Words of Swagger

Seeing Yun Chuan's nonchalant demeanor, Dai Mubai's anger soared. He sneered repeatedly. "Good, good, good! I'd like to see what tricks you can pull off with a trash spirit! A trash spirit will always be trash, yet you still dream of proving that you're not worthless? How laughable!"

In the current world of soul masters, a spirit like Blue Silver Grass was universally recognized as a trash spirit. There was no disputing its uselessness. Its nature was exceedingly weak, so the soul skills produced by its added soul rings were also weaker than those of the same level. For example, given the same binding skill, Blue Silver Grass's binding ability was around forty to fifty percent weaker in both power and toughness than that of other spirits, making it much easier for others to break free.

That was precisely why Blue Silver Grass was universally regarded as a trash spirit!

As for Tang San?

His Blue Silver Grass was not ordinary Blue Silver Grass at all. It was the yet-to-awaken Blue Silver Emperor Spirit! In essence, it was a top-tier spirit no weaker than the Clear Sky Hammer. Naturally, ordinary Blue Silver Grass could not compare to it. That was why the soul skills he gained after attaching soul rings were far stronger than those of normal Blue Silver Grass. It had also given Yu Xiaogang the illusion that his theories were correct, but really, that was only because it was Tang San. Had it been anyone else, they would have long since been ruined by his training.

"A trash spirit?"

Seeing Dai Mubai's utter disdain, Yun Chuan felt somewhat displeased. He decided it was necessary to say something impressive and reclaim some face. So he said calmly, "There are no trash spirits in this world, only trash soul masters! Any spirit, so long as it undergoes arduous training and receives proper guidance, can realize its own value. Even a grain of sand can fill the sea! Even a weed by the roadside can cut down the sun, moon, and stars!"

A grain of sand could fill the sea!

A weed could cut down the sun, moon, and stars!

Such earth-shaking, outrageously swaggering words left everyone around them utterly stunned!

Damn it, even though they knew this guy was spouting nonsense, for some reason, just hearing those two lines made their blood boil. A vast and majestic feeling washed over them!

Tang San, who often heard his teacher repeat the famous saying, "There are no trash spirits, only trash soul masters," was even more dumbfounded. So adding those two lines after that saying could actually make it sound so grand and imposing!

Mm, he had learned something. Next time he cited his teacher's famous saying in an argument, he would add those two lines as well. He would definitely crush his opponent in sheer momentum!

Tsk, tsk.

A grain of sand could fill the sea!

A weed could cut down the sun, moon, and stars!

Just listen to that. Those two lines alone were enough to make one's blood boil!

Tang San felt as though the door to an entirely new world had been opened before him...

"A grain of sand can fill the sea! A weed can cut down the sun, moon, and stars..." As the person directly involved, Dai Mubai murmured those two lines. Aside from sensing their overwhelming grandeur, he only felt that they carried profound meaning...

"Enough nonsense!"

Dai Mubai came back to his senses and stared intently at him. "Since you say there are no trash spirits, only trash soul masters, then let me see what is so special about your Blue Silver Grass Spirit."

Then Dai Mubai moved. After using Spirit Avatar, he seemed to have become an entirely different person. The instant his white hair began to drift, his body, brimming with explosive power, had already arrived before Yun Chuan. The sharp claws on all ten of his fingers sprang out at once, slashing toward Yun Chuan's body.

Wanting to play with him for a while, Yun Chuan chuckled softly and shifted his feet slightly. He appeared to take only one step to the side, yet he easily dodged Dai Mubai's attack at the last possible instant. The immense difference in their physical abilities made every movement Dai Mubai made seem as slow as a crawling turtle in his eyes.

Thus, after leisurely evading his assault, Yun Chuan willed it, and rings of thick blue-black vines spiraled out from the ground around them, surging toward Dai Mubai from all directions. Since he had claimed that his spirit was Blue Silver Grass, he naturally had to put on a convincing act.

As for Yun Chuan himself, he quietly vanished as though he had melded into the vines.

The light in Dai Mubai's strange double pupils flashed repeatedly. Surging Soul Power covered his entire body as he swung both hands, knocking away each vine that rushed toward him.

He had originally planned to slice apart the thick vines formed from Blue Silver Grass, but to his surprise, he discovered that these vines were extraordinarily tough. Even with Tiger Claw strengthened by his thirty-seventh-rank Soul Power, he could only cut halfway through them while knocking them aside. He could not sever them completely.

And once the vines left the range of his Tiger Claw, they rapidly healed on their own. A faint tea fragrance with a hint of sweetness spread through the vines. The vines seemed endless as they continuously surged in from every direction. Though Dai Mubai's strength and speed had both increased dramatically under the effects of his spirit, he could not break out of the vines' encirclement no matter what he did.

This was Blue Silver Grass?

Dai Mubai was greatly shocked. He had never imagined that Blue Silver Grass could be so formidable.

Of course, the most shocked person present was Tang San. To his astonishment, he realized that the moves of the man before him were exactly the same as his own. In truth, Yun Chuan was only teasing Dai Mubai, so he had imitated Tang San's moves from the original story. Even the plants he summoned had been greatly weakened in every aspect, all so that he could play a little longer.

Otherwise, with his Soul Saint rank, even without using his spirit, he could kill Dai Mubai in an instant with his physical body alone. It would make no difference even if Dai Mubai unleashed all his soul skills. The gap between their strengths was simply too enormous.

But that would be no fun. There was no pleasure in simply crushing a weak opponent. Taking it slow was far more interesting.

Seeing that he could do nothing to the vines before him, Dai Mubai grew impatient. He had never been a patient person, but his competitive spirit was especially strong. An intense white light suddenly flared, and Dai Mubai's evil eyes abruptly turned white. Of the three soul rings on his body, the first suddenly shone brilliantly, forming a white barrier that kept the surrounding vines from drawing close.

Immediately afterward, his second soul ring lit up as well. A massive white light condensed in an instant, and with a Tiger Roar from Dai Mubai, a milky-white sphere of light blasted from his mouth. The skills granted by Dai Mubai's first two soul rings were White Tiger Body Barrier and White Tiger Light Wave. Activated simultaneously, they immediately displayed terrifying power!

From the outside, Dai Mubai's body had already been trapped within the enormous mass of vines. Xiao Wu, who was watching from the side, could not help but relax slightly at the sight, but Tang San frowned, knowing that the situation was far from good.

And sure enough, countless rays of white light suddenly shot out through the gaps in the vines. Then, a muffled explosion thundered out. The vines formed from Blue Silver Grass instantly shattered and scattered, while the powerful shockwave swept through the Rose Hotel's lobby, leaving it in complete disarray.

A spirit and its host were one. If Yun Chuan's spirit truly were Blue Silver Grass, he would likely have suffered a severe backlash by now. But unfortunately, his spirit was not Blue Silver Grass. Thus, even though all the Blue Silver Grass vines had been destroyed, Yun Chuan remained calm and unaffected.

The white light gradually faded, revealing Dai Mubai's sturdy figure. The shattered Blue Silver Grass began gathering around Yun Chuan once more, its numbers not reduced in the slightest. In fact, there seemed to be even more than before.

"Tang Chuan, Beast Spirits will always have stronger offensive power than Tool Spirits. Your Blue Silver Grass's power has indeed exceeded my expectations, but it still can't trap me." Dai Mubai looked arrogant and utterly unrestrained.

Yun Chuan merely smiled faintly and said, "Not necessarily."

The moment those words left his mouth.

Dai Mubai's body suddenly stiffened. Fine vines had appeared all over his body at some unknown point. The vines instantly grew, tightly binding Dai Mubai within them. Though the thorns on the vines were only about an inch long, their continuous tightening brought intense pain throughout Dai Mubai's body. At the same time, he discovered that his body was beginning to go numb.

"This is Ghost Vine's Parasite ability? It's actually the same as mine too?" Tang San was even more shocked when he saw this.

Tang San's second soul ring came from a plant-type Soul Beast known as Ghost Vine. It was an extremely terrifying plant-type Soul Beast that possessed powerful neurotoxin. So long as one was pierced by its thorns, the poison would immediately spread until the victim turned into pus and became fertilizer for the Ghost Vine.

Moreover, what soul masters feared most was Ghost Vine's Parasite ability. When it attacked, it would release countless tiny seeds that directly parasitized its enemies. As long as the Ghost Vine supplied sufficient energy, or the seeds absorbed enough nutrients, they would grow upon the host's body. Once the neurotoxin spread, the effect would be the same.

The soul ring skill Ghost Vine gave Tang San was Parasite. Through the infusion of Soul Power, Ghost Vine's parasitic ability became even more potent than that of the original Ghost Vine itself. With Soul Power injected into them, the parasitic seeds would grow in an instant, directly producing a binding effect that was impossible to guard against. It could be called an exceptionally insidious control skill.

Judging by the abnormal state of Dai Mubai's body, he had clearly been hit.

Ignoring Tang San's shock at the side, Yun Chuan merely said, "My Blue Silver Grass is poisonous. You should have inhaled some of it earlier. Then you used your Soul Power to launch a powerful attack and break through my Blue Silver Grass's bindings, which would inevitably accelerate the circulation of blood and energy in your body, making the poison take effect faster. You may not feel anything yourself, but the surface of your skin has actually begun to go numb, leaving you unable to detect the parasitic Blue Silver Grass seeds. So, you've lost."

Dai Mubai looked at Yun Chuan. Other than his head, his entire body was already wrapped in Blue Silver Grass. A fierce light flickered repeatedly in his evil eyes. "Good. What impressive Blue Silver Grass. If I had only two rings like you, then I would indeed have lost. My body is already numb, and it would be difficult for me to break free from the Blue Silver Grass on me. But I have one more soul ring than you. I can only let you witness the skill of my third soul ring now." Judging from the vines' strength, he believed Yun Chuan could not possibly be above rank thirty, so he appeared extremely confident.

But how could he know that Yun Chuan was merely playing with him? He was even deliberately using the same soul skills as Tang San to tease him, enjoying Tang San's astonished and disbelieving expression.

A purple soul ring instantly flashed. The air around Dai Mubai's body distorted, and his evil eyes suddenly turned blood-red. Then the Blue Silver Grass wrapped around him abruptly swelled. Amid a thunderous boom, all the Blue Silver Grass binding his body, including the parasitic Blue Silver Grass seeds, exploded into powder.

Dai Mubai's body had actually undergone a second transformation.

Tang San, watching from the side, sucked in a cold breath. "Is this the skill of a thousand-year soul ring?" Since their spirits and soul skills were so similar, he placed himself in Dai Mubai's position and immediately realized that, aside from using hidden weapons or other methods, he would already be completely helpless if he relied purely on the abilities of a soul master.