Dugu Bo's Poison Flares Up, the Wasteland Giant Eagle!

Ye Qiu was still in the depths of fire and water,

The successive breakthroughs, coupled with the power brought by his Sage Body,

had left him somewhat overexcited and unable to pull himself away.

Far away in Heaven Dou City, within the residence of the Jade Phosphorus Snake Dugu Family, a hoarse, intermittent groan of pain echoed through a room.

A tall, slender man who appeared to be only middle-aged sat cross-legged on a bed. His face was slightly contorted, and his body trembled as though he were enduring some inhuman agony.

His eyebrows and hair were an eerie dark green. He was the current head of the Dugu Family, Poison Douluo Dugu Bo!

Damn it! The poison's acting up again!

Dugu Bo gritted his teeth and roared again and again in his heart,

but he kept the sounds coming from his mouth suppressed.

"Grandpa, are you still in there?"

A clear, pleasant voice rang out from outside the door.

Enduring the piercing pain, Dugu Bo forced the corners of his mouth up and replied, "Yanzi, Grandpa's here. What is it?"

"Grandpa~ Lingling and I are planning to stay at the academy for a few days. I came especially to let you know."

Hearing his granddaughter's words, Dugu Bo breathed a sigh of relief. He was terrified that Dugu Yan would see the frightening state he was in when the poison flared up, neither human nor ghost.

"All right, good! Grandpa knows."

Dugu Bo marshaled all the Soul Power in his body to suppress the poison within him. Cold sweat broke out across his forehead and back, but he still forced a smile and cautioned her:

"Remember to watch out for that Blue Lightning brat. He probably didn't approach you out of any good intentions."

"Don't worry, Grandpa. Nobody can fool me!"

Outside the door, Dugu Yan laughed in a sweet voice, unconcerned, and turned around with a wave.

"Then I'm off, Grandpa."

"Mm, go on."

Dugu Bo's pale lips moved slightly, and as soon as he finished speaking, he closed his eyes.

The Soul Power in his body began to boil completely...

He began suppressing the snake poison in his body with all his strength.

"Hiss, ah! Could it be... that it's going to rain in the next few days?"

The numb, itchy sensation in the gaps between his ribs grew increasingly intense,

Dugu Bo sucked in a cold breath and forced one eye open, looking at the bright sunlight beyond the window paper as he silently lamented his misery.

If there really were rainy days,

he probably wouldn't be able to stay at home any longer!

He would have to go to the medicinal field to suppress the snake poison in his body as quickly as possible!

Dugu Bo endured the pain for a full hour.

By the time the snake poison was suppressed, he looked as though he had been pulled out of the water. His taut muscles began to spasm, and he collapsed onto the bed.

The same hour had passed.

In the peach grove east of Peach Blossom Village.

The bucket by the well had been filled, and clear water kept overflowing from it.

On the bed inside the house,

Su Yun'er had been coaxed to sleep. Her face was flushed, and she lay limp beneath the covers, tears on her face like raindrops on a pear blossom, with an afterglow that seemed both pleasurable and painful still lingering on her face.

She had felt Ye Qiu's power deeply.

Her Xiao Qiu really had grown stronger, and he had grown quite a bit bigger than before, too.

On the Douluo Continent,

an ordinary woman simply could not withstand a Soul Master's onslaught.

Much less when Ye Qiu also had a Sage Body?

Leaving aside his sensory abilities, any one of his three passive traits-unparalleled monstrous strength, healing without hand seals, and prolonged stamina-would have been enough to give Su Yun'er a tremendous shock.

A wisp of cooking smoke slowly dispersed above the chimney.

Ye Qiu had gone to Nuoding City and bought some nourishing supplements, leaving them in the pot to warm along with Su Yun'er's meal. He had also filled all the wooden buckets at home with water.

He had already left Peach Blossom Village.

Besides Su Yun'er having personally felt his return, the square table, which should have been in the middle of the room but had been pushed against the wall, also testified to it.

Some tea remained on the table, left over from when Su Yun'er had made pounded tea for Ye Qiu.

The peach grove was utterly silent and deserted.

The empty Kamui Dimension was the same. Ye Qiu had returned to the Sunset Forest and begun searching for prey suitable to become the Blue Silver Grass's third Soul Ring.

Beneath the evening sky, the entire Sunset Forest shone dazzlingly gold.

Only by standing within it

could one appreciate why it was called Sunset Forest.

Scree-!

A piercing cry tore through the sky. A giant bird the color of raw wood, almost invisible in the glow of the setting sun, dove toward the ground below.

A fierce wind howled. Its feathers came in fine strands, like wooden fibers, while the soft down beneath them resembled wood shavings. It was extraordinarily peculiar, and its wingspan exceeded a full eight meters!

It was called the Wasteland Giant Eagle, and its cultivation exceeded eight thousand years.

It was the oldest Soul Beast suitable to become the Blue Silver Grass's third Soul Ring that Ye Qiu had managed to find after searching nearly half the Sunset Forest.

This Soul Beast fed exclusively on plant fibers.

If released outside, it could gnaw an entire small forest bare in just a few days.

That was how it had earned the name Wasteland Giant Eagle.

Ye Qiu had chosen it precisely because of its ability to transform ordinary wood fibers into deadly weapons.

"Hmph! Come at me!"

Ye Qiu stood in a clearing, using himself as bait. The Blue Silver Grass around him flung two more clumps of mud into the air.

That was how he had lured the giant eagle over while it was flying low!

Ye Qiu watched the giant eagle dive faster and faster. Two Wing Blades had even grown from its two pairs of wings. Yet there was not the slightest fear on his face; instead, he grinned.

The faster and steadier the giant eagle flew, the better he could lock onto it!

The Blue Silver Grass around Ye Qiu quickly dispersed.

A blood-red light flared in his eyes, and the Mangekyo in his left eye locked onto the giant eagle's right wing.

In midair,

the Wasteland Giant Eagle opened its huge beak and spat out a stick half a meter long.

The next moment, those sticks burst apart, turning into slender wooden spikes that poured down on Ye Qiu like a torrential rain.

Kamui!

Puff! Puff! Puff!

The wooden spikes passed through Ye Qiu's body and struck the ground beneath his feet, leaving tiny holes. Even the tree trunks behind him were pierced through!

Ye Qiu was completely unharmed, a smug smile on his face. His right eye stopped maintaining his intangibility, while the Tomoe in his left eye turned slowly, and the space at the focal point of his gaze began to warp and twist.

"Scree-!"

The next moment,

the giant eagle let out a scream. Wood shavings flew along with its wooden feathers, and in pain, it tried to roll through the air to dodge the attack...

But how could it possibly understand the power of space?

The essence of long-range Kamui was to transfer objects within the focal point of the user's gaze into another dimension.

The greatest difficulty was finding the right moment to lock onto a rapidly moving target.

But once a target was locked on, long-range Kamui was almost impossible to counter!

Unless one had the same spatial ability,

or someone attacked Ye Qiu at that moment and made him abandon the transfer.

But with the Wasteland Giant Eagle's brains, it certainly couldn't think of those things. There was only one way for it to escape the spatial distortion: sever its wing to save its life!

But even then, Ye Qiu's attack would have achieved its purpose.

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