Dugu Bo Breaks Out in a Cold Sweat (Please Recommend and Bookmark!)

Sunset Forest.

Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

"What's going on? Why do I suddenly feel so uneasy?"

Startled awake by the sudden unease rising in his heart, Dugu Bo could not help but furrow his brows. He got to his feet and muttered to himself.

"Could it be that I didn't finish off all those Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts that used to lurk around here?"

"Have some Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts returned to fight me for this place?"

"Or does someone want to seize my medicinal garden?"

Although the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was currently occupied by Dugu Bo, it was not a treasured land passed down through the Dugu family.

Rather, Dugu Bo had discovered it in Sunset Forest by accident.

At the time, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had been occupied by a rare and powerful seventy-thousand-year-old Medusa.

Many powerful Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts also lived nearby.

Such as the Ten Thousand Year Three-Headed Blood Demon Serpent, the Ten Thousand Year Ghost Face Scorpion, the Ten Thousand Year Scorpion-Tailed Lion, and so on.

All these Soul Beasts knew of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and even knew its former owner.

But because they could not defeat Medusa, they had been driven out.

Yet they had continued to covet the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and refused to leave.

Dugu Bo had set up a Poison Array, continually luring these Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts into it and poisoning them to death.

Little by little, he had encroached upon the mountain where the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well lay, eventually surrounding it.

After luring Medusa out and killing it through a carefully laid trap,

he had taken possession of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

And after killing Medusa,

Dugu Bo had been incredibly lucky to obtain a Soul Bone—the Medusa Skull.

However, after descending the mountain and searching the surrounding area without finding anything,

Dugu Bo could not help shaking his head, feeling that he had probably been overthinking things.

With the Poison Array he had set up,

even a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would not be able to break through it so easily.

As for people,

after acquiring this medicinal garden, he had never revealed its existence to anyone.

No one should have known about this place.

And even if someone did know, he was not afraid in the slightest!

A trace of pride flashed through Dugu Bo's eyes.

He had laid countless Poison Arrays across this mountain and the surrounding area.

This was his home ground.

Unless a Titled Douluo arrived, no one could possibly defeat him on his own territory!

Just then,

a sharp sound of wind tearing through the air suddenly came from afar.

Five figures rapidly approached through the sky.

"Your Holiness the Pope, is this the place?"

Before they even arrived, a rough and resounding voice rang out from the sky.

When he saw the five figures approaching from above,

the leader was a handsome man shrouded in dazzling golden light, with six pairs of golden wings spread behind him and long golden hair draped over his shoulders.

Beside him followed a man and a woman.

Behind them, respectively, spread a pair of azure and crimson Soul Power wings.

In addition, two tall and burly men in golden and crimson armor respectively were flying through the air.

They were Qian Xunji, Ling Yuan, Golden Crocodile Douluo, Azure Luan Douluo, and Mighty Lion Douluo—the Three Great Enshrinements.

The moment he saw Golden Crocodile Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo flying through the air,

Dugu Bo's pupils contracted sharply, and cold sweat instantly drenched his entire body.

No way! T-Titled Douluos?!

And at least two of them?!

For a moment, Dugu Bo nearly fell apart.

Thinking of how confidently he had just declared that as long as no Titled Douluo came, no one could defeat him here,

he wanted nothing more than to slap himself several times.

What a cursed mouth!

I'm just a mere Soul Douluo.

Why are at least two Titled Douluos being sent to deal with me?

What did I, Dugu Bo, ever do to deserve this?!

"This one is Dugu Bo. Greetings, Your Holiness the Pope! Greetings, Your Excellencies, Titled Douluos!"

From the six pairs of golden wings behind Qian Xunji and Mighty Lion Douluo's earlier words,

Dugu Bo immediately realized it.

The visitors were Qian Xunji, Spirit Hall Pope, leading Spirit Hall's Titled Douluos.

Seeing Qian Xunji and the others descend, Dugu Bo hurried forward to receive them.

Forcing a strained smile onto his face, he bowed respectfully and greeted them.

"Hm? There's someone here?"

Upon noticing Dugu Bo, Mighty Lion Douluo furrowed his brow, somewhat surprised. But he quickly spoke in a booming, disdainful voice without a care.

"Dugu Bo, is it? Spirit Hall wants this place. You can get lost!"

Dugu Bo's face instantly flushed red. Fury surged in his heart, but he forcibly suppressed it and clasped his fists.

"Your Excellencies are mighty Titled Douluos. If you insist on forcibly taking my medicinal garden, I, Dugu Bo, truly have no power to resist!"

"But Spirit Hall stands as the foremost among the powers of the Soul Master world. Relying on your strength to act so unreasonably and seize another's opportunity by force—"

"Are you not afraid that word will spread and tarnish Spirit Hall's reputation?"

Dugu Bo's words were filled with indignation and resentment.

If he had not known that, in the original story, Dugu Bo had abducted Tang San and forced him to reveal how to resolve Dugu Yan's Emerald Phosphor Purple Poison,

Qian Xunji might really have thought

that Dugu Bo was some innocent victim.

"Heh, Dugu Bo, is it?"

"You say this place is yours, so it is yours? What proof do you have?"

"Is your name carved here or something?"

Qian Xunji stepped forward, a faint smile on his face as he spoke unhurriedly.

Yet his tone was filled with pressure.

"I discovered this place first, so naturally it belongs to me, Dugu Bo!"

Dugu Bo snorted, speaking as though it were only natural.

But upon hearing that, Qian Xunji shook his head and smiled.

"No, no, no! By your logic, this place should belong to the Soul Beasts!"

"Since Soul Beasts have lived in this world far longer than humans, they must have been the first to discover this place."

"And one Soul Beast after another fought and killed each other, continuously taking possession of it."

"In the end, you, Dugu Bo, killed the Soul Beast that previously occupied this place and became its master."

"Since you, Dugu Bo, could kill the Soul Beast that was originally the master here and become the master yourself—"

"Then now that we are stronger than you, we could have killed you, taken this place, and become its masters."

"But we did not do that. Shouldn't you be grateful that we spared your life?"

Qian Xunji said with a smiling face.

"Soul Beasts aren't people. Even if they occupied this place, that doesn't make them its masters!"

Hearing Qian Xunji's words, Dugu Bo was furious.

He felt that Qian Xunji was simply being deliberately unreasonable.

"Soul Beasts do not count as people in your eyes because you are stronger than them."

"Then what do you think you count as in our eyes?"

A cold smile curled Qian Xunji's lips as a chill flashed in his eyes.

Those words made Dugu Bo's expression change, and his heart instantly turned cold.

He understood Qian Xunji's implication!

Although resentment still filled his heart,

his strength was inferior.

For the sake of his life, Dugu Bo could only back down and say that he was willing to offer up the medicinal garden.

But now that he had encountered Dugu Bo, Qian Xunji's goal was no longer simply to take the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

After warning Dugu Bo,

Qian Xunji suddenly changed the subject and said teasingly.

"Mr. Dugu, Spirit Hall is not made up of bad people. You did indeed discover this place before we did."

"Since we are taking this place from you, we will offer you suitable compensation."

"Compensation?"

Dugu Bo was filled with indignation.

The miraculous ice-and-fire spring within this medicinal garden was a place capable of suppressing the Emerald Phosphor Poison of our Jade Phosphorus Clan.

For Jade Phosphorous Serpent Soul Masters, it was an invaluable treasure.

What could you possibly use to compensate me?!

"...But the prerequisite is that you join Spirit Hall!"

After hearing Qian Xunji's words, Dugu Bo felt even more resentful and disdainful.

Spirit Hall has taken the medicinal garden tied to the life and future of me, Dugu Bo, and now you want me to submit to you?

Keep dreaming!

Even if I, Dugu Bo, die!

Even if you kill me here, or I leap from a cliff,

I will never join Spirit Hall!

"Your Holiness the Pope must be joking. I, Dugu Bo, need no compensation!"

"If Spirit Hall wants this medicinal garden, then take it. I, Dugu Bo, shall take my leave!"

Dugu Bo spoke stiffly and coldly. After finishing, he turned and prepared to leave.

"Is Mr. Dugu sure you will not reconsider? At least hear what I intend to use as compensation."

Qian Xunji's smile became even more teasing at Dugu Bo's reaction.

Beside him, Ling Yuan and the Three Great Enshrinements all frowned upon seeing Qian Xunji recruiting such an ordinary Soul Douluo so earnestly. They were puzzled and could not understand it.

He was just a Soul Douluo. Was he really worth His Holiness the Pope's attention?

"The compensation I speak of is a way to resolve the Emerald Phosphor Poison of your Jade Phosphorus Clan!"

After dragging things out for so long, Qian Xunji finally spoke, an amused smile on his handsome face.

What?! A way to resolve the Emerald Phosphor Poison?!

Hearing this, Dugu Bo, who had already walked more than ten meters away with an unyielding resolve to die, abruptly stopped.

His expression changed dramatically.