"Eat it."
Fu Ye took out a golden melon the size of a fist from his system storage and placed it in front of Dugu Yan.
"No!"
Dugu Yan was stubborn.
Her grandfather had told her that most of the herbs here were poisonous and should never be eaten.
"I'll count to three. If you don't eat it, I'll have to use force."
After all, the younger someone was when consuming an immortal herb, the greater its effect.
Since she refused to cooperate, he had no choice but to use stronger measures.
"Three."
"I won't eat it!"
"Two."
"Still not eating it!"
"One."
"Not eating!"
"Zero."
"Not—mmph… gulp!"
The Golden Dragon Sweet Potato was most effective when swallowed whole in one go.
Fu Ye wrapped it in soul power, crushed it into powder, and forced it directly into Dugu Yan's mouth.
To her, it felt like drinking water.
The powdered golden melon flowed straight into her body.
"Mmm… my body feels so hot…"
In an instant, the immortal herb's effects began to activate.
Dugu Yan felt as if she were standing beside a blazing furnace.
A powerful heat spread through her entire body.
But from Fu Ye's perspective, the scene looked completely different.
A phantom golden dragon appeared, circling around Dugu Yan's forehead.
Her martial spirit began undergoing transformation.
Because she had only just awakened her martial spirit and had not yet absorbed a soul ring, the Golden Dragon Sweet Potato caused an enormous evolution.
Meanwhile, Dugu Bo had just captured a 400-year Black Scale Python and returned to his herbal garden.
But the moment he entered, he immediately noticed something was wrong.
A huge portion of his herbs had disappeared.
"Not good! Yan Yan!"
He rushed toward the center of the herb garden in panic.
What he saw filled him with rage.
"You brat! Die!"
Hm?
Dugu Bo's voice?
BOOM!
A massive snake tail whipped toward Fu Ye, sending dust flying everywhere.
The surrounding ground shattered under the impact.
Even the waters of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well trembled violently.
BOOM!
From within the dust cloud, an even more powerful force exploded outward—almost overturning the entire valley.
When the smoke cleared…
Dugu Bo was already lying on the ground, his body twitching uncontrollably.
Fu Ye's fist remained suspended in the air.
The rebound force alone had stripped all the power from Dugu Bo's body.
"Behave yourself. Next time I won't hold back."
Fu Ye didn't pay much attention to Dugu Bo.
Luckily he had cast a protective barrier around Dugu Yan earlier.
If the immortal herb absorption had been interrupted, its effects would have been greatly reduced.
Dugu Yan's martial spirit was originally the Jade Phosphor Snake.
But now, instead of evolving into something like Dugu Bo's Jade Phosphor Snake Emperor, it was beginning to evolve toward a dragon lineage.
The Golden Dragon Sweet Potato was technically a plant-type immortal herb.
However, it contained a massive amount of dragon energy and even a trace of true dragon bloodline.
For the current Dugu Yan, this was an incredible boost.
This immortal herb matched her extremely well.
Turning her martial spirit directly into a true dragon would be unrealistic.
But evolving it into a top-tier sub-dragon martial spirit was absolutely possible.
After all, the Jade Phosphor Snake was already a powerful martial spirit capable of reaching Title Douluo level.
After evolution, its quality might not even be weaker than the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
As for the immortal herb Fu Ye planned to give Dugu Bo…
he already had an answer in mind.
But that depended on whether the old poison master behaved himself.
"Who are you?! What did you do to my granddaughter?!"
Even though Dugu Bo had no strength left to resist, he stubbornly questioned Fu Ye.
Fu Ye felt the man clearly hadn't been beaten enough.
"I'll give you thirty seconds to reorganize your words."
"Otherwise I'm afraid I might actually kill you."
Wasn't the situation obvious?
Was the huge surge of power around his granddaughter fake?
You benefit from something and still act arrogant?
That's asking for a beating.
"I…"
Dugu Bo hesitated.
But he was also afraid the terrifying young man in front of him might really harm Dugu Yan.
So he didn't dare say another word.
Soon, Dugu Yan completely absorbed the Golden Dragon Sweet Potato.
As the power burst from her body, Dugu Bo could clearly feel it—
his granddaughter's martial spirit had undergone a positive mutation.
The little girl opened her bright eyes.
But when she saw Dugu Bo collapsed beside Fu Ye—
she immediately shouted angrily.
"You bad guy! Let my grandpa go!"
("▔□▔)
Honestly, when a six-year-old girl gets angry, it somehow becomes extremely adorable.
It could melt anyone's heart.
BANG!
Fu Ye casually stepped on Dugu Bo's head, pressing it into the ground.
Then he looked at the little girl and said calmly:
"Say something nice."
"If I'm happy, I'll let your grandpa go."
Dugu Bo (with his head buried in the ground):What the hell—@#￥@#￥!!
"Grandpa!"
Seeing her grandfather's head pressed into the dirt, Dugu Yan realized she had no chance of beating the handsome man who forced her to eat the melon earlier.
"Yan Yan… Grandpa isn't—"
BANG!
Since Fu Ye didn't hear what he wanted, he stomped again.
This time Dugu Bo's head sank even deeper into the ground.
"Hurry and say something nice."
"Otherwise your grandpa might suffocate."
Dugu Yan looked at her grandfather stuck in the mud.
Then she looked at Fu Ye standing on his head.
Finally—
she made up her mind.
For her grandfather…
she would sacrifice herself!
"Husband!"
"I'll go with you!"
"I'll be your little wife!"
"Now hurry and release my grandpa!"
Fu Ye:Σ(っ°Д°;)っ
Dugu Bo:Σ(っ°Д°;)っ
Author:(o゜▽゜)o
Police:▄︻┻┳═一... w(Д)w
The silence between them was deafening.
Not only Dugu Bo—
even Fu Ye, who had seen many things in life—
was stunned by the words of a six-year-old girl.
Wait.
Could a child that young actually say something like that?!
Thinking this, Fu Ye finally pulled Dugu Bo's head out of the ground.
Looking at his dirt-covered face, Fu Ye endured the grime and slapped him across the face.
SMACK!
The slap was loud.
But Dugu Bo still hadn't recovered from what his granddaughter had just said.
SMACK!
Another slap.
This time Dugu Bo finally snapped out of it.
"What are you doing?!"
His mind felt completely scrambled.
Fu Ye resisted the urge to slap him a third time and spoke seriously:
"What exactly have you been teaching this girl?"
"Is that something a child her age should say?!"
Hearing this, Dugu Bo felt like his dignity had been completely destroyed.
But before he could say anything—
Dugu Yan spoke again with another shocking statement.
"Hey!"
"I already called you husband and agreed to be your little wife!"
"Why are you still hitting my grandpa?!"