excellent hidden cultivation sanctuary deep within the Sunset Forest!"

"The natural energy there is exceptionally abundant, and countless rare medicinal herbs that have vanished from the outside world grow there. I'll take you both there right away!"

"Oh? Lead the way." Leng Yaozhu nodded slightly, a trace of amusement flashing in her eyes.

Of course she knew what that place was.

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!

A sanctuary she had heard of but never seen.

In her era, it was an absolutely vital sanctuary that the Tang Sect guarded jealously as its exclusive possession.

She wanted to see just what was so remarkable about the sanctuary the Tang Sect had always kept hidden!

Now.

She had merely changed eras.

And she could freely enter and leave this place the Tang Sect treasured so dearly!

Tang Sect: "No, not this! Why is there an NTR plot too?!"

Under Dugu Bo's guidance.

The group easily passed through the outer poison formation Dugu Bo had personally laid down.

As the poisonous mist before them cleared, their view suddenly opened up.

Even the widely experienced Leng Yaozhu could not help holding her breath when she saw the scene before her.

There.

At the very center of the valley, a strange hot spring flowed quietly.

The hot spring was not particularly large.

Yet it was divided into two sharply distinct halves.

One half consisted of milky-white spring water radiating an ultimate cold that could freeze even the soul.

The other half consisted of vermilion spring water radiating an ultimate heat that seemed capable of burning all things to ash.

White and red.

Ice and fire.

Two utterly opposing extremes of energy achieved an inconceivable fusion here.

Together, they formed a yin-yang diagram.

And all across the valley's cliff faces and floor.

Thanks to the energy emanating from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Exotic flowers and unusual herbs grew in dense profusion, radiating precious glimmers of every color.