Dugu Fu slowly opened his eyes. An unprecedented brilliance shone in them, revealing the transformation within him.
He had undergone a world-shaking change, like a phoenix reborn from the flames, utterly renewed.
Both his strength and his physique had improved beyond anything he had known before.
At that moment, Dugu Fu stood before them brimming with confidence, as though he had been reborn, remade down to his very bones.
His bearing had also changed markedly, revealing an entirely different charm.
Though he had always been a young man, his martial soul and cultivation technique had surrounded him with a sinister, gloomy aura.
Now, however, that gloom had dissipated, replaced by a distinctive and captivating presence.
It combined sunny vitality with a wicked allure. Light and darkness intertwined, lending him an irresistible magnetism.
His charm could no longer be compared to what it had once been.
Dugu Lin's slightly clouded old eyes watched him as he murmured, "Eighth grade."
Eighth-grade mutated martial souls were not unheard of in the Dugu Family. On exceedingly rare occasions, even ninth-grade mutations appeared.
In the past, such a development would have filled him with anguish, for the higher the martial soul's quality, the stronger its latent toxicity-and the sooner death would come.
Yet the Dugu Fu before him presented an entirely different picture.
He could tell at a glance that the once-dreaded toxicity seemed greatly suppressed by Dugu Fu's constitution.
More precisely, Dugu Fu's ability to withstand that toxicity had improved significantly.
He looked sunnier, yet his toxicity had also intensified, giving him a wicked allure as he radiated vigor.
A spiraling rise on both fronts!
In short, he had washed away many of the marks the Jade-Scaled Snake martial soul had left upon him. No, no-the Jade-Scaled Snake martial soul itself had evolved.
Chen