Chapter 110 Ten Years in Lonely Bamboo, The Second White Soul Ring
"Hmph, no need. I will decide my own soul rings."
Yu Xiaogang said through gritted teeth.
For some reason, a bad feeling suddenly rose in his heart.
"That won't do." Su Mo shook his head. "I have a problem: when I see someone heading down a dead end, I can't help but want to pull him back."
"Here's what I'll do: I'll find you a suitable soul beast; it will be absolutely safe."
He looked around and was suddenly drawn to a bamboo grove not far away.
It was a group of solitary bamboos, standing straight on the hillside, their entire bodies emerald green, with distinct bamboo joints.
Su Mo's lips curled slightly, and with a flash, he appeared in front of the bamboo forest.
He found a smaller solitary bamboo and pulled it up, roots and soil included.
He returned to Yu Xiaogang and threw it on the ground.
"Here, a ten-year-old Lone Bamboo. Its characteristic is toughness. Absorbing it might make your body stronger, and when you absorb your third soul ring later, it might increase your lifespan."
Su Mo smiled at Yu Xiaogang, but his eyes were full of mockery.
"Ten... ten years of Lone Bamboo?"
Yu Xiaogang's pupils contracted sharply, and his lips trembled violently.
Let him absorb a ten-year soul ring?
This was an absolute disgrace!
He, Yu Xiaogang, was a future academic giant.
And they wanted him to absorb a ten-year soul ring?
If this got out, his life would truly be over.
Even if he proved himself in the future, this soul ring would stay with him for life, becoming a permanent stain on his reputation.
"That's right, a ten-year soul ring, absolutely safe." Su Mo nodded, his tone so sincere it was almost infuriating. "See how much I care about you? I don't want you to take even the slightest risk."
"You... you're humiliating me!"
Yu Xiaogang's face turned a deep purplish-red, his features contorted, veins bulging on his forehead, and the rage in his eyes almost burst forth.
"Hmph, you ungrateful piece of trash!" Bibi Dong took a step forward, a cold glint in her eyes. "Su Mo was kindly helping you, and you're not even grateful?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the phantom of the Death Spider King suddenly appeared behind her.
Immediately afterward, seven soul rings—one yellow, three purple, and three black—rose from beneath her feet.
"If you don't absorb this ten-year soul ring today, don't even think about leaving the Star Dou Forest alive." Bibi Dong's voice was icy cold.
The way she looked at Yu Xiaogang was like looking at a rat that had crawled out of a stinking ditch, filled with undisguised contempt and disgust.
"Soul… Soul Saint!" Flander swallowed hard, his mind reeling.
This woman looked much younger than him, yet she was already a Soul Saint-level expert?
Moreover, her soul ring configuration—her second ring was a thousand years old?
A thought suddenly flashed through Flander's mind.
How old was Yu Xiaogang when this woman absorbed her second soul ring?
How could he possibly have researched these things?
Could it be that... Yu Xiaogang's so-called theory was really plagiarized?
"What? You don't want to?"
Bibi Dong ignored Flander. When she saw Yu Xiaogang standing there with a humiliated expression, her eyes suddenly turned cold.
Immediately afterward, a terrifying pressure, as if it were tangible, crushed down.
Flander, who stood at the front, felt a sudden weight on his shoulders, as if a mountain had pressed down on him, and he fell to his knees with a thud.
Blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
He braced himself on the ground with both hands, veins bulging, trying his best to stand up, but found it was impossible.
How terrifying!
Flander was covered in sweat and utterly terrified.
He could not even put up the slightest resistance against a single burst of pressure.
Is this the power of a Soul Saint?
As for Yu Xiaogang, his situation was even more miserable than Flander's.
He did not even have the strength to kneel; he was forced flat onto the ground, face down, looking utterly pathetic.
"I'll absorb it... I'll absorb it... Please, have mercy..."
Yu Xiaogang gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with humiliation and resentment, but even more so with fear of death.
He was a future theoretical master; he had not even proven himself yet. How could he die here so easily?
He had to live.
As long as he was alive, there was hope.
At this moment, Bibi Dong snorted coldly and withdrew her oppressive aura.
Flander was panting heavily, his back soaked with cold sweat.
In those brief moments, he had truly felt the fear of death.
He never wanted to experience that feeling of being enveloped by the cold aura of death from head to toe again in his life.
"Hurry up. Don't dawdle," Bibi Dong said coldly.
Upon hearing this, Yu Xiaogang quickly got up from the ground, trembling all over.
He stared at the ten-year-old Lone Bamboo lying on the ground, his pupils dilating.
Did he really have to absorb a ten-year soul ring?
He was unwilling.
But he could not resist at all.
Flander was no match for them either.
What are you still hesitating about?
Bibi Dong's voice rang out again, tinged with impatience.
Yu Xiaogang shuddered and suddenly came to his senses.
He dared not hesitate any longer.
He gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, picked up the ten-year-old Lone Bamboo, and with a surge of spiritual power, snapped it open.
Click—
The bamboo that had grown for ten years snapped in two.
A white soul ring rose up, emitting a very faint light.
Yu Xiaogang stared blankly at the white soul ring in front of him.
He never imagined that he would have to absorb a ten-year soul ring in his lifetime.
However, under the pressure of Bibi Dong's Soul Saint aura, he still sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to absorb the soul ring.
As for Flander, he could only look at Yu Xiaogang with a complicated expression.
He simply could not defeat a Soul Saint-level expert.
Bibi Dong's mood suddenly brightened as she watched this scene.
She took Su Mo's arm and laughed. "You're really wicked. I never thought you could do this. You're really cruel."
But... I like it.
Su Mo smiled but did not say anything; it had only been a spur-of-the-moment idea.
The absorption of the ten-year soul ring was almost effortless.
In the short time that Bibi Dong and Su Mo were talking, the soul ring had completely merged into Yu Xiaogang's body.
Yu Xiaogang opened his eyes and sat there blankly, as if all his energy had been drained away.
Generally speaking, absorbing a soul ring would increase one's soul power by one level.
However, this ten-year soul ring still left his soul power at level twenty.
At this moment, Su Mo nodded in satisfaction and said, "See? I told you. There was no danger at all, and it absorbed quickly."
When Yu Xiaogang heard these words that were so hurtful they seemed to crush his spirit, he almost choked on his own breath.
However, under the lingering pressure of Bibi Dong's Soul Saint status, he ultimately did not dare to say anything.
At this moment, Su Mo looked at Bibi Dong and said, "Dong'er, let's go."
He wrapped his arm around her waist and unfolded his external soul bone.
The two soared into the air, transforming into a streak of light.
They disappeared into the horizon within a few breaths.
After a long while, Yu Xiaogang finally dared to roar with a ferocious expression:
"Ah—! Damn Spirit Hall! How dare they treat me like this!"
"I, Yu Xiaogang, swear that I will destroy you!"
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