Changing the Dugu family's fate

The next two days were also spent in a somewhat similar manner with Dugu Yan joining them in their adventures and having a girl's night in an inn talking about love.

When it was time for them to leave, in front of the gates of Heaven Dou City, Ye Lingling, Xu Shuang, and Dugu Yang hugged each other under the dawn.

"In the room, we spent the night in at the hot spring inn, under the tile near the desk there's a box inside with a gift from me to you." Xu Shuang handed Dugu Yan a key that leads to their room in the inn.

"You don't need to give me a gift Xu Shuang, we're already friends for a long time, right?" Dugu Yan smiled and pushed back the key to reject the gift.

"No, you need to see that gift, it's really important to you, I'll know immediately once I return whether you took my gift or not." Xu Shuang forcibly placed the key into Dugu Yan's hand.

And without waiting for any response from Dugu Yan, Xu Shuang pulled Ye Lingling to Xu Jinshan's side and waved at Dugu Yan before being swept off the ground with Ye Lingilng as they flew towards the horizon.

"..."

Dugu Yan was silent while holding onto the key, she looked at the smiling Xu Shuang in the sky, turned around, and went to take a look at the gift left by Xu Shuang.

Dugu Yan quickly arrived at the inn they rested at last night and went inside the room where they stayed at.

Following Xu Shuang's instruction, she took out a big box from under the tile and saw that it had a note pasted on it.

The note says:

' This is a gift much as it is compensation to your grandfather and granddaughters. Take this box to your grandfather Poison Douluo and he will understand the items that I gave you. It's the greatest that I can give as an apology for stealing something important from your family.

- Xu Shuang'

At first, Dugu Yan didn't understand what Xu Shuang meant when she suddenly thought of why her grandfather is always cursing and mad at home.

'Did you really do it, Xu Shuang?' Conflicted thoughts clashed in Dugu Yan's head as she struggled to separate Xu Shuang from the thief that stole their garden.

'Let's stop thinking about these things first and give this box to Grandpa immediately.' Dugu Yan easily carried the box and hailed a carriage to drive her to her home.

She quickly went to find her grandfather once she arrived at the address of their home, after knowing that her grandfather is in the garden she quickly went over.

Upon reaching the garden she saw a green-haired man with some bandages around his chest drinking tea while watching koi swim around in the pond.

The green-haired man turned around and looked at Dugu Yan with a gentle smile and spoke with gentle words.

"Yanyan, you're here, come and give Grandpa a hug."

Dugu Yan put down the box on a table and went to hug Dugu Bo with a smile and then give a light kiss on Dugu Bo's cheek.

"Did you have fun shopping with your friends?"

"En! It was so fun to buy so many dresses and eat so many delicious foods and talk about girly stuff with them." Dugu Yan smiled while telling Dugu Bo about all the fun she had in the past two days.

"Hahaha, it looks like you finally found yourself some great friends, Yanyan, right, what's that box you brought over for?"

"Ah!" Dugu Yan exclaimed, she was so immersed in telling the story that she totally forgot about the box, she took the box and handed it to Dugu Bo.

"Grandpa, a friend gave it to me and said that you will understand what she meant when you open this box."

"So mysterious." Dugu Bo smiled and went to open the box only to see two more boxes inside and a note.

But, he can't be so jolly once he read the contents of the note, he exerted too much strength which cause the paper to be ripped, but he can't care anymore as he quickly went to check on the two boxes.

He opened one of them and when saw that it matched the characteristics of the herb listed in the paper, he then checked the other box and saw that it still matched the characteristics of the herb described in the paper.

He closed both the boxes and felt like he was in a dream, the cure to their poison has just been there under their noses for a very long time and he didn't even know.

No, he exactly knew that the cure to the poison was there, he just didn't know which one to take to cure the poison, so the only thing he could do was guard the garden without knowing the effects of the herbs inside.

Dugu Bo is also one with a sad story in the plot other than the females, he dedicated nearly all his life to Tang San, and yet what did he get?

A method to cure the poison that is not even safe and it's not even cured it, it just relieves the symptoms of the poison, it's like having cancer and getting treated when the treatment doesn't even work.

All it does is to slow down the process of dying, this is evident in how Dugu Bo's hair is still green until the end of the story, where it should be back to brown if it were really cured.

Because what happens when the spirit bone that stores all of the poison reached its limit?

Doesn't it all come back out and kill the host of the poison, Tang San's treatment method does not treat, it's installing a ticking time bomb in the bodies of Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo.

But Xu Shuang gave them a real cure, not like the temporary treatment of Tang San, this treatment is to mutate or evolve their martial spirit to resolve the flaw of the martial spirit.

It's the most common herb in the garden with many herbs of different ages, but there are two herbs that nearly reached the level of fairy herbs, lacking by just one bit.

Dracaena, a herb that grew on soil with the remnants of a dragon-type creature's body, the higher the purity of the dragon blood the greater the effects of the herb, it's one of the most sought by dragon spirit masters.

And considering that it came from the graves of the two dragon kings, the fire dragon king, and the water dragon king, then the effect must be extraordinary on snake, python, and dragon-type spirit masters.

Tears dropped from Dugu Bo's eyes realizing the dreams he had, finally came true, he was so happy that he hugged Dugu Yan and span around in the garden while laughing.

"HAHAHAHA, it's great Yanyan, we don't have to suffer anymore, and we can finally get rid of the poison that plagues us all the time."

Dugu Yan was stunned at the sudden change but then heard what her Grandpa just said, and her expression changed greatly, changed to a surprised face with joy mixed within.

"A cure to the poison? Does that mean Grandpa doesn't have to go through pain every day anymore?"

"It's not only that, it also means that Yanyan can finally be a normal girl, without the risk of poisoning everyone you encounter."

"It's great! Thank you, Xu Shuang for your gift." Dugu Yan muttered with streaks of tears flowing from her eyes.

'Xu Shuang? Is she the one that gave the herbs to Yanyan? I don't know what you want, but since you cured us of our poison, I'll follow you for the rest of my life as repayment for your actions.'

Unbeknownst to Xu Shuang, she received another loyal follower that will help her in the following wars to happen in the future.