Looking at the constantly wriggling, maggot-like pale white glow on his Clear Sky Hammer, and that dim, almost transparent white ten-year spirit ring.
Tang San's face instantly turned deathly pale, his body uncontrollably staggered back a few steps, and his voice became sharp due to extreme shock and fear, saying:
"Teacher! What's going on? This... what exactly is going on?!"
"Why is my Clear Sky Hammer's spirit ring a white ten-year spirit ring?! And in this... this disgusting state?!"
At this moment, Tang San seemed completely unable to accept the current reality. This was a world of difference from the domineering Clear Sky Hammer he had envisioned, adorned with a ten-thousand-year spirit ring.
"Little San, I... I don't know what... what exactly is going on either..."
Master, stared at by Tang San's almost man-eating gaze, his face alternated between green and white, his lips mumbled for a long time, but he couldn't say a word. After a long while, he finally spoke.
"According to the records of twin spirits in Spirit Hall's secret archives and my research, when a Soul Master attaches the first two spirit rings to their second Martial Soul, as long as it doesn't exceed their Soul Power limit too much, theoretically, there shouldn't be an extreme situation like your body exploding..."
"But... but it just so happened to you! And you couldn't even withstand a hundred-year spirit ring. To save you, I resorted to this desperate measure, letting you absorb this ten-year spirit ring."
Speaking of this, he deliberately paused, his gaze fixed on Tang San, and his tone became even more subtle, subtly pointing the finger of the problem at the latter.
"Could it be... could it be that the quality of your Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul, or rather... your body's endurance, has some hidden dangers or peculiarities that we haven't yet discovered? After all, twin spirits are one in a million, and each case may have its unique characteristics."
Master's words sounded like an analysis of the cause, but between the lines, they were all implying.
The problem is not with my Martial Soul theory, but with you, Tang San.
It's possible that your Martial Soul isn't that perfect, or your physical fitness isn't as strong as it seems, which led to this unexpected failure.
"Impossible!"
"My Clear Sky Hammer is the number one Tool Spirit in the world, how could there be a problem?"
Upon hearing Master attribute the cause of the failure to the quality of his Clear Sky Hammer or a problem with his body, Tang San's eyes instantly turned bloodshot, his anger surged to his head, and he shouted urgently.
At this moment, he felt as if a heavenly and earthly battle was raging in his heart.
If it really isn't my problem... then is it Teacher's Martial Soul theory that has a problem?
Yes! It must be! Yu Xiaogang's so-called twin spirits theory, I think it's just empty talk, never truly verified by practice!
He was the one who confidently said that one could absorb spirit rings beyond their rank, and he was the one who guided me to Cultivate my second Martial Soul, the Clear Sky Hammer, in this way! Now that such a huge blunder has occurred, causing my Clear Sky Hammer to suffer such a great humiliation, turning it into such a defiled and unsightly appearance!
If it is ultimately proven that it was this bastard's erroneous theory that harmed me to this extent... then he has chosen the path of death! My Clear Sky Hammer, how can it be defiled by another's mistakes!
Staring at Master, a cold killing intent uncontrollably flashed in Tang San's eyes.
However, just as he was about to lose control of his emotions.
"Rumble—!!!"
Not far away.
A deafening roar like muffled thunder rolled in, and the ground began to tremble slightly.
Looking out, one could only see smoke and dust rising into the sky from the distant dense forest.
Like a sweeping sandstorm, dense black shadows flickered in and out of the dust, carrying the terrifying Aura of ten thousand beasts stampeding, rushing madly towards their direction!
"Xiaogang! Be careful!"
"It seems like something formidable is rushing towards us!"
Seeing this, Liu Erlong's face instantly changed drastically. Her figure flashed, and like Teleportation, she directly blocked in front of Master, her red Soul Power erupting, forming a shield that firmly protected her and Master behind her.
This sudden change also interrupted Tang San's The anger that is about to erupt.
In the face of a life-and-death crisis, his personal humiliation and doubt were temporarily suppressed.
The next second, a brilliant purple-gold light burst forth from Tang San's eyes, his gaze like two sharp purple lightning bolts, piercing through the pervasive smoke and dust, looking towards the source of the surging torrent.
Immediately, he clearly saw the hair-raising scene.
Countless pairs of crimson beast eyes, Soul Beasts of various shapes and sizes. From ten years, a hundred years, to a thousand years, ten thousand years, they converged into a destructive torrent, trampling everything in their path, rushing madly and with clear purpose towards their current location!
"What?! How... how can there be so many Soul Beasts?!" Tang San's face instantly turned pale, his voice uncontrollably trembling slightly as he spoke.
"Soul Beasts?" Master was first stunned upon hearing this, then followed Tang San's gaze. Although he couldn't see clearly, the roaring of the earth and the rising smoke and dust explained everything.
Immediately after, he sharply turned his head to look at the mountain of Soul Beast corpses behind him, which Tang San had massacred. The heavy scent of blood had almost solidified.
A terrifying thought struck him like lightning!
"Little San! This is bad!" Master's voice became sharp and distorted with fear, saying:
"It's you! You indiscriminately slaughtered Soul Beasts just now, even torturing them. This kind of behavior... this kind of behavior is very likely to have angered some powerful existences in the forest, or triggered the Soul Beast group's spontaneous will for revenge!"
"This is... this is a spontaneous beast tide of Soul Beasts! They are coming for us!"
The ancient texts of Spirit Hall recorded that Soul Beasts are not without intelligence, especially high-year Soul Beasts. Such large-scale slaughter and torture are enough to provoke the hostility of all Soul Beasts in the entire forest!
"Erlong! Quick! Let's run! Get out of here!"
Master could no longer care about anything else, roaring urgently, his hands tightly gripping the armrests of his wheelchair.
Liu Erlong also realized the seriousness of the problem; the Aura of the beast tide made her heart pound. Without any hesitation, she pushed Master's wheelchair, her Soul Power erupting with full force, disregarding whether the direction was correct, and ran wildly in the opposite direction of the approaching beast tide!
"Little San! Keep up!"
Master, on the bumpy wheelchair, didn't forget to shout back.
Tang San looked at the beast tide sweeping in like a natural disaster, and then at his Clear Sky Hammer, wrapped in a filthy white spirit ring.
A surge of frustration, anger, and inexplicable fear welled up in his heart.
Immediately after, he gritted his teeth, forced himself to gather the remaining Soul Power in his body, used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and stumbled to follow Liu Erlong and Master's fleeing footsteps.
Tang San, Master, and Liu Erlong, two able-bodied and one disabled, were not known for their speed, nor did they possess the ability to fly.
And in the beast tide chasing behind them.
There were many Soul Beasts known for their speed, such as wind wolves and shadow leopards.
In a short moment, only a malicious wind was heard from behind, accompanied by a few bloodthirsty growls. Several agile thousand-year Storm Devil Wolves with fierce eyes had already taken the lead in catching up.
They fiercely kicked off the ground with their hind legs, turning into several cyan afterimages, opening their gaping maws, and with a foul wind, pounced separately at Liu Erlong, who was lagging furthest behind, and Tang San and Master, who were stumbling forward!
"Little San! Take your teacher and go first!"
With a low shout, a sharp glint flashed in Liu Erlong's eyes. She unhesitatingly pushed Master's wheelchair violently forward, towards Tang San's direction.
At the same time, scorching crimson Soul Power erupted from her body.
A high-pitched Dragon roar echoed through the forest, and a giant fiery Dragon phantom soared from behind her! The powerful pressure caused the attacking Storm Devil Wolves to momentarily freeze.
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