Datura Snake

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

The Datura Snake is a massive purple-black serpent with dark-violet slit pupils. Its scales are hard enough to withstand a thrown stone without meaningful injury. 24

• Coils in trees before striking prey. 24
• Flicks its tongue and hisses sharply; saliva drips from its mouth when it targets prey. 24
• Travels close to the ground at high speed when pursuing prey. 24
• After fighting the Six-Winged Frost Centipede, its body is covered in bloody ice-spike wounds, exposed flesh, black-red scabs, and frost. 25

Abilities & Traits

Venom and Toughness

Yu Xiaogang identifies the Datura Snake as possessing both exceptional toughness and venom, making it a highly suitable first soul ring for Tang San's Blue Silver Grass. Its soul ring is expected to provide poison and paralysis-related abilities. 23 24

• Its scales are compared to metal and stone in hardness. 24
• Its bite leaves black fang marks and injects venom potent enough to weaken the Six-Winged Frost Centipede. 25 29
• Its durability is ultimately bypassed when Tang San blinds it with bone-piercing needles and stabs a vital point with a dagger. 27

Relentless Pursuit

The Datura Snake is described as extremely vengeful and pursues Ao Yin deep into the Hunting Soul Forest after being provoked. 24 25

• It pursues Ao Yin after he strikes its head with a stone, despite receiving no meaningful injury from the attack. 24
• It continues chasing Ao Yin into the forest's core despite the distance traveled, contradicting Yu Xiaogang's claim that Datura Snakes have limited patience. 24 25
• Ao Yin exploits this fixation by leading it into the territory of a Six-Winged Frost Centipede. 25

History

Yu Xiaogang locates traces of the 422-year-old Datura Snake and presents it to Ao Yin as a possible first soul ring, while privately intending it for Tang San instead. Yu Xiaogang plans to use Ao Yin as bait to weaken the creature, allowing Tang San to deliver the final blow. 23 When the serpent appears, Ao Yin provokes it with a stone, then escapes using Mist Step; the enraged beast pursues him. 24

Ao Yin deliberately leads the Datura Snake into a danger zone inhabited by a 654-year Six-Winged Frost Centipede. The two soul beasts clash, leaving both severely injured: the Datura Snake suffers deep ice-spike wounds, while the centipede is bitten and poisoned. 25

The wounded serpent later confronts Tang San and Yu Xiaogang. Tang San blinds it with bone-piercing needles, then kills it by stabbing its vital point. 27 Although a yellow 422-year soul ring rises from its corpse, Ao Yin's system claims it as the “Son of Destiny's Soul Ring”; Ao Yin then crushes the ring rather than absorb it, permanently denying Tang San the Datura Snake's soul ring. 27

Tang San later insists to Yu Xiaogang that he personally killed the Datura Snake and that its soul ring nevertheless flew to Ao Yin, but Yu Xiaogang cannot accept this account and suspects Tang San is lying. 29

Relationships

• Ao Yin — Provoked and pursued Ao Yin through the Hunting Soul Forest; Ao Yin used it to distract the Six-Winged Frost Centipede, then later destroyed its stolen soul ring. 24 25 27
• Tang San — Tang San kills the badly injured snake in pursuit of his first soul ring, but loses that ring to Ao Yin's system. His subsequent account of the ring being taken is dismissed by Yu Xiaogang. 27 29
• Yu Xiaogang — Identifies the snake as a 422-year-old venomous and tough soul beast suitable for Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, while intending to use Ao Yin to weaken it for Tang San. 23 24
• Six-Winged Frost Centipede — Fights the centipede after Ao Yin leads it into the centipede's territory; both are severely wounded, and the snake's venom leaves the centipede poisoned. 25