Careless, Didn't Dodge

Gu Fengchen narrowed his eyes slightly as Dou Qi began circulating within him.

"Get behind me and hide!"

At this moment, Gu Fengchen directly had Xiao Yi Xian hide behind him.

With her Combat Power, she would be useless in a situation like this aside from being dead weight.

After remaining still for a moment, the Beast Spider suddenly sprang up. Its eight long legs moved rapidly, sweeping up the fallen leaves on the ground, and in the blink of an eye, it had arrived before Gu Fengchen.

This beast was fast!

Just as the Beast Spider was about to reach Gu Fengchen, it opened its mouth and spat out a massive web.

Gu Fengchen's heart sank. The web covered an enormous area, leaving him almost no room to dodge!

However, just as the web was about to reach him, faint rings of golden energy seeped from Gu Fengchen's body.

There was naturally another reason he had told Xiao Yi Xian to stay far away: he no longer had to hold back!

At this distance, Xiao Yi Xian could never notice the energy around his body. Even if she did, she would never connect it to the Heavenly Flames!

The gray web actually passed straight through Gu Fengchen's body just as it was about to touch him.

Other Dou Zhe might have found this kind of web troublesome, but Gu Fengchen, who possessed the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame, certainly would not!

However, the Beast Spider showed no emotional change after Gu Fengchen neutralized its web attack. It rushed before him, raised its two front legs high, and chopped down at his head!

Those two front legs shot out like venomous snakes leaving their nests, incredibly fast, even leaving two afterimages in the air.

Gu Fengchen's experience of "getting beaten every day" by Gu Xun'er came in handy. He possessed an instinctively sharp awareness of danger.

Facing the Beast Spider's attack, Gu Fengchen abruptly paused, slowing down as his charging direction instantly shifted at an angle.

The Beast Spider's guillotine-like forelimbs stabbed deeply into the ground before Gu Fengchen!

Bang!

Shattered stones flew everywhere, and dust billowed wildly.

Within that dust, a massive shadow rapidly enlarged.

Gu Fengchen had no time to react. He could only raise his arms before himself.

With a bang, Gu Fengchen felt a tremendous force crash into his arms.

Fortunately, he had cultivated the Indestructible Golden Body and managed to withstand the blow head-on. Yet the immense impact still sent him flying, slamming him into a large tree.

The seemingly incomparably sturdy tree was smashed to pieces by Gu Fengchen's impact!

As expected of a Tier 2 Beast Spider!

Gu Fengchen was somewhat shocked.

Though it was Tier 2, it was clearly in the advanced Tier 2 stage. Its strength was still far greater than his as a One Star Dou Shi.

Gu Fengchen felt as though he had been struck by a speeding car, and the memory of that car accident from his previous life surfaced once more.

Fortunately, he possessed both the Indestructible Golden Body and the Three Thousand Burning Flame Body. His physical constitution was simply beyond comparison with that of an ordinary Dou Shi. Thus, while the blow hurt a little, he had not suffered any serious injuries.

"Watch out!"

Xiao Yi Xian's voice came from behind him. With an almost inaudible sound, the Beast Spider opened its mouth again.

This time, however, it did not spray a web, but a stream of thick green venom.

Damn, this beast was pretty smart?

It knew the web was useless against me, so it switched to poison?

Gu Fengchen instinctively dodged the venom, only to see it land on a huge boulder beside him. The potent toxin was extremely corrosive, directly melting the boulder.

Only after dodging did Gu Fengchen realize that he was immune to all poisons. What the hell was he afraid of?

At the same time, Xiao Yi Xian was also somewhat stunned.

She had followed mercenary groups into the mountains to gather herbs all year round. Although she did not even possess the strength of a Dou Zhe, she could still roughly assess the strength of Dou Zhe and Magic Beasts.

Judging from its speed and strength, this Beast Spider was not merely Tier 2, but Tier 2 Peak.

Even an early-stage Da Dou Shi would find a Beast Spider like this troublesome. If a mercenary group encountered it here, they would absolutely turn around and flee. Whether they could escape would depend on their luck.

Yet this young man had not only failed to run, but could even take its attack head-on without suffering the slightest injury.

Could it be that this Gu Fengchen had been hiding his true strength all along?

Gu Fengchen did not retreat again. Instead, he charged toward the Beast Spider.

The Beast Spider let out an incomprehensible sound. Then, its eight long legs sprang into motion as it pounced toward Gu Fengchen as well.

Gu Fengchen's reason for not retreating was simple.

It was not that he could not outrun it. Gu Fengchen had cultivated the Forest Strolling Technique, so he was not afraid of competing with the Beast Spider in speed. The problem was that Xiao Yi Xian was not even a Dou Zhe. How could she run?

It was not that Gu Fengchen was such a saint. He mainly wanted to test just how strong his Combat Power had become.

A free punching bag was a waste not to use. If he really could not beat it, he could always run later!

As the Beast Spider neared Gu Fengchen, four of its appendages firmly braced its body while its huge form rapidly rose upright. Its pincer-like forelimbs viciously stabbed toward Gu Fengchen's face.

Gu Fengchen could not judge its true strength, but based on its sheer size alone, it was in a completely different weight class from him.

"You beast!"

Gu Fengchen took a deep breath. The Indestructible Golden Body and Three Thousand Burning Flame Body activated at the same time!

A dark green glow clung to the Beast Spider's forelimbs, clearly carrying poison. Once they pierced through one's defenses, an ordinary Dou Zhe would likely die from poisoning on the spot.

Yet Gu Fengchen showed no panic in the face of this unstoppable strike.

He clenched his left fist and threw it swiftly, carrying the faint momentum of rushing thunder!

Thunderbolt Fist!

The Thunderbolt Fist was itself a Xuan-tier Dou Technique. Perhaps it was pure trash in the Gu Clan, but in a place like the Jia Ma Empire, it was absolutely an invincible and powerful Dou Technique among Dou Zhe and Dou Shi.

This punch targeted the Beast Spider's abdomen!

When the Beast Spider leaped high into the air, it exposed its abdomen directly before Gu Fengchen.

It was not that the Beast Spider had been careless. Rather, from its chest to its abdomen, it was covered in a layer of hard black scales. This was the hardest part of its body.

Faced with the attack of a mere Dou Shi, the Beast Spider did not bother to block it.

The Beast Spider had lived in the Magic Beast Mountain Range for many years and often dealt with Dou Zhe and Dou Shi. From the Dou Qi leaking from Gu Fengchen's body, it had already judged that its opponent should be weaker than itself.

Though it did not know how Gu Fengchen had neutralized its web earlier, it believed that Gu Fengchen could never break through its defenses!

Once its forelimbs came down, its opponent would become today's dinner—no, late-night snack!

But in the next moment, Gu Fengchen would show it the consequences of being careless and failing to dodge!