"Really?"
Lu Ning glanced at Dugu Bo.
Dugu Bo put away his teasing expression.
"Really."
"If Yanyan didn't seem to have no interest in you that way, I'd want you as my son-in-law."
"That boy from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan..."
Dugu Bo had intended to gripe about Yu Tianheng a little.
But remembering that they were discussing something serious, he swallowed the words he had been about to say.
Lu Ning took a great mouthful of wine.
"Then thank you, Senior Dugu."
"I will certainly repay you generously in this lifetime."
Dugu Bo could not keep the corners of his mouth from rising.
To outsiders,
when a Titled Douluo volunteered to become a genius's guardian, that genius ought to be beside himself with joy, desperate to kowtow and acknowledge him as a foster father. But Dugu Bo saw it entirely differently.
He had struck a tremendous bargain!
A twelve-year-old Soul King who had cultivated for only six years, even counting generously-if he could become a Soul King in six years, then once he entered the golden years when cultivation progressed fastest, how long would he need to become a Titled Douluo?
Five years? Ten?
Even if it took him twenty years to become a Titled Douluo,
Dugu Bo would still come out ahead.
That would be just when Dugu Bo's body began to weaken.
As long as Lu Ning did not die,
no Titled Douluo would dare come seeking revenge on Dugu Bo!
Moreover,
his granddaughter would also be middle-aged then. Even if her strength fell short, with this debt of gratitude between them, Dugu Yan would effectively have gained a guardian too.
However Dugu Bo looked at it, he could not lose on this bargain.
"Hahahahaha!"
Dugu Bo's laughter echoed through the valley.
His soul power drew