Lu Mingfei starts from Douluo

Chapter 78: The Invincible Jotaro's Conquest (in progress)

"That was close!"

Lu Mingfei patted his chest, hid behind a mountain peak, and let out a long sigh of relief.

He dared not underestimate the perception of a Title Douluo. If he had been a step too late, or had been entangled by a soul beast, he would definitely have been discovered.

This Poison Douluo is notoriously wicked, and he's also a friend of Prince Xue Xing, Xue Qinghe's political enemy. He's probably been displeased with him for a long time. If he were to come to him, the Poison Douluo would most likely take action directly, and then he would have no choice but to reveal his strength and run for his life.

After all, no one would want to know the secrets here.

"Lu Mingze, you've really screwed me over." Lu Mingfei muttered a couple of times before continuing to fly out of the forest.

Lu Mingze only said that he had found the place and left the rest to him, which means that Dugu Bo probably hadn't mastered those two artifacts yet, or at least couldn't take them with him. He had simply discovered the place and was keeping watch.

However, breaking into someone's home while they're away is still a bit too much for Lu Mingfei, a student who has received compulsory education.

He even considered whether to just let it go, but the artifact had been here for hundreds of thousands of years, and Dugu Bo couldn't take it away. Rather than letting some protagonist or something benefit from it later, Lu Mingfei felt it was better to keep it for himself.

Of course, if Dugu Bo were already able to use this thing, then he would have no choice but to run for his life.

"Sorry, but since none of us are exactly good people, let's not talk about chivalry."

Lu Mingfei had a strong intuition about this: being a pushover is tiring in any world; if it doesn't concern you, you'll just drift along.

However, he now has several problems to solve, the first of which is the poison array.

Judging from its appearance, this poisonous array is a purple mist, most likely composed primarily of venom from the Jade Phosphorus Snake.

Dugu Yan's Azure Phosphorus Poison, even without inhalation, is enough to poison the victim through skin contact alone; Dugu Bo's poison would naturally be even more terrifying.

Unless he can get a full biohazard suit with an oxygen tank right now, getting inside would be an impossible task.

Furthermore, the fact that the poisonous gas condenses and does not dissipate is most likely due to the use of a principle similar to miasma. Poisonous gas is denser than air, which means that the entire mountain may be a solid bun shrouded in poisonous gas.

Even if he could use the King's Flame or the Eye of the Wind King to blast a gap and then use Flash to rush into the formation, he would still be enveloped by the poisonous fog within a few seconds of entering.

"Blow it away with the wind?" Lu Mingfei immediately shook his head. He didn't know how powerful the Wind King's Eye would be, and he would probably be exhausted by then.

"Or should we use fire? That seems like a good option. Snake venom is generally a biological toxin, a protein that denatures when heated."

"However, such a large mountain is difficult to burn down completely, even with sufficient ignition materials. It will take a long time to burn it through and extinguish the fire. Moreover, if the fire attracts spirit beasts to cause trouble, it will be even more troublesome."

Lu Mingfei pounded his forehead. No matter what, setting fire to the mountain was clearly going too far.

"Forget it, let's go back and talk about it later." Lu Mingfei sighed and returned to the campsite outside the forest. It was just getting light.

After munching on a few bites of dry rations, he began to focus on resting and recovering his soul power. Maintaining a good condition was the top priority in the wild, as who knew what dangers he might encounter.

Despite the difficulties, even when faced with game levels that already provide clues, this expert player can always unleash boundless energy and creativity to overcome them.

Over the next few days, Lu Mingfei repeatedly pondered and came up with several strategies.

Combat tornadoes, the story of the mole, artificial rain from high-altitude clouds —

Alternatively, they could simply act like idiots and write a false letter to the Spirit Hall, telling them that Tang Hao was hiding in Dugu Bo's lair, and use the Title War to destroy the poison array.

However, he eventually stopped his wandering thoughts and decided to try some conventional methods first.

Initially, he wanted to use the heat generated by the Junyan within the domain as a high-temperature protective shield. When the toxic gas came into contact with the shield, it would instantly change and become ineffective.

He experimented with miasma in the forest at dawn. It did indeed make the miasma entering the area evaporate instantly, ensuring that the air entering and leaving was clean. However, the downside was that it was too difficult to control. He could maintain it for a short time, but it would consume too much energy over a long period of time. Such delicate operation not only consumed physical strength but also mental energy.

Then he turned his attention to the Eye of the Wind King, often trying to manipulate the wind to create tornadoes to block the fog. This did not require very precise operation, as long as the tornado was big enough, or at least long enough.

This allows him to draw non-toxic air from the outer edge of the poisonous array to disperse the poisonous mist around his body, ensuring he can breathe and avoid contact, since the eye of the storm is the calmest part of the tornado.

This method did indeed demonstrate high feasibility in the experiments conducted over the following days.

As the eye of the storm, as long as he controls the wind speed within his surrounding area fast enough, the poison gas will have no way to get close.

More importantly, maintaining the Eye of the Wind King is much easier than maintaining the static heating of the Sovereign Flame. Although the Eye of the Wind King may seem more imposing, in reality, as long as he controls the flow rate within the eye of the wind, the extension of the wind outside the domain does not require much effort from him.

So he began special training on the use of the Eye of the Wind King, which lasted for a month. At the same time, he did not stop practicing the Sovereign Flame. In case the idea of ​​the Eye of the Wind King failed, the Sovereign Flame Domain could at least guarantee his safety in the end.

With everything prepared, Lu Mingfei disguised himself as a down-on-his-luck farm boy and sneaked back into Tiandou City.

To camp out in the Sunset Forest and ambush a Title Douluo's lair is practically suicide. Those thousand-year-old soul beasts have noses sharper than dogs, and a battle could break out at any moment. It's far too dangerous.

So he had to go somewhere else, like the Dugu Mansion that Dugu Yan had mentioned.

As the only titled Douluo royal retainer in the Heaven Dou Empire, Dugu Bo's title is a super-grade duke, comparable to a Thunder Douluo, and naturally he also has a duke's mansion.

However, he usually lives in Sunset Forest, and Dugu Yan rarely comes back because she lives in the academy. But they would randomly return to the city for a day to reunite during their four-day holidays each month.

It's better to hide in the bustling Heaven Dou City than to be surrounded and attacked by a horde of soul beasts; there's less chance of being discovered there.

More than a month has passed since he left the Royal Academy. Who would have thought that he would sneak back to Tiandou City?

There are no ID cards or anything like that in this world. He was just an ordinary farm boy, and kids generally don't attract much attention.

Especially since he hadn't cut his hair for over a month, it was already as messy as a little beggar's. Who would have thought that the famous number one genius of the Heaven Dou Empire would ruin himself like this?

Therefore, Lu Mingfei deliberately didn't wash his hair for several days before swaggering into Tiandou City.

"Child, what's your name? What brings you into the city?" the guard at the city gate asked impatiently.

Lu Mingfei lowered his eyes meekly and said, "Jotaro, I want to go into the city to make a living, sir."