Thousand-Year Pumo Willow, Tang San's Second Spirit Ability!

The group continued to venture deeper.

With Ye Zhilan and Granny Yan leading the way, the efficiency of searching for spirit beasts increased significantly.

About half a day passed.

Tang Yin, accompanied by Tang San, followed Ye Zhilan, Granny Yan, and Ye Lingling to a shaded valley.

The light in the valley was dim and the air was heavy with moisture, fostering the growth of many shade-loving plants.

Suddenly, Granny Yan stopped in her tracks as if she had discovered something. She looked in a certain direction and said in a deep voice.

"Family Head, there is a strong life fluctuation over there, mixed with a dark aura. It appears to be a plant-type spirit beast, and its age should be over a thousand years!"

"Let's go, let's take a look!"

Hearing this, Ye Zhilan felt a stir and led the group over.

Upon approaching, Tang Yin quickly saw it clearly through his martial soul, Purple Demon Eye.

In the deepest part of the valley, near the rock wall, grew an extremely bizarre willow tree.

The willow was dark purple throughout, its trunk twisted like a coiling dragon, and its bark was covered in eerie patterns that resembled faces twisted in pain.

Its branches were not the soft, emerald green of ordinary willows, but rather resembled dark purple venomous snakes, swaying slowly in the air with tips that flickered with a gloomy light.

Most striking of all was the tree's crown; in addition to being covered in willow leaves, it bore countless grayish-white, dandelion-like tufts.

"This is... a Pumo Willow!"

Ye Zhilan recognized the spirit beast, her voice carrying a hint of gravity.

"The Pumo Willow is a dark-attribute plant-type spirit beast with extremely tenacious vitality and high aggression."

"Its willow branches are incredibly tough with immense piercing power, and... it possesses a terrifying parasitic ability."

"Look at those willow catkins on its crown. Once they touch another living being, they will frantically burrow into the body to drain flesh, blood, and spirit power. It is a very troublesome spirit beast."

"However, the vitality of this Pumo Willow is also extremely tenacious!"

"Once those parasitic catkins attach to another living being, they can absorb its flesh, blood, and spirit power to nourish the host itself."

"In a way, it also possesses a recovery ability."

"Little Yin, what do you think about using this Pumo Willow as the target for Little San's second spirit ring?"

Ye Zhilan couldn't help but look at Tang Yin and Tang San as she asked.

Along the way, through their interactions, Tang Yin and Tang San had already changed their address for Ye Zhilan to Aunt Ye.

And since Ye Zhilan had intended to befriend Tang Yin and Tang San from the start, she naturally changed her address for them to Little Yin and Little San.

"Big Brother, what do you think?"

At this moment, Tang San looked at Tang Yin and asked with great trust.

In his heart, his Big Brother was the future leader of the Tang Sect and his elder brother, possessing wisdom, strategy, and foresight far exceeding his own.

Therefore, regarding the target for his second spirit ring, Tang San trusted Tang Yin unconditionally.

"This is the one!"

After pondering for a moment, Tang Yin made the decision immediately.

Because in the original story, among the series of trash spirit skills that Gangzi chose for his younger brother Tang San, the only useful one was the second spirit skill: Parasitic Seed!

Although it was possible that this second spirit skill, Parasitic Seed, wasn't necessarily chosen by Yu Xiaogang for his brother, but perhaps by the dean of Notting Academy, its effect was quite good in Tang Yin's eyes.

The most powerful aspect of this Pumo Willow was its parasitic ability.

If his brother Tang San absorbed its spirit ring, he would certainly be able to obtain the Parasitic Seed spirit skill!

Moreover, the effect of this Parasitic Seed skill, compared to the one in the original story that only grew new Blue Silver Grass, would likely also include the ability to drain the enemy's spirit power and life force to nourish oneself.

It perfectly fit the Extreme Life Flow system that Tang Yin had designed for Tang San.

At the same time, the branches of the Pumo Willow were extremely tough and highly aggressive.

If he could absorb its spirit ring, it would surely greatly enhance the toughness of his brother Tang San's Blue Silver Grass martial soul!

Furthermore, if his brother Tang San's second spirit skill was Parasitic Seed, and the effect allowed him to release parasitic seeds similar to the Pumo Willow's catkins, Tang Yin couldn't help but feel that if his brother practiced well and learned to precisely control these seeds to drain the power within an enemy, it might even become one of the ways to resolve the Dugu family's Jade Phosphorus Poison.

Therefore, this Pumo Willow was undoubtedly quite suitable for his brother Tang San!

"Good! I'll listen to Big Brother!"

"Aunt Ye, let's go with this Pumo Willow!"

Upon hearing Tang Yin's final decision, Tang San nodded firmly and spoke to Ye Zhilan.

"Granny Yan!"

Hearing this, Ye Zhilan turned her gaze toward Granny Yan.

The next moment, Granny Yan strode forward and let out a loud shout, summoning her Flame Eagle martial soul for Martial Soul Possession. A pair of crimson wings unfurled behind her back, and seven soul rings—two yellow, two purple, and three black—emerged beneath her feet.

This Granny Yan was, in fact, a powerful Soul Saint!

"Third Soul Skill: Chain Fireball!"

In an instant, as Granny Yan activated her soul skill, multiple crimson fireballs condensed and slammed into the Pumo Willow.

Although this Pumo Willow possessed extremely tenacious vitality.

It was clearly unable to withstand a soul skill unleashed by a Soul Saint-level powerhouse.

Consequently, it was soon scorched pitch-black, its slender, tough willow branches twisting frantically as if in the struggle and rage of a dying creature.

But in the end, it was all to no avail.

Once the Pumo Willow was burned down to its very last shred of life.

Granny Yan stepped forward to confirm it no longer had the strength to resist, then produced a large blade and instructed Tang San to cut the Pumo Willow down.

After taking the blade.

Tang San swung it and severed the Pumo Willow.

Immediately, a large amount of purple light particles drifted out, forming a purple thousand-year soul ring.

Afterward, Tang San sat cross-legged beside the charred remains of the Pumo Willow.

Summoning his Blue Silver Grass martial soul, he began to circulate his Mysterious Heaven Skill, drawing the thousand-year soul ring of the Pumo Willow toward him and settling it onto his Blue Silver Grass to begin the process of absorption and refinement.

Nearby, Ye Zhilan was extremely nervous.

Although she had seen Tang Yin absorb a thousand-year soul ring and create a miracle before.

Absorbing a thousand-year ring as a second soul ring was, after all, far too rare.

This left Ye Zhilan constantly prepared to summon her Nine-Heart Begonia martial soul to provide healing should Tang San encounter any trouble.

Yet, despite the fact that Tang San's physical constitution was much weaker than Tang Yin's.

The Pumo Willow, even as a dark-attribute plant-type soul beast, was ultimately a plant-type; the violence of the soul power released by its ring was far less intense than that of the Vajra Overlord Tiger's soul ring.

Therefore, although Tang San's brow furrowed in pain during the absorption process, he gritted his teeth and persisted.

He successfully completed the absorption of the thousand-year Pumo Willow soul ring.

This left Ye Lingling, who was watching from the side, feeling incredibly shocked.

This Tang San actually succeeded in absorbing a thousand-year soul ring too?

For a moment, Ye Lingling couldn't help but look at Tang Yin, her heart filled with curiosity and shock.

Is this Thunder Body Tempering secret technique created by Tang Yin really that powerful?

It can actually allow someone to absorb a thousand-year ring as their second soul ring!

"Big Brother, I succeeded!"

Having successfully absorbed the thousand-year Pumo Willow soul ring, Tang San opened his eyes, filled with excitement and joy, and stood up from the ground.

Afterward, upon testing his second soul skill.

The second soul skill was, just as Tang Yin had anticipated, Parasite!

Its effect was to release parasitic spores; once they landed on an enemy and were activated, they would grow into willow-like Parasitic Seeds that burrowed into the enemy's flesh, draining their soul power and vitality to feed back into Tang San.

At the same time, Tang San could also cause the Parasitic Seeds to sprout new Blue Silver Grass.

This effect could be described as quite formidable!

It was far more perfect than the effect of the second soul skill, Parasite, from the original timeline!

Following Tang Yin's suggestion.

Tang San named his second soul skill: Parasitic Seed!