Detoxification

"Nonsense!"

Dugu Bo's eyes went wide. With a sweep of his arms, a powerful force instantly sent Yun Tian flying.

He was truly afraid-a stranger, and such a young man at that.

He had accurately described the signs of his poisoning. If word of this got out...

Then those enemies of his would certainly not let the matter rest.

He, Dugu Bo, might not be afraid, but what about his granddaughter? When the day came that he could no longer suppress the toxins in his body and died from their backlash, would those people spare her?

"Boy, today, you die!"

Dugu Bo pressed his palms together. The phantom of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor behind him abruptly soared into the sky, then turned its head downward and plunged straight toward Yun Tian below.

"You may not fear death, but what about your granddaughter?!"

Yun Tian wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, tilted his head back, and shouted at Dugu Bo.

At those words, Dugu Bo immediately stopped what he was doing.

Now, the only family Dugu Bo had left in this world was his granddaughter, Dugu Yan.

"You're powerful, and you found opportunities that let you suppress the toxins in your body and break through to Titled Douluo. But what about your granddaughter? Can you be certain she'll be just like you?"

"That she'll also be able to suppress the toxins in her body? I imagine her symptoms are even worse now than yours were at her age, aren't they?"

Yun Tian administered another potent dose to Dugu Bo.

Although that old fellow Dugu Bo was solitary by nature and his thoughts were impossible to fathom...

As long as one knew his weak spot, getting him under control could hardly have been easier.

"You're so young, and your strength is only at the Soul King level."

Even Dugu Bo felt a little embarrassed when he said that.

The young man looked only fifteen or sixteen, yet his cultivation had already reached Soul King.

Calling such talent monstrous hardly did it justice. There wasn't a second like him on the entire continent.

"Tell me, how am I supposed to trust you?"

Dugu Bo's aura settled somewhat. Asking this now, he himself found it rather absurd.

An old man who had devoted his whole life to poison could not resolve the toxins in his own body, yet here he was asking a boy still wet behind the ears.

"Senior, you don't have any other options either, do you? Besides, you're a mighty Titled Douluo. Even if I intended to harm you, do you think I could?"

"What's more, do I have any way out now?"

Dugu Bo nodded at that.

This was not arrogance on his part, but the absolute confidence his strength afforded him.

A Titled Douluo-even a gravely injured Titled Douluo-was not someone a Soul King could challenge.

"Boy, swallow this first. Only then can I trust you even a little."

As Dugu Bo finished speaking, an emerald-green poison pill emerged from the mouth of the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor phantom behind him.

"This poison pill contains half a lifetime of my cultivation. If I die, it will detonate inside your body."

After speaking, Dugu Bo fixed his eyes on Yun Tian.

Taking the poison pill, Yun Tian swallowed it without the slightest hesitation.

Though this thing was a little disgusting, its benefits were considerable.

Seeing Yun Tian swallow it without hesitation, a trace of approval flashed through Dugu Bo's eyes for the first time.

"You've got some guts." Dugu Bo turned with his hands behind his back and leaped to the top of the valley.

"Boy, find your own way in."

After Dugu Bo left, Yun Tian breathed a sigh of relief.

Redeeming this code really was a life-threatening business!

When he released Sang Biao, for the first time, Sang Biao did not give Yun Tian that wise-looking expression.

Instead, he approached Yun Tian's feet, rubbed against him affectionately, then sniffed him all over.

When Sang Biao stuck out his tongue to lick him, Yun Tian stopped him outright.

"All right, all right, I'm fine. Hurry up and make an ice bridge."

Sang Biao nodded in a humanlike manner, then opened his great mouth.

A pillar of bitterly cold ice shot straight from his mouth, the beam firing directly toward the top of the valley.

Along the way, the Soul Power in the air froze, and the hot vapor rising from the top of the valley was drawn down to Yun Tian's feet, forming an ice bridge.

After stepping onto the ice bridge, he reached the top of the valley in just a few breaths.

Yun Tian glanced down to gauge the height, then leaped.

The valley's height was not enough to injure his current body.

"Oh? That body of yours is actually so powerful."

Looking at Yun Tian, who had appeared before him, Dugu Bo showed a rare trace of surprise in his eyes.

After landing, Yun Tian began surveying his surroundings.

The first thing he saw was a spring.

On one side of the spring were scorching flames, and on the other was freezing frost.

The two coexisted miraculously in one place, forming a yin-yang taiji pattern and exuding the contrasting extremes of ice and fire.

All around the spring grew plants of various strange shapes, giving off enchanting light and auras.

Even though Yun Tian had already expected this...

When he truly stood within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well...

This most extraordinary treasure basin still delivered a tremendous shock to his soul.

"I stumbled upon this place by chance. It was only thanks to its unique environment that I managed to suppress the toxins in my body temporarily."

When he had first ventured here, he had thought he had found a way to resolve the flaw in his Dugu family's Martial Soul. In the end, it could only suppress it, not resolve it.

"Boy, how do you intend to remove the toxins from my body?"

Dugu Bo looked toward Yun Tian, studying the young man before him.

Yun Tian paid Dugu Bo no attention, his gaze rapidly searching back and forth.

Finally, in a corner near the spring, he spotted an immortal herb with emerald-green leaves, its shape resembling a snake.

Yun Tian walked straight over and picked the Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flower.

Once he had finished, Yun Tian turned to Dugu Bo and asked, "Senior, you know how to refine pills, don't you?"

Dugu Bo nodded at the question.

"A little. I usually refine some poison pills."

After receiving Dugu Bo's confirmation, Yun Tian nodded, then walked over to the aromatic silk beauty.

Only after picking the aromatic silk beauty did Yun Tian return to Dugu Bo.

"This one is called aromatic silk beauty. You should be able to feel that the aura it gives off has been suppressing the toxins in your body."

After carefully sensing it for a moment, Dugu Bo nodded.

"This one is called the Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flower. Take these two, refine them into pills, then swallow them."

"The Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flower will make your toxins run out of control, but that's a result of it transforming your Martial Soul. The aromatic silk beauty happens to be able to suppress the rampaging toxins in your body."

"Once your Martial Soul has finished transforming and the toxins have receded, it'll be done."

Dugu Bo raised his head and looked at Yun Tian with some skepticism.

"It's that simple?"

"It's that simple." Yun Tian nodded.

Since he's already swallowed my poison pill, presumably he wouldn't gamble with his own life.

After accepting the two immortal herbs from Yun Tian, Dugu Bo suddenly realized there was another problem.

There was only one of this herb. If he took it, what would his granddaughter do?

"Then how do I cure my granddaughter's poison?"