Earthen-yellow light spread out. Stones of varying sizes were drawn up from the ground and surged toward Qian Daoliu, intending to crush him to death. Soon, a spherical mass of stone nearly as large as the Titan Giant Ape appeared in the sky.
The Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape relaxed slightly. Once their combined ultimate attack struck, even a two-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beast might perish within it. Even if this human did not die, he should have been seriously injured.
The enormous stone sphere floated in the air. The Death Spider Emperor, Ah Rou, and Xiao Wu could all see it clearly. The Death Spider Emperor was not worried that anything would happen to Qian Daoliu. Without even summoning his Martial Soul, he had heavily injured it with a single slap. It estimated that Qian Daoliu's strength surpassed that of a four-hundred-thousand-year ferocious beast, and that his bloodline was exceptionally supreme.
Purple-black light erupted. Eight scythes resembling its spider legs emerged behind the Death Spider Emperor. Like eight purple meteors, they shot out and rained down on Ah Rou, who had already used up her three daily uses of Invincible Golden Body.
With strength that could only match a low-level Soul Douluo, Ah Rou faced the Death Spider Emperor's targeted assault by using Invincible Golden Body roughly once every three seconds—as soon as its cooldown ended, she used it again.
"Mom!"
Seeing her mother in danger, Xiao Wu, who had been jumping about everywhere to avoid the Blood-Sucking Spider Thorn, rushed to protect Ah Rou. The Death Spider Emperor spat out several more giant webs, blocking Xiao Wu's movements.
"Ahhh—"
A sharp scream rang out. Ah Rou's flesh was sliced open by the eight spider legs, blood streaming all over her body. Her rosy face turned pale at a terrifying speed, ashen like gold paper.
Damn Soft Bone Rabbits, so you have this day too.
The Death Spider Emperor's face was full of delight. Still, it remembered Qian Daoliu's words and did not kill Ah Rou. It merely inflicted several bone-deep wounds on her without severing any major arteries.
"Mom!!"
"Aunt Rou!!"
As long as it was sincere.
Inside the Titan Giant Star, Qian Daoliu saw that the Death Spider Emperor had not killed Ah Rou without authorization. He felt much more reassured about letting it serve as a babysitter and stopped wasting time.
With a thunderous boom, dazzling golden light illuminated the skies above the Star Dou Great Forest. The Titan Giant Star exploded completely, and Qian Daoliu reappeared unharmed before the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python.
Qian Daoliu raised his hand. Golden light gathered into a Holy Sword ten meters long and three meters wide. Its chilling aura pointed directly at the Titan Giant Ape. At the sight of the sword, the Titan Giant Ape forgot how to breathe. It could not muster any desire to resist, feeling as though its great-grandmother was beckoning to it.
"Second Brother!"
At the critical moment, the Sky Azure Bull Python rammed the Titan Giant Ape aside with its enormous bull head. The Holy Sword passed through the Sky Azure Bull Python's huge head as easily as slicing tofu, piercing who knew how many meters into the ground and leaving a hundred-meter-long gash across the earth.
"Big Brother!"
The Titan Giant Ape's eyes widened as it stared at the Sky Azure Bull Python, which had taken that sword strike for it. The Sky Azure Bull Python stood rooted in place, its eyes equally wide and motionless, as if stunned.
Suddenly, a wound stretching across the Sky Azure Bull Python's head appeared. Azure blood sprayed from it, and its head split in two. Its huge body crashed to the ground, while a Soul Ring over a hundred meters in diameter, glowing crimson, emerged from its body.
The Sky Azure Bull Python had died.
"Big Brother!!!"
The Titan Giant Ape roared, while Xiao Wu screamed.
"Ahhhhhh—"
The Death Spider Emperor turned into a cutting machine. Its eight spider legs kept stabbing, slicing, cutting, and hacking at Xiao Wu's plump rabbit body... Xiao Wu was like a slab of fat, relentlessly ravaged by the Death Spider Emperor.
Xiao Wu was soon bleeding everywhere, her white, soft, thick fur drenched in blood.
The Death Spider Emperor opened its gaping maw and bit down on Xiao Wu. Her two long rabbit ears were bitten off and swallowed into its stomach.
"Delicious, delicious. The flesh and blood of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit is truly delicious, nothing like those ten-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbits."
Blood stained the Death Spider Emperor's mouth as it greedily inspected the horribly mangled Xiao Wu, looking for another piece of flesh it could cut off while keeping her alive. The taste of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's flesh and blood, especially the Soul Power essence it contained, was far beyond what a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast could compare to.
Watching Xiao Wu being almost tortured to death by the Death Spider Emperor through his spiritual power, Qian Daoliu could not help but reveal a look of disgust. He finally understood why the corrupted Bibi Dong had become so twisted and insane.
A Martial Soul could influence its Soul Master. The Death Spider Emperor was so cruel and deranged; corrupted Bibi Dong would only be even more deranged, after all, she possessed twin spider Martial Souls. The Soul-Eater Spider Emperor, capable of devouring souls, was likely even more twisted than the Death Spider Emperor.
Ji'er should be all right, shouldn't he?
Holding the Divine Holy Sword, Qian Daoliu slashed again, intending to kill the Titan Giant Ape. Just then, the space above the Titan Giant Ape's head tore open, and a massive dragon claw stretched out. Every dragon scale on that claw gleamed black.
The dragon claw seized the golden sword aura and crushed it in one grip!
"Angel God's High Priest, you dared enter the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest and openly violate the agreement between Spirit Hall and the Star Dou Great Forest!"
From the crack above the dragon claw, an enormous dragon head emerged. The dragon head alone was several times larger than the Titan Giant Ape. Its scales gleamed black like the dragon claw's, but its pupils were golden.
"Lord Beast God!"
Seeing the black dragon head, the Titan Giant Ape felt as though it had seen its savior. The owner of that head was the true emperor of the Star Dou Great Forest, its strongest Soul Beast—the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, Beast God Di Tian.
Pitch-black Soul Power soared into the sky. Part of the heavens, which Qian Daoliu's Angel Soul Power had dyed gold, turned black.
All the Soul Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest prostrated themselves. Even the Death Spider Emperor did not dare move rashly. Looking at the golden-eyed black dragon, every hair on its body trembled as it prayed that Qian Daoliu would not abandon it and flee.
"Agreement? What agreement?" Qian Daoliu raised an eyebrow. Spirit Hall had an agreement with the Star Dou Great Forest too?
Di Tian flew into a rage, his voice resounding through the heavens. "You humans truly are despicable, shameless, faithless, and treacherous! The Angel God's High Priest was not to enter the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest, and I would not launch a beast tide against human cities other than those of Spirit Hall. This was the agreement your ancestor signed with me!"
"Oh, that was too long ago. Spirit Hall has undergone a recent change of generations, and the agreement was not properly kept. I have never seen it. My apologies. If you must blame someone, blame the previous Angel God's High Priest, who is already in the grave."
Qian Daoliu said. Hearing Di Tian mention this agreement, he finally understood why Spirit Hall had existed for who knew how many years and always had a level ninety-nine Limit Douluo in command, making the killing of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts seem effortless, yet possessed so few Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones in storage. Even Qian Xunji's ninth Soul Ring had only been ten thousand years old.
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