Chapter 253: Seizing Tang San's Soul Bone
The Blue Silver Bind and Spider Web Restraint techniques could indeed be used solely through complete control of the Blue Silver Grass Martial Spirit—they didn't actually require additional spirit rings. The only drawback was that infusing the Blue Silver Grass with toxins conflicted with its own life energy.
As for Blue Silver Blade, it was a ranged attack skill, one that matched Tang San's hidden weapon techniques perfectly.
Blue Silver Cage could quietly sprout from underground to trap an enemy, making it an excellent control-type ability.
Tang Hao ignored Yu Xiaogang and led the group to search for spirit beasts within the forest.
Yu Yuanzhen led half of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan while the other half followed Tang Hao. The two parties split up.
Their primary goal in coming to the Star Dou Great Forest wasn't just to help Tang San gain his sixth ring—it was also to hunt spirit beasts for sacrificial purposes.
Any beast carcass would do.
The forest was vast. They searched until nightfall before Tang Hao finally found a spirit beast fitting Tang San's criteria—a Wood Vine Treant.
It was a plant-type beast capable of weaving its vines into javelins for ranged attacks or weapon-like constructs for melee combat.
Most importantly, the Wood Vine Treant's vines possessed infinite regenerative growth—exactly what Tang San needed.
However, there was a problem. This beast's cultivation exceeded twenty thousand years—roughly twenty-five thousand.
"Xiao San, this beast's age is too high. Let's find another," Tang Hao said seriously.
But Tang San shook his head. "Father, I want this one!"
"But—"
"Father, my body isn't the same anymore. After the Slaughter City, I've obtained the Killing God Domain. I can absorb this!" Tang San said firmly.
Tang Hao hesitated but, seeing his son's determination, gritted his teeth. "Alright! Since you've decided, I'll help you kill it!"
Tang Hao wasn't one for indecision. He drew out the Haotian Hammer and smashed the Wood Vine Treant until it was half-dead.
Tang San wasted no time and swung his own Haotian Hammer down on it.
The Treant's body trembled once, then went still. A pitch-black spirit ring floated up from the corpse.
...
While Tang Hao helped Tang San absorb the spirit ring, Luo Ling and his group arrived nearby.
He had intentionally led them toward Tang Hao and Tang San's direction. They hadn't encountered many beasts along the way, and since it was also the route toward the Lake of Life, Xiao Wu suspected nothing.
About a few hundred meters away, Luo Ling gestured for his companions to halt.
Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo also sensed something unusual and concealed their auras.
"Your Highness, up ahead…" Chrysanthemum Douluo said warily. He could feel a powerful presence—one equal to his own.
A Titled Douluo stood before them.
Luo Ling nodded slightly, instructing silence, and quietly advanced. From about two hundred meters away, they spotted Tang San, immersed in absorbing his new ring, and Tang Hao guarding nearby.
The two Douluo widened their eyes. Tang Hao and Tang San were both on Spirit Hall's wanted list—they had searched for them for a long time and never expected to find them here.
"Your Highness, should we…" Chrysanthemum Douluo made a throat-slitting gesture toward Tang Hao and Tang San.
Luo Ling's eyes flickered. The Haotian Sect and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had both already practiced the Blood Demon Ritual, and Tang Hao and Tang San held little remaining value. Should he kill Tang San here and now?
His gaze shifted toward a location deeper behind Tang Hao and Tang San, where he sensed another powerful aura—Yu Yuanzhen.
The enemy side had two Titled Douluo, along with several Soul Douluo and Soul Saints.
In combat, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo together could barely contend with Tang Hao and Yu Yuanzhen. Even with their Martial Spirit Fusion Technique, they could only restrain one of them.
Both Tang Hao and Yu Yuanzhen were extraordinary Titled Douluo—each at least level 95 or higher.
Luo Ling calculated silently the feasibility of killing Tang San outright.
If he tried, he could succeed—but there was one unpredictable factor: the Asura God.
He felt that Divine aura emanating faintly from Tang San's Killing God Domain—an energy that did not belong to the Douluo Continent.
It was indeed the mark of the Asura God.
While Luo Ling pondered, Tang San's absorption neared completion.
He succeeded despite the ring's twenty-five-thousand-year age—a feat made possible by the Asura God's transformation and the Killing God Domain's strengthening effect.
As the process ended, a glimmer of emerald light emerged from the Treant's corpse—a crystalline right arm bone shining with green radiance.
A soul bone!
Both Luo Ling's hidden party and Tang Hao were stunned.
A soul bone had dropped—and not an ordinary one, judging from its aura.
A twenty-five-thousand-year soul bone was already a rare and powerful treasure.
Tang San opened his eyes, delight spreading across his face as he saw the floating bone.
"Xiao San, quickly put it away!" Tang Hao urged, glancing carefully behind him—toward Yu Yuanzhen's direction.
A ten-thousand-year soul bone was too valuable. If Yu Yuanzhen learned about it, trouble would surely follow.
Tang San reacted at once and reached out to store the bone—but just as his hand moved, a pale hand seized the soul bone first.
"Who's there!" Tang Hao bellowed, swinging the Haotian Hammer at the figure who had taken it.
The hammer's strike was fierce, but a faint crimson barrier blocked it completely.
Luo Ling shot Tang Hao a glance, then swiftly retreated.
Tang Hao froze—then his eyes turned blood-red. That crimson barrier, that face—he could never forget them in his life.
"Luo Ling!" Tang Hao's furious roar shook the entire forest.
Trees shuddered violently, and startled beasts fled into the distance.
Nearby, Yu Yuanzhen, who was also hunting spirit beasts, heard the thunderous voice and his heart trembled.
Luo Ling?
Tang Hao had encountered Luo Ling?
Yu Yuanzhen instantly turned toward the direction of the shout.
Why was Luo Ling here? Had the Blood Demon Ritual been exposed?
A knot of anxiety formed in Yu Yuanzhen's heart.
He had brought the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's elites here to secretly hunt beasts for sacrifice—alongside Tang Hao, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang.
If Luo Ling had seen this, he might suspect the clan of colluding with Evil Soul Masters.
At the very least, they would be guilty of harboring them.
The more he thought, the darker Yu Yuanzhen's expression grew. His gaze turned cold and ruthless as he flew toward Tang Hao's direction.
At this moment, there was only one option left—kill Luo Ling!
(END CHAPTER)
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