Tang San's Flying Flower Picking Leaves strike.
Had pierced not only that ancient tree.
It seemed to have pierced everyone's understanding as well.
Dean Zhang looked at the blade of grass embedded deep in the rock.
Then he looked at the perfectly calm Tang San.
His throat bobbed with difficulty.
"This... is really your first Soul Skill?"
If Blue Silver Grass had been a trash Martial Soul before.
Then this blade of grass, capable of piercing metal and splitting stone, was nothing short of a killing weapon!
He abruptly turned toward Tang Tian, his gaze becoming incomparably complicated.
So that seemingly absurd theory of everything can be used as a weapon was actually true?
Just what kind of freaks were these two brothers?!
And the one who had taken the hardest slap to the face was undoubtedly Yu Xiaogang.
He stared fixedly at that tree, his lips trembling.
For a long while, he couldn't squeeze out a single word.
A plant-type Martial Soul used as a hidden weapon?
And with this much power?
This wasn't scientific!
This wasn't how Soul Masters worked!
Could the Martial Soul Theory I'd studied for decades really be nothing but wastepaper?
No... impossible!
It had to be luck!
While everyone was still immersed in the shock of what had just happened.
Tang Tian hadn't been idle.
He went around the fallen trunk of the Purple Gold Sword Bamboo.
And walked straight into the depths of that heap of rocks.
While Little San had been fighting, he had faintly sensed a peculiar metallic aura.
And the Little Iron Hammer in his Sea of Consciousness had been like a starving dog catching the scent of meat buns.
She had been clamoring madly inside his head.
Making such a racket that his brain ached.
Tang Tian crouched down and rummaged in a crevice between massive rocks.
A moment later.
He dug out a fist-sized piece of metal, dark purple all over.
[Ding! High-quality rare metal detected: purple gold essence.] [The Little Iron Hammer drooled profusely and rolled over in the Sea of Consciousness.]
"Purple gold essence?"
A barely perceptible glimmer of delight flashed through Tang Tian's eyes.
The reason the Purple Gold Sword Bamboo had grown so large.
And possessed such terrifying sharpness was entirely because of this accompanying rare metal!
This was superb material for forging divine weapons.
At an auction outside, it could fetch an astronomical price!
"I've struck it rich."
Tang Tian tucked the purple gold essence into his clothes without the slightest hesitation.
While he was at it, he bundled up all the remaining hard bamboo segments of the Purple Gold Sword Bamboo on the ground.
And slung them onto his back.
Although he still had no money to repay the dean.
Once he brought these materials back.
Whether he sold them or used them to feed the Little Iron Hammer in the future, they would make excellent resources.
"Wow! That idiot Tang Tian has finally wised up!"
"Snagging overlooked treasures is simply the most satisfying thing in the world!"
"Quick, quick, quick! Give me that rock to eat!"
"This hammer feels like she'll grow a whole size bigger after eating it!"
"And that bamboo, too! So crunchy! It's not as good as the rock, but it'll just about do for a snack!"
Tang Tian, however, ignored her completely.
Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang had recovered from his shock.
He looked at Tang Tian carrying a bundle of bamboo.
Yu Xiaogang finally found a shred of superiority and curled his lip disdainfully.
"Hmph. Buying the casket and returning the pearl."
"Instead of properly searching for a Soul Ring, you're picking up junk to take home."
In his eyes, although that bamboo was hard.
Without its Soul Ring, it was nothing but dead matter.
This Tang Tian was ultimately just a country boy.
Since Tang San had already obtained his Soul Ring.
Their trip to the Soul Hunting Forest was now half complete.
Dean Zhang was in an excellent mood and swept his hand.
"Let's go! Xiao Wu, we'll help you find a Soul Ring next!"
As for these three children.
The more Dean Zhang looked at them now, the more he liked them.
He wished he could catch all the best Soul Beasts in the forest for them to choose from.
However, just as everyone was preparing to continue Soul Hunting.
Xiao Wu, who had been skipping along all this time, suddenly clutched her stomach.
Her little face scrunched up as she cried out in pain.
"Oww... Dean, I can't take it! My stomach hurts so much!"
"What's wrong? Did you eat something bad earlier?"
"I need the toilet! Oh, don't follow me! That's so embarrassing! Wait for me!"
With that, without waiting for anyone to react.
Xiao Wu darted into the dense bushes beside them.
Running faster than a rabbit.
Helpless, everyone could only wait where they were.
Yu Xiaogang frowned, his face full of impatience.
"Lazy people are always pissing and shitting. At such a crucial moment..."
However, about ten minutes later.
Just as Dean Zhang began worrying that the child might have been carried off by a Soul Beast.
And was about to go in and look for her.
The bushes rustled.
Xiao Wu came skipping back.
There wasn't the slightest trace of pain left on her face; instead, her cheeks were rosy and brimming with joy.
What truly made everyone's eyes fall out of their sockets was-
There was actually an additional bright yellow Soul Ring around her!
"This..."
Dean Zhang pointed at the Soul Ring, his hand trembling.
"Xiao Wu, you... where did you get that Soul Ring?!"
Even Tang Tian couldn't help raising his eyebrows.
He watched this little actress of a rabbit with keen interest.
Xiao Wu blinked her big eyes and spoke with an innocent expression.
"I don't know either."
"I went over there to use the toilet, and suddenly this silly-looking rabbit seemed to get startled by me and ran headfirst into a stump, killing itself."
"I saw a little ring floating over it and thought it looked pretty, so I drew it over and absorbed it!"
"I didn't expect it to be so easy either, heehee!"
"..."
A deathly silence fell over everyone.
A gust of cold wind blew past, swirling up a few fallen leaves.
"Pfft-!"
Yu Xiaogang clutched his chest, nearly coughing up a mouthful of blood.
Waiting by a stump for a rabbit?
You actually did it?
You went to the toilet and picked up a Soul Ring?
One several hundred years old, at that?
How the hell was that even possible?!
Back then, I'd gone to enormous trouble just to absorb a Soul Ring!
My innate Soul Power had only been half a level, after all!
I'd nearly lost my life!
Yet this little girl had absorbed a Soul Ring in the time it took to take a shit?!
And her Soul Power seemed to have increased, too?
Heavens!
How could you be so unfair?!
If I'd had that kind of luck, I'd have become a Titled Douluo long ago!
Would I still have to put up with these brats here?!
Yu Xiaogang felt his composure collapse completely.
Jealousy twisted his face beyond recognition.
His entire body trembled slightly.
Tang Tian looked at Xiao Wu with the hint of a smile.
This girl's talent for spinning lies wasn't bad, either.
She'd certainly put the old tale of waiting by a stump for rabbits into practice.
But he didn't expose her, merely playing along as he asked.
"Xiao Wu, what's your first Soul Skill?"
Xiao Wu proudly lifted her chin and gave Tang Tian a sweet smile.
"Brother Tang Tian, watch closely!"
Before her words had faded, her feet shifted slightly, and her figure instantly blurred.
"My first Soul Skill is called-Netherworld Rabbit Shadow!"
Whoosh!
The next second, she actually split into three afterimages out of thin air, weaving rapidly around everyone in a dazzling blur.
And her real body's speed increased dramatically.
She instantly appeared on a branch of a large tree ten meters away.
Her figure concealed among the dense leaves.
Without carefully sensing for her, she was extremely difficult to detect.
"Nonsense!"
Yu Xiaogang had finally found an outlet and shouted harshly.
"For a beast Martial Soul's First Soul Ring, instead of choosing a powerful offensive skill, you actually chose a skill for running away?"
"You're wasting your talent! What good is choosing speed and concealment? Do you win fights by outrunning people?"
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