Chapter 51: Soul Bones Have a Limit to What They Can Bear!
A surge of overwhelming sorrow and emotion rose in Dugu Yan's heart—but even more than that, it was defiance against fate itself!
Why?
Why must members of the Dugu family be born carrying such a curse?
Why was she destined to be short-lived?
'No! I won't accept this fate!'
Dugu Yan clenched her fists violently, her fingernails digging deep into her palms.
'Since Lin Yuan can write all this in his diary, then he must know how to detoxify it!'
"Power-attack system or control system—it doesn't matter!"
"As long as I can live, as long as I can become stronger, I'm willing to try anything!"
And just as Dugu Yan's inner turmoil reached its peak:
The anonymous diary chat group, which had been quiet all morning, suddenly erupted in activity again because of Lin Yuan's latest entry!
[Irritable Pig-raising Maniac: @I Want to Live Past Thirty, no wonder your nickname was so weird—turns out you're poisoned?]
[Irritable Pig-raising Maniac: But Lin Yuan's right. Suppressing talent to survive really is a helpless choice.]
[I Really Don't Like Men: Tsk tsk, that old man Dugu Bo really has it rough. A dignified Titled Douluo, yet he can't even protect his own granddaughter.]
[I Really Don't Like Men: @I Want to Live Past Thirty, looks like Lin Yuan is your only hope now. Better hug that thigh tight.]
[Supreme Pope: Dugu Yan, since your identity has already been exposed, I might as well tell you the truth.]
[Supreme Pope: Your Jade Phosphor Serpent poison backlash truly is a dead end.]
[Supreme Pope: Over the years, Spirit Hall has repeatedly sent people to recruit your grandfather, Dugu Bo. As long as he agreed to join us, I naturally had a way to preserve his life—and even yours.]
[Supreme Pope: Unfortunately, your grandfather is too stubborn. He insisted on refusing Spirit Hall's goodwill and even went off to become a guest elder of the Heaven Dou royal family.]
[Supreme Pope: Since he chose to stand against Spirit Hall, what does the life or death of you two have to do with me? You deserve it!]
Seeing these icy, cutting words, Dugu Yan trembled with rage—but had no strength to refute them.
At that moment, Hu Liena couldn't help but jump in to smooth things over:
[Sworn Protector of the Pope: Um… if it really comes to it, Dugu Yan, why don't you try persuading your grandfather?]
[Sworn Protector of the Pope: As long as you join Spirit Hall, you'll be family. Her Holiness has twin martial souls—she can perfectly control even a venomous Martial Soul like the Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor, she must have a way to save you!]
Hu Liena held blind faith in her teacher.
In her eyes, there was nothing her teacher couldn't solve.
However, the words that followed from Bibi Dong poured cold water straight over Dugu Yan's head:
[Supreme Pope: It can't be solved.]
[Supreme Pope: My situation is different from Dugu Bo's. My poison is inherent to my martial soul and does not backfire on my body. Dugu Bo, on the other hand, went down the wrong path—his poison has already seeped into his bones and marrow.]
[Supreme Pope: That said… There is a method.]
[I Want to Live Past Thirty: What method?!]
[Supreme Pope: Heh. Why should I tell you?]
[Supreme Pope: Since your grandfather chose the Heaven Dou Empire, why should I aid an enemy? Watching a Titled Douluo from an opposing faction fall—wouldn't that be a good thing for Spirit Hall?]
After sending that message, Bibi Dong's lips curled into a cold, glamorous smile.
Though she didn't know Dugu Bo's precise condition, combining Lin Yuan's diary hints with her own understanding of poison-type martial souls made it easy to infer the so-called "soul bone poison-storage method."
Find several high-quality soul bones—preferably poison-attributed—and guide the body's core toxins into them.
Not only could it suppress the poison, but it could also create terrifying "mixed poison" soul skills.
But the problem was—
High-quality soul bones were strategic resources!
Spirit Hall itself didn't have enough to distribute—why would they give them to an outsider?
And if the soul bone quality was too low, unable to withstand the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor's toxin, the result would be immediate bone explosion and bodily destruction!
The best solution was actually an external soul bone.
But those were even rarer than hundred-thousand-year soul rings.
Where would you even find one?
No wonder Dugu Bo's poison was clearly powerful, yet his combat performance was so weak—so weak that he was mocked as the weakest Titled Douluo on the continent.
Seeing Bibi Dong's resolute stance, Dugu Yan completely lost hope.
[I Want to Live Past Thirty: Hmph! Fine, don't say it then! I don't care!]
[I Want to Live Past Thirty: I'll go find Lin Yuan! He must have a way!]
And at that very moment, Lin Yuan's diary did indeed mention a method.
[And as for solving this problem—unfortunately, I don't currently have a way. After all, I don't know how to detoxify poison.]
Seeing this line, the hope that had just ignited in Dugu Yan's heart was instantly extinguished.
Her whole body nearly went limp.
Even Lin Yuan had no way?
However, the very next line sent her emotions soaring again:
[But while I don't know how to detoxify poison, I do know the original plot.]
[There is definitely a solution—and more than one.]
Dugu Yan: !!!
These emotional ups and downs were even more intense than Lin Yuan's spear just now.
She looked at Lin Yuan with a trace of resentment in her eyes.
Big brother, can you please finish your sentences in one go?
This is really bad for one's mentality!
[The first method is actually refining a specific antidote pill.]
[But on this continent, aside from that cheating bastard Tang San, there's probably no second person who knows how to refine it.]
[Unless I manage to draw something like Alchemy from the system in the future.]
[Speaking of which, I have to complain about the original plot.]
[Tang San's luck is truly absurd.]
[Early on, he had the Clear Sky Douluo secretly protecting him. In the mid-to-late stages, he even had a Titled Douluo like Dugu Bo acting as his personal bodyguard.]
[And the reason Dugu Bo was so loyal to him, even willing to confront Spirit Hall for his sake—]
[Was simply because Tang San fooled him completely!]
[In the original story, Dugu Bo captured Tang San, intending to vent his anger for his granddaughter, while also coveting Tang San's external soul bone, the Eight Spider Lances.]
[As a result, Tang San saw through his poisoning at a glance and used it as leverage—not only saving his own life, but even emptying Dugu Bo's medicinal garden!]
[Tang San did refine antidote pills for Dugu Bo, and even helped him raise his cultivation by one level.]
[But that so-called detoxification method of his… was actually a trap!]
[That is the so-called "soul bone poison-storage method."]
[According to Tang San, as long as Dugu Bo finds more soul bones and forces the excess toxins in his body into them for storage, the backlash problem will be solved.]
[Sounds reasonable, doesn't it?]
[But in reality, this is nothing more than treating symptoms instead of the root—no, it's drinking poison to quench thirst!]
Lin Yuan paused here, as if organizing his thoughts, causing the women secretly reading the diary to hold their breath.
[Because soul bones have a limit to what they can bear!]
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End of Chapter