Dugu Bo's Martial Soul Restructuring Plan

Having run into Dugu Bo, could the two-flavor hot pot on Douluo's must-eat list still be far away?

"Leave this place, little fellow, or the poison on me will give you a very ugly death."

Dugu Bo's tone was unfriendly, carrying a hint of threat.

Sun Shan glanced at the sky.

The sky was very dark, with great banks of black clouds gathering together. It looked as though rain was imminent.

It was overcast and rainy weather. It seemed Dugu Bo's poison was about to flare up again, which was why he was driving people away.

Sun Shan waved a hand.

"When it comes to poison, I'm afraid you're still just an apprentice."

"Good, good, good! You've got guts!" Dugu Bo repeated, a vicious glint showing in his eyes.

"Considering your youth and impressive Soul Power cultivation, I originally didn't want a reputation for snuffing out a genius."

"But since you're courting death, I'll oblige."

Silently, an emerald-green Jade Phosphorus Snake coiled around Sun Shan's neck.

The venomous snake bit down hard.

Just then, something that astonished Dugu Bo happened.

Sun Shan was completely unharmed. Instead, the Jade Phosphorus Snake returned to Dugu Bo's hand, convulsing all over.

Only after examining it closely did Dugu Bo discover that the snake's fangs had snapped against him. His face twitched.

"Well, boy, no wonder you're so conceited. You're relying on that excellent physique of yours. Your thick hide makes you unafraid of my snake's venomous fangs."

"But you're underestimating the art of poison."

Dugu Bo summoned his Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor.

In an instant, purple-green poisonous mist spread.

All the surrounding plants and flowers withered. Even Soul Beasts hiding deep underground burst out of the earth, struggled for a while, then kicked their legs and departed this world.

Any Soul Master below level seventy would die upon contact with this poisonous mist. Even Soul Saints and Soul Douluos would suffer badly if they touched it.

Yet Sun Shan not only refused to dodge, but actually walked into the poisonous mist and took great lungfuls, taunting him.

"Too thin. This doesn't pack enough of a punch. Old Poison, bring out something purer."

Even the widely experienced Dugu Bo froze at this sight.

Dugu Bo immediately laughed in anger. "Little Monster, if you've got the guts, drink this bottle of refined Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor venom."

Sun Shan took the bottle and, without the slightest hesitation, put it to his lips and drained it in a few gulps.

A short while passed, and nothing happened.

Instead, Sun Shan felt a little thirsty and pressed him.

"Got any more? Bring me some to quench my thirst."

"A monster, a true monster!" Dugu Bo was aghast.

Even Titled Douluos had to exercise some caution around this innate soul venom of the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor.

Yet this monster had downed it in one go!

Dugu Bo felt as though his entire worldview had been refreshed.

Naturally, there was nothing wrong with Dugu Bo's poison.

The problem lay with Sun Shan. His constitution had already transformed into something utterly freakish.

It was like a venomous snake in nature: the venom released with each bite could poison several adults to death.

Yet inject the same dose into Uncle Blue Whale, and there would be no reaction at all.

And Sun Shan's current level of life far surpassed a blue whale's. Even compared with true dragons, he was no less impressive, if not more so.

This was the beauty of numbers!

Sun Shan chuckled.

"Dugu Bo, I told you already. When it comes to poison, you're just a loli!"

"A master of poison who's poisoned himself? What a disgrace."

Dugu Bo had spent his life studying poison. Seeing someone mock his expertise, he couldn't help growing angry.

"You're spreading rumors... that's a vicious slander! You... you're sullying my good name!"

"I really don't know what to do with you," Sun Shan said, speechless. "Then listen carefully.

"Whenever it's overcast and rainy, don't both your flanks itch and go numb, once at noon and once at midnight?"

"Given your current condition, each episode should last over two hours."

"And whenever the dead of night comes, don't you feel needle-like stabbing pains at the crown of your head and the soles of your feet?"

"If that feeling of wishing you were dead isn't poisoning, what is it?"

"Aaargh! I'll kill you!" With his secret exposed, Dugu Bo flew into a humiliated rage.

"I can cure it!" Sun Shan shouted.

"I was only joking just now. Little Monster, why don't we go somewhere else and discuss this in detail?"

Dugu Bo's expression changed immediately.

His switch from arrogance to deference was laughable to contemplate.

A valley in the Sunset Deep Forest.

Dugu Bo led Sun Shan through a barrier formed from Jade Phosphorus Seven Absolutes Flowers.

These poisonous flowers reacted with the air, producing a pale-green poisonous mist that perfectly concealed the place.

What greeted Sun Shan's eyes was a spring where ice and fire intertwined.

One side was bitterly cold, the other swelteringly hot; twins born of a single spring, yin and yang complementing each other.

It was none other than the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, one of the world's three great treasure basins.

Because of the unique climate here, ordinary vegetation struggled to survive.

Thus, after this harsh process of elimination, every medicinal herb that remained was extraordinary.

Moreover, thanks to the properties of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, rare medicinal herbs planted here could grow more than ten times faster than in the outside world.

Lovesick Heartbreak Red, nine-grade purple ganoderma, Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and more...

Every one of these immortal herbs would spark a scramble among Titled Douluo-level powerhouses if brought to the outside world.

Sun Shan was thrilled by the sight.

After all, aside from Tang San, who fell outside all normal standards, and Xiao Wu, a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast cultivating anew...

The remaining Shrek Five Monsters were merely ordinary geniuses.

Without these immortal herbs cleansing and improving their aptitude, forget becoming gods-it was hard to say whether some of them could even have become Titled Douluos.

That showed just how important these immortal herbs were to improving a Soul Master's cultivation.

"Little Monster, hurry up and tell me how to cure the poison in my body."

Dugu Bo was very excited. After so many years, he had finally found a way to be free.

Sun Shan waved a hand.

"I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious just yet. My Soul Power cultivation just broke through. I need to consolidate it."

Dugu Bo was helpless, but could only stand guard for the boy before him.

Sun Shan sat cross-legged and began absorbing the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring rewarded for short-selling Tang San.

There was no resistance whatsoever. The absorption was complete in an instant.

With his third Soul Ring successfully attached, the bottleneck in Sun Shan's cultivation immediately disappeared, leaving no further obstacles.

The Soul Power from his previously accumulated rewards surged violently into his body like a vast ocean.

Sun Shan's Soul Power Level soared all the way to level thirty-nine!

His Soul Rings' ages also broke through once again.

First Soul Ring age: one hundred thousand years!

Second Soul Ring age: one hundred eighty-three thousand years!

Third Soul Ring age: one hundred thousand years!

Three Soul Rings, interwoven with red and green and radiating immense pressure, appeared above Stock-Simulating Meow Meow's head.

Dugu Bo was stunned. "Just what level of Soul Rings are these? I've never heard of anything like them!"

From the moment he met Sun Shan until now, Dugu Bo felt that his understanding had been constantly refreshed.

"They all call me Old Poison, but what does that make this fellow?" Dugu Bo said self-mockingly.

Sun Shan was now in excellent condition.

Having mastered the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record, he could easily detoxify Dugu Bo as had been done in the original timeline.

But now, Sun Shan had a better method.

After he added a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring to Stock-Simulating Meow Meow, his third Soul Ring granted him a new Soul Skill.

"Delisting and Restructuring!"

Sun Shan could forcibly remove a Soul Master's Soul Power data from the Stock Realm.

During the delisting, he could pay a certain amount of Soul Power to reforge that Soul Master's Martial Soul, Soul Rings, and Soul Bones.

He could greatly evolve or devolve them.

After restructuring, they could be relisted in the Stock Realm.

"Dugu Bo, have you ever considered that poison isn't only for killing?"

Dugu Bo looked speechless.

"Are you joking? Don't tell me it can save people too."

"Can't it?" Sun Shan asked.

"Since ancient times, all medicine has been three parts poison. Medicine can heal people or kill them, and the same goes for poison."

"Medicine and poison share the same source!"

"Medicine and poison share the same source?!" Dugu Bo murmured to himself, seemingly lost in thought.

"Dugu Bo, you've single-mindedly used the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor's poison to kill. Have you ever considered that it could also save people?"

"No, you've never considered it."

Dugu Bo's eyes widened, finding these words somewhat hard to believe.

"It's like a vicious sword stained with the blood of many innocents. Everyone says it slays its masters, each wielder suffering a backlash from its baleful Qi and dying an unnatural death."

"Yet it isn't the sword that kills, but the person wielding it. A sword used for slaughter can also protect others, using force to end warfare."

"Over time, how could that vicious sword's baleful Qi not gradually fade?"

"Dugu Bo, your Martial Soul, the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor, is wailing. Can't you hear it crying?"

"Release your Martial Soul. Don't resist. I'll show you another possibility for the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Martial Soul."

Sun Shan summoned Stock-Simulating Meow Meow, and the third Soul Ring above its head shone.

"Third Soul Skill: Delisting and Restructuring!"

A Martial Soul should possess the capacity to change between dragon and serpent. Medicine and poison could transform into one another, and the same was true of dragons and serpents.

Dugu Bo felt himself enveloped in a warm current, every cell in his body experiencing an ease he had never known before.

The modification complete, Sun Shan chuckled.

"All right, now let's see how effective it is."

Inside Heaven Dou Sacred Heart Hospital.

A woman looked at the hospital bill in her hand, her face filled with worry.

"Where am I going to raise so much money?"

Her brow tightly furrowed, the woman glanced at her daughter lying in the hospital bed beside her, then steeled herself and made a decision.

She opened the jewelry box she carried with her and took out a gleaming gold hairpin.

"Selling this should keep us going a little longer."

Seeing this, the girl in the hospital bed struggled to sit up and grabbed her mother's sleeve, her voice very weak.

"Mom, I know this illness can't be cured. Don't waste any more money."

"What nonsense are you thinking?" The woman looked a little angry. "I have money!"

The girl's voice choked.

"Mom, I know we don't really have any money left at home."

Because of her illness, there were many nights when the girl hurt too much to sleep.

But she was so afraid of worrying her mother that she pretended to be asleep.

That was how she knew things were very difficult at home now.

On many nights, as the girl lay with her eyes closed pretending to sleep, she would often hear her mother sobbing quietly outside the ward's door.

Ever since Dad left, their income had already fallen greatly, and treating her illness had cost so much more.

Every time the girl saw her mother growing more haggard from working and raising money, her heart felt as though it were being twisted by a knife.

Now she truly couldn't bear it anymore. The girl shouted.

"Enough, really! Don't waste anything more on me! That hairpin was the last gift Dad left you!"

"I know you treasure it more than anything, Mom."

The woman pulled the girl into her arms, her voice full of tenderness.

"Silly child, you've always been the most precious thing in my heart!"

Bang, bang, bang!

A rapid knocking sounded at the door.

"Hello, would you be interested in hearing about a new treatment?" Sun Shan entered the ward, pulling Dugu Bo along.

Sun Shan continued his enticing pitch.

"This gentleman is a Titled Douluo-level powerhouse. With him providing the treatment, the results are guaranteed. Most importantly, it's free."

"Is this lord a healing-type Soul Master?" The woman was very excited.

Sun Shan silently turned his head away, not daring to meet that eager gaze, looking slightly embarrassed.

"I suppose you could say that."

In the corridor outside the ward, a doctor on duty passed by. Seeing that the door was open, the doctor came over to check on the situation.

The moment he saw Dugu Bo, the doctor's pupils shook, and he shrieked:

"Y-you're Dugu Bo, the Poison Douluo!"

"Don't kill me! Help!" Like a mouse that had seen a cat, the doctor scrambled and crawled away in a frantic escape.

Sun Shan had already considered that Soul Masters who used poison might have rather poor reputations.

So he had deliberately avoided revealing Dugu Bo's true identity, lest the patient resist inwardly. He had not expected the truth to come out anyway.

Dugu Bo was quite speechless too.

"Do I look like some bloodthirsty killer?"

"Don't poison my child! If you have a problem, come at me!"

The woman stood in front of the girl like a hen protecting her chick.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the ward reached a tense impasse.

At that critical moment, the girl spoke:

"Grandpa Soul Master, please treat me. I'm not afraid!"

Dugu Bo was surprised. Many Soul Masters could not avoid him quickly enough, terrified of being caught up in his soul poison.

Yet this little girl before him possessed such courage.

She truly made him see her in a new light.

"Aren't you afraid I'll poison you to death?"

The girl shook her head. "Grandpa, you're a very good person!"

To the girl, this was a good thing!

If Dugu Bo cured her, everyone would be happy, of course. If he failed and poisoned her to death, her mother would no longer have to waste money on her.

Whatever the final outcome, as far as the girl was concerned, she would win big.

"Good! You've got courage!"

Dugu Bo immediately summoned his Martial Soul, the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor.

It bit the girl's arm, and the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor's poison immediately flowed through its fangs into her body.

Unlike before, however, the poison entering the girl's body this time was no longer meant to kill, but to save.

As the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor's poison spread throughout the girl's body.

Specks of fluorescent green light gradually began to glow across her body.

Pfft!

After abruptly vomiting several mouthfuls of black blood, the girl collapsed onto the bed, her breathing feeble.

"Sweetie, what's wrong? Don't scare me!" The woman was filled with fear and unease.

A moment later, color gradually returned to the girl's face, and before long, she could get out of bed and walk around.

"A miracle doctor! Your wondrous hands have brought her back to life!" Sun Shan exclaimed.

"Well? The sense of accomplishment from saving someone feels so much better than killing, doesn't it?"

"I wasn't trying to save her. I was just testing my Martial Soul's abilities."

Though Dugu Bo said this, he could not stop the corners of his mouth from lifting.

As the girl recovered, Dugu Bo noticed some slight changes in his Jade Phosphorus Snake Martial Soul.

Two small bumps rose on its head, and a faint golden stripe appeared on its formerly entirely jade-green body.

Dugu Bo was deeply shocked.

He discovered that after following Sun Shan's suggestion to use poison to save people.

The poison in his own body had lessened.

Now, even on rainy days, it no longer hurt as much, and his Soul Power had been tempered and enhanced.

"What exactly is happening to my Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Martial Soul?"

Sun Shan smiled. "Perhaps one day in the future, you'll be able to call your Martial Soul the Jade Phosphor Dragon Emperor!"

For every person he saved, another golden stripe would appear on the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor's body.

The bright golden stripes would then weave together into a golden ring.

Once the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor had gathered nine such golden rings on its body.

It would be able to shed its snakeskin and transform into a dragon!

At that time, not only would Dugu Bo no longer have to suffer the torment of poison, but his strength would also undergo a qualitative transformation!