Chapter 93: This Is How Tang San "Takes Care of Someone in Old Age"? This Is How He "Sends Them Off"?
Ning Rongrong's words made everyone in the group pause slightly.
[Nine Heart: I don't know about that.]
[I Want to Live Past Thirty: I don't know either. Qin Ming usually just guides us in combat as a teacher; we wouldn't specifically ask about his soul ring configuration.]
[Bunny Who Loves Candied Hawthorns: Isn't it obvious? I feel like Qin Ming's purple fifth soul ring probably has something to do with Shrek Academy.]
[Irritable Pig-Raising Maniac: Xiao Wu, don't drag Shrek Academy into everything, okay? That's Boss Flender's academy. And Shrek students graduate at rank forty. This is Qin Ming's fifth soul ring!]
[Bunny Who Loves Candied Hawthorns: Not necessarily. What if Qin Ming's third and fourth soul rings had relatively low year limits? Then the attributes those two rings provided might not support absorbing a ten-thousand-year soul ring at rank fifty.]
[Bunny Who Loves Candied Hawthorns: You all know the difference between ten-thousand-year soul rings and thousand-year ones. Ten-thousand-year rings contain resentment and soul shock. If a soul master's spiritual power doesn't meet the standard, they'll be shocked into becoming an idiot.]
[I Want to Live Past Thirty: I get it! If that's the case, Shrek really does bear significant responsibility. For ordinary soul masters, a purple fifth soul ring is normal, but Qin Ming is a genius. A thousand-year fifth soul ring would lower his potential ceiling!]
[Queen of the Night: Then wouldn't the Heaven Dou royal family have raised him for nothing? With a purple fifth soul ring, can he still become a Titled Douluo?]
[I Don't Like Men: I can answer that — it's possible, but the upper limit definitely won't be high. Around rank ninety-two or ninety-three is basically the maximum. Higher than that is impossible.]
[Seven-Treasure Little Rich Lady: The Heaven Dou royal family probably already knows that, but it doesn't stop them from nurturing him. After all, the Heaven Dou Empire doesn't even have a single Titled Douluo. A rank ninety-two or ninety-three would still be much stronger than Yanyan's grandfather.]
Dugu Yan: …Was that polite?
Meanwhile, Lin Yuan's diary continued.
[As for his relationship with Dugu Bo, because of the detoxification matter (even though it wasn't done particularly well), they appeared to get along quite well on the surface, even calling each other brothers despite the age difference.]
[After searching Sunset Forest for a long time without results, Tang San suggested trying their luck near Dugu Bo's herb garden.]
[He used an herb he had conveniently taken — no, "borrowed" — from the garden: Aromatic Silk Beauty.]
[This thing is a treasure. Although it can't be eaten, it releases a strange fragrance that lures soul beasts from within a hundred-li radius.]
[Tang San dripped a drop of specially prepared medicinal liquid onto it, filtering out low-level soul beasts and specifically fishing for big prey.]
[The method worked very well; several high-level soul beasts soon appeared for them to choose from.]
[And this Aromatic Silk Beauty was just one of the items Tang San obtained from Dugu Bo's herb garden.]
[It could be said that after the detoxification incident, Dugu Bo's herb garden was basically emptied out by Tang San.]
[Among the herbs he picked, some were for the other six members of the Shrek Seven Devils, some were for Yu Xiaogang, but none were left for Dugu Bo or Dugu Yan.]
[You have to remember, Dugu Bo was the one who brought him to that herb garden in the first place. Yet Tang San didn't leave a single herb for the two of them!]
[Tang San used Dugu Bo's belongings to buy people's loyalty, giving them to his brothers, giving them to his teacher, but not leaving even one herb for the garden's true owner!]
[At the time, Dugu Yan's martial soul backlash wasn't as severe as Dugu Bo's. With the right herbs to assist her, not only could she detoxify, but her strength would have skyrocketed!]
[But Tang San? He clearly knew which herbs were useful to the Dugu family, yet deliberately ignored them.]
[And for that, Dugu Bo still treated him as a sworn brother? Even offended Spirit Hall for his sake?]
[Is that brotherhood? That's clearly treating Dugu Bo like the easiest "ATM" and "tool" to exploit!]
[It could even be said he was the biggest sucker Tang San met in his entire life!]
[Dugu Bo wanted to be Tang San's angel investor, but he didn't understand Tang San's nature. Tang San gained so many benefits from him, but what did Dugu Bo get?]
[Aside from the initial detoxification, nothing. In fact, in the end, Dugu Bo even lost his life because of it!]
[Tang San once said he would take care of Dugu Bo in old age and see him off at the end, and this is how he did it? He sent him straight to the underworld!]
Dugu Yan's expression changed drastically.
She sat beside Lin Yuan, doing her best to suppress the trembling of her body.
She couldn't let Lin Yuan notice anything unusual.
She never imagined that in the original story, her grandfather would die because of Tang San.
As for whether Lin Yuan's words were true, he didn't know they possessed copies of the diary, and she had already observed things for two years.
The matters concerning Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue had long been verified in the chat group.
So Dugu Yan didn't doubt Lin Yuan's diary at all.
A faint, almost imperceptible smile appeared at the corner of Lin Yuan's lips.
Was he lying?
Not really.
After all, in the anime, Dugu Bo did die.
Of course, in the novel's ending, he didn't.
But Lin Yuan naturally chose to write the version most beneficial to himself.
And now, the possibility of Tang San obtaining the immortal herbs had basically been cut off.
Still, just to be safe, he needed to visit the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well as soon as possible.
At this moment, the chat group was in an uproar.
[Seven-Treasure Little Rich Girl: Damn… that's quite a move. Using someone else's stuff as gifts and acting so justified about it? Though… I think I was one of the beneficiaries…]
[Irritable Pig-Raising Maniac: Tsk, even Xiaogang got a share? I do hope Xiaogang can break through, but Tang San's approach… really isn't honorable.]
[Irritable Pig-Raising Maniac: That old poison monster Dugu Bo may be annoying, but he really got cheated badly this time.]
[I Don't Like Men: Spending others' generosity to build your own reputation.]
[I Don't Like Men: And after everything Dugu Bo did for Tang San, he still died in the end?]
[Sworn Protector of the Pope: It's a bit immoral, but I kind of want to laugh. Lin Yuan's last line really got me.]
[Sworn Protector of the Pope: @I Want to Live Past Thirty Sorry, not intentional. My condolences for one second.]
[Nine Heart: Yanyan, don't be too upset. Fortunately, Lin Yuan revealed this now. It's still early, and things can still be changed.]
[I Want to Live Past Thirty: I know. With me here this time, I won't let Grandpa walk the same path as in the original story!]
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