Sword Bamboo Soul Beast

"Have you decided what kind of Soul Ring you want to hunt?"

When Teacher Ma heard Mo Bai's request, he was not all that surprised. After all, two people in the class had already absorbed their First Soul Rings.

Among the three students with Innate Full Soul Power, only Mo Bai had yet to absorb his First Soul Ring!

"Teacher, I want to hunt a Sword Bamboo Soul Ring. A four-hundred-year Sword Bamboo Soul Ring!"

"Sword Bamboo Soul Beasts are plant-type soul beasts, so they're relatively easy to hunt. Sword Bamboo is considered one of the easier plant-type soul beasts to hunt, so I want to hunt a four-hundred-year Sword Bamboo Soul Beast!"

Mo Bai immediately said what he had already planned.

"Sword Bamboo? Why would you take a fancy to Sword Bamboo?"

"It's publicly recognized as a weak soul beast!"

"Even if you absorb a four-hundred-year Soul Ring, the Soul Skill might not be as strong as one obtained from some other ten-year soul beast!"

Hearing Mo Bai's words, Teacher Ma immediately frowned.

It was not that he thought the soul beast Mo Bai had chosen was too difficult, but that he did not think highly of it.

Ever since Tang San returned, everyone at the academy had known that Tang San, with Grandmaster's help, had successfully absorbed his First Soul Ring, and that what he absorbed was even a four-hundred-year Mandala Snake Soul Ring.

This not only proved that Grandmaster's theory was correct, but also proved that the Blue Silver Grass martial soul could also become a soul master, and was not weak.

As a result, Mo Bai, who like Tang San had Innate Full Soul Power but whose martial soul was the useless Blue Silver Grass, received the academy's attention.

Students with Innate Full Soul Power were rare to begin with. They had ignored him before only because they had not thought highly of Tang San and Mo Bai's growth. Now that they had discovered a useless soul was not so useless after all, they naturally began to value him.

As for Xiao Wu, the academy had originally valued her highly, but who would have known Xiao Wu would silently absorb her First Soul Ring on her own, and that it was also a four-hundred-year Soul Ring.

So for Mo Bai's First Soul Ring, the academy had actually already made plans to hunt a decent Soul Ring for Mo Bai.

Teacher Ma also knew this. It was just that the academy had not yet arranged who to send to help Mo Bai, but it would happen within the next few days.

Who would have thought Mo Bai would bring it up himself first, yet choose Sword Bamboo, such a rather weak plant-type soul beast?

Blue Silver Grass was already weak to begin with. If it was paired with this rather weak Sword Bamboo Soul Ring, then...

"Mo Bai, you should let the academy choose some soul beasts for you. When the time comes, whichever one we run into, we'll help you hunt that kind of soul beast!"

"I know you may want to have a four-hundred-year Soul Ring whose age reaches the limit of what the First Soul Ring can bear, and that's why you chose Sword Bamboo. But that isn't a problem. You're a student with Innate Full Soul Power. Even if it isn't Sword Bamboo, the academy will help you hunt a four-hundred-year Soul Ring as much as possible!"

Teacher Ma continued, also telling him how much the academy currently valued Mo Bai.

"No need, Teacher!"

"I chose Sword Bamboo myself. I think it suits me best!"

Mo Bai had not expected the academy to start valuing him, but thinking about it, it was normal. In the end, however, Mo Bai still refused.

He had chosen Sword Bamboo not because Sword Bamboo was easier to kill.

It was because, for him, only by absorbing Sword Bamboo could he achieve the effect he wanted.

"You..."

"What do you understand? If you absorb a Sword Bamboo Soul Ring, your Blue Silver Grass will truly be ruined!"

Teacher Ma immediately grew angry when he heard this, truly hating that iron could not become steel.

"Come on. I'll take you to see the Principal and see if he'll listen to you!"

After that, Teacher Ma directly pulled Mo Bai toward the Principal's office.

But even when they got to the Principal, Mo Bai still insisted on his choice.

After the Principal failed to persuade him, he could only agree and send a teacher at the Great Soul Master level to help Mo Bai hunt a Sword Bamboo Soul Beast.

The teacher chosen in the end was Teacher Ma from their class.

A level 27 Great Soul Master.

If it was only hunting Sword Bamboo, Teacher Ma was more than enough!

Next, Teacher Ma took Mo Bai, carrying the certificate issued by the academy, to the Spirit Hall Branch in Notting City to complete the procedures.

Finally, carrying a pass token issued by the Spirit Hall Branch, he took him to the Soul Beast Forest outside Notting City that was enclosed and raised by Spirit Hall.

Because the target was clear, and because the target was also a plant-type soul beast that could not move, Teacher Ma took Mo Bai straight toward the destination.

An hour later, the two arrived outside a bamboo forest.

"It's inside. Later, follow behind me and be careful!"

"There are so many Sword Bamboos inside. We don't know which ones are soul beasts, so we'll need to search slowly!"

"But compared with looking for other soul beasts, this is still relatively easy. We only need to search through this Sword Bamboo forest to find one!"

As Teacher Ma said this to Mo Bai, he took Mo Bai carefully into the Sword Bamboo forest.

The Sword Bamboo forest before them was not entirely made up of Sword Bamboo soul beasts.

Just like most humans were not soul masters, in a Sword Bamboo forest, those that could become soul beasts were extremely rare.

Or like Blue Silver Grass, which spread across almost all of Soul Land, yet Blue Silver Grass soul beasts were almost never seen.

Hiss, hiss, hiss—

After walking for a while, when Mo Bai and the other man approached a stalk of Sword Bamboo, that Sword Bamboo suddenly moved, scattering sheets of bamboo leaves that attacked Mo Bai and Teacher Ma.

"Not good, dodge!"

Teacher Ma cried out in alarm and hurriedly took Mo Bai back.

Puff, puff, puff—

After the two left, the place where they had originally been standing was almost filled with Sword Bamboo leaves, buried three inches into the ground.

Those bamboo leaves gave the feeling of tiny swords, not bamboo leaves.

"Teacher, is that a Sword Bamboo Soul Beast?"

Mo Bai looked up at the stalk of Sword Bamboo from just now, his eyes shining with surprise. They had finally encountered one.

"Yes, that is a Sword Bamboo Soul Beast!"

"But there's no need to worry too much. As long as we don't get close to its attack range, it won't attack us!"

Teacher Ma smiled.

"It's about four meters tall, and the bottom two sections are darker in color. This is a two-hundred-year Sword Bamboo Soul Beast!"

"Teacher, this isn't what I want. Let's keep looking!"

Mo Bai carefully looked at that Sword Bamboo Soul Beast, then made his judgment.

With his goal clear, Mo Bai had naturally understood Sword Bamboo's characteristics in advance, and knew roughly how to judge the age of a Sword Bamboo Soul Beast.

"Not bad. I didn't expect you to even know this. It seems you really did have your mind set on a Sword Bamboo Soul Ring from the start!"

"I don't know whether the academy helping you hunt one is right or wrong!"

"Teacher only hopes you won't regret it when the time comes!"

"If you change your mind now, there's still time!"

Teacher Ma glanced at Mo Bai. First, he was surprised that Mo Bai had a decent grasp of knowledge about Sword Bamboo, then he once again tried to persuade Mo Bai.

"No, Teacher. I want a Sword Bamboo Soul Ring!"

Mo Bai shook his head and once again declined Teacher Ma's good intentions.

"All right. We'll go around that Sword Bamboo Soul Beast and keep searching!"