Soul Devouring Spider Empress

The Soul Devouring Demonic Spider's fangs trembled as it opened a massive abyss-like maw, swallowing everything that fell inside.

Without any surprise, the shadow had only appeared outside for a moment before being swallowed in a single bite.

Mu Zhe did not panic. This was exactly the outcome he wanted. Silently counting the time, he controlled the shadow to activate the Dragon Whisker Needles just before that devouring force arrived.

Without Soul Power infusion, Dragon Whisker Needles appeared as granules. But once Soul Power was injected, they instantly turned into sharp threads.

Moreover, if the Soul Power was not sufficiently abundant, the time they remained as threads would be extremely short. Before they could even strike the enemy, they would revert to granules.

But Mu Zhe did not need to worry about that now. The shadow was activating them inside the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider, at an extremely short distance—enough to drive the threads into its body.

Within the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider's mouth, Mu Zhe received the shadow's blurry view. Without hesitation, he controlled the shadow to frantically pour Soul Power into the Dragon Whisker Needle granules.

In the blink of an eye, countless golden threads appeared in the shadow's hands, piercing its palm full of holes.

But that was not a problem. The shadow was not a true physical body, and it merely became somewhat more illusory.

Then, the shadow forcefully flung out the Dragon Whisker Needles in its hands. Dense threads streaked through the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider's body like meteors, leaving countless flashes of light.

Pfft! Pfft!

Rustling sounds rang out as the Dragon Whisker Needles shot toward every part of its body like explosive shrapnel, sinking unobstructed into flesh and blood.

The originally three-inch-long Dragon Whisker Needles could no longer be seen on the surface of its flesh. Only countless tiny holes, invisible to the naked eye, remained.

Dragon Whisker Needles were specifically made to counter defenses. They could not only pierce Soul Power shields, but also easily penetrate physical defenses.

In the original story, even Soul Sage Zhao Wuji had been turned into a sieve after Martial Soul Possession, showing just how formidable their penetrating power was.

Even so!

The Soul Devouring Demonic Spider's defenses were somewhat high for the current Mu Zhe, but they were still not enough to stop the Dragon Whisker Needles.

A moment later, a piercing pain shot through Mu Zhe's mind. Yet there was no pain on his face; instead, he revealed a delighted smile.

He knew that although the shadow had been devoured, it had still completed its task and embedded the Dragon Whisker Needles into the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider's body.

After piercing into the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider's internal flesh, the Dragon Whisker Needles quickly lost their Soul Power support and instantly twisted into tight knots.

The powerful contracting force even tore away the surrounding flesh, curling it into little balls.

Before Mu Zhe's eyes, the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider had not even had time to savor the shadow's deliciousness when its entire body suddenly shuddered. It seemed that... many things had appeared inside its body?

Then an ear-splitting wail rang out. Its eight spider legs curled together, tightly wrapping around its head and abdomen as it lay on the ground and trembled violently.

Damn!

The Soul Devouring Demonic Spider only felt an agonizing pain tearing through it. It was like ten thousand ants gnawing at its heart, like its liver and intestines being twisted apart—a pain unbearable to any living creature.

Those things that had pierced into it... had actually separated all the flesh in its body from the body itself!

Perhaps curling up could not ease the unbearable pain. It actually stood up and rammed itself into an ancient tree.

It even knocked away its favorite food on the way, but it did not care in the slightest. Its mind was fixed solely on crashing into the tree.

Bang!

A dull impact echoed out. The great tree swayed as rustling sounds came from its branches, and fallen leaves filled the sky, covering its body as it curled into a ball again.

At that moment, the surroundings seemed exceptionally quiet. Only the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider's heart-rending cries remained.

How could it not mourn?

It could already feel its life force slowly draining away.

It had not even managed to see its mother one last time.

Suddenly, the valley that had been tranquil as a painting began to stir.

The trees on the surrounding mountains shook violently. The rustling collision of leaves echoed through the valley, mixed with the sound of rocks tumbling down the slopes.

In the void, Mu Zhe was waiting for the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider's life force to fade away when his heart suddenly began pounding wildly, more violently than ever before.

Hmm?

An intense sense of dread filled Mu Zhe. He scanned the valley around him, and his pupils abruptly contracted.

"There's another powerful presence nearby!"

After several battles, he had already discovered that his Martial Soul also had a warning function.

Whenever danger approached, it would tremble intensely. This time, its throbbing frequency far exceeded every previous warning, as if urging him to leave immediately.

The disturbance around him continued. The ground shook fiercely, as if an earth dragon were turning beneath it.

Rocks rolled down from the mountainsides. What had initially been only a few scattered stones now came crashing down like an avalanche, completely unstoppable.

Damn!

Bloodshot veins filled Mu Zhe's eyes as he condensed six more shadows and sent them rushing toward the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider.

Each shadow held a large handful of Dragon Whisker Needles. They injected Soul Power into them before swiftly firing them out.

This was a critical moment. With some terrifying creature about to crawl out from the mountain, Mu Zhe no longer thought about conserving Dragon Whisker Needles.

No matter how urgent things were, he still had to loot the drop first!

He had worked so hard to take this thing down. He was unwilling to give it up.

He had searched for the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider for several days before finally finding it. If he gave up now, he had no idea where else he could find a Soul Beast with devouring abilities.

In truth, he knew of several Soul Beasts with devouring abilities, such as the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and the Dark Blue Silver Emperor.

But leaving aside whether he could find them, even if he did, there was absolutely no way he could defeat the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

As for the Dark Blue Silver Emperor, that went without saying. Even if Ah Yin were played into turning dark, she still could not mutate devouring abilities. They were not even the same species.

Pfft! Pfft!

The Dragon Whisker Needles turned into streams of light that filled the sky, sinking into the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider's body in dense clusters that covered it from head to toe.

Suddenly, at one corner of the surrounding mountains, rocks seemed to explode apart. Then one long spider leg after another emerged, piercing into the surrounding stone as it slowly hauled its head out of the ground.

A green, ghostly light emerged from the earth and illuminated the dark valley brightly. It was the pupil of that terrifying creature.

"What the hell is that?"

With just one glance, Mu Zhe felt his heart leap into his throat.

Was this a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, a Soul Devouring Spider Empress?

Although Mu Zhe had never seen a Soul Devouring Spider Empress before, for some inexplicable reason, he had that feeling in his heart.

After all!

Eight spider legs, nearly forty meters long, thick yet slender; two sharp fangs exposed outside its mouth; a strange faceplate brimming with majesty; and bone armor covering its entire body, radiating power.

If this was not a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, then what was? That Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape had only been a little over ten meters tall.

At that moment, Mu Zhe no longer cared whether the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider was dead. He hurriedly controlled the shadows, pulled them into the void, and then fled into the distance.

Boom! Boom! Boom!!

The Soul Devouring Spider Empress crossed several steps and leaped to the place where Mu Zhe had fought the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider.

Its enormous pupils flickered as it saw the surrounding environment devastated and green blood flowing across the ground. It immediately let out a furious roar that shook the heavens.

Then Soul Power surged around its body. Layers of dark green halos spread beneath its feet, and countless dark green spiders, each about half a meter in body diameter, crawled out from the ground.

They rapidly spread in every direction, passing through every place where the Soul Devouring Demonic Spider and the shadows had lingered.

These little spiders had condensed by absorbing the deathly energy underground and possessed the ability to track auras.

With the Soul Devouring Spider Empress's cultivation, it could ensure that not a single trace of aura escaped its notice.

Yet the places now covered by the little spiders were completely empty.

The Soul Devouring Spider Empress flew into a rage. Its two sharp foreclaws swung together, unleashing countless slashes in an instant.

The slashes swept through every location where residual auras remained, annihilating them completely.

They even stirred up spatial turbulence, carving countless rifts through space.

Maintaining his Void State, Mu Zhe was deeply shocked.

That should be the Soul Skill wielded by Bibi Dong's Soul Devouring Spider Empress Martial Soul in the original story: Abyssal Slash of Spatial Tear!

As far as he knew, this Soul Skill could distort space and shatter all Spiritual Power below God-tier.

It could even lock onto an enemy's true body and strike across space.

But it seemed useless against him!

He had not left behind even a trace of Spiritual Power, only the aura where the shadows had lingered. Destroying the shadows had nothing to do with him.

Moreover, his Void State seemed to have faintly detached from Douluo Continent itself. Even tearing space apart could not affect him.

At that moment, Mu Zhe felt an unprecedented sense of security. It seemed that he would not need to worry too much when facing Tang Hao in the future.

Tang Hao was a level 96 Super Douluo, while the Soul Devouring Spider Empress had a hundred-thousand-year cultivation. Equating the two—hmm, that was perfectly reasonable.

The streams of light swept past, annihilating the remaining auras without losing momentum.

They then blasted into the surrounding mountains. Trees crumbled into ash, and countless rocks collapsed from the mountainsides.

But the Soul Devouring Spider Empress could not feel happy at all. Its enemy had already vanished.

Worst of all, they had taken away its offspring!