"Your Excellency, Teacher Lin Mu is not here. If you have matters to discuss with him, this junior can deliver a message on your behalf."
Qin Ming quickly stepped forward and said respectfully.
Dugu Bo snorted coldly, his tone leaving no room for argument: "Go tell him that I, Dugu Bo, have important matters to discuss with him. If he dares to make excuses and not come..."
"There will be consequences!"
As his words fell, the oppressive aura belonging to a Titled Douluo suddenly crashed down upon Qin Ming, causing his body to tremble slightly.
"Yes, this junior will go immediately."
Qin Ming dared not say another word and immediately turned and left the training ground.
Subsequently, Dugu Bo's gaze fell upon Yu Tianheng. He wasn't particularly satisfied with his granddaughter's choice of boyfriend.
Although the young man possessed a top-tier Beast Martial Soul like the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon, his talent wasn't anything spectacular.
Moreover, the current Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Clan was in a period of weak transition, with a gap between generations.
Yu Tianheng, risking poisoning to get close to Yan Yan, was clearly doing so to win over him, a Titled Douluo.
Sensing Titled Douluo's scrutinizing gaze, Yu Tianheng instantly felt pressured, as if a mountain were bearing down on him. He steeled himself and stepped forward.
"This junior, Yu Tianheng, pays respects to Your Excellency Poison Douluo."
Dugu Bo glanced at him, noticed his soul power was nearing level forty, and his expression softened slightly. He said coldly, "If it weren't for your new team leader, given your previous cultivation speed, it would have taken you at least another half year or more to break through to level forty!"
Yu Tianheng looked embarrassed but couldn't refute the statement.
"Grandfather!"
Seeing this, Dugu Yan quickly hooked her arm through Dugu Bo's, acting coquettishly. "Tianheng has already worked very hard. Once he obtains his fourth soul ring, his strength will definitely increase greatly."
Dugu Bo doted on his granddaughter immensely. He grunted, temporarily letting Yu Tianheng off the hook, and turned his attention to the others.
"Who is Tang San?"
Hearing his name, Tang San was about to step forward, but Xiao Wu tightly gripped his arm.
Tang San had no time to dwell on Xiao Wu's feelings and continued forward, cupping his hands in salute. "This junior, Tang San, pays respects to Your Excellency Poison Douluo."
Dugu Bo looked over the somewhat youthful boy before him; he was indeed much younger than Yu Tianheng.
"Not bad. To have level thirty-four soul power at such a young age, you are indeed talented—"
Before he could finish his sentence, Dugu Bo's pupils abruptly contracted. In that instant...
He had actually detected a faint trace of soul beast aura!
Immediately, he swept his gaze over everyone again and quickly locked onto the girl hiding at the very back.
"A hundred-thousand-year transformed soul beast!"
Dugu Bo's eyes burst with delighted surprise. He hadn't expected to stumble upon such a priceless treasure just by coming for a casual look.
Although he was already a Titled Douluo and couldn't absorb another soul ring, he could keep her captive and slaughter her when Yan Yan needed it.
Alternatively, he could kill her directly and take the bones.
This was a hundred-thousand-year soul bone, second in preciousness only to a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.
Just being locked onto by Dugu Bo's gaze, filled with greed and murderous intent, made Xiao Wu feel as if her blood was freezing. Her pretty face turned pale, and her delicate body trembled slightly.
Suddenly.
Everyone felt their vision blur for a moment; when they refocused, Dugu Bo had already vanished from his original spot.
In the next instant, Dugu Bo had appeared before Xiao Wu, grabbing her by the throat.
This all happened too fast; there was simply no time to react. Everyone stared dumbfounded at the scene.
"Xiao Wu!!"
Tang San shouted, instantly launching an attack. Countless Blue Silver Grass vines, like enraged venomous snakes, rapidly coiled towards Dugu Bo.
"A mere Soul Elder dares to make a move against a Titled Douluo?"
Dugu Bo chuckled disdainfully. His form shifted slightly, and everyone's vision blurred again, unable to see Dugu Bo's movements at all.
The next moment, Tang San flew backwards like a cannonball, heavily slamming into the ground. His throat sweetened, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Brat, considering your teacher, this old man doesn't want to kill you. Don't be ungrateful!"
Dugu Bo had deliberately held back some of his strength. If he killed Tang San, he would certainly offend Lin Mu, making it troublesome to solve the Martial Soul problem later on.
As for this transformed soul beast—soul masters and soul beasts had always been irreconcilable enemies. Now that she had fallen into his hands, she was his property.
"Brother... urgh~"
Xiao Wu wanted to persuade Tang San to leave, but Dugu Bo was tightly gripping her throat, rendering her speechless.
Dugu Bo was well aware of what a transformed soul beast meant. If exposed, it would certainly attract the covetousness of other Titled Douluo.
So he fabricated an excuse.
"This is the descendant of an old enemy of mine. I didn't expect to encounter her here."
Hearing this, Yu Tianheng and the others finally understood why Poison Douluo had attacked Xiao Wu—there was this underlying reason.
Admittedly, after a month of training together, they had developed some camaraderie, but to offend a Titled Douluo over this was clearly impossible.
"Let her go!"
Tang San struggled to get up, his eyes bloodshot.
Seeing this, Dugu Bo frowned slightly.
This Tang San and the transformed soul beast shared such a deep bond. Once he grew up, or once his teacher broke through to Titled Douluo, it would become a considerable trouble.
"It's better to take him away as well."
Just as Dugu Bo was about to make a move on Tang San, at this critical moment, a cold roar came from afar.
"How dare you touch what's mine!"
Before the words faded, a gigantic flaming blade, dozens of meters long, carrying the terrifying momentum to incinerate everything, tore through the air from the distance...
And fiercely slashed down towards Dugu Bo!
This massive blade was entirely condensed from jade-green flames. Wherever it passed, space itself seemed to distort slightly.
This was precisely Lin Mu's fifth soul skill!
This soul skill originated from a ten-thousand-year Hellfire Dragon, and its power was inherently formidable.
Coupled with the two-fold amplification from his sixth soul skill, it could even rival a Titled Douluo's eighth soul skill.
Dugu Bo's expression changed drastically.
The power contained in this strike actually made him, a Titled Douluo, feel a sense of fear!
Without time to overthink, he decisively activated his seventh soul ring.
An emerald light surged around him, and his Martial Soul True Form was instantly activated.
"Seventh Soul Skill: Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor True Form!"
The phantom of a massive Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor coiled up, attempting to withstand this earth-shattering slash head-on.
"Boom!!"
Accompanied by a thunderous roar, the violent energy shockwave forced everyone nearby back. Those with weaker strength, like Yu Feng and others, were even flung away.
Before Dugu Bo could steady himself, a scorching heat and oppressive aura, enough to make one's soul tremble, descended upon him from above!
In the next moment, an unknown divine beast appeared in the sky, stepping on flames, its body covered in burning scales.
Just the aura it emitted alone made even Dugu Bo feel an almost suffocating pressure.
Even if the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor was a top-tier Beast Martial Soul, it had to bow its head before the Fire Kirin!
"Could this person also be a Titled Douluo?"
Dugu Bo was horrified; his soul power was being suppressed by at least thirty percent.
"Stop right there!"
"If you move again, I'll kill her!"
Dugu Bo lifted Xiao Wu up and threatened Lin Mu, who was on the Fire Kirin's back.
"Ridiculous. You captured her. Why should I stop based on that?"