"Kid." Dugu Bo draped an arm around Long Yue's shoulders with ill intent, as though joking around with a brother. "Do you know what you're saying? My Poison Cultivation Technique is unrivaled on this continent."
As he spoke, Dugu Bo bared a sharp fingernail and lightly scratched Long Yue's skin.
"If I'd wanted to, I could have poisoned you to death just now."
"Grandpa!" Dugu Yan sided with an outsider over her own family, pushing Dugu Bo's hand off Long Yue's shoulder.
"..." Dugu Bo fell silent.
Long Yue sighed softly. Drawing on the information advantage the original novel had given him, he described Dugu Bo's symptoms. "Do you believe me now?"
"You... how did you know?" Dugu Bo blurted out instinctively.
Dugu Yan looked at Dugu Bo with considerable concern. "Grandpa, you..."
"Never mind how I know. In any case, this Poison Cultivation Technique will harm your descendants too," Long Yue said. "If you want to preserve the deadly poison inside you without letting it hurt you, you need somewhere to store it. A soul bone, for example."
"A soul bone?" Dugu Bo asked.
"Exactly," Long Yue said. "Force the toxins in your body into a soul bone, and they won't harm you anymore. Old Man Bo, you should have a soul bone, right?"
Old Man Bo... Dugu Bo's mouth twitched.
"The same goes for Yanyan. Find a suitable soul bone and force the toxins into it while practicing the Poison Cultivation Technique, and there won't be any problems." Long Yue's method was hardly ingenious, but it was certainly workable.
"That's easy enough for Yanyan," Dugu Bo said. "But I've cultivated my Jade Phosphorous Serpent for over seventy years. Forcing this poison into a soul bone won't be so easy."
"That's why you need to go to the Divine