Three-Thousand-Year Mandala Snake! Copying a Skill for the First Time!

A thousand points was no small sum.

But Ye Yang spent them without hesitation.

That was because the boost improved not only his speed, but also the efficiency of his Soul Power conversion.

With the system involved, doubling his devouring efficiency cost a number of points corresponding to the target's age in years.

In other words, the Ghost Vine had a thousand years of Soul Power. By spending 1,000 points, Ye Yang could devour it at twice its own efficiency.

Besides that, he could raise the Soul Power conversion rate from one-tenth to two-tenths.

One hundred years became two hundred.

Previously, when Ye Yang had absorbed the hundred-year Demon Eye Demon Tree, he had even spent 500 points in the end to boost his devouring ability.

That had increased his devouring speed fivefold.

It had also let him convert half the Demon Eye Demon Tree's Soul Power for his own use!

Now, having spent 1,000 points, Ye Yang instantly wrapped his roots around the Ghost Vine, which had nearly a thousand years of Soul Power.

It panicked at once, hurriedly pulling its roots from the dead tree in an attempt to flee.

I've already spent the points, and you still want to run?

Even if I hadn't spent any points, you still couldn't escape!

Ye Yang sneered inwardly and quickly absorbed the Ghost Vine.

[Ding! Soul Power gained: +2+2+2+...]

Absorbing the Ghost Vine itself, with a double boost on top of that, raised his Soul Power extremely quickly.

His increases in spiritual power and evolution points, however, were almost negligible.

Ugh, another trash Soul Beast.

Ye Yang thought with disdain.

Before long, the Ghost Vine's struggles weakened, and its vines shriveled and dried out.

Finally, all life left it.

Ye Yang's Soul Power also reached 1,194 years.

His evolution value rose by a few points, bringing his foundation to level 72.

The stronger my foundation gets, the harder it is to gain evolution value.

Ye Yang had something of a headache.

That meant that if he wanted to evolve quickly in the future, he would need to absorb increasingly powerful Soul Beasts.

Trash Soul Beasts could provide Soul Power, but not evolution value.

As for his spiritual value, it had risen by less than a single point.

Stupid-ass Ghost Vine, you don't have a shred of intelligence.

Let alone thousand-year plant Soul Beasts, even thousand-year animal Soul Beasts weren't very intelligent, nor was their spiritual value high.

Ye Yang pulled his roots out of the dead tree and the withered Ghost Vine, then slowly withdrew them into the ground.

But he soon sensed that something was wrong.

A peculiar scraping sound came from the ground, along with faint vibrations.

Ye Yang was a Blue Silver Grass, rooted in the earth, and was very sensitive to disturbances in the ground.

It's a snake-type Soul Beast!

And it's big!

He quickly reached a conclusion.

Soon, he saw a snake dart out of the jungle and charge toward the dead tree.

It had the triangular head of a venomous snake, but its neck and body were both thick and stout, like those of a nonvenomous snake.

Its scales shimmered with brilliant colors, yet had a faint metallic sheen and were incredibly hard.

As more of its body emerged from behind the bushes, Ye Yang grew increasingly shocked.

Its belly, the thickest part of its body, was actually as thick as a bucket!

And it was a terrifying thirty meters long!

It was like a peculiar, venomous giant snake.

A Mandala Snake!

Ye Yang remembered something and was shocked.

In the original story, Tang San's first Soul Ring had come from a Mandala Snake.

Growing one centimeter a year, that Mandala Snake had been nearly four hundred years old, and it had sent the level-29 Grandmaster fleeing with his helmet and armor cast aside.

In the end, Tang San had killed it using Tang Sect techniques.

But the Mandala Snake before him clearly had 3,000 years of cultivation!

Perhaps the commotion Ye Yang had made while hunting the Ghost Vine had drawn this venomous python out.

After seeing Ye Yang's roots and the withered Ghost Vine, it stopped again.

Ye Yang could see clear disappointment in its eyes.

Clearly, this snake was highly intelligent.

The Mandala Snake turned its head, preparing to leave.

A plant Soul Beast, and only some roots at that, naturally held little appeal for it.

However, after an internal struggle, Ye Yang gritted his teeth and prepared to hunt this giant Mandala Snake!

"Your Majesty, help me move my main body over there!"

Ye Yang's main body quickly transmitted his voice.

The Blue Silver Emperor had long since become aware of the battle a kilometer away.

She also knew full well that the three-thousand-year Mandala Snake had arrived.

After hearing Ye Yang's voice transmission, she hesitated. "You're only 1,200 years old. That snake is a full 3,000 years old."

"Its combat strength is even comparable to that of an ordinary four- or five-thousand-year Soul Beast."

"You want to hunt it? That's too dangerous!"

Ye Yang said in a deep voice, "Don't worry about it! Hurry and move me over there!"

It was the first time the Blue Silver Emperor had heard words like that.

And it was a junior of her own kind who actually dared speak to her that way.

Even so, she didn't reproach him.

"All right! Be careful!"

"I won't help you unless things get critical."

She cautioned him.

"No need to help me!"

As soon as Ye Yang finished transmitting his voice, the Blue Silver Emperor lifted his main body and quickly moved him in front of the dead tree.

The Mandala Snake was just about to leave when a green light flashed behind it. A Blue Silver Grass with an exceptionally well-developed root system appeared in the air and fell toward it.

?

The Mandala was a little dumbfounded. What was going on?

It could sense that this Blue Silver Grass was the main body of the roots it had just seen.

It had a thousand years of cultivation and had just hunted down a thousand-year Ghost Vine.

And now it was attacking the snake?

It casually lashed out with its tail, intending to send Su Yang flying, not taking him seriously at all.

"How dare you, monster! I could tell at a glance that you weren't human!"

"You're not taking me seriously at all!"

"System, spend 6,000 points and copy the Entanglement skill!"

Just like enhancing his devouring skill, copying a target's skill cost a number of points corresponding to the target's age in years.

The Mandala Snake's skill was Entanglement.

With its powerful body, its constricting force was terrifying, just like the way a nonvenomous snake attacked.

It broke its prey's ribs and forced the air out of its lungs, causing it to die of suffocation and internal bleeding.

Besides that, the Mandala Snake was also highly venomous.

It perfectly combined the skills of venomous and nonvenomous snakes, making it a very powerful Soul Beast.

Spending 3,000 points would let him copy twice its Entanglement ability.

But Ye Yang knew that a mere twofold Entanglement skill might not be enough, given the toughness of his leaves.

So he spent 6,000 points outright.

He had originally had 8,300 points, and with the 10,000 points the system had awarded him for breaking through to 1,000 years of Soul Power, he had more than enough to splurge.

[Ding! 6,000 points spent. The host now possesses three times the target's Entanglement skill! The skill's duration equals the host's current age in years, measured in breaths.]

As the system's voice rang out, Ye Yang's nine leaves instantly surged in size, becoming as wide as palms and three meters long!

As they fell through the air, they all wrapped around the Mandala Snake's tail!

A countdown also appeared before Ye Yun's eyes.

A duration of 1,194 breaths, or 119.4 minutes-nearly two hours!