Liu Erlong, leaning on Ye Qiu's shoulder, was clearly stunned for a moment, and pressed Ye Qiu's arm tightly.
"Hey, Yu Luomian is really wasting his life, his daughter is about to surpass him!"
Dugu Bo glanced at Liu Erlong and immediately became amused.
Before, when that kid Yu Tianheng was being naughty, he had often gone to that old dragon to beg for money.
Liu Erlong didn't react at all when she heard this.
She didn't want to say anything more to Yu Luomian, even though he was already trying his best to make amends.
"Alright! I'll help with this!" Dugu Bo drank the fragrant tea in his cup in one gulp.
"Good! Let's start now, if we're lucky, we might find a suitable one today!"
Ye Qiu made a decisive decision and immediately sent the group out of the Divine Might Space.
...
Outside the Star Dou Great Forest.
It was another golden dusk.
Looking up from under the trees, one could see a few scattered golden dragon scales.
"This location is right in the middle of the mixed zone, let's start here!"
Ye Qiu and the other two were already standing on a towering tree, gazing into the distance.
"Alright!" Dugu Bo nodded.
Liu Erlong held Ye Qiu's hand, following closely behind. For
the Crimson Dragon Martial Soul, if a Soul Ring were to be added, then a sub-dragon type Soul Beast would naturally be the most suitable. Furthermore,
a Soul Master's eighth ring isn't so picky about its age anymore.
The higher the age, the better, within 100,000 years!
But just the criterion of sub-dragon species alone
is enough to make the search take a long time.
Because on the surface, it seems there are no longer any dragon-type Soul Beasts on the Douluo Continent, only some subspecies, or some with diluted bloodlines.
Time slowly passed.
The sun set in the west, its light dissipated, and a bright moon quietly rose in the east.
Under Ye Qiu's Sharingan observation, he did indeed find a 50,000-year-old Soul Beast with dragon blood.
Unfortunately, it was a plant-type Soul Beast, a Dragon Blood Vine.
The age was too young, and the bloodline too low…
After searching for a while, Ye Qiu looked at the already dimly lit environment.
He turned to Dugu Bo and said,
"Senior? Why don't we go back and spend the night? We can come back to help Erlong hunt souls tomorrow morning!"
"No need, no need, let's just find a place here!" Dugu Bo waved his hand, refusing Ye Qiu's suggestion to go back to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well for the night.
He couldn't stand the way young people like Ye Qiu were so affectionate.
Just being under the same roof made him uncomfortable.
Moreover, when he was hiding in the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch today, although that brat had kept quiet, his
somewhat cheesy conversation still bothered him.
"Alright then!"
Ye Qiu turned to look at Liu Erlong, and seeing that she had no objections, he agreed.
Soon, Ye Qiu and the others found a large tree hollow.
It seemed that no soul beast had lived there for a long time.
Ye Qiu turned all of his Blue Silver Emperor into crimson and cleaned the large tree hollow thoroughly.
Then he used Blue Silver Fragrance to purify the air again.
Finally, he took out a few luminous pearls he had taken from Qian Renxue and hung them on the ceiling.
...
In the dark Star Dou Great Forest.
Looking down from high above, one could still vaguely see scattered firelight.
Such a vast forest.
Many Soul Masters, unable to find suitable Soul Beasts, chose to camp on the spot.
Outside the tree hollow, a bonfire had already been lit.
Dugu Bo kept popping peanuts into his mouth.
Ye Qiu picked up the water bottle in his hand and poured some tea for Dugu Bo.
Liu Erlong was turning the oily roasted meat beside him, her eyes watching Ye Qiu, and occasionally glancing at Dugu Bo.
It was unclear what she was thinking.
"Kid, what's that in your hand?" Dugu Bo frowned as he looked at the blood-red pearl in Ye Qiu's hand, feeling a strong smell of blood.
"This? I got it from that evil Soul Master."
Ye Qiu tossed the pearl in his hand; he had actually forgotten about it when he was counting Soul Bones this afternoon.
"It's definitely not a good thing," Dugu Bo glanced at it and then ignored it.
Ye Qiu, on the other hand, looked at the thing with curiosity and examined it with his Sharingan.
He saw nothing but a bloody color.
"It seems to have some soul power fluctuations. Could it be a soul tool?"
Ye Qiu suddenly grabbed it tightly in his hand, his eyes burning.
Just as he was about to input soul power to test it
, "Ye Qiu, here!" Liu Erlong suddenly handed him a skewer of grilled meat.
"Thank you!"
Ye Qiu took it, and Liu Erlong handed another piece to Dugu Bo.
"Your Majesty Dugu."
"Hmm!" Dugu Bo responded softly and took the grilled meat without ceremony.
"Ye Qiu, what's wrong?"
Liu Erlong looked at Ye Qiu strangely, whose face turned ugly after taking a bite of the meat.
Seeing that he didn't answer, she asked cautiously.
"Did I grill it badly? Did it not suit your taste?"
Dugu Bo looked at Ye Qiu's appearance and then at the grilled meat he had just received.
He brought his nose and sniffed it lightly.
"Surely not? It smells pretty good!"
"No, it's delicious!" Ye Qiu snapped out of his daze, looking at Liu Erlong with worry and fear in her eyes, and quickly explained.
"Then why do you look so pale?" Liu Erlong blinked her slightly trembling eyes.
"It's because of this bead!" Ye Qiu's expression turned serious.
"This bead?" Dugu Bo snatched the blood-red bead from his hand.
"Old ginger is spicier," Ye Qiu said, immediately recognizing what it was.
"This thing seems to be a soul tool, right?"
he said, channeling some soul power into it.
Suddenly, Ye Qiu's body trembled, his pupils contracted sharply, and he stared at Ye Qiu in shock, as if seeking confirmation.
"It's filled with blood?!"
"Yes, you read that right, a whole pool of fresh blood! There's blood from soul beasts and blood from humans." Ye Qiu nodded.
He recalled the evil soul masters who had turned into mummies, and those chaotic beasts.
In other words, it contained not only beast blood but also human blood!
Nearly a hundred cubic meters of blood—who knew how many lives had been killed?
"Erlong, don't look, it'll ruin your appetite!"
"What do they need so much blood for?"
Liu Erlong also wanted to see the blood-red bead, but Ye Qiu took it from her.
"I'm not quite sure either." Ye Qiu shook his head slightly.
However, based on Nangong's words, he had some guesses in his mind.
Perhaps enough bloodshed is one of the conditions for them to witness the so-called gods.
"Alright, alright, you're just a Soul Master now, why think so much?"
Dugu Bo ate his meat heartily and said,
"The Spirit Hall, the Three Upper Sects, and the two great empires aren't in a hurry, so there's no use thinking about it!"
"Haha, that's true." Ye Qiu chuckled dryly as he put away the blood-red bead.
He could use it to remind Qian Renxue later.
"Instead of that, you should think more about how to explain to Yan Yan that you've got more romantic entanglements now!"
Dugu Bo's slightly flushed old face was filled with schadenfreude.
"Senior, I won't trouble you with that. This is a matter between my wife and me."
Ye Qiu glanced at the old man, feeling that he always wanted to see him kneeling on a washboard.
Liu Erlong, sitting next to Ye Qiu, felt a pang of resentment upon hearing him mention "my wife and me."
Silently eating , he thought
, "Hmph! What do you mean it's none of my business? If you dare bully her, I'll make two little holes in you with my nine-section jade!"
"Hiss~"
As Dugu Bo finished speaking, the small, exquisite nine-section jade on his shoulder flicked its tongue, threatening Ye Qiu.
"How could that be?!" Ye Qiu shrugged.
...
Time slowly passed, and he chatted with Dugu Bo about various things.
Ye Qiu felt a little sleepy.
"Senior, I'll trouble you to keep watch for the first half of the night. I'll take over for the second half!"
Ye Qiu yawned and got up to walk into the tree hollow.
"No need, you should rest well. I'm old and can't sleep!"
Dugu Bo said with a long face, shaking his body, feeling uncomfortable all over.
"Alright! If you're sleepy, just wake me up..." Ye Qiu shrugged helplessly.
He walked into the tree hollow and was about to take out his things for the night
when he found that Liu Erlong seemed to have already made up a bed for him.
She seemed a little tired and had come in to sleep early.
She lay on her side on the ground, her delicate and beautiful face facing Ye Qiu. The bed prepared for him was right next to hers.
Ye Qiu hesitated for a moment.
He still walked over and lay down on the mat next to her. There was
a clean white sheet on the mat.
Underneath was a thick quilt, so it was very soft and comfortable to lie down on.
As soon as Ye Qiu lay down, Liu Erlong opened her eyes.
"Ye Qiu~"
A gentle voice sounded in her ear. Ye Qiu turned her head and met her dark eyes.
A hint of joy flickered in her eyes, which were like black gemstones.
She was quite pleased that Ye Qiu was willing to sleep with her.
"Erlong, why aren't you asleep yet?"
Ye Qiu turned her head and looked at her curiously.
"Hmm, I can't sleep yet. Waiting for you."
Liu Erlong reached out and gently stroked Ye Qiu's face.
"Can't sleep? Waiting for me?" Ye Qiu quietly watched the beautiful face slowly approach him.
A slight coolness touched his lips.
A fleeting touch.
She said softly, "I want to hear about you and His Majesty Dugu's granddaughter. Who are the other three girls? Is that alright?"
Both of them were lying on their sides, looking at each other, their breaths mingling, inhaling each other's fragrance.
"Of course!" Ye Qiu nodded slightly and introduced Xiao Wu and the others to Liu Erlong.
Of course, some things were omitted, such as Xiao Wu's identity.
That was something they could explain themselves.
But Ye Qiu didn't hide the fact that he and Xiao Wu had already had a physical relationship.
Liu Erlong listened quietly, her eyes shimmering. The more she learned, the more worried she became.
Dugu Yan, the only granddaughter of Poison Douluo Dugu Bo.
Zhu Zhuqing, the young lady of the Zhu family of the Star Luo Empire, who was expected to break through to the Soul Sect before the age of twelve.
Ning Rongrong, the eldest daughter of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, whose family was extremely wealthy, one of the three upper sects, currently the most prominent, and she was very likely to become the sect leader in the future.
Xiao Wu, who was Ye Qiu's childhood sweetheart, was also a genius girl, and most importantly, she had actually obtained something that neither she nor Bibi Dong had ever obtained!
And it was the first time, no, maybe there would be a second time!
Even more!
She bit her red lips, looking at the doting and loving look on Ye Qiu's face.
A sour feeling welled up in her heart.
"Erlong, you don't need to worry too much, they are actually very easy to get along with."
Ye Qiu looked at the somewhat sad Liu Erlong, gently wiped away the moisture on her face, and comforted her softly.
"Mmm," Liu Erlong smiled softly, squeezing back the tears that were about to spill.
At least Ye Qiu would accept her.
"Get some rest! Be well-rested so you'll be in better shape to absorb the spirit ring tomorrow!"
Ye Qiu reached out and smoothed the hair that had fallen across her cheek.
"Mmm! Goodnight!" Liu Erlong didn't ask anything more; she already knew what she wanted to know.
She leaned over and gently kissed Ye Qiu before turning over and closing her eyes.
Ye Qiu raised his hand and covered his eyes.
Through his fingers, he watched Liu Erlong's back, and seeing that she hadn't moved for a long time,
he let go of his doubts, assuming she was truly sleepy.
After all, he hadn't slept a wink while being chased for so long.
He glanced at the firelight by the door; with a Title Douluo guarding the door, he could finally get some rest.
Choosing a comfortable position, Ye Qiu also closed his eyes.
...
The bright moon moved westward, slipping through the clouds.
The night was already more than halfway over.
Dugu Bo sat cross-legged by the campfire, eyes closed in meditation.
On the mat in the tree hollow, Ye Qiu's breathing had gradually calmed, clearly he had drifted off to sleep.
Liu Erlong, on the mat next to him, slowly turned over, facing Ye Qiu.
Her eyelashes fluttered gently.
She slowly opened her eyes, gazing at the sleeping Ye Qiu, unable to look away for a long time.
His handsome, noble face, a blend of gentleness and fortitude, held a serene smile.
She reached out, wanting to touch him, but stopped herself in time.
A glint flashed in Liu Erlong's bright, obsidian-like eyes, as if she had made up her mind.
A slight blush rose on her face, and she glanced at Ye Qiu with seductive eyes before
slowly sitting up.
She wanted to overtake those young men, to get revenge on and win against that woman, Bibi Dong.
She had to do something. She had to
get Ye Qiu to accept her sooner, to get used to their intimacy!
Therefore, she had to take the initiative.
For example, she could give him a shortcut, the fastest way to get results!
Liu Erlong tiptoed outside the tree hollow and carefully sat down by the campfire.
In the firelight, it was hard to see her face, which was burning red with embarrassment.
"What are you doing out here? Go back to your little man. I'll keep watch!"
Noticing the movement, Dugu Bo opened his eyes and raised an eyebrow.
"Your Majesty Dugu, I have a request."
After a long silence, Liu Erlong finally greeted Dugu Bo, who was sitting cross-legged by the campfire.
"Oh? What is it?" Seeing Liu Erlong's hesitant expression, Dugu Bo became interested.
"Your Majesty, do you have any medicine?"