Heaven Has No End to the Road (Seeking Collection, Seeking Follow-up!)

(Female lead as the guardian of the tower)

"Man Faced Demon Spider, surrender now, and I can give you a quick death!"

"Demon Emperor, today we join forces, and we will surely break into your demonic lair to avenge our fallen comrades!"

"Spider Emperor! You slaughter your own kind for selfish desires, you don't belong in Star Dou! Get out of this forest!"

"You are an utterly evil being, born to die! You actually slaughtered thousands of my sect's disciples. From that moment on, I wished I could eat your flesh and drink your blood! Today, I will make you wish you were dead!"

At the boundary between the outer and mixed zones of the Star Dou Great Forest, a place where only Hundred-Year and Thousand-Year Soul Beasts should roam, was now filled with a terrifying aura capable of shaking the entire Douluo Continent.

Humans and soul beasts, who had been in conflict for tens of thousands of years, now stood together for a single goal, forming a tight encirclement.

All their gazes were fixed on the figure at the very center of the formation.

Gu Chensha, known as the "Demon Emperor," revealed his true form to everyone.

What a terrifying sight it was!

Eight spider legs covered in dark gold demonic patterns spread out, each segment bearing thorn-like bone blades that reflected a cold, eerie light in the dim forest.

On his carapace, a ferocious human face pattern twisted, as if countless wronged souls were silently screaming.

Most terrifying were his eyes, as black as the abyss, yet burning with dark gold flames, like a demon god gazing at the mortal world from the depths of hell.

Two hundred thousand years of cultivation, the Primordial Demon Spider Emperor!

This was a forbidden existence never before seen on the Douluo Continent!

Yet, at this moment, this supposedly flawless body was covered in shocking cracks.

Dark gold blood surged from the wounds like molten lava, scorching the vegetation and cracking the earth wherever it flowed.

Three of his eight spider legs were nearly broken, held up only by the remnants of his will.

Besieging him were not only the top soul masters from Martial Soul Hall, the Upper Three Sects, and the two great empires.

But also the absolute overlords of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, and even the notoriously ferocious Bear Lord and Scarlet King stood among the ranks.

Gu Chensha surveyed the dense crowd of enemies and suddenly let out a low laugh.

On the brink of death, memories of his past life on Earth became incredibly clear.

Five hundred years ago, he, a lonely soul from another world, possessed a newly hatched ordinary Man Faced Demon Spider and struggled to survive in this forest of the strong preying on the weak.

His voice was low and hoarse, yet it clearly reached the ears of every living being.

"Looking back, I only had ten years of cultivation, and any two-ring soul master could have crushed me. But I survived, by being ruthless, by fighting hard, by risking everything."

"At three hundred years, I reached the Hundred-Thousand-Year realm, and the soul beasts of Star Dou began to fear me, calling me the Demon Emperor!"

"At four hundred years, I annihilated three sects that ambushed me, wanting to use me for soul rings. From then on, people all over the continent began to hunt me."

"Now, I have merely broken through the two-hundred-thousand-year tribulation, seeking the illusory path to godhood, and I face this heavenly and man-made disaster, with the whole world against me."

His gaze swept across the entire scene, filled with biting mockery:

"You say I am an utterly evil being, that I deserve to die."

"But I ask you, in these past five hundred years, when did I ever kill someone unless they first tried to take my life?"

"When did I ever devour a soul beast, unless the law of the jungle was the iron rule of this world?"

"Your joining forces to kill me today is simply because I am too strong. Too strong to the point of making you fear, too strong to the point of breaking the rules you established, rules that only benefit you!"

"But the only rule in this world has always been: the strong are respected!"

As his voice fell, Gu Chensha's dark gold compound eyes reflected the sky-filling killing moves surging towards him.

He smiled, a calm smile, yet filled with endless desolation.

"Five hundred years of cultivation, today... how can it all be in vain!"

In an instant, boundless dark gold demonic flames erupted from his body!

That was the power of a two-hundred-thousand-year soul beast burning its origin, a terrifying might that could make even Titled Douluo turn pale, instantly engulfing half the forest.

"Not good! He's going to burn his origin and take us all down with him! Retreat!"

The leading Titled Douluo's expressions changed drastically, and they roared in disbelief.

Everyone knew how terrifying the desperate counterattack of a two-hundred-thousand-year fierce beast was!

The previously impenetrable encirclement instantly tore open, and everyone retreated madly, fearing even the slightest touch of the corrosive demonic flames.

But just as everyone thought he was going to fight to the death, a trace of extreme coldness flashed in Gu Chensha's eyes.

Take them all down with him?

He had lived for five hundred years, crawling from a lowly young spider to the peak of the continent. He was never one to wait for death!

Even if he died, he would take enough people with him, and more importantly, he would fight for a sliver of survival for himself!

This was merely a feint!

Have you not heard that Heaven never bars all paths?

He suddenly braced his broken body, and the remaining two hundred thousand years of his origin essence erupted with a roar.

The bloodline power of the Primordial Demon Spider Emperor ignited completely, and the soaring demonic flames forcibly blasted a gap of one ten-thousandth of a second into the sky-filling killing moves.

Seizing this fleeting opportunity, Gu Chensha pushed off the ground with his only remaining intact spider leg.

His mangled body transformed into a streak of dark golden light, fleeing desperately toward the southwest side of the Star Dou Great Forest.

"He's trying to run!"

"Pursue! We must not let this monster escape! To release a tiger back to the mountains today is to invite a great disaster for the future!"

Everyone reacted in an instant, their figures turning into streaks of light as they chased after him like madmen.

In the uninhabited forbidden zone at the southwest end of the Star Dou Great Forest, a streak of dark golden light slammed heavily into the ground.

"Pfft!"

Gu Chensha's true form hit the earth, his carapace shattering upon impact.

Dark golden spider emperor blood gushed out like a fountain, corroding the ground beneath him into dense, pitted holes.

This was the speed he had bought by burning his life essence, but his injuries were simply too severe.

For every mile he fled, the cracks on his body widened by a fraction.

The trail of blood he dragged behind him had long since become a beacon for his pursuers.

He could not hold on much longer.

His eight compound eyes slowly closed, then struggled to open once more.

His entire life had been a struggle against Heaven, against men, and against the unjust rules of this world.

Was it really to end here?

He was not reconciled.

He had yet to stand at the pinnacle of the Douluo Continent, had yet to shatter the bullshit rule that soul beasts could only end up as soul rings for soul masters—how could he die just like this?

But the reality was that his origin essence was nearly exhausted, his soul was on the verge of dissipating at any moment, and even the treasures of heaven and earth could not pull his life back from the brink.

The only path left seemed to be transformation?

As long as he cultivated to the mature stage of level 70, he could fully transform into a human form.

As a transmigrator, he did not reject starting over, but in his mortally wounded state, he would never survive long enough to succeed...

Even if he did, having lost his cultivation, it would be impossible for him to walk out of this Star Dou Great Forest.

There was no retreat, and nowhere left to run.

Unless...

A thought, insane to the extreme, suddenly emerged within his shattering soul.

Sacrifice!

To use his remaining twenty thousand years of complete origin essence as an offering, to seek a host, and to forge a Symbiotic Pact.

To pour all his power, laws, and bloodline into the host, helping her defy the heavens and change her fate!

And his own soul would reside within the host's sea of consciousness, living and dying together, sharing the same body.

If he failed, his soul would scatter, and he would never be reincarnated for all eternity!

Even if he succeeded, he might lose control of the body, and his entire future would be inextricably bound to the host.

But right now, this was his only path to survival, a high-stakes gamble he was forced to take.

If he won the bet, perhaps he could be reborn in another body and step back to the peak!

If he lost, it would be nothing more than dying a moment sooner.

But the host had to meet the conditions:

She must not only be able to withstand the scouring of twenty thousand years of demon spider origin essence, but she must also be compatible with his soul.

She must possess sufficient resilience, sufficient ruthlessness—the kind of ruthlessness that refuses to bow its head even when pushed to the brink by the world.

Where could he find such a host?

Gu Chensha's consciousness grew increasingly blurred, and just before his soul was about to dissipate completely, he suddenly caught a scent.

The scent of blood, human blood!

No, it was more than just blood!

There was also an aura he was intimately familiar with.

The stubbornness in a desperate situation, the unyielding nature within unwillingness—it was exactly the same as that young spider struggling to survive in the mud five hundred years ago.

Gu Chensha's consciousness cleared for a fleeting moment, and he looked toward the source of the scent.

Deep in the dense forest, at the gnarled roots of an ancient thousand-year-old tree, a young girl was curled up.

She was only twelve or thirteen years old, her black combat uniform already soaked through with blood.

Her body was covered in wounds of varying depths, the most severe on her left shoulder, exposing bone.

Her face was as pale as paper, yet her lips were tightly pressed together.

Her pair of pitch-black eyes held no trace of cowardly pleading, only an unyielding stubbornness.

Gu Chensha dragged his battered body, inching closer.

The light sound of landing startled the young girl.

She looked up sharply.

Even though the opponent's aura was at its absolute weakest, the notorious reputation etched into the minds of all soul masters on the continent still made her hair stand on end.

She naturally recognized this soul beast.

A forbidden existence with two hundred thousand years of cultivation, the "Demon Emperor" wanted by the entire continent, the Primordial Demon Spider Emperor!

She had originally intended to escape her family's arranged fate and flee the Star Luo Empire, but was relentlessly pursued by her family's hunters into this forbidden zone not even marked on maps.

Already at her wit's end and unable to hold on much longer, she never expected to encounter this legendary ferocious beast before her death.

The girl's delicate body instinctively trembled and recoiled.

Leaning against the cold tree trunk, she had nowhere left to retreat.

But looking at the blood-soaked, near-dissolving Demon Spider Emperor before her, she suddenly felt a bizarre resonance.

She was at her end of the road, and wasn't this Demon Emperor in the same situation?

Both were fallen souls, one after the other, heading towards the same end.

Having already come to terms with life and death, her initial fear had vanished.

Gu Chensha looked into her eyes and suddenly let out a low laugh, the sound resonating directly in Zhu Zhuqing's mind.

"Heaven's will, truly heaven leaves no one without a way out."

Zhu Zhuqing's body jolted, but due to her severe injuries, she coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"Don't be afraid. If I wanted to kill you, you would already be dead."

Gu Chensha's true form slowly shrank, his ferocious spider legs retracting, his dark golden carapace shedding, transforming into a disheveled, blood-soaked phantom figure.

He appeared to be in his early twenties, his face stern.

With every step he took, more cracks appeared on his body, and his form grew more ethereal...