I Pick Up Fragments on Douluo Continent

A short man was unfortunate enough to get hit. He turned back and shot the burly man an angry glare before sheepishly pulling his head back.

"Doudou, you can announce the result now." Lu Feng smiled faintly at the female host.

"O-Okay." Only then did the female host finally snap out of it.

Doudou took a deep breath and tried her best to calm her inner shock. She had never expected this new colleague, whom she had only just met, to be an expert at soul fighting.

To borrow Tang Si's words, she seemed to see a rising new star in the Soul Fighting Arena!

Doudou's professional smile returned. "Seventh Soul Fighting Arena, Soul Grandmaster one-on-one, third match. The winner is contestant Wàn Háo!"

"Wow!" The audience finally came to their senses and began applauding fiercely.

Everyone cheered for Lu Feng. Several spectators who had bet on him were so excited that they danced with joy.

As for Dai Mubai, who had once won ten consecutive matches?

Sorry, no one remembered second place.

"Boss Dai, are you okay?"

At that moment, a short, chubby boy in red walked over to Dai Mubai and helped him up.

The chubby boy was not tall, with short hair and small eyes. Though plump, he gave off a sturdy impression.

"Ma Hongjun?"

Lu Feng's eyes suddenly lit up as he looked at the chubby boy.

In terms of Martial Soul quality, the Evil Fire Phoenix was probably even superior to the White Tiger.

In the original story, after Ma Hongjun consumed an Immortal Herb, he completely purged the evil fire from his body. Later, he consumed the Ten-Headed Sun Serpent Inner Core, causing his Martial Soul to evolve again. In the end, relying on his formidable strength and Tang San pulling strings for him, he inherited a godhood and reached the pinnacle of life.

"Hmph, what are you looking at!"

Ma Hongjun shouted at Lu Feng.

"Oh? You're pretty arrogant, aren't you?" Lu Feng crossed his arms and looked down at Ma Hongjun.

Little fatty, you have successfully caught my attention.

Seeing the teasing look in Lu Feng's eyes, Ma Hongjun suddenly felt a chill run down his back. Supporting Dai Mubai, he hurried back to the lounge.

Lu Feng raised his right hand toward the stands, immediately drawing another wave of cheers.

That night, inside the staff dormitory.

The Great Soul Arena's employee benefits were fairly good, providing both food and lodging. Employees at Soul Grandmaster rank and above could even be assigned a private room.

After joining the Soul Fighting Arena, Lu Feng had not stepped outside even once.

Now that he had confirmed Dai Mubai was the one behind everything, Lu Feng instead felt more at ease.

An unknown opponent was the most frightening kind.

Nighttime was when the Soul Fighting Arena was at its liveliest, but Lu Feng went to bed early. His only condition for joining was that he would not get caught up in pointless competition or work overtime.

The midnight air was somewhat cold. Lu Feng wrapped himself tightly in the blanket and rolled over in bed.

"This damn weather!"

Lu Feng covered his head with the blanket and silently circulated the Mysterious Heaven Skill. The Soul Power within his body gradually gathered.

"Enough. Stop pretending."

A hoarse voice came from beside the window.

Creak!

The window was slowly pushed open, and an entirely green figure climbed in from outside.

The man was tall and thin, like a javelin. His hair and beard were both dark green, while his eyes gleamed like emeralds.

Lu Feng poked his head out from beneath the blanket and grinned. "Oh? So the famous senior Poison Douluo makes his entrance in such a distinctive way."

"Oh? You actually know me?" Dugu Bo found a chair and sat down, asking calmly.

Under the distant glow of the lights, Dugu Bo's shadow stretched long. A faint green light flickered in his eyes, and his icy gaze was like that of a venomous snake, enough to make one shudder.

Lu Feng sat up and said with a smile, "I have never met you before, but the scent on Mr. Dugu is thirty percent similar to Miss Dugu's."

"As a physician, once I have seen a patient, even if only once, I will never forget them for the rest of my life." Lu Feng spoke loudly, his voice full of confidence.

As he looked at Dugu Bo, who had delivered himself to his door, Lu Feng secretly grew excited.

There was no need to ask. He knew why Dugu Bo had come for him. Clearly, Dugu Yan's words had worked.

"Kid, your name is Tang Si?" Leaning against the back of his chair, Dugu Bo examined him as he asked.

The kid's answer had clearly been perfectly normal, yet Dugu Bo somehow felt that something was off.

He recalled the way his granddaughter had spoken of Tang Si. She had praised him to the skies, her words filled with appreciation and admiration.

She had made it seem as if Tang Si were the most remarkable and formidable person in the world.

Whenever Dugu Bo thought of that, he felt deeply displeased.

"Hah..."

Dugu Bo exhaled, and the temperature in the room immediately seemed to drop several degrees.

Lu Feng shivered instinctively. He suddenly felt that Dugu Bo's gaze was rather unfriendly.

Damn! Could the name Tang Si be incompatible with Dugu Bo's fate? As expected, this man has a strange temperament and is extremely difficult to get along with.

Lu Feng replied calmly, "That is correct. I am Tang Si. May I ask why Mr. Dugu has paid me a visit so late at night?"

"How did you neutralize Yan Yan's serpent poison? How did you develop the Jade Phosphor Five Poisons? And how did you turn poison into medicine?"

Lu Feng was immediately speechless inside, secretly complaining, You came to see me in the middle of the night just to ask these stupid questions?

What about the serpent poison in your body?

What about your granddaughter's safety?

The night breeze drifted through the room, bringing with it a faint, fishy stench of serpent venom from Dugu Bo.

Ordinary people would turn pale at the mere smell of it. Yet Lu Feng discovered something unusual within that venomous scent. Just as he had suspected, Dugu Bo was practically a living poison.

His Martial Soul, flesh, and bloodline all carried violent toxins.

If Dugu Bo suddenly dropped dead right now, everyone in Suotuo City would probably have to be buried with him.

Lu Feng gave a light cough and said proudly, "Mr. Dugu has studied poison his entire life. Do you not even understand that medicine and poison come from the same source?"

"My master once told me that in this world—"

"Enough, kid." Dugu Bo suddenly cut him off and let out a strange, chattering laugh. "Stop feeding me nonsense about that vague and mysterious master of yours. Come with me first!"

In the next instant, Dugu Bo flashed in front of Lu Feng. Before Lu Feng even saw what he had done, he lost consciousness.

No Saving Him, Wait for Death!

Sunset Forest, inside a cave on a hill roughly five hundred meters high.

"Just which faction does this brat belong to?"

Dugu Bo looked at Tang Si lying on the ground, icy light like that of a venomous snake gleaming in his eyes.

He refused to believe that some little brat could so easily neutralize the Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison.

Especially the Jade Phosphor Five Poisons his granddaughter had mentioned.

After personally testing it, Dugu Bo had failed to create the miraculous tonic his granddaughter described. However, the toxicity of that mixed poison was thousands, even tens of thousands of times stronger than ordinary serpent venom.

Such a heaven-defying concept could never have been developed without generations of research.

"The Upper Three Sects? The two great empires? Or Spirit Hall!"

Dugu Bo held Lu Feng's Soul Tool in his hand and inspected it carefully. Looking at the angel patterns carved onto it, a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes.

"Could this brat's master be Ju Hua Guan? Does he have that kind of ability?"

One figure after another flashed through Dugu Bo's mind, but he ruled them all out one by one.

There were indeed several people on the entire continent better than him at using poison. But this was the first time Dugu Bo had ever seen a method of refining poison that even he could not understand.

"If you're awake, stop pretending. There's no need to show off such petty tricks in front of a Title Douluo." Dugu Bo said coldly.

Lu Feng sprang upright like a carp and sat up. He did not speak, merely staring coldly at Dugu Bo.

He silently circulated the Mysterious Heaven Skill and found that there was no restriction on his Soul Power, nor had he been poisoned.

"Mr. Dugu, why did you kidnap me here in the middle of the night?" Lu Feng asked indifferently.

Lu Feng silently reminded himself that he had still underestimated Title Douluo.

Anyone capable of cultivating to the rank of Title Douluo possessed a temperament unmatched by one in ten thousand. To them, reputation, power, family, and perhaps even their own lives had long since become things they could cast aside.

They absolutely could not be manipulated so easily with a method for detoxification.

Even if the man before him was jokingly known as the weakest Title Douluo on Douluo Continent.

Lu Feng stared at Dugu Bo, his eyes narrowing as he considered how to break the deadlock. Dugu Bo also sized him up from head to toe, and the scene fell silent for a time.

"Not bad. You've got guts."

Green light flickered in Dugu Bo's eyes. "I heard that you diagnosed the serpent poison within Yan Yan's body and even claimed that I, too, have been poisoned?"

"Hahaha!" Dugu Bo suddenly burst into laughter. "What a joke. My poison would poison me? I am seventy-eight years old this year. I have only ever poisoned others—never has anyone poisoned me."

Watching Dugu Bo stand with his hands behind his back and an arrogant expression on his face, Lu Feng could not help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

Could Dugu Bo's stubbornness be inherited from Dugu Yan?

"You gave me quite a scare. I almost thought you were some sort of expert. So after all that, you just couldn't swallow your pride and wanted to put on an act before a junior like me?" Lu Feng shook his head helplessly.

"Has Mr. Dugu ever heard the saying that physicians cannot treat themselves?" Lu Feng asked calmly.

"Whenever the weather turns cloudy or rainy, do your flanks become numb and itchy? Whenever it is late at night, do the crown of your head and the center of your palms feel as though they are being pierced by needles? Mr. Dugu, was I wrong about any of that?"

"H-How did you know?" Unable to suppress his shock, Dugu Bo blurted it out.

Very quickly, Dugu Bo regained his composure and gave a light cough. "Yan Yan really is something else, telling you even about these old ailments of mine. A grown girl can't be kept at home."

Lu Feng looked at Dugu Bo speechlessly. He suddenly felt that this old man was rather improper.

Remembering Dugu Yan's warning not to embarrass himself, he seemed to understand what she had meant.

"May I examine you, sir?" Lu Feng looked at the bracelet on Dugu Bo's wrist, frowning slightly. "Senior, could you return my Soul Tool first?"

With a flick of his right hand, Dugu Bo tossed the bracelet. It landed steadily in Lu Feng's pocket.

"This Soul Tool is of decent quality. Kid, you may check whether anything is missing." Dugu Bo asked calmly.

Before he had even finished speaking, Lu Feng actually began taking out the items one by one.

"Hey, kid, you're going too far!" Dugu Bo said in exasperation. "I am a dignified Title Douluo. Why would I covet the belongings of some little brat like you?"

The moment Dugu Bo finished speaking, he saw Lu Feng pull a small medicine bottle from the Soul Tool.

A faint floral fragrance drifted out through the stopper. Dugu Bo sniffed it and immediately felt refreshed. Even the pain in his flanks seemed to ease somewhat.

"Kid, what is this?" Dugu Bo flashed over and snatched the small medicine bottle into his hand.

He pulled out the stopper and took a deep breath. His entire body immediately shuddered.

What followed was a long-lost sense of ease.

At that moment, Dugu Bo even felt as though he had returned to his youth.

"Just a little trinket. If Mr. Dugu likes it, feel free to take it." Lu Feng said with a faint smile.

The medicine in the small bottle was called White Ghost Powder, a poison extracted from a plant known as the White Ghost Umbrella.

White Ghost Umbrellas grew in environments filled with venomous snakes, and the two shared a symbiotic relationship. White Ghost Umbrellas grew by absorbing snake saliva. A single flower the size of a palm required more than a hundred years to mature.

The refined White Ghost Powder had a powerful attraction to venomous snakes. To Soul Masters with the Poison Snake Martial Soul, it was also a deadly temptation.

After deciding to detoxify Dugu Bo, Lu Feng had made thorough preparations.

White Ghost Powder could not resolve Dugu Bo's serpent poison, but it was like Viagra, carrying an incredibly strong allure. Once Dugu Bo tried it, he would suddenly feel capable again, and then he would be unable to stop.

"Hmph. Since you insist on giving it to me, I will reluctantly accept it."

With that, Dugu Bo took another deep breath, then carefully put it into his Soul Tool.