The Reward: Anywhere Door! Why Was Gangzi Drooling?

Yu Fan walked through the Soul Hunting Forest with Tang San.

Honestly, as he looked out at the vast forest, he had no idea where to begin looking for a suitable Soul Beast.

He didn't want to waste too much time here.

"Oh well. If we can't find one, there's no point forcing it."

"So we can find one by not looking?"

Tang San looked at Yu Fan. He still couldn't figure out how the other man's mind worked.

He always felt as though he and Yu Fan were on different wavelengths.

In fact, Yu Fan had read Douluo thoroughly. He knew the Mandala Snake had been drawn over by the firelight, or perhaps Tang Hao had tossed it there...

So there was no need for him to waste time looking.

Once night fell, the Mandala Snake would appear on its own!

"Little Sanzi, you have to believe in a saying."

"What saying?"

"Wait by the stump for a rabbit."

"...Will a Soul Beast run straight into your fist?"

"I think it will."

"...Uh, I don't quite believe that."

"Say that again."

"I think what you said makes perfect sense."

Tang San looked utterly convinced and nodded in wholehearted agreement.

Seeing that he had conditioned Tang San to this point, Yu Fan nodded in satisfaction and said,

"Then let's rest for a while."

"All right."

Tang San leaned against a tree and opened a textbook he had brought from Nuoding Academy. He had always been diligent and eager to learn.

Since there was nothing to do now...

He might as well study.

"I'm going to sleep for a bit. Remember to wake me if anything happens."

"...All right."

Tang San couldn't help marveling at how carefree Yu Fan was.

He dared to sleep in such a dangerous place?

Was he even human?

Tang San and Yu Fan...

One was reading, and the other was sleeping.

Meanwhile, Gangzi...

Poor Yu Xiaogang was being bitten by mosquitoes. Behind a tree, he scratched at his ears and cheeks.

"Seriously, is there something wrong with those two? They came all the way to the Soul Hunting Forest, and instead of hunting Soul Beasts, they're sleeping and reading..."

Yu Xiaogang couldn't figure it out, no matter how hard he racked his brains.

How could there be such idiots in the world?

Had he woken up from a nap...

To find that everyone's IQ had dropped a hundredfold?

"Why aren't those mosquitoes biting Tang San?!"

What Yu Xiaogang never could have imagined was that...

The Will of Tyranny, which had evolved from Yu Fan's presence, had long since formed a vacuum around him.

Any mosquito that dared fly over would drop dead on the spot.

And so...

All the mosquitoes in the area could only fly over to bite Gangzi.

Before long, Gangzi's head was covered in welts.

In the blink of an eye, the sky had darkened.

Following Yu Fan's instructions, Tang San lit a campfire.

"Yu Fan, wake up. It's already late at night..."

"All right."

Yu Fan reluctantly rose from beside the tree and glanced at the forest.

Quite a few pairs of eyes seemed to be watching him and Tang San.

Sure enough, the campfire had worked. Those Soul Beasts couldn't wait any longer.

That was just as well...

His fist was thirsty for blood, too.

"Yu Fan, I keep feeling like there's someone behind us."

Tang San's Purple Demon Eye let him see clearly even in the dark, and he suddenly spotted a familiar figure.

Wasn't... wasn't that fucking Yu Xiaogang?

What was Yu Xiaogang doing here?

He frowned but didn't alert the snake in the grass. Instead, he looked at Yu Fan, who was smiling at him.

So... had Yu Fan known all along?

But on second thought, that was only natural. After all, he had seen Yu Fan's strength for himself.

That single punch had split a mountain open!

He didn't know how strong the experts of this world were, but surely even the strongest couldn't split a mountain with a wave of their hand!

Yu Fan really had split a mountain in the snap of a finger, and that mountain had been extraordinarily enormous!

"Pay him no mind. He's just a stalker."

With his hands in his pockets, Yu Fan paid the Soul Beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest no heed.

Just then...

A hissing sound suddenly came from deep in the forest!

It was the sound of a snake flicking its tongue!

A Soul Beast appearing at this time had to be that Mandala Snake, without a doubt.

As it turned out, his guess was entirely correct.

"Hiss-hiss-!"

It suddenly flashed out of the shadows, finally revealing itself in the light of the campfire.

It was an enormous snake several meters long, slithering back and forth near the two of them.

Its intentions were obvious...

It seemed to have taken them for its late-night snack.

Tang San immediately went on guard.

"Yu Fan, be careful! That giant snake seems to carry some kind of toxin, but I don't know what kind yet..."

He was an expert in the use of poisons, so he could naturally tell that the Mandala Snake was venomous. He warned Yu Fan to be extra careful and not let it bite him through carelessness.

Yu Fan gave a cold smile.

"Just watch from the side."

"Uh..."

Tang San knew Yu Fan was about to make his move. He felt it wasn't quite right to do nothing, but then he remembered the gap between their strength.

Maybe there was nothing wrong with it after all...

There was nothing he could do right now.

"Hiss-!"

Suddenly, the Mandala Snake launched a swift attack, opening its gaping maw and lunging at Tang San.

Tang San instinctively reached for his Sleeve Arrow, only to forget that Yu Fan had already taken it away.

"Damn... unlucky! What rotten luck!"

Just as the Mandala Snake was about to bite Tang San,

A shout erupted from behind him.

"Way of Jin and Che!"

In an instant!

A slash struck the Mandala Snake squarely in its gaping mouth.

"Swoosh!"

Flesh and blood flew as the slash sent the badly wounded Mandala Snake hurtling several meters backward.

The Soul Beast, which was over four hundred years old, couldn't even fight back against Yu Fan.

Tang San was stunned by the sight.

"That's Brother Fan for you!"

And Tang San wasn't the only one.

Yu Xiaogang was even more shocked, his jaw nearly hitting the ground.

"Good heavens... is that kid even human?"

"If I could take him as my disciple..."

"Would anyone in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan still dare give me the cold shoulder...?"

Gangzi was still lost in his pleasant fantasy.

Drool even trickled shamefully from the corner of his mouth.

Yu Xiaogang was hiding in the bushes with a chrysanthemum perched on his head, and with the strange smile on his face...

The sight was too beautiful to imagine.

As for the Mandala Snake, after taking the full force of the Way of Jin and Che, half its enormous mouth had been sliced off.

"Hiss... hiss..."

The Mandala Snake was still struggling in pain. Its mouth was a weak point to begin with.

With that weak point severely injured, it was already dying.

"Its mouth is its weak point. I'll leave it to you."

"This four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake is well suited to be your First Soul Ring."

"Although your Martial Soul is plant-type, you can actually absorb a beast's Soul Ring too."

"..."

Yu Fan casually tossed the Sleeve Arrow over.

Tang San hurriedly caught his Sleeve Arrow and said,

"Yu Fan, thank you so much for today."

"It's nothing. Just don't get all sissy about it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Tang San fired a Sleeve Arrow and killed the Mandala Snake.

As the Mandala Snake died, the Soul Power in its body gradually condensed into a pale yellow Soul Ring.

The system notification sounded at the same moment!

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for having Tang San once again follow the path of a control-type Soul Master!]

[Reward obtained: Anywhere Door!]

[Automatically stored in the System Space...]

Yu Fan used his spiritual power to take a look inside the System Space.

There, unmistakably, stood a two-meter-tall purple wooden door.

It was the Anywhere Door.

Hehehe...

I finally got it.

"Yu Fan, what do I do next?"

Looking at Tang San's bewildered expression, it seemed he still didn't know how to absorb a Soul Ring.