Douluo Continent: Disciple Tang San, righteous yet evil

Chapter 4 Instantly Kills a Thousand-Year-Old Soul Beast
The next morning, Lin Mu found a carriage and took Tang San to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Although there is a Soul Hunting Forest near Notting City, the soul beasts there are all rather weak, making it difficult to find a suitable soul beast for Tang San.

The Star Dou Great Forest is vast and rich in resources, and you can find soul beasts of all kinds.

Undeniably, Lin Mu took Tang San as his disciple out of personal gain, but now that they are master and disciple, he should fulfill his responsibilities as a master.

If someone says one thing to your face and another behind your back, how is that any different from the villain Tang San?

Moreover, Tang San is crucial to the main quest. The greater Tang San's transformation, the more rewards he will receive, and perhaps even other armors.

On the way to the Star Dou Great Forest, Lin Mu explained the basic knowledge about Soul Masters and Soul Beasts to Tang San.

"Master, is Blue Silver Grass really a useless martial soul?"

On the carriage, Tang San suddenly asked.

"From the perspective of the world, Blue Silver Grass is undoubtedly a useless spirit, because the spirit masters who awaken Blue Silver Grass have an innate spirit power of only one or two levels at most, which means they are destined to go very far in terms of talent."

At this point, Lin Mu paused, his gaze falling on Tang San's right palm.

Upon seeing this, Tang San immediately released the Blue Silver Grass. A small blue grass stood in the center of his palm, radiating a faint halo.

It looks no different from other Blue Silver Grass martial souls, but after careful examination, one can sense a slight difference: Tang San's Blue Silver Grass is clearly more vital.

After all, possessing the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, even without undergoing a second awakening, it is fundamentally different from other Blue Silver Grass martial souls.

Lin Mu reached out and patted Tang San on the shoulder, continuing to explain:

“Xiao San, you are different from others. You have innate full soul power. Even if your martial soul is extremely weak, you can still strengthen its quality by absorbing soul rings.”

The statement "There are no useless martial spirits, only useless soul masters" is essentially correct.

Even an inconspicuous blade of grass can play a role in battle as long as its martial soul quality is continuously strengthened.

However, there is a paradox here.

One's innate soul power largely depends on the quality of one's martial soul. If one's innate soul power is too low, one's cultivation speed will be slower, and one will absorb fewer soul rings.

Unless one strengthens their martial soul to a certain level within a limited number of attempts, thereby enhancing their talent, they will ultimately be nothing more than a piece of trash.

Take Yu Xiaogang for example. If his two spirit rings had strengthened Luo Sanpao's Golden Sacred Dragon bloodline, he might have had a real chance to transform into a genius.

Therefore, there are no useless martial spirits, only useless Yu Xiaogang.

It's laughable, really. He spent his whole life studying martial spirit theory, but he couldn't even figure out his own martial spirit.

If Tang San hadn't been born with full soul power and possessed the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline, he would have been harmed by Yu Xiaogang long ago.

For example, Tang San could absorb the Mandragora Serpent's spirit ring to gain a binding spirit skill with a paralyzing effect.

Unfortunately, this "master" thought he had mastered all the skills, when in reality he was just a complete idiot.

"I see, thank you for clearing up my doubts, Master."

Upon hearing this, Tang San suddenly understood and felt a surge of admiration. His master was only ten years older than him, yet he already had such a profound understanding of martial spirits.

The Star Dou Great Forest is located in the southeast of the Barak Kingdom, occupying a significant portion of the territory of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, with only a small part bordering the Barak Kingdom.

Notting City is very close to the Kingdom of Barak; it takes about two days to reach the outer edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.

After two days and nights of travel, the carriage finally arrived at the outskirts of the Starry Sky Forest.

There was a small town nearby, and Lin Mu found a hotel to stay in, planning to take Tang San to hunt spirit beasts again the next day.

The next morning, Lin Mu got up early, packed his things quickly, and then took Tang San into the Star Dou Great Forest.

During his years of traveling the continent, Lin Mu visited the Star Dou Great Forest several times, but previously he had only gone there to hunt for spirit rings. Now, his cultivation had reached level forty-seven, the Soul Master level, and with his Flame Nava, he could even fight against spirit beasts tens of thousands of years old.

In the Starry Sky Forest, towering ancient trees stretch as far as the eye can see, their dense shade blocking out most of the sunlight, leaving dappled light and shadow everywhere on the ground.

rustling—

A gentle breeze rustled the leaves, and a fresh scent of earth and grass wafted through the air.

Lin Mu suddenly stopped and quickly locked his gaze on the distance.

He sensed a cheetah, moving as fast as a shadow, rushing towards them, clearly regarding them as prey.

Soul Masters and Soul Beasts are inherently mortal enemies. Soul Masters need to hunt Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings, but similarly, many Soul Masters also perish in the bellies of Soul Beasts.

From this perspective alone, there is no moral issue with the Spirit Hall hunting down 100,000-year-old spirit beasts.

However, this does not mean that Lin Mu is on the side of the Spirit Hall. Just look at Bibi Dong, that crazy woman, and you can't like her.

The Spirit Hall may have been a good place in the past, but now, under Bibi Dong's management, it is definitely not a good thing.

"Master, a soul beast is approaching."

Tang San's eyes glowed purple as he sensed a soul beast approaching and immediately looked up to warn Lin Mu.

"Mistress, find a place to hide first, I'll take care of things here."

Lin Mu remained calm. This was only the outer edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, where soul beasts over ten thousand years old rarely appeared, so the danger level was not high.

A moment later, a cheetah, entirely black, darted out from a distance, moving like a ghost among the trees.

"The Shadow Panther of three thousand years, huh?"

With a murmur, Lin Mu released his martial spirit and placed it at his waist.

In an instant, his entire body burst into flames, which gradually solidified into a full suit of armor.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Mu's figure disappeared, replaced by a figure covered in red armor.

The head, breastplate, arm armor, and belt are all flame-shaped, and the whole body exudes a strong flame aura.

Unlike the armor in tokusatsu dramas, it has less of a plastic feel and more of a metallic texture, highlighting the weight and solidity that armor should have, exuding an imposing aura.

"court death."

Seeing the Shadow Leopard pounce, Lin Mu immediately delivered an elbow strike.

After knocking it away, he pressed down on the Shadow Panther's head and slammed it hard into the ground.

"boom!!"

With a loud bang, the ground instantly cracked and caved in.

Not far away, Tang San was hiding behind a rock. When he saw Lin Mu suppressing the thousand-year-old soul beast with one hand, his eyes widened in disbelief.

So strong!

Even without using soul skills, Lin Mu could deal with thousand-year-old soul beasts using only his strength when he was in the armor-integrated state.

But in order to finish the battle quickly, the first spirit ring suddenly lit up from beneath his feet, and flames rapidly gathered on his fist as he unleashed a powerful punch.

Immediately afterwards, a fiery fist with a diameter of half a meter struck the Shadow Panther's head precisely, exploding with a loud bang.

(End of this chapter)