[Congratulations to Chat Group member Yanzi for completing her exclusive mission and obtaining an exclusive reward. Display it?] [Displaying it will grant double Fortune Points.] [Yanzi (Jade Phosphor Purple Poison): Display.] [Congratulations to Yanzi for obtaining the rewards: Pure Enhancement Title-Jade Phosphor Purple Poison · Bronze (reduces the cost of all Soul Skills by 10%, shortens Soul Skill activation time by 10%, and enhances Soul Skill effects by 10%. Can be upgraded by completing title missions.) Poison Core Method: originates from a Ferocious Beast Poison Dragon from another world whose strength reached the god level. Condense one's own toxins into a poison core. Upon full mastery, corrode heaven and earth externally and become immune to all poisons internally. Turn a wayward path into a broad, smooth road! (If the practitioner has a snake-type Martial Soul, they may be able to retrace the Poison Dragon's path.) Martial Soul Bloodline Origin Upgrade (one time only) 500 Fortune Points × 2] [Chat Group member Dugu Yan has obtained 1,000 Fortune Points, which have been synchronized to the host's balance.] [Host's current Fortune Points: 14,000] [Host's cumulative Fortune Points: 16,000] [The host may choose one of Dugu Yan's exclusive rewards, excluding the title and toxin amplifier (・ω・)つ.] [The host has selected Martial Soul Bloodline Origin Upgrade (one time only).]
As the sun approached its zenith, Dugu Yan finally defeated her tenth opponent who met the requirements of her exclusive mission.
After reading the description of the Poison Core Method, Dugu Yan replied to her fellow group members' congratulations in the Chat Group while racing out through the gates of the Heaven Dou Imperial Soul Master Academy.
Over the years, Dugu Bo had deliberately concealed the truth about Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison to protect Dugu Yan.
But how could Dugu Yan have been completely unaware of her grandfather's suffering?
With the aid of her Soul Power, Dugu Yan took less than half an hour to return to the home she shared with her grandfather in Heaven Dou City.
Sensing the familiar Soul Power fluctuations, the old man reclining in a rocking chair flickered and appeared before Dugu Yan.
"Grandpa~"
At a closer look, this tall, thin old man in gray robes was exceedingly strange. His beard, hair, eyebrows, eyes, and even fingernails were all green, making anyone who looked at him feel an involuntary pang of unease.
He was Dugu Yan's grandfather, the only Titled Douluo on the entire continent whose title was Poison!
As it happened, Qian Renxue deserved some thanks for Dugu Bo's presence in Heaven Dou City this time, since he usually lived at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well among the Immortal Herbs and poisonous plants.
To complete her exclusive mission earlier, she had ordered Xue Beng to kneel in punishment at the imperial ancestral shrine on the grounds that his arrogance and domineering behavior had damaged imperial dignity. This had put Prince Xue Xing on his guard, believing that this sinister, vicious crown prince was about to use the same old trick to strike at his own blood relatives again.
Only then had he sent word to Dugu Bo, asking this Titled Douluo, who owed him a favor and was his side's strongest combatant, to hurry back to Heaven Dou City and protect them in secret.
"Yanyan?!"
Seeing his granddaughter suddenly return home instead of staying properly at the academy, and the deep tear tracks on her face, Dugu Bo's previously mild gaze instantly sharpened. Cold light burst from his deep, emerald-like eyes, revealing an icy, uncanny gleam.
Whoever dares bully Yanyan, I'll hunt down his entire family tree (゜皿゜メ)!
-Level 91 Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Martial Soul equipped.
"Yanyan, why are you crying?"
"Did someone at the academy bully you?"
"Tell Grandpa which blind fool dared to do it. I'll take you to get revenge right now!"
Looking at her grandfather's terrifying face, as though he would release poison at the slightest disagreement, Dugu Yan only felt warmth well up inside. She wiped away the sweat and tears mingling on her face from running at full speed and said urgently, "No, Grandpa, nobody bullied me. These are happy tears!"
The anger on Dugu Bo's face gradually turned to bewilderment.
"Happy?"
What's there to be happy about? Has someone finally agreed to be friends with Yanyan?
Ever since his son and daughter-in-law had both passed away, his granddaughter had become somewhat withdrawn.
Coupled with her notoriously fearsome Jade Phosphorus Snake Martial Soul, over time, nobody had been willing to go near Dugu Yan, much less befriend her.
Something that could make her cry and laugh like this... wait!
Could Yanyan have gotten a boyfriend?!
Setting aside Dugu Yan's somewhat forceful personality and highly poisonous Martial Soul, Dugu Bo was exceedingly confident when it came to his granddaughter's looks.
After all, he himself had been a top-quality handsome fellow in his youth. His genes were beyond reproach~
If she really does have a boyfriend...
Unable to make heads or tails of her grandfather's gaze, as inscrutable as a pie chart, Dugu Yan simply took out the booklet containing the Poison Core Method.
"Grandpa, take a look at this!"
"Poison Core Method?"
Dugu Bo took the cultivation booklet, rather unimpressed. It was not as though he did not already have an inner core.
Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison had tormented the Dugu Lineage to the brink of dying out entirely. How could a mere core-condensing method resolve it?
Assuming it was some unorthodox book Dugu Yan had picked up somewhere, Dugu Bo looked at her expectant eyes and obediently opened the booklet to read, unwilling to dampen his granddaughter's enthusiasm.
At first glance.
Useless bullshit. I could casually write a hundred sets of this stuff myself!
At second glance.
Hmph... its explanation of poison theory is somewhat interesting, but not very!
At third glance.
Marvelous~ ah~
Corrode heaven and earth, become immune to all poisons?
Sheer dominance spilling out everywhere!
Such a wondrous cultivation method actually exists in this world?!
Merely looking at the toxin and Soul Power circulation routes recorded within gave him the wonderful sensation of wisdom being poured into his head, as though he could achieve a breakthrough at any moment.
And... what does it mean, a snake-type Martial Soul might transform into a dragon with sufficient opportunity?!
Reason sounded warning after warning-telling Dugu Bo to calm down. As a veteran loser, how could something this good possibly fall into his lap?
Your recklessness in your early years has already cost you far too much. If something goes wrong while cultivating this Poison Core Method, what will happen to Yanyan, left alone in this world?
Yet the instinct deep within his Martial Soul kept tempting him-just cultivate it and be done with it. Yanyan also has a Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul. If you don't scout the way for her now, are you going to watch her die in the future too?
Besides, do you really want to be the weakest Titled Douluo that badly?
Who wouldn't be red-faced with eagerness to become a powerful Soul Master with a dragon-type Martial Soul, handsome and straight?
A dragon, that was...
"Grandpa!"
"Hm?"
Dugu Yan's voice roused Dugu Bo from his inner battle between heaven and man:
"Do you think it's useful? I found it in the academy's Book Collection Pavilion!"
Knowing that Dugu Bo was bound to ask where this Poison Core Method had come from, Dugu Yan had already discussed a countermeasure with her fellow group members on the way-lie!
Dugu Bo: Yanyan is lying to me!
Dugu Yan: Grandpa knows I'm lying to him.
Dugu Bo: But I can't expose her.
Dugu Yan: But he won't expose me.
Dugu Bo: This cultivation method must have an extraordinary origin. Let's hear what Yanyan says next...
Dugu Yan: What comes next is the crucial part!
"Grandpa, shall we go to Spirit City to attend Archbishop Lu's Investiture Ceremony?"
Spirit Hall, sure enough, you're scheming against me again (╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻!
The memories of refusing Spirit Hall's recruitment in his younger years, then being chased across the continent like a stray by Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and their men, were attacking Dugu Bo again.
On the most dangerous occasion, if Xue Xing had not happened to be nearby and used the Heaven Dou Empire's name and troops to force them back, he might well have been in danger of falling.
It was precisely that incident that had left Dugu Bo owing Prince Xue Xing a tremendous favor. Only later had he reluctantly agreed to serve as something of a bodyguard for him, protecting that brat Xue Beng from time to time.
Four-Winged Cloud Eagle, Four-Winged Eagle Dragon, Martial Soul Evolution...
Dugu Bo had heard of this Archbishop Lu's legendary deeds. Even he had to acknowledge the man's excellence.
But he had never imagined the man could be outstanding to such an extent!
He can even tailor cultivation methods?
If anyone said this Poison Core Method had not been designed around his own inner core, Dugu Bo would not believe it even if they beat him to death!
Lu Chen: ^_^|||
System Sis: ^_^|||
"All right. Grandpa will take you to Spirit City!"
Xue Xing, I'll repay your favor some other way.
Before you continue