"Forget it. We admit defeat."
Chao Tianxiang sighed softly and joined Zhao Wuji in stepping in to stop the two of them.
She accepted her loss gracefully and prepared to leave with Meng Yiran. Before going, she shot Tang San and Oscar a fierce glare.
Oscar successfully absorbed the Soul Ring and entered the Soul Elder rank.
Dai Mubai urged him to show off his third Soul Skill. Oscar looked embarrassed as he recited the incantation: "I Have a Mushroom Sausage."
A sausage topped with a mushroom-shaped cap appeared in his hand, and everyone burst into laughter.
Oscar said irritably, "It lets me fly at the same speed as the Cockscomb Serpent for one minute!"
[Pagoda Suppresses River Demon: That Soul Skill looks lecherous, but it can actually fly!]
[6G Sky Wing: Oscar really does count as a genius, but unfortunately, he's aboard Shrek's busted ship and he's also a simp. As for Tang San, he didn't win in any honorable way. It was just the advantage of his cultivation technique—he only won because he had more stamina. When it comes to actual combat skills with his Martial Soul, he's still pretty crude.]
The video wasn't over yet. The scene shifted, and Tang San sat cross-legged as the Soul Power inside him suddenly surged. He had actually broken through to level thirty during his match with Meng Yiran! He opened his eyes and said, "Teacher Zhao, we can't leave. I need a Soul Ring too."
Zhao Wuji's eyes widened in disbelief. "What did you say? Level thirty at twelve years and seven months?" After confirming it, he immediately decided they would stay in the forest and search for a Soul Ring for Tang San.
[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: Time for some scorching commentary! Dragon Duke and Snake Matriarch are complete old scoundrels. When they can't win, they start arguing; when they can't win an argument, they compare the kids. And when they realize their kid can't win either, they have no choice but to accept defeat. As for Tang San, he's back to his favorite trick, "playing the pig to eat the tiger." He could've ended the match sooner, but instead he made it perilous at every turn. What a hypocrite. And then there's Zhao Wuji. He knows the Star Dou Forest is dangerous, but the moment Tang San breaks through, he changes the plan on the spot. So much for a steady teacher leading the group.]
(200 Emotion Points from 6G Sky Wing's scorn)
Ye Qiong immediately played the third video.
[Ping! Group Owner "Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero" uploaded a video file: <A Journey Through the Star Dou Forest (3): The Forest King's Arrival>]
The scene shifted to nighttime. The group had set up temporary tents to rest, and Zhao Wuji was on watch. Suddenly, Zhao Wuji's expression changed. He yanked Tang San behind him, and his Martial Soul, the Vajra Bear, instantly possessed him. "Everyone, get out of the tents! Now!"
The students scrambled out of the tents. They saw two enormous trees slowly part, revealing a towering figure as vast as a mountain. Its body was jet-black, and although it stood on all fours, its shoulders were over seven meters high. Its lantern-sized eyes gleamed like yellow crystal. It was the forest king, the Titan Giant Ape!
[First Cute Bunny: Ah! The Titan Giant Ape! It's a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!]
The terrifying presence made everyone inside and outside the video hold their breath.
Zhao Wuji said gravely, "Honorable Forest King, we mean you no offense. We'll leave your territory at once."
The Titan Giant Ape gave no response. It took one step forward, and the distance between them shrank in an instant.
"I'll hold it off. Eat Oscar's Mushroom Sausages and get out of here!" Zhao Wuji gritted his teeth. The seven Soul Rings on his body lit up, and four flashed at once. Gravity Control and Gravity Crush activated, and he unleashed the Vajra Palm with all his might.
But the moment his palm struck the Titan Giant Ape's head, he was sent flying like a cannonball.
Dai Mubai charged at the Titan Giant Ape's foreleg with White Tiger Vajra Transformation. Ning Rongrong immediately summoned the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda. "Seven Treasures Famous, first: strength! Second: speed!"
Four beams of light landed on Zhao Wuji and Dai Mubai.
Tang San's Blue Silver Grass surged wildly, coiling around the Titan Giant Ape's forelegs. Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, and Xiao Wu attacked as well, but against such an overwhelming difference in power, their attacks were as useless as clay chickens and pottery dogs. They were all sent flying, the Blue Silver Grass snapped strand by strand, and Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Fire Line even curled back and burned him.
In the video, the instant Xiao Wu saw the Titan Giant Ape, her face turned deathly pale and her body trembled uncontrollably.
And the Titan Giant Ape's target seemed to be Xiao Wu!
[Pagoda Suppresses River Demon: Xiao Wu! Dodge!]
[First Cute Bunny: Th-this is the Titan Giant Ape! How could we run into a Soul Beast of this level?!]
Seeing this, Xiao Wu went deathly pale, but she forced herself not to call out "Er Ming."
The group was a mixed bag. Aside from the Group Owner, who already knew her identity, and Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, she couldn't let anyone else learn the secret that she was a Soul Beast.
The video continued. Tang San's eyes were bloodshot as he roared, "Let Xiao Wu go!" He sent more than ten Hidden Weapons straight toward the Titan Giant Ape's eyes.
But the Titan Giant Ape merely lowered its eyelids, and every Hidden Weapon was blocked.
It rose upright, dodged Zhao Wuji's lunge, and leaped away with Xiao Wu in its grasp. After a few bounds, it vanished deep into the woods.
"Xiao Wu!" Zhao Wuji cried out, but it was too late to catch up.
Blood trickled from the corner of Tang San's mouth. He forced himself to his feet despite the pain, and Oscar handed him two sausages. After eating them, Tang San's injuries eased somewhat. He then leaned close to Oscar's ear and whispered, "Xiao Ao, give me a Mushroom Sausage. Don't tell anyone."
Oscar was startled, and Tang San pleaded, "If it were your little sister who'd been taken, what would you do? Even if there's only the faintest hope, I have to try."
Oscar sighed and recited the incantation: "I Have a Mushroom Sausage."
Tang San took the sausage and ate it. Six phantom wings unfolded behind him.
Just then, Ning Rongrong's voice rang out. "Seven Treasures Famous, second: speed!" A beam of rainbow light fell on Tang San.
Tang San gave her a long look. Ignoring Zhao Wuji's attempts to stop him, he flew as fast as he could toward the direction the Titan Giant Ape had disappeared.
[Most Beautiful Pope: Foolish.]
[6G Sky Wing: Tang San abandons his team and puts his own life at risk for a woman, acting on impulse. He doesn't understand that keeping himself safe is their best chance of bringing their companion back.]
[Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero: His love-addled brain trumps everything. For Xiao Wu, he leaves his teacher and teammates behind to worry themselves sick. And this is supposed to be the team's core? Bah! Of course, this Titan Giant Ape isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed either.]
(200 Emotion Points from First Cute Bunny's displeasure)
(250 Emotion Points from Most Beautiful Pope's contempt)
Ye Qiong paid no mind to the displeasure someone had shown over his mocking Er Ming and continued revealing the future.
[Ping! Group Owner "Galaxy Baseball Bat Hero" uploaded a video file: <A Journey Through the Star Dou Forest (4): A Hollow Victory>]
In the video, Tang San flew onward using the Mushroom Sausage, but when the minute of flight was up, he still lost the Titan Giant Ape's trail.
Unwilling to give up, he pressed on as his strength gradually drained away. Just as he leaned against a tree to rest, a rustling sound reached him. A black spider over one and a half meters in diameter appeared. Its eight legs were over three meters long, and white markings on its abdomen formed a savage human face. It was a Man Faced Demon Spider, and both its eyes were already damaged. It had clearly been wounded.
Tang San judged that the Man Faced Demon Spider had already sprayed its web three times and couldn't use it again that day. This was his chance.
He took out the Black Box with his left hand and quickly worked its mechanism with his right. Dozens of Hidden Weapons shot toward the Man Faced Demon Spider's eyes. Then, instead of retreating, he rushed forward, summoned a small black hammer, and swung it with all his might at the spider's chest. When its body lifted, he fired sixteen dark shadows from the Black Box, hitting all eight of its eyes with pinpoint accuracy.
The Man Faced Demon Spider let out a bloodcurdling shriek. After struggling for a moment, it fell still, and a blue-violet Soul Ring slowly took shape.
Just as Tang San was about to recover his strength and absorb the Soul Ring, three figures appeared...
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