Chapter 23: Entanglement? Taking Off Your Pants Just to Fart!
Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo were both helpless, yet they still insisted.
Snake Lance Douluo said, "Young Lady, I should go instead. Let Ci Xue stay behind. There must be at least one Titled Douluo guarding your side. Otherwise, we won't be able to explain ourselves to the Grand Worship!"
Seeing how stubborn the two of them were, Qian Renxue thought for a moment before finally agreeing.
After all, sending people this time wasn't really about clashing head-on with Tang Hao.
If Bibi Dong possessed a Diary Copy as well, she would probably dispatch Titled Douluo—most likely Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
And if there were three Titled Douluo present, then even if they couldn't take Tang Hao down, he definitely wouldn't dare remain in Nuoding City.
As for Tang San, she deliberately chose not to mention him, deciding to set that aside for now.
After all, if Spirit Hall sent Titled Douluo to capture Tang Hao, they could explain it away using an anonymous letter.
But Tang San?
Tang San, being Tang Hao's son, had no concrete evidence whatsoever.
If they captured him rashly and aroused Lin Yuan's suspicion, what then?
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[Sigh, I wonder how Yu Xiaogang and Tang San are doing in the Soul Hunting Forest.]
[Just imagining Yu Xiaogang using that pig-like martial soul of his—which does nothing but fart—to help Tang San obtain a soul ring is enough to make me lose it.]
[The scene is way too beautiful. I don't even dare picture it.]
[Yu Xiaogang really does have some guts. Knowing full well how trash his own strength is, yet he still dares to take Tang San deep inside alone.]
[It really makes people question his motives.]
[Logically speaking, Yu Xiaogang has lived for so many years and was at least once a member of the Golden Iron Triangle. Even if he hasn't eaten pork, he's surely seen pigs run—he should have a decent grasp of how strong hundred-year soul beasts are.]
[Rather than believing he genuinely planned for Tang San to absorb that ten-year Lone Bamboo, I'm more inclined to think he said that on purpose.]
[He even deliberately led Tang San into danger!]
Seeing this, the women secretly peeking at the diary felt their hearts jump.
Deliberately led into danger?
For what reason?
[Simple—so that Tang San, in despair, would have no choice but to accept his so-called "experiment"!]
[According to the path he planned for Tang San, the first soul ring should have come from a tough plant-type soul beast that carried poison.]
[That would've been the safest and most stable choice.]
[But Yu Xiaogang refused to do that!]
[He wanted to go big. He wanted to prove his so-called "Ten Core Competencies of Martial Souls"!]
[The only problem was that he almost flipped the car. His attempt to show off nearly backfired instead.]
[He probably never dreamed that on the outskirts of the Soul Hunting Forest, he'd hit the jackpot and run into a four-hundred-year Datura Snake!]
[A soul beast of this level is vicious and extremely fast.]
[Let alone a twenty-ninth-level Soul Grandmaster like him—even some two-ring attack-type Soul Grandmasters wouldn't necessarily win in a one-on-one fight!]
[So what happened in the end?]
[If Tang San hadn't been carrying a pile of hidden weapons on him, along with the Tang Sect's secret arts, this master-disciple pair would have ended up as snake food today!]
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Soul Hunting Forest
"Break wind like striking thunder, rumble the heavens and split the earth, Luo Sanpao!"
Boom!
With a deafening explosion and a cloud of yellow smoke, a creature that looked like a pig crossed with a dog let out a miserable cry as it was blasted away.
"Luo… Luo…"
Luo San Pao rolled several times on the ground, then looked at its master with a wronged expression.
Not far away, a pitch-black green Datura Snake, reeking of foul stench, flicked its tongue as it stared coldly at the two humans before it.
Yu Xiaogang looked utterly miserable. His clothes were torn by branches, and cold sweat covered his face.
"Damn it! How did we run into such a vicious thing?!"
He panicked.
His once-proud theories appeared utterly pale and powerless in the face of absolute strength.
"Xiao San! Run!"
Yu Xiaogang shouted, yet his legs went weak, and he nearly fell over himself.
But at that very moment, the Datura Snake suddenly launched an attack, biting straight into Luo San Pao's backside!
"Ah—!"
Yu Xiaogang screamed as he clutched his own butt and collapsed onto the ground, his face turning deathly pale in an instant.
Martial soul and host share a single fate—damage feedback!
Poisoned!
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[I have to say, this is the one major drawback of external beast-type martial souls. They're basically moving targets.]
[The pig gets bitten, and the person suffers along with it.]
[If Tang San hadn't been a poison master in his previous life and detoxified him, this so-called "Grandmaster" would've kicked the bucket right here.]
[And now comes the most ridiculous part!]
[After Tang San risked his life to kill the Datura Snake, Yu Xiaogang actually told him to absorb its soul ring!]
[That's right—he let a plant-type martial soul absorb an animal soul beast's soul ring!]
[To be fair, this is theoretically feasible. As long as the attributes don't conflict, the body won't explode.]
[But is this the "optimal solution"?]
[This is straight-up misleading a student!]
Lin Yuan's writing surged with emotion, as if one could see his expression of frustration at wasted potential.
[For a plant-type martial soul, shouldn't the most suitable soul rings come from plant-type soul beasts as well?]
[Same origin, matching attributes, zero rejection, and nourishment to the martial soul's foundation is the best possible.]
[People commonly believe that beast soul rings provide greater stat boosts than plant soul rings—that's complete nonsense. They just haven't seen high-tier plant-type soul beasts.]
[For example, comparing a ten-year Lone Bamboo to a ten-year Datura Snake—sure, the latter definitely gives better stat bonuses. No argument there.]
[But what if you compare a ten-year Thunder Hell Prison Vine to a ten-year Datura Snake? The former absolutely crushes the latter!]
[So, unless you're overwhelming it in age or bloodline, suitability is what really matters!]
[And what did the Datura Snake give Tang San?]
[First Soul Skill—Entanglement!]
[With a tiny bit of paralysis poison attached.]
Seeing these words, Lin Yuan immediately switched into full mockery mode.
[Does anyone get it?]
[What is Blue Silver Grass? It's grass! It's vines!]
[Its natural instinct is to entangle!]
[You give a martial soul that already specializes in binding a skill called "Entanglement"?]
[Isn't that like what?]
[Like giving a tiger a soul ring and getting a soul skill called "Bite"!]
[Isn't that taking off your pants just to fart—completely unnecessary?]
[As long as Tang San raises his soul power or practices his control techniques more, "Entanglement" could easily be a self-created soul skill. It never needed to occupy a precious soul ring slot in the first place!]
[And that paralysis poison is garbage too.]
[What's the Datura Snake's strongest trait? Lethal neurotoxin!]
[Yu Xiaogang nearly died from a single bite, yet after absorption, Tang San only inherited a weak, barely noticeable "paralysis"?]
[This is the textbook definition of picking up sesame seeds and throwing away a watermelon—a massive loss!]
[Yu Xiaogang felt a bit disappointed after seeing the result, yet he actually thought it was just bad luck?]
[Brother, this isn't bad luck. Your direction is wrong!]
[If, following his current route, Tang San had absorbed a four-hundred-year Ghost Vine or Poison Vine instead,]
[Not only would he have gained powerful toxins, but Blue Silver Grass's toughness would've skyrocketed as well. He might've even acquired abilities like parasitism or piercing. As for entanglement? That would've come as a bonus anyway!]
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