Golden Dragon Claw Descends from the Heavens, Displays Divine Might, and Slays the Demon Spiders!

"Roar—!"

It was deep and resonant, like the tolling of a colossal bell weighing ten thousand tons, piercing the clouds and shaking the surrounding land.

It carried a nobility and dominance that stood above all living things.

The instant the sound reached their ears, everyone—including the six murderous Man Faced Demon Spiders—stiffened, an instinctive tremor rising from the depths of their souls!

This was the pressure of a predator at the very top of the food chain!

The two teachers' attempts to burn their Soul Power were interrupted as they looked up in shock.

The students forgot their fear and stared blankly toward the source of the sound.

Then, they witnessed a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

High in the sky, the clouds were pushed apart by an invisible force.

A dazzling golden radiance, as though condensed from the purest sunlight, tore through the heavens like the Sword of Judgment from legend and plummeted straight toward the Death Cage where they stood!

As it fell, the golden light rapidly shifted and condensed.

In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a massive Dragon Claw made entirely of golden energy!

Its five fingers were clearly defined, every Claw Tip as sharp as a divine weapon.

It was covered in incomparably distinct golden scales that seemed almost real, lava-like radiance flowing through their patterns.

The entire Dragon Claw was enormous. As it descended, its shadow nearly covered the giant web cage.

It fell with a suffocating, destructive beauty.

It appeared to descend slowly, yet it was actually faster than their thoughts.

Before the people and beasts below could even send the command to "dodge" through their brains—

The first claw had already pressed down casually.

Its targets were the two Man Faced Demon Spiders of around thirty thousand years that had sealed off the flanks.

There was no earth-shattering collision.

Only a dull, teeth-grinding sound of shattering.

Like the hardest walnuts being instantly crushed beneath a ten-thousand-ton hydraulic press.

Splat! Splat!

The two Ten-Thousand-Year Demon Spiders, nightmares in the eyes of Soul Elders and Soul Ancestors, were reduced to two pools of mangled flesh mixed with shattered carapace and purple poisonous blood beneath the press of that golden Dragon Claw!

Their indestructible carapaces, deadly chelicerae, and repulsive Compound Eyes were all driven deep into the ground.

Immediately afterward, the Dragon Claw did not seem to pause at all. Golden light flashed from its fingertips.

A crescent-shaped Golden Arc swept outward, swift as lightning and horrifyingly precise.

Slash! Slash!

The other two Demon Spiders, each around ten thousand years old and closest to the students, had just raised their spider legs to attack when their bodies froze in midair.

Thin golden lines appeared around their waists.

The next moment, their upper bodies slowly slid down, the cuts smooth as mirrors.

Purple blood, reeking intensely of fishy stench, spurted out like fountains.

It splashed onto the surrounding tree trunks and webs, producing sizzling corrosion sounds.

Only then—

Did the two leader-level Man Faced Demon Spiders with the highest cultivation, each at sixty to seventy thousand years, recover from the shock of Dragon Might and the horror of seeing their companions instantly slain.

"Screee—!!!"

They let out shrill cries filled with both boundless rage and extreme terror.

Their abdomens suddenly swelled.

An enormous web, incomparably sticky and gleaming with deep-purple poisonous light, mixed with a vast stream of foul-smelling ink-green corrosive venom, sprayed directly at the golden Dragon Claw that had yet to dissipate!

At the same time, their eight legs paddled frantically as their massive bodies retreated with extraordinary agility, trying to escape the range of that terrifying golden light.

Their survival instincts told them that the existence in the sky could not be confronted!

However—

The golden Dragon Claw that had crushed two Demon Spiders did not dodge the web or venom, even though they were enough to make a Soul Douluo retreat.

Golden light flowed across the Dragon Claw's surface.

It was as if it were covered by an invisible, absolute barrier.

Sizzle...!

The venom, capable of melting gold and corroding iron, struck the golden light and merely raised a few insignificant wisps of green smoke before sliding away and dissipating.

The incomparably tough giant web that enveloped it was no more than cotton thread tossed by a child.

The instant it touched the golden light, the intensely yang and rigid force within burned it to ashes. It could not delay the Dragon Claw by even a tenth of a second.

The Dragon Claw's five fingers curled slightly, then it lightly swatted the Seventy-Thousand-Year Demon Spider that was roaring and spraying venom a fraction too slowly, as if swatting a fly.

Splat!

A scalp-numbing sound of bursting flesh!

That Seventy-Thousand-Year Man Faced Demon Spider, which could reign supreme on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest and strike terror into countless Soul Masters, exploded.

Its head and nearly half of its upper body burst apart like a berry crushed by immense force.

Only its lower half remained, its eight legs still twitching from neural reflexes.

At the same time, a Black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring emerged.

Then vanished in an instant!!!

The last Demon Spider, over sixty thousand years old, was now terrified out of its wits.

It could not even scream.

It immediately unleashed all its potential, its eight legs moving so fast they became afterimages as it fled desperately into the depths of the forest.

It only regretted that its parents had not given it a few more legs!

But it had barely fled fifty meters.

High above—

Within that initial golden Light Pillar, another golden Dragon Claw of the same scale and majesty condensed into existence.

This time, it formed a fist!

A falling Golden Meteor, carrying an overwhelming Aura capable of crushing everything, smashed straight down!

Boom—!!!!

The earth shook violently!

Centered on the point where the fist landed, a visible golden Shockwave erupted.

The Shockwave overturned the thick layer of humus covering the ground and snapped countless shrubs and saplings.

Smoke and dust mixed with golden light surged into the sky.

The young students each circulated their Soul Power to withstand the impact.

Once the dust settled slightly—

They saw a massive fist-shaped crater, more than several dozen meters in diameter, in the struck forest clearing.

At the deepest point of the crater—

A purplish-black mass, barely recognizable as a spider and completely flattened, was embedded in the mud and stone.

Its eight spider legs were broken and twisted at all kinds of bizarre angles, twitching faintly twice.

"..."

Silence!

A deathly silence blanketed the forest clearing, which moments ago had been filled with desperate screeches and the threat of death.

"Gulp!"

Everyone swallowed unconsciously.

From the majestic Dragon's Roar echoing through the skies to the total annihilation of six Man Faced Demon Spiders, each with at least ten thousand years of cultivation, leaving behind wreckage and Black Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings—

The entire process had likely taken less than ten seconds.

It had been as swift as a brief yet violent golden dream.

"..."

The students who had survived the disaster stood with their mouths agape and their eyes wide.

Fear still lingered in their pupils.

But it was now replaced by unparalleled shock.

They stared blankly at the massive fist crater and the severed remains of the Demon Spiders around them,

Then raised their heads in confusion to look at the pristine blue sky, as though nothing had happened.

Their minds were completely blank.

They simply could not process a sight beyond the limits of their understanding.

The two Soul Douluo teachers were the first to forcibly pull themselves back from that overwhelming shock.

"!!!"

They exchanged a glance.

Each saw unprecedented horror, relief, and deep reverence in the other's eyes.

Such effortless might!

Such overwhelming destruction!

This was not something even a Titled Douluo could accomplish!

And certainly not an ordinary Titled Douluo!

The majesty and level of power contained in that golden Dragon Claw had made their souls tremble.

That was a difference in quality!