Kapitel 44: Wings of Wind

The chance came at last. Feng Xuan secretly took a breath, the jacket on his back drenched with sweat. Any person would fear death, and Feng Xuan was no exception. He was even more unwilling to die a death without any value. He knows Dugu Bo is kind-hearted to friends and cruel to the enemy, so he risks exposing his knowledge.

Standing again, he withdrew Vijaya and said, "How do you want me to prove it?"

Dugu Bo restrained the ominous glint in his eyes, "Prove your ability with poison is greater than mine, and then you'll convince me." Subconsciously, he didn't have one whit of trust in Feng Xuan. After all, on the surface, this youngster was just nine. How could a Nine-year-old child compare with him who had been immersed in the poisoner's arts for decades? But Feng Xuan had just described his condition, without missing any symptoms. Confronted with this opportunity, Dugu Bo had no choice but to take it. Killing Feng Xuan or not didn't concern him. Even if Feng Xuan was even more gifted he would still require several decades to be able to threaten him. After so long he would probably have died from old age. What was there to fear? And if he truly was able to detoxify himself, especially the hereditary toxicity affecting his granddaughter that was most important to Dugu Bo.

Feng Xuan spread his hands, helplessly saying: "I don't have anything with me, how do I prove my ability with poison is better than yours?"

"The time has come to take Immortal herbs." Thinks Feng Xuan with a slight glint.

Dugu Bo coldly said: "Like this. Here at my home grows a wide range of drugs, whatever you need you can go find on your own. I'll give you one day, within this day you create every kind of antidote yourself. After one day I'll use three kinds of poisons on you. As long as you can use your antidotes to withstand my poison, you will have proven you're my senior in detoxification. Otherwise, you'll die."

In reality, Feng Xuan doesn't need any herb to withstand poison. Using his mastery of Vedic knowledge, he can neutralize any poison using certain chants. But to not expose his power he needed to use some herbs to demonstrate his ability.

Creating antidotes in a day might sound like plenty of time, but in fact, there were countless types of poison, and each kind had its properties. The poisons used by a master of poison like Dugu Bo absolutely wouldn't be ordinary. Creating something capable of reducing the poisons he used in one day, such a task was monumental.

Dugu Bo assumed that Feng Xuan would try to bargain with him, fight for more time, or perhaps try to stall. But Feng Xuan's reply made him somewhat astonished, and even increased his confidence in Feng Xuan.

"Fine. Bring me to your medicinal garden, then don't disturb me for one day."Brushing off the dust from his clothes, Feng Xuan easily agreed to Dugu Bo's demands.

Dugu Bo swept his gaze up and down over him, then turned around and walked towards the cave entrance, "Follow me."

Leaving the cavern, Feng Xuan discovered he was in a lush forest and that their current location was at the foot of a five-hundred-meter-tall hill in the forest. Since it was night time he was unable to see much of the scenery.

Dugu Bo advanced along the mountain path as if he was walking on level ground. While he appeared to be walking slowly, each step he took moved him more than ten meters, and the distance between each step was also extremely uniform. The whole time he climbed the mountain he seemed perpendicular to the ground.

Feng Xuan hurriedly gathered his spirit power to follow behind Dugu Bo. He of course didn't believe he would be able to escape out of the cave, escaping from a Title Douluo that was a jest. Sure, he can use the help of Shivarjuna but he didn't want to if possible.

Very quickly Feng Xuan, led by Dugu Bo, reached the hilltop. Here, Feng Xuan couldn't help but start with alarm from the terrain. In front of him was unexpectedly a conical mountain cavity. They stood at the edge of this cavity as dense steam rose from within, hot and extremely moist, as well as smelling distinctively of sulfur.

"There's a hot spring here?" Feng Xuan astonished couldn't help but say. Feng Xuan knows about Dugu Bo's garden and it's uniqueness but he pretends as he doesn't know and assumes based on torrent.

Dugu Bo shot him a glance, "Kid, you know more than I expected."

Feng Xuan said: "I'd never fail to recognize the smell of a hot spring. Your medicine garden is at the edge of a hot spring? This is a good location."

Hot springs generally weren't suitable for nourishing plants because of the excessive mineral content in the water, but some special plants were different. They required precisely the minerals and heat of the hot spring. According to what Feng Xuan knew, there were a lot of poisonous plants that were like this.

"Follow me."Dugu Bo displayed his strength, directly leaping into the bottomless darkness from the side of the mountain. Because of the thick mist and night, as well as the sharpness of the overhanging cliff, Dugu Bo's silhouette disappeared into the watery mist in just the blink of an eye.

'Is he deliberately making things difficult for me?' Pride flashed in Feng Xuan's eyes, 'If you think something like this will hinder me, then think again.'

"As expected old freak that Tang San knows. I think I should also use this name." Thinks Feng Xuan.

Sky Blue light flashed from his back as illusory wings appeared behind him. Feng Xuan developed Wings of Wind using his wind elementary mastery. He had not perfected it so it could use a small distance. He can't fly with it for now. Using it to jump from a certain height is possible for now.

Feng Xuan didn't jump off like Dugu Bo, but rather relied on the wings of the wind to go downward slowly and reach the bottom behind Dugu Bo.

As Dugu Bo fell into the mountain he couldn't help but be pleased with himself, 'Kid, I won't pull you, I'll see how you get down. If you run away, then that only proves you're just a cowardly little junior.'

Of course, if Feng Xuan truly jumped down, Dugu Bo Wouldn't let him be injured. With his strength, catching Feng Xuan was a simple matter. Along with Feng Xuan showing his cool head and strength, Dugu Bo had already become more and more interested in this kid. From what he'd seen, Dugu Bo thought he was more mature than ordinary youngsters and still had a kind of special character, a planning strategist.

After a long time without seeing Feng Xuan jump down, Dugu Bo didn't know why, but he felt somewhat disappointed. As he'd just started thinking this was just a cowardly child, he saw a silhouette quickly make its way along the mountain wall. With his eyesight, he could naturally see the circumstances of that silhouette.

"That is a self-created skill? "Astonishment flashed through Dugu Bo's eyes but he didn't say anything, only looked at Feng Xuan with the majestic illusionary wings on his back moving swiftly, in a moment arriving in front of him.