Not long after Gu Yuena left with the Titan Giant Ape, Dai Mubai was the first to slowly wake up.
Feeling a heavy weight on him, Dai Mubai instinctively kicked it away.
Zhao Wuji, who was kicked flying, also woke up. As he rolled in the air, he felt intense pain throughout his body, causing him to let out a mournful howl.
"Ah ah ah!!!"
Zhao Wuji's roar woke up the others.
Seeing Zhao Wuji rolling on the ground, everyone rushed over to check on him.
"How are you, Teacher Zhao? Are you alright?"
Zhao Wuji painfully refused their touch, his face contorted, his voice hoarse.
"Don't touch me, I'm in unbearable pain right now. Oscar, quickly give me a recovery sausage."
Upon hearing this, Oscar subconsciously activated his soul power and chanted a spell to make a sausage.
However, when he saw that Oscar had an extra soul ring, and it was white, representing the ten-year level, Zhao Wuji didn't even care about the pain in his body. He grabbed him directly and exclaimed in shock.
"Oscar, what's going on? Why did you absorb a ten-year soul ring?"
Oscar looked down, and when he saw the white soul ring surrounding him, he was struck by lightning. He froze on the spot.
"What's going on? Why is this happening? Why do I have a ten-year soul ring?"
Oscar could clearly feel that this was not an illusion.
The constraint that had prevented him from increasing his soul power level was gone, which meant that this ten-year soul ring was his third soul ring.
According to the widely accepted optimal configuration on the Douluo Continent, the third soul ring could absorb the thousand-year level.
Many soul masters with good talent and background would not even choose the ten-year level for their first soul ring.
Just like Oscar, his first and second soul rings were clearly hundred-year yellow, but by the third soul ring, he had regressed back to ten years.
How could Oscar, who had always been known as a genius food-type soul master, accept this?
Oscar, who had come back to his senses, his lips trembling, only felt his legs go weak. He fell to his knees with a thud and roared in despair.
"How could this happen? Why? Why is this happening?!"
Seeing that Oscar's emotions had collapsed, Zhao Wuji knew he wouldn't get an answer from him. He endured the pain and turned to look at Dai Mubai, Tang San, and Ma Hongjun, asking in a deep voice.
"What exactly happened just now? Didn't you run away? Why are you unconscious here? What's with Oscar's ten-year soul ring?"
Facing Zhao Wuji's barrage of questions, Tang San, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun were also stunned, shaking their heads in confusion.
"We don't know."
"We don't know what happened. We just inexplicably fainted on the ground, and when we opened our eyes, it was like this."
Just as Zhao Wuji was about to press further, Tang San's heart skipped a beat. He suddenly had a bad premonition and quickly activated his soul power to release his Blue Silver Grass.
When he saw the white soul ring at the very top of the Blue Silver Grass, Tang San's hands also began to tremble.
"Why is this happening? Why did even I absorb a ten-year soul ring? What exactly happened just now?"
Tang San was dumbfounded.
It was one thing for Oscar to absorb a ten-year soul ring, but why was he the same?
Who did this?
Upon seeing Tang San's three soul rings, Zhao Wuji subconsciously asked.
"Has your soul power also reached level thirty?"
After speaking, Zhao Wuji reacted. He stared intently at the white soul ring on the Blue Silver Grass in Tang San's hand, gritting his teeth.
"What did you fools do? Why did each of you absorb a ten-year soul ring? Can you tell me, what were you two thinking?!"
Zhao Wuji was about to go crazy.
Both Tang San and Oscar's talent could definitely be considered top-tier on the Continent. To become Soul Grandmasters at such a young age, they had a great chance of surpassing their senior, Qin Ming.
But back then, Qin Ming only absorbed a thousand-year level for his fifth soul ring, which already caused Flander and Zhao Wuji considerable heartache.
Now, Tang San and Oscar were repeating Qin Ming's mistakes.
No, it was even more outrageous than Qin Ming.
A ten-year soul ring and a thousand-year soul ring were not only a hundred-year difference in age, but their effects and power were thousands of times weaker than a thousand-year soul ring.
At this moment, Zhao Wuji even regretted why he didn't die at the hands of the Titan Giant Ape.
If that were the case, the subsequent responsibility for Tang San and Oscar would have nothing to do with him.
But now, as the leading teacher of the soul hunting operation, he would definitely bear the main responsibility for this incident.
Especially since Tang San had Tang Hao, a Title Douluo level father. If Tang Hao found out about this, even if he wasn't beaten to death, he would definitely be crippled.
Just as Zhao Wuji didn't know what to do, he saw Tang San trembling as he activated his soul power and released his second martial soul, the Haotian Hammer.
When he saw the three white soul rings surrounding the Haotian Hammer, Tang San felt a surge of blood rush up, causing him to collapse to the ground.
"No!!!"
Tang San, who had always been very calm, completely broke down emotionally.
The Haotian Hammer was his greatest reliance. According to the future Yu Xiaogang had planned for him, he would only add soul rings to the Haotian Hammer after he became at least a Soul Saint.
That way, he could ensure that every soul ring on the Haotian Hammer would exceed ten thousand years.
But now he was only a level thirty Soul Grandmaster, and the Haotian Hammer already had three soul rings, and they were the most useless ten-year soul rings.
He, this genius soul master with twin martial souls, had completely become a waste just like Yu Xiaogang.
Upon seeing the Haotian Hammer in Tang San's hand, not only Zhao Wuji, but also Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun, and even Oscar couldn't help but widen their eyes.
If Tang San had revealed his twin martial souls before the soul hunting operation, they would have thought he was a peerless genius.
But now, seeing this peerless genius with three white soul rings, he instantly plummeted to the bottom.
Zhao Wuji felt such heartache that he couldn't breathe, and he was even more certain that Tang Hao wouldn't let him off.
And Oscar, seeing Tang San in a worse state than himself, suddenly felt less pain.
Because he only had one ten-year soul ring, while Tang San, this genius with twin martial souls, suddenly had four more.
Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun exchanged glances, clearly seeing the deep sense of relief in each other's eyes.
Fortunately, their soul power had not reached the level where they could absorb soul rings.
Otherwise, they would probably have ended up in the same situation as Tang San and Oscar.