Chapter 284: 303. Losing Xiao Wu Means Losing Everything
Tang San said with a stiff face, "I know, you're angry right now. It's okay, I've changed my mind. Let's go back. The Silverback Demonic Chimpanzee is fine, the Cangming Marsh Cow is fine. I just need a power-type soul beast with sufficient years."
"You want those soul beasts as soul rings now." Hai Ge sneered at Tang San and said, "With your sharp-mouthed, monkey-cheeked appearance, do you even deserve it? Hai Ge has changed his mind. Today, you must kill this slug for me and absorb its soul ring."
"Hai Ge, don't forget, my martial soul is the Haotian Hammer. Behind the Haotian Hammer is the Haotian Sect." Tang San summoned the Haotian Hammer, trying to use the prestige of the Haotian Hammer to pressure this Hai Ge.
"Yo yo yo, dark little flatbread, using the Haotian Sect to pressure me." Hai Ge said with a cold laugh, "A rat hole that's been beaten by the Spirit Hall into sealing the mountain and not daring to come out. Do you think Hai Ge would be afraid of them? Today, you can't escape this slug. Make me absorb it."
"Hai Ge—" Tang San's eyes turned red, breathing heavily like an ox as he roared, "Are you planning to ruin my martial soul!"
"Little flatbread, you actually got it right. Accompanying you circling around in this forest, Hai Ge's anger is very high right now—" Hai Ge picked his nostril with his hand, dug out a big booger and flicked it onto Tang San's dark face, "So, your Haotian Hammer, Hai Ge is damn well going to ruin it today. The slug on the ground, kill it for me and absorb its soul ring."
"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. You bully me, Tang San, like this today. Aren't you afraid that in the future, I, Tang San, will come to settle accounts with you? Leave a line in doing things, so we can meet again in the future—" Tang San wiped the booger off his face and roared angrily.
"The future is the future, now is now. If you always treat the future as the now, how about you say you'll become a god in the future to sanction me~" Hai Ge said with an evil smile, "But little flatbread, right now you're just a weakling. As a weakling, you should know your place and be obedient. Understand?"
Tang San looked around with his eyes and listened in all directions. Now he couldn't do anything to Hai Ge, and he wasn't willing to absorb a slug as his first soul ring and ruin his Haotian Hammer. For now, the best plan was to walk away as the thirty-sixth stratagem.
"Little flatbread, don't you know your current situation yet?" Hai Ge said indifferently, "This forest is very large and very complex, like a maze. Without a guide familiar with the roads, you might not be able to get out even after turning here for several months, let alone the other dangers existing inside the Star Dou Great Forest."
Without you? Tang San snorted coldly. In the previous life, entering and exiting the Star Dou Great Forest was like entering his own home.
But soon, Tang San suddenly realized that in the previous life, when he was weak, he could enter and exit the Star Dou Great Forest because Zhao Wuji, Xiao Wu, and others led the way.
Then, when he became strong, he could fly into the air to confirm directions and then exit the Star Dou Great Forest.
Back then, after becoming a god, when he stole, ah, took away the growing Tree of Life from the Lake of Life deep in the Star Dou Great Forest while the Silver Dragon King and other murderers were asleep, to supply it for his mother to seize the body and use as the foundation for Shrek Academy, it was by locking onto the destination and instant shifting there.
And after becoming a god, he had also descended to the Star Dou Great Forest several times. For example, that time when he split his daughter's soul into three parts, one stuffed into the Auspicious Beast to seize the body and thus scheme for the fortune of the Star Dou Great Forest. The reason it went so smoothly was because his main body was in the Divine Realm, opening the divine vision, where the entire internal situation of the Star Dou Great Forest was clear at a glance.
Besides that, Tang San had never carefully studied the internal structure of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Now, weak as he was to this extent, if he left Hai Ge, he would really get lost in this vast forest.
"So, without me, you can't get out of this forest." Hai Ge sneered, "If you want to leave here, there's only one prerequisite, and that is to absorb this slug for me."
"Does it really have to be this ruthless?" Tang San's eyes turned red, breathing heavily like an ox as he questioned.
"Little flatbread, you make Hai Ge very unhappy. Now thinking about it, with you this black coal head, what right do you have to possess twin martial souls, and such a good martial soul like the Haotian Hammer? Hai Ge is going to ruin you today. Even if gods come, it's useless."
Tang San: "..."
Right now, Tang San only hoped that the Asura God in the Divine Realm could give him a hand, but the miracle did not happen.
"According to my estimation, even on the way out of the forest, without encountering fierce soul beasts and relying on hunting for survival, you would still need several months. You're a participant in the Soul Master Tournament, right? In those few months, the round-robin and finals would have already passed, right." Hai Ge said.
Tang San became even more silent. If there was no miracle, he would be trapped in this forest throughout the entire tournament process. Then his mother's soul bone, and Xiao Wu's mother's soul bone would all...
"Little flatbread, I heard that you're still pursuing a cute little girl, right? If you disappear for a few months, do you think your lover will throw herself into someone else's arms?" Hai Ge said.
This sentence was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, shattering Tang San's inner defenses.
Now everything connected. If he didn't absorb the slug soul beast, then he would be thrown into the Star Dou Forest by this despicable Hai Ge. Without a miracle, relying on himself, he would also need several months to get out, delaying the tournament's round-robin and finals. In that time, Yu Tianheng would take the opportunity to seize Xiao Wu's heart, and ultimately gain the recognition of the Asura Demon Sword.
Then, Xiao Wu, the Asura God position, everything that belonged to him would be taken away by that thief Yu Tianheng.
Then, everything he saw in the illusion would become reality. Thinking of what happened in the illusion, Tang San's hands mechanically pushed forward, pulled back, pushed forward, pulled back...
Tang San suddenly withdrew his hands. No, this kind of thing absolutely cannot be allowed to happen. Tang San's eyes turned red, breathing heavily like an ox as he said to Hai Ge, "Fine, I'll absorb it."
Saying that, Tang San came in front of the slug, picked up the knife, and ended the slug's life in one stroke. A purple soul ring emerged from the slug's corpse.
Tang San stared blankly at this purple soul ring, hesitating. He hoped to delay, he hoped for a miracle, such as his father appearing, or the Asura God descending punishment on Hai Ge.
But in the end, the miracle did not happen.
"What are you waiting for? Hurry up and absorb it. I'll count to one. If you don't absorb it, you'll stay in this forest. Five, four, three..." Hai Ge began to urge.
"Don't, I'll absorb it, I'll absorb it." Tang San quickly pulled this soul ring over.
Fortunately, cultivating the Haotian Hammer to the end relies on the Haotian Nine Decisions and the Great Sumeru Hammer, and doesn't have very high requirements for soul rings. Tang San comforted himself in his heart like this. Then he took a deep breath and pulled this soul ring over to absorb it.
(END CHAPTER)
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