Entanglement? What a Pointless Redundancy!

Snake Lance and Stingray Douluo were helpless, but they still held their ground.

Snake Lance said, "Young Master, I should go. Let Cixue stay behind. You must have a Titled Douluo protecting you at all times, otherwise we will have no way to answer to the Great Enshrinement!"

Seeing how insistent the two were, Qian Renxue thought it over and agreed.

In any case, sending someone this time was not truly meant to provoke a conflict with Tang Hao.

If Bibi Dong possessed a Diary Copy, she would likely send Titled Douluo as well. If nothing unexpected happened, it should be Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo.

And with three Titled Douluo present then, Even If they could not take down Tang Hao, Tang Hao would absolutely not dare remain in Nuoding City.

As for Tang San, she did not deliberately mention him and planned to set the matter aside for now.

After all, Spirit Hall dispatching Titled Douluo to capture Tang Hao could be explained with an anonymous letter.

But what about Tang San?

Tang San was Tang Hao's son, yet there was no evidence whatsoever for that.

What if capturing him made Lin Yuan suspicious?

Meanwhile, Lin Yuan's Diary continued:

[Alas, I wonder how Yu Xiaogang and Tang San are doing in Soul Hunting Forest.]

[Just thinking about Yu Xiaogang using that Pig Spirit of his, which only knows how to fart, to help Tang San obtain a Soul Ring is enough to make me lose it.]

[That image is too beautiful. I don't even dare imagine it.]

[Yu Xiaogang really has some nerve. He clearly knows his strength is pathetically weak, yet he still dared to take Tang San deep into the forest alone.]

[It really makes one wonder about his motives.]

[Logically speaking, Yu Xiaogang has lived for so many years. Back Then, he was at least a member of the Golden Iron Triangle. Even if he had never eaten pork, he had seen pigs run. He should have had some damn idea of a hundred-year Soul Beast's strength.]

[Rather than believe he planned to have Tang San absorb that Ten-Year Lone Bamboo, I would sooner say he said that on purpose.]

[He may even have deliberately led Tang San into danger!]

Seeing this, the women secretly reading the diary felt their hearts skip a beat.

Deliberately led him into danger?

For what?

[Simple. So that, in his desperation, Tang San would have no choice but to accept his theoretical experiment!]

[After all, according to the path he planned for Tang San, the first Soul Ring should have come from a tough Plant Martial Soul Soul Beast with poison.]

[That would have been the safest choice.]

[But Yu Xiaogang refused!]

[He wanted to make a big play. He wanted to prove his "Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul"!]

[Except Yu Xiaogang nearly screwed up later. He tried to show off and got slapped in the face instead.]

[He probably never dreamed that, on the outskirts of Soul Hunting Forest, he would luck into encountering a four-hundred-year Mandala Snake!]

[A Soul Beast of that level is incomparably vicious and incredibly fast.]

[Forget him, a Level Twenty-Nine Soul Grand Master. Even some Assault Type Two-Ring Soul Grand Masters might not be able to defeat it one-on-one!]

[And what happened?]

[If Tang San had not been carrying a pile of Hidden Weapons and had Tang Sect Peerless Technique to rely on, this master and disciple duo would have ended up in that snake's belly today!]

Soul Hunting Forest.

"Farts like thunder, shaking heaven and splitting earth—Luo Sanpao!"

Boom!

Amid a deafening blast and a cloud of yellow smoke, a creature that looked like both a pig and a dog shrieked as it was sent flying.

"Luo Luo..."

Luo Sanpao rolled across the ground several times, then looked at his master with grievance in its eyes.

Not far away, the Mandala Snake, its entire body dark green and radiating a foul, fishy stench, flicked its tongue as it stared coldly at the two humans before it.

Yu Xiaogang was in a miserable state. His clothes had been torn by branches, and his face was covered in cold sweat.

"Damn it! How did we run into such a vicious thing?!"

He panicked.

His supposedly proud theories seemed so pale and powerless before absolute strength.

"Xiao San! Run!"

Yu Xiaogang shouted, but his legs gave way, and he nearly fell.

Yet at that very moment, the Mandala Snake suddenly attacked, biting Luo Sanpao on the butt!

"Ah!"

Yu Xiaogang screamed, clutching his own backside as he collapsed to the ground. His face instantly turned deathly pale.

The Martial Soul and Host were linked as one—damage feedback!

He had been poisoned!

[I have to say, external Beast Martial Souls really do have this drawback. They are practically moving targets.]

[The pig gets bitten, and the person suffers along with it.]

[It was only because Tang San had been a master of poison in his past life and detoxified him that this "Master" did not meet his end here today.]

[And now comes the most ridiculous move!]

[After Tang San risked his life to kill the Mandala Snake, Yu Xiaogang actually had Tang San absorb the Mandala Snake's Soul Ring!]

[That's right! He had a Plant Martial Soul absorb the Soul Ring of an animal Soul Beast!]

[Theoretically, this was feasible. As long as the attributes did not clash, the body would not actually explode.]

[But was this the fucking "optimal solution"?]

[This was completely misleading a student!]

Lin Yuan's words surged across the diary, as though one could see the expression on his face, hating iron for not becoming steel.

[Shouldn't Plant Martial Souls be best suited to absorbing Soul Rings from Plant Type Soul Beasts?]

[They share the same origin, their attributes are compatible, there is no rejection during absorption, and it is also best for nourishing the Martial Soul's foundation.]

[People generally believe Beast Soul Rings grant more attributes than Plant Type Soul Rings. That is complete bullshit. It is merely because they have never seen truly high-level Plant Type Soul Beasts.]

[For example, comparing a Ten-Year Lone Bamboo to a Ten-Year Mandala Snake, the latter would definitely grant more attributes. There is no doubt about that.]

[But what if it were a Ten-Year Thunder Hell Vine versus a Ten-Year Mandala Snake? The former would crush the latter!]

[So unless there is an overwhelming difference in cultivation years or bloodline, suitability is what truly matters!]

[And what did the Mandala Snake bring Tang San?]

[First Soul Skill—Entanglement!]

[With a tiny bit of Paralysis Toxin on the side.]

Seeing those words, Lin Yuan immediately switched into mockery mode.

[Does anyone understand this?]

[What is Blue Silver Grass? Grass! Vines!]

[Its instinct is Entanglement!]

[You gave a Martial Soul that already knows how to bind people a skill called "Entanglement"?]

[What is that like?]

[It is like giving a tiger a Soul Ring and getting a Soul Skill called "Bite People"!]

[Isn't that like taking off your pants just to fart—completely redundant?]

[As long as Tang San raised his Soul Power or practiced his control techniques more, this "Entanglement" could have been a Self-Created Soul Skill. There was no need to waste a precious Soul Ring slot on it!]

[And that Paralysis Toxin was garbage too.]

[What was the Mandala Snake's strongest ability? Its lethal neurotoxin!]

[Yu Xiaogang nearly died from one bite, yet after Tang San absorbed it, he inherited nothing more than a harmless "paralysis"?]

[That was like picking up sesame seeds and throwing away a watermelon. What a Big Loss!]

[Yu Xiaogang was somewhat disappointed after learning the result, but he actually thought it was just bad luck?]

[Big Brother, you got the whole direction wrong!]

[Following his current approach, if he had absorbed a four-hundred-year Ghost Vine or Poison Vine instead.]

[Not only could he have gained potent poison, he could have greatly increased Blue Silver Grass's toughness, and might even have gained skills like Parasitism or Piercing. As for Entanglement, that would have come as a bonus!]

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