Snake Lance and Porcupinefish Douluo were helpless, but they still persisted.
Snake Lance said, "Young Lord, let me go instead. Let Ci Xue stay. You must have a Titled Douluo by your side for protection, otherwise we won't be able to explain it to the High Priest!"
Qian Renxue saw their persistence and agreed after thinking for a moment.
Anyway, sending someone this time wasn't really to clash with Tang Hao.
If Bibi Dong has a diary instance, she'll likely send Titled Douluo too. Barring any surprises, it should be Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo.
If there are three Titled Douluo by then, even if they can't take down Tang Hao, he definitely won't dare stay in Nuoding City.
As for Tang San, she didn't explicitly mention him, planning to set him aside for now.
After all, Spirit Hall deploying Titled Douluo to capture Tang Hao could be explained by an anonymous letter.
But what about Tang San?
There's no evidence that Tang San is Tang Hao's son.
What if catching him now arouses Lin Yuan's suspicion?
...Meanwhile, Lin Yuan's diary continued:
[Sigh, I wonder how Yu Xiaogang and Tang San are doing in the Spirit Hunting Forest.]
[The thought of Yu Xiaogang using that farting swine of a Spirit to help Tang San get a spirit ring makes me lose it.]
[The image is too beautiful; I don't even dare to imagine it.]
[Yu Xiaogang is really bold. Knowing his strength is pathetic, he still dares to take Tang San deep inside alone.]
[It inevitably makes one doubt his motives.]
[Reasonably speaking, Yu Xiaogang has lived for so long and was once a member of the Golden Triangle. Even if he hasn't eaten pork, he's seen a pig run; he should have a decent idea of the strength of a hundred-year Spirit Beast.]
[Rather than believing he intended for Tang San to absorb that ten-year Lone Bamboo, it's more likely he said that on purpose.]
[Or even, he deliberately led Tang San into danger!]
Seeing this, the women peeking at the diary felt their hearts skip a beat.
Deliberately led into danger?
For what?
[Simple: to force Tang San to accept his theoretical experiments out of desperation!]
[After all, according to the path he planned for Tang San, the first spirit ring should be from a poisonous and resilient plant-type Spirit Beast.]
[That would be the safest choice.]
[But Yu Xiaogang just wouldn't!]
[He wanted to do something big; he wanted to prove his "Ten Core Competencies of Martial Souls"!]
[However, Yu Xiaogang almost crashed later. Instead of acting cool, he got wrecked.]
[He probably never dreamed that on the outskirts of the Spirit Hunting Forest, he'd have the "luck" to encounter a four-hundred-year-old Datura Snake!]
[A Spirit Beast of this level is incredibly ferocious and extremely fast.]
[Forget a level twenty-nine Spirit Grandmaster like him; even some attack system Spirit Grandmasters with two rings might not win in a one-on-one!]
[And the result?]
[If Tang San hadn't been carrying a bunch of Hidden Weapons and had Tang Sect Ultimate Techniques to rely on, this master and disciple would have ended up in the snake's belly today!]
...Spirit Hunting Forest.
"Fart like thunder, heaven-shaking, earth-shattering Luo San Pao!"
Boom!
Accompanied by a loud bang and a cloud of yellow smoke, a creature resembling both a pig and a dog flew out screaming.
"Luo luo..."
Luo San Pao rolled on the ground a few times, looking at its master aggrievedly.
Not far away, the dark green Datura Snake, emitting a foul stench, was flicking its tongue and staring coldly at the two humans.
Yu Xiaogang was in a sorry state; his clothes were torn by branches, and his face was covered in cold sweat.
"Damn it! How could we encounter such a ferocious beast!"
He panicked.
His proud theories seemed so pale and powerless in the face of absolute strength.
"Little San! Run!"
Yu Xiaogang shouted, but his own legs went weak, and he almost fell.
Just then, the Datura Snake suddenly attacked, biting Luo San Pao on the butt!
"Ah!"
Yu Xiaogang screamed, clutching his own butt as he fell to the ground, his face instantly turning pale.
The Spirit and the host are of one heart and mind; damage feedback!
Poisoned!
...[I have to say, external Beast Spirits have this downside; they're basically moving targets.]
[The pig gets bitten, and the person suffers.]
[It's only because Tang San was a Grandmaster of poison in his past life and cured him; otherwise, this "Grandmaster" would have been finished here today.]
[And here comes the most ridiculous part!]
[After Tang San fought to the death to kill the Datura Snake, Yu Xiaogang actually had Tang San absorb its spirit ring!]
[That's right! Making a plant-type Spirit absorb an animal Spirit Beast's ring!]
[Actually, this is theoretically feasible. As long as the attributes don't conflict, the body won't explode.]
[But is this the freaking "optimal solution"?]
[This is completely misleading the student!]
Lin Yuan's words in the diary were passionate and rhythmic, as if one could see his frustrated expression.
[Shouldn't the most suitable thing for a plant-type Spirit to absorb be a spirit ring from a plant-type Spirit Beast?]
[Coming from the same root and source with matching attributes, there's no rejection during absorption, and it provides the best nourishment for the Spirit's Origin.]
[The common belief that beast rings provide more attribute boosts than plant rings is pure nonsense; it's just that they haven't seen higher-level plant-type Spirit Beasts.]
[For example, comparing a ten-year Lone Bamboo to a ten-year Datura Snake, the latter definitely provides more attributes, no doubt about it.]
[But what if a ten-year Thundercrash Hell Vine is compared to a ten-year Datura Snake? The former would crush the latter!]
[So, unless there's an overwhelming difference in age or Bloodline, suitability is the only thing that matters!]
[And what did the Datura Snake bring Tang San?]
[First Spirit Ability—Binding!]
[Plus a tiny bit of paralytic toxin.]
Seeing these words, Lin Yuan went straight into mockery mode.
[Who gets it?]
[What is Blue Silver Grass? It's grass! It's a vine!]
[Its instinct is to bind!]
[You give a Spirit that already binds things an ability called "Binding"?]
[What is this like?]
[It's like giving a tiger a spirit ring and getting an ability called "Biting"!]
[Isn't this like taking off your pants to fart—completely redundant?]
[As long as Tang San trains his spirit power or practices control techniques, this "Binding" could be a Self-created Spirit Ability; it doesn't need to take up a precious spirit ring slot!]
[Also, that paralytic toxin is trash.]
[What's the Datura Snake's strongest asset? A lethal neurotoxin!]
[Yu Xiaogang almost died from one bite, yet after Tang San absorbed it, he only inherited a trivial "paralysis"?]
[This is literally picking up a sesame seed and losing a watermelon—a massive loss!]
[Yu Xiaogang was a bit disappointed after learning the result, but he actually thought it was just bad luck?]
[Brother, the direction is wrong!]
[Following his current direction, if he had absorbed a four-hundred-year-old Ghost Vine or Poison Vine...]
[...not only would he get a powerful toxin, but he'd also significantly increase the toughness of the Blue Silver Grass, and might even get skills like Parasite or Piercing. As for Binding, that would just be a given!]
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