The young jade spiders struck by the blood-yellow light shrieked and tumbled to the ground, twitching. In the blink of an eye, they were dead. But just then, a giant spider leg jabbed toward the square-faced monk like a sharp spear. He hurriedly raised his brown demon-subduing staff to block it. With a clang, the monk was knocked back several hundred feet. Across from him, the jade spider's face darkened as it shook out its numbed leg.
"Beast, prepare to die!" The square-faced monk halted his retreat, and his demon-subduing staff blurred into a sky full of shadows, crashing toward the jade spider like an overturning sea. He was several degrees stronger than he had been when he fought Lu Xiaotian inside the Thousand-Sound Pagoda. Now that he was out of the pagoda, he no longer had so many scruples, and his attacks were naturally much more powerful.
"Damn bald donkey! If you hadn't imprisoned me in the Buddhist Domain for a thousand years and weakened my demonic power, that last strike would have badly wounded you!" The jade spider shrieked and spat out more than a dozen webs in succession, refusing to yield as it battled the square-faced monk.
"The Thousand-Sound Temple will fall today. I'll go slaughter your disciples first and regain some strength, then I'll deal with you baldies!" Two demons at the Composite Realm had escaped from the Buddhist Hell. The other was a man-eating demonic cicada, formerly at the mid-Composite Realm. It beat its translucent wings and transformed into a streak of light, hurtling toward the group of Divine Void Realm monks overseeing the formation in the distance. The man-eating demonic cicada was extremely cunning. While the jade spider was entangled with the square-faced monk, it slipped away to feed on the lower-level monks and