Oh No, I've Been Marked with the Way of Seeking Death (Trying It Out, Please Keep Reading)

Having personally witnessed the birth of a genius, Su Yuntao and the others felt honored as well.

He stepped forward and patted Lin Nuo on the shoulder, his tone becoming far more cordial.

"Brother Lin Nuo, once we get out, come back to the Spirit Hall branch with us to register.

We'll test your exact Soul Power, and you can take care of the Soul Master registration while we're at it.

Now that you're a One-Ring Soul Master, you can collect one Gold Soul Coin in Soul Master subsidies from Spirit Hall every month."

For a terrifyingly gifted prodigy like this, it was enough to build a good relationship. Trying to recruit him by force would only be beneath them.

"Understood. Thanks, Brother Tao."

Lin Nuo nodded with a smile.

After a brief rest, the four of them followed their original route and withdrew toward the edge of the forest.

This was, after all, Soul Beast territory. No one wanted unnecessary trouble.

Just then, a shriek like a pig being slaughtered suddenly rang out from the depths of the woods not far away—

"Ahhhhhh—"

Along with the scream came a somewhat childish but vicious curse.

"You damned beast! You dared hurt my teacher. You have already entered the Way of Seeking Death!"

Hm?

That little bastard Tang San and Master Yu?

The familiar line made Lin Nuo pause.

Those two had actually failed while hunting the Datura Snake?

His group had set out so much later, yet they had still run into them. Interesting.

Lin Nuo silently mocked them. The fact that this ridiculous master and disciple pair had not yet been eaten as dessert by the Datura Snake was surely the result of the ancestors of the Clear Sky Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan watching over them from heaven.

"Yuntao, something's happening. Should we go take a look?"

Si Si stopped warily and looked to him for an answer.

Logically speaking, Spirit Hall held jurisdiction over the Soul Hunting Forest, and protecting the personal safety of low-level Soul Masters was part of their duty.

But they had just gone through a fierce battle, and none of them were in peak condition.

"Lin Nuo, what do you think?"

Su Yuntao turned to ask him.

At that, Lin Nuo shook his head like a rattle drum.

Was that even a question?

Go save Tang San?

Not to mention that, as the child of destiny, he would not be so easy to kill.

Just Third Brother's reputation in the original story alone was already practically authoritative.

Did they understand the true value of repaying a drop of water with a surging spring?

Lin Nuo felt that if he went and saved that little bastard, not only would Tang San fail to thank him, he would probably blame their group for arriving so late.

For nearly allowing him and his teacher to fall into a life-or-death crisis?

Then, immediately afterward, he would silently mark their entire group with the Way of Seeking Death.

Either way, it was the Way of Seeking Death. Not even a dog would meddle in this business.

"Brother Tao, that doesn't sound right.

We should get out as soon as possible, so we don't stir up more trouble."

Seeing Lin Nuo put it that way, Su Yuntao and the others immediately decided not to meddle further. Protecting him, they quickly retreated toward the forest exit.

Yet none of them noticed that, in the direction the screams had come from, a pair of eyes glowing with an eerie purple light was staring fixedly at their retreating backs.

Behind a thicket a hundred meters away, Tang San was gasping for breath.

Through the range of his Purple Demon Eye, he could see Lin Nuo's departing figure with perfect clarity.

After all, that head of eerie reddish-purple hair was simply too conspicuous in the Soul Hunting Forest.

"Damn it! That figure just now looked like Lin Nuo?!"

"He clearly heard me calling for help. Why wouldn't he even come over for one look? He actually just ran away?!"

"He really is evil by nature! Unforgivable!"

"Back at Nuoding Academy, Teacher even wanted to accept him as a disciple and have him pursue the Great Dao alongside me!"

"Now it seems that this brat stood by and watched others die. He has already entered the Way of Seeking Death!"

Tang San's heart burned with fury, and he even came to resent Yu Xiaogang, who had just been swallowed whole.

He had boasted to the heavens when Tang San became his disciple. Tang San had thought he was a hidden expert, but not only was his Martial Soul a pig that could do nothing but fart, he did not possess the slightest bit of combat ability.

He had been swallowed by the Datura Snake the instant they met!

"Forget it..." Tang San gritted his teeth, cold light flickering in his eyes. "No matter what, Gangzi and I have the reality of a master-disciple bond.

On Douluo Continent, a person could only take one master in a lifetime. I have remained pure and spotless through two lifetimes of life. If I abandoned him now, I would surely bear infamy for the rest of my life."

What was more, the Datura Snake with the bulging belly was flicking its tongue right now, its cold triangular eyes already locked firmly onto him.

Today, they had to fight!

"Beast, die!"

Tang San stopped hiding. His hands instantly turned the warm, jade-like color of cold jade, and with Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track beneath his feet, he became an afterimage rushing straight at the Datura Snake.

Master Yu had only been swallowed moments ago, and his belly was still writhing, which meant he was not completely dead yet.

The Datura Snake reacted swiftly. A foul wind rushed into Tang San's face as its gaping jaws opened again, intending to use the same trick and swallow this human cub as well.

Clang—

The crisp sound of metal striking metal echoed through the forest.

A trace of human-like astonishment flashed through the Datura Snake's vertical pupils. Its certain bite had been forcibly stopped by Tang San's jade-colored hands, which held its upper and lower jaws apart!

Then a nauseating stench rushed over him.

Tang San fought down the urge to vomit and pricked up his ears. He could faintly hear Yu Xiaogang's weak whimpering from inside the snake's belly.

"Now!"

Tang San's gaze sharpened. He decisively pulled out the killing weapon he had crafted from the storage belt Gangzi had given him: the Zhuge Crossbow!

As the mechanism of the Hidden Weapon was cocked, Tang San decisively fired at point-blank range!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

In an instant, more than ten steel crossbow bolts gleaming with cold light poured into the Datura Snake's wide-open mouth from zero range, instantly piercing deep into its body.

"Hisssah—!"

The severe internal wounds drove the Datura Snake completely mad. Its body, as thick as a water barrel, rolled and writhed wildly across the clearing.

This was agony for Master Yu, who was still inside the snake's belly.

Gangzi only felt the gastric fluids churning like stormy seas, his organs nearly shifting out of place, as though he could see his great-grandmother beckoning to him.

Then an incredibly absurd scene unfolded.

As the Datura Snake painfully contracted and spasmed, Yu Xiaogang inside its belly was forced to slide toward the snake's tail as though he were toothpaste being squeezed from a tube.

Under Tang San's dumbfounded gaze, a huge bulge suddenly swelled at the Datura Snake's tail.

With a muffled squelch, Yu Xiaogang's sexy Flat-top was forcibly squeezed out from the Datura Snake's tail!

A strand of indescribably sticky filth sat atop his Flat-top, giving off waves of suffocating stench.

At that moment, the Datura Snake seemed to have exhausted its last shred of strength as well. It collapsed stiffly onto the ground, unable to move.

Then, a yellow Soul Ring slowly emerged.

"Te... Teacher?"

Tang San was completely dumbstruck. There was actually such an expert?

He considered himself well-traveled and knowledgeable after living two lives, yet he had never seen such an explosive entrance.