Douluo Dalu: Seven Kills

Chapter 34 The Curse of the Dugu Family
Meanwhile, in Hibiscus' office.

"Good seedlings, all of them are good seedlings."

Scanning the record sheets one by one, Mu Jin's eyes were filled with unrestrained excitement and satisfaction, and she said to herself: "Zhou Yi, wait! This time, I will definitely put you down!"

"Boom boom boom——"

At this time, a knock on the door suddenly sounded.

Mu Jin quickly suppressed her emotions and spoke seriously.

"Please come in."

As the office door opened, a middle-aged man, about 40 years old, with a rather ordinary appearance but a scholarly air, appeared outside the office door with a smiling face and looking very friendly.

"Teacher Mu Jin, sorry to bother you."

"Oh? Teacher Wang Yan?"

Seeing the newcomer, Mu Jin couldn't help but feel a little surprised. Then she joked, "Teacher Wang Yan is a rare visitor. Why is he not in the library of the college, but in my office instead?"

"Teacher Mu Jin is joking."

Wang Yan was not angry at Mu Jin's teasing.

He also knew his own nature. Indeed, apart from fulfilling his responsibilities as a teacher, he would spend the rest of his time either in the library or in his dormitory studying martial arts. He had very little interaction with other teachers on weekdays.

"The main reason I came here today is to ask Teacher Mu Jin for a favor." Wang Yan's attitude was very good. Even though he had rich qualifications and a high-level background, he did not act in an overbearing manner.

"Teacher Wang Yan, please speak."

Mu Jin did not refuse and spoke.

"I learned from some sources that Teacher Mu Jin used a soul guide to test the six positions of this year's freshmen. I believe the data obtained must be very accurate, so I want to study their martial spirits and their specific conditions."

“I don’t know if it’s possible.”

Wang Yan frankly told Mu Jin his purpose, and she did not refuse. But the problem was that she had not yet completed the data collection of the freshmen in her class, so it was difficult for Wang Yan to study it.

These words did not make Wang Yan feel disappointed.

"Then I can only trouble Teacher Mu Jin to study it for me after you finish it. Of course, I won't study it in vain. I will try my best to give some suggestions at the end of the student information, but I hope that these suggestions will not mislead these students."

"Teacher Wang Yan, you are too kind."

Hearing this, Mu Jin was happy for her students from the bottom of her heart, because among the teachers in Shrek's external academy, there was no one who could compete with Wang Yan in martial arts research.

So his advice is better than my own.

Mu Jin then showed the list of the most talented students in the class and said with a bit of pride, "These are the most talented students in our class nine. I wonder if Teacher Wang is interested now? There are two Soul Masters here."

"Oh!"

Wang Yan immediately stopped walking away, raised his eyebrows, and took the information handed over by Mu Jin with great interest.

When he took the information from the bottom up,
The first student's information stunned him.

"Dugu Xin, martial soul, green phosphorus snake..."

He did not continue to read the following information, because the information revealed by these eight words alone was enough to make Wang Yan excited but also a little afraid.

Excited,
It was the appearance of the Green Phosphorus Snake Martial Spirit and the Dugu family.

Fearful,
The Green Phosphorus Snake Martial Spirit and the Dugu family also appeared.

He quickly stuffed the record sheet back to Mu Jin, muttering, "I didn't expect the Dugu family's Green Phosphorus Snake spirit to appear again. Then this student must be..." Thinking of the description of the Green Phosphorus Snake spirit master in the ancient books, Wang Yan's brows furrowed deeper and deeper. This puzzled Mu Jin, who was watching from the side.

At the end, Wang Yan's eyes flashed with determination. "No, I have to go find Master Xuan. Otherwise, this child..."

Then he said goodbye to Mu Jin and left in a hurry! "What happened to the Green Phosphorus Snake Martial Spirit?" Mu Jin looked over the record sheet several times, puzzled. After all, as a member of the Dugu family who had been hiding for a long time, basically no teacher in the external school knew about the situation of the Green Phosphorus Snake Martial Spirit.

This forced Mu Jin to put aside her current doubts and look forward to the next time Teacher Wang Yan comes to tell her the answer.

After putting away the record sheets, Mu Jin began to prepare the content of the afternoon course. The first lesson was about the development of soul guides and the effects of soul guides in combat.

……

Afternoon, Poseidon Lake.

Wang Yan was anxiously looking at the Sea God Island in the distance. He was pacing back and forth, obviously waiting for someone.

"Xiao Wang, you are so impatient, what do you want to talk to me about?" Suddenly, a slightly unhappy voice came from behind Wang Yan. A sloppy old man with messy hair and unkempt appearance came behind Wang Yan. He was holding a wine pot in his right hand and a roast chicken in his left hand, taking a sip of wine and a bite of meat, looking very happy.

"Master Xuan, you are finally here."

As if knowing the old man's temper, Wang Yan spoke without any hesitation and directly told Old Xuan the news that there was a Green Phosphorus Snake spirit master from the Dugu family among the new students.

"Green Phosphorus Snake Martial Spirit? It's been a long time..."

Xuan Lao's eyes suddenly flashed with a terrifying look. But soon, his eyes became scattered again, and even mixed with a bit of confusion.

"Xiao Wang, you want to save that child, right?" Old Xuan revealed Wang Yan's purpose, his voice sounding hoarse and old.

"Yes, Master Xuan, I think..."

Wang Yan's tone became a little anxious, but before he could finish, he was interrupted by Xuan Lao impatiently waving his hand, so he could only swallow the rest of his words back. "What you think is useless."

"Do you think the Dugu family's poison is a joke? Let me tell you, even the method passed down by Tang San's ancestors is powerless to save the situation. If you hadn't met someone from the Dugu family in the academy, I would have thought they were all dead."

According to the records of Shrek Academy,

It turns out that as long as the Dugu family embarks on the path of cultivation, they will be poisoned. Although the Dugu family has a solution passed down by Dugu Bo ten thousand years ago, the strength of the soul bone to store toxins is always limited, which involves using multiple soul bones to store, but soul bones are not so easy to obtain.

In addition, soul bones that have stored poison can no longer be stored, so there is basically no such thing as inherited soul bones. Faced with this dilemma, if the Dugu family wants to obtain soul bones, they must strengthen their strength. But once they strengthen their strength, the poison will become stronger and stronger.

After accumulating for ten thousand years, the poison in the bodies of the descendants became more and more serious, and each of them was short-lived. According to Xuan Lao's current speculation, they could only live to 25 years old at most, and there was no time for them to break through to become stronger, so there was no way to obtain soul bones in the future. This made them completely fall into a vicious cycle.

This also means that the Dugu family will not have many children, and basically only one child will be passed down to carry on the Dugu family's bloodline.

"this…"

Wang Yan was speechless at this.

How to save this?
It’s totally the Dugu family’s curse!

Elder Xuan glanced at Wang Yan, picked up the wine gourd and took a gulp. He stared at the Sea God Lake and said in a trance: "Thousands of years ago, the Dugu family came to Shrek Academy to seek help for soul bones, which also caused the friendship between the academy and the Dugu family to disappear. And the academy had no way to save the Dugu family. So Wang Yan..."

"Mr. Xuan."

"Let the kid go home. Find a chance to leave a legacy." Elder Xuan waved his hand nonchalantly. "This is the best advice I, the elder of the Sea God Pavilion, can give him."

"Just tell him that."

With that, he flew away unsteadily. Looking at his unsteady steps, it seemed that he might fall at any moment.

"Ugh--"

Wang Yan couldn't help but let out a long sigh!
Before this, he had thought about whether he should ask Master Xuan to use the method of condensing soul core to gather the toxins in the body into the soul core so as not to affect himself, and get some advice. After all, he was only a soul king, and he only had a vague understanding of soul cores. He hoped that Master Xuan, who was a super douluo, could give him some advice.

But now, he doesn't need to ask.

After all, to condense the soul core, one must first step into the step of becoming a Titled Douluo. But the life span of the Dugu family is so short, so there is basically no hope. After all, becoming a Titled Douluo at the age of 25 is... difficult!
"Is there really no more fun?"

(End of this chapter)