Death Spider Emperor: Can't go back, must stay at Martial Soul Hall.

The predecessor of Martial Soul Hall was the Angel Council, which has a history of at least twenty thousand years. Even if the Qian family were slow to produce offspring, it would be no problem to produce one Limit Douluo every hundred years. Even if nine out of ten descendants were like Qian Xunji, obtaining a ten-thousand-year ninth soul ring while only one in ten obtained a hundred-thousand-year one, by that calculation, they could have acquired at least twenty hundred-thousand-year soul bones over twenty thousand years.

Soul bones dropped by hundred-thousand-year soul beasts correspond to one of the six parts of a soul master's body that they lack. The Qian family possesses the Angelic Divine Set; the torso bone requires soul power to reach level one hundred and the inheritance of the Angelic God position to be absorbed, while the right arm bone, the Heaven-Measuring Sword, requires completing the seventh trial of the Angel God and becoming the High Priest of the Angel God to be absorbed.

The other four soul bones—the head, left arm, right leg, and left leg—can all be absorbed if one is lucky enough to gain the soul bone's recognition. Once absorbed, they can also be removed.

In other words, the probability of the Qian family farming hundred-thousand-year soul bones for specific body parts is different from that of ordinary soul masters; it is by no means one-sixth.

As it turns out, Bibi Dong's head soul bone is not a hundred-thousand-year soul bone, because that head soul bone only has a single soul skill.

Was Qian Xunji reluctant to give the hundred-thousand-year head soul bone to his successor, Bibi Dong? That is impossible to imagine; after all, Qian Xunji did not need it himself, and his own head soul bone slot remains vacant to this day.

In particular, the torso soul bone is also vacant. Could it be that Qian Daoliu could not see that Qian Xunji was unable to inherit the Angelic God position, and was reluctant to let him absorb the hundred-thousand-year torso bone?

With neither a hundred-thousand-year head bone nor a torso bone, the only possibility is that Martial Soul Hall had no stock.

If Martial Soul Hall did not have many hundred-thousand-year soul bones, it could only be due to some agreement signed with the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Fine, breaking the agreement is my fault, but you in the Star Dou Great Forest have also seen no shortage of soul beast riots in these years, attacking towns near the forest; that counts as your mismanagement. This Sky Azure Bull Python shall serve as compensation for your Star Dou Great Forest violating the agreement."

Since Di Tian had revealed himself, Qian Daoliu understood that he likely could not kill the Titan Giant Ape. After all, there were five Great Beast Kings beneath the Life Lake, one of whom was the current number one healer on the continent; harvesting the Sky Azure Bull Python's soul bone would suffice.

In the original timeline, the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python sacrificed themselves together to help Tang San break through to Title Douluo; with the Sky Azure Bull Python gone, half of Tang San's world collapsed. As for the Titan Giant Ape and Xiao Wu, two soul beasts who had lost their external brains, they could be dealt with at will afterward.

Qian Daoliu was not at all polite, drawing his hand toward the corpse of the Sky Azure Bull Python. A crystal-clear left arm bone flew out from the remains and landed in his hand. To his surprise, Di Tian did not stop him during the process.

The Titan Giant Ape looked at Di Tian with immense fury, unable to understand why Di Tian would not avenge his big brother and instead stood by and watched as this human took his brother's soul bone.

Qian Daoliu said, "Death Spider Emperor, bring that transformed Soft Bone Rabbit."

Di Tian spoke in a deep voice, "You may take that transformed Soft Bone Rabbit, but the Death Spider Emperor stays!"

As the Death Spider Emperor had said, once a hundred-thousand-year soul beast transforms, it is no longer regarded as a soul beast, but is instead called a pseudo-soul beast.

In a sense, transformed soul beasts are very similar to half-demons, despised by both the human side and the monster side.

The Titan Giant Ape could not help but roar, "Lord Beast God, you cannot let this human take Sister Rou, he even killed Big Brother!"

"Shut up!"

Di Tian glanced coldly at the Titan Giant Ape. If not for the fear that the Angel God living behind the High Priest of the Angel God might discover their recovering Master, even if a great war between the two sides would cause heavy losses to the Star Dou Great Forest, it would have killed this human.

Qian Daoliu said indifferently, "The Death Spider Emperor has already cooperated with my Martial Soul Hall. It is currently one of my people; it is the one who wants to follow me, not me taking it away. Get that straight."

As he finished speaking, the Death Spider Emperor saw the look of extreme fury in Di Tian's eyes, which now viewed it as a traitor, and knew it could never return to the Star Dou Great Forest; it would have to go to Martial Soul Hall to be a nanny.

As Qian Daoliu and the Death Spider Emperor left the Life Lake and the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest, bubbles surged in the Life Lake. A tall, handsome man with long black hair—a strand or two of which were golden at the forehead—emerged.

Beside the man was a woman dressed in a green gown, possessing peerless beauty, long green hair, and a pair of swan wings on her back, her entire body radiating the aura of life.

These two were Di Tian and Bi Ji in their human forms.

The soul beast form Di Tian had used to block Qian Daoliu's sword energy and confront him was a projection of its soul power through a space rift, intended to prevent Qian Daoliu—and especially the Angel God—from discovering the hidden world beneath the Life Lake.

Bi Ji pushed her hands forward, and two green lights filled with the aura of life entered the bodies of Xiao Wu and the Titan Giant Ape. The injuries on Xiao Wu's body healed rapidly, the death energy within her was neutralized, and her lost blood essence recovered quickly, her rabbit ears growing back.

The Titan Giant Ape's collapsed chest bulged outward, and the wounds left by Qian Daoliu healed in just a few dozen breaths.

Bi Ji said with some concern, "Di Tian, why do you think the people of Martial Soul Hall would cooperate with the Death Spider Emperor?"

"It is just a hundred-thousand-year spider; it cannot stir up any great waves. As long as our Master recovers, once the Master recovers, it will be the time for our soul beast clan to rise."

Di Tian looked at the Titan Giant Ape and Xiao Wu, saying, "You two, guard the Life Lake well. When the Master recovers, that will be the day Martial Soul Hall and the human world are destroyed!"

"Yes, Lord Beast God." X2

Although the Titan Giant Ape and Xiao Wu answered obediently, their eyes were filled with deep hatred—hatred for Qian Daoliu, hatred for the Death Spider Emperor, and hatred for Di Tian.

Clear Sky Sect, Clear Sky Hall.

Tang Zhen, Tang Xiao, and the Six Elders of Clear Sky sat together once more.

After the full efforts of the Clear Sky Sect to save him, Tang Zhen had regained consciousness, but his condition was poor. His skin was withered, his hair gray and white, his face covered in wrinkles and numerous death spots, and he coughed from time to time, as if he could die of illness at any moment.

The sound of high heels clicking against the floor rang out, and a woman dressed in a palace gown with azure hair, appearing to be about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, walked in.

The woman possessed an excellent temperament, one that perhaps even the Pope of Martial Soul Hall could not compare to, but strangely, one could not feel any soul power fluctuations from a woman of such temperament; she seemed like an ordinary person.

This woman was the Third Young Lady of the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Zhen's own daughter, Tang Yuehua.

Tang Lie barked, "Yuehua, what are you doing here? Is this a place you should be entering? Get out at once."

Tang Zhen coughed, "Seventh Brother, it was I who called Yuehua back. Yuehua, come over and sit."

Tang Lie's expression was extremely displeased. Tang Yuehua was a waste who could not cultivate at all; why should she be allowed to sit with them, the elders? But this was a sect assembly, and since the Sect Master had spoken, he found it difficult to act out.