Chapter 299: Dugu Bo: Tyrant Poison
Seeing Dugu Feng block his soul bone skill with an inexplicable dark red power, Dugu Bo frowned.
He had already recognized the source of that dark red power.
That terrifying aura of slaughter had to be from the Slaughter City.
In Dugu Bo's eyes, this was Dugu Feng's Shura Domain.
He was shocked and furious. Did he really think a bit of strength allowed him to provoke a Title Douluo?
"Dugu Feng, the strength of a Title Douluo is beyond your imagination. Seeking death? I'll oblige you!"
After the shock, Dugu Bo's anger peaked.
His eighth soul ring suddenly flared.
Dugu Bo unleashed his strongest single-target attack skill—Time Freeze.
This soul skill alone consumed one-fifth of his entire soul power—one-fifth of a Title Douluo's soul power.
Even against Chrysanthemum Douluo, Time Freeze could immobilize him for an instant.
Unless absolutely necessary, Dugu Bo was unwilling to use this soul-power-devouring skill.
But Dugu Feng was too monstrous; he had to restrain him no matter what.
This was the best choice to both maintain decorum and land a sure hit.
No matter what, Dugu Feng was only a Soul Emperor; even with some special skills and a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, how could he compare to Dugu Bo's eighth soul skill?
Dugu Bo could already picture it: no matter how Dugu Feng responded, he would be frozen within, unable to break free.
Dugu Feng, however, had no intention of sitting and waiting to die.
His combat experience far surpassed his peers'—even Dugu Bo might not match his experience.
The best defense was offense.
While using the Shura Domain to resist Medusa's Gaze, Dugu Feng had already begun his counterattack.
His sixth and fifth soul rings lit up simultaneously.
The fifth soul ring came from the Human-Faced Demon Spider, a soul skill that had shocked even Dugu Feng.
Its name was Spider God's Aid.
Dugu Feng knew this was derived from the spider's skill Spider God Possession—an amplification skill.
Among Human-Faced Demon Spiders over ten thousand years old, this was their strongest skill, consuming one year of cultivation per second of activation.
The cost was immense, and naturally, so was its power.
For Dugu Feng, Spider God's Aid did not consume cultivation years, of course, but normal soul power.
Its effect was likewise amplification, allowing all of Dugu Feng's attributes to double simultaneously—soul power, spirit power, attack, strength, defense, resistance to abnormal states, and so on—every attribute.
Even the toxicity of the poisons within him would double.
This was the soul skill he obtained from a forty-thousand-year Human-Faced Demon Spider—undeniably powerful, an all-encompassing boost.
The composite effect of boosting all attributes would impact battle far beyond a simple doubling.
Dugu Feng even suspected the Spider God might truly exist.
Surely the God Realm wouldn't really have such a deity?
Now, Dugu Feng directly unleashed Spider God's Aid, making his power erupt explosively.
At the same time, with the sixth soul ring lit, Dugu Feng finally cast his hundred-thousand-year soul skill.
Eternal Rend—ignores physical defense, and reduces energy defense by fifty percent.
Dugu Feng crossed his hands, and a massive soul-power wave blasted forth.
Like ripples spreading across water, the wave fanned forward to slice ahead.
It first collided with Dugu Bo's Time Freeze.
After a fierce clash, Dugu Feng's wave continued forward.
Dugu Bo's Time Freeze power descended upon Dugu Feng as well.
Dugu Bo was overjoyed at once. He had been surprised when Dugu Feng used a hundred-thousand-year soul skill—its force was astounding.
But the wave from that soul skill did not completely erode his Time Freeze.
Dugu Bo was finally relieved.
He then waved his right hand as the fifth soul skill lit up; a dragon-shaped shield formed in front of him to block the remaining force of the hundred-thousand-year skill.
His fifth soul skill, Jade Phosphor Tiangang Shield, was a defensive skill that condensed poison.
If enemies drew near, it could also explode while defending to strike back.
Now that Dugu Feng's hundred-thousand-year soul skill had been partially offset, how could the remaining power possibly break his Jade Phosphor Tiangang Shield?
Dugu Bo paid little heed to the incoming attack.
But soon his expression froze.
That water-ripple-like wave actually passed straight through his Jade Phosphor Tiangang Shield, like maggots gnawing on bone, about to latch onto his body.
"Not good—my defense is invalid?"
Startled, Dugu Bo hurriedly retreated.
But the speed of soul skills was too fast; that energy instantly struck him squarely.
"Hmph!"
Dugu Bo grunted, his body trembling violently, swaying twice before stabilizing.
Why was the attack so strong?
His soul power roiled chaotically; he had to expend a huge amount of energy to withstand the skill's strike.
He had never seen such an overbearing soul skill—an attack that ignored physical defense and bypassed fifty percent of energy defense, one that could only be neutralized by consuming soul power. Too tyrannical.
Dugu Bo's face turned a poisonous green as he glared at Dugu Feng. "Brat, the taste of being frozen—"
Mid-sentence, Dugu Bo's face stiffened.
Dugu Feng wasn't frozen; rather, Dugu Bo's expression had frozen.
Dugu Feng was smiling.
The rainbow scale at his brow flowed like a swimming fish and turned into a rainbow-colored egg.
The egg fell into Dugu Feng's hand, then hovered before him.
Its radiance shattered all the energy of his eighth soul skill, Time Freeze, scattering it to pieces.
"Second Grandpa, know what this is? Great-Grandfather said that for each additional poison-attribute soul ring added by the poison-cultivation lineage, the poison within doubles in power.
If one can absorb five poison-attribute soul rings without dying, one can form the Tyrant Poison that dominates the world.
This egg-sized rainbow light—that is the Tyrant Poison I've formed.
It has unfathomable wonders. What does Second Grandpa think of its power?"
Dugu Feng spoke casually, almost teasingly.
"Tyrant Poison…"
Dugu Bo felt he had heard that distant term before.
Yes—when he left the family.
His father had told him to switch from cultivating serpents to cultivating poison; to refine the Tyrant Poison to solve their Martial Soul's defects once and for all.
But back then, he hadn't listened!
He thought his father was biased—mad!
He stormed out of the clan, then by chance found the Ice and Fire Two Phenomena Eye.
There, the toxins could be suppressed.
That let him forget all his father's words, leaving only a life of hiding and cultivation there.
Now, hearing Dugu Feng say "Tyrant Poison,"
those distant memories surfaced once more.
Dugu Bo stood stunned.
The images of his father, Dugu Hai, and elder brother, Dugu Hao, watching him leave the clan became clearer than ever.
(END CHAPTER)
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