When Ling Yuan Douluo came to find him, Chen Zhuo already knew what Qian Daoliu was plotting.
Therefore, he did not stand on ceremony with Ling Yuan Douluo at all.
The reason why this woman was now so docile around him relied entirely on Chen Zhuo "subduing her with fists," directly beating her into submission.
"Understood, Young Lord. The carriage is ready, and we can set off at any time."
Ling Yuan Douluo no longer dared to show any arrogant attitude toward Chen Zhuo.
"I'll give you a choice: either follow me."
"Or I'll kill you right now and say Ghost Douluo did it. How does that sound?"
She would never forget the night she first met Chen Zhuo, when the other party vanished into thin air right before her eyes.
She used her tier-four Spirit Abyss Realm spiritual power to scan her surroundings, yet could not find a trace of Chen Zhuo's figure anywhere.
Then, she discovered that her body could no longer move.
When she woke up, she found Chen Zhuo stroking her face.
Her neck felt ice-cold, with a living creature crawling upon it.
Ling Yuan Douluo had no doubt that if she failed to read the room, this lunatic in front of her would genuinely dare to kill her right inside Spirit City.
To save her life, she could only take a venomous oath, pledging allegiance to Chen Zhuo as her master and promising to serve him alone.
"Very good."
Chen Zhuo offered a word of praise to Ling Yuan Douluo.
He had to thank Qian Daoliu for sending him a Titled Douluo of young age and decent natural talent to act as a bodyguard.
As long as he was willing to put in the effort to train her, it would not be a difficult task to let Ling Yuan become a Super Douluo in a few years.
With such a Titled Douluo acting as a bodyguard, naturally no twists or turns occurred along the way.
The two of them successfully returned to Heaven Dou City.
Dugu Manor.
"Should I kill her?"
This was the first thing Dugu Bo said to Chen Zhuo upon seeing Ling Yuan Douluo.
Ling Yuan Douluo said nothing out loud, but her heart was screaming in speechlessness.
She thought to herself, What is the weakest Titled Douluo in history acting so wildly for?
As a result, upon sensing the soul power fluctuations of a Super Douluo radiating from Dugu Bo, Ling Yuan Douluo completely lost her temper.
No, it was not as though she had been in seclusion for several years.
How could the world have become so unfamiliar to her after she attained her Titled status?
First, she had inexplicably received a secret mission from the Worship Hall.
They wanted her to protect some minor soul king junior.
As a result, in the blink of an eye, her precious little life was pinched between the fingers of a soul king she had previously looked down upon.
Now, even the universally acknowledged most useless Titled Douluo had become a Super Douluo.
"Oh, the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny are back?"
Dugu Bo grabbed the main points and reported several matters that had occurred in Heaven Dou over the past few months to Chen Zhuo.
"Benefactor, we have not failed our mission!"
The Dragon Duke and Snake Granny had returned from overseas, bringing back good news.
"What happened to your face?"
Chen Zhuo noticed an extra, ferocious scar on Snake Granny's face.
"We ran into a tough opponent in Vast Sea City."
"Who would have thought a level-92 sea soul master would possess three soul bones on them?"
Snake Granny laughed at herself self-deprecatingly, "I can only blame us for our inferior skills."
The Dragon Duke took out three soul bones from his Storage Soul Tool, harvested from the city lord of Vast Sea City.
A thirty-thousand-year Vast Sea Berserk Whale Left Leg Bone.
A fifty-thousand-year Demon Octopus Left Arm Bone.
The first two soul bones were nothing special; Chen Zhuo had seen plenty of ten-thousand-year soul bones and did not find them novel.
Then he looked at the third soul bone.
Even Chen Zhuo could not help but narrow his eyes at that section of torso bone swirling with molten lava and frost.
A Hundred Thousand Year Nine-Section Dragonfish Torso Bone!
At this point, Chen Zhuo finally understood why Snake Granny had suffered such severe injuries.
"Please accept these, Benefactor."
This was a decision made jointly by the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny.
Especially when Meng Yiran told them that Chen Zhuo had gifted her a head soul bone, the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny felt even more strongly that their Meng family could never repay Chen Zhuo's kindness.
"These are your own spoils of war. What reason is there to give them to me?"
To be honest, Chen Zhuo was somewhat tempted by that ten-thousand-year torso bone possessing both water and fire attributes.
At the same time, however, this soul bone was also extremely suitable for Meng Yiran.
He had no reason, nor any desire, to take what others loved.
The Dragon Duke and Snake Granny wanted to say more, but Chen Zhuo stopped them.
"I'll distribute them like this. You have no objections, right?"
Chen Zhuo directly shoved that Hundred Thousand Year Nine-Section Dragonfish Torso Bone into Meng Yiran's arms.
The remaining two ten-thousand-year soul bones were handed over to the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny.
Seeing Chen Zhuo's expression turn stern, the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny knew they could not win against their benefactor and could only put the soul bones away with shame-faced expressions.
"This is the whale rubber collected this time."
"There are over five hundred pieces exceeding ten thousand years in age."
"There are more than twenty thousand pieces of whale rubber above five thousand years."
The Dragon Duke and Snake Granny began reporting the progress of the whale rubber trade and their achievements over the past two years to Chen Zhuo.
"Right now, several major factions in the entire Vast Sea City are under our control."
"The trade stations passing through the several duchies and kingdoms all the way to the Heaven Dou Empire have also been opened up."
"They can begin operating at any time."
Standing to the side, Ling Yuan Douluo felt her head buzzing.
First came the shock of the soul bones, then the trade routes for whale rubber...
Thinking of how the secret of whale rubber was presented to Spirit Hall by the person right before her eyes.
The color on Ling Yuan Douluo's face slowly faded away, and she felt her entire body go ice-cold.
No wonder Dugu Bo wanted to kill her the moment they met.
If even a shred of the matters the other party was plotting leaked out, it would provoke a monstrous, bloody disaster.
Upon witnessing the miraculous efficacy of whale rubber, even a fool would understand.
In the future soul master world, this item would undoubtedly become the most sought-after and best-selling precious treasure.
Ling Yuan Douluo finally understood why Chen Zhuo had been able to ask her with such a calm expression after subduing her back then, "What benefits did Spirit Hall promise you? Follow me, and I'll give you double."
She had originally thought this was merely painting a grand picture to win her over to his side.
Thinking about it now, she had been monstrously wrong.
This lord in front of her truly possessed the capability to back it up.
After some conversation, the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny left, and departing along with them was Meng Yiran.
Regarding the choice of Meng Yiran's fourth soul ring, the group unanimously decided to continue using a soul skill combination passed down through the Meng family's ancestors.
Therefore, Meng Yiran would be cultivating alongside the Dragon Duke and Snake Granny during this period.
Until she broke through to become a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor.
In the evening, Chen Zhuo went to the Ye Residence.
By now, everyone in the entire estate no longer felt any surprise at Chen Zhuo's arrival.
Everyone up and down the Ye Residence regarded Chen Zhuo as their prospective son-in-law.
Matters related to Marshal Ge Long had even become a taboo topic within the mansion; no one dared to bring up such past events ever again.
Chen Zhuo went to see Ye Lingling.
"I came to give you something." Chen Zhuo took out two ten-thousand-year soul bones.
A Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
A Hundred Thousand Year Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Bone.
"No! This is too precious..."
Even Ye Lingling, who maintained a poised demeanor the vast majority of the time, was startled upon seeing Chen Zhuo take out two ten-thousand-year soul bones.
Such a rare and precious treasure could not be found anywhere across the entire Heaven Dou Empire, not even if one rummaged through the entire imperial treasury.
She had seen the Hundred Thousand Year Titan Giant Ape Left Arm Bone once before, back when she and Chen Zhuo participated in hunting down the Titan Giant Ape together.
Ye Lingling had not expected that Chen Zhuo would actually think to give this soul bone to her.
She asked herself honestly, was she truly worth being valued and treated this way by Chen Zhuo?
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