Chapter 26

Grandpa, what are you cooking? It smells so good.

Upon entering the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang, Du Gu Yan immediately smelled a pleasant fragrance.

Du Gu Yan: Hmm, let me guess, could it be braised fish?

"I didn't cook anything, perhaps..."

Du Gu Bo: I never expected a nine-year-old kid to be able to cook, that's truly somewhat unbelievable.

Unlike Tang San, who was forced to learn cooking because his father Tang Hao didn't care for him.

Bai Ran knows how to cook, mainly learned from his father.

Moreover, looking across the entire Douluo Continent, those famous female soul masters, every single one of them hardly knows how to cook.

Additionally, after Her Holiness Bibi Dong became the female representative and declared she would defend the rights of female soul masters.

What, you want us women to cook? Don't you men know how? Who stipulated that women must cook? You're objectifying women! …

"Hey, little brother, what are you doing here?"

Walking into the small wooden house, I saw the little tyke standing by the stove.

Du Gu Yan asked, slightly puzzled.

Du Gu Yan: Could it be that Grandpa knows this little brother's monstrous talent and wants to take him as a disciple? That shouldn't be, I haven't even told Grandpa about this little brother's information.

"Sister Yan, I came to learn from Senior Du Gu Bo."

To be precise, I actually came to seize this place's opportunity.

Bai Ran: The immortal herbs here are fated with me.

Originally I planned to wait a while, become good friends with Du Gu Yan, then come later.

But who could have thought he could also, via the Snow Star Prince line, make early contact with Du Gu Bo.

Speaking of which, I should properly thank that classmate Xiao Xianlu.

If it weren't for her heaven-defying actions and remarks, Bai Ran wouldn't have been able to meet the Snow Star Prince, that "busy person."

Of course, if one were to defeat Xue Beng, one could probably also see the Snow Star Prince in person.

But at this point in time, Xue Beng isn't even a great soul master, he's not inside the Tian Dou Royal Academy at all; where would Bai Ran go to beat him, would he have to run into the palace to K him? (In the original, when the Shrek Seven Monsters first arrived at the Tian Dou Royal Academy, Xue Beng was only around level twenty soul power; now the timeline is five years earlier, Xue Beng's soul power level is only in the low teens, which is normal.)……

"You came to learn from Grandpa, what can that old thing teach you?"

It's not that Du Gu Yan looks down on her own grandfather.

Mainly because this little brother belongs to the auxiliary-type soul master; even though her grandfather is already a Title Douluo, well-informed and experienced.

But as a poison-attribute beast martial soul control system soul master, teaching a benefit-halo-type tool martial soul auxiliary system soul master is like letting a PE teacher teach you math—what's the difference? "Hmph, Sister Yan, are you really not giving your grandfather face?"

When Du Gu Yan uttered the three words "old thing," Bai Ran saw Du Gu Bo just walking in the doorway, froze on the spot, his face visibly changing.

"What face does he have?"

To outsiders, her grandfather Du Gu Bo is a Title Douluo, a prominent figure in the soul master world.

But in Du Gu Yan's eyes, her grandfather is just a nagging old man, and also the source of the family's disaster.

Why, why would you pass down the martial soul of the Azure Scale Snake, which carries enormous hidden dangers,

Mother, after being poisoned by the Azure Scale Snake, died upon giving birth to Du Gu Yan; Father, unable to endure the backlash of the snake poison, also passed away when Du Gu Yan was ten.

Thinking that she herself would also die early due to inheriting the Azure Scale Snake martial soul,

Du Gu Yan felt utterly hopeless.

Even though her grandfather treats her very well, able to grant almost anything she wants, even willing to run all over the world to find a way to resolve the hidden danger of the Azure Scale Snake martial soul for her.

But the girl's rebelliousness made Du Gu Yan selectively forget those things, remembering only hatred.

"Ah this, right, Sister Yan, have you eaten yet?

I just finished cooking, let's eat together."

Regarding the family matters of Du Gu Yan and Du Gu Bo, Bai Ran, as an outsider, said he would not get involved.

So he hurriedly shifted the topic: "It's pretty fragrant, little brother, what are you making? Let sister have a look."

Du Gu Yan wrapped her finger with soul power, then lifted the lid of the clay pot.

A rich freshness mixed with aroma surged forth.

"Huh, is this eel?"

Du Gu Yan pointed at the dish in the pot and asked.

These segments, they should be eel.

But why is the eel's skin green? Could it have mutated?

"Sister Yan, this isn't eel.

This is snake soup, supremely delicious, a must-try."

"Snake, snake soup? You're saying you made this dish from snakes!"

Although soul masters with serpent martial souls, after absorbing serpent spirit beast spirit rings, also follow the principle of not wasting, cooking the serpent spirit beast's meat and eating it.

But as a soul master who keeps serpents as pets, eating the meat of one's own pet?

It's somewhat off-putting.

"What, snake soup.

"My snake!"

Du Gu Bo hearing this felt as if the heavens had collapsed.

The snakes kept in this room were painstakingly caught by him, with several having been cultivated for many years; calling them his good partners is no exaggeration.

Silver-ringed snake, still present;

Sharp-nosed viper, also present;

Round-spotted pit viper, intact.

Eh, wait, where is my Bamboo Leaf Green! That's a poisonous snake that's about to turn into a top-tier poison.

To further increase its toxicity, Du Gu Bo didn't hesitate to feed it a lot of rare herbs.

As a result, you little brat, you just stewed it.

Put up with it for a moment, the more you think about it the angrier you get; retreat a step, and they push forward.

Watching the Bamboo Leaf Green disappear, he walked over to the stove and looked at the 'green spicy strips' inside.

Du Gu Bo's anger flared, he grabbed Bai Ran's collar and lifted him up.

"Hmph, old man, I know you're anxious, but don't rush yet."

"To be honest, this snake soup should be delicious; why not let you try a taste first?"

Du Gu Bo:???

If it weren't for this clay pot being too small, Du Gu Bo would really want to stuff Bai Ran into it, just to let him experience the feeling from acquaintance to familiarity.

"No way, you little brat, you're a support-type soul master, right?"

Du Gu Bo suddenly realized the blind spot.

As the poisonous creature he cultivated, according to the classification of soul beasts by strength, the Bamboo Leaf Green is also a soul beast of about eight to nine hundred years.

Even a soul beast of this level would be troublesome for a combat-type soul master in the thirties.

You, a support-type soul master in the thirties, now at forty-something, how could you possibly subdue it? As for Bai Ran's sudden surge in soul power, Du Gu Bo isn't surprised.

After all, the medicinal concoctions this little guy refines with his martial soul allowed even this Title Douluo to break through four levels in a row.

And Bai Ran, a mere Soul Elder, breaking through more than ten levels is nothing.

If it weren't for the fact that without adding a soul ring, one cannot know the exact soul power level of the next stage.

Du Gu Bo estimates that this kid could even directly rise to the Soul King level.

(End of chapter)