"Xiao San, what are you doing? Are you looking down on me, or do you want to absorb this Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring?" Li Ye turned around and looked at Tang San, feigning anger.
"Senior brother, I'm not looking down on you. I was just worried about your safety. I wasn't after this Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring, either." Seeing Li Ye get angry, Tang San hurried to explain, as though Li Ye would beat him if he explained a moment too late.
Hearing Tang San's words, Li Ye waved his hand and gestured. "In that case, let's go find you a suitable Soul Ring."
"Huh? Senior brother, this Man Faced Demon Spider is so old that it's perfect for a third Soul Ring. Are we really just leaving it?"
"See? And you said you didn't want this Soul Ring!" Li Ye pointed at Tang San with a look that said he had finally caught him out.
At that, Tang San truly had a bellyful of bitterness he could not voice. He could only shake his head with a wry smile.
"I really didn't, senior brother. I just thought it would be a waste."
"Xiao San, if you need something, just tell your senior brother. I'm not that inflexible. If you want a control Soul Skill to keep yourself alive, why not just say so?"
"Really, senior brother? Then can I absorb this Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring?" Tang San looked at Li Ye hopefully.
"Of course not." Li Ye held out a hand in front of Tang San and spoke with an indifferent expression.
"Senior brother, you can't do this! If you keep toying with me like this, I-I won't help you buy food anymore!"
"Then I'll just get someone else to buy it for me."
"Senior brother, don't be like that! How about I bring you meals every day from now on? Just let me absorb this Soul Ring. I don't want to be a support Soul Master who has no way to fight back!"
Faced with Tang San's pleading expression, Li Ye was somewhat moved.
"But Xiao San, if you absorb this Soul Ring, your Martial Soul will be tainted by the Man Faced Demon Spider's evil attribute. What if it undergoes a bad mutation?"
Hearing Li Ye's words, Tang San understood that Li Ye was looking out for him. But after being bullied by Xiao Wu for so long, he simply wanted the strength to resist. He simply refused to accept Xiao Wu bullying him all the time.
Watching Tang San sink into thought, Tang Hao, who was hiding in the shadows, sighed as well.
Tang San really was still just a child. When he suffered a grievance, he wanted to fight back, without giving more consideration to his future cultivation.
But if Tang San kept bottling it up after suffering a grievance, he would not deserve to be his, Tang Hao's, son, either. Back then, even when that beast Qian Xunji had driven him into a corner, he had never thought of bowing his head to him.
When someone wronged you, you had to hit back. Enduring it would only leave you stewing until you suffered internal injuries.
"Senior brother, I've decided. I want to absorb this Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring. I just feel that it suits me especially well, and that I really need a Soul Ring like this."
"All right, then. Since you've made up your mind, I won't stop you. You killed this Man Faced Demon Spider, anyway, so naturally, it's your decision."
Seeing that Tang San had set his heart on it, Li Ye naturally stopped trying to dissuade him. After all, Tang San truly did have a fated connection with the Man Faced Demon Spider. If he could obtain the Eight Spider Soul Bone, that would indeed give him another trump card.
He and Tang San were not enemies. Naturally, he would not want Tang San's strength to be restricted, much less for him to become especially weak. That would bring some disgrace upon their school.
Surely he could not be invincible under heaven as the senior brother while Tang San, his junior brother, could not beat anyone.
Then Tang San sat upright before the Man Faced Demon Spider, formed the Soul Guiding Hand Seal with both hands, and guided the Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring onto himself, beginning to refine his third Soul Ring.
As for Li Ye and Xiao Wu, they sat beside Tang San to guard him, lest other Soul Beasts come over and interfere with his absorption of the Soul Ring.
Although Tang San's body was still young, it had indeed been tempered by the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid. In addition, he had a Head Soul Bone to help him resist the erosion of the Man Faced Demon Spider's resentment, so absorbing this Soul Ring from a Man Faced Demon Spider over two thousand years old was not particularly difficult.
Only after a little over two hours did Tang San finally finish absorbing the Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring with difficulty. Eight spider legs had also grown out of his back. Clearly, he had still obtained the Eight Spider Soul Bone.
That was hardly surprising, though. As the Douluo Continent's child of destiny, Tang San naturally could not have particularly bad luck.
"Xiao San, how was it? What kind of Soul Skill did you get? Don't tell me it's just a Soul Skill that turns Blue Silver Grass into a spiderweb and casts it out?"
"Wait a moment, senior brother. I know you're impatient, but don't get impatient yet. Let me try it."
With that, Tang San stood up, intending to try out his third Soul Skill.
But while he had not noticed anything sitting down, standing up gave everyone quite a fright. Because he had obtained the Eight Spider Soul Bone, the clothes he had been wearing had been torn straight into shreds by it. So now Tang San truly had only a scrap of cloth atop his "head"-the most shameless sight on the entire continent.
Li Ye had been too impatient just now to pay much attention to that. Xiao Wu, however, had noticed early on and had already turned away and walked into the distance.
"Wait, Xiao San. Put some clothes on first. There's no rush to test it."
Hearing Li Ye's words, Tang San was momentarily puzzled. But as a breeze blew past, he suddenly felt a faint coolness in a certain place.
With that, he finally realized what was happening. No wonder Xiao Wu had run so far away and turned her back on him and Li Ye. It was because he was not wearing any clothes.
But come to think of it, when Li Ye had walked into the dorm naked after bathing before, Xiao Wu had never turned away. Instead, she had stared straight at Li Ye without so much as blinking.
What, so she could look at Li Ye's, but looking at his would give her a stye?
Xiao Wu: When I look at Brother Ye's, I'm showing concern for my future happiness. Looking at yours would only dirty my eyes.
Tang San: Boo-hoo, X﹏X. In the end, my feelings were misplaced.
Only after getting dressed again did Tang San begin testing his third Soul Skill, and Xiao Wu returned at just the right moment.
Unlike Li Ye and Xiao Wu, Tang Hao, hidden in the shadows, was savoring the scene of Tang San airing his bird in the sunlight just now. Well, it could not really be called savoring it, merely an old father's concern for his son's physical development.
"Third Soul Skill, Spiderweb Trap!"
As Tang San's third Soul Ring lit up, an enormous spiderweb formed from Blue Silver Grass suddenly appeared beneath his feet, only to quickly vanish where it lay.
Seeing this, Li Ye was just about to step forward and ask what was going on when Blue Silver Grass suddenly appeared and tightened around his feet. However, Li Ye was immensely strong. With just a little effort, he instantly tore apart the Blue Silver Grass beneath his feet.
Xiao Wu, however, was not nearly as strong. The suddenly appearing Blue Silver Grass tripped her straight to the ground, after which a great mass of Blue Silver Grass bound her up like a rice dumpling, leaving her struggling fiercely on the ground.
Although Xiao Wu easily broke free of the Blue Silver Grass after using her Soul Power, Tang San still could not suppress the smile tugging at his lips after making her suffer a small setback.
At last! He, Tang San, finally no longer had to endure Xiao Wu's bullying without even being able to fight back. He had finally struck back!
Faced with Tang San's smug expression, Xiao Wu merely rolled her eyes and ignored him from then on.
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