chsdbacks Chapter 27 Pig Squeaks
Chapter 27 Pig Squeaks
Chapter 27 Pig Squeaks
"Teacher, you are a master in the study of martial spirits, please guide me."
Upon hearing this, Yu Xiaogang felt pleased with himself. It felt great to be recognized. Right then and there, he didn't hold back in giving Tang San some pointers.
"Based on my years of research, the most suitable development path for Blue Silver Grass is the control type. The so-called control means using one's own martial soul to restrict enemies, so as to assist teammates or attack enemies."
Grass is soft and highly malleable, capable of transforming into various shapes at will. Its simplest use is as rope to bind an opponent.
"Used as a rope?" Tang San was taken aback, then asked in confusion, "But Blue Silver Grass is too fragile; it breaks easily. How can you use it to tie someone up?"
Yu Xiaogang said, "This is the development direction I was talking about. After adding a spirit ring, the martial spirit will be enhanced in all aspects, and what we need to do is to control the prominent direction of this enhancement."
My suggestion is that you develop your martial soul in two directions: resilience and poison. Make your Blue Silver Grass more resilient so it won't be torn apart by your opponent, allowing you to control them. And if you add a poison effect, it will naturally become effective for attack.
At this point, Tang San finally understood. He secretly admired Yu Xiaogang's knowledge; he truly deserved the title of master. He hadn't misjudged him, and becoming his disciple was the right choice.
Putting aside the issue of restricting enemies, Tang San strongly agreed with the idea of adding poison to the Blue Silver Grass, since he was originally a poison expert.
The master and disciple were thinking the same thing; could this be called telepathy?
Yu Xiaogang said, "Oh right, I haven't given you the apprenticeship gift yet."
As he spoke, Yu Xiaogang went to unbuckle his belt.
Tang San was immediately startled!
Wait a moment!
Why are you unbuckling your belt all of a sudden?! I'm just a kid!
And I'm a boy! What are you trying to do?!
No, no!
The next second, Yu Xiaogang handed the belt to Tang San, saying, "This is a storage-type soul tool. It has never had a name. You can give it a name."
Phew, so it was a belt they were going to give me!
Tang San breathed a sigh of relief. "Why didn't you say so earlier? You scared me half to death. I thought you were up to something underhanded!"
When it came to naming it, Tang San, after listening to Yu Xiaogang's description of the belt, blurted out without thinking, "How about calling it 'Where Does the Jade Beauty Teach the Flute'?"
"Huh?" Yu Xiaogang was taken aback. "This name?"
"Uh, no, no, I misspoke." Tang San quickly corrected himself: "Let's call it 'The Moonlit Night Over the Twenty-Four Bridges'."
Tang San panicked. He clearly meant to say "The Moon Over the Twenty-Four Bridges," so how did he inexplicably blurt out the second part of the sentence?
……
They traveled non-stop for more than a day to cover the 400-mile journey, and it wasn't until noon on the second day that the carriage carrying the master and apprentice finally arrived outside the Soul Hunter Forest.
After getting off the carriage, a bustling market came into view, with shops lining both sides of the alley, mostly selling weapons, armor and food supplies.
"We have a warrant to form a group to hunt down power-type soul beasts. We're still missing two people."
Hunting agile, attack-type soul beasts requires seven messengers and 10 gold soul coins.
Various shouts and calls filled the air. Tang San looked around, feeling a sense of novelty; this was quite different from the forest he had imagined.
At this point, Yu Xiaogang started showing off his so-called theories again.
Yu Xiaogang said, "Soul beasts are all very aggressive, so they are not easy to hunt. This so-called group hunting of soul beasts is just a few people cooperating with each other to hunt the soul beasts they need and obtain soul rings. This is the most common and safest method of hunting soul beasts on the continent."
But is forming a group that easy?
When he said these things, Yu Xiaogang had a sense of being the only one who was wise in a world full of fools, and felt a sense of intellectual superiority.
He looked at the people hawking their wares with disdain.
"A truly excellent Soul Hunting group should consist of at least five parts: a food-type person responsible for supplies, a support-type person responsible for status effects, an agility-type person responsible for reconnaissance, and a strength-type person responsible for the main attack."
Only when these five parts are combined can a group be considered a complete group. Moreover, it takes time for them to develop a tacit understanding.
More importantly, group members must trust each other and be able to entrust their backs to their partners.
Tang San nodded in agreement. His teacher truly lived up to his reputation as a master; his words were indeed profound truths.
The two had already purchased the necessary supplies before arriving, so they didn't linger and headed straight for the entrance to the Soul Hunter Forest.
The Soul Hunting Forest is a place specifically for raising low-age soul beasts. To prevent the soul beasts inside from escaping and harming people, soldiers have always been stationed outside it.
Yu Xiaogang handed a token to the soldier, who checked it and, finding it correct, allowed him to pass.
The master and apprentice stepped inside, and the hustle and bustle of the market outside the forest gradually disappeared, replaced by the sounds of birdsong and insect chirping coming from the forest.
How wonderful that feeling from nature is!
Tang San felt as if he had returned to the Tang Clan of Bashu in his previous life. The Tang Clan of Bashu was surrounded by mountains and forests. Back then, he often traveled through the mountains and forests in order to find medicinal herbs to concoct poisons.
"Mistress, from this moment on, you must never leave my side, remember that."
Yu Xiaogang's words brought Tang San back to reality.
"Teacher, I understand."
At this moment, Yu Xiaogang also perked up and summoned his martial spirit.
"Come out, Luo Sanpao."
As soon as he finished speaking, a pale purple soul force erupted in front of him with a loud bang, like a fart—a loud, long, earth-shattering, and deafening fart.
Within that pale purple soul power, an animal had already appeared.
Tang San looked closely and saw that it was a creature that was neither a pig nor a dog.
Its body doesn't look much different from an ordinary pig.
However, the discordant part is that it has a dog's head, and even more discordant is that its ears hanging down on both sides resemble pig ears and are as big as palm fans.
It is quite obese, with a body length of 1.5 meters and a waist circumference of about the same, and overall it looks like a ball of flesh.
The creature, which was neither pig nor dog, trotted over to Yu Xiaogang with its thick, short pig legs and wiggling fat buttocks. It rubbed its head against Yu Xiaogang's body, appearing very docile.
"Teacher, is this your martial soul?" Tang San was surprised. "Isn't it said that beast martial souls manifest as possession? How come it is..."
Luo Sanpao seemed to sense Tang San's discrimination against him, and made a pig-like squeal at Tang San as if in protest.
Yu Xiaogang's expression was somewhat unnatural. "Do you remember the mutated martial soul I told you about? Three Cannons is one of them."
(End of this chapter)