The Martial Soul Skeleton, in Douluo Continent's Bone-Changing Susanoo

Chapter 43 Immortal Herbs and Food-Type Soul Skills

Seeing Xia Liang charging towards her with a knife in hand, Dugu Yan decisively used most of her soul power to activate her third soul skill.

A deep purple poisonous mist was rapidly spewed from her mouth, instantly forming a long-range poisonous mist ray.

What shocked Dugu Yan was what happened.

This deep purple poisonous mist ray was his third soul skill, Azure Phosphorus Poison, activated by consuming a large amount of soul power. Not only was its corrosiveness greatly enhanced, but its impact was also comparable to some powerful offensive soul skills.

But Master Xia seemed completely unaffected, and actually charged straight at them through the poisonous fog rays, protected by his ribs.

Remembering that even the control of the three layers of poisonous mist had failed to corrode and dissolve this strange rib, Dugu Yan immediately shut her mouth and stopped releasing the poisonous mist rays.

Just then, Xia Liang appeared on her right side without her noticing, gripping the iron bone knife with both hands and stabbing it fiercely at the thick, emerald green snake tail.

When a control-type Soul Master is approached, the first thing they should do is to create distance from the enemy.

As an outstanding control-type Soul Master, Dugu Yan naturally understood this principle. As soon as she stopped releasing the poison mist ray, she moved one body position to the left front, anticipating and avoiding the stabbing pressure of the Iron Bone Blade.

You've been tricked!

As she spoke, Dugu Yan swept her three-meter-long emerald green snake tail horizontally to the right and back.

At this moment, the two were on the edge of the Soul Arena. The snake's tail was attacking from an extremely tricky angle. If it hit, Xia Liang would fall off the Soul Arena and lose the match.

Last night, Dugu Yan lost on the Fighting Arena, and her tit-for-tat approach immediately led her to think of eliminating her opponent in the same way.

The image of Dugu Yan standing on the stage as the victor, mocking Xia Liang who had fallen off the stage, was a scene she had been fantasizing about all night.

However, a scene that shattered her illusions suddenly occurred.

The serpent's tail lashed out and struck Xia Liang hard, but instead of sending him flying, it was blocked by a small section of dark purple ribs that suddenly appeared.

Seeing this, Dugu Yan gritted her teeth in resentment. It was that strange rib defense again. Not only was it immune to her snake venom, but even the snake's tail strikes were ineffective. How could she fight such an opponent?

In a fit of anger, Dugu Yan poured all her remaining soul power into her third soul ring. Just as she was about to unleash her final third soul skill, Azure Phosphorous Poison, Xia Liang struck first, hitting her shoulders and thighs with four finger flicks.

It seemed as if she had been precisely struck in the numbness veins; Dugu Yan's shoulders and thighs felt numb and weak.

At that moment, a skeletal right arm grew from the ribs covering Xia Liang's right side and grabbed forward, instantly holding Dugu Yan's body tightly in mid-air.

First, her limbs were deprived of force, then she floated in the air and lost her leverage. Her soul power was also almost gone. Knowing that she could no longer resist the grip of the skeleton's right arm, Dugu Yan simply stopped struggling.

To her despair, the massive skeletal hand gripped her body, while its thick thumb also blocked her mouth, preventing her from spitting out the final cyan phosphorescent poison mist.

"You lost again."

As he spoke, Xia Liang raised his right hand, and the fifth finger flick gathered at the tip of his index finger, ready to be released.

Looking at the finger bone aimed at her forehead, Dugu Yan's pupils trembled.

Lost again?

To be utterly defeated by a second-ring Grand Soul Master?

No, Dugu Yan's eyes suddenly became firm, even resolute.

She would rather die than lose to an opponent who had one less spirit ring than her.

This would not only negate all the efforts they had made over the years, but would also indirectly prove that the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Martial Soul was trash, unable to even defeat opponents weaker than themselves.

The more intense the pain she endured from the grip of the skeletal hand, the stronger the resolve in Dugu Yan's eyes became. Her eyes even reddened from the overwhelming emotion. This was undoubtedly the moment when her will was at its firmest, but also the moment when her mentality was at its most broken.

"Stop. We surrender."

The sudden sound brought Xia Liang's attack to an abrupt halt.

He and the host looked towards the spectator area almost simultaneously.

They discovered that the person speaking was Qin Ming, the team leader of the Royal Fighting Team.

The Great Arena, the main hall.

At the front desk.

After finishing his battle with Dugu Yan, Xia Liang went to the front desk to register his points. After receiving the gold soul coins reward for his victory, he also received a blue brocade pouch from the receptionist.

The previous battle against a higher-level opponent was a gambling battle, and this blue brocade pouch was the stake that Dugu Yan used to register for the battle.

Judging from Dugu Yan's description, this blue brocade pouch should be the living creature storage soul tool, the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch, that Dugu Bo gave to Tang San in the original novel.

With this treasure, we'll have a place to store the immortal herbs from now on.

Although there is no knowledge about immortal herbs at present, Xia Liang remembers that the original work described several immortal herbs in detail. They have unique appearances and are very easy to identify.

Especially the eight-pointed ice grass and the fiery apricot blossom that grow near the eye of ice and fire.

These two immortal herbs possess extreme cold poison and extreme fire poison respectively, and one can feel the very obvious ice and fire energy as soon as you get close.

The original text also mentions the methods of harvesting and consuming the Eight-Starred Ice Grass and the Fiery Apricot.

According to the original text, many highly poisonous immortal herbs or rare treasures grow near the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire. If you accidentally come into contact with any of the toxins while passing by, you're doomed.

Xia Liang felt that these days he not only had to prepare tools to pick the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass and the Fiery Apricot, but also had to purchase a large amount of detoxifying food made by food-type Soul Masters using their Soul Skills.

Even if the skeleton can't protect against the toxins from those magical herbs, at least you'll have a way to detoxify yourself.

In addition, we also need to acquire some food-type soul skills that allow for short-term flight.

The original novel states that Dugu Bo acts solely on his whims and doesn't mind bullying the weak.

Because of Dugu Yan's situation, he might come looking for trouble, so having the ability to fly would make me feel safer.

Fortunately, the green compartment of the tricolor ring has a preservation and refrigeration storage effect, which can store food made by food-type soul masters using soul skills for a long time.

The head chef of the academy's kitchen, a level 57 food-type Soul King, possesses the martial soul of chicken leg.

His fifth soul skill, Soaring Thousand Miles Gale Kick, is a flight-type soul skill that allows the user to fly at the speed of a swift phoenix for three minutes.

Tomorrow I can find an excuse to ask the head chef for a few chicken drumsticks.

As long as Dugu Bo doesn't use his eighth soul skill, Time Freeze, there's a chance of escaping using the speed of the Gale Flying Phoenix.

Of course, these are all worst-case scenarios.

If a Title Douluo wants to kill someone, who can escape?

Unless he was caught stealing immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, a mere battle of souls with Dugu Yan shouldn't have been enough to cause Dugu Bo to go on a killing spree.

If all else fails, the only way to prove one's worth is to use the soul bone to resolve the backlash from the snake venom.

Where there is value, there is a way to survive.

"Master Xia." A sudden voice rang out.

Putting aside all his worries, Xia Liang stuffed the Ruyi Treasure Pouch into his clothes and turned to look at the source of the sound.

The person who arrived was Qin Ming, accompanied by Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng.

"Teacher Qin, is there something you need?" Xia Liang asked.

Approaching Xia Liang, Qin Ming smiled slightly and asked, "Can we talk privately?"

(End of this chapter)