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"Don't call me Your Majesty, just call me... Old Poison." Since Gu You gave him such a favor, Dugu Bo naturally had to return the favor. Dugu Bo couldn't think of a good name for a while, so he directly used the name that his mortal enemy Ju Douluo called him.
If he was called a teacher, with his cultivation level, he would be more than qualified to be the teacher of two Soul Lords. But for the two people in front of him, ordinary Title Douluo would not be able to help, not to mention that he was the weakest in the world and had no qualifications. Even if he was accidentally exposed, who knows what kind of weird people would come to cause trouble.
It seems okay to call him senior. But I call him Xiao You, and Gu You calls me senior. It's okay if I don't know, but Dugu Bo, who knows his true identity, doesn't have such a big face. In terms of the status in the soul master world, I don't have the qualifications to suppress him. The Five Emperors Order represents everything, so it's not appropriate.
Although the nickname of Old Poison is not good, it is better than Poison Half to Death. Moreover, being able to call him by a nickname proves that he has a close relationship with Master Gu You. If he has a good relationship with this person that all the forces in the continent dream of, the Dugu family can also benefit from it.
Thinking of this, Dugu Bo said to Tang San who was standing beside him: "Xiao San, can I call you this? You don't have to call me Your Majesty and you all the time, just call me Old Poisonous Creature."
A genius in using poisons who was far superior to himself. If he was not Gu You’s friend, Dugu Bo would have forced him to become his disciple and teach him all his poison skills.
"Alright, old poison. It doesn't matter what you call me. Now that you're back, we should start preparing for the experiment."
Gu You instantly entered the state. It was not worth wasting time on a mere title. If he really cared about the title, Gu You would not call Qin Ming "teacher". Instead of thinking of a suitable title, he might as well do a few more experiments.
Hearing that Gu You was about to deal with the poison on his body, Dugu Bo's eyes lit up, "Xiao You, what do you want me to do?"
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
There were eight loud bangs, and eight metal cans with strange slogans printed on them fell to the ground. Gu You pointed at the can that Tang San took out, and a smile that made his ears swell appeared on his face. "You, go and charge it."
"???"
"Xiao San, take him to recharge. I need to make some preparations first."
Seeing Gu You waving his hand to drive him away, Tang San took the confused Dugu Bo away, leaving Gu You with the various soul beast materials.
The soul beast materials in Douluo Continent are used in a similar way to the monster materials in Monster Hunter World, and are basically used to make weapons and protective gear. And because soul masters have their own martial spirits, they usually use protective gear.
However, the craftsmen of Douluo Continent have no way to activate the energy in the soul beast materials, so most of these armors only have the surface characteristics of soul beasts. For example, armor made from soul beast skin with strong skin is also strong. Armor made from soul beast skin with inherent fireproof ability can also be fireproof.
Also, there are very few soul masters who can wear protective gear, most of them are ordinary weapon soul masters, and the effect they provide is too useless. Compared with blacksmiths who need weapons and equipment to build an army, the status of tailors is extremely low.
Because of this reason, most soul beast materials are very cheap, and the scraps are even cheaper.
Maybe there will be in the future, but right now, Gu You has no interest in using soul beast materials to make weapons and armor. He needs soul beast materials now for more important reasons.
It’s for Dugu Bo’s soul bone.
Dugu Bo's attribute is poison. This power is different from elements like ice and fire. It means that it is impossible to create the most suitable soul bone for Dugu Bo with the soul guide array currently mastered by the two of them.
Although it would be fine to just make a soul bone that can hold the toxin, since we are going to do it, of course we have to do it to the best of our ability. At least help Dugu Bo get rid of the title of the weakest.
If the soul guide array cannot provide poison, then soul beast materials can be used to provide it. The fangs of the mandragora snake, the legs of the human-faced demon spider, the scales and wing fragments of the wind moth, the poisonous sting of the giant bee, almost all the parts of the poisonous soul beasts that are not very rare are all in front of Gu You.
What Gu You has to do is to try to turn the poisons and their usage methods recorded here into soul bone skills.
"Then, let the experiment begin."
In the following week, Dugu Bo finally understood why Gu You was so young and could be called "the strongest scholar in history", and why Tang San was Gu You's best friend and the person he trusted the most.
When two crazy people meet, how can they not have a good relationship?
Dozens of test experiments were conducted every day. Gu You was responsible for recording the experimental data and failure performance, and proposing various adjustment requirements that seemed unrealistic to Dugu Bo.
And Tang San never complained about Gu You's difficult requirements. He just kept adjusting the thing called base with excitement.
There are more and more papers recording experimental data, and the cave outside used for rest is now full of various forms recording failures.
After only a week, Dugu Bo, who only needed to charge "Nanfu" every day, began to get tired of the continuous failures. Gu You and Tang San were still trying various possibilities with excitement.
"December 2643, 12. The thirty-seventh experiment begins now."
Hearing Gu You's words, Tang San immediately activated the soul power battery. Unlike the previous flat base, the base now is flat except for the bottom, and the edge has an upward arc, which looks a bit like a frying pan without a handle. If there is a lid on it, no one will doubt that this thing is used for cooking.
Five minutes later, with a loud bang, the keystone in the middle exploded violently, and a small fang was also shattered into pieces. Bright red blood splattered everywhere, even splashing onto the ancient swimming shoes.
"Failed again." The familiar scene was repeated. Gu You shook his head and wrote on the paper, "Xiao San, for the next base, we will not use snakes for the materials for now. We will use the poisonous sting of giant bees instead."
Tang San nodded and was about to change the base plate, but Dugu Bo immediately stepped forward to interrupt him, "Stop, stop, stop now."
The two looked at Dugu Bo, whose facial expression was quite rich, with puzzlement, and heard him say, "Well, it's the end of the year now, you should go back to Tiandou City. Those two girls are waiting for you to go home."
There were still eleven days until the Chinese New Year, and Tiandou Royal Academy had already closed for the holidays. Although he was anxious to detoxify, Dugu Bo would not even skip the Chinese New Year holiday.
Watching the two people working on their experiments without any progress, even if they didn't say anything, the considerate Dugu Bo knew that they would not be able to hold on any longer.
In this case, it is better to let them have a good rest. As the saying goes, work and rest are the best combination. How can we let people work hard all the time? Only when they are well recovered and then continue the experiment can we make good progress.
"Okay, I got it. Xiaosan, put down the base plate and remove the batteries in the southeast direction. This time, add the giant peak's venom as well. Let's prepare to begin the 38th experiment."
The preface was withdrawn not because these two lunatics couldn't hold on, but because Dugu Bo couldn't hold on anymore.These successive failures made Dugu Bo, who was watching, go crazy, and he didn't know how the person involved managed to survive.
With multiple plans being advanced simultaneously, and in the worst-case scenario where he could still save his life, Dugu Bo was no longer so anxious about artificial soul bones.
Even if Gu You hadn't eaten the Star Anise Mysterious Ice Grass and the Fiery Apricot, the medicine Tang San prepared after analyzing the toxins was quite effective. Even if he didn't take the medicine Tang San gave him to relieve the symptoms, Dugu Bo could feel the pain relieved, and the toxins were no longer stuck in his body like a stubborn stone.
The medicine for Dugu Yan was also prepared, and Dugu Bo gave it to Dugu Yan under the pretext of "enhancing the effect of poison training."
According to Dugu Bo, the power of Dugu Yan's poison has really increased. In this regard, Tang San explained that "because part of the poison is not released outwards, but acts on Sister Yanzi. This medicine allows this part of the poison that will hurt herself to be released outwards as well, so the power is increased."
"Failed again." Looking at the experimental records in his hand, Gu You shook his head, closed his eyes and said to Tang San: "The 40th experiment, remove the wedge stone for me."
I'm starting my sixth month of writing a book now. I haven't eaten the herbal jelly because I don't know what the effective parts of these two herbs are yet, and I'm still analyzing them. There will be double monthly tickets at the end of this month, so everyone... (wink hint)
Chapter 235 Failure or Success?
"………What's this?"
Looking at the finger-sized, crystal clear, emerald green poison needle in the base of the frying pan, the three of them had question marks in their heads.
Looking at the obviously poisonous needle, Gu You stroked his chin and said, "The shape is the same as the giant bee's poisonous needle, but it has changed from the size of an arm to the size of a finger. The color is no longer withered yellow, but has turned into an emerald green."
"If you don't look at the shape but only the appearance, it really looks like a spirit bone. But why does it look like a poison needle?"
Suddenly, Dugu Bo's mind flashed with a brilliant light, and his face showed ecstasy, "External soul bone, could this be an external soul bone?!"
This thing has the exact same appearance as a soul bone, but it is not one of the six common types of soul bones. Dugu Bo can't think of a second possibility other than an external soul bone.
External soul bones are a magical existence. They are special soul bones besides the six major types of soul bones.
If the probability of ordinary spirit bones appearing from spirit beasts is one in a thousand, then the probability of external spirit bones appearing is not even one in ten thousand. In the spirit master world, if a spirit master were to make a ranking of the things they most desire, external spirit bones would rank second, second only to the 100,000-year spirit ring, which is almost impossible to exist.
"External soul bone?!" Upon hearing this, Tang San, who also knew the preciousness of external soul bones, suddenly widened his eyes and looked at the poison needle that was suspected to be a soul bone in shock.
Among the three, only Gu You remained silent. He had a strange premonition that the one in front of him was not an external spirit bone at all. But in terms of possibility, he could not find any other reasonable explanation except an external spirit bone.
Dugu Bo looked at Gu You who remained silent and asked, "Xiao You, what do you think?" The most authoritative person here is Gu You, and his opinion is very important.
Seeing Dugu Bo throwing the question to him, Gu You was silent for a moment and answered honestly: "I don't know."
"The shape is not any of the six common spirit bones. It looks exactly the same as the records of strange external spirit bones, but I don't think this is an external spirit bone."
It is mentioned in the original book that if you want to absorb external soul bones, you must first absorb the soul rings produced by the soul beast. If you do not have the soul rings of the same soul beast, it will be useless even if you have external soul bones.
But this requirement was broken by Huo Yuhao himself during the second round of the fight.
When Xiao Xiao absorbed the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's soul ring, Xuan Zi discovered that the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear had produced an external soul bone in addition to the soul ring, and it was the strongest Dark Gold Terror Claw right palm bone. He then gave this external soul bone to Xiao Xiao who had absorbed the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's soul ring.
As a result, because Xiao Xiao's body could not withstand the power of the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's strongest right claw, when his right hand was about to explode, Huo Yuhao transferred the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's right metacarpal bone into his own body, and finally successfully obtained this power that was close to the ultimate gold.
Although he didn't have the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's soul ring, he was able to successfully absorb the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's external soul bone and directly shattered the Iron Law.
In addition, Tang Wulin was the same. He did not have the soul of the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, but he also had a Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's right metacarpal bone.
Two consecutive special cases are related to the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear, which makes people wonder if the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear is born to be more... special. It does not need spirit rings and can be absorbed by all spirit masters who meet the physical strength requirements.
Moreover, why is it Xuanzi again? If Xiaoxiao is not sure that he can successfully absorb the right metacarpal bone of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, can't he bring it back to the academy first and then absorb it with the help of some big guys like Moon?
At worst, prepare an auxiliary soul master and a healer. Gu You doesn't believe that the absorption can still fail and cause disability.
If the Chosen One Huo Yuhao had not been right next to him, Xiao Xiao, the genius soul master with twin martial souls, would most likely have become like Yang Guo, and would have been able to conquer the world single-handedly.
Although external soul bones are rare, at least during the period of Dou Yi, it is not uncommon to see soul rings of 100,000 years.
In addition to Tang San's Eight Spider Lances in the original novel, Gu You remembered that his friend said that Bibi Dong and Hu Liena also had external spirit bones. In addition to the 100,000-year spirit rings other than the God-given spirit rings, and except for the wife spirit rings of the Tang family father and son, only Bibi Dong was confirmed to have a 100,000-year spirit ring.
"If I had known earlier, I would have gone to Shrek to have a look. If I follow the plot for a while, I will have a chance to research the Eight Spider Lance, an external soul bone. It's not a bad idea to be patient..."
Of course, Gu You was just thinking about it. Even if he was given the opportunity to go back to the time when he graduated and choose again, he would not choose to go to Shrek Academy.
What were they doing there, watching the horny tiger play P3 or strolling around the garden with the whores, or looking for an opportunity to see Zhao Wuji get beaten? Zhao Wuji Guyou didn't know, he just felt that if he stayed with two people who couldn't control their desires for a day, he would be worried about allergies and skin rot.
"Forget it. We can't see anything just by looking at it here. Old Poison, come on."
Gu You pointed at the green, somewhat creepy poison needle and asked Dugu Bo to try to absorb it. Dugu Bo was not polite and reached out to pick up the poison needle and put it in his hand.
Gu You and Tang San looked at each other, nodded at the same time, turned around and ran towards a light pink flower beside the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire in the distance. After running into the light pink light shield, Gu You breathed a sigh of relief and shouted to Dugu Bo: "We are ready, you can start at any time."
Watching the two little bastards' actions, Dugu Bo couldn't breathe, and felt suffocated. If it wasn't for the important matter, he would have pointed at the two little bastards who didn't believe him and scolded them.
When communicating with Tang San, Tang San also introduced to him some of the functions of the magical herbs here, including the large light pink flower.
This pale pink flower has no leaves, a stem three feet long, and a very large flower, a foot in diameter, each petal looks as crystal clear as crystal. The stamens are pale purple, like purple diamonds inlaid there.
A beautiful and fragrant fairy product, that’s its name.
Different from other magical herbs, this herb, whose name alone carries the word "magic", is the only one that truly deserves the name of magical herb in Dugu Bo's eyes.
The reason is very simple, because this magical herb is the nemesis of all poisons and has the effect of neutralizing all toxins. It cannot detoxify itself, but it can overcome and prevent poisons. No matter what type of poison it is or how severe it is, it will be ineffective within its range of influence. It is a rare treasure that drug researchers dream of.
Dugu Bo and Tang San have experimented with it and found that even if it was their own Green Phosphorus Snake King Poison, as long as Tang San's Blue Silver Grass was under the protection of the Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Product, there would be no signs of poisoning.
The same goes for the venom. When the Green Phosphorus Snake King's venom was dripped onto the blue silver grass in the form of venom, it was like dropping a drop of water of a different color and thicker consistency. The blue silver grass did not react at all and simply absorbed the venom.
After the blue silver grass is taken out of the light shield range, it will not suddenly wither. The strong poison in the venom has been completely neutralized near the Youxiang Qiluo fairy product, turning into a drop of very special water.
In other words, if the body remains within the light shield and both hands are extended to perform operations with adequate protection, the probability of poisoning of the experimenters can be greatly reduced.
However, this neutralization is conditional, that is, it must be real poison. Tang San also experimented with cultivating blue silver grass with two kinds of spring water under the protection of Youxiang Qiluo Xianpin, but it turned out to be useless and it would still turn into ice slag and ashes.
The water from the extremely cold Yin Spring and the extremely hot Yang Spring in the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire appear to be cold poison and fire poison, but in essence they are actually the violent high-concentration elemental power of ice and fire.
If you survive after being hit and successfully absorb the energy, Gu You speculates that the elemental power can be improved to a certain extent, and there is even a possibility that it will evolve to the extreme. If you don't survive, you can only type GG in the midst of laughter and joy. Young man, please start over.
In the original novel, the cold poison and fire poison produced by the Eight Spider Lance after Tang San ate two immortal herbs were still within the treatment range of the Youxiang Qiluo immortal product, but the power from the Yin-Yang Eyes of Ice and Fire was not something that a pitiful immortal herb could handle.
"Tsk, these two little bastards are getting more and more presumptuous." Dugu Bo cursed inwardly, feeling that he should not have let these two call him old poisonous creature. It was better to be not close enough than to be just an ordinary old man in front of them without any dignity.
Silently looking forward to successfully absorbing this... this external soul bone, Dugu Bo, who wanted to reshape his status as a Titled Douluo, placed all his hopes on this soul bone, mobilized his soul power, and initiated the fusion of the soul bone with himself.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes
Five minutes passed, Dugu Bo's sleeves rustled, the light of his soul power gradually increased, and the air became heavier. But the poison needle lying in Dugu Bo's palm did not move, as if it did not realize that someone wanted to absorb it.
Staring at the needle intently, Dugu Bo sighed, his soul power fluctuations dropped instantly, and he looked listless. He smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly, "It seems that this is really not an external soul bone."