"Xiao San, take a few white radishes from the Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moon I gave you, and feed them to Sanpao."
Master said, looking somewhat dispirited.
"Alright, Teacher." Tang San nodded in agreement.
He reached into the Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moon, took out the white radishes he had prepared in advance, and threw them to Luo Sanpao, the spirit beast that was lying at Master's feet.
"Dodo!"
Seeing the white radishes, Luo Sanpao was immediately excited, picked them up, and quickly ate them clean.
Seeing this, Tang San couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Now he understood why Master had taken him to buy white radishes, it was for his spirit beast.
However, watching Luo Sanpao eat the white radishes, Tang San couldn't help but feel curious, "Teacher, does Sanpao have to eat white radishes every time he releases...fart... uh, Soul Skill?"
Hearing this, Master's stiff face softened slightly, and he gave a wry smile. "Luo Sanpao's attack method is to fart. White radishes are quite practical for accelerating farts. After Luo Sanpao eats a few white radishes, it can quickly replenish energy, and the number of times it can use Soul Skills will also recover faster."
"This works too?" Tang San almost burst out laughing, but seeing the bitterness in Master's eyes, he held it back.
A generation of martial soul theory masters, speaking eloquently, but his martial soul's attack method was to fart. How embarrassing and shocking would that be in the Soul Master world? However, in the end, it was because Master was too useless. If his talent was even slightly better, his martial soul wouldn't have undergone a malignant mutation due to insufficient innate soul power. As for his so-called martial soul theory, after so many years of research, besides knowing some Soul Beasts, what else did he know?
If you knew that your own lack of talent had caused your martial soul to mutate, anyone would try everything to find a solution, right?
"Roar, roar..." At this moment, Luo Sanpao's urgent calls suddenly rang out.
The surroundings suddenly became silent, and a rustling sound clearly entered Tang San's ears. Vaguely, he seemed to smell a few more hints of fishiness and sweetness in the air.
The moment he smelled this, Tang San instinctively blurted out, "Teacher, be careful, it seems to be poison."
Following this, Tang San activated the Mysterious Heaven Skill, pushing his Purple Demon Eyes to their limit. He looked in the direction of the sound and vaguely saw a dark green, triangular snake head rising in the bushes, with a pair of ruby-like eyes staring at them.
"Teacher, it's a snake!" Tang San warned Master, then quickly took a fire starter from Twenty-Four Bridges Under the Moon and threw it towards the triangular snake head that had appeared.
The fire starter ignited in the wind, illuminating the area shrouded in darkness.
"Damn, it's a Mandala Snake!" Master said in a low voice, seeing the snake head in the light. "It's bad luck for us to run into this Mandala Snake when Mano isn't around."
"Teacher, what should we do?" Tang San asked in a low voice.
"Xiao San, do as I taught you, run!" Master shouted.
At the same time, Cheng Xiao, having sorted out his thoughts, moved towards the outer edge of the Soul Hunting Forest. Along the way, he encountered Dean Mano, who was seriously injured.
Seeing that Cheng Xiao was unharmed, Mano asked where Tang San and his teacher had gone. After all, the three of them had escaped together at first. Now, seeing only Cheng Xiao, he, as the dean, had to ask.
Faced with Mano's inquiry, Cheng Xiao's mind immediately recalled the scene where Tang San wanted to leave him behind to deal with the Soul Beast so that he and his teacher could escape. If he wasn't a foreigner, he was afraid that someone else would have died in the mouth of the Soul Beast without knowing why.
Taking a deep breath, Cheng Xiao still chose to conceal this matter. Even if he told Mano the truth, Mano might not believe him. Regardless of Master's relationship with him, just based on Tang San's actions, Mano wouldn't believe it.
What six-year-old kid would do such a thing? Remember, in the Douluo Continent, children awaken their martial spirits at the age of six. Could a child who had just awakened their martial spirit do something so inhumane? The answer was obviously no. But could Tang San? How was that possible?
Along the way, after Cheng Xiao's series of half-truths and deceptions, Dean Mano believed the story of them getting separated. After all, he was the one who stayed behind to hold off the Ghost Wolf, and he was very aware of its strength.
Therefore, Mano, believing Cheng Xiao's words, prepared to leave the Spirit Hunting Forest to call for help. But just as the two passed through a silent thicket of trees, they heard a shout.
"What was that sound?" Mano was stunned and looked in the direction of the sound.
"Xiao San, run!"
"It's Master and Tang San!" Upon hearing the voice, Mano hurried over.
Seeing this, Cheng Xiao shrugged helplessly and followed.
The two followed the source of the sound through the thicket and indeed saw the figures of Master and Tang San. However, facing them was a snake-type Soul Beast, flicking its tongue and staring at the two of them.
"It's a Mandala Snake!" Mano recognized the Soul Beast. He hadn't expected this Soul Hunt to be so unlucky. First, he encountered a mutated Ghost Wolf and barely escaped with his life. Now, he'd run into a hundred-year-old Mandala Snake. This bad luck... he clearly hadn't checked the almanac before leaving home.
"Xiao San, Master, run over here! Let's get out of here!"
The sudden shout startled Tang San and Master, who were preparing to face the Mandala Snake. They both looked in the direction of the voice and saw Mano waving at them, shouting for them to run.
But the Mandala Snake clearly didn't intend to let these two weak prey go. It coiled up its body and instantly sprang towards Tang San, who was standing beside Master. For some reason, even though Master was a Second Soul Ring Soul Master, the child without any Soul Rings gave it a sense of threat.
"Not good, it's coming for me." Tang San's eyes turned cold. He channeled the Mysterious Heaven Skill into his legs, activating the muscles. He leaped into the air, and then, twisting his body, he raised his left hand discreetly, and a sharp black light shot out. It was the Silent Sleeve Arrow, a Tang Sect hidden weapon from his left hand!
Seeing this, the Mandala Snake, which was darting towards them, was forced to stop. Before it could take a defensive stance, the rapidly fired black light had already pierced into its left eye.
In pain, the Mandala Snake frantically flicked its tongue, as if it could somehow alleviate the pain in its eye. But soon, Tang San fired several more Sleeve Arrows, aiming directly at the Mandala Snake's vital points.
Having already been at a disadvantage once, the Mandala Snake dodged the incoming Sleeve Arrows. Just as it was about to make a move, it saw Tang San had approached it with a short sword in hand.
What the Mandala Snake didn't know was that before approaching it, Tang San had already concentrated all of his Mysterious Heaven Skill energy into the short sword. His palm glowed with blue light, and with the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, he quickly approached the Mandala Snake.
The Mandala Snake opened its maw, attempting to swallow Tang San. However, Tang San was agile, and he seized the opportunity to plunge his sword into its open mouth.
The next moment, the Mandala Snake's body trembled violently. With a look of unwillingness, it whipped its tail towards Tang San, but he dodged again with his bizarre footwork.
Seeing Tang San's perilous actions, Master shouted urgently, "Xiao San, come back quickly! It's too dangerous."
After thrusting his sword with all his might, and facing the Mandala Snake's tail attack, Tang San used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to swiftly retreat. Upon hearing Master's call, he intentionally stumbled, falling to the ground.
At the moment, Tang San had only one thought in his mind: Master and Dean Mano had seen everything he had done. His soul did not belong to this world, and he couldn't let them know what he had just demonstrated. Therefore, he had to make sure they could never speak again.
Initially, Tang San hadn't planned to use the Tang Sect's unique skills after seeing Mano. But seeing that he didn't come to help and instead told the two of them to run, he deduced that the other party must be seriously injured; otherwise, he would never have told them to flee.
It was precisely this conjecture that gave Tang San the idea of killing the two to silence them. He believed that with the speed and power of his Tang Sect's Silent Sleeve Arrow, killing two injured people would be a piece of cake.
(End of this chapter)