Dugu Yan wavered: was Gangzi really a good-for-nothing?

Tang San was speechless at this. Should he call Dugu Bo ruthless or childish, to have dreamed up even this method of revenge?

Still, even Tang San had to admit that while its effectiveness was debatable, he had absolutely nailed the entertainment value.

"You're even more ruthless than I am. I bow to you."

At Tang San's words, Dugu Bo first gave a smug snort, then caught on.

"What are you talking about? I had no choice! You think I wanted to do this? If my granddaughter weren't following him around every day like she was possessed, talking about becoming the Poison God, would I have to put up with this damn frustration?"

"Enough. That fellow won't be coming out of the toilet for ages. We can go find my granddaughter."

"I'm counting on you to fix the problem with her martial soul. Solve that, and never mind finding poisons for you-I can even grant you a few more requests!"

Dugu Bo's words made it clear that he really was out of options.

Inside the classroom, Dugu Yan's pretty face flushed at the laughter around her, and she buried her head on the desk.

"But the theories Grandmaster explained before were all right... And the seven of us really did take second place. Even the Heaven Dou Royal Academy First Team didn't manage that."

"Why do so many people refuse to believe Grandmaster?"

Now, even Dugu Yan had begun to doubt Gangzi a little.

There was no other reason: as her soul power grew, Dugu Yan could increasingly feel the changes in her martial soul. Its toxicity was gradually weakening, and her strength had declined considerably as well.

If Grandmaster hadn't praised it to the skies, saying this was the only correct path to becoming the Poison God, she would have fled long ago.

Suddenly, Dugu Yan spotted Dugu Bo by the window. Wrinkling her nose, she tossed her hair and walked out.

"Grandpa, why are you here again?"

"Oh, Grandpa, Grandmaster hasn't been feeling well lately. Could you take a look at him?"

At these words, the smile on Dugu Bo's face instantly vanished.

"Your grandpa deals in poison! I'm not a doctor!"

"I can't help with that."

Hearing this, Dugu Yan could only lower her head silently and mumble, "All right, then..."

Seeing the two of them like this, Tang San barely kept himself from laughing aloud. Dugu Yan probably had no idea that Gangzi's problem was the work of this old monster, Dugu Bo.

Just then, Dugu Yan noticed Tang San as well. Once she got a clear look at his current appearance, her eyes lit up. It had been a long time since she had seen anyone so handsome.

Her life had changed dramatically after she became Gangzi's disciple. Not only had she never become Yu Tianheng's girlfriend, but she had also almost completely lost touch with her other teammates.

Dugu Yan pressed a hand to her soft bosom, feeling her heart pound as her cheeks flushed faintly.

"Grandpa, who's this? A new student at our academy?"

Dugu Bo rolled his eyes and patted Tang San's shoulder.

"A student? If Heaven Dou Royal Academy could produce a mighty Buddha like him, they wouldn't know what to do with their joy."

"Don't be fooled by how respectable this brat looks. His heart is pitch-black, and when it comes to using poison, he's every bit your grandpa's equal."

"This time, I invited him here specifically to help solve the problem with your martial soul."

Tang San irritably swatted Dugu Bo's hand away. This old monster really had quite a mouth on him, as poisonous as his martial soul.

At those words, the gaze Dugu Yan directed at Tang San gained a few more shades of curiosity. Judging by his appearance, he should be very young. At such a young age, he could actually make her grandfather say they were evenly matched in the way of poison?

After all, no one knew better than Dugu Yan how proud Dugu Bo was, or how peculiar his temper could be.

For the old monster to say so himself, the person before her certainly could not be ordinary.

But the mention of her martial soul still made Dugu Yan a little unhappy.

"Grandmaster said he would help solve the problem with my martial soul! That's right, he definitely will."

"Why did you have to find someone else?"

Despite her words, Dugu Yan was actually wavering a little inside. Years had passed without the problem with her martial soul being resolved, and she had begun to have doubts.

Was Grandmaster really what everyone else said-a good-for-nothing who only knew theories, and a heap of wrong ones at that?

Dugu Bo had no idea what she was thinking. Hearing this, more dark lines gathered across his brow, and he thought that the dose he had administered still wasn't enough. At the very least, it should have left Gangzi bedridden for ten days or half a month.

Tang San couldn't be bothered to listen to the grandfather and granddaughter argue. Taking Dugu Yan's small, bonelessly soft hand, he said, "Release the toxins you currently possess first. Let me get a feel for them."

At this, Dugu Yan raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure? I'm afraid you won't be able to withstand them."

Dugu Bo scoffed. "Don't worry. Even I can't poison this Little Monster to death, let alone you."

Only after hearing Dugu Bo say this did Dugu Yan feel reassured enough to undergo Martial Soul Possession and begin releasing her toxins.

Soon, three colors appeared on Tang San's palm: green, purple, and brown.

Yet in the blink of an eye, his palm returned to normal.

Seeing this, Dugu Yan's eyes widened. Although her poison had weakened, that was relative to its performance in battle. The person before her had taken no countermeasures at all-not even a ripple of soul power-and had neutralized her poison?

What was going on?!

What she didn't know was that after taking the immortal herbs, Tang San's body had already changed. He was now immune to all poisons.

These poisons of Dugu Yan's were nowhere near enough.

"How is it, Little Monster?"

Dugu Bo studied Tang San's expression, his heart faintly tightening as well. He feared that even Tang San might be unable to solve it. In that case, there probably really would be no one on the entire Douluo Continent who could resolve Dugu Yan's predicament.

When that happened, Gangzi's problem would no longer be whether he could leave the toilet, but whether he could still open his mouth to speak for the rest of his life.

"Don't worry."

Tang San didn't even lift his eyelids. To him, a problem like this was child's play.

"Right now, you have jade phosphorus snake poison, man-faced spider poison, and brown-tailed scorpion poison in your body. These three poisons conflict with one another and affect each other."

"To solve this problem, you must instead stop introducing new types of poison. Trying to fight poison with poison will only make the toxins in your body fight one another even more fiercely."

At these words, Dugu Yan raised her beautiful eyes, looking somewhat doubtful.

"Really?"

But Gangzi had clearly told her that as long as she kept introducing new types of poison, everything would fall into place.

Tang San nodded. "Of course."

"What your body needs now is a new force to balance the many toxins. So you need to find a soul beast with mild properties, preferably one with a detoxifying effect, to serve as a buffer."

"Then find another soul beast with poison similar to jade phosphorus snake poison. Use jade phosphorus snake poison as the foundation and have it absorb the other toxins. Only then can you achieve the effect of mixed poison."

"At present, the toxins in your body are like a host of dragons without a leader, fighting one another. Naturally, they won't make your poison stronger."

After this explanation, Dugu Yan was still considering its feasibility, but Dugu Bo's eyes had lit up.

"First a buffer, then absorption? So that's how it works!"