Chapter-1: Dugu familyintroduction....
The Dugu Clan
Douluo Continent, Silvis Kingdom.
The Silvis Kingdom is located in the southern part of the Heaven Dou Empire, east of the Balak Kingdom, and north of the Star Dou Great Forest. Its area is similar to that of the Balak Kingdom, and it is one of the four major subsidiary kingdoms under the Heaven Dou Empire.
In terms of area and comprehensive strength alone, the Silvis Kingdom is second only to the Balak Kingdom.
Silves City is the capital of the Silvis Kingdom, its largest city, and the kingdom's political and economic center.
As for why the Balak Kingdom is stronger than the Silvis Kingdom, it is because it borders the Star Luo Empire. Furthermore, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family must station heavy troops there for defense, which to a certain extent also deters the separatist forces within the Balak Kingdom.
Therefore, in terms of military power, the Balak Kingdom is stronger than the Silvis Kingdom.
However, the Silvis Kingdom is different. As a subsidiary of the Heaven Dou Empire, although the Heaven Dou Imperial Family has a certain degree of influence here, with the support of various Sects and families, the Silvis Kingdom has become a veritable kingdom within a kingdom.
The Jade Phosphor Snake Clan, established by the Dugu Family where Dugu Yuanlong belongs, also established its clan lands within the Silvis Kingdom.
Dugu Yuanlong was originally a corporate slave in modern society, a poor loser who caught the Transmigration express. This could be considered a way to change one's fate, though this method was just a bit too peculiar.
In the year 2616 of the Douluo Calendar, Dugu Yuanlong happened to be 6 years old.
According to the rules of the Douluo Continent, any child who reaches the age of 6 will begin their Spirit Awakening.
If, after the Spirit awakens, the child possesses Innate spirit power—even if it is only rank one—then congratulations, you have a chance to change your destiny.
So, ever since Dugu Yuanlong knew he had transmigrated to the Douluo Continent and was part of the Dugu Clan, home of the Jade Phosphor Snake Clan, he felt a bit of despair at first.
Why would Dugu Yuanlong have such an emotion?
As a reborn person, a modern man who had read the novel 'Douluo Continent', he knew that even though the Poison Douluo Dugu Bo was a Titled Douluo, he still had to endure the pain of the Spirit Poison.
In fact, if Dugu Bo hadn't possessed the strength of a Titled Douluo and had the good luck to find one of the three great treasure basins, the 'Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well', to help him suppress the crisis of the toxic eruption...
Otherwise, Dugu Bo wouldn't be the Poison Douluo; the grass on his grave would already be several meters high.
Dugu Yuanlong didn't know much else, but he could see from the novel and anime that at that time, the only members of the Dugu Clan to appear were Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, which showed that the Dugu Family didn't have many members left.
Otherwise, with the existence of a Titled Douluo, if the Dugu Family had many people, they would at least be a power on par with the Lower Four Sects.
However, given Dugu Bo's solitary nature and the lack of Family heritage support, even if he was a Titled Douluo, he wouldn't dare to easily recruit troops and buy horses to establish his own power. The gain would not make up for the loss!
Dugu Yuanlong also knew that later on, Dugu Bo would always be haunted by the death of his son, Dugu Xin.
By just that one step, Dugu Xin lost that tiny glimmer of a chance to survive.
However, Dugu Xin is still alive now, though he lives in great pain, constantly suffering from the torture of the Jade Phosphor Snake Poison.
This is also why Dugu Bo, as the strongest existence in the Family, has been running around outside to find a solution to the problem of the Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit.
Unfortunately, the current Jade Phosphor Clan is no longer as glorious as it used to be, and its Family members are even scarcer.
As for the reason, as long as one is a formal member of the Dugu Clan, once they reach a certain age, the Family elders will inform them of the inside story one by one.
So, the question arises: why did the current Dugu Family have a time of glory, yet now it has declined?
There is naturally a reason for this: the side effects caused by the defects of the former Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit had already been researched and solved by the ancestors and elders of the Dugu Clan.
As for why the Dugu Clan has now developed into such a dilapidated state, it was because after a great war with an enemy, the Family directly fell into decline.
Furthermore, the solution to the problems caused by the Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit's defects was lost during that great war because the elders who knew the method perished, directly leading to the Dugu Family now having no way to solve the Spirit defect problem.
And as for why the Dugu Family did not preserve the solution to the Spirit defect problem in written form, there were naturally reasons for that as well.
To keep the secret of the Jade Phosphor Spirit's defect, from the moment they first researched the solution, the Dugu Family gave up on preserving the method in writing.
On one hand, it was to prevent enemy forces from knowing that the Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit had defects, which could lead to the extermination of the Dugu Clan.
On the other hand, it was for fear of spies sneaking in among the Family's servants.
After all, the problem of the Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit's defect, even after finding a method, did not fundamentally solve the problem at its very source; it only ensured that clansmen would no longer be poisoned to death by the toxins produced by their own Spirit.
Dugu Yuanlong was reborn into such a Spirit Master Family. From the moment he was reborn into the Douluo Continent, to realizing he had transmigrated to the Douluo Continent, and then to knowing he was a member of the Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit's Dugu Family, his mood at that time was one of frustration.
The reason was self-evident, even if Dugu Yuanlong knew some solutions for the Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit.
After all, methods like using a Spirit Bone to store the Snake Poison existed, but this method only treated the symptoms and not the root cause, unable to solve the Spirit Poison from its source.
One must know that a Spirit Bone, a treasure of the blood river, is not something you can obtain just by killing a Spirit Beast; it also depends on whether you have the luck.
From later on, even as a Titled Douluo, Dugu Bo only managed to drop a head Spirit Bone when obtaining his ninth spirit ring, and that was due to the rarity and special nature of a Spirit Beast like Medusa.
From this, one can see the scarcity of Spirit Bones; furthermore, the age, rarity, and specialness of the Spirit Beast are required for there to be a chance for a Spirit Bone to appear.
Only those families and great powers, because of their long history, possess Legacy Spirit Bones. This is also why Spirit Hall and the Upper Three Sects have more Spirit Bones of better quality than other powers.
Strength is sometimes the key to obtaining Spirit Bones. Therefore, as long as a Spirit Bone is obtained, it is a matter of absolute secrecy and will never be let known to others.
This is experience forged at the cost of blood; often, when a Spirit Bone is discovered, it becomes a matter of life and death.
Therefore, using a Spirit Bone to solve the Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit problem was unrealistic from the start; such a method was simply not practical.
Dugu Yuanlong had another way, which was to wait until Dugu Bo found the 'Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well' and then consume the 'blazing apricot pepper vegetable' and 'Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass' to directly change the attribute of the Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit so it would no longer produce Snake Poison.
However, this could only solve the problem for one person and could not solve the fundamental problem of the Dugu Clan.
Or he could use Tang San's solution, making an antidote from blood, but this also required coordination with a Spirit Bone.
Otherwise, the Snake Poison produced by the Jade Phosphor Snake later on would still slowly accumulate.
Dugu Yuanlong could also wait for Dugu Bo to find the 'Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well' and then let his own Jade Phosphor Snake Spirit transform into a non-poisonous snake Spirit.
But then Dugu Yuanlong thought that one cannot test human nature; he didn't want to become a human antidote who provided blood.
In Dugu Yuanlong's mind, he might not use it himself, but it could be used on Dugu Xin.
After all, the current Dugu Xin is already half-dead. To be able to live on, sacrificing some of his own strength wouldn't be a loss!
As for Dugu Yuanlong's own Spirit problem, by using his imagination, he had also thought of some ways and filtered out one he felt was the most reliable. However, whether it would ultimately work could only be known after trying.
According to Dugu Yuanlong's thoughts, if he succeeded in the end, then the Spirit defect problem of the Dugu Clan would also be easily resolved.