Tang San Kills His Master

"Xiao San, take out a few White Radishes from the Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night I gave you and feed them to San Pao."

Master spoke somewhat listlessly.

"Alright, Teacher." Tang San nodded.

He reached into the Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night, took out the White Radishes he had prepared beforehand, and tossed them to the martial soul Luo San Pao lying at Master's feet.

"Dodo!"

At the sight of the White Radishes, Luo San Pao immediately became thrilled. He picked them up and quickly devoured every last bit.

Tang San could not help feeling embarrassed. Now he understood why Master had brought him to buy White Radishes. They had been for his martial soul.

Still, watching Luo San Pao eat the White Radishes, Tang San could not help asking curiously, "Teacher, does San Pao have to eat White Radishes every time he uses his... fart... uh, Soul Skill?"

Master's stiff face changed slightly at those words. With a bitter smile, he said, "San Pao's means of attack is farting. White Radishes are very useful for stimulating farts. After San Pao eats a few White Radishes, he can quickly replenish his energy, and the number of times he can use his Soul Skills will recover faster as well."

"That works too?" Tang San wanted to laugh, but seeing the bitterness in Master's eyes, he forcefully held it back.

A dignified Martial Soul Theory Master could speak so confidently, yet his martial soul attacked by farting. How awkward and explosive would that be in the world of Soul Masters?

But at the end of the day, Master himself was simply too useless. If his talent had been even slightly better, his martial soul would not have undergone a Malignant Mutation due to insufficient Innate Soul Power. As for his so-called martial soul theories, after studying for so many years, what did he know besides recognizing a few Soul Beasts?

If he knew that his lack of talent had caused his martial soul to mutate, anyone would have tried every possible means to find a solution, wouldn't they?

"Lulu, lulu..." Just then, Luo San Pao suddenly let out urgent cries.

The surroundings abruptly fell silent. A faint rustling sound clearly reached Tang San's ears, and he vaguely smelled a trace of fishiness and sweetness in the air.

The instant he caught that scent, Tang San blurted out, "Teacher, be careful. It seems to be something poisonous."

Immediately afterward, Tang San activated the Mysterious Heaven Skill and pushed his Purple Demon Eyes to their limit, looking toward the source of the sound. Vaguely, he saw an ink-green triangular snake head rise from the bushes, its ruby-like eyes fixed on them.

"Teacher, it's a snake!" Tang San warned Master. He swiftly took a Fire Starter from the Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night and threw it at the triangular snake head that had emerged.

The Fire Starter ignited in the wind, illuminating the area shrouded in darkness.

"This is bad. It's actually a Mandala Snake!" By the light, Master saw the snake head clearly and said gravely, "With that old fellow Mano not here, running into this Mandala Snake means we're truly unlucky."

"Teacher, what should we do?" Tang San asked in a low voice.

"Xiao San, do as I taught you. Run!" Master shouted.

Meanwhile, after sorting out his thoughts, Cheng Xiao made his way toward the outskirts of the Soul Hunting Forest. Along the way, he encountered the severely injured Headmaster Mano.

Seeing that Cheng Xiao was unharmed, Mano asked where Tang San and his master had gone. After all, the three of them had initially fled together. Now that he only saw Cheng Xiao, as the headmaster, he had to ask.

Faced with Mano's question, Cheng Xiao immediately recalled how Tang San, in order to escape with his teacher, had wanted to leave him behind to deal with the Soul Beast. If he had not been an outsider, someone else might truly have died inexplicably in the jaws of that Soul Beast.

Taking a deep breath, Cheng Xiao chose to conceal the matter. Even if he told Mano the truth, Mano might not believe him. Setting aside Master's relationship with him, Mano would not believe Tang San could have done such a thing.

What kind of six-year-old child would do something like that? Children on Douluo Continent only awakened their martial souls at the age of six. Could a child who had just awakened a martial soul commit such a beastly act? Obviously not. But could Tang San not? How could that be possible?

After Cheng Xiao bluffed his way through the journey with a mixture of truth and lies, Headmaster Mano believed that the three had become separated. After all, he himself had stayed behind to cover their retreat, and he knew very well how powerful that Nether Demon Wolf had been.

Thus, believing Cheng Xiao's words, Mano prepared to leave the Soul Hunting Forest and call for help. But as the two passed through a silent stretch of trees, they heard a shout.

"What was that?" Mano froze for a moment and looked toward the source of the sound.

"Xiao San, run!"

"It's Master and Tang San!" Upon hearing the voice, Mano hurriedly rushed over.

Seeing this, Cheng Xiao helplessly shrugged and followed after him.

Following the source of the voice through the trees, the two indeed saw Master and Tang San. However, opposite them, a snake Soul Beast flicking its tongue was staring at the pair.

"It's a Mandala Snake!" Mano recognized the Soul Beast. He had not expected this soul hunt to be so unlucky. First, they had encountered a mutated Nether Wolf and barely escaped with their lives, and now they had run into a hundred-year Mandala Snake. Their luck was so bad that they must not have checked the almanac before leaving home.

"Xiao San, Master, run over here! Let's get out of here!"

The sudden shout stunned Tang San and Master, who had been preparing to face the Mandala Snake. Both turned toward the source of the voice and saw Mano waving at them, still shouting for them to run.

But the Mandala Snake clearly had no intention of letting these two weak prey escape. Its body contracted, then it sprang toward Tang San beside Master. For some reason, although Master was a Two-Ring Soul Master, this child without any soul rings gave it a sense of danger.

"This is bad. It's coming for me." Tang San's gaze turned cold. He drove the Mysterious Heaven Skill through his legs, flexed his leg muscles, and leaped into the air. His body spun midair as his left hand secretly rose. A sharp black gleam shot forth—it was the Tang Sect Hidden Weapon in his left hand, the Silent Sleeve Arrow!

The Mandala Snake forcefully halted its charging body. Before it could assume a defensive posture, the swiftly fired black gleam had already pierced its left eye.

Its eye in pain, the Mandala Snake wildly flicked its tongue, as though that could ease the agony in its eye. But soon, Tang San fired several more sleeve arrows straight at the Mandala Snake's vital points.

Having suffered once already, the Mandala Snake dodged the incoming sleeve arrows. Just as it was about to move, it saw that Tang San had already approached it with a Short Sword in hand.

What the Mandala Snake did not know was that before approaching it, Tang San had already concentrated all the power of the Mysterious Heaven Skill within him into the Short Sword. Blue light flickered in his palm as he rapidly closed in on the Mandala Snake with the aid of Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.

The Mandala Snake opened its jaws, intending to swallow Tang San, but Tang San's movements were nimble. Seizing the opportunity, he plunged his sword into its open mouth.

The next moment, the Mandala Snake's body convulsed violently. Unwillingly, it swept its tail at Tang San, only for him to evade it again with his strange footwork.

Seeing Tang San make such a dangerous move, Master hurriedly shouted, "Xiao San, come back quickly! It's too dangerous."

After thrusting out with all his strength, Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to quickly pull away from the Mandala Snake's tail attack. Upon hearing Master's call, he deliberately stumbled and fell to the ground.

At that moment, Tang San had only one thought: Master and Headmaster Mano had both seen everything he had done. His soul did not belong to this world, and they could not be allowed to know what he had just used. Then the only option was to make sure they could never speak again.

Originally, after seeing Mano, Tang San had not planned to use Tang Sect techniques. But seeing that he had not come forward to help and instead told the two of them to run, Tang San concluded that he must have been seriously injured. Otherwise, he would never have told them to flee.

It was precisely this assumption that gave Tang San the idea of killing the two to silence them. He believed that with the speed and power of the Tang Sect's Hidden Weapon, the Silent Sleeve Arrow, killing two injured people would be effortless.