Eight Spider Lances

In the Star Dou Great Forest, a spear-wielding figure was fleeing without pause. Behind him, a Man Faced Demon Spider even taller than he was kept chasing him down.

The Man Faced Demon Spider was clearly faster than Su Mo, and Su Mo, who was running ahead, could only use the trees to create obstacles.

Pfft, pfft, pfft—

As a result, wherever Su Mo passed, many of the trees that blocked the Man Faced Demon Spider were sliced apart by its razor-sharp spider legs.

When he felt the timing was about right, Su Mo began to slow down, deliberately pretending to be exhausted and revealing a certain opening to the Man Faced Demon Spider behind him.

After the Man Faced Demon Spider discovered its prey was running out of strength, it immediately let out excited, eerie cackles. Then, when it saw Su Mo run into a clearing with no obstacles at all, the Man Faced Demon Spider kicked off with its spider legs and pounced toward Su Mo.

As for Su Mo, he never once turned his head, giving the Man Faced Demon Spider the illusion that he could not see it.

"When you raised your scythes and came near me, you had already entered my harvest range!"

Su Mo had been waiting for the Man Faced Demon Spider to get close. Its pouncing attack made it even more suitable for him to counterattack.

"Overlord's Head Turn!"

Boom—

Seemingly without warning, while Su Mo had not even turned his head, the Soul Hunting Spear in his hand suddenly shot out from beneath his left armpit, stabbing straight toward the eye on the lower abdomen of the Man Faced Demon Spider behind him.

The move's name sounded domineering, but in truth, it was merely a returning spear thrust!

Su Mo had not even used his Soul Ring or soul skill. The Soul Power fluctuations produced by using a Soul Ring soul skill could easily make the Man Faced Demon Spider wary.

Only after the thrust was halfway out did Su Mo's body twist back around due to the requirements of the movement.

Schlk—

And at that very moment, the Soul Hunting Spear in Su Mo's hand was already incomparably close to the Man Faced Demon Spider.

"Jie—"

Only at the brink of life and death did the Man Faced Demon Spider react. It wanted to dodge, but it was already too late.

Pfft—

The Soul Hunting Spear in Su Mo's hand stabbed viciously into one of the eyes on the Man Faced Demon Spider's lower abdomen. The protective membrane over the eye was directly pierced, and then the spear sank deeply inside.

In the original work, even Tang San's Godly Zhuge Crossbow could pierce through it, so Su Mo's Soul Hunting Spear in a state of Soul Tool Fusion naturally had no problem.

The truly difficult part was hitting the target.

"Screech—"

The Man Faced Demon Spider's enormous body trembled. After shuddering violently a few more times, it collapsed to the ground with a bang.

"Whew—"

Seeing that the Man Faced Demon Spider had already been killed by him, Su Mo also let out a breath of relief.

If he had not relied on intelligence, it would have been very difficult for him to defeat this Man Faced Demon Spider. Not only was it fast, but its eight spider legs also attacked at a high frequency. In a head-on fight, he would only have been able to defend.

Buzz—

Then, above the Man Faced Demon Spider's head, a purple Thousand Year Soul Ring emerged.

"What a pity. You still haven't reached rank 30. Otherwise, the Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring could be considered a very high-quality Soul Ring!"

When Bibi Dong saw the Soul Ring that had erupted from the Man Faced Demon Spider, she spoke with some regret.

"The Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring doesn't suit my Soul Hunting Spear either!"

Su Mo did not feel it was a pity. After absorbing the Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring, it might add poisonous attacks to his Soul Hunting Spear, but adding poison was not what Su Mo wanted.

What his Soul Hunting Spear pursued was absolute destructive power.

As he spoke, Su Mo was also observing the Man Faced Demon Spider's corpse, wanting to see whether the External Soul Bone had dropped.

Hadn't Su Mo taken the risk to help Tang San precisely for the External Soul Bone?

As for being unable to absorb a soul bone without absorbing the Soul Ring... Su Mo said that was no problem.

Bibi Dong had told him the truth. Under normal circumstances, an External Soul Bone was indeed absorbed into a soul master's body together when the soul master absorbed a Soul Ring.

The saying that one had to absorb the Soul Ring before absorbing an External Soul Bone had spread because of this.

But if the Soul Ring was not absorbed, then the External Soul Bone, like other soul bones, would also drop.

Since it could drop, then it could definitely be absorbed!

Otherwise, why would those soul masters who obtained External Soul Bones not dare to reveal them when they were weak? Wasn't it because they feared powerful people would seize them?

If they could be seized by others, that proved the person who snatched it did not need to absorb it together with the Soul Ring.

In the original work, Poison Douluo had once wanted to seize Tang San's Eight Spider Lances.

It was only later, after discovering that Tang San and the Eight Spider Lances had already completely fused, that he did not continue to act.

Because after complete fusion, even if the owner of the External Soul Bone was killed, it would no longer drop.

"Huh? What's going on?"

Sure enough, Su Mo very quickly discovered something unusual on the Man Faced Demon Spider's corpse. Soul Power was flowing over its eight spider legs, emitting a faint purple glow.

"This is... an External Soul Bone!"

"An External Soul Bone!"

At the sound of Su Mo's voice, Bibi Dong looked over as well and cried out in shock.

"Could this be Tang San's Eight Spider Lances?"

Bibi Dong was secretly thrilled.

She knew Su Mo had entered the Star Dou Great Forest; she simply had not paid attention to what happened afterward. So when Su Mo had been fleeing just now, she had asked him why there was only one person left by his side.

That was why Bibi Dong knew Su Mo had gotten tangled up with this Man Faced Demon Spider while helping Tang San.

So after seeing the External Soul Bone Eight Spider Lances before her, it was easy for Bibi Dong to deduce that if Su Mo had not joined Shrek Academy, and if Su Mo had not helped Tang San hold back this Man Faced Demon Spider, then Tang San himself definitely would have killed this Man Faced Demon Spider and obtained Tang San's External Soul Bone Eight Spider Lances.

There was no other possibility. It was not as if External Soul Bones dropped so easily.

"Good, wonderful! Su Mo, you did brilliantly!"

After realizing this, Bibi Dong could not help praising Su Mo excitedly.

This was a treasure snatched right out of Tang San's hands—an External Soul Bone comparable to a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!

"Quick, hurry and absorb this Soul Bone! This is an incomparably precious External Soul Bone!"

Then Bibi Dong urged Su Mo to absorb the Eight Spider Lances, lest a long delay bring trouble and it somehow end up back in Tang San's hands.

"Mm!"

Su Mo did not dawdle either. He sat down cross-legged on the ground and reached out to touch one of the Man Faced Demon Spider's legs.

Buzz—

As Su Mo touched it, the Man Faced Demon Spider's corpse instantly lit up, especially its eight spider legs. In the end, the bones from those eight spider legs floated out and shrank into a small set of Eight Spider Lances that slammed into Su Mo's body.

Absorbing a Soul Bone was much the same as absorbing a Soul Ring, and Su Mo immediately began refining it in earnest.

A two-thousand-year Soul Bone was something the current Su Mo could fully withstand.

Puff, puff, puff—

After half an hour of refinement, the Eight Spider Lances were completely absorbed and refined by Su Mo. Spider legs extended one after another from Su Mo's back, finally arranging themselves neatly behind him.

Su Mo tried controlling them and found they were extremely handy, moving as naturally as his own arms and fingers, without any difficulty at all.

Nor did he enter the kind of out-of-control state Tang San had.

It was probably because Su Mo had directly absorbed the Eight Spider Lances, while Tang San had only absorbed the Soul Ring and had not known that he had absorbed the External Soul Bone Eight Spider Lances along with it, so he had not fully refined it.

"My Soul Power Level..."

Next, Su Mo also discovered that his Soul Power Level had risen.