They didn't linger. The Shi Brothers and Zhu Zhuqing had found their Soul Rings, so the group set off straight back to Heaven Dou City.
Xuan Qing needed a thunder-and-wood-type draconic Soul Beast with at least forty thousand years of cultivation. Given the conditions in Sunset Forest, finding one with a thunder attribute might still have been possible.
But a wood attribute was out of the question. He could only go to Star Dou Forest, so he hadn't achieved his goal on this Soul Hunting trip.
Meanwhile, the Shrek group who'd been kicked away—perhaps because Tang San's destiny as the child of fortune had kicked in—
had fallen into a hidden fissure in the earth. A whole other world lay inside.
Ma Hongjun and Liu Erlong used flames to burn through the ropes, and the group began investigating the place.
They discovered that it was an empty tomb. The inscription on the tombstone identified its owner as a Titled Douluo from several thousand years ago.
With no descendants of his own, he had left behind his insights into poison, along with some of his belongings.
Tang San immediately brushed the dirt aside. There was indeed a jade box. When he opened it, he found three more layers inside, with a book bound in some unknown beast hide at the very center.
Absolute Heaven Poison Scripture
He opened the book. Its first words were:
Remember! Remember!
Only the ultimate can withstand the ultimate. Anyone who discovers this scripture must remember this forever.
For those with an Ultimate Attribute are naturally immune to all poison.
If you encounter the ultimate, run!
When I became a Titled Douluo, I once went to the Far North in search of a creature with a cold poison. There, I encountered a scorpion-type Soul Beast, its entire