In Douluo Continent, there is a proper way to die.

Chapter 42 Soul Core

The pure white fairy herb was lifted up by pure wind elements and floated in mid-air. Under Gu Yuena's control, it flew to Yin Lan's side.

Dugu Bo's eyes burned with desire, but he did not make any rash moves. The herbs that grew in this place... even the immortal herbs were too strange. He was very patient, waiting for Yin Lan to finish her sentence, afraid of missing something that might cause him to die suddenly.

"Grandpa Dugu, if one day someone tells you that as long as you force the deadly poison in your body into your soul bone, you can solve your family's deadly poison—" Dugu Bo's eyes lit up when he heard Yin Lan's first half of the sentence, because it did sound like a feasible solution. He and Dugu Yan had solved the problem of their family's deadly poison, but what if Dugu Yan's descendants did not inherit the evolved martial soul?

Unexpectedly, Yinlan's tone changed abruptly the next second, "That's pure nonsense, because apart from external soul bones that can evolve, normal soul bones have a limit to their capacity. Once the soul bone can't withstand the poison, you will inevitably be poisoned and explode, dying. The person who told you about this method wants your life."

...Luckily, I heard her finish speaking. This child really likes to take long breaths when she talks, which startled me.

Dugu Bo's eyelids twitched.

"Before introducing this immortal herb, I must first tell you about some new concepts," Yinlan said, not immediately handing over the herb, but instead talking about something else, "that is the 'Soul Core'."

"What?" This was a completely unfamiliar name, which made Dugu Bo somewhat puzzled.

"After a soul beast breaks through 100,000 years, the soul power within its body will be compressed from a liquid state to a solid state, eventually turning into a solid core, which is the 'soul core'," said Yin Lan, a concept that Dugu Bo had never heard before. "This soul core will continuously rotate within the body of a 100,000-year-old soul beast, automatically absorbing external soul power for its use. This is also the reason why 100,000-year-old soul beasts have enormous soul power and extremely strong all-round recovery and combat power."

Dugu Bo didn't interrupt, nor did he question how Yin Lan knew these things. He knew what questions he should and shouldn't ask, especially after learning about Gu Yuena's strength. This made him sigh that there were probably many mysterious forces hidden in the world, and Yin Lan might be one of them. The intricacies of this were not something a "small Title Douluo" like him could casually inquire about (laughs).

"What I want to say is that, as long as one accumulates enough, humans can also condense a 'soul core'," Yin Lan emphasized, pointing to the floating immortal herb beside her. "This is the 'Primordial Immortal Herb.' Consuming it can clear away the deadly poisons that have penetrated deep into the blood and bone marrow, as well as some drug residues from the past. It can also strengthen the foundation and cultivate the vital energy, drawing upon the vast soul power within the body to help compress and condense the soul core. It is most suitable for Grandpa Dugu."

Strictly speaking, the condensation of a soul core is indeed only related to one's own accumulation and mental strength. For example, Huo Kaoyu condensed his first soul core at level 70, while Tang Wulin shaped the prototype of his soul core at level 50.

No matter what, under normal circumstances, it is absolutely no problem to condense a soul core at level 90. After all, in the era of Douluo Continent II, most Title Douluos only had one soul core. Even Xu Tianran, who was a Title Douluo who reached the level by taking pills, still had a soul core.

At Yinlan's signal, Gu Yuena controlled the Primordial Immortal Herb to float towards Dugu Bo.

"I know that you, Grandpa Dugu, have a poison pill within you that condenses half of your strength. It's very powerful. I never thought that someone in this era would actually discover the prototype of a 'soul core' on their own. It's just that you've run out of energy, and the remaining soul power isn't enough for you to suppress the toxins while continuing to condense it. The prototype is ultimately just a prototype." After sighing for a while, Yinlan got to the point. "The method of using it is to eat the leaves one by one, absorbing each leaf through meditation. It will gradually increase your soul power. With this opportunity, using the poison pill in your body as a base, as I said, in your dantian, you can condense the soul power in your body into a solid soul core, and finally gather all the toxins in your body."

"Alright! I won't thank you enough!" Dugu Bo cupped his hands towards Yinlan and was about to reach out to take the Primordial Immortal Herb from mid-air. But just as his hand was about to touch it, he hesitated. "But there's only one such suitable immortal herb. If I eat it, what will happen to my granddaughter?"

"Under normal circumstances, the condensation of a soul core requires at least the accumulation of a Title Douluo. Your granddaughter is far from needing this immortal herb," ​​Yinlan gave him a reassuring look. "Don't worry, I have another immortal herb that is more suitable for her. Once I have finished all my business on this trip, Grandpa Dugu can bring her here."

"Thank you!" Dugu Bo finally said thank you, then sat cross-legged on the ground, concentrated his mental energy, and began to condense a soul core as Yin Lan had instructed.

"Sister Tianmeng, take this opportunity to check his body. I want to see the whole process of his soul core condensing!" Upon seeing this, Yinlan immediately gave instructions to Tianmeng in her spiritual sea.

A vast amount of spiritual power was released from her body, helping her to see through the flow of soul power within Dugu Bo's body. She could clearly see liquid soul power, shimmering with white light, rapidly extracting the toxins from his body, enveloping them, and continuously flowing into the location of the poison pill. Then, it was compressed and gradually solidified, slowly rotating clockwise in Dugu Bo's dantian. At the same time, streams of pure white energy were also repairing his riddled body as the toxins were continuously extracted from his body.

This is also one of Yinlan's main purposes for this trip: to observe the condensation of the soul core and accumulate experience for her own future soul core condensation. At the very least, she wants to be like Huo Kaoyu and condense her soul core at level 70. She believes that the accumulation she has gained since obtaining the Mandarin Duck Hot Pot is definitely no less than Huo Kaoyu's. With Tianmeng's help, her mental strength is also up to par. The only thing she lacks is experience.

"...Is it really necessary to give so much?" Gu Yuena asked, somewhat annoyed, looking at the girl with a serious expression on her face. "Isn't what you have enough for me?"

"...I have a premonition that this will be an era in which gods walk on the earth," Yinlan glanced at her, then refocused her attention on Dugu Bo. "Making you the new Dragon God is a deal between you and me, and between you, Uncle Zi and Aunt Lü. We don't yet know the attitudes of the other gods in the divine realm, but I think that once this matter is discovered, Uncle Zi and Aunt Lü will probably have to bear a lot of pressure. After all, once you become the Dragon God, it means that the beast race will have the opportunity to become gods, and it means that a large number of new gods will appear in the future. This has nothing to do with race, but rather with the conflict between new gods and old gods."

At that time, racial conflicts may become trivial matters. Fun fact: among the twenty main gods and five great god kings in the current divine realm, only the Asura God, the Angel God (who may have already ascended), the Sea God, the Rakshasa God, the Seven Deadly Sins God, the Destruction God, and the Emotion God (who may not have ascended yet) are human gods. The remaining four great god kings of good, evil, life, and destruction, as well as the seven elemental gods and the Time God, are not human gods.

Conflicts only arise between newly promoted gods and existing gods. Each new god, regardless of their level, signifies a change in power within the divine realm: a first-level god is powerful enough to contend for power, while gods below the first level will choose to align themselves with different factions, thus strengthening the power of each faction.

This is precisely the biggest obstacle that the God of Destruction has been facing in his attempt to expand the divine realm. It's not that people really want to give up, but rather that with the emergence of more and more new gods, the power of the old gods is constantly being diluted, and then the gods lose their value.

"So, to avoid exposure and for everyone's future safety, you can only be my trump card. I don't want you to take action unless absolutely necessary. Therefore, I still need to find a reliable 'henchman' on the surface. I can't let you handle everything in the future, can I? Besides..." Yin Lan's tone was solemn, "There are some things that I have to do myself."

Gu Yuena fell silent.

Behind the two women, the silver-haired loli also fell silent, looking at the petite and delicate yet incredibly strong figure with a complex expression.

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I'd like to mention again that everyone should have noticed how seriously I took Gu Yuena's transformation. I wanted to try to portray her well. You would hardly imagine that her original performance and the character settings I gave her are the same person.

Oh dear, Lao Gu! How can you be so bad? Three first-ring players can't beat a random second-ring player. Sigh, hiding your skills isn't like this. Who plays like this?

Sigh, it's too abstract. They've beautified Bai Ge as "infiltration." She clearly had countless ways to beat Dou Di Zhu 3, but she ended up doing it this way. When Tang Hao appeared in the story, I was shocked and thought, "Wow, that's powerful."

What's so shocking about it if it's not powerful? You're just a level one god in the Douluo Continent III setting, and you're shocked and exclaiming that level two gods are powerful and invincible. You've gone crazy playing the infiltration game and really think you're a pushover.

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