Thousand-Year Mandala Snake

"Hiss..."

At Notting Academy, every student and teacher present sucked in a sharp breath.

This was a hundred-year soul ring. Normally, whenever anyone saw one, they treasured it dearly.

Yet Young Lord Qin He had cast aside a soul ring so carelessly. A perfectly good soul ring, and he simply did not want it!

To let Xiao Chenyu absorb this soul ring, he had even said such ruthless words. This boss was truly loyal to the core!

"Young Lord Qin He has always been building up his own faction at Notting Academy, wanting us all to call him Boss. I never accepted it before. I only thought that Qin He was a little stronger. Did being strong mean he could do whatever he wanted?"

"Thinking about it now, I was truly shallow. Young Lord Qin He is not only powerful, but also so generous to his subordinates. He is simply an enlightened ruler of this age!"

"With such a loyal boss, no wonder Young Lord Qin He has so many people who like him!"

"Is this Young Lord Qin He's charisma? I admit it, I'm moved!"

"After we return to the academy, I'll join Young Lord Qin He's faction too. I'll call Young Lord Qin He Boss too!"

The Notting Academy students looked at Qin He with eyes full of reverence.

Beside them, Xiao Chenyu was so moved that tears streamed down his face!

"He's winning people over. This Qin He is winning people over!"

Headmaster Zhao Chong sighed and said,

"On Douluo Continent, strength is what matters most. Young Lord Qin He is still young. If he becomes obsessed with this game of winning people over, he is destined not to go far in the future!"

Qin He: "..."

What are you all thinking?

I just don't need soul rings, so I casually gave it to someone else. Why are there so many little dramas playing out in your heads?

Twenty minutes later.

After Xiao Chenyu absorbed the Netherwolf King's soul ring, he rose from the ground.

Faint waves of Soul Power surged from Xiao Chenyu's body, and his aura was far stronger than before!

"Level twenty-one. I'm now a level twenty-one Great Soul Master!"

Xiao Chenyu took a deep breath. Amid his joy, his gaze toward Qin He was filled with even more gratitude.

At the same time, two rings of light rose beneath Xiao Chenyu's feet and circled around his body. The first was white, his original ten-year soul ring, while the second was yellow, clearly a hundred-year soul ring.

"Let's go!"

Headmaster Zhao Chong gave Qin He a complicated look before speaking.

Although Qin He was usually a little lazy and a little irritating, Zhao Chong found him more pleasing to the eye because of his kind nature.

After all, powerful soul masters could be found everywhere, but everyone preferred making friends with soul masters of good character, did they not?

"Young Lord Qin He, next, we need to head deeper into Soul Hunting Forest and try to find you a hundred-year soul ring as well!"

"Hundred-year soul rings are not easy to find. We may have to stay in Soul Hunting Forest tonight!"

Zhao Chong had already made up his mind.

Qin He had given up a hundred-year soul ring and already suffered a great loss.

He could not let Qin He make do with some random ten-year soul ring before leaving. That would be no different from ruining a genius like Qin He!

They had to find Qin He a hundred-year soul ring!

"Headmaster is right! Even if we have to search for three days and three nights, we must find Boss Qin a hundred-year soul ring!"

Xiao Chenyu's eyes were incomparably resolute.

"That's right. We all have soul rings now. Young Lord Qin He is the only one without one. We have to find the soul ring that suits Young Lord Qin He best!"

"We can't let Young Lord Qin He suffer!"

"No matter how hard or exhausting it is, we must find Young Lord Qin He a good soul ring!"

The students and teachers of Notting Academy all nodded in firm agreement.

"What did you say? You're going to help me search for three days and three nights?"

After hearing the words of the many students and teachers from Notting Academy, Qin He nearly fainted!

"I can just get any soul ring! Otherwise, it'll be far too troublesome!"

Qin He spoke with a twitching mouth, wanting to change everyone's minds.

"Young Lord Qin He, there's no need to say more. We all understand! We will definitely find you a good soul ring!"

Before Qin He could finish, the others from Notting Academy refused to listen to his explanation. No matter how many times he explained, it was useless!

"You're making things difficult for me, Fat Tiger—no, Qin He!"

Qin He wore a helpless expression.

Soul Hunting Forest has such a terrible environment. I already hate staying here for even one day!

I helped you hunt soul rings only so we wouldn't waste time and could hurry back to the academy to sleep!

Every last one of you is harming me!

"Caw, caw, caw!"

Late at night, the group from Notting Academy set up tents in Soul Hunting Forest, planning to set out the next day and continue searching for soul masters.

At that moment, a series of urgent cries suddenly rang out, and the surroundings abruptly fell silent.

A faint rustling sound clearly entered Tang San's ears. Vaguely, the air seemed to carry a trace of stench. The smell was not strong, and even carried a faint sweetness and tea-like fragrance.

"Something poisonous."

Among the people from Notting Academy, Headmaster Zhao Chong was the first to react. The soul rings on his body flashed repeatedly.

Zhao Chong waved his right hand repeatedly. This time, he unleashed all three rings of light on his body and warily looked toward the direction from which the rustling came.

"What soul beast is that?"

The other teachers also stood up vigilantly and unleashed their own soul rings.

The rustling stopped. By the light of the soul rings, they looked in that direction and vaguely saw a dark green triangular snake head rise from the bushes. A pair of small ruby-like eyes stared toward them.

Someone took out a firestarter and threw it in that direction.

The firestarter ignited in the wind, illuminating that area as it tumbled through the air. This time, everyone finally saw the snake heads clearly and sucked in a breath.

"Not good, they're Mandala Snakes!"

"There's more than one Mandala Snake. There are two!"

When the firestarter illuminated that area and the massive bodies of the two Mandala Snakes appeared before them, everyone sucked in a sharp breath!

"We're in danger. These two Mandala Snakes are clearly a male and a female, and both are soul beasts over a thousand years old. They're extremely terrifying!"

Headmaster Zhao Chong's expression instantly turned extremely grim.

Two thousand-year soul beasts!

Two Mandala Snakes!

The female was not too bad. Judging by its size, it was only a little over a thousand years old. But the male was twice as large as the female, at least five thousand years old!

This area should still be on the outskirts of Soul Hunting Forest. How could soul beasts like Mandala Snakes suddenly appear here?

Hiss, hiss. As if enraged by the firestarter, the snake heads slowly lifted and hissed at the crowd.

Night seemed to be the time when Mandala Snakes hunted for food.

And clearly, everyone present, including Headmaster Zhao Chong, the level thirty-eight Soul Elder, had been regarded as food by the Mandala Snakes!