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I bet 1 trillion gold coins he's gonna eat those words in the next chapter.

Based and true. Best girl in terms of overall appearance, though still pretty dumb.

Man, what a simp. Though I'm curious why. While Tang San was very devoted to Xiao Wu, he was also very arrogant, so I really can't see him acting so pathetically when it's clear she's not interested in him.

SIMP

And Ning Tian, the righteous soul that he is, will repay his beloved teacher by sweeping her off her feet and becoming her husband.

No no, it's the perfect choice of words. Because she's a sexy beauty.

Just 200 years over the "common sense" limit is not much of a problem. Even without the system, the backlash wouldn't be so severe he couldn't stop the absorbtion - which I'm pretty sure is possible, since it's possible to fail absorbing the soul ring without dying. He wouldn't instantly explode after all.

Maybe that could work? There's definitely all kinds of special bamboo plant soul beasts, though they wouldn't bee too high-level. So MC will probably have to hunt down normal soul beasts as well, to reinforce other attributes. His sword being made of bamboo lets him absorb some plant soul beasts, but most would only weaken the "sword" aspect. That's why weapon soul masters hunt various "attack-attribute" sould beasts, to reinforce some aspects of their weapons. Like Haotian Hammer using power-type soul beasts like gorillas or rhinos or whatever, and a sword like MC would probably grow stronger if he absorbed a beetle-type soul beast with a sharp horn, a panther for sharpness or speed, or a serpent for flexibility and a possible poison effect.

It's been less than a year, something like 8-9 months - how could that happen? Either Zhu Qing isn't very skilled, or MC has monstrous talent for swordsmanship, on top of a broken system