Soon, the pitch-black patterns on the spider lances began transforming into gold, and a dense blue-gold mist rose from them.
It was only from this moment onward that the enormous spider lances before him finally began to slowly appear within Huo Yuhao's Mental Detection.
When their patterns were black, these spider lances actually possessed the ability to block Mental Power detection!
Soon, one spider lance after another burst from the earth. The roots of all eight lances were connected, forming the complete shape of the Eight Spider Lances. Brilliant gold flowed over them, and Devouring Gold Threads could even be seen pulsing in and out.
Only then did Huo Yuhao abruptly realize that his opponent had never been some Underground Demon Spider. It was the Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone that had accompanied Tang San ever since his rise to fame!
Ah Yin did not possess an ability like Devouring Gold Threads, but Tang San's Eight Spider Lances did!
Moreover, only the silk expelled by Tang San's External Soul Bone—after he had consumed the Star Anise Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well—could possess resistance immune to both ice and fire!
That explained Ah Yin's strange emotional reactions from the beginning, as well as the mismatch between her words and actions.
From the very start, the one preventing Huo Yuhao from doing what he wanted had not been Ah Yin. It had always been these sentient Eight Spider Lances!
As the eight spider lances burst from the ground, an illusory phantom gradually condensed at their center. It was a bizarre Big Spider with a body over ten meters in diameter.
The phantom it condensed had a body covered in black armor. On the spider's lower abdomen were several white patterns, forming a stark