Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy.
The day before Su Chen returned to this timeline.
"Little San, you're already a Soul Scholar now."
"It's time to go to the Soul Hunting Forest and obtain your first Soul Ring."
Xiao Gang and Gangzi spoke with loving expressions.
They exchanged glances, knowing Su Chen was away.
This was the perfect opportunity to demonstrate and verify their theories.
"Good thing Su Chen isn't here."
"As long as we finish having Tang San absorb his first Soul Ring,"
"the raw rice will have been cooked."
"Even if he comes back in force, he won't be able to stop us."
Xiao Gang and Gangzi whispered to each other.
Both saw calculation in the other's smile.
The two had made their decision.
In the Soul Hunting Forest,
they would see what kind of Soul Beast they encountered.
If it was a hundred-year Mandala Snake, they would choose it.
If it was hundred-year lone bamboo, they would choose it.
Because the "Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul" and "Martial Soul Mimicry Theory" did not contradict each other.
They both had Tang San's best interests at heart.
At that moment, Tang San was very hesitant.
First, he urgently needed to absorb his first Soul Ring.
That would let him break through the first level of the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
Second, Teacher Su Chen had been gone too long.
He had no idea roughly when he would return.
Finally, there was the four-hundred-year limit for the first Soul Ring.
It was a theoretical preconception he could never escape.
After all, this was only his first Soul Ring.
Without a powerful physique and willpower, his body could easily burst, killing him.
These were also the theoretical shackles Xiao Gang and Gangzi had instilled in him.
Gradually,
Xiao Gang and Gangzi both gripped Tang San's shoulders and said,
"You understand, Little San. Every Soul Master on the continent has a first Soul Ring under four hundred years old."
"The strength of your first Soul Ring isn't all that important."
"Your immediate priority is to keep increasing your Soul Power."
"And raise your Soul Master rank."
Xiao Gang and Gangzi coaxed him.
Xiao Wu grew anxious. "You two frauds!"
"Teacher Su Chen isn't back yet."
"What gives you two the right to decide on Little San's first Soul Ring?"
Xiao Gang and Gangzi sneered at her words.
"Su Chen? Is he even worthy of being a teacher?"
"It's been two days. Who knows where he's run off to?"
"What an irresponsible teacher."
But Tang San remembered Su Chen's instructions deeply.
He still refused. "Teachers."
"I'd rather wait until Teacher Su Chen comes back before deciding."
"Are you stupid?"
"If you don't absorb your first Soul Ring,"
"how will you break through to the Soul Master rank?"
"The Soul Beasts we've chosen for you are all at the four-hundred-year limit."
"That's already the maximum age allowed by our theories."
"How can you believe in a ten-thousand-year first Soul Ring?"
"Your body will burst and you'll die!!!"
Xiao Gang and Gangzi wore expressions that said they were doing this for his own good.
Xiao Wu released her first Soul Ring and said,
"Is a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring so difficult?"
"Mine is a hundred thousand years old."
Xiao Gang and Gangzi exchanged smiles.
They leaned close to Xiao Wu's ear and said,
"Don't think we don't know you're a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!"
"Keep your mouth shut."
"Or we'll reveal you to Spirit Hall."
"You know what will happen to you."
Thinking back to that day,
Xiao Wu's hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring had completely shattered the shackles of their theories.
But the theoretical knowledge and materials they had stolen from Spirit Hall
were vast and profound.
To have a 100,000-Year first Soul Ring,
apart from Transformation Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts,
no one could do it.
That was why Xiao Gang and Gangzi had suddenly understood.
However, they had no need to expose Xiao Wu.
After all, they were already on bad terms with Spirit Hall.
Leaning close to Xiao Wu's ear to warn her
was merely a way to shut her up.
Xiao Wu hesitated at their words.
She thought,
If Little San finds out I'm a Soul Beast,
will he never speak to me again?
Xiao Wu could only step aside.
Xiao Gang and Gangzi continued persuading him.
"Little San, we're your teachers."
"We would never hurt you."
"A ten-thousand-year first Soul Ring is simply too much of a gamble."
"Not only is absorbing it painful, but your body will burst and you'll die."
"You wouldn't want your white-haired father to bury his black-haired son, would you?"
The two Gangs put on an air of acting in Tang San's best interests.
Even Xiao Wu was moved by their loving expressions.
And so, Tang San began wavering without realizing it.
He truly placed too much weight on affection and loyalty.
Tang San wavered inwardly.
There's no telling when Teacher Su Chen will return.
And I urgently need to break through to the second level of the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
A ten-thousand-year first Soul Ring really is a gamble among gambles.
But I really want to try!
Just then,
Xiao Gang and Gangzi took out a book of theory.
It contained Spirit Hall's records on the limits of first Soul Ring absorption.
It was called the "Soul Ring Absorption Handbook."
It contained Spirit Hall's theories that Xiao Gang and Gangzi had stolen.
Tang San could not help taking it.
Looking at the title, he knew these were authoritative theories.
So Tang San began leafing through it.
Until he saw that the absorption limit for a first Soul Ring was four hundred and twenty-three years.
His heart began to waver.
"The success rate for absorbing a ten-year first Soul Ring is 100%."
"The success rate for absorbing a hundred-year first Soul Ring is 80%."
"The success rate for absorbing a four-hundred-year first Soul Ring is 30%."
Xiao Wu also came forward curiously to look.
The bright red 30% was glaring and harsh.
Xiao Wu understood that her first Soul Ring came from her being a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.
For ordinary humans, a 100,000-Year first Soul Ring was utterly impossible.
Even ten-thousand-year first Soul Rings were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.
Xiao Wu could only step back.
She stopped disturbing Little San.
Tang San continued leafing through it.
He discovered that after the 30%, it said only ten thousand people on the continent had succeeded.
At that moment, Xiao Gang and Gangzi broke through Tang San's defenses.
"Little San, do you know how many people there are on the continent?"
Tang San asked, "How many?"
Xiao Gang and Gangzi exchanged smiles.
Then they made a gesture to Tang San and said,
"Only five hundred million."
"In other words, you have to be one in fifty thousand on the continent."
"Only then might you absorb a first Soul Ring at the four-hundred-and-twenty-three-year limit."
"Do you think you can manage that?"
"That's one in ten thousand!"
Tang San was finally moved.
After all, the continent had countless geniuses.
He was merely a commoner at the bottom.
What did he have to compare with geniuses and nobles?
Seeing that Tang San's psychological defenses had been breached,
Xiao Gang and Gangzi continued coaxing him.
"As long as you break through with your first Soul Ring,"
"you'll naturally be able to absorb a four-hundred-year second Soul Ring, like water flowing into a channel."
"After that, you can absorb a thousand-year third Soul Ring."
"In the future, whether it's ten thousand years or a hundred thousand years, you'll have opportunities."
"There's no need to take that risk absorbing a ten-thousand-year first Soul Ring."
"We're doing this for your own good."
"You don't want your body to burst and die before you even break through to become a Soul Master, do you?"
"Your father would be heartbroken."
The two Gangs were faintly excited.
Their honeyed words had finally begun to move Tang San.
They appealed to his emotions and swayed him with reason.
After all, Tang San was only a child.
Could two old foxes like them not handle him?
Take the bait, Tang San!
A gleam of smug satisfaction flashed through Xiao Gang's and Gangzi's eyes.
Their scheme would succeed very soon.
In the Sky Screen Space-Time.
The Shrek Seven Devils looked scornful:
"Grandmaster actually forgot that Su Chen's first seven soul rings were all black, ten-thousand-year ones."
"He's blatantly hoodwinking Tang San!"
Tang San glanced at Grandmaster, whether deliberately or not.
Filled with regret, he thought:
If I'd known, I wouldn't have listened to you.
I clearly could have absorbed a ten-thousand-year first soul ring.
You, the great Grandmaster, fooled me completely.
Flender covered his face and smiled bitterly:
"Gangzi, you've done Tang San harm."
"Su Chen managed to make his first seven rings black, ten-thousand-year ones."
"Naturally, he has a way to let Tang San do the same."
"How could you deceive Tang San?"
Liu Erlong looked down on Yu Xiaogang even more as she said:
"You'd even deceive a six-year-old child."
"How can you be so shameless?"
Yu Xiaogang's face instantly flushed scarlet.
He hadn't expected himself to be so shameless.
He knew full well that Su Chen could obtain a ten-thousand-year first soul ring.
Yet he still blatantly hoodwinked the six-year-old Tang San.
He tried to use theory and knowledge to entice Tang San into absorbing a hundred-year soul ring.
"Aren't you two far too shameless?"
Even Yu Xiaogang looked down on himself.
Supreme Pontiff Bibi Dong said scornfully:
"Grandmaster, truly a grandmaster."
"Your skill at hoodwinking only grows, never wanes."
"Why hasn't Su Chen returned yet?"
"Tang San is about to be hoodwinked!"
Just then.
Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo teased:
"A villain racking his brains."
"Can't match a fool's sudden flash of inspiration!"
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