Chapter Nineteen: Reunion with Dugu Bo! A Battle of the Mighty! Peerless Dragon and Serpent! Fate's Turning Point!

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Deep within the outer reaches of the Starfall Great Forest.
Lu Yu had been here for three days, yet he still hadn’t found a suitable target.
He had encountered a few soul beasts whose abilities matched the Bantian Seal, but their ages left much to be desired.
Lu Yu required the third soul ring to be from a soul beast aged between seven thousand and eight thousand years.
Such soul beasts, at this cultivation level, were already considered formidable in the outer reaches of the Starfall Great Forest, making them rare encounters.
In the mid-layer of the forest, ten-thousand-year soul beasts appeared frequently, but the danger multiplied accordingly.
If he were to encounter a soul beast over fifty thousand years old, or one with a super bloodline, or even a pack-dwelling beast, even Lu Yu couldn't guarantee a safe retreat.
“The outer areas have too few high-aged soul beasts, but the mid-layer is fraught with peril...”
Lu Yu paused, looking ahead, hesitant.
After a moment, he shook his head with a wry smile and murmured, “The path of the strong is always laden with danger. If one dares not face it, how can one reach the pinnacle?”
Though reborn, Lu Yu learned from the mistakes of his previous life to act with caution. Now, he finally felt unburdened.
Just as he prepared to enter the mid-layer, a violent surge of soul power suddenly rippled through the air.
When he first entered the Starfall Forest, he had imbued himself with a Supreme Clarity Sensing Talisman, and combined with his powerful will, his perception was extremely sharp.
The soul power fluctuation was intense—clearly, a battle between powerful beings was underway.
Was it a skirmish between soul beasts, or a fight between a soul master and a beast?
Lu Yu’s interest was piqued; he stealthily moved toward the source of the soul power.
Since arriving in Douluo Continent, he had yet to witness a high-level soul master in combat.
He was eager to see the difference between the strong of Douluo Continent and those from the Otherworld.
From a distance, Lu Yu applied both a Vanishing Talisman and a Concealment Spell on himself.
When he was about a hundred meters away, he stopped, leapt onto a large tree, and gazed into the distance.
Then, he froze.
He recognized one of the combatants!
Dugu Bo!
Although Lu Yu hadn’t met Dugu Bo during his last visit to the Starfall Forest, when Dugu Bo appeared behind him, Lu Yu had already “seen” his appearance through his spiritual power.

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Dugu Bo was battling an elderly man and an old woman.
The old woman appeared to be in her sixties or seventies, her white hair neatly arranged, eyes sharp. She gripped a three-meter-long tongue-shaped cane.
Six soul rings—two yellow, three purple, one black—glowed brilliantly around her.
Beside her stood a tall, slender old man, roughly the same age, with silver hair and holding a gleaming silver dragon-headed cane over four meters long.
Eight soul rings—two yellow, three purple, three black—swirled around him.
Though Lu Yu had never met them, he immediately recognized their identities...
They were the Peerless Dragon Serpent couple!
Watching the ongoing battle, Lu Yu couldn’t help but admire their seamless coordination. Although their opponent was Dugu Bo, a title Douluo, the couple held their ground without falling behind.
Of course, Dugu Bo was a title Douluo, so this stalemate wouldn’t last long; surely, the couple would soon be defeated.
Lu Yu noticed not far from the battlefield lay a soul beast, barely clinging to life.
It was a dragon-type soul beast, bearing a striking resemblance—about sixty percent—to dragons of the Douluo world, clearly possessing a high dragon bloodline!
The dragon bloodline was the noblest among soul beasts; even a trace elevated a beast to the elite level of its cultivation.
If the dragon bloodline was strong enough to induce partial dragon transformation, that beast could become invincible among its peers, much like the Golden-Maned Lion Mastiff, whose combat power far exceeded its level.
Lu Yu recognized this soul beast: the Wind-Thunder Wyvern Bat, carrying a faint dragon bloodline.
Judging by its appearance, this Wind-Thunder Wyvern Bat had undergone some extraordinary circumstance, mutating and evolving its bloodline. Its wings were fully dragonized, sprouting horns and claws.
Soul rings produced by soul beasts could only be absorbed by their slayer.
The battle between Dugu Bo and the Peerless Dragon Serpent couple was clearly over this Wind-Thunder Wyvern Bat’s soul rings.
What puzzled Lu Yu was...
Dugu Bo had already reached the title Douluo level and no longer needed soul rings. Moreover, Lu Yu judged that the Wind-Thunder Wyvern Bat was over fifty thousand years old, so Dugu Bo couldn’t be planning to pass the soul rings to Dugu Yan.
If that was the case, why were they fighting?
At that moment, Long Gong Mengshu, battling Dugu Bo, suddenly spoke:
“Poison Crown, you are a title Douluo; there’s no use in acquiring this soul ring!”
“My wife and I are willing to offer a price you’ll find satisfactory. Please hand over this soul beast to us!”
Dugu Bo scoffed coldly, showing no respect:
“Who says title Douluos don’t need soul rings?”
“Why can’t I take this soul beast back for someone else?”

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Listening to their exchange, Lu Yu began to understand.
Perhaps Dugu Bo discovered this soul beast first, and one of the Peerless Dragon Serpent couple had hit a bottleneck and needed to acquire soul rings, setting their sights on this Wind-Thunder Wyvern Bat.
As he pondered, Lu Yu noticed the soul beast was barely breathing, yet its eyes fixed unwaveringly in one direction, filled with unwillingness.
His heart stirred, recalling the bloodline mutation of the Wind-Thunder Wyvern Bat, and a warm flame ignited within him.
Most soul beasts, when facing death, would feel fear or even madness.
Yet this Wind-Thunder Wyvern Bat seemed burdened with an unfinished wish...
Could it be...
That the chance to transform its dragon bloodline hadn’t been fully absorbed?
With this thought, Lu Yu silently retreated a hundred meters before moving stealthily toward the direction the Wind-Thunder Wyvern Bat was staring.
After a few hundred meters, guided by the Supreme Clarity Sensing Talisman, he heard a faint roar.
The sound was sharp and piercing, reminiscent of a dragon’s cry.
Lu Yu’s eyes lit up as he traced the sound to a concealed cave entrance.
Without hesitation, he entered the cave and found, deep inside, a fruit tree.
The tree was over a meter tall, its trunk straight and proud, bearing a single golden-red fruit.
A shimmering aura flowed beneath the fruit’s skin, like a tiny dragon swimming within.
The soil beneath the tree was dark red, as if soaked with blood.
A smile crept across Lu Yu’s face; it seemed his guess was correct.
Just as he reached to pluck the fruit, a low growl echoed from the cave’s ceiling.
Looking up, he saw a smaller version of the Wind-Thunder Wyvern Bat hanging upside down.
Compared to the one outside, this bat showed even more dragon transformation—growing a dragon tail, with only a small portion of its body remaining untransformed.
Lu Yu immediately understood: the outer Wind-Thunder Wyvern Bat’s unwillingness wasn’t because of the remaining fruit, but because of this offspring!