Upgraded First Spirit Skill

Tang Jiu heard Master tell him to take command, and he did not stand on ceremony. Leading a team could train all kinds of abilities, and he had actually already formed a plan in his mind. He said to the other two.

"Third Brother, go to the rear. Help Master and me relocate later!"

"Master, use your Soul Power to burn up a sea of flames and force out the Rampaging Thorn Pig's area-of-effect attack skill!" As long as the Rampaging Thorn Pig no longer had its quills, he could fight it head-on.

Master immediately unleashed his Third Spirit Skill. "A fart like flame, burning rivers and boiling seas—Three Pao the Turtle!"

Three Pao the Turtle leaped high into the air and blasted a fart at the Rampaging Thorn Pig. Scorching flames instantly flared all around. Empowered by Soul Power, the high-temperature flames rapidly ignited the trees, turning an area more than twenty meters around the Rampaging Thorn Pig into a sea of fire.

Once Master had unleashed his Third Spirit Skill, Tang San swiftly used Blue Silver Grass to pull Master and Tang Jiu up into a tree, where they stood at a distance and watched the battlefield.

At that moment, black smoke billowed everywhere. The Rampaging Thorn Pig was so choked by it that it could not tell north from south. The stench of burning filled the air, making it impossible for the Rampaging Thorn Pig to locate Tang Jiu and the others by scent. Like a headless fly, it charged wildly through the sea of fire. Fortunately, its hide was thick enough, or it would have long since been roasted into barbecue pork.

Seeing that the Rampaging Thorn Pig had yet to fire its quills, Tang Jiu took out some dried pork from his Soul Tool belt and tossed it into the flames.

Once the dried pork was roasted by the fire, its scent immediately spread through the surroundings. Under this intense stimulus, the Rampaging Thorn Pig furiously unleashed its ultimate skill—Quill Spray.

The Rampaging Thorn Pig braced its tusks against the ground. Soul Power surged through its body, its muscles swelled, and bristle after bristle stood on end like spikes before shooting out indiscriminately in every direction.

Hiss, hiss~~

The hard spikes rained chaotically in every direction, piercing through three large trees before their force finally ran out and they embedded themselves in the trunks with dull thuds.

"What a perverse ability!" Tang Jiu secretly clicked his tongue from the tree. If a skill like that hit a person, they would definitely be turned into a porcupine.

After losing the support of Master's Soul Power, the flames gradually died out. Only then did Tang Jiu see that the Rampaging Thorn Pig was completely bare, without a single bristle left. He picked up his hammer and jumped down from the tree.

"Kid, although you forced out the Rampaging Thorn Pig's spikes, you still don't have the ability to kill it! Even if you use your Spirit Ring Spirit to restrain the Rampaging Thorn Pig, you still lack the strength to hammer a thick-skinned, tough-fleshed Rampaging Thorn Pig to death!"

After his initial shock, Flender still pointed out Tang Jiu's shortcomings.

"Is that so? Then open your eyes and watch!" Tang Jiu did not throw his Spirit Ring Spirit at the Rampaging Thorn Pig. Instead, he directly placed it around himself.

He began swinging his hammer against the trees, strike after strike. His body bent like a bow as he began frantically stacking his strength.

"Is that... Chaotic Gale?" Master's eyes lit up.

"Chaotic Gale is useless too! This brat can stack at most � hammer strikes. His strength still can't compare to the Rampaging Thorn Pig's!" Flender curled his lip.

"Killing soul beasts requires brains!" Tang Jiu swung his hammer confidently, continuing to stack his strength. Nineteen strikes... twenty-three strikes... thirty-one strikes!

"Roar~~~"

After the flames went out, the Rampaging Thorn Pig finally spotted Tang Jiu forty meters away with its eyesight. It let out a shrill howl, its eyes blood-red and demonic. Exploding with all the Soul Power and muscular strength in its body, it charged at Tang Jiu like a war chariot.

By then, Tang Jiu had stacked thirty-six hammer strikes. This was already the limit of what his strength and technique could stack.

Tang Jiu pulled out a cruel smile as the �-year Spirit Ring on his body flashed.

"First Spirit Skill, Fury!"

His strength surged by 35% in an instant. Tang Jiu aimed at the Rampaging Thorn Pig and hurled the War Hammer in his hand! Such terrifying strength sent the War Hammer flying faster than a three-ring Agility System Soul Master, producing a piercing shriek of wind.

Boom!~~

A massive impact rang out. Then Flender watched in shock as the Rampaging Thorn Pig's head snapped sideways, sending it off its charging path. It crashed through six trees each a meter thick before finally stopping.

What he found most unbelievable was that Tang Jiu's War Hammer was embedded in the Rampaging Thorn Pig's head. The hammer shaft had twisted, while the hammerhead had smashed into the Rampaging Thorn Pig's skull. The Rampaging Thorn Pig was clearly dead beyond doubt!

"How is this possible? Even if your First Spirit Skill boosts your strength, you still couldn't possibly smash apart the Rampaging Thorn Pig's skull with one hammer blow! That's the hardest part of its body!"

Flender simply could not believe what he was seeing.

"Don't you know that pigs are stupid enough to get themselves killed?"

Tang Jiu chuckled. Yes, he could not deal with the Rampaging Thorn Pig directly, but he could make the thorn pig crash itself to death!

They had learned in high school physics that mass times velocity equaled kinetic energy!

Just like how a high-speed passenger plane could be destroyed by a bird flying straight at it, once speed reached a certain level, it produced terrifying destructive force!

To bring both the Rampaging Thorn Pig and his flying hammer to the utmost speed, he had chosen not to use the Spirit Ring Spirit to suppress the Rampaging Thorn Pig's cultivation. Instead, he boosted his own strength!

Only now did Tang Jiu truly understand that knowledge was power!

Looking at the War Hammer embedded in the Rampaging Thorn Pig's skull, his heart still trembled. Fortunately, he had not foolishly tried to smash it with the hammer and had chosen to throw it instead. Otherwise, the recoil alone could have crushed every bone in his body.

Tang Jiu did not waste any more words. He hurriedly sat cross-legged and began absorbing the Spirit Ring.

With the 700-year Yellow Soul Ring of his Spirit Ring Spirit as a foundation, absorbing a �-year Purple Soul Ring was not actually that strenuous.

The terrifying power within the Spirit Ring continuously scoured Tang Jiu's body, yet it could not inflict any substantial harm on him. Instead, with each wash, it tempered his body and pushed it past its limits again and again.

Tang Jiu felt all aspects of his physical condition steadily strengthening under the nourishment of Soul Power, especially his strength, which was growing wildly!

But aside from the raging Soul Power, a violent, furious, bloodthirsty Spiritual Power was also invading Tang Jiu's mind. This was the Rampaging Thorn Pig's deep resentment.

Oh no! Its resentment is this strong. Could it give me an External Soul Bone? Heavens, I don't want one!

Tang Jiu remembered that when Tang San obtained the Eight Spider Lances, an External Soul Bone, it was because he had killed that Man Faced Demon Spider beyond his level, creating enormous resentment. That was why he had gained the External Soul Bone while absorbing the Spirit Ring.

It was not that Tang Jiu did not want an External Soul Bone, but what kind of bizarre thing could an External Soul Bone produced by a pig possibly be?

Tusks?

Pig bristles?

Or several pig tails?

If those things appeared on his body, would he not become a pig?

Just thinking about it sent a chill down his spine!

As he kept praying that no External Soul Bone would appear, he finished absorbing his first Spirit Ring. As expected, the Spirit Skill was still Fury.

However, with a �-year soul beast, this Fury skill had received an upgrade.

The instant boost to strength from the Fury skill had leaped from the original �% to �%! However, it still only lasted � seconds.

And the most terrifying part was the increase in strength. After all, this was the first Spirit Ring he had obtained. It granted Tang Jiu a permanent boost, unlike the temporary boost of the Spirit Ring Spirit.

Just as Tang Jiu was about to roughly calculate how much his strength had increased, Flender's shout nearly scared him to death.

"Spirit bone! This is completely unreasonable!"