Chapter 79 Dugu Bo
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In the dim forest, three figures walked slowly.
One of them wore white clothes adorned with gold Pattern, another was entirely crimson, and the last wore a pointed soft hat and a black classical robe.
"It's been half a month, and we still haven't found that so-called Flame King Dragon. Could it have already flown away?" Yan Jin questioned.
The Spirit Hall's information indicated that the Sunset Forest contained a Flame King Dragon, but only a rough location was known, and its nest's position was not pinpointed.
The Flame King Dragon is a kind of soul beast with wings that can fly. Its range of activity is very wide. Even the entire Sunset Forest could be its hunting ground, so finding it is not an easy task.
The three of them had been wandering in the forest for half a month. Apart from Amon finding a pile of fresh feces near the river that was suspected to be from the Flame King Dragon, there were no other clues.
"That's unlikely. Although the Flame King Dragon can fly, they prefer to build nests and settle down in a suitable location rather than migrate everywhere. The concentration of fire element in the Sunset Forest is very high, and there is plenty of food. It is an environment that the Flame King Dragon likes," Walter explained.
"Be patient. It took me a long time to find a Pixiu beast back then. It's normal to not encounter a soul beast like the Flame King Dragon, which can move at high speed and has a wide range of activity, for a month or two," Amon said with a smile.
"Oh…" Yan Jin nodded.
The first and second soul rings she hunted were both slimes, which had a limited range of activity and could be found without much effort.
For her third soul ring, the Flowing Flame Lizard was tracked by Ke Leiya twenty-four hours a day. As soon as she reached level thirty and came out of seclusion, the hunt was carried out immediately. Therefore, her impression of hunting soul rings was somewhat biased, and she underestimated the difficulty of finding a completely suitable soul beast.
Accompanying Yan Jin and Walter was not Amon's main body, but only a clone with a similar personality.
The Sunset Forest has many high-year soul beasts, and it is not safe. There is also someone like Dugu Bo, who is capricious. Since it wasn't him who needed to hunt a soul ring, Amon naturally wouldn't take risks unless necessary… even if the risk was very small.
His main body was in a small city tens of kilometers away from the forest, closely monitoring the progress in the forest through a relay-style mental connection of clones.
In addition to the clone traveling with Walter and Yan Jin, a large number of Amon were scattered throughout the forest, searching for traces of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
The original story pointed out that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was located in a valley in the Sunset Forest. The valley was blocked by Dugu Bo's poison array, and at least thousand-year-level soul beasts existed on the periphery.
The area of the Sunset Forest is not very large, and there will not be too many ten-thousand-year soul beasts. The thousand-year level is already at the top of the food chain.
Therefore, Amon's clones placed the main search location in the area near the center of the forest.
One Amon saw an area surrounded by a faint, dark green poisonous barrier. After he passed the message to the others, the Amons quickly discussed and exchanged ideas, and finally made a decision—to let the Amon who discovered the poisonous barrier go in and take a look.
If he didn't die, he would thoroughly investigate the situation inside. If he died, the Amons would remember his contribution to the entire Amon collective.
Amon raised his right hand, adjusted his monocle, clicked his tongue, and reluctantly walked towards the poisonous barrier area.
He activated his soul power to solidify it, forming a sphere covering his entire body, as protection against the poisonous barrier.
Upon contact with the light green poisonous barrier, Amon found that the consumption rate of his soul power had slightly increased, indicating that the poisonous barrier had a corrosive effect on materialized soul power.
The road ahead became steeper and steeper. Amon condensed his soul power at the soles of his feet and climbed upwards at a constant speed.
When he reached the top of the mountain, he found that the front was an inverted conical cirque, and the top of the mountain where he was located was the edge of this cirque.
At this moment, the consumption of maintaining the soul power shield had returned to normal, indicating that there was no poisonous gas around. Amon dispersed the shield and gazed ahead.
Hot air rose from the bottom of the cirque, carrying a hint of sulfur.
Everything matched the description in the original story. Amon basically confirmed that this was the valley where the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was located.
"Heh… good luck." He jumped down.
At every distance, a stepping stone condensed from materialized soul power would form under his feet. He came from the top of the mountain to the bottom as if stepping on air.
He looked around like a thief, checking whether the original owner was home while looking for the immortal herbs.
A terrifying soul pressure suddenly descended. Amon's body sank, but quickly returned to normal. He turned around and looked at the source of the soul power.
Tsk… I knew it wouldn't be so smooth. It seems that the idea of stealing the immortal herbs and running away has failed… Amon muttered in his heart.
Not far behind him, an old man with green hair, green pupils, and green fingernails, who looked a little unkempt, was staring at him intently, his eyes cold and evil like a poisonous snake.
Amon's expression was as usual. He took off his hat, pressed it to his chest, and bowed slightly: "Good day, Poison Douluo Your Excellency."
Seeing that Amon was completely unmoved by his Title Douluo aura, Dugu Bo's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked in a cold tone with a hint of killing intent: "Who are you?"
"My name is Amon. I am a student here to make a deal with you," Amon said with a light smile.
"Deal? Heh heh, what kind of deal can a little brat make with me?" Dugu Bo sneered.
Amon didn't argue too much, but spit out a sentence from his mouth:
"You are poisoned."
Dugu Bo laughed wickedly: "That's really the biggest joke in the world. I'm poisoned? Do you really understand the meaning of the title Poison Douluo?"
Amon still had a faint smile on his face, "Did I say something wrong? Don't you know it yourself?
"Those pains you suffer on rainy days, are they fake?
"In your own heart, is there really no speculation?
"Or are you saying that you already have a theory, but you just can't accept it in your heart and are deceiving yourself?"
Amon didn't remember the specific description of Dugu Bo's poisoning symptoms in the original story, but vaguely remembered that it seemed to flare up on rainy days, similar to some kind of arthritis, so what he said was a bit vague.
Dugu Bo's expression changed. After being exposed to the secret of his poor health, his killing intent greatly increased, and his eyes became even colder, considering whether to kill him to silence him.
Amon adjusted the height of his hat brim and continued, saying:
"Do you want to kill me? Can you be sure that if you kill me, no one else will know your secret?
"Would I come directly to you without any preparation?
"Are you sure that after I die, the backup I arranged won't spread your secret?
"Don't you have any enemies? After they know the secret, won't they take advantage of your poor condition to come and kill you?
"Why don't you listen to me first and tell me what I'm here for? It won't take you much time to make a decision after I'm done speaking."
"Then tell me, what are you here for?" Dugu Bo heard the threat hidden in Amon's words, and his eyes became even colder.
Amon curled the corners of his mouth, revealing a faint smile. It was good that he was willing to listen to him. The passive effect of the "Swindler" could take effect.
This is a very subtle mental influence, only making people feel that his words are more credible, and will not change other people's way of thinking.
Just like a good appearance, proper attire, and polite behavior, it increases other people's subconscious goodwill towards him, and even Amon himself cannot be sure whether it is taking effect.
Therefore, even Title Douluos whose strength far exceeds the current Amon are difficult to escape its influence.
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