"Thousand-Year Lone Bamboo!"
Tang San's eyes lit up.
He remembered what his teacher had told him when they entered the Soul Hunting Forest: Lone Bamboo was tough. Absorbing it could greatly increase the resilience of his Blue Silver Grass, and it posed no threat at all.
"If even a Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo could have that effect..."
Thoughts raced through Tang San's mind, and his breathing quickened.
"If I can absorb this Thousand-Year Lone Bamboo's Soul Ring, then my Blue Silver Grass..."
At that thought, he could no longer hide the fire in his eyes. "This Thousand-Year Lone Bamboo is mine!"
Bracing himself against a tree trunk, he slowly rose. Fighting through the aches wracking his body, he drew a sharp dagger from his waist, channeled Soul Power into it, and struck at the bamboo's roots without hesitation.
At the same time, at the temporary camp on the forest's outskirts.
A nimble figure in pink came skipping out of the Dense Forest, unharmed, and gradually appeared before everyone.
Ning Rongrong's eyes widened. Looking as though she had seen a ghost, she stammered, "X-Xiao Wu! Are you alive or a ghost?!"
At her cry, Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, and the others turned. Their gazes snapped to the girl in pink, their pupils contracting in disbelief.
Xiao Wu had come back?
The Titan Giant Ape had taken her, yet she had returned alive?
And she looked completely unharmed!
How was that possible?
Only Sword Douluo Chen Xin had a look in his eyes that said it was just as he had expected.
Xiao Wu's back. What about that little rascal Ning Wen?
Xiao Wu blinked her big, adorable eyes. Faced with everyone staring at her, she tilted her head in puzzlement. "What's wrong? Why is everyone looking at me like that?"
"Xiao