Seeing Ye Qiu's stunned expression, Dugu Bo stood up, hands clasped behind his back, and looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle.
His voice held both reverence and a hint of self-satisfaction.
"Heh heh! Kid! Do you know how I got my eighth spirit ring?"
"Sacrifice?" Ye Qiu murmured, looking at the teacup on the table.
It was as if he was making a guess, and also as if he was answering Dugu Bo's question.
Dugu Bo, whose back was to Ye Qiu, a gleam flashed in his eyes, and he thought to himself, 'As expected!'
This kid really has an ability similar to Benefactor's!
After a moment of silence, some different thoughts arose in his mind.
"That's right, it was the sacrifice of the Seventy Thousand Year Queen of Snakes, Medusa! With just a single glance, she willingly offered up her life!" Dugu Bo's voice was long and high-pitched, gradually falling into reminiscence.
"That day! Benefactor, holding a blood-red longsword, descended from the sky! He saved me from danger."
"After saving my life, he even helped me hunt for my eighth spirit ring, breaking through to level 83 in spirit power in one go, and also acquiring a Spirit Bone!"
"Then this Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was also transformed into a secret realm by Benefactor, and he instructed me to guard this place! Awaiting your arrival!"
As Dugu Bo spoke, he turned his head and gave Ye Qiu a deep look.
"Blood-red longsword? Secret realm?"
Ye Qiu murmured, his eyebrows slightly raised.
He was suspicious of the blood-red longsword, but he had no concept of the secret realm.
"Kid, follow me!"
Calling out to Ye Qiu, Dugu Bo directly rose into the air and flew towards the cliff face.
"Hmm? Is he testing me?!"
Looking at the smooth, steep rock walls around him, Ye Qiu stood up, a slight glow emanating from his right leg, and he slowly rose, chasing after Dugu Bo.
"A Spirit Bone? The age doesn't seem low either! As expected of Benefactor's descendant!"
Dugu Bo, who was above, looked back, and only a flash of surprise crossed his eyes, with not a single hint of greed.
By the time Ye Qiu arrived at the top, Dugu Bo had already been waiting for a while.
"Tsk tsk! Quite the opportunity!"
"Heh heh... Just a lucky acquisition, kid!"
He exchanged a few polite words with Dugu Bo.
Standing on top, Ye Qiu finally realized that this was actually a large mountain, and he was standing on what looked like the summit of a volcano!
Looking into the distance, the Sunset Forest was already covered in a golden afterglow, dreamlike and illusory, truly living up to its name!
"No!"
Ye Qiu sensed that something was wrong; there was no poison array set up around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, not even any concealment.
How did this place escape his detection back then!?
Looking at the surrounding environment, Ye Qiu remembered very clearly that he had definitely investigated this area!
Ye Qiu made a move as if to rush down the mountain.
But he was stopped by Dugu Bo.
"Is it strange? Looking at you, I suppose you've already come to the Sunset Forest to search, haven't you!"
Dugu Bo stroked his long beard, smiling at Ye Qiu.
At this, Ye Qiu could only give a dry laugh, feeling a bit awkward.
After all, he had planned to take it without asking before!
"I really don't know what's going on with you. Since you haven't met Benefactor, then how did you know about this place? Come with me!"
As for such a perplexing point, Dugu Bo merely complained and didn't think much more about it.
For his Benefactor's enigmatic eyes, leaving behind some hidden arrangements was very easy.
Wasn't he the same?
Without anyone knowing, he had inadvertently accumulated several more lives owed!
"Come a little closer to me!"
Although Ye Qiu didn't understand Dugu Bo's words, he cooperated and moved a little closer.
He only felt a heavy mental force covering him.
Looking at the hand seals Dugu Bo was forming, a sense of familiarity washed over him.
His eyes widened in shock, and the corners of his eyes even twitched slightly...
Snake - Ram - Monkey - Pig - Horse - Tiger.
Dugu Bo quickly finished forming the hand seals, and the surrounding space seemed to transform into a transparent lake, with ripples gradually appearing, engulfing the two figures.
"Oh! It seems you recognize these hand seals!"
In the Sunset Forest, as dusk fell, a hoarse voice sounded.
The figures of Dugu Bo and Ye Qiu appeared in the vast open space from before.
Listening to Dugu Bo's words, Ye Qiu nodded numbly, his mouth twitching, wanting to smile but unable to.
Even a cold sweat appeared on his forehead; could it be that the so-called father Dugu Bo spoke of was also a transmigrator?
It was too bizarre! How could something like this appear in this World! This kind of action, it really is...
"But shouldn't you look around first?" Dugu Bo had no idea what Ye Qiu was thinking.
"Around?" Ye Qiu looked around, his eyes widening, "Th-this! Where's that mountain here?!"
Hearing Ye Qiu's startled cry, Dugu Bo also smiled contentedly; he liked this kind of expression.
He remembered when Yan Yan came, her reaction was even more intense than Ye Qiu's.
He himself was even worse.
Dugu Bo would always remember that day!
With just a single glance, the entire mountain was uprooted and stuffed into a spatial rift, isolating it from the outside World.
People outside could not see the scene inside, nor could they enter.
People inside could see outside, but only see.
To enter or exit, one had to perform these special hand seals.
"How about it? This is the secret realm!"
Ye Qiu finally understood why he couldn't find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
This darn thing, it wasn't even in the same space anymore; it would be a ghost if he could find it now!
"Alright! Let's go back!"
After showing off, Dugu Bo took Ye Qiu back, and in a flash, their figures reappeared in that volcano-like place.
"Senior Dugu, since I... I that... *cough cough*!"
Coming to this World and inexplicably gaining a father, Ye Qiu was truly unaccustomed to it.
"Why hasn't your poison been cured?"
"Alas~!" Dugu Bo sighed, feeling a bit helpless about this.
"Just as Benefactor was about to tell me the method to cure the poison, an accident occurred, and he left in a hurry before he could finish explaining!"
He turned to Ye Qiu and grabbed his shoulder.
"But it doesn't matter, now that you've found your way here, the poison of us, grandfather and grandson, can be cured!"
"Where did he go then?"
"I don't know either. After that, I never saw Benefactor again, but I suspect that Benefactor's disappearance is related to Spirit Hall!"
Ye Qiu frowned; how was this getting stranger and stranger?
And it was even tied to Spirit Hall?
Dugu Bo continued to add.
"More than 20 years ago, during a Douluo battle, I personally saw the blood-red longsword in Benefactor's hand appear in the possession of Bibi Dong, the current Supreme Pontiff of Spirit Hall, who was then still a Holy Maiden! This was the last time any clue about Benefactor appeared!"
"Bibi Dong!" Ye Qiu's expression jolted, and he suddenly remembered the strange events that had happened to Yu Xiaogang earlier.
Yu Xiaogang's deception of the Holy Maiden had become widely known!
"Senior, have you heard of Yu Xiaogang? Is he connected to this matter in any way?"
"Oh? You actually know that good-for-nothing?" Dugu Bo looked at Ye Qiu in surprise.
"However, I'm not clear about that."
Dugu Bo pinched his chin, thinking carefully.
"I remember, not long after that Douluo battle, I heard that the Holy Maiden Bibi Dong's personality changed drastically, becoming a ruthless killer! Yu Xiaogang provoked her around that time and was imprisoned and tortured for a full six months before being thrown out of Spirit City!"
"Heh heh! It caused quite a stir back then; even that old dragon personally coming to demand his release was useless!"
Ye Qiu naturally knew who that old dragon was: Yu Xiaogang's biological father, the Thunder Douluo Yu Yuanzhen!
"Junior has one last question! What was his name?"
"At that time, Benefactor called himself Ye Xiu!"
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