Chapter 224: Yu Yuanzhen's Death, Three Soul Bones
Given the power of the poison he was feeling now, Yu Yuanzhen was certain the Dugu family also had ways to secretly poison Tianheng and Tianxin.
Could it be that all of this had been orchestrated by the Dugu Clan from the very beginning?
Yu Yuanzhen shuddered.
Dugu Feng said nothing.
Before the other man died, he had no intention of wasting even a single word.
Villains died from talking too much; he wouldn't risk posturing for the sake of theatrics.
Dugu Feng stayed cautious. With the Domination Venom and the two Emerald Dragon Serpents, he had already done everything that needed doing.
Now it was only a matter of waiting for the result.
Yu Yuanzhen had fallen into a final frenzy.
He had always prided himself on being the most calculating of the Upper Three Sects, balancing carefully between the two empires and Spirit Hall.
He had secured resources for growth while keeping the clan comfortable and safe.
His son Yu Xiaogang had even courted the Pope herself, learning the secret that Bibi Dong possessed twin martial spirits.
Yu Yuanzhen had been very pleased with himself.
In terms of raw strength, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could not compare with the Clear Sky Sect or the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
But in reputation, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon was hailed as the number one beast spirit under heaven, and his son Yu Xiaogang was lauded as the master of martial spirit theory.
That status was inseparable from Yu Yuanzhen's long-term planning.
With the emergence of geniuses like Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin, plus Liu Erlong—the illegitimate daughter of Yu Luomian—the clan had seen its chance to rise.
Given a few decades, once those three became Titled Douluo, the clan would without doubt become the foremost beast spirit sect in the world.
In the end, he had hunted geese all his life only to have his eyes pecked out by one.
He had been outplayed by the Dugu Clan.
Yu Yuanzhen regretted it bitterly. He should have let Spirit Hall annihilate the Dugu family back then.
He should never have helped them resist Ghost Douluo's pressure.
One misstep—regret for a lifetime.
"Was it you who stirred up the hatred between my Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Clear Sky Sect?
Was it you who killed Tianheng and Tianxin?"
Yu Yuanzhen screamed like a madman.
His only reply was boundless silence and darkness.
"Tianheng and Tianxin were definitely killed by you. Your Dugu Clan is so vicious—ungrateful and treacherous.
You will not meet a good end!"
Boom!
A deafening blast shook the night.
Yu Yuanzhen self-detonated.
His internal organs had already been completely corroded; only the power of his martial spirit had been holding his consciousness together.
That soul power was continually being devoured by the Domination Venom, and was almost exhausted.
Seeing no chance of survival, Yu Yuanzhen gathered the last of his strength and blew his own body apart.
A cloud of blood mist erupted over the battlefield.
Blue energy hung in the air like storm clouds, lingering for a long time before slowly dispersing.
Only when everything calmed did Dugu Feng descend into the heart of the battlefield.
The force of the self-detonation had obliterated Yu Yuanzhen's body completely, leaving not even bones behind.
A deep crater yawned where he had stood.
The two Emerald Dragon Serpents raced back at high speed.
When Yu Yuanzhen detonated, they had relied on sheer speed to flee and so had escaped serious harm.
Now they peered into the crater in astonishment.
At its center, four mighty auras surged and fluctuated.
Dugu Feng extended his hand.
First, the multicolored glow representing the Domination Venom flew into his palm.
On closer inspection, the Venom, once the size of a pigeon egg, had grown slightly larger.
In the process of killing Yu Yuanzhen, it had absorbed his soul power and life force to evolve further.
Dugu Feng quickly channeled in the five base toxins in different ratios.
Within a short moment, the Venom calmed down again and fell fully under his control, turning into a rainbow gleam and sinking back into his body.
Only then did Dugu Feng turn his attention to the other three auras.
These three emanations pulsed with dense, overwhelming power, making the surrounding space seem to congeal.
They were Yu Yuanzhen's three soul bones—treasures that even his self-detonation could not destroy.
Judging from their shapes, they were a right arm bone, a left leg bone, and a right leg bone.
With a flicker of movement, Dugu Feng landed in the crater and, without hesitation, drew out a lead box.
He placed the three bones inside, then stored the box within his soul tool.
Afterward, he circled the battlefield, carefully erasing every trace of his own presence before flying swiftly back toward Heaven Dou City.
This was no place to take stock of his spoils.
The shockwave from Yu Yuanzhen's self-detonation would surely draw powerful soul masters to investigate.
Dugu Feng had left them something to see—he hadn't erased any of the lightning marks left behind.
He wanted the world to know that Yu Yuanzhen was dead.
News of the great battle outside Heaven Dou City would spread quickly.
And the only ones who could have slain Yu Yuanzhen, in the eyes of the world, would be the Clear Sky Sect.
They would shoulder this blame.
The Soul Master world was about to grow lively again.
As Dugu Feng traveled onward, he suddenly felt a stream of energy leaking from the Domination Venom in his lower dantian.
The moment it emerged, the spiritual pearl absorbed it.
"This must be the energy of Yu Yuanzhen that the Venom devoured—after evolving, it kept only pure poison and released the rest of the life force."
Realization dawned on Dugu Feng.
But the pearl absorbed it too quickly—before he could even sense it fully, it was all gone.
Inside the spiritual pearl, the energy—once at eighty-five points—rose rapidly.
Eighty-six.
Eighty-seven.
Ninety-four.
Ninety-five.
It finally stopped at ninety-five.
Close to one hundred percent.
In at most a year, the pearl would evolve again, splitting into sixteen in total.
Dugu Feng recalled his earliest wild thought.
Spirit battle?
No—first self-detonate a pearl, survive, then fight.
Each spiritual pearl contained poison and soul power, its energy vast.
Just one of Dugu Bo's pearls accounted for half his strength.
If one detonated, even an average Titled Douluo would struggle to survive.
Suppressing his excitement, Dugu Feng returned quickly to the Sunset Forest.
He slipped back into his underground training chamber and sat down cross-legged.
With a sweep of his right hand, he opened the lead box containing the soul bones.
Brilliant light flooded the entire cavern.
His gaze locked instantly onto the right arm bone among the three.
This right arm bone was entirely jade-green, exuding a gentle yet unyielding glow; its energy fluctuations were no weaker than those of the Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone.
The forearm and upper arm were clearly defined—the bone was extremely complete.
"Such a complete soul bone… could this be a hundred-thousand-year soul bone?
To think the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan possessed something like this."
With that thought, Dugu Feng felt that Yu Yuanzhen's death had been truly tragic.
If he had died facing another Titled Douluo, Yu Yuanzhen would surely have dragged one down with him.
When Spirit Hall later besieged the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, four Titled Douluo severely injured two and perished alongside a third—an enormous loss.
Dugu Feng, however, had never fought him head-on.
In the end, he simply used the Domination Venom to grind Yu Yuanzhen to death.
He was grateful that he had held back the urge to reveal the truth in Yu Yuanzhen's final moments.
The man died resentful and confused, never learning from Dugu Feng's lips what had truly happened to Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin.
Poor, pitiful Yu Yuanzhen indeed.
(END CHAPTER)
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