Chapter 60: Tang San collapses in despair, might as well be dead

Not long after Gu Yue Na left with the Titan Giant Ape, Dai Mubai was the first to slowly wake up.

After feeling a weight pressing on his body, Dai Mubai instinctively kicked out with one leg.

Zhao Wuji, who had been kicked awake, also came to; as he tumbled through the air, he felt intense pain all over his body, prompting an involuntary, anguished howl.

Ugh—ahhh!!!

Zhao Wuji's roar woke the others.

Upon seeing Zhao Wuji rolling on the ground, everyone rushed over to check his condition.

"How are you, Teacher Zhao? Anything wrong?"

Zhao Wuji, face twisted in pain, refused their touch, his voice hoarse as he spoke.

"Don't touch me—I can't stand the pain, Oscar, hurry and give me a recovery sausage."

Upon hearing that, Oscar instinctively channeled his soul power, chanting to create a sausage.

However, when he saw that Oscar now had an extra white ten‑year soul ring, Zhao Wuji forgot his own pain, grabbed him, and exclaimed.

"Oscar, what's going on? Why did you absorb a ten‑year soul ring?"

Oscar lowered his gaze; upon seeing the white soul ring encircling him, he was struck as if by lightning, stiffening on the spot.

"What's happening? Why is this? Why do I have a ten‑year soul ring?"

Oscar could clearly feel that this was not an illusion.

The seal that had prevented him from raising his soul power level vanished, indicating that this ten‑year soul ring was his third.

According to the Douluo Continent's recognized optimal setup, a third soul ring can already absorb a thousand‑year level.

Many talented soul masters with backgrounds wouldn't even choose a ten‑year ring for their first.

Like Oscar, his first and second rings were clearly hundred‑year yellow, yet his third dropped back to ten‑year.

How could Oscar, famed as a genius food‑system soul master, accept this?

After regaining his senses, Oscar's lips trembled, his legs went weak, and he fell to his knees with a thud, bursting into an anguished howl.

"How could this happen? Why? Why is this?!"

Seeing Oscar's emotions collapse, Zhao Wuji knew he wouldn't get answers from him, so, enduring the pain, he turned to Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Ma Hongjun and asked in a low voice.

"What exactly happened just now? Weren't you already running? Why did you faint here? And what's with Oscar's ten‑year soul ring?"

Faced with Zhao Wuji's barrage of questions, Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun were equally bewildered, shaking their heads blankly.

"I don't know."

"We also don't know what happened; we just fainted out of nowhere, and when we opened our eyes, it was like this."

Just as Zhao Wuji was about to press further, Tang San's heart lurched with a bad premonition; he quickly channeled his soul power to release his Blue Silver Grass.

Upon seeing the white soul ring at the tip of his Blue Silver Grass, Tang San's palm began to tremble.

"Why is this? Why did I also absorb a ten‑year soul ring? What exactly happened just now?"

Tang San was dumbfounded.

Oscar absorbing a ten‑year soul ring was bad enough—why did Tang San have the same?

Who exactly did this?

After seeing Tang San's three soul rings, Zhao Wuji instinctively asked.

"Has your soul power also reached rank thirty?"

After saying that, Zhao Wuji realized, his eyes locked on the white soul ring atop Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, and he gritted his teeth.

"What the hell did you idiots do? Why did each of you absorb a ten‑year soul ring? Can you tell me what you two were thinking?!"

Zhao Wuji was about to go mad.

Whether Tang San or Oscar, their talent is absolutely top‑tier on the continent; becoming Soul Elders at such a young age, they could easily surpass their senior Qin Ming.

But Qin Ming's fifth soul ring had only absorbed a thousand‑year level, which already pained Flandre and Zhao Wuji.

Now Tang San and Oscar are actually repeating Qin Ming's mistake.

No, it's even more absurd than Qin Ming's.

A ten‑year soul ring differs from a thousand‑year one not just by a hundredfold in age; its effect and power are inferior by over a thousandfold.

At this moment, Zhao Wuji even regretted not dying in the Titan Giant Ape's grasp.

If that had happened, Tang San and Oscar's subsequent responsibility would have nothing to do with him.

But now, as the team leader of the hunt, he will surely bear the main responsibility for this incident.

Especially since Tang San's father, Tang Hao, is a Title Douluo; if he learns of this, even if he isn't beaten to death, he will surely be crippled.

As Zhao Wuji wondered what to do, he saw Tang San trembling as he channeled his soul power to release his second martial soul, the Haotian Hammer.

Upon seeing the three white soul rings encircling the Haotian Hammer, Tang San felt a surge of blood rush through him, collapsing limp to the ground.

"No!!!"

The usually calm Tang San had his emotions completely collapse.

The Haotian Hammer is his greatest reliance; per Yu Xiaogang's plan for his future, once he at least reaches Soul Saint, he would then add soul rings to the Haotian Hammer.

That would guarantee each soul ring on the Haotian Hammer exceeds ten‑thousand years.

But now he is merely a rank‑thirty Soul Elder, yet the Haotian Hammer already has three soul rings—all the lowest‑grade ten‑year ones.

This genius soul master with twin martial souls has utterly become a waste, just like Yu Xiaogang.

Upon seeing the Haotian Hammer in Tang San's hand, Zhao Wuji, Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and even Oscar couldn't help but widen their eyes.

If, before the hunt, Tang San had revealed his twin martial souls, they would surely have thought him an unparalleled genius.

But now, watching this unparalleled genius possess three white soul rings, he plummeted to the bottom in an instant.

Zhao Wuji felt his heart ache to the point of breathlessness, and became even more convinced that Tang Hao would not let him off.

And upon seeing Tang San in a worse state than himself, Oscar suddenly felt less pain.

Because he only had a single ten-year soul ring, whereas Tang San, this genius with twin martial souls, suddenly gained four more.

Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun exchanged a glance, both able to clearly see the deep relief in each other's eyes.

Fortunately, their soul power had not yet reached the level needed to absorb a soul ring.

Otherwise, they would likely have ended up sharing the same fate as Tang San and Oscar.

(End of chapter)