Grandpa Dugu Really Was a Titled Douluo

After resting for a while, until the sun hung high in the sky, Li Ye and the other three finally reluctantly climbed out of bed.

After taking down the red cloth strips hanging outside and tidying the room, Li Ye planned to take Dugu Yan to visit Dugu Bo.

For one thing, his soul power had reached level 50, and he needed a fifth soul ring of a fairly high age. For another, Dugu Yan also happened to need to hunt for her fourth soul ring in Sunset Forest. Most importantly, he had secretly married the man's granddaughter without even notifying the old man, which was rather lacking in propriety.

Passing through the familiar forest, Li Ye soon brought Dugu Yan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo lived year-round.

Come to think of it, over the past few years, aside from occasionally visiting the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to feed the Blue Silver Emperor some of his blood, Li Ye had hardly come here.

It was not that he did not want to come. He really had no time, and there was truly nothing left at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well that appealed to him.

Li Ye had dug up all the immortal herbs worth taking and all the useful medicinal herbs he recognized. Now, all that remained at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was a pile of poisonous plants that were of little use to him and some medicinal herbs that had only just sprouted.

Still, to prepare the medicinal herbs needed for the next stage of body-tempering medicinal baths for his juniors at Shrek Academy, Li Ye had specifically acquired a large quantity of those herbs' seeds. He planned to scatter them around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then return after a while to harvest them and hand out benefits to his adoring juniors.

"Ye, you brat, what suddenly made you think of visiting this old man? Don't tell me you've come to take something else from me?"

The moment Li Ye and Dugu Yan stepped into the poison formation's range, Dugu Bo sensed their auras and flew over to them atop an illusory giant snake.

But when he saw Dugu Yan's unusually rosy, smooth face and her slightly trembling legs, his expression changed at once.

"Ye, you brat, didn't I tell you that you could only truly be with Yan Yan once you were strong enough to defeat me? What, did you let my words blow past your ears like the wind?!"

Seeing Dugu Bo lose his temper, Li Ye hurried forward and gave him a deep bow before saying, "Grandpa Dugu, I handled this poorly, but you know how I feel about Yan Yan. There's really no need to get angry. If you make yourself ill with anger, I'll have to give your position as Supreme Elder to someone else when I establish my sect."

"Hmph, for Yan Yan's sake, I'll let you off this time. But you said you're establishing a sect. You're not joking, are you?" Seeing Li Ye's sincere expression and Dugu Yan glaring at him from the side, Dugu Bo immediately forgave Li Ye.

"Of course not. I plan to establish a sect called the Night Emperor Pavilion. When the time comes, I'll have our teachers from Shrek Academy and some teachers from Blue Tyrant Academy join as well. As for disciples, I'm training them right now. All I'm missing is an exceptionally powerful Titled Douluo to lend my sect some prestige and serve as its Supreme Elder."

"Oh? Have you told your teachers at Shrek Academy about this idea, then? Did they agree?" Seeing Li Ye flattering him, Dugu Bo stroked his beard and put on the air of a peerless master.

"Of course I told them. My teacher, the dean, and the others all raised both hands in support, you know. Long'er is very supportive of my decision too. All we're missing is an expert whose name resounds throughout the continent and whose strength reigns supreme over Star Dou to serve as our Supreme Elder."

"Haha, in that case, Xiao Ye, Grandpa Dugu will be your Supreme Elder. After all, although I wouldn't call myself strong, there aren't many people on the entire continent who can match me."

Hearing that, Li Ye naturally agreed with a grin. He truly had not expected Dugu Bo to be so susceptible to this approach; with just a few words, he had sweet-talked him into joining.

Still, Dugu Yan was probably a very large part of the reason. Without his relationship with her, Dugu Bo probably would not have agreed so readily.

After sweet-talking Dugu Bo, Li Ye took Dugu Yan's hand and followed him into a small cottage he had built at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

To get Dugu Bo to help him hunt for his fifth soul ring next, Li Ye specifically took out the fine wine he had filched from Flender and respectfully poured Dugu Bo a cup.

Seeing Li Ye suddenly treat him so courteously, Dugu Bo naturally knew the brat must want something from him. Otherwise, he certainly would not act this way.

Judging by Li Ye's aura, he had probably broken through to level 50. Presumably, he wanted Dugu Bo to help him kill a ten-thousand-year soul beast and obtain his fifth soul ring.

When he thought back to their first meeting, Li Ye had been merely a little Soul Elder just above level thirty, like Dugu Yan. Only a few years had passed, and while Dugu Yan had only just broken through to Soul Ancestor, Li Ye had already reached the rank of Soul King. He truly was a cultivation monster.

"All right, Ye, you brat. I've had the wine. Tell me, how old do you want your fifth soul ring to be, and what kind of soul beast do you want?" Dugu Bo slowly set down his wine cup and spoke to Li Ye with a calm expression.

Hearing Dugu Bo's words, Dugu Yan also looked at her husband Li Ye with admiration, wanting to know what kind of fifth soul ring he wanted.

"Grandpa Dugu, my requirements aren't high. Just get me any fire-attribute soul beast with over fifty thousand years of cultivation," Li Ye said with a smile.

It was not that he was reaching beyond his grasp or thought himself extraordinary. Rather, after cultivating for so long, his physical strength could already rival that of most power attack system Battle Soul Saints with beast martial souls, and his spiritual power could contend with that of most high-ranking Soul Douluos. Not to mention, he only needed to kill the soul beast's spiritual body in his spiritual world to complete the absorption of its soul ring.

However, one prerequisite for killing a soul beast's spiritual body in his spiritual world was that Li Ye's body could withstand the violent energy within the soul ring without exploding while he fought the soul beast's spiritual body.

Yet upon hearing Li Ye's words, Dugu Yan immediately covered her little mouth in shock, while Dugu Bo gaped in astonishment, not knowing what to say.

"Xiao Ye, are you certain you can absorb a fifty-thousand-year soul ring? You're not joking with Grandpa, are you?"

"Of course not. When I hunted for my fourth soul ring, I absorbed two ten thousand year soul rings at the same time: one from a twenty-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and one from a thirty-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape. I added one to each of my martial souls."

"Hmm, in that case, absorbing a fifty-thousand-year ring as your fifth soul ring shouldn't be a problem."

Li Ye had previously told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan about his true identity and his twin martial souls, but he had not yet had time to tell them the ages of his fourth soul ring and his secondary martial soul's first soul ring. Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan only knew that he had absorbed a ten thousand year soul ring as his fourth soul ring.

"Then, Grandpa Dugu, about my fifth soul ring?"

"Don't worry. It's only a fifty-thousand-year soul beast. Your grandpa doesn't even consider that a threat!"

"Haha, Grandpa Dugu really is a Titled Douluo. Even your words are commanding!"

After lunch, Li Ye went down into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and scattered the medicinal herb seeds he had prepared beforehand, also giving the Blue Silver Emperor he had planted a few drops of his blood.

Come to think of it, when Tang San dripped blood onto the Blue Silver Emperor, she seemed to stop him, didn't she? Why did she not stop Li Ye when he did it? Could it be simply because Li Ye was not her son?

Ah Yin: You've got some nerve, tricking my son into digging me up, then secretly bringing me here. As if relieving yourself beside me every time you visit weren't enough, you even want me to become your wife after my cultivation reaches a hundred thousand years and I take human form. Not drinking you dry is already more than you deserve. My poor child, Xiao San, was deceived by his dear senior brother, yet still counts the money for him every day.

Well... how should one put it? Li Ye did indeed have thoughts of making Tang San start calling him Dad, but if Ah Yin and Tang San were unwilling, he naturally would not force anything.

As for what Tang Hao thought, that was unimportant. After all, his wife Ah Yin had already sacrificed herself to him and died on that battlefield back then. Even if the current Blue Silver Emperor came back to life, she could not count as the real Ah Yin, merely a newborn Blue Silver Emperor with Ah Yin's memories and part of her soul.