Man Faced Demon Spider: Possession Mission

The rustling sounded like someone changing clothes, or perhaps leaves rubbing against one another.

Immediately afterward, a black figure sprang out of the bushes, charging straight at Ning Rongrong.

You damned Soul Beast.

There are five people here, and you just had to attack me?

Is it because I was born beautiful? Or do I have a constitution that attracts Soul Beasts?

Ning Rongrong looked incredulous, but she showed no fear. Raising the Ten Treasures Glazed Sword, she slashed at the black figure.

Her speed left both Dragon Duke and Snake Granny deeply shocked.

When did the people of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect become so powerful?

And another thing.

The two elders had not noticed it earlier, but what on earth was Ning Rongrong's Martial Soul?

It was not the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, but a sword radiating an immense emerald-green glow?

Good grief.

Could it have undergone a Martial Soul Mutation?

They had encountered quite a few Little Monsters this year.

Despite their shock, Dragon Duke and Snake Granny had originally intended to help Ning Rongrong deal with the Soul Beast that had attacked out of nowhere.

But Ning Rongrong managed it alone. With just a few swings of her sword, she forced the Soul Beast to retreat again and again, allowing everyone to see what it looked like.

A spider stood before them. Its body was over one and a half meters long, and its eight spear-like legs were over three meters long. Its entire body was covered in a glossy black carapace.

The tips of its long legs were slender, and every one of them had pierced the ground, showing just how sharp they were.

As everyone watched it, it watched them in turn. Its eight long legs moved rapidly, even leaving a series of afterimages.

In terms of speed, it appeared to be far ahead of other Soul Beasts of the same age.

On the spider's lower abdomen, white markings formed a sinister human face, and eight small eyes flickering with a faint purple light sat close against it.

"It's a Man Faced Demon Spider!" The knowledgeable Dragon Duke Meng Shu identified the Soul Beast at once.

But thanks to the description in the original work, Ning Rongrong could also recognize the Man Faced Demon Spider.

She just had not expected to encounter one under these circumstances.

What was more, this Man Faced Demon Spider was in perfect condition, without a single injury.

"Hiss-"

The Man Faced Demon Spider glared fiercely at the group, showing no fear despite their numbers, even though they included a Soul Emperor (Snake Granny) and a Soul Douluo (Dragon Duke).

The next moment, it attacked again.

This time, however, it did not charge at them. Instead, it spat out a great mass of webbing that came down over them at extreme speed.

It covered such a vast area that the group had nowhere to dodge on the ground.

"Watch out!" Ning Rongrong watched the Man Faced Demon Spider warily, then used her flight Soul Skill and wind vortex to lift everyone into the air, narrowly avoiding the webbing.

According to the original work, the Man Faced Demon Spider's webbing was no joke. Once caught in it, even a powerful Soul Master would need time to break free.

She was not about to take that risk.

"A flight Soul Skill??? You're only a level-thirty Soul Elder, and you have a flight Soul Skill?" Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang was astonished.

Dragon Duke was startled too, though not by Ning Rongrong's abilities. Rather, it was the enormous range of the Man Faced Demon Spider's attack that surprised him.

If Ning Rongrong had not lifted them up, they would probably have been caught right away.

Although they would not have been injured, it would have hindered their movement.

Using the wind vortex, Zhu Zhuqing abruptly unleashed her Martial Soul, the Hell Spirit Cat. She seemed to transform into a cat herself as she darted through the air toward the Man Faced Demon Spider.

But the next web the Man Faced Demon Spider spat out quickly came down on her, forcing her to retreat to where she had started.

"The Man Faced Demon Spider can cast its webs instantly. There's no way to get close," Zhu Zhuqing said.

She was a Soul Master who relied on speed to win, yet even she could not get close to the Man Faced Demon Spider.

Even with her speed fully amplified, Ning Rongrong would be considerably faster than Zhu Zhuqing, but both of them had low Soul Power Levels. The result would probably be much the same.

Ning Rongrong nodded. "Looks like we can't fight it at close range."

"What about Hidden Weapons?" Meng Yiran blinked and released her Hidden Weapons, the Soul-Breaking Knives, as she spoke.

A full sixteen knives shot out. They looked exceedingly sharp, but just as they were about to strike the Man Faced Demon Spider...

The Man Faced Demon Spider gave a slight push with its legs and dodged every one.

Puff, puff, puff-

All sixteen Soul-Breaking Knives buried themselves in the ground.

"It's so fast!" Meng Yiran exclaimed.

"...From this far away, even if it were slow, it could dodge them, couldn't it?" Ning Rongrong was noncommittal. Even her own Ten Treasures Ultimate Slash could not lock onto the Man Faced Demon Spider from this distance, much less Meng Yiran's Hidden Weapons.

"I still need to get closer."

Having said that to the others, Ning Rongrong closed the distance between herself and the Man Faced Demon Spider.

Meng Shu seemed to want to say something, but Ning Rongrong was too fast. Before he could open his mouth, his chance was gone.

"Seven treasures turn forth with glazed light, ten treasures are named. The first is: Divine Strength."

"The second is: Divine Speed."

"The third is: Divine Soul."

In an instant, all three Soul Rings on Ning Rongrong's body lit up, and she charged at the Man Faced Demon Spider.

Black, black, black: a powerful configuration.

In everyone else's eyes, however, it was merely the simple configuration of yellow, yellow, and purple.

Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang frowned. "Can this child really handle it? Should we go help her? You know, the Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring is also very suitable for Yiran. As long as we can wound it, the credit will be ours, even if she..."

"No." Meng Shu shook his head. "Do you know who she is? She's the young mistress of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Countless Soul Masters want to build good relations with the sect. If we offend them as well, we might as well give up making our way on the continent. Besides, if not for Ning Rongrong's flight Soul Skill, even if we could wound the Man Faced Demon Spider, we couldn't keep it from escaping. Let's see whether this child can deal with it. If she can't, it won't be too late for us to step in. Don't be like that Zhao Wuji from Shrek Academy."

Zhu Zhuqing: "..."

"All right, all right." Chao Tianxiang sighed helplessly and looked at Meng Yiran. Only when she saw that Meng Yiran showed no anger did she drop the matter.

In truth, she mostly just wanted to make her granddaughter happy.

Previously, as long as her granddaughter had no objection, neither would she.

But this time, whether her granddaughter objected or not, neither of them dared lay a finger on Ning Rongrong, much less negotiate terms.

She could only be glad that Meng Yiran was being very well-behaved this time.

"Hiss-"

Seeing Ning Rongrong fly toward it, the Man Faced Demon Spider instantly spat out another web, hoping to keep her from getting close.

But Ning Rongrong had come prepared, and she would not be afraid of these webs.

Crack! Crack!

With two slashes, she cut the first web in half, only for it to close around her again.

That was what made the Man Faced Demon Spider's webbing so terrifying.

Cutting it in half was not enough.

One also had to watch out for it coming together again.

Fortunately, Ning Rongrong was no ordinary opponent.

Using her tremendous movement speed under Divine Speed, she managed to dodge the web as it closed in, then continued pressing downward.

Crack!

Crack!

She cut through the second and third webs, finally coming close enough to control the Man Faced Demon Spider.

"Ten Treasures Ultimate Slash!"

Ning Rongrong's First Soul Ring shone again, sending ten streaks of emerald-green sword Qi at the spider.

This attack was guaranteed to hit.

No matter how the Man Faced Demon Spider tried to dodge, it would do no good.

The little Man Faced Demon Spider was startled too. No matter how quickly it moved, it could only watch as the ten streaks of sword Qi struck.

The first...

The second...

After enduring five streaks of sword Qi, four of the Man Faced Demon Spider's eight eyes had been slashed and rendered useless. It stopped trying to dodge and instead kept casting webs instantly, hoping to lessen the damage.

"Skree, skree..."

Two more webs shot out instantly, blocking two streaks of sword Qi from the Ten Treasures Ultimate Slash.

Three streaks remained. The little Man Faced Demon Spider was intelligent, and, as though it had found a way to counter the attack, it prepared to cast another web.

Ning Rongrong would not have it. "Little thing, don't fight with humans. You could have pounced on anyone, but you just had to pounce on me."

"Ten Treasures Soul-Seeking Array!"

Whoosh-

Ning Rongrong's Third Soul Ring lit up, and an enormous blue array emerged from her, covering the Man Faced Demon Spider.

"Skree?"

The Man Faced Demon Spider froze briefly. The Ten Treasures Soul-Seeking Array was beneath its feet, and three streaks of sword Qi from the Ten Treasures Ultimate Slash hung overhead. If it tried to escape the array, it could not use its webs to stop the sword Qi; if it tried to stop the sword Qi, it could not escape the array.

In the end, it chose to keep using its webs to block the sword Qi.

Crack!

Crack!

Two webs blocked two streaks of sword Qi. Then it instantly cast the final web, looking rather pleased with itself, as though it thought Ning Rongrong's Ten Treasures Ultimate Slash was nothing special.

But the tenth streak of sword Qi from the Ten Treasures Ultimate Slash was so fierce that a little web like this could hardly stop it.

It ignored defense completely!

Crack!

The tenth streak of sword Qi from the Ten Treasures Ultimate Slash cut straight through the web and continued toward the Man Faced Demon Spider.

The Man Faced Demon Spider began to panic, but it also knew it could not dodge the sword Qi and tried to cast another web.

"Hiss! Hiss!"

But no matter how hard it tried to release webbing, not a single strand came out.

"Is it because of that array?"

In midair, Meng Shu and his wife Chao Tianxiang both stared in surprise.

The guaranteed-hit property of the dazzling Ten Treasures Ultimate Slash had been enough to shock them. They had not expected Ning Rongrong to also have a Soul Skill capable of absorbing Soul Power, even from a Soul Beast.

"Skree!!"

The Man Faced Demon Spider realized something was wrong and hurried to escape the Ten Treasures Soul-Seeking Array.

But the sword Qi was far too fast. If it wanted to get out, it would first have to take the hit.

Boom!

The final streak of sword Qi from the Ten Treasures Ultimate Slash struck the Man Faced Demon Spider. In an instant, its four raised legs were blasted apart, and black blood poured from the wounds.

But it had eight legs, after all.

Even with four gone, it could still move quickly.

As long as it could escape the Ten Treasures Soul-Seeking Array, it could slip away.

"Watch out, it's going to run!"

Meng Shu was the first to react. After all, he was a Soul Douluo-level powerhouse, and the sharpness of his perception went without saying.

He was about to release his Martial Soul to lend Ning Rongrong a hand,

but Zhu Zhuqing stopped him. "Senior Dragon Duke, don't underestimate Rongrong."

"What??"

"That little girl can stop it? The Man Faced Demon Spider has at least a thousand years of cultivation, and it's known for its speed."

"Even though it's injured, it would be difficult for us to catch it."

The Ten Treasures Soul-Seeking Array did not cover a large area to begin with, so it was relatively easy for the Man Faced Demon Spider to get out.

Chao Tianxiang was baffled.

Even Meng Yiran was eager to act when she heard the Man Faced Demon Spider was going to escape. She could do without the Soul Ring, but she could not stand by and watch the spider slip away.

Very soon, however, their concerns were completely dispelled.

"Ten Treasures Soul-Seeking Slash!"

Seeing that the Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Power had been drained, leaving it no choice but to flee, Ning Rongrong gave a cold shout and leaped down, closing in on it inside the Ten Treasures Soul-Seeking Array.

The abundant Soul Power allowed her to unleash the Ten Treasures Soul-Seeking Slash, the linked skill of the Ten Treasures Soul-Seeking Array.

A huge streak of emerald-green sword Qi descended from the sky, giving the Man Faced Demon Spider no chance to escape. In an instant, it struck the spider.

Boom!

In just a moment, the Man Faced Demon Spider's body was split in two. Foul-smelling black blood sprayed everywhere, and its internal organs were cut in half as well.

The fierce slash was even more terrifying than the Ten Treasures Ultimate Slash.

The ground trembled slightly from the Ten Treasures Soul-Seeking Slash.

It was utterly breathtaking!

The Man Faced Demon Spider collapsed on the spot after taking the Ten Treasures Soul-Seeking Slash. Since Ning Rongrong had deliberately avoided its vital points, the spider, with half its body remaining, lay on the ground trembling all over.

"Phew..."

Seeing this, Ning Rongrong let out a long breath. It had been another easy victory.

Though the Man Faced Demon Spider had been a little more troublesome than the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent,

fortunately, the result satisfied her.

Meanwhile,

"Ding!"

"Congratulations, host, on completing the hidden mission: defeat the Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the Man Faced Demon Spider."

"Ding!"

"Congratulations, host, on receiving the rewards: 2,000 Identity Points and 10,000 years of actual Soul Ring age."

"Ding!"

"Congratulations, host. You have unlocked the fortune-stealing quest. Quest one: disrupt Tang San's acquisition of the Soul Ring he was originally meant to absorb at level thirty."

"Quest one completed."

"Ding~"

"Congratulations, host. You have received the following rewards: 50,000 Identity Points, 50,000 years of actual Soul Ring age, and a 50,000-year-old External Soul Bone."

"Ding~"

"Quest two of the fortune-stealing quest will unlock later."