Tang San's First Soul Ring, Grandmaster Poisoned (Please Recommend, Please Favorite!)

"Great!"

Seeing that Tang San had successfully slain the Mandala Snake, Grandmaster could not help but grow excited.

"Little San, do you remember what I told you? The Mandala Snake is one of the soul beasts best suited for you to hunt. After absorbing its soul ring, your Blue Silver Grass martial soul will definitely become more resilient, and it may even gain toxicity!"

"However, the Mandala Snake is not a plant-type soul beast. For thousands of years, there has never been a precedent of a plant-type martial soul absorbing an animal-type soul ring. Little San, are you willing to trust your teacher?"

Grandmaster looked at Tang San with complete seriousness.

"I trust you, Teacher. Let me be the one to prove your theory!"

Tang San nodded firmly.

"And thank you, Lin Ye. Thank you for saving Teacher and me!"

Before absorbing the soul ring, Tang San also looked at Lin Ye and thanked him sincerely.

"No need."

Lin Ye nodded indifferently, but inwardly, he did not think much of it.

He had not come specifically to save the two of them. He had only done so to repay Grandmaster's favor.

Now that the favor had been repaid, if he encountered something like this again in the future, he might not necessarily intervene.

After thanking Lin Ye, Tang San turned to look at the Mandala Snake again.

A yellow soul ring had already condensed above the Mandala Snake's body.

"Little San, begin absorbing this soul ring now!"

Looking at the soul ring that had formed over the Mandala Snake's corpse, Tang San sat cross-legged on the ground under Grandmaster's guidance and prepared to absorb the soul ring.

While Grandmaster guided Tang San in absorbing the soul ring, Lin Ye held his sword and walked over to the Mandala Snake's head.

Looking at the Mandala Snake's dark green triangular head, Lin Ye intended to remove its venom fangs and venom sac.

The Mandala Snake's venom fangs and venom sac were, like those of the Spikehorn Dragon Viper, excellent materials for refining poison and could fetch a great deal of money. He could not simply pass them up! Lin Ye clearly remembered that cultivating the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill required enormous amounts of money.

Although eating ordinary meat could currently still effectively increase his cultivation progress, if he continued cultivating—

As the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill improved, ordinary meat would become less and less effective for cultivation. He would have to consume the flesh and blood of soul beasts, as well as various medicinal herbs.

After carefully removing the Mandala Snake's venom sac and fangs and storing them in the Jade Pendant Space, Lin Ye sheathed his iron sword on his back.

When he turned around, Tang San was still sitting cross-legged on the ground with his eyes tightly shut, absorbing the Mandala Snake's soul ring, while Grandmaster paced back and forth nearby, both excited and uneasy.

Looking at Tang San as he absorbed the soul ring, Lin Ye thought of how Tang San lacked his own powerful physique and did not have a hidden third martial soul. Absorbing the Mandala Snake's soul ring would certainly take quite some time.

Lin Ye leaped up onto a large tree, chose a relatively thick branch to sit on, leaned against the trunk, and slowly closed his eyes.

After bustling about in the Soul Hunting Forest all day, Lin Ye was truly rather tired.

The night passed in a flash.

The next morning.

"Great! It really succeeded!"

Lin Ye, who had been sleeping in the tree, was suddenly awakened by an excited voice.

Opening his eyes, Lin Ye looked in the direction of the voice and saw Grandmaster and Tang San standing together in an open clearing.

From Tang San's hand, dark blue vines extended one after another, tightly winding around a small tree not far ahead.

The small tree had already snapped. It seemed that Tang San had forcibly torn it apart by pulling on the vines wrapped around it.

Seeing the scene before him, Grandmaster's face was filled with excitement.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Ye suddenly leaped down from the tree and landed behind Grandmaster and Tang San.

"What happened?"

Lin Ye asked.

"Lin Ye, you're awake!"

Hearing Lin Ye's voice, Tang San immediately turned around. Like Grandmaster, he could barely conceal his excitement and exhilaration.

"Teacher's theory is correct!"

"Theory?"

Hearing that word, Lin Ye's heart stirred. He suddenly recalled the so-called Ten Core Competencies Theory of Martial Souls that Grandmaster had mentioned was written in his notes. Was this it?

"Plant-type martial souls really can absorb animal-type soul rings!"

Tang San said excitedly.

"Mm."

But Lin Ye remained very calm.

A plant-type martial soul absorbing an animal-type soul beast's soul ring did not seem like much of an issue, did it?

The two books his father had left behind had never mentioned any such taboo regarding soul ring absorption. They had only said that one could not casually absorb soul rings with excessively high age limits.

As for the type of soul beast one hunted, there seemed to be no difference. As long as it suited one's own path of development, that was enough.

If plant-type soul masters could only absorb plant-type soul beast soul rings and could not absorb animal-type soul beast soul rings, then what kind of soul rings were soul masters whose martial souls were all sorts of weapons supposed to absorb?

"Grandmaster, can we leave now?"

After discovering that Tang San had finished absorbing his soul ring, Lin Ye looked at Grandmaster and asked.

"Yes, but..."

Grandmaster had just been about to say yes when his expression suddenly changed. He violently spat out a mouthful of blood and immediately collapsed.

"Teacher!"

Seeing something was wrong with Grandmaster, Tang San cried out in alarm.

"This is..."

Lin Ye was somewhat stunned.

Seeing Grandmaster fall to the ground, his face turning deathly pale, Tang San hurriedly pulled up Grandmaster's sleeve. Grandmaster's arm had actually turned purple, and when Tang San looked at his neck, even his face and neck had taken on a purplish hue.

"This is... poison?"

Lin Ye frowned slightly beside them.

But Grandmaster had clearly not been bitten by the Mandala Snake, so how had he been poisoned?

"Could it have been then..."

However, Tang San seemed to recall something and was immediately startled.

"No, we have to treat him quickly!"

Gritting his teeth, Tang San hurriedly took out the dagger Grandmaster had given him earlier and prepared to raise Grandmaster's arm to let blood.

But Lin Ye suddenly grabbed Tang San's hand.

"Wait!"