In Douluo Continent, the Pope used me as a substitute for my first love.

Chapter 285 Wang Zhao: It's my turn to appear again, hehehe~

"According to Xiao San, his father has been working as a blacksmith in the village for the past few years, and he can barely make ends meet by relying on the village chief's help. He shouldn't have been able to save much money, let alone buy such a valuable and sought-after top-grade hundred-year soul ring inner core."

"So, could it be that the two spirit ring cores Tang Hao is giving us now are...?"

Yu Xiaogang muttered to herself, as if she had thought of a certain guess. Her expression became strange, changing from one look to another, as if she was gloating, or as if she was doubting and disbelieving.

He shook his head and ultimately didn't think much of it. He put down the letter left by Tang Hao and instead took out a rolled-up piece of paper from the box that was labeled as containing a soul ring core that was suitable for a soul master to absorb in the first stage of soul ring.

Such top-grade spirit ring inner cores are usually more precious than ordinary spirit ring inner cores that are one year older. To exaggerate a bit, it's equivalent to the difference between a hundred-year-old dark gold dinosaur spirit ring and a thousand-year-old ordinary dinosaur spirit ring.

Therefore, the box containing the top-grade soul ring inner core must come with an instruction manual, a fact that Yu Xiaogang had specifically noted down.

"I hope Tang Hao has good judgment and that his plans for his mistress coincide with my own. That way, I can save some Soul Coins."

As Yu Xiaogang spoke, she opened the roll of paper and began to read it.

Since the Spirit Hall introduced the Spirit Ring Inner Core, many of his previous theories have become obsolete. For example, the idea that plant spirit masters can absorb animal spirit beast spirit rings has lost all meaning in the face of the Spirit Ring Inner Core.

Currently, the only difference between inner core spirit rings is their attributes. However, if a spirit master from a well-off family wants to be more selective in this regard, it is not impossible. For example, they can choose spirit ring inner cores that have special properties such as "hardness", "sharpness" and "toughness" in addition to their attributes. Of course, these will definitely be much more expensive than ordinary spirit ring inner cores.

The two top-grade soul ring cores that Tang Hao gave to Yu Xiaogang undoubtedly possessed such conditions.

"Resilience... As expected, Tang Hao has some understanding of Xiao San's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. Let me take a look at the main attribute of this Soul Ring Inner Core."

Yu Xiaogang immediately noticed the word "toughness" clearly marked on the instruction manual. It is a common understanding in the soul master world that plant-based soul masters can absorb soul rings that enhance the toughness of their own soul. Therefore, Yu Xiaogang was not surprised that Tang Hao would prepare the first soul ring for Tang San with the effect of enhancing the toughness of Blue Silver Grass.

Yu Xiaogang originally planned for Tang San's first spirit ring's main attribute to be poison, intending to enhance Tang San's control over the Blue Silver Grass and make it more difficult to deal with. However, when he saw the main attribute marked on the spirit ring inner core instruction manual given by Tang Hao, his brows furrowed slightly, but quickly relaxed as if he had discovered something.

"It's resilient yet sharp, with subtle poisonous properties... I see. This top-grade inner core soul ring was made by simulating the soul ring of a plant-type soul beast called 'Bloodthorn Thorn,' which can produce paralysis and tearing effects."

Yu Xiaogang pondered for a moment, then nodded slightly.

"Not bad, not bad."

"If Xiao San absorbs it and forms his first spirit ring, it will likely make his Blue Silver Grass spirit significantly stronger. However, that would lean more towards an offensive style, which is a bit different from the control style I originally planned for him..."

"Forget it, I'll still take Xiao San to the Notting City Spirit Branch Hall tomorrow as usual, to see if there are any better spirit rings or inner cores, and also to broaden Xiao San's horizons. If not, let him absorb the one his father gave him."

"As for the control system issue of Xiao San's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, we'll plan for it when he's about to condense his second spirit ring."

As she pondered these thoughts, the night deepened, and Yu Xiaogang grew somewhat tired. She got up, washed up, turned off the lights, and prepared to sleep.

After the lights in Yu Xiaogang's dormitory were completely turned off, a while later, the pitch-black air seemed to distort, and then a point of silver light quietly lit up and immediately disappeared into the night, and Wang Zhao's figure slowly appeared.

He looked around Yu Xiaogang's dormitory with a smile on his face, and soon he had two boxes in his hands.

"You little rat, what goes around comes around. You, a dignified Douluo Tian Tian, ​​actually dared to steal from my Spirit Hall..."

Wang Zhao thought to himself, his eyes slightly narrowed.

It turned out that he had been observing the entire Notting Academy from a high vantage point all day. Tang Hao, who was a year earlier than in the original story, had come to Yu Xiaogang's dormitory tonight, just as Tang San had become Yu Xiaogang's disciple. Naturally, he had seen this.

After discovering that Tang Hao had given Yu Xiaogang two top-grade spirit ring cores, he had just made a special trip to the Notting City Spirit Branch Hall. In the blink of an eye, he found Uncle Li with the Holy Son Token. Through Uncle Li, he found out that the Notting City Spirit Branch Hall's inventory was indeed missing two top-grade spirit ring cores, both of which were suitable for plant spirit masters.

Thus, it becomes clear where Tang Hao got the two coins he gave to Yu Xiaogang.

"If you had bought it honestly, you could say I, Wang Zhao, am evil today. But you stole it, so don't blame me, Wang Zhao, for being unjust..."

Wang Zhao opened the box and immediately put the two top-grade soul ring inner cores inside into his storage soul tool. After thinking for a moment, two more soul ring inner cores, similar in appearance to the previous ones but only of lower grade, appeared in his hand. He couldn't help but chuckle.

"Wait, this is still too lenient on him."

Wang Zhao suddenly recalled how he had recently "dressed up" an ordinary Blue Silver Grass into a Blue Silver Emperor, and then slapped his forehead and simply took out two ten-year soul ring inner cores!

"Hehehe..."

This time, Wang Zhao couldn't help but laugh out loud. Although he tried to control his voice, he didn't make it too loud. However, he still cautiously turned his head to look at the great master who was still sleeping in the room before turning back.

Immediately afterwards, several small bottles of strange powders of different colors appeared in Wang Zhao's hand. He then picked up two ten-year soul ring inner cores and, after fiddling with them, their unique fragrance and color became indistinguishable from the previous top-grade hundred-year soul ring inner cores.

With a wicked smile, Wang Zhao replaced the hundred-year-old soul ring inner core in the box with two disguised, inferior ten-year soul ring inner cores, then gently closed the box and placed it back on the table.

"If nothing unexpected happens, Yu Xiaogang will take Tang San to the Spirit Hall branch in Notting City tomorrow morning. So, all we need to do is notify Dong'er's confidants to temporarily remove the high-quality inner cores that the branch is currently selling for the next few days, forcing Yu Xiaogang to make do with the ones 'given by Tang Hao'."

"But I think this way we can only harm Tang San once; it won't work a second time. Let's think about it later..."

Wang Zhao muttered to himself, and his figure quickly disappeared into the night.

(End of this chapter)