Chapter 210: Drinking Your Blood

"Brother Jian!" "Qin Jian!"

Ning Rongrong hurriedly steadied him, while Zhu Zhuqing was somewhat at a loss, wanting to support him but not daring to touch him.

"It's fine, it's fine... I'm used to it..."

Qin Jian looked at the sky, speechless: "I was just telling a story, at most with some allusions, and even this can get harmonized; the rules are really something..."

Looking at the two girls beside him... well, one girl, one woman?

Qin Jian looked at their worried expressions and smiled, saying: "It's fine, you get used to it after vomiting enough."

Before Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing could figure out what this meant, a chill suddenly permeated the air, and at the same time, an unusually foul and familiar stench rushed toward them, so pungent it was suffocating...

"Swish!"

The next moment, Poison Douluo Dugu Bo appeared before him, and the green mist attacked him.

Before Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing could cry out in alarm, Qin Jian hurriedly raised his hand: "Wait, Senior Dugu, don't attack!"

The green mist paused.

Subsequently, Liu Erlong, Flender, and Grandmaster all sensed the commotion, and upon rushing over, they discovered Dugu Bo had appeared here quite strangely.

Qin Jian first pacified the Shrek group, then found Tang San to invite him to pull off a big job together, and was finally taken away by Dugu Bo, speeding all the way into the Sunset Forest.

Then followed the familiar plot of Tang San providing a diagnosis and Old Poison inviting a wolf into his house.

"Qin Jian, you can just stay here and wait with me, and see if this Tang San is really as capable as you say."

Inside the cave, Dugu Bo stood with his hands behind his back and said to Qin Jian: "If he can truly cure Yan Yan and me of our poison, then he is a great benefactor to me, Dugu Bo, and I will owe you all a favor."

"Then this favor is definitely owed." Qin Jian laughed.

Dugu Bo's greenish eyes looked slightly strange: "Qin Jian, you never seem to fear me? Whether it was when we first traded, or now, do you know that if he cannot succeed, I might very well kill you all?"

Who could blame him when his lifelong friendship with Tang San was so deeply rooted in people's hearts; Qin Jian simply couldn't bring himself to fear him...

"Heh, I don't believe that you, a dignified Poison Douluo, want to live a life of wandering the ends of the earth, and it's not like no one knows we came here." Qin Jian shrugged.

"I really envy Jian Douluo for having a personal disciple like you." Dugu Bo patted Qin Jian on the shoulder and said.

The two of them chatted idly like this until, a day later, Tang San emerged from the mandarin duck hotpot... the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, his face full of excitement.

Qin Jian looked at the external soul bone on his back that had turned dark red, and said: "Boiled too long in the mandarin duck pot, changed into a new skin?"

"???"

Tang San was full of question marks.

"I have two ways to solve Senior Dugu's poison..."

Tang San quickly explained the detoxification method clearly to Dugu Bo.

"In other words, as long as I find a soul bone to store the toxins in, I can be cured?" Dugu Bo said.

Tang San nodded: "That's right, this shouldn't be difficult for you. As for the poison in Qin Jian's body, it can be completely removed just by drinking my blood, because he doesn't need to retain the toxins."

"Drink your blood?"

The corners of Qin Jian's mouth twitched.

Seeing his disgusted expression, Tang San couldn't help but say irritably: "Don't worry, I will use some other Immortal Herbs to neutralize and regulate it; it won't taste bad."

"Alright then..." Qin Jian said very reluctantly.

He then waited another day before Tang San finally delivered a Seven-Colored Pill.

"Such a brightly colored pill... will I really be finished if I eat it?" Qin Jian couldn't help but ask.

At this moment, Dugu Bo was not around, so Tang San stopped hiding it and whispered: "Don't be ungrateful after getting a bargain. This is a Body Tempering Pill I specially refined. It's not just for detoxification; even with the stock here, only this one could be refined. The effect after eating it will definitely be no worse than the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well."

Qin Jian's eyes lit up, but he asked again: "Then why didn't you eat it yourself?"

Tang San smiled gently: "Qin Jian, this time might be the most critical opportunity of my life. These were all brought by you, and this one pill is simply not enough to offset the opportunity you brought me. I owe you a huge favor."

Qin Jian shook his head and said: "As long as you don't think about killing me in the future, that's enough."

"Why would I want to kill you?"

Tang San said as a matter of course: "We are good brothers!"

"Brothers..."

Qin Jian's expression was slightly strange, but he smiled and said: "Alright, then I'll take it as your promise that you won't kill me in the future."

Tang San, however, was not as casual as him, but instead looked very serious and earnest: "I accept your promise, and will uphold it for a lifetime!"

This sounded particularly familiar, full of sentiment...

Qin Jian finally took the Seven-Colored Pill from his hand and swallowed it. Immediately, a faint, fragrant taste dissolved in his mouth, and at the same time, two mysterious energies of ice and fire erupted from his dantian, then swept through his entire body, gently transforming it.

Sensing his body's strength continuously increasing, Qin Jian couldn't help but show a look of satisfaction.

Originally, he was a Humanoid Spirit Beast, and an extremely rare Million-Year Soul Beast at that. His constitution was unique, and the age of the Soul Ring he could withstand was far higher than that of a normal person. With further improvement on this foundation, Qin Jian felt that his later Soul Rings might even be Ten Thousand Year ones...

He really couldn't understand why so many transmigrator predecessors insisted on going against Tang San, as if they couldn't prove their Dao without killing him.

In fact, regardless of the controversy over his later actions, he was indeed a very suitable person to be a brother.

Today, he could be considered to have taken a precaution. After all, among the nine most outstanding women on the Dalu, he believed that there were definitely some from the Spirit Hall. Whether he would join the Spirit Hall later was uncertain, but Tang San's family had a grudge against the Spirit Hall, which made things very difficult...

If he were purely on Tang San's side, or on the Spirit Hall's side, then he could just act according to his stance, and there would be nothing to struggle with. But this damned God Trial always made him feel it wasn't that simple; in the future, it would likely put him on the fire to be roasted.

He had to take precautions...

The process of body tempering was not as painful as he had imagined; Tang San's ability to prepare medicine was truly superb.

Qin Jian still had the heart to banter with him.

"Dugu Bo has a lot of good things here; remember to swipe some if you can't finish them..."

His winking expression left Tang San speechless.

A day later, when he had completely absorbed the pill specially prepared by Tang San, not only was there no residual poison in his body, but even the many impurities left behind from before were cleansed away, and his body's strength had reached a level absolutely impossible for his age.

Tang San had miscalculated, thinking that after Qin Jian's strengthening, he would at most be on par with him. In fact, Qin Jian's original Fourth Soul Ring was already thirty thousand years old, and now that it had improved again, his next Soul Ring would be at least sixty thousand years or more.

"Xiao San, you stay here for half a year, I won't stay. I'll come find you in half a year."

Qin Jian exhorted, "Although I will be away for a period of time, you must keep it a secret for me from Rongrong and Zhuqing!"

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