Douluo Continent: From Internal Martial Arts to the Law of Heaven and Earth

The core of this ability lies in the ultimate predictive power, like a cicada sensing the autumn wind before it even stirs: when someone harbors malicious intent, even before they take any action, merely by solidifying the thought of harm in their mind, this malice transforms into an invisible aura that can be detected by the perceiver. In the instant the thought subtly shifts, the perceiver will be struck by a strong sense of crisis, and thus calmly take measures to avoid it.

If a cultivator's spiritual cultivation is profound enough, this perception can trace back to the source layer by layer—directly locking onto the specific target harboring malicious intentions from the invisible aura of crisis, and even predicting the other party's subsequent actions, thus taking the initiative and directly resolving the threat.

The moment the thought of murder took root, it was precisely sensed. This ability far surpassed the scope of ordinary perception; it would not be an exaggeration to call it unpredictable.

During the sparring session just now, Tang Shan was able to detect Potter's Instant Kick in advance precisely because of his sincere heart and the most basic application of foresight. Pure crisis prediction easily neutralized the spatial teleportation attack.

While this kind of extraordinary perception has its own strengths compared to spiritual power and ordinary perception, it has an overwhelming advantage in the core aspect of self-preservation and risk avoidance. Therefore, it is not surprising that Tangshan attaches great importance to the cultivation of internal martial arts.

Upon arriving at the Dugu Mansion, Tang Shan skillfully knocked on the gate. The dull sound of the iron ring striking the gate echoed throughout this sparsely populated area.

Before long, the door was pulled open from the inside, and a jade-green figure peeked out first—Dugu Yan's purple eyes lit up, then filled with a smile, her voice even brimming with joy: "Tang Shan, what brings you here?"

As she spoke, she stepped aside to clear the doorway, her delicate hand gently resting on the doorframe.

Tang Shan asked in surprise, "Yan Yan, why aren't you at the academy?"

Dugu Yan quickly stepped aside to let Tang Shan in, and only after he stepped into the mansion did she close the gate.

She turned around with a smile, her long emerald hair swaying gently with her movements, the ends brushing against her shoulders. She casually replied, "I heard from Grandpa that you were unconscious a few days ago, so I took leave to go to the Crown Prince's residence to see you. I didn't expect that you would come to me on your own before I even arrived."

Her purple eyes curved into crescent moons, and even her gaze towards Tangshan carried a hint of concern.

A faint fragrance wafted from her hair and filled Tang Shan's nostrils, making him wonder if it was another poisonous scent.

Is your grandfather home?

Tang Shan quickened his pace and reached Dugu Yan's side, asking her questions.

"Yes, is he here? Is there something you need from him?" Dugu Yan's smile faded slightly, a hint of disappointment flashed in her purple eyes, and her voice lowered a few decibels. "I thought you came here specifically to see me."

"They're looking for your grandfather, but they're also looking for you."

As soon as Tang Shan finished speaking, the disappointment in Dugu Yan's eyes vanished instantly, replaced by a bright new light. She quickly took a few steps, turned around, put her hands behind her back, and stared intently at Tang Shan with her purple eyes, asking expectantly, "Really?"

"exactly."

Tang Shan answered frankly that he came here for two reasons: first, to teach Dugu Bo the method of forging a poisonous body, and second, to deliver immortal herbs. Dugu Bo's Blood Swan Kiss and Dugu Yan's Nine-Transformation Flower were still with him.

He was also curious about the specific kind of transformation that occurred after consuming the Nine-Transformation Flower.

"Then come with me, Grandpa is making poison."

As Dugu Yan turned to leave, her body swayed slightly, and she was about to crash into a pillar beside her. Tang Shan reached out and easily lifted her up, then simply turned her around and placed her back on the ground.

"Walk carefully, or you'll almost bump into a pillar."

Tangshan offered a helpless reminder.

……

The alchemy hall in the Dugu family mansion was not large, covering an area of ​​only about fifty square meters, but it was enough for two people to use.

The alchemy hall was closed at this moment, but the crisp sound of pounding medicine could be heard from inside.

Dugu Yan stepped forward and knocked on the door. A cheerful voice came from inside: "Grandpa, Tang Shan is here."

Dugu Bo, who was pounding medicine, twitched his eyelids. What was this kid doing here again?

However, since guests had arrived, he didn't continue working. After washing off the poisonous plants from his hands, he used his soul power to dry the water on his hands, opened the door, and went out.

……

In the living room of the Dugu residence, Dugu Yan skillfully opened the tea cabinet from the cupboard, then took out the refreshing tea with practiced ease, and brewed it without hesitation under Dugu Bo's pained gaze.

Seeing the brewed tea leaves and recalling his own messy medicinal herb garden, Dugu Bo's gaze towards Tang Shan clearly carried a hint of ill intent.

"Young man, what brings you to my Dugu residence today? Have you encountered some problems in your cultivation and wish to seek my guidance? Of course, that's no problem, but I still need to test your strength."

Sensing Dugu Bo's ill intentions, Tang Shan decisively didn't respond—what a joke! If I really encountered a problem in cultivation, wouldn't it be better to ask the Golden Crocodile Douluo, who has already reached level ninety-nine? Why do I have to ask you?

"It's not a matter of cultivation."

Tang Shan got straight to the point, "Senior Dugu, I have found a way to cure the poison in your body."

"Ok!"

Dugu Bo was somewhat surprised. He had made many guesses about Tang Shan's purpose in coming to the Dugu residence this time, and even guessed that the other party might want to use his precious medicine garden to cultivate. But he never expected that the other party would come to tell him how to deal with the poison.

"Kid, you're not kidding?"

Dugu Bo was somewhat suspicious. "My deadly poison is different from my granddaughter's. Yan Yan's poison is mostly congenital. Although she was afflicted with the poison from birth, her body has adapted to some of it. But I am different. The vast majority of my poison comes from my own cultivation, and it is not so easy to cure."

The two did not avoid talking to Dugu Yan, after all, Dugu Bo had already told her about the specific situation of the Dugu family and the influence of the martial soul characteristics last time.

"Naturally true."

Without hesitation, Tang Shan told Dugu Bo about the "Poison Body Forging" technique he had developed through a state of enlightenment. The most important part of it, of course, was the prescription for repairing the body and enhancing its resistance to poison.

In fact, when Tang Shan used his Enlightenment state, he didn't need much time to come up with a solution to Dugu Bo's problem. What really took up the deduction time was the self-created soul skill that Tang Shan researched.

Dugu Bo closed his eyes slightly, carefully pondering the method taught by Tang Shan: using poison as magic to enhance physical fitness and poison resistance, so that even if he was poisoned, he would not be affected.

What a brilliant idea! And this prescription—the combination of the principal, assistant, and adjuvant herbs is perfect. Most importantly, the requirements for the herbs are not demanding; the herbs from the outermost part of my own herb garden can be easily used to prepare it.

After a long silence, he looked at Tang Shan intently and said, "Kid, I believe in you."

Then he stood up and said to Dugu Yan, "Yan Yan, you chat with Tang Shan for a while, Grandpa will try his method."

After speaking, his tall figure walked towards the door, clearly to prepare the prescription.

Dugu Yan watched Dugu Bo leave, her eyes filled with deep worry. She looked at Tang Shan and asked, "Grandpa, will you be alright?"

"Don't worry, even if this method doesn't work, it won't cause any damage to your body."

Tang Shan's words were full of confidence—a state of enlightenment, knowing not only what happened but also why it happened. He knew every step in detail, why it was done that way, how much toxicity was removed, and the proportions of the prescription by heart. How could he not be confident?

Time passed slowly. After Tang Shan finished his tea, Dugu Yan refilled it for him. The two fell into silence, quietly waiting for Dugu Bo's test.

Half an hour later, the dark green figure reappeared before the two of them.

"grandfather!"

Dugu Yan happily pounced on it.

"Don't worry, Yan Yan, Grandpa is fine."

A doting smile appeared on Dugu Bo's face. He patted his granddaughter's head, then looked up at Tang Shan and said solemnly, "Our Dugu family owes you a huge favor."

Originally, Dugu Bo didn't have high hopes for Tangshan's solution. He would have been satisfied as long as it could alleviate some of the pain he experienced each time the poison flared up, let alone completely cure him. However, the final result was truly beyond his expectations.

Rather than teaching him a way to cure his own poisoning, Tang Shan taught him a self-created soul skill that used potent poison to temper his body.

Just now, as his soul power circulated, the toxins in his body began to accelerate their erosion, while the specially formulated medicine transformed this erosion into tempering, and began to gradually enhance his poison resistance.

He only tried cultivating, but he felt that his resistance to poison had increased and the speed at which the poison was damaging his body had been slightly slowed down.

Dugu Bo had a premonition that if he continued to cultivate like this, sooner or later his physical fitness would skyrocket, his poison resistance would reach a terrifying level, and the deadly poison in his body would no longer have any effect on him.

The importance of a self-created soul skill for cultivating the body is clear to all soul masters on the Douluo Continent ever since they learned that the number of years a soul ring can be absorbed is related to physical fitness, let alone a body-forging method that is so suitable for his Dugu family.

Therefore, he was in a very complicated state of mind at this moment, and he really didn't know how to repay Tangshan's kindness.

"As long as it's useful to the senior."

Tang Shan responded, not taking the matter to heart. He took out two jade boxes from his soul tool, one large and one small: the large one was about one foot long, three inches high, and two inches wide; the small one was about half the size of the former.

"Yanyan, and Senior Dugu, these are two immortal herbs, both rare treasures. Using them should greatly benefit your future cultivation."

Dugu Bo opened the two boxes and looked inside. The larger box contained a flower tower, which was the Nine-Transformation Flower. The other box contained a blood-red swan kiss that resembled the flapping wings of a swan.

He had seen both of these magical herbs in his own herb garden, but he never expected that they would be able to help him and his granddaughter's cultivation in Tangshan.

Even more unexpectedly, Tang Shan openly took out the two herbs, seemingly unafraid that he would discover the value of other herbs through these two precious herbs and then take them all back.

"Tangshan, aren't you afraid that once I know the effects of these two magical herbs, I'll demand other magical herbs from you?"

Tang Shan: "When you saw me enter a state of enlightenment, you should have already guessed the value of the herbs next to the Yin-Yang Well, but you didn't ask me for them at the time. This shows that you value your promises. As for taking out the immortal herbs, since you didn't pursue my plundering of the herb garden, I naturally can't be stingy. I should give you the most suitable one."

Chapter 187 Taking the Immortal Herb, the First Transformation and Changes (Bonus Chapter for 500 Monthly Tickets)

"The Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire? That's a good name."

Dugu Bo changed the subject and asked, "Tell me about the effects of these two immortal herbs, and what's so special about them?"

He clearly acknowledged that all the magical herbs taken by Tangshan belonged to him, even if some of them were rare or even unique.

Tang Shan's willingness to share two herbs with Dugu Yan had already greatly surprised Dugu Bo. After all, he had seen countless people in this world become strangers or even fight to the death over rare treasures such as natural materials and soul bones. In his opinion, the value of the so-called immortal herb was probably no less than the former two, but Tang Shan was able to take it out so readily, which was truly unexpected.

Tang Shan pushed the smaller jade box in front of Dugu Bo and introduced it: "This is the Blood Swan Kiss. ​​Its effect is very simple: it can amplify the effect of poison by hundreds or thousands of times. If it were before, I might have suspected that you would die on the spot if you had touched it."

Once you've cultivated the 'Poison Body Forging' technique to a certain level, you should be able to use this immortal herb with caution. However, you'll likely have to figure out the specifics of how to use it yourself.

Dugu Bo glanced at the Blood Swan Kiss with lingering fear. Perhaps out of caution due to his long-term experience in making poisons, he hadn't touched it earlier. Otherwise, having just obtained the antidote today, he would have killed himself, and there would have been nowhere to cry.

Although he felt some fear, Dugu Bo was also extremely excited. The poison had increased a thousandfold, and regardless of whether the increase was in quality or quantity, it was possible for him to reach level 95 or even level 99. The main problem now was that he was suffering from severe poisoning, which prevented him from breaking through the bottleneck, and whether his martial soul comprehension could keep up.

"Tangshan, I am deeply grateful. If there is anything I can do to help you, just say the word. I will even help with murder, arson, and wiping out entire families."

"Carefully close the jade box and put it away," Dugu Bo said earnestly.

Tang Shan's lips twitched. "Isn't all you can do besides murder and arson?"

"Tangshan, what is the use of this magical herb?"

Because of her grandfather's experience, Dugu Yan did not touch the Nine-Tailed Flower with curiosity. Instead, she looked at it with her purple eyes and asked Tang Shan.

"This flower is called the Nine Transformation Flower. Its effect is to improve the aptitude of a Soul Master and cause a transformation. It is best used by a Martial Soul with the ability to transform."

It's very simple to use: pluck the petals from the bottom layer and consume them. Each layer consumed will trigger a transformation, up to a maximum of nine transformations. However, the exact number of transformations varies from person to person. If you find it increasingly difficult to pluck the next layer of petals, it means you've reached the limit.

"What if we don't pick them from the very bottom petals?"

Dugu Yan was somewhat curious.

"Then you won't be able to take it off."

As Tang Shan spoke, he reached out and plucked at the third layer of petals.

With a simple exertion, the petals, though soft, remained firmly attached to the stem.

Out of curiosity, Dugu Yan also tried it, and sure enough, it didn't budge.

"What if I pick it and give it to someone else to consume?"

"Unless the person starts taking it from the first layer, taking the later layers directly will have no effect either."

Why don't you use this magical herb?