Doulou Dalu: Reborn As Tang San - Chapter 8

“What will you do Xiao San??”

“I… I’ll take up your advise Dad and choose a control type ring for my first slot. But I want to build my blue silver grass as a healing type too, which in the long run would grant me the adaptability of the control type and the sustainability of a medic type. Paring that with my clear sky hammer which I’m planning to build an offence and defensive spirit, I believe that this would grant me an insane amount of versatility.”

“Good, You didn’t disappoint me with your answer. Don’t worry I’ll choose a good spirit for your first ring”

“I’ll believe in you Dad”

“And don’t worry about others calling your Blue Silver Grass weak or trash spirit, as it is anything but. Your mother has in fact shown me the limitless potential of this spirit, in exchange for attack power, this spirit offers endless flexibility. You can choose it to be anything, if you increase its strength and hardness you can even go towards the attack or defence direction, increasing its range you can even go towards control or support category. But that still isn’t enough, I think choosing the right spirit you can give your grass the ability of… Poison”

When Tang san heard this, he was shocked, disbelieving the words he has heard. As this was the day that his dad had actually taken the time to explain these stuff to him and in his own way is actually consoling him. Smirking at his current success he then continued listening.

“It’s still early so let’s get moving the creatures in the night are quite dangerous so we have to get this done by today. I’ll be leading the way, but Xiao San I want you to keep an eye out on the surroundings as well, so don’t slack off.

Tang hao then led the way, scouting out ahead for any dangerous spirit beasts but he still kept a close distance from him so that he could come back if anything happens. While moving along they met a few 10-year-old spirit beasts but they just avoided them and moved ahead.

There were a few beasts which tried to attack them but were easily taken care of by Tang hao.

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Name: Demonic grass python

Spirit Ability: Bind

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Soon as they were going in towards the forest they were able to encounter beasts in the 100-years range they were able to find plant type spirit beasts but even Tang San wasn’t interested in the abilities they offered him.

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Name: Venom Ivy Spider

Age: 233

Spirit Ability: Poison secretion

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There were a few which gave him some poisonous abilities but he ignored them as their poison was too weak for his use and also their age was too less for him to gain anything out of it. Soon they encountered a devil vine which was in the 400-year range but Tang San didn’t want that as his first ring so he decided to choose another spirit beast.

The snake which was closer to a lizard, had a long green body, being dragged along by 4 scaled legs and instead of the regular snake having 1 head, this one had 3! (Pic: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/4e/a6/2f4ea63662a34173bd9da2560d22998e.jpg)

‘Observe’

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Name: 3 headed forest hydra (Mutated from a 2 headed forest snake )

Age: 796

Spirit Ability: Constrict

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‘This Spirit Ability is quite good, better than the novel tang san even and from what the name hydra suggest, I can be sure that this ring would at least have something to do with regeneration.’

“Dad, I have decided, this will be my first Spirit Ring!”

Once it got at almost its striking distance, Tang hao then lunged down upon it, diving down with a corkscrew motion to gain more velocity and with a thunderous blow which shook the ground, smashed one of the hydra’s heads in one hit.

When Tang san saw this he quickly activated the Sharingan to find any weak spots on its body and soon enough he was able to see an odd coloured scale, where the heads converge, compared to the other scales which was overflowing with spirit energy this scale was strangely empty. If not for the Sharingan even he wouldn’t be able to identify this oddity and understood that this was probably the legendary reverse scale on dragons.

Tang san then took out a couple of kunais that he had been forging for a year now and threw them towards the eyes of head that was the furthest from his dad. Knowing that they were probably gonna miss as he was still practising how to throw kunais. But it whether they hit or not, it would still accomplish the dėsɨrėd action. Which was to divide the attention of the beast so that Tang hao could weaken it without any problems.

“Xiao san, make sure you keep your distance. From what I same you still don’t have any combat experience and might misjudge the distance of the strike. So just stay where you are and keep doing what you’re doing.”

“Understood. Leave it to me”

Tang san then continued throwing kunais at en masse, aiming at the general direction of the beasts’ eyes and at other times aiming at its reverse scale. And at one way or another, a kunai ricocheted off the hydras scales and manage to hit and buried itself right where the reverse scale was, very much hurting the beast.

With the opening Tang San had created, Tang hao released one of his spirit ring abilities that ended up cleaving the beast in two and soon enough the 3 headed forest hydra lost its energy and fell straight to the ground.

Seeing that Tang San went towards Tang hao and said,

“Dad, is it safe to got there now?”

Tang Hoa said handing him a sword as he went near the beast and sat in a lotus position and with his Blue Silver grass he attracted the ring and started to circulate his spirit energy.

A yellow Spirit Ring appeared from the Hydra’s corpse and I used my Spirit Energy to bring it towards me. Since it was lower than my current Spirit Ring age tolerance there were no problems with absorbing it. Quickly, I gain information about Spirit Ability.

[Constrict: Traps the target disabling their movements. Age of Spirit Ability adds different properties to the spirit]

Yellow: Traps the target disabling their movements.

Purple: Increases vine durability to that of wood and power of the grip. Secretes corrosive poison

Black: Increases all previous effect and adds lumps on the surface of the vine where it would sprout more vines.

Red: Increases all previous effect and adds high-speed regeneration on the vines

Gold: Increases all previous effect and adds skill [Camouflage]

Effects:

Can be used to change the colour of one’s Soul Rings and create entirely fake ones.

Allows him to ȧssimilate into the environment like a chameleon, but if the user so much as twitches his fingers then they would be revealed.