Chapter 81: Three Solutions
As Lin Mo's voice faded, the atmosphere in the room immediately turned somewhat subtle.
After a long silence, Dugu Bo finally spoke again, his voice much lower than before.
"Kid... Lin Mo. Since you can see the root cause of Yanyan's poisoning, then tell me this. Do you have a way to solve it? Can you cure the poison inside my granddaughter and me?"
This was his true purpose for coming here today.
Asking for the reason, questioning the method, all of it had merely been preparation for this final question.
He stared fixedly at Lin Mo, and for the first time, a desperate longing appeared in those emerald snake eyes.
Lin Mo fell silent for a moment before finally nodding slowly.
"There is a solution."
Those simple words made Dugu Bo's body tremble violently, and Dugu Yan, standing nearby, instinctively covered her mouth.
"Speak quickly. What is the method?" Dugu Bo pressed.
Lin Mo's tone remained calm.
"Taking Senior Sister Dugu Yan as an example, her poisoning is already deep. The toxins have long since intertwined with her five viscera and six bowels. In my opinion, resolving it is not difficult, and there is more than one method."
He slowly raised three fingers.
"The first and most superficial method is the slow cultivation method. It requires Senior Sister Dugu Yan to temporarily stop cultivating her spirit power."
"When my cultivation surpasses hers in the future, my second Martial Soul's control over qi, blood, and the human body will naturally become stronger than it is now, and my suppression of the toxins inside her will also become more effective."
"Then, with your assistance, Senior, and with your understanding of the Jade Phosphor Serpent Spirit and your experience in suppressing toxins, Senior Sister Dugu Yan would have a good chance of enduring the backlash and cultivating her Jade Phosphor Serpent Spirit all the way to the same rank as yours."
Lin Mo looked at Dugu Bo.
"At that time, although she would still have to endure the pain of the toxin's backlash, the origin of her Spirit would also become much stronger. Her control over the toxin and her tolerance for it would greatly increase."
"So as long as she remains careful, preserving her life would not be a problem."
The moment he heard this method, Dugu Bo shook his head without the slightest hesitation.
"Next one. This won't work. Yanyan cannot endure that."
He turned to look at his granddaughter, his eyes filled with pain.
"No one knows better than I do how difficult that road is. Every time the toxin backlashes, the pain is unbearable."
"But Yanyan... she has been tormented by this poison since childhood. Her condition is even worse than mine was in the past."
"She was poisoned while still in the womb, and her Jade Phosphor Serpent Spirit is innately stronger than ordinary Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul of the same rank."
"But by the same token, the intensity and pain of the toxin backlash she suffers are several times worse than what I endured back then."
His voice grew hoarse.
"As her grandfather, how can I bear to watch her walk the same old road as me and suffer the torment I personally experienced?"
Dugu Yan listened quietly, her eyes reddening as she bit her lip hard.
Lin Mo was not surprised by Dugu Bo's reaction. He simply nodded and continued.
"The second method is also a temporary solution, but it is much more practical than the first. I call it the Spirit Bone method."
"Spirit Bone?" Dugu Bo's eyes narrowed.
"That's right."
Lin Mo explained, "Once a Spirit Bone is absorbed by a Spirit Master, it can be regarded as part of the Spirit Master's own body."
"This method is to gradually force the toxin accumulated within the body into the Spirit Bone during daily cultivation. In other words, use the Spirit Bone as a separate container to store the toxin."
"The advantage of this is obvious. It would keep the toxin from continuing to erode the body, while also ensuring that the Spirit Master's cultivation and combat ability remain unaffected."
"This method can be used not only by Senior Sister Dugu Yan, but by you as well, Senior."
A trace of hope had only just appeared in Dugu Bo's eyes when he immediately remembered the key phrase Lin Mo had used earlier.
Temporary solution.
He frowned deeply and asked in a low voice, "What is the flaw? If it could truly solve the problem forever, you would not have called it temporary."
"What is the flaw in this method?"
Lin Mo answered frankly, "The flaw is obvious."
"Senior, let me ask you this. Even a top quality 10,000 year Spirit Bone has a limited capacity. Can it truly store the toxic poison accumulated throughout the lifetime of a poison attribute Titled Douluo like you, while also ensuring that the poison never leaks and the Spirit Bone itself never collapses?"
Dugu Bo fell silent.
This was indeed the fatal weakness of the method.
No matter how strong a Spirit Bone was, it still had its limits. If all the poison currently hidden inside his body were to erupt at once, even he would be terrified.
If all of that poison were forced into a single Spirit Bone, then once that Spirit Bone reached its limit and shattered, all the poison stored within it would erupt instantly as well.
That kind of backlash would be fatal even to a Titled Douluo.
He would undoubtedly die.
Thinking of that, the bit of color that had just returned to Dugu Bo's face quickly faded again, and his expression became much more desolate.
Still... perhaps it could serve as a fallback plan.
Used together with the first method Lin Mo had mentioned.
Find Yanyan a top quality Spirit Bone, let her force the toxin into it, then have her stop cultivating and remain at a relatively safe spirit power rank.
That way, the pressure on the Spirit Bone would be much lower, and perhaps... perhaps she could at least live out her life in peace.
That thought had only just surfaced in Dugu Bo's mind when Lin Mo's next sentence shattered it completely.
And at the same time, it brought him a hope he had never even dared imagine.
Lin Mo said, "Senior, if what you want is to completely eliminate the poison problem for both yourself and Senior Sister Dugu Yan, without leaving behind any future danger, then there is still one final method."
"That method is Martial Soul evolution."
"The fundamental reason you and Senior Sister Dugu Yan suffer backlash from your own toxins is because the origin of your Jade Phosphor Serpent Martial Soul is not strong enough."
"The origin of the Martial Soul cannot bear the accompanying toxin, which is why the poison turns around and devours the host instead."
"Since that is the case, then the fundamental solution is also obvious. Let the Martial Soul itself complete an evolution. Strengthen the origin of the Martial Soul from the root."
"As long as the Martial Soul becomes strong enough to bear the toxin with ease, there will naturally be no backlash."
"Martial Soul evolution?"
At first, Dugu Bo was stunned. Then an expression of utter absurdity appeared on his face, and he blurted out almost instinctively,
"That is impossible! A Martial Soul is innately determined. How could it evolve?"
"For a Spirit Master, the form of the Martial Soul is fixed the moment it awakens."
"The greatest change it can undergo is what happened to me, letting the Jade Phosphor Serpent evolve into the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor through cultivation and the addition of Spirit Rings."
"That is already the limit!"
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