Chapter 39: The Second Simulation
Douluo: Dugu Bo's Life Simulator
For a period of time afterward, Dugu Bo lived quite a fulfilling life.
Every morning after breakfast, he would take Dugu Yan and Meng Yiran into the Sunset Forest to spar with spirit beasts, using battle to improve their coordination.
The afternoons, however, he left entirely to the two girls.
After all, Dugu Bo only had one family member. With him around, Dugu Yan didn't need to bear the same pressure as other children—training endlessly day and night.
As for himself, he spent his afternoons researching hidden weapons and their techniques.
Over the next few days, Dugu Bo had already mastered several relatively simple hidden weapon techniques.
Although he didn't possess the full inheritance of the Tang Sect, as a Titled Douluo, he could still utilize soul power to execute them.
Of course, with the complete Tang Sect techniques, the results would be even better.
Starting from that day, he began teaching the two girls hidden weapons in the afternoons.
Mornings remained dedicated to fighting various spirit beasts in the Sunset Forest.
Time passed quickly…
One month later—
Just as Dugu Bo finished his cultivation, a notification sounded in his mind:
[Congratulations, Host. Simulation attempts have been refreshed…]
Before he could check it carefully—
"Grandpa! Grandpa! Come look—we succeeded!"
Dugu Yan and Meng Yiran's excited voices rang out.
Though… they sounded a bit strange.
Dugu Bo smiled faintly.
After training together for so long, they had finally succeeded.
But when he stepped out of his chamber—
He didn't see the two girls.
Instead, standing before him was a beautiful snake-woman.
She had long green hair like his, and her face carried features of both Dugu Yan and Meng Yiran.
In her hand was a snake staff—identical to Meng Yiran's, but glowing faintly with golden light.
Dugu Bo was stunned.
"This… is your martial soul fusion skill?"
The snake-woman smiled playfully, lifting the staff.
"Yep! Grandpa, what do you think? Pretty strong, right?"
Her voice sounded like a fusion of both girls' voices—strange, yet harmonious.
Dugu Bo carefully sensed her aura.
Roughly… Level 40 strength.
It was mainly because the two girls were still too weak, and their coordination had only just reached the minimum threshold.
After all, the power of a martial soul fusion skill grows with both strength and compatibility.
Once they improved—
Fighting across one or even two major realms wouldn't be impossible.
"Ah!"
Suddenly—
Their soul power ran out.
The fusion broke automatically.
The two girls fell to the ground awkwardly.
They quickly stood up, dusting themselves off, their faces full of excitement.
"We finally did it!"
Meng Yiran grabbed Dugu Yan's hand eagerly.
"Fusion skills all have names! Like Grandpa and Grandma's 'Dragon-Serpent Combined Strike.' We should name ours too!"
After spending so much time together, Meng Yiran had grown much closer to both Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, becoming far more cheerful.
Dugu Yan nodded.
"Yeah… we need a good name…"
"But what should we call it?"
The two fell into thought.
At that moment, Dugu Bo smiled and said:
"How about… Medusa? The queen of snakes—it suits your fusion skill perfectly."
"Medusa… Medusa… alright! That's the one!" Dugu Yan repeated before deciding happily.
"Let's go, Ranran! Recover our soul power and try again!"
The two girls ran off excitedly, like children who had just gotten a new toy.
Watching them, Dugu Bo chuckled and shook his head before heading back to his cave dwelling halfway up the mountain.
It had been long enough.
Time for another simulation.
Inside his chamber—
Dugu Bo sat cross-legged, his consciousness sinking into his spiritual sea.
Above it floated a crystal-like panel.
With a thought, a voice echoed:
[Begin simulation?]
"Begin."
The panel spun and moved before him. Lines of text began to scroll—
[At age seventy, you break through to Titled Douluo, obtain a new soul ring, and head to Spirit Hall for your coronation ceremony. The Second Worship Hall Elder, Golden Crocodile Douluo, presides over it.]
[At the ceremony, you reveal your 100,000-year soul ring, shocking everyone present. Even Pope Bibi Dong looks at you differently.]
[Surprisingly, despite revealing your 100,000-year soul ring, Spirit Hall does nothing to you.]
[After the ceremony, Bibi Dong attempts to recruit you. At the same time, Golden Crocodile Douluo also extends an olive branch.]
Dugu Bo frowned slightly.
The conflict between the Pope's Hall and the Worship Hall—
He already knew that from previous memories.
But this simulation, from his own perspective, revealed far more detail.
For example—
Golden Crocodile openly recruiting him in front of Bibi Dong showed a complete lack of respect for her authority.
Dugu Bo continued reading—
[After the ceremony, you leave Spirit Hall. Unexpectedly, you are not attacked on the way.]
[Not long after returning to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Chrysanthemum Douluo comes to challenge you, intending to teach you a lesson using his superior soul power.]
[You do not know that this was a personal decision by Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo. Bibi Dong was unaware. They believed your refusal insulted her and decided to punish you.]
[During the battle, you use a 100,000-year soul skill to repel Chrysanthemum Douluo.]
Dugu Bo felt speechless.
Just for rejecting an invitation—and they came knocking?
[A few days later, Meng Shu—now a Soul Douluo—comes to you, asking for help hunting a soul beast. You readily agree.]