"You just said that the imperial family once showed you great kindness, which is why you serve as a guest elder of the royal court. Something that could move you like that must be a life-saving favor or something equally weighty. If my guess is correct, when you secretly infiltrated the Spirit Hall's repository of treasured records and were discovered, the Spirit Hall saw that you weren't weak and gave you two choices: either join the Spirit Hall, or let the secret be buried forever.
"Obviously, you chose the second option. During the Spirit Hall's pursuit, you encountered Prince Xue Xing and were saved by him. To survive a Spirit Hall manhunt, you must have already broken through to become a Titled Douluo at that time. Otherwise, with the Spirit Hall's foundation, hunting down a mere Soul Douluo—even one highly proficient in poison—would not have failed.
"And judging by how Prince Xue Xing brought you to the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy today, he didn't have any particularly powerful Titled Douluo backing him then, and even now he has only you as a usable Titled Douluo. Back then, the reason he was able to save you wasn't just because of superior numbers, but more importantly because he relied on the prestige of the Heaven Dou imperial family."
Xiao Yan looked at Dugu Bo with a faint, knowing smile. With enough details and careful, repeated consideration, many things could be inferred.
"What are you, human or ghost?" Dugu Bo subconsciously took a few steps back.
What Xiao Yan said was as if he had witnessed it all firsthand. Judging by the timeline, there was no way Xiao Yan could have existed back then.
To be this intelligent while also possessing such terrifying strength—it was monstrous.
Xiao Yan waved his hand with an amused expression. "Why be so scared? I'm just making a few guesses."
As for Dugu Bo's question, he really couldn't answer it truthfully.
His current body was neither fully human nor a ghost, but rather a half-beast.
Realizing his reaction had been a bit excessive, Dugu Bo recalled, "Back then, I had just broken through to Titled Douluo and went to Spirit City to receive my investiture. Because the snake poison in my body is hereditary, for my own sake and for my family's, I naturally searched through the Spirit Hall's accumulated soul master records after entering Spirit City—the city ruled by the Spirit Hall—to see if I could find a way to resolve the poison.
"Unfortunately, there was no harvest…"
The result was that his son could not withstand the backlash of the snake poison and ultimately died young. If there were no solution, the Jade Phosphor Serpent lineage of the Dugu family would likely find it hard to escape this fate.
Letting out a long, desolate sigh, Dugu Bo said, "Let's talk about the detoxification matter instead."
Although Dugu Bo did not elaborate further, judging from the conditions of Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, Xiao Yan could roughly guess some of what followed.
Standing up and patting off the dust, Xiao Yan looked at a nearby orchid that was pure white and crystalline throughout, emitting a rich floral fragrance. "After some preliminary consideration, I roughly have three detoxification plans for the snake poison afflicting you grandfather and granddaughter."
"Three plans? What are the differences?" Dugu Bo asked urgently.
Xiao Yan explained slowly, "The first plan is relatively mature. It's based on my previous diagnosis of the snake poison in your bodies. We would only need to gather some medicinal materials from here to stabilize your foundation, nourish your vitality, and strengthen your bodies. After that, we force the snake poison into a soul bone of sufficiently good quality, which would resolve the issue.
"You were poisoned because the human body, unlike the Jade Phosphor Serpent, does not possess a venom sac to store poison. After fusing with a soul bone, that soul bone can serve as a venom sac.
"This method places extremely high demands on your bodies and has very strict requirements for the quality of the soul bone. During the reversal of the snake poison, the pain endured is difficult to estimate. However, for someone like you who has been eroded by snake poison for many years, this is not an issue at all. Your granddaughter's strength is still weak, and her snake poison is also mild. After medicinal conditioning, she won't suffer much pain.
"The biggest issue to consider is the soul bone."
Dugu Bo understood his own martial soul problem better than anyone. If things went as Xiao Yan described, there was indeed a possibility of resolving it. But…
"Are you saying even my Medusa Head Soul Bone isn't enough? That's a soul bone of over ten thousand years!"
"No." Xiao Yan rejected it outright. "Your cultivation has advanced to Titled Douluo, and the amount of snake poison in your body is so great that releasing it all would be enough to kill several cities' worth of people. Whether even a hundred-thousand-year soul bone could fully absorb and fuse with it is already a question."
"A hundred-thousand-year soul bone?" Dugu Bo said, half-amused and half-exasperated. "Do you think soul bones grow on cabbages?"
Xiao Yan patted his storage jade belt. As light flashed, six soul bones appeared before Dugu Bo.
"This…" The dazzling radiance nearly blinded him. Dugu Bo stared in utter shock!
Soul bones—six of them. And judging by their quality, every single one was superior to his head soul bone.
Before Dugu Bo could inspect them one by one, Xiao Yan had already put them away.
Xiao Yan continued, "I don't know whether soul bones are cabbages or not, but I can be sure of one thing: not only you, but also your granddaughter will need high-quality hundred-thousand-year soul bones. And as your soul power continues to grow, the number of soul bones required may even need to increase."
"I also know that hundred-thousand-year soul bones are extremely difficult to find. My initial plan was to gather as many ten-thousand-year soul bones as possible and assemble a full set, using quantity to make up for quality. That was the original concept. Now that the Dan Pearl has appeared, this treatment plan doesn't need to be so troublesome anymore. You only need to cultivate a stronger Dan Pearl, and the soul bone problem can be resolved."
"Hey, don't!" Dugu Bo cried out, grinning as he said, "You have so many soul bones on hand, and several of them even overlap in position. Haven't you already fused a full set? Keeping them is useless to you—why not just give them all to us grandfather and granddaughter?"
"Old poison freak, you really know how to open your mouth wide. Give them all to you? Do you think soul bones are cabbages, just handed out like that?" Xiao Yan shot back, using Dugu Bo's own words against him.
However, Xiao Yan didn't completely shut the door. "If you render meritorious service to the Soul Hall, or if your granddaughter advances to become a Titled Douluo in the future, you'll definitely be rewarded with one or two soul bones."
Dugu Bo swallowed and said, "You really are a monster. Most soul masters go their entire lives without ever owning a soul bone—many don't even get to see one. Yet you can take out six at once. And I clearly saw just now that two of them were extraordinary. The soul beasts that produced them must have been at the hundred-thousand-year level, right?"
"I didn't expect that not only is your poison vicious, but your eye is just as sharp. Those are indeed two hundred-thousand-year soul bones. As for the soul beasts that produced them—you saw them just now."
Just now? Dugu Bo thought back. He had only seen the two colossal entities Xiao Yan had summoned. Were those soul beasts?
Judging by their appearance, they did somewhat resemble the Titan Giant Ape and the Azure Bull Python recorded in the Spirit Hall's archives.
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