Chapter 6: The Mandragora Snake
The next day, in a small town outside the Soul Hunting Forest.

Feng Xuan looked through the carriage window and saw many people in groups of three or five beating drums and gongs, shouting and recruiting soul masters.

"Those are soul-hunting teams. To be honest, your mother didn't ask you to go find them. It was the wisest choice."

The young man from yesterday spoke, and his tone did not conceal his disgust for these people.

His name is Sfarro, a deacon of the Spirit Hall whom I met yesterday through Su Yuntao's introduction.

"My father used to do this, and I know all the secret dealings between them."

"He trusted the hyenas too much and was attacked by them because of their greed."

"If my father hadn't been strong enough, his head would have been chopped off."

As he spoke, he tilted his head to look at Feng Xuan, put his hand across his neck and shook it back and forth twice, grinning and teasing.

"Kid, if you are rich and weak like you go in, you will probably be eaten till there is not a bone left."

"That's why I came looking for you, isn't it?"

Feng Xuan shrugged expressionlessly, and then continued: "And if I remember correctly, the gold soul coins that mother gave you were not a small amount."

"I just saw the price written on their sign. A great soul master can be hired for ten gold soul coins."

"That's the price of two of the most worthless White Ring Great Spirit Masters!"

Sfarro crossed his legs, put two yellow spirit rings on his wrists and spun them back and forth, the smile on his face becoming more and more unrestrained.

"A hundred years of wearing it would cost thirty gold soul coins. A high-end soul master with two yellow soul rings would even need more than a hundred gold soul coins."

"I know the market better than you do, and you don't really think we are cheap~"

He raised his chin towards Su Yuntao, who was sitting opposite him with his arms folded and his eyes closed.

"Just take Brother Tao next to you. He only earns thirty gold soul coins for his work here."

"Besides, it's still unclear whether there will be any work. The water here is very deep."

"Enough, Sfarro!" Su Yuntao couldn't stand the other party's chattering.

He said in a deep voice: "If you could control your mouth, you would have been transferred to a big city long ago."

Sfaro snorted coldly and turned his head away.

Not long after, the carriage stopped.

After getting off the car, Su Yuntao took out the temporary warrant that Liu Xi had given him earlier, stepped forward to show it, then turned around and nodded to everyone.

Step through the iron gate and enter the Soul Hunting Forest.

Several people habitually surrounded Feng Xuan in the center, obviously forming teams many times to earn extra money.

Liu Xi did not follow. After all, his strength was there, and he himself did not have a powerful martial spirit, so there was naturally no need for him to go along.

After going a certain distance.

The soul seal on Feng Xuan's hand lit up, the Human Emperor Banner instantly appeared in his hand, and the halo strengthening effect was activated.

Feeling the overflowing power, everyone was shocked and looked at the child carrying the big flag with wide eyes in astonishment.

There isn't even a soul ring yet, but there's such a significant increase!

Feng Xuan tried to swing it and felt that he could use it as a weapon, but he didn't know if it was an illusion.

Then he said softly: "Everyone, this time I mainly want to test the ability of my martial spirit, and the spirit rings and other things are just incidental."

"As long as it's a soul beast of this level that's between four and five hundred years old, it will do."

"Are you sure?" Sfarro frowned and couldn't help but click his lips.

"Kid, I'm not looking down on you, but this level is already catching up with my second soul ring. Can you absorb it successfully?"

His first spirit ring is over a hundred years old, and his second spirit ring is over four hundred years old. Even so, this is already a very good configuration among spirit masters of the same level.

It's outrageous that this kid wants such a high age limit right away.

"Sfarro is right. Your body won't be able to handle it. There are many documents in the Spirit Hall that record people exploding after absorbing a spirit ring that has exceeded its age."

Su Yuntao nodded, then squatted down and held Feng Xuan's shoulders to persuade him. "You asked us for help just to be safe, didn't you? What if something goes wrong? It's not worth it to be so ambitious!"

The other two also spoke out.

"Three hundred years, that's not a low time."

"My child, you are a genius, but you still need to take care of your health."

Feng Xuan looked around and saw a tree covered with strange vines. His eyes fixed and he suddenly remembered something.

So he nodded with a wicked smile and said, "Okay, but I want to do a test first."

"Experiment?" Everyone was puzzled.

He pointed at the vine and asked, "Is that a soul beast?"

When he heard the word soul beast, a spear instantly appeared in Sfarro's hand. He protected Feng Xuan behind him and looked in that direction vigilantly.

His muscles tensed, two drops of cold sweat appeared on his forehead, and he thought to himself: "I didn't even notice it."

The other three were half a beat slower than him, but they also completed the spirit possession at an extremely fast speed.

"Mandragora snake? At least four hundred years. Yuntao, you hold him back while I take the lead! You protect that kid!"

Sfaro recognized what the 'vine' was at a glance, and Su Yuntao followed suit, with his first soul ring lighting up.

The Mandrake snake sensed danger and left the tree in an instant. The two people rushing towards it were reflected in its slender snake eyes.

The snake opened its mouth and a stream of venom shot out from its fangs, piercing towards Su Yuntao like a sharp sword.

"Get out of the way!" Sfarro shouted without looking over there.

Su Yuntao knew the paralyzing power of this thing, so he quickly turned over to avoid it.

"Second soul skill - Jingzhu breaks the army!" The soul ring of Sfarro, who was cross-sprinting at the side, lit up, and his long spear was like a dragon, attacking the seven inches of the snake's waist.

But the snake's body kept moving, and he knew that with his speed, the Mandrake Snake would be able to dodge the attack.

Just as he was about to change his moves, the bending movement froze.

Without thinking too much, he pinned it to the ground with all his strength.

While the beast was being controlled, Su Yuntao used his second soul skill. The wolf claws on his hand glowed with golden light and he scratched the screaming head.

As the Mandrake Snake fell to the ground dying, several people breathed a sigh of relief.

They didn't expect to be able to kill a 400-year-old soul beast so quickly.
Because everyone's attention was focused on the snake, no one noticed that the flag in Feng Xuan's hand had turned black, but soon turned back to bright yellow.

He curled up the corners of his mouth and couldn't help but sigh.

His twin martial souls were indeed special. He didn't need to move the poles, he could just replace the flags and thus change the effects.

"Do you want this spirit ring? It's just over 400 years old, which is just enough to meet your requirements. Besides, it won't cause the body to explode at this age."

Sfaro spoke as he sat on the snake, his frown difficult to relax.

It always feels too easy, so easy that something is wrong.

Feng Xuan took the dagger given by a deacon beside him and walked up to the Mandrake Snake lying limp on the ground.

He took a deep breath, then stabbed the knife directly into the weak spot of its head, crushing the walnut kernel inside.

Yellow strands of soul power quickly drilled out from his body and condensed into a soul ring.

Looking at the soul ring, Feng Xuan couldn't muster the slightest interest.

If you want to get a ferocious beast, even some herbivorous hundred-year-old soul beast, he will not hesitate at all, even if it is a turtle.

Adding strength, physical defense, anything is acceptable.

But what kind of soul skills can this mandrake snake give me? Snakes are really useless for auxiliary systems.

Speed? A cat might be better than this.

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(End of this chapter)