Chapter 5: Ch.: 5. Snake Couple, Face Demon Spider, External Soul Bone, Analysis
Next day.
Flender called everyone for training.
Everyone has to circle the Academy 20 times.
Everyone completed the training and in last were Oscar and Ning Rongrong.
Man An has no interest in Ning Rongrong, so he let Oscar approach her.
In evening Oscar was scolded by Flender and Ning Rongrong has a fight with Flender and she turned to left, Oscar also followed her.
Everyone turned to Soul Arena on Flender's order.
Man An didn't joined them.
After they came back, Ning Rongrong and Dai Mubai has a fight.
Man An interrupted and beat up Dai Mubai, just skin trauma.
Next morning, everyone was gathering in the ground.
Oscar came late and said that he has broken through 30th level.
Flender initiated a test for everyone to eat, Oscar's Sausages, after hearing his curse.
Man An and Ma Hongjun ate the sausage, followed by Ning Rongrong surprising everyone, except Man An.
The one to eat in last was Dai Mubai.
After that, Flender called Zao Wou Ki and ordered him to take veryone to Star Dou Jungle to find a soul ring for Oscar and turned to leave that he has some urgent work to complete.
Everyone was ordered to gather supplies and will leave in two hours.
Everyone dispersed.
After two hours all of them gathered and started their journey to Star Dou Jungle.
In evening they arrived at small village near Star Dou Jungle.
In Tavern they had dinner and scene happened as in real work.
In last students were defeated but their teacher came, Man An joined the fight and started to fight against Cang Hui teacher, but were defeated, Zao Wou Ki came and defeated teacher of Cang Hui Academy and let them go away after humiliation.
Next morning they entered Star Dou Jungle and after a few hours came Phoenix tail crest serpent.
Tang San showed his knowledge gained by Master.
After defeating Serpent easily with help of Man An.
But when Oscar was about to kills serpent.
"Stop! We we're hunting that serpent and it escaped and fell in your hands." A old woman's voice sounded.
"I am Chao Tian Xiang and you can't give this soul ring to that kid." She said showing her Soul emperor rings.
"And why he can't have that soul rings, we hunted that serpent." Zhao wou ki said showing his Soul Saint rings.
"We hunted that first,proof is under its body, slashes left by me." Old woman said.
After checking, Tang San nodded.
"Sorry but your ability is lacking and you lost it and it fell in our hands, so this is ours." Zao Wou Ki said.
"Ok than, let's decide by letting kids fighting each other, my granddaughter and choose who will fight from your students, one who wins will keep that serpent." Old woman said, cursing inwardly that her husband is not present, if not how can this Zao Wou Ki can bully her.
Man An raised his hand.
"I will." Man An said and stepped forward.
There was smirk on Zao Wou Ki's lips.
Man An turned into Venom and fought with, woman's granddaughter after she stabilized her mentality.
She was defeated in two moves as Venom just slapped her backhandedly.
Old woman in left in anger with her granddaughter, glaring at Man An, who has turned back to his human form.
Man An didn't used his full strength, when fighting against Tang San few days ago, when Tang San used his hammer, he sensed murderous aura directed on him, so he let that hammer fall on him.
As for past few days, he didn't changed the plot was because he wanted to let Tang San drop his vigilance against him, so he can take Eight Spider Lances.
Just when Oscar absorbed his soul ring and explained its effect, earthquake happened.
Titan monkey appears in vision.
Zao Wou Ki tried to stop it, but injured his body, vomiting blood.
Titan took Xiao Wu and left.
Tang San in anger with red eyes, asked Oscar for his flying sausages and followed where Titan left.
Man An nodded to Oscar, who also helplessly made few more flying sausages and handed them to Man An.
Man An turned into Venom and ate all of Sausages and flew following Tang San.
After a few seconds he saw Tang San fighting Man faced spider.
"Tang San! You go and follow Xiao Wu, I will take care of this Spider." Venom said and for firm punching spider.
Tang San was a bit reluctant, because he found that he broke through 30th level just now and wanted to absorb ring of this spider.
But when he heard Xiao Wu's name, he ate another rsausage and flew up again, following Titan's left traces.
Man An was fighting Spider, when he saw Tang San left, he quickly used tendrils attack to bind the spider and used his right hand claw to tear apart it's soft stomach killing it in one move.
After that, Venom sat down and meditated to absorb the External soul bone.
As for why he can, because he once found a 1000 year old Whale Rubber which raised his soul power by level 8.
While absorbing soul bone he felt soul shock of spider, but just shurgged it off and absorbed the soul bone in few seconds.
Venom found that soul bone was bit rebellious, so he exerted his force on soul bones.
Soul bones were retracted in body, Man An just stood their waiting for others to come.
the one who came first one were not Zao Wou Ki and others, but That woman and he husband with their granddaughter.
Looking at spider and his soul ring flying above it.
"Boy how dare you kill this spider, we were hunting it." Old woman yelled loudly.
"Old lady, this spider first attacked me and as you can see I didn't absorbed it's soul ring and my friend is kidnapped by Titan monkey, so I was following my other friend and we met this spider, next you can know what happened." Venom said, with his tongue jumping.
Suddenly voices came, Old lady and her family became alert.
Venom just turned his head and looked back, he knew Zao Wou Ki and others have arrived.
"Boy, don't run next time if not I will brake your legs." Zao Wou Ki said and turned to look at old woman and her family.
"Sorry old lady, but Titan kidnapped our one of the student, so we were following him, can one of you help us, as we are humans and same species, I will thank you later." Zao Wou Ki said with a bit of flattering, he knew that these couple can kill them jointly, so he asked for their help and took out name of Titan the king of Star Dou Jungle.
Couple were bit afraid, when they heard name of Titan again, at first they didn't believe what Venom said, but now hearing it again and the previous earthquakes, they were sure that Titan is nearby.
"Oh sorry, for not accompanying you, my granddaughter needs her third soul ring, so we will leave first." Old man said and turned to leave in hurry.
"Coward." A voice sounded in mind of Man An.
Man An was surprised by this, but he didn't said anything to new born consciousness of Venom.
He can feel that, this new born consciousness is submissive to himself and he can know what it is thinking, just a child who want to smash things, it likes.
"Let's follow Tang San." Zao Wou Ki said and everyone started to run toward the location Man An pointed.
After a while they found Tang San unconscious with Xiao Wu.
Dai Mubai picked up Tang San and Zhuqing Xiao Wu.
"Okay let's leave this jungle immediately, we don't know when Titan has mood changes and will return." Zao Wou Ki said, while everyone nodded and they started running to outside of Jungle.
After running and resting for three hours, they arrived at outskirts of Star Dou Jungle.
Xiao Wu has already woke up in middle of the way.
After booking rooms in Tavern, they let Tang San sleep with Xiao Wu taking care of him.
Three days later, everyone arrived at Shrek Academy.
"Ah, home is always best way to find solace, nothing is better than your home and bed." Ma Hongjun said taking deep breath of familiar environment.
"You're right fatty." Oscar chimed in.
Tang San has already woke up in Tavern after resting for few hours.
And the fabricated story Xiao Wu created was same as original story.
A buffalo barked and Titan dropped her on ground and she found a seriously injured rabit soul beast, which she killed and absorbed it's soul ring.
As for Tang San he found another spider, but it was different as this spider can grow metal thrones on its legs and release toxins directly in the body or release in air in form of gas.
And Tang San's third soul ring was 1500 year old purple soul ring with soul skill was that he can release more hardened vines which can grow metal thorns, releasing poison of mandala snake and ghost vine which was enhanced after gaining third soul ring.
Man An sighed that protagonist will gain opportunity even if it was taken by someone else, but good thing is that it is not as good as his just gained Eight Spider Lances.
On the way Man An found that something changed in his body after fusing with Eight Spider Lances.
They fused with his body and he gained many new abilities like he can harden the extensions made by his body or soften them, like tendrils at first they can only pierce certain defense but after it was hardened it can pierce three times the defense before.
Eight Spider Lances have ability to devour poison and upgrade itself by evolution, but after fusion with venom it has new ability which can devour soul power, soul beast body characteristics of 2 percent probability.
Like if he absorbed body of fire type beast, his venom have 2 percent chances to gain resistance to that attribute.
Man An knew that he will never win in probability games, so he just decided to absorb soul rings to give resistance to his Venom.
Man An thought of Yin and Yang pond of Sunset Jungle.
He have to prevent Tang San to attract Dugu Yan's attention.
The big surprise was that, after venom was fuses with Eight Spider Lances they became new product and morphed with Venom and Man An has idea that he can use this ability to create wings on his back to fly, he also obtained ability to store poison in his body, as for being poisoned in return no worries, all poisons will be stored in Eight Venom Lances and he have 100 percent control on them.
(After being morphed with Venom it's spider characteristics were removed and became one with Venom)