The toxic soul power within his body was growing at an alarming speed. If this continued, he would explode and die at any moment!
"His strength is rising this fast… don't tell me he's about to die?"Standing nearby, Xiao Yan's hand trembled slightly as he released a strand of Blue Silver Emperor, ready to intervene at any time.
The fire-cold toxin catalyzed by Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss was not truly poison in essence. At its core, it was an extremely pure and powerful form of energy—everything depended on whether one had the strength to absorb it.
If it could be absorbed, it was a tremendous tonic.If it couldn't, it became a lethal poison.
However, the snake poison catalyzed by Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss inside Dugu Bo was entirely different.
His snake poison was an extremely pure toxin—poisonous to others, and poisonous to himself as well.
Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss acting on Dugu Bo had found the perfect environment to unleash its effects, amplifying them manyfold.
Someone who could reach the Titled Douluo realm with a diseased body was no fool.
Dugu Bo understood clearly that if he simply absorbed this rapidly growing soul power, his only fate would be to be blown apart by it.
Recalling what Xiao Yan had previously said about forcing the snake poison into soul bones, Dugu Bo immediately diverted part of the toxic soul power into his head soul bone.
Although the quality of that head soul bone limited how much it could absorb, at a moment like this, every bit helped.
Closely monitoring Dugu Bo's condition, Xiao Yan instantly sensed the change when he acted and exclaimed in surprise,"His strength is retreating?"
When he saw the soul bone manifest above Dugu Bo's head, Xiao Yan immediately understood.
"This old poison freak is forcing toxic soul power into his soul bone. But this is nothing more than trying to stop a chariot with a mantis's arm. Snow-Colored Swan's Kiss grows stronger alongside the poison."
As massive amounts of snake poison soul power were absorbed, Dugu Bo's pill core flickered with intense green light, clearly approaching its limit.
At that moment, green light flashed violently around Dugu Bo as bursts of snake poison erupted outward.
Facing this situation, Xiao Yan did not act.
It wasn't that he was standing by doing nothing—rather, it was clear that this old poison freak had found a way to save himself.
The method was actually very simple in theory: expend the snake poison inner power that was too difficult to absorb.
Of course, simple in theory only.
To forcibly expel inner power directly through all the acupoints in the body—Xiao Yan admitted that even he couldn't currently do that.
This wasn't guiding inner power through one or several orderly channels, but rather opening countless holes throughout all channels, allowing soul power to gush out like water.
Meridians exist precisely to make the flood-like inner power easier to control.
Once countless holes appeared in those channels, a single mistake would allow the flood to tear everything apart.
Dugu Bo was suffering immensely.
The toxic soul power within his meridians was increasing every second, and his meridians were visibly swelling. Even recklessly venting the power at the cost of his life couldn't fully neutralize it.
The green poison mist surrounding his body grew denser and denser, gradually showing signs of solidifying, wrapping around him like strands of green silkworm silk.
Xiao Yan was momentarily baffled."What is this…?"
Still, he did not lower his guard. If Dugu Bo's crucial pill core showed the slightest problem, he would act immediately.
Martial soul evolution was something with very little precedent.
Regarding martial soul evolution, Xiao Yan had two hypotheses.
The first was based on his own martial soul.
His Blue Silver Emperor was originally an extremely powerful martial soul, but due to issues during awakening, it had manifested as Blue Silver Grass.
In such a case, achieving a second evolution only required undergoing a correct martial soul awakening once more.
From comparing Su Yuntao with the Blue Silver King, Xiao Yan inferred that one factor was strength, while another was method.
The Blue Silver King's manner of speaking was peculiar—Xiao Yan still remembered how it had asked upon meeting him whether he had come to awaken his martial soul.
From that statement, the Blue Silver King must have interacted with a transformed Blue Silver Emperor before, or at least known of its existence; otherwise, it wouldn't have reacted so casually to a human.
Only by having contact with a transformed Blue Silver Emperor could it know the true method of awakening.
Otherwise, how could a mere Blue Silver King—one that wasn't even a Blue Silver Emperor—understand such secrets without possessing that bloodline itself?
It was difficult to explain otherwise.
Of course, Xiao Yan's case was special. His martial soul was already powerful; the second awakening merely restored its true form—more of a pseudo-evolution, similar to what fantasy novels call "atavism."
Though even that wasn't a perfect fit.
Strictly speaking, Ma Hongjun's mutated martial soul fit the concept of "atavism" far better—his bloodline had mutated back toward an ancestral form.
Unfortunately, the standardized martial soul awakening process could not awaken a true phoenix martial soul, resulting in the awkward "grass chicken" martial soul.
Based on earlier speculation that humans in Douluo were descendants of transformed soul beasts, most humans could no longer cultivate due to bloodline degradation, while only a few retained the aptitude.
Perhaps Ma Hongjun's original village had once been entirely composed of transformed phoenixes, only to decline over time.
Born in a village of grass chicken martial souls, Ma Hongjun fit the atavism concept perfectly.
No wonder that little fatty kept shouting, "Even a chicken coop can give birth to a golden phoenix!"
For martial soul holders like this, what they needed was a specific awakening method.
Unfortunately, after the wars between transformed soul beasts and soul beasts, no survivors understood such techniques anymore.
Atavism depended on fate—one wrong step, and death followed.
The second hypothesis involved true martial soul evolution—evolving from one martial soul into an even stronger one.
For that to happen, sufficient accumulation of天地元力 (Heaven-and-Earth Origin Energy) was required, much like the Blue Silver King's bloodline evolution. Once the threshold was reached, evolution occurred naturally.
It was known that Blue Silver Grass had three stages: Blue Silver Grass, Blue Silver King, and Blue Silver Emperor.
Grass itself couldn't move and had nothing extraordinary. Its absorption rate of天地元力 was fixed—after roughly one hundred thousand years, a single Blue Silver Grass could evolve into a Blue Silver Emperor.
When a soul master's strength reached a certain level, their martial soul could also evolve.
Dugu Bo was precisely such an example—his Jade Phosphor Serpent had evolved into the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor.
Though calling it a Serpent Emperor was questionable in Xiao Yan's eyes. The evolution was flawed; it couldn't resolve its own inherent problems. At best, it was at the Blue Silver King level—still some distance from a true Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor.
Unlike soul beasts, who could eventually evolve as long as they lived…
Soul masters faced the brutal limitation of lifespan.
Sometimes, one might die just a step short of evolution.
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