"What are you doing? Running low on Soul Power, so you've started absorbing it from other Blue Silver Grass?"
Tang Ya asked curiously from beside him.
"I'm scouting."
Lu Yu answered irritably.
"Blue Silver Grass can scout too?"
"Of course. Didn't I write that in my book? Because of their racial nature, low-level Blue Silver Grass will unconditionally obey higher-level Blue Silver Grass."
"Blue Silver Grass like ours, which has Soul Power, undoubtedly has a nobler bloodline than the weeds by the roadside."
"Didn't you also rely on this method of mine to absorb Blue Silver Grass and cultivate to Soul Elder without falling completely into depravity?"
"Boohoo, who's fallen into depravity? Don't go saying things like that."
Frightened, Tang Ya wrapped herself tightly around Lu Yu and covered his mouth with her hand.
Watching their bodies press close together, Huo Yutong silently committed this technique to memory, though if they kept pressing together like this, she felt the weight atop her head growing heavier and heavier.
"Teacher, my Soul Skill can scout too. Why don't I do it?"
"The range of hundred-year Spiritual Detection is too narrow. Only use it during combat."
"Then why don't you teach me this technique? I'll help you search, okay?"
Tang Ya hugged Lu Yu's arm tightly and began wheedling.
"Those abacus beads of yours are clacking far too loudly. Your spiritual power is too low. Although cultivating Purple Demon Eye has given you a Soul Ancestor's spiritual power, you'll need at least a Soul King's spiritual power to use this technique."
"What! Your spiritual power has reached Soul King level!"
Tang Ya's eyes widened. A non-spiritual Soul Master with a Soul King's spiritual power at two rings-was he even human?
"Then wouldn't you be able to absorb a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring for your fourth ring if you took some more whale rubber?"
That was the same Soul Ring Configuration as Tang San, the Tang Sect's ancestor.
"All right, I've found a few snake Soul Beasts with similar builds. Let's go take a look."
Lu Yu spoke. The information from Blue Silver Grass's detection wasn't precise; it could only search out a general direction before they scouted in person. Even so, it could help them avoid plenty of dangers along the way.
The three investigated as they traveled. After ruling out several false trails, they finally found their target a day later.
"So... so big. Can we win?"
Not far away, an enormous, entirely white nine-headed snake was coiled around a huge wild boar. As its body tightened, the boar's lips gradually turned purple, and foam spilled from its mouth.
After strangling the boar to death, the Nine-Headed Snake opened its mouth wide and began swallowing the boar bit by bit.
Tang Ya looked at the distant snake, whose body was thicker than she was tall. A thousand-year Soul Beast generally had strength corresponding to a Soul Elder's, let alone a high-ranking Soul Beast like the Nine-Headed Snake, which possessed the full combat power of an upper-level Soul Elder.
"We'll win. Yutong, Spiritual Detection Sharing!"
Huo Yutong immediately released Spiritual Detection, while Sister Tian Meng in her mind temporarily handled Spiritual Sharing for her.
A three-dimensional map of everything within thirty meters instantly appeared in Lu Yu's mind.
"What a powerful support Soul Skill."
Beside him, Tang Ya was also stunned by Huo Yutong's move. Every movement and emotion of the splitting Nine-Headed Snake was visible in her mind, making it easy to predict its next action.
It was like rock-paper-scissors: while the other person's hand was still coming down, you could already guess what they would throw.
"Now! Attack!"
Just as the Nine-Headed Snake swallowed the wild boar completely into its belly, it suddenly felt crushing pressure in its stomach. Then its entire body was pinned to the ground, unable to move.
Gravity Control!
Lu Yu had specifically chosen the moment when the Nine-Headed Snake swallowed its food into the center of its abdomen to focus Gravity Control's range on a single point!
Under the effects of thousand-year Gravity Control, even the Nine-Headed Snake couldn't move!
If it tried to split apart to separate itself from the food, splitting from its very center would also immediately reduce its strength to its lowest point.
"Hiss!"
The Nine-Headed Snake knew it was under attack. Seeing two Yellow Soul Rings shining behind the person charging out, it dismissed him with contempt.
He merely had a Soul Grandmaster's cultivation. As long as it endured a few attacks and worked the food into one of its necks, it could split apart and let its opponent taste what it was like to be besieged by nine six-hundred-year Soul Beasts.
Besides its lifesaving ability to split its entire body, the Nine-Headed Snake could also separate its other heads into clones. But because the food was lodged in the most crucial spot, splitting now would only produce eight three-hundred-year clones and one thousand-year main body immobilized by the food.
Hmph. You want to tank my attacks? Let's see whether you can withstand them.
Lu Yu controlled the Blue Silver vines to coil around the Nine-Headed Snake's body, then grabbed the vines with both hands and hauled upward.
Humanlike contempt appeared in the Nine-Headed Snake's eyes. A mere two-ring human wanted to lift its body?
Then its body grew light, and the entire snake flew into the air!
The two Soul Rings behind Lu Yu, disguised as yellow by Huo Yutong, shone!
Gravity Control, Light Gravity!
Waist Bow increased bodily flexibility by 50% and waist strength by 100% while active, with the enhancement increasing by 1% for every level beyond level 10.
An exalted enhancement skill that could grow.
At the same time, Lu Yu used his waist as a pivot, exerting force through both calves and his heart simultaneously.
The force-generating technique of the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer could concentrate the entire body's strength at one point and unleash 150% of its power.
Then he swung the Nine-Headed Snake and slammed it down.
Gravity Control, Heavy Gravity!
Its weight instantly multiplied severalfold, smashing a huge crater into the ground and battering the Nine-Headed Snake's entire body into a bloody mess!
Tang Ya stood frozen beside him. Instantly killing a thousand-year Soul Beast wasn't necessarily something even a Soul Ancestor could accomplish.
"Tang Ya!"
"Yes!"
Only at his shout did Tang Ya react. She immediately activated Blue Silver Grass's second Soul Skill. Countless blue-purple roots pierced the Nine-Headed Snake's body, linking together and binding it firmly into one piece.
"Hiss!!!"
The Nine-Headed Snake cried out in agony. No longer caring about its clones' combat strength, it immediately activated its splitting ability, only to discover in despair that the inside of its body was now filled with the roots of blue-purple grass, which were absorbing its flesh and blood to multiply rapidly. Its body could no longer split apart!
"Hiss!"
It immediately severed parts of its body to survive. Its nine heads, which had not yet been covered by Blue Silver Grass, split into dozens of small snakes and rushed toward the woods!
Unfortunately, Huo Yutong's Spiritual Detection had long since locked onto its nine main bodies. Tang Ya flicked her hand, and nine Bone-Piercing Nails pinned all nine small snakes like phantoms, every nail piercing a head!
A purple Soul Ring emerged above the Nine-Headed Snake's corpse.
"That easily?"
Tang Ya hadn't expected a high-ranking thousand-year Soul Beast like this to be hunted down just like that by the three of them, none of whom had even reached Soul Elder.
"Hurry up and absorb it. I can't wait to see my Blue Silver Grass's third Soul Skill."
Lu Yu urged her from beside her.
Tang Ya rolled her eyes at Lu Yu. It was clearly her Soul Skill, so how had it become his?
Still, she was also eager to see whether the Soul Skill Lu Yu had described really was as powerful as he said. She immediately walked over to the Nine-Headed Snake's corpse, sat cross-legged, and began absorbing it.
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