Man Faced Demon Spider: Tang San, You Have No Martial Virtue!

Black filled Tang San with disgust.

This suddenly appearing creature was black as well.

What appeared before Tang San was a spider—a bizarre, enormous spider with a body more than one and a half meters in diameter and eight spear-like legs over three meters long.

Its entire body was covered in black armor that gleamed with a cold metallic sheen.

The tips of its long legs were slender. Every step drove silently into the ground, showing just how sharp they were.

Tang San spotted it, and it seemed to have spotted Tang San as well.

Its eight long legs moved in rapid rhythm, even leaving a string of afterimages behind. In the blink of an eye, it had reached Tang San.

Two of its forelegs instantly rose and stabbed down at Tang San's head.

As its forelegs lifted, its body inevitably rose as well, giving Tang San a clear view of its abdomen.

That single glance allowed Tang San to identify its species.

Tang San almost immediately dropped and rolled away, dodging the long-legged spider's attack.

Yet he drew in a sharp breath. He had never expected to encounter it here.

On the spider's lower abdomen were white markings that stood out starkly against its black body. Those markings formed the shape of a vicious human face.

Eight small eyes flickering with a faint purple light were clustered tightly beneath its abdomen.

However, two of those eyes appeared to have been smashed apart, leaving behind a bloody mess.

Even the armor on its lower abdomen bore several cracks.

It was already nighttime. If Tang San had not possessed Purple Demon Eyes, he truly would not have been able to see any of this.

Seeing that vicious human face, Tang San recalled the many titles given to the spider before him.

The nightmare of small soul beasts, a devourer of life, the target of every soul beast's hatred, a terrifying and evil killer.

All of those titles described this long-legged spider.

Its name was the Man Faced Demon Spider.

Although it was not on the same level as the Titan Giant Ape, this type of Man Faced Demon Spider was a creature even soul beasts feared.

It possessed sturdy armor, astonishing speed, and eight long legs with tremendous piercing power, each carrying potent venom.

But its most terrifying weapon was its web.

Ordinary spiders spun their webs with silk, but it was different. Its web was directly sprayed from its body.

Not only was it incredibly sticky, it was also exceptionally tough.

At the same time, it carried horrifying neurotoxic venom.

This Man Faced Demon Spider was also one of the targets Grandmaster had chosen for Tang San's third Soul Ring. Grandmaster had once told him that Man Faced Demon Spiders were among the hardest to obtain and warned him never to force the matter.

The web sprayed by a Man Faced Demon Spider could be fired instantly and cover an area ten times its own size, making it nearly impossible to dodge.

Even a powerful Soul Master would need time to break free if caught in that web.

And that time was enough for the Man Faced Demon Spider to do many things.

Tang San had not expected to encounter a Man Faced Demon Spider under such circumstances.

As a former professional assassin of the Tang Sect, Tang San's combat awareness, experience, and technique were clearly beyond anything these rookies of Douluo Continent could compare to.

As he flipped back onto his feet, Blue Silver Grass Entanglement had already activated. Countless thick blades of grass suddenly coiled around the Man Faced Demon Spider's body.

Then, a black box appeared in Tang San's left hand. His right hand rapidly worked over it, producing a series of mechanical clicks.

The Man Faced Demon Spider moved faster than Tang San had expected. The Blue Silver Grass restraints had clearly enraged it.

A layer of dim purple light spread from its body, and the Blue Silver Grass clinging to it simply melted away.

Or rather, it had been corroded.

Tang San fixed his gaze on the Man Faced Demon Spider. His right hand swept rapidly across his waist, and dozens of white flashes shot out at once, racing toward the eyes beneath its abdomen.

Sure enough, the Man Faced Demon Spider placed enormous importance on protecting its weak point. With two of its eyes already badly damaged, it had no choice but to abandon its attack on Tang San and quickly flatten itself against the ground.

The Hidden Weapons struck its armored shell, sending up a string of sparks.

By then, Tang San had finally finished loading the mechanisms in the black box in his hand.

Tang San had thoroughly enraged the Man Faced Demon Spider. After blocking the Hidden Weapons, the purple light that had corroded the Blue Silver Grass appeared once more.

Before it even came close, a nauseating, acrid stench reached him.

Yet Tang San did not retreat this time. As the Man Faced Demon Spider sprang forward, its eight long legs moving rapidly, he instead charged to meet it.

He transferred the black box to his right hand. Black light flickered in his left, and a small black hammer marked with strange patterns silently appeared in his grasp.

Black light pulsed. Tang San's charging body suddenly came to a halt, while the Man Faced Demon Spider's four front legs had already risen.

This time, it was even faster. Corrosive purple light gleamed along its long legs, combined with its own nerve-paralyzing venom—

Let alone being stabbed directly, even a slight touch would have been enough to kill Tang San.

As an evil predator, the Man Faced Demon Spider had devoured countless soul beasts and Soul Masters who ventured deep into the Star Dou Great Forest using this method.

The remaining six small eyes beneath its abdomen flickered with a ghostly light.

Just as those four three-meter-long Spider Legs, sharp as spears, suddenly stabbed down, Tang San moved.

His left hand, carrying all thirty levels of his Soul Power, instantly poured that power into the small black hammer.

In an instant, the black hammer doubled in size in his hand. The patterns on its surface suddenly became distinct, gleaming with a dark blue light.

His left hand swung with full force, and the small hammer whistled through the air, smashing straight toward the Man Faced Demon Spider's chest.

The armor on the Man Faced Demon Spider's chest was the hardest part of its entire body. Faced with Tang San's sudden attack, it instinctively made no move to block.

Soul Masters could sense the strength of soul beasts within a certain range, and soul beasts could likewise sense the strength of Soul Masters. This Man Faced Demon Spider had originally been far stronger than Tang San. It was only because it had been injured that it was no longer quite so terrifying. Still, it could clearly tell that Tang San was much weaker than itself. Naturally, his attack could not possibly harm the shell with its strongest defenses.

Therefore, the Man Faced Demon Spider paid no attention to the hammer flying toward its chest. Its eight long legs continued stabbing downward, intending to finish Tang San in one strike and turn him into food.

To soul beasts, Soul Masters were also great nourishment, capable of increasing their cultivation by many years.

With a muffled bang, the Man Faced Demon Spider's diving body was knocked upward instead, its entire body lifted into the air by the blow.

But the Clear Sky Hammer, infused with all of Tang San's Soul Power, carried a force of far more than a thousand jin in a single strike. Though it could not truly injure the Man Faced Demon Spider, it was more than enough to knock its body upward.

And then?

There was no then.

Sixteen crossbow bolts shot out, not even sparing the Man Faced Demon Spider's two already injured eyes.

Two bolts per eye.

In the blink of an eye, all of them buried themselves in the Man Faced Demon Spider's body.