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"A Thousand-Year Man Faced Demon Spider?! Great, Beibei, that's the one I want." Tang Ya pointed excitedly at the Man Faced Demon Spider.

Beibei stared intently at the Man Faced Demon Spider in the distance, but unlike Tang Ya, he felt no excitement.

The Man Faced Demon Spider stood at the pinnacle among spider-type soul beasts. It excelled at venom, rapid movement, and its eight spider legs with exceptionally strong piercing power. With his strength, capturing it alive was nearly impossible.

Wu Xuan noticed the gravity in Beibei's heart and said solemnly, "Senior Beibei! I'm a control-type Soul Elder. You take the lead, and I'll support you from the side."

"Good!" Beibei's expression brightened. A layer of purple shimmered in his eyes as his thick right arm swept outward, sending dense bolts of lightning surging toward the Man Faced Demon Spider.

The First Soul Ring on his right arm lit up in the next instant. Amid intense Soul Power fluctuations, a blue-violet dragon claw formed from lightning, roughly a foot in diameter, shot forth like a bolt of electricity and followed the lightning toward the Thousand-Year Man Faced Demon Spider.

"First Soul Skill, Thunder Dragon Claw!"

He was not someone who hesitated. With Wu Xuan, a level-thirty Soul Elder, assisting him, their chances of victory were high.

As a top-tier spider-type soul beast, the Man Faced Demon Spider naturally would not wait helplessly for death.

The moment Beibei launched his attack, a spiderweb shot from its grim mouthparts like lightning, enveloping Beibei.

Wu Xuan narrowed his eyes. There it was—the first of the Thousand-Year Man Faced Demon Spider's three web attacks!

Without hesitation, Wu Xuan raised his left leg and kicked through the air. A pale cyan whirlwind shot out several times faster than the spiderweb, sweeping up the web the Man Faced Demon Spider had fired and vanishing from everyone's sight.

"Second Soul Skill, Light Spirit Wind!"

The purple Second Soul Ring around Wu Xuan quietly lit up. As a gentle breeze enveloped him, Beibei, who was charging forward, felt his body grow light, and his speed abruptly more than doubled.

In the blink of an eye, he appeared at the Man Faced Demon Spider's side. The spider only had time to raise two pairs of spear-like legs before Beibei's dragon claw smashed it to the ground.

"Screee!" The Man Faced Demon Spider let out a piercing shriek, took two fearful steps back as it looked at Beibei, then fled toward the nearby bushes.

"You ambushed us and still think you can run?" Wu Xuan chuckled. Empowered by fifty percent of hurricane force, his control was not something a soul beast barely over a thousand years old could withstand.

Wu Xuan clenched one hand in the air, and the rapidly flowing wind around them suddenly gathered. A powerful hurricane pressed down upon the charging Man Faced Demon Spider from all directions.

"Screee!"

The Man Faced Demon Spider shrieked. Its not particularly massive body was actually pinned down by the hurricane, unable to advance even an inch.

"Perfect opportunity!" Beibei, benefiting from Huo Yuhao's enhanced vision, shouted. At that moment, the Third Soul Ring on his right arm lit up.

"Third Soul Skill, Wrath of Thunder!"

A deep rumble abruptly erupted from Beibei's body. Intense blue-violet lightning flared across his entire body, while the scales on his right arm swiftly spread outward, covering even the right side of his chest. His aura surged in an instant.

Amid the swirling blue-violet lightning, a Thunder Dragon Claw twice as large as before condensed once more.

The Man Faced Demon Spider struggled violently within the cyan hurricane, for it sensed an intense aura of death from Beibei.

Of course, all of this happened within mere seconds.

The hurricane dispersed, and Beibei's terrifying claw landed perfectly upon the Man Faced Demon Spider's carapace.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"

Blue-violet lightning swept across the Man Faced Demon Spider's entire body, instantly gravely wounding it and leaving it near death.

Coming back to her senses, Tang Ya glanced at the Man Faced Demon Spider, whose aura was steadily weakening, and jumped up in delight.

"That was amazing, Junior Wu Xuan! Is that your control Soul Skill? It's incredible." Tang Ya moved close to Wu Xuan, staring unblinkingly at him as he lowered his hand.

Wu Xuan took a step back and shook his head. "Senior Tang Ya, you're overthinking it. This is merely another way for my martial soul to manifest."

"Another way to manifest? Junior Wu Xuan, could your martial soul be a wind-element beast martial soul? But that can't be right—you haven't possessed yourself with your martial soul." Tang Ya was utterly puzzled.

"Ahem. Enough, Xiaoya. Hurry and absorb the Soul Ring. That Man Faced Demon Spider is about to die." Beibei walked over with a dark expression.

Seeing Beibei's darkened face, Tang Ya stepped forward and gave him a big hug. "Beibei! Why do I feel like ever since meeting Junior Wu Xuan, you've been showing your true colors?"

Tang Ya released Beibei with a giggle and took out a half-foot-long short blade from her Soul Tool.

She walked over to the dying Man Faced Demon Spider and drove the blade straight through its head.

A purple Soul Ring slowly condensed into shape, and she immediately sat cross-legged to absorb her Third Soul Ring.

"Hehe! Little Wu Xuan, well done! You had that Man Faced Demon Spider completely under control throughout the entire battle. It didn't manage to stir up even the slightest trouble." Sky Dream Ice Silkworm praised.

"This surge in Spiritual Power has indeed made me much more at ease in battle," Wu Xuan replied.

"Mm! Cultivate well. I'm going to sleep!" Sky Dream Ice Silkworm fell silent as soon as he finished speaking.

Watching Wu Xuan stare blankly off to the side, Beibei felt a little jealous. Since he had met Tang Ya, this was the first time she had chased after a boy, asking him question after question.

But the thought passed in an instant, and he soon calmed down. Wu Xuan had contributed the most to their successful hunt for the Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring. Without his control, Beibei could barely have defeated the Man Faced Demon Spider, but severely wounding and capturing it would have been extraordinarily difficult.

The Man Faced Demon Spider's speed alone was beyond his ability to catch, not to mention its three web attacks.

Though he was somewhat sanctimonious, outwardly posing as refined and easygoing, he was not petty enough to fuss over such a trivial matter.

Absorbing a Thousand-Year Soul Ring took quite a while. Beibei scattered some soul beast-repelling medicine around the perimeter.

Their luck was fairly good. During Tang Ya's absorption of the Soul Ring, only a few ten-year and hundred-year soul beasts appeared. After Wu Xuan punched one of them to death, no other soul beasts dared approach and could only watch from afar.

As the Man Faced Demon Spider's Soul Ring was successfully absorbed, Tang Ya's figure became even more slender, her skin gained a healthier glow, and her aura rapidly grew stronger at an astonishing rate.

"Phew." Tang Ya exhaled deeply and slowly opened her eyes. A sharp gleam flashed in her bright gaze, and her entire spirit had improved tremendously.

In a soul master's cultivation, level thirty was an important threshold. Those who crossed it and entered the Soul Elder realm became true powerhouses among soul masters, with limitless potential ahead. Yet many soul masters with poor talent could exhaust their entire lives without breaking through the level-thirty bottleneck.

"I succeeded!" Tang Ya excitedly sprang to her feet. Two yellow and one purple Soul Rings rose swiftly from beneath her feet. The most eye-catching was naturally the thousand-year purple Soul Ring, whose pale violet hue radiated a noble aura. From that moment onward, Tang Ya's strength had completely entered another level.

Beibei smiled. "Xiaoya, congratulations."

"Now there definitely won't be any problem completing the assessment to advance to fourth grade." Tang Ya came to Beibei's side, her beautiful eyes brimming with excitement.

As she spoke, the usually carefree girl seemed to remember something. She gave a playful smile and said, "By the way, Junior Wu Xuan, you still haven't answered my question from earlier!"

Wu Xuan nodded. "My martial soul is an elemental martial soul: Wind Element Control!"

"Wind element!! It's the same type as an Inner Court senior sister's martial soul—both are elemental martial souls. It's just that her martial soul is the ice element." Tang Ya spoke with great interest.

Beibei knowingly coughed and said, "All right, Xiaoya. Since you've finished absorbing your Third Soul Ring, we should leave this place quickly. In recent years, more and more soul masters have met with accidents after entering the Star Dou Great Forest. Even this far out on the outskirts, we encountered soul beasts like a hundred-year Twin-Eyed Giant and a thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider. We'd better leave sooner rather than later."

"Fine!" Seeing Beibei interrupt her conversation with Wu Xuan, Tang Ya stuck out her tongue in annoyance.