Hundred-Thousand-Year Man Faced Spider Emperor
My name is the Man Faced Spider Emperor.
I'm just a little spider baby who's only a hundred thousand years old.
I had a truly tragic past. I'd been an orphan for a very long time.
Ten thousand years ago...
One of my kind seemed to have offended some powerful big shot.
Even now, I still remember what happened that day...
A blue-haired human with eight spider legs behind him came to the Star Dou Great Forest and frenziedly slaughtered my kin.
He shouted, "Man Faced Demon Spiders, you killed my Xiao Wu. You deserve to die!"
"Today, I, Tang San, will rid the continent of evil by nature Soul Beasts like you, for the sake of everyone's safety!"
After hearing those words, I was immediately displeased.
What did he mean, evil by nature Soul Beasts?
Sure, we were all spiders, but we weren't that bunch of evil Soul Beasts—the Soul Devouring Demon Spiders!
Sure, we liked killing, but we only killed the Soul Beasts that trespassed on our territory.
That guy called Tang San just wanted to absorb my energy and evolve the eight spider legs behind him, didn't he?
So I couldn't put up with it for even a second... I went straight at him...
And then... he sent me flying with one hammer blow...
It hurt~ It really hurt!
Fortunately, I had ninety thousand years of cultivation and wasn't killed by that single strike.
Once I realized I couldn't fight him, I ran for it.
But that guy called Tang San kept hot on my heels.
With no other choice...
I could only activate the move called "Spider God Possession."
That's right... the skill that boosted all my attributes at the cost of burning away my cultivation...
But I never expected that human called Tang San to know how to teleport!
In the end, he caught up with me.
Just when I thought I was going to die at his hands, I ran into one of my kind.
A seventy-thousand-year-old Man Faced Spider Emperor.
At last, with the two of us working together...
I decisively sold out my kinsman, and that was how I managed to save my own hide and find somewhere to lie low.
And so...
Ten thousand years passed.
That Tang San seemed to have become a god and ascended to the Divine Realm.
But I still didn't dare come out.
Until today...
The Beast God had actually brought a human to find me.
Looking at the human in front of me, my eight legs instinctively took a step back.
That Tang San from ten thousand years ago had left such a deep shadow in my heart that even now, my legs turned to jelly whenever I saw a human...
"Di Tian, are you sure this Man Faced Spider Emperor is evil?"
Feng Yan's voice held a hint of confusion. He hadn't revealed even a trace of his aura.
In the eyes of this Man Faced Spider Emperor, he was just an ordinary person.
Yet the moment it saw him, this Man Faced Spider Emperor had panicked like this?
Even if it was because Di Tian was standing beside him, there was no need for it to be this cowardly.
It didn't have an ounce of dignity befitting a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.
Di Tian replied, "Ever since the Sea God slaughtered the Man Faced Demon Spider clan, it's been the last Man Faced Spider Emperor in the Star Dou Great Forest."
Then he went on to explain the story of this Man Faced Spider Emperor. "Ten thousand years ago, Sea God Tang San came to the Star Dou Great Forest..."
So that was what happened!
After hearing Di Tian's explanation, Feng Yan understood.
So Little Scumbag had traumatized it, and it had only survived by selling out its own kind.
That meant this Man Faced Spider Emperor was an enemy of Little Scumbag, too...
"Di Tian, you can leave."
He suddenly found the Man Faced Spider Emperor before him a lot more pleasing to the eye.
"This just got even more interesting."
At first, Feng Yan had only planned to stuff Tang San into the Man Faced Spider Emperor's body unilaterally.
You could think of it as a body snatching after some of his memories had been lost.
Now that he thought about it, his decision had been a little rash.
Simple body snatching wasn't all that interesting.
Why not...
Have some fun with two souls in one body?
After Di Tian left, Feng Yan stopped pretending altogether.
Surging divine power swept toward the Man Faced Spider Emperor.
He didn't know any fancy tricks. He only knew how to crush others with sheer force... no... how to crush beasts.
Then he asked, "Little spider, do you want revenge?"
A hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast had the intelligence of an adult, so it could naturally speak, too.
"Human~ What are you trying to do..."
A sharp, feminine voice came from the Man Faced Spider Emperor. It sounded quite pleasant.
As the voice faded, the Man Faced Spider Emperor couldn't help taking several steps backward.
This feeling again...
It was exactly the same as when Tang San came after me ten thousand years ago...
No! The sense of danger this person gave me was even greater than Tang San's!
Could this be the day Spider-Me meets her end?
A trace of impatience crept into Feng Yan's voice. "I'll ask you one last time. Do you want revenge on Tang San?"
His earlier question had only been a formality. Even if this Man Faced Spider Emperor was too much of a coward to seek revenge, he would force it to do so.
That was the power of sheer force!!!
"I'm willing... I'm willing!"
"Please, take back your divine power!"
Seeing this, how could the Man Faced Spider Emperor dare refuse? If it did, next year's anniversary of its death would probably be today.
"Good. You know how to see the big picture. No wonder you survived Little Scumbag." After remarking, Feng Yan withdrew his divine power.
"From here on, don't move. I'm about to begin..."
As he spoke, he took out the Blue-Gold Bead and released the consciousness of Tang San inside it.
In an instant, the Blue-Gold Bead burst into dazzling light.
An angry voice came from within:
"God of Fire!!!"
"You deserve to die!!!"
As expected, Tang San was suffering another bout of "Tang Syndrome" in there.
Seeing this, Feng Yan immediately mocked him. "San Gege, after all this time, and you're still going on about people deserving to die?"
"Take a look first. Do you remember it?"
Hearing this, Tang San used the last wisp of his divine sense to scan the outside.
He discovered a hundred-thousand-year Man Faced Spider Emperor trembling in fear out there.
The instant Tang San saw it, he remembered.
Ten thousand years ago, he'd wanted to increase the power of the Eight Spider Lances, so he used avenging Xiao Wu as an excuse to slaughter the entire Man Faced Demon Spider clan and absorb their life energy with the Eight Spider Lances.
Later, a ninety-thousand-year Man Faced Spider Emperor had actually ambushed him. He'd sent it flying, but it had run away—really fast.
He chased it for a long time, but in the end, a seventy-thousand-year Man Faced Spider Emperor blocked his way.
By the time he'd killed the seventy-thousand-year-old one, the ninety-thousand-year-old had long since vanished.
"You're the one that got away! You actually managed to break through to a hundred thousand years!" Tang San's voice carried a hint of murderous intent.
When the Man Faced Spider Emperor heard him say that someone deserved to die, it had felt a wave of familiarity. Now it recognized him outright.
"You're... that person!"
A hint of hatred flashed in the Man Faced Spider Emperor's eyes, but fear filled them far more.
Tang San was about to say something more, but then he suddenly remembered what Feng Yan had said...
That he was going to stuff Tang San's divine soul inside a female Soul Beast...
Could it be this very Man Faced Spider Emperor in front of him?
"God of Fire! Are you planning to..."
Before Tang San could finish, he was interrupted.
"Ke ke ke ke ke ke..."
Feng Yan chuckled wickedly. "Congratulations, San Ge. You guessed right!"
"Don't worry. I'll let you keep some of your memories..."
"After all, that'll make it more fun..."
"No! God of Fire... I'm Wutong's father. Do you really want Wutong to hate you?"
Tang San hurriedly spoke, trying to stir Feng Yan's conscience.
In response, all he got was a string of "ke ke" laughter.