The Supplier of Tang San's First Soul Ring

The interior of the Soul Hunting Forest was quiet, with young soul beasts occasionally darting through it. Hu Liena and Qin Chao walked hand in hand, now and then discussing the habits of one soul beast or another. They genuinely wanted to make the world a better place. Perhaps this was the hot-blooded passion that belonged to youth alone...

As dusk fell, Hu Liena took a tent out of her Soul Tool. Insects chirped and birds called around them, making everything seem peaceful and lovely.

"Sister Nana, there's only one tent. Let's take turns keeping watch tonight..."

Without Chrysanthemum Douluo nearby, Qin Chao had become much more cautious. This wasn't the Star Dou Great Forest; the black hair Xiao Wu had given him probably wouldn't work here...

"No need. I have this!" Hu Liena pulled a jade bottle from her Soul Tool. "Chrysanthemum Douluo knew you wanted to explore the Soul Hunting Forest. How could he not make preparations? Before we left, he specifically gave me medicine that repels soul beasts..."

"Master even gave you that?" Qin Chao's eyes lit up at once.

Naturally, getting a sound night's sleep would be wonderful, especially with a beauty beside him. Although little Qin Chao couldn't do anything yet, having a warm, soft beauty at his side was still a lovely thing, wasn't it?

Qin Chao reached out to take the jade bottle, but Hu Liena drew it back into her palm.

"Senior Chrysanthemum Douluo said this was a test for you. If you want to use it, you have to identify every medicinal ingredient in the bottle..." Hu Liena smiled slyly.

The answer Yue Guan had given her listed more than thirty medicinal ingredients. Qin Chao had only just joined Spirit Hall, so surely he couldn't identify them all. Then she could set conditions and have some fun teasing the little fellow-for instance, giving his head a good ruffle.

Qin Chao's hair was very soft and felt lovely to touch. Unfortunately, the little fellow always got awkward about it, saying that only a man's lover was allowed to touch his head.

Tsk, tsk. Such a little kid, yet so particular. A lover, of all things! What could a tiny little bean like him possibly know about love...

Hu Liena's thoughts spun through a hundred turns. If Qin Chao had possessed the ability to read minds, he would certainly have protested loudly.

He didn't just know what love was; he knew what making love was, too. Once he grew up, he would definitely have to explore the subject with her in detail...

Unfortunately, Qin Chao really didn't have a broken ability like mind reading. He obediently took the bottle, first holding it beneath his nose for a careful sniff, then pouring some powder into his palm and examining it closely in the faint moonlight...

"Realgar, five-color plum, aged tangerine peel, borneol, mugwort..."

Swaying his head, Qin Chao calmly named the medicinal ingredients in the powder, one after another, without so much as stumbling over a word.

The longer Hu Liena listened, the more astonished she became. Every ingredient Qin Chao named matched Yue Guan's answer exactly.

"You really can identify them?" Hu Liena took out the slip of paper Yue Guan had given her and checked it carefully for quite a while, unable to hold back her praise.

Qin Chao lifted his head with a touch of pride. "These ingredients are all fairly common. Identifying them is pretty easy..."

Easy? Like hell!

During his days studying under Yue Guan, even Qin Chao's dreams had been filled with the appearances and names of medicinal herbs. Tang San possessed the Tang Sect Secret Techniques and was already far ahead of him when it came to poison. This was Qin Chao's weakness, so naturally, he had to work desperately to make up for it.

There was no reaching the heavens in a single stride, only constant accumulation.

The system was Qin Chao's advantage, but there were things it couldn't give him-knowledge, for instance...

"Keep showing off!" Hu Liena lightly tapped Qin Chao's little head. "Since you passed the test, hurry up and scatter this powder around us. It's getting late. We should turn in early..."

"No problem!" With a lady inviting him, Qin Chao certainly wasn't going to dawdle.

He scattered the powder from the jade bottle evenly around the tent, then built a campfire and sprinkled some into the flames.

The already pungent smell grew stronger as the flames heated the powder. Amid the rolling waves of heat, the scent gradually rose and spread with the gentle breeze.

By then, darkness had fully fallen. More than a dozen eerie green points of light appeared in the dense forest-the very netherworld wolves from the novel.

Their bodies crouched low in the grass as they crept toward the tent.

A pungent smell drifted through the air, making the pack of netherworld wolves wrinkle their brows. Wolf-type soul beasts were already highly sensitive to smells, and the flames had made this powder's scent even stronger. After a moment's hesitation, the lead wolf gave a low growl, ordering a retreat.

Several figures vanished soundlessly into the depths of the forest, just as silently as they had come.

Qin Chao and Hu Liena knew nothing of this. Inside the tent, they munched on the dried meat Old Jack had made and exchanged a few words now and then, the atmosphere especially warm and sweet.

Meanwhile, Grandmaster and his disciple Tang San had also made camp in a hollow in the Soul Hunting Forest.

They didn't light a fire. After eating a little dry food, they leaned against a large tree to rest.

"Luo, luo..."

Luo Sanpao's cry suddenly rang out, startling Grandmaster to his feet.

More than a dozen eerie green points of light gradually approached them, just as they had approached Qin Chao and Hu Liena earlier.

Driven away by Yue Guan's medicinal powder, the pack of netherworld wolves had been forced to abandon the two juicy morsels that were Qin Chao and Hu Liena.

Life was hard, and the wolves could only sigh.

Just when they thought they would have to go hungry again tonight, they finally discovered new prey...

Fate was a wondrous thing.

Sometimes, the flutter of a butterfly's wings could cause a storm. Yet at other times, even if that butterfly beat its wings until they broke, it still couldn't change a thing...

In the novel, Tang San and Grandmaster had been surrounded by netherworld wolves, and the sounds of battle had drawn a Mandala Snake nearby. Though there had been some twists and turns, Tang San had still successfully obtained his first soul ring.

Now, Qin Chao's arrival had lured that pack of netherworld wolves elsewhere, only for the medicinal powder Chrysanthemum Douluo had given him to drive them away again.

Each event, one after another, left one sighing at how heaven toyed with mortals...

"Fart like thunder-Earth-Shattering Luo Sanpao!"

The humiliating chant echoed through the forest. Even louder than the chant was Sanpao's fart...

A yellow dome of light burst forth, enveloping the six netherworld wolves.

Those little wolves had miserable lives, too. They had lived in this world for more than ten years, never knowing whether their next meal would come, only to be blasted to death by a fart. Just thinking about it was enough to make anyone feel aggrieved.

One fart ended the lives of six netherworld wolves and woke Qin Chao and Hu Liena as well.

"That was so loud. Was it thunder?" Hu Liena rubbed her eyes.

Qin Chao knew the plot well and immediately thought of Grandmaster's mutated martial soul, the one that ate white radishes.

Fart like thunder-it really lived up to its name!

Qin Chao marveled inwardly and took out two masks he had prepared long ago.

"Sister, put this on. I'll take you to kill a spicy strip..."

According to the plot, shortly after Luo Sanpao fired his first blast, the Mandala Snake-the supplier of Tang San's first soul ring-would appear. Judging by the sound, Tang San and Grandmaster shouldn't be far away. If they headed over now, they could still make it in time...