Douluo: Emerald Poison King

Chapter 31: Duguyan: Man, you aroused my curiosity (?)
Shame! Twelve points of shame! Seven feet of shame!
Poison-type soul masters are of course very resistant to toxins, but unless the difference between the toxin and soul power is too great, they will not ignore it. Dugu Yan has only seen such a toxin being completely ignored in her grandfather Dugu Bo.

Chen Ming walked past Dugu Yan, then turned around as if to provoke her, walked back and forth in front of Dugu Yan a few times, and then continued to walk forward.

Seeing this scene, Dugu Yan stopped pretending to practice and jumped up from the ground. The tail transformed from his legs swung quickly on the ground. He moved in front of Chen Ming and reached out to touch Chen Ming's body. However, just when his fingers were about to touch Chen Ming's body, Chen Ming slapped them away with his tail.

"Are we familiar with each other? You're touching me right away. If you do that again, I'll tell you it's indecent!"

"You obviously know what I mean."

Although she was angry and anxious, Dugu Yan was still a virgin after all. After hearing Chen Ming's words, she did not dare to continue to make moves. Instead, she kept circling around Chen Ming and stretched out her hand to test the poisonous fog beside Chen Ming.

"How strange! Emerald Scorpions don't use poison mist to conceal themselves or attack, but your poison mist is of extremely high quality."

"If it is a characteristic obtained from absorbing spirit rings from spirit beasts... that's not right. You are the Emerald Scorpion King. What quality of spirit ring can bring such a big change to your martial spirit? Your first spirit ring is a hundred years old, and your second spirit ring is a thousand years old. Could it be that the second spirit ring..."

“That’s not right…”

At this moment, Dugu Yan felt like he was facing a math test paper. Even if he tried his best, he still couldn't understand what was written on the paper.

Everywhere she looked, it seemed like something her teacher (grandfather) had taught her. But if she looked closely, everything seemed strange.

She was a little confused. She had studied for so many years under her grandfather, the world-famous Poison Douluo. Was it all in vain?

Why is it that when facing a great soul master with only two rings, he can't understand anything, and even the poison he is so proud of is useless?

Could it be that my grandfather has been comforting me all along, that my talent is actually very average and my brain is not very useful?

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Dugu Yan followed Chen Ming like a nymphomaniac, always keeping a close eye on Chen Ming's every move. From time to time, she lowered her head to check where Chen Ming had walked, and occasionally put her face close to Chen Ming to take a deep breath. She looked so charming that people wanted to call the police.

Even though Chen Ming intended to tease Dugu Yan, get closer to her, and finally plot to get Dugu Bo's magic grass, he couldn't help but feel a little scared after being tricked by Dugu Yan.

"Men and women should not touch each other."

Chen Ming took two quick steps, turned around, and spoke righteously to Dugu Yan.

"Hmph..." Realizing what she had done just now, Dugu Yan's face turned slightly red, then she snorted and turned away, no longer looking at Chen Ming's eyes, and went to find a place to close his eyes and practice. Chen Ming shrugged, walked around in the simulated environment for a few more rounds, then found a good place to sit down and began his daily practice.

The place chosen by Dugu Yan was not far from Chen Ming, which was a relatively good location for a poison-type soul master.

When he first started practicing, Dugu Yan was not able to enter the state because of various distracting thoughts. When he finally cleared some of the emotions in his mind and gradually found some feeling, he suddenly felt an unfamiliar sense of oppression.

The feeling of oppression was not serious. It was probably like a sweater in winter that was tight around the chest. However, it seriously interrupted Dugu Yan's rhythm. Dugu Yan, who had finally found some feeling, stopped his practice unhappily and opened his eyes to look at Chen Ming.

As Chen Ming practiced, the Emerald Scorpion King's martial spirit began to become active, and its pressure became apparent. Although it had not yet reached the level of the Emperor, the Emerald Scorpion King itself was a powerful poison king, which not only oppressed ordinary scorpion soul beasts and soul masters, but also other poison attribute soul masters.

Although Dugu Bo's martial soul is the Jade Phosphorus Snake King, it was also evolved by chance when he broke through the Title Douluo. When he gave birth to Dugu Yan's father, his martial soul was only at the level of the Snake King, which was a long way from the Snake King.

Duguyan's father had good talent, but his soul power level was not high when he gave birth to Duguyan, and his martial soul was close to the level of the snake king. When it came to Duguyan, his martial soul was simply a stronger green phosphorus snake, a little short of the snake king, and a bit short of the snake emperor.

Although staying by Dugu Bo's side for many years made Dugu Yan somewhat accustomed to the oppression of the superior, but Chen Ming was not Dugu Bo after all, and his martial soul was different from Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphorus Snake King, so Dugu Yan was still a little uncomfortable with it for a while.

Dugu Yan wanted to stay away, but she felt that this was a sign of fear of Chen Ming. She wanted to leave, but she was really annoyed by the flies outside, so she took out the notes that her grandfather Dugu Bo gave her and read them in this dim environment.

Dugu Yan flipped open the description of the Green Phosphorus Scorpion among the Five Green Phosphorus Poisons and began to compare it with Chen Ming's martial soul. Then he looked at the top-level poisonous soul beasts in the illustrations and began to wonder which soul beast's soul ring Chen Ming had absorbed to have such characteristics.

However, Dugu Yan gave up after not concentrating for long. She decided to wait for her grandfather Dugu Bo to come back after a while and then ask her omnipotent grandfather.

In order to save his breath, Dugu Yan practiced under the momentum of Chen Ming. Under the pressure of Chen Ming's unconscious momentum and his own unwillingness, Dugu Yan entered a more effective meditation than usual.

As the meditation deepened, Dugu Yan seemed to be able to feel that the poisonous soul power in the cave, which was usually indifferent to him, seemed to be consciously moving towards Chen Ming, forming a soul power circle with Chen Ming as the center.

In Duguyan's opinion, this was a very strange thing. Although this phenomenon would also occur when high-level soul masters absorbed soul power, it was essentially because the absorption speed was too fast, which caused the soul power to gather.

Although Chen Ming's absorption speed was fast, it obviously did not reach that exaggerated level. It would be better to say that the soul power actively moved towards him and wanted to be absorbed by him rather than saying that he was actively absorbing the soul power.

In this soul power circle close to Chen Ming, even her cultivation speed was driven, becoming about 10% to 20% faster than usual, which was quite incredible. Even when she was practicing beside her grandfather Dugu Bo, Dugu Yan had never encountered such a thing.

When she didn't notice, her body had already slowly moved towards Chen Ming because she subconsciously pursued more soul power. However, because the distance between the two of them was not that close, there was no immediate effect.

(End of this chapter)