"Yes and no. This morning, I received a request from Xue Xing, asking me to kill someone—you, Jun Yi. When I heard this, I hesitated for a moment, but I still agreed. After all, Xue Xing has been kind to me, and I won't refuse his request."
Dugu Bo said quietly.
"But senior still held back." Jun Yi recalled the previous battle. Dugu Bo had never used his Martial Soul to deal with him, only his fist and foot techniques, clearly trying to test him.
"At first, Xue Beng set up a trap to make me recognize your appearance. I was there at the time and did have some murderous intent towards you. But then, I received a message from Yanyan. I didn't expect her to ask directly if she was poisoned and even mentioned your name, saying that you could cure her. That's why I chose to test you first."
"If you hadn't withstood those moves just now, I would have silenced you. However, your performance shocked me. Even an ordinary Soul Emperor wouldn't have been able to withstand those moves, but you easily dodged them. From this point on, I believe in your abilities and have decided to trust you."
After listening to Dugu Bo's explanation, Jun Yi roughly understood Dugu Bo's thoughts. He believed the persona that Qian Renxue had created for him, thinking that he was really not an ordinary person, and that he could see at a glance that Dugu Yan's poisoning was not severe. So he chose to believe her. In fact, it also contained a sense of desperation, since Dugu Bo had been searching for many years but had not found a way to solve the problem of the poison's backlash.
"Then Jun Yi will certainly not let you down."
Jun Yi, palm down, summoned the ROOM space, enveloping Dugu Bo within it. "Senior Poison Douluo, please do not resist next, ROOM·Tact."
Jun Yi easily controlled Dugu Bo's body with his Soul Power. In fact, even if Dugu Bo resisted, it would be useless. After all, only those powerful beings with Haki could resist his fruit power, and there was no such thing as Haki in the Douluo Continent.
"Senior, I will now control your blood. You should also activate your Soul Power to channel the toxins from your body into the Head Soul Bone," Jun Yi said slowly.
Then Jun Yi manipulated his fingers as if wielding a scalpel, controlling the toxins in Dugu Bo's body. Dugu Bo also used his Soul Power to force the toxins in his limbs into his Soul Bone. In this way, the two worked together to detoxify Dugu Bo.
About an hour later, Jun Yi stopped the treatment, panting heavily, and sat down on the ground, exhausted. He hadn't felt this drained of Divine Power in a long time. Even when forging Soul Tool, he hadn't felt this tired. It was all because the toxins in Dugu Bo's body were too "concentrated," practically fused with his body. To put it bluntly, Dugu Bo was now a poison man.
Jun Yi, on the other hand, needed to remove these toxins from Dugu Bo's body. This required a great deal of his Divine Power and the process lasted for a full hour. However, the result was good: all the toxins in Dugu Bo's limbs had been transferred into the Head Soul Bone in Dugu Bo's head.
"Ah, so comfortable. I haven't felt this lightness in so long."
Dugu Bo stood up, feeling as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders, and he felt as if he had been reborn.
Looking at Jun Yi, who was sitting on the ground panting, Dugu Bo laughed, a laugh so hearty and casual, and then he extended his hand to Jun Yi.
" Jun Yi, I never expected you could actually solve my problem of poison backlash. I'm starting to believe the rumors more and more."
A smile appeared on Jun Yi's tired face. He then took Dugu Bo's hand, stood up, and said, "The rumors are unreliable. I'm just an ordinary Soul Master. It was only by chance that I was able to detoxify you, senior."
"Hahaha, if Soul Master like you can only be called 'ordinary,' then 99% of Soul Master in the world can only be called 'trash.' Boy, thank you for relieving my poison. I will bring Yanyan here tomorrow so you can detoxify her."
"Senior, may I consume one of the herbs here to replenish my Divine Power?"
"Alright, forget about just one plant. As long as you can cure Yanyan's poisoning by tomorrow, I wouldn't hesitate to give you this entire herb garden."
Dugu Bo's face was filled with a relieved smile. He never expected that the person who could solve the problem of poison backlash that had plagued him for decades was just a child who was not even 13 years old. For a moment, he felt a little dazed and even felt like he was dreaming.
"Senior, what you're saying... if you truly understood the value of your herb garden, you probably wouldn't have said that," Jun Yi said with a smile, adjusting his Dugu Bo.
"Oh? So you know the value of my medicinal herb garden?"
Dugu Bo looked at Jun Yi with increasing curiosity, and he wanted to know more and more about how much else this child knew.
Jun Yi smiled and was about to tell Dugu Bo about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After all, he wasn't Tang San; his goal was just a few Immortal Herb. He wasn't like Buddha Ancestor Tang, shamelessly looting the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Ten thousand years later, this place directly became the Tang family's territory, and future generations had no idea that the original owner of this place was Dugu Bo. These people would only sing praises to Tang San, the founder of the Tang San Tang Sect.
" Senior Dugu, let's make this clear first: I need to pick about 10 of these herbs. You can't go back on your word then."
Jun Yi smiled slightly and said to Dugu Bo, he understood that Dugu Bo was not the kind of person who would break his word. After all, in the original story Buddha Ancestor Tang had dug up his courtyard, and he had only angrily scolded Tang San few times. Jun Yi did this simply to draw a line between himself and Buddha Ancestor Tang in the original story.
"Alright, I will not go back on my word." Dugu Bo nodded and agreed to Jun Yi's request. He was also very curious about the origin of his medicinal garden, which could help him suppress toxins and grow a bunch of strange flowers and herbs that he did not recognize.
Jun Yi coughed twice and explained, "This place is called the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and the two Yin-Yang Eyes refer to this unique spring in front of us. It is a treasure land that may not be formed even once in tens of millions of years, and it is one of the three great treasure basins where the essence of heaven and earth is concentrated."
" The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well not only nourishes living things, but also has extremely unique effects on the human body. Once a human or animal lives near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, their body will be impacted by the two extreme attributes of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a short period of time. If they cannot leave in time, they will surely explode and die. However, for people like the predecessor who are full of poison, it has great benefits. Extreme heat and extreme cold both have a restraining effect on poisons. And the restraining effect on poisons is even stronger in a place Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, which is a treasure of heaven and earth. Otherwise, it would never be possible to allow all kinds of rare plants to grow here at the same time."
"No wonder this place can relieve the pain I experience when the poison flares up."
(End of this chapter)