Dugu Yan spent a full month extracting all the poison from her body and condensing it into her soul bone.
After doing so, the fusion of the two potent poisons enhanced the power of her soul bone ability significantly.
Her first two soul skills had relatively mild toxicity, leaning more towards auxiliary control. Dugu Yan had explained this to Oscar before.
This was because Dugu Bo, concerned for her health, had chosen soul rings for her from spirit beasts with mild toxicity beasts more oriented towards support and control rather than raw poison.
There were two benefits to this approach: The rate at which Dugu Yan's body would be corroded by poison slowed down.2. Although this reduced her poison offensive capabilities in the early stages, it didn't weaken her overall strength.
Instead, her poison abilities were transformed into control based support, which made her even more valuable in team scenarios.
However, what Dugu Bo didn't anticipate was that Dugu Yan, due to her introverted nature and her inherently poisonous constitution, never had a true friend.
Now, having met Oscar, that problem had been resolved. She could even go to Shrek Academy with him in the future, making full use of those two auxiliary control soul skills.
Now that she had absorbed the Right Arm Bone of the Bone Eating Poison Python, the new soul bone ability directly compensated for her previous lack of powerful poison based attacks greatly boosting her overall strength.
With the poison fully refined into her soul bone, Dugu Yan felt physically lighter like an entirely new person.
She now felt extraordinarily refreshed, as if even the air she breathed was sweet. Overjoyed, she was like a cheerful little sparrow.
After the purification, Oscar gave her the Hundred Treasure Detoxification Compound Pill that he had refined. She needed to take one daily.
After approximately three months of regular intake, her body would be fully detoxified, and the internal damage caused by years of poisoning would be completely repaired restoring her to a fully healthy, normal person.
Of course, this wasn't a perfect solution. Any poison generated through the use of her martial spirit in the future would still have to be extracted into the soul bone. Otherwise, residual toxins in her body would eventually corrode it again.
So Dugu Yan, like Ma Hongjun previously had to with his Evil Fire, would periodically need to use her soul bone ability to expel excess poison or find a higher quality soul bone to store more of it.
The only "once and for all" solution while conceptually simple was extraordinarily difficult to implement: Never use her martial spirit again.But obviously, that wasn't realistic.
The hard alternative? Acquire a 100,000year soul bone.
A soul bone of that level would be powerful enough to store so much poison that even ten Dugu Bos would take decades to fill it up. For the rest of her life, she might never need to expel poison again.
After all, fighting would only happen occasionally so she wouldn't need to release toxins regularly anymore.
Oscar, meanwhile, spent all his non cultivation time either refining pills and immortal herbs or helping Dugu Yan train.
Dugu Bo, having entered closed door cultivation to extract his own poison, rarely disturbed their time together. The two, already fond of each other, rapidly grew closer during their shared solitude.
One day after finishing their cultivation, Oscar took Dugu Yan flying into the skies atop his jade sword. From high above, they gazed down upon the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
Though they had seen it many times, its beauty never faded.
The icy blue and crimson red remained starkly divided, the two colored mists blending across the valley basin bathed in the brilliance of the setting sun.
Oscar and Dugu Yan slowly descended onto the mountaintop, sitting at the edge of a cliff. Half leaning on each other, they exchanged sweet words as they admired the stunning sunset.
In one accidental moment of eye contact, their lips met.
Their eyes closed. As their lips gently touched, both of them shivered slightly but neither backed away.
Oscar instinctively wrapped his arm around her waist. Dugu Yan circled her arms around his neck. Their lips gently bumped again and againneither had any experience.
After a while, Oscar took the lead. Though Dugu Yan was surprised, she responded clumsily, but willingly.
The kiss was unskilled, but time and practice solve everything. Experience would come naturally with repetition.
After all, both were first timers and wanted to explore more.
But just then…
Dugu Bo appeared.
No one knew when he had arrived. He stood frozen behind them, staring in utter disbelief. His fists clenched involuntarily.
Dugu Yan sensed something. Her eyes narrowed slightly, then instantly widened in shock. She gently patted Oscar's shoulder. Oscar opened his eyes, saw the surprise and embarrassment in hers, and quickly pulled away.
Dugu Bo was furious.
He had just managed to convince himself to be okay with things. But how long had it been?
Only a month!
He had been in closed door cultivation for one month, and his granddaughter was already kissing this brat Oscar?
Back in his day, even he hadn't moved so fast...
He had thought no matter how deeply the two might be in love they couldn't possibly take things this far so quickly.
But after witnessing today's scene… Dugu Bo felt that if he hadn't come out early due to his unease, then after six months, maybe his granddaughter would already be pregnant.
Dugu Yan, face flushed red, wiped the glistening corner of her lips and turned to Dugu Bo.
"GGrandfather… why did you come out of seclusion so early?"
Dugu Bo's face was ashen.
This time, he didn't indulge Dugu Yan. With a flash, he appeared right in front of Oscar.
Standing over two meters tall, he dwarfed Oscar who, despite being 1.88 meters tall, looked small in comparison.
Dugu Bo looked down at Oscar with sharp eyes. Oscar nervously swallowed, meeting the old man's gaze.
Oscar was speechless.
Last time he was caught, it was while helping Dugu Yan concoct poisons.
This time just a kiss, and the old man shows up again?
Was heaven deliberately making things hard for him? Was he simply too lucky with women, and now fate was trying to balance things out?
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