Tang San's Favorite! Charcoal-Grilled Spicy Soft Bone Rabbit Head!
Yu Fan began teaching Tang San how to absorb the Soul Ring.
"Actually, absorbing a Soul Ring is simple. You just need to use your will to guide the Mandala Snake's Soul Ring onto your Martial Soul."
"Okay, I'll try!"
Just as Tang San was trying...
Yu Xiaogang had long since been reduced to tears by anxiety!
He had been hoping to play the hero and save the boy, but those two didn't need his help at all!
And then there was Yu Fan...
One blast of that whatever-it-was Way of Jin and Che had nearly killed the Mandala Snake outright!
What the fuck kind of monster was he?
Then, his trip to the Soul Hunting Forest...
Had he endured mosquito bites for hours for nothing?
"Damn it... damn it..."
"That little bastard is actually this strong? He can even kill a four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake in one move!"
"A Mandala Snake with four hundred years of cultivation is comparable to a Soul Grandmaster. Even I could only turn tail and run if I met one!"
"He..."
"What gives him the ability to kill a Mandala Snake?"
Yu Xiaogang felt deeply aggrieved.
He had intended to come to the Soul Hunting Forest and show off, but instead he had made a clown of himself.
Even his nose had a huge red welt from a mosquito bite.
Yu Fan was simply his nemesis!
Tang San slowly guided the Soul Ring onto his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul.
Before awakening, the Blue Silver Emperor was just a somewhat stronger Blue Silver Grass.
Yu Fan didn't sit idle during this time either. He raised a hand and unleashed the Way of Jin and Che.
A Soft Bone Rabbit sleeping in the grass was killed on the spot.
A white Soul Ring slowly floated out.
"What kind of trash is this?"
Yu Fan walked up to the Soft Bone Rabbit's Soul Ring, grabbed the white ring with one hand, and squeezed lightly.
A crack rang out.
"Crack!"
The Soft Bone Rabbit's Soul Ring actually cracked.
The sight filled Yu Xiaogang, who was hiding behind a tree, with fear.
He...
What had he just seen?
Yu Fan had crushed the Soft Bone Rabbit's Soul Ring with one hand!
Was he even human?
Soul Rings were essentially energy, yet this guy had crushed one!
Even if it was a Ten-Year Soul Ring...
"This goes against my Martial Soul research theories. He really is a harbinger of disaster who utterly counters me..."
Yu Xiaogang watched helplessly as Yu Fan picked up the Soft Bone Rabbit and walked away.
He hid in the grass, not daring to breathe too hard, peeping at them like a maggot.
He saw Yu Fan toss the Soft Bone Rabbit onto the ground.
"Let's leave the dirty work of preparing this thing to Tang San. His cooking skills are better, after all."
"Once it's prepared, I'll give it the old veteran's barbecue treatment."
Yu Fan remembered that Tang San was from Bashu.
"People from Bashu... their favorite is spicy rabbit head."
"Tang San might not have tried it, but he'll definitely like it."
"Won't he fall in love with it after one bite?"
Time passed, second by second.
Tang San finally fused with the Mandala Snake's Martial Soul. His Blue Silver Grass gained a paralytic neurotoxin, and the Soul Ring's enhancement also made it tougher.
"Yu Fan, I did it!"
"Mm, good."
Yu Fan didn't seem surprised.
Seeing how calm and composed Yu Fan was, Tang San couldn't help feeling a measure of admiration.
He doesn't show his joy or anger. That's Yu Fan for you...
"Huh? What's that lump on the ground?!"
Tang San looked at the Soft Bone Rabbit, its head separated from its body. The bloody sight made him frown slightly.
"That's disgusting..."
"Yu Fan, was this the Soul Beast that attacked us just now?"
Tang San thought that while he was absorbing the Soul Ring, some blind Soul Beast had come looking for trouble.
"No."
Yu Fan shook his head and pointed at the Soft Bone Rabbit.
"This is our dinner."
"...?"
Tang San finally understood why Yu Fan hadn't brought any provisions.
So he was planning to hunt for food?
What a great idea!
"All right, I'll prepare it."
Tang San picked up the forty- or fifty-jin Soft Bone Rabbit and began preparing it. He was used to carrying firewood with his scrawny body.
Speaking of which, Tang Hao really was an old beast reincarnated.
His family ran a smithy. How could they possibly use only a little firewood and coal?
Six-year-old Tang San...
Carried dozens of jin of firewood home on his back almost every day!
And he chopped it himself!
Even an enemy would have let go of their grudge at the sight, right?
Not to mention that he still had to cook for that old beast when he got home...
If Yu Fan were Tang San...
He'd definitely put on a fine display of fatherly kindness and filial piety!
"Too bad there's no water nearby. I can't wash the blood off this rabbit..."
Tang San's hands were covered in blood. After skinning the Soft Bone Rabbit, he began separating it into pieces.
"Uh... actually, there's water not far from here."
Yu Fan watched Tang San prepare the Soft Bone Rabbit, looking thoughtful.
"I thought you didn't need it."
"...?"
Tang San was so angry he nearly laughed.
Wait, there was water? Why didn't you say so earlier?
Then what was the point of getting blood all over himself...
Did it look good?
"By the way, won't doing this attract other Soul Beasts?"
Tang San voiced his concern.
Yu Fan raised a hand and blasted a tree in half with the Way of Jin and Che.
"What do you think?"
"Good point."
Tang San used his first Soul Skill.
"First Soul Skill, Blue Silver Entanglement!"
He used his first Soul Skill to wrap up the Soft Bone Rabbit. Although the Blue Silver Grass carried a neurotoxin,
It would be fine as long as he didn't release the toxin.
Besides, he could absorb those neurotoxins too!
The first reason he did this was to test his Soul Skill.
The second was...
The Soft Bone Rabbit was already covered in blood. How else was he supposed to carry it?
Having witnessed all this, Yu Xiaogang had finally confirmed his Martial Soul research theories.
It just wasn't him who had confirmed them...
"Wonderful, wonderful!"
He shouted in immense excitement.
"I knew it... I knew it..."
"My Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul are right!!"
But in his momentary loss of composure, he forgot that he was still hiding in the grass.
Yu Fan and Tang San exchanged a look.
The two of them could barely hold back their laughter.
Seeing red-nosed Yu Xiaogang howling over there...
Who wouldn't be scared this late at night?
Yu Xiaogang also realized he had lost his composure. He hurriedly covered his mouth and acted as though nothing had happened.
"Huh, Tang San, did you hear something?"
Yu Fan pretended not to have heard anything.
"No. Was there a sound just now?"
Tang San shook his head and declared decisively that he hadn't heard anything.
"Oh, it was probably a pig squealing."
With that, Yu Fan led Tang San toward the river.
Yu Xiaogang's face flushed red with anger.
He was a dignified master of theory in the Martial Soul world, yet a little brat had called him a pig?
Before long, Tang San finished preparing the Soft Bone Rabbit.
Yu Fan took out the cumin and chili he had prepared beforehand and began roasting the Soft Bone Rabbit.
Tang San had been wondering what Yu Fan kept in his pouch. So it was seasonings.
"Whoa, that smells amazing!"
Tang San watched Yu Fan roast the Soft Bone Rabbit. The aroma left him a little dazed.
He had never smelled Soft Bone Rabbit roasted this fragrantly before...
What kind of miserable life had he been living before?
"Yu Fan, why are you sprinkling so much chili on the rabbit head?"
"Spicy rabbit head!"
Yu Fan sprinkled on seasonings as he roasted it.
"Now for the soul of the seasoning!"
He pinched up some salt and began sprinkling it with his arm tucked in.
Tang San couldn't help thinking to himself.
With Tang Hao, I went hungry three meals a day...
But with Yu Fan, there's really meat at every meal...
Ever since I entered Nuoding Academy, there's never been a meal without meat...
And that's thanks to that one Gold Soul Coin.
Plus, Yu Fan requires everyone to eat meat every day.
At first I thought it was too extravagant, but after trying it, I understood the true-fragrance warning.