Douluo: I'm Done Pretending, Qian Renxue Is My Wife

Hundred-year and thousand-year soul beasts were basically nonexistent.

Most were soul beasts over ten thousand years old.

Qian Ye had traveled for more than half a month before reaching the heart of the forest. There was a reason the Star Dou Great Forest was known as the largest forest on the Douluo Continent.

If he had not moved so quickly, who knew how many ten-thousand-year soul beasts would have stood in his way.

Qian Ye rubbed his stomach. Feeling a little hungry, he sat down where he was, took out some roasted meat and a bottle of water, and began eating.

Squeak, squeak, squeak~

Suddenly, a faint sound reached his ears.

What?

Though the sound was soft, Qian Ye had already sensed its presence.

And it was something big.

An ordinary person might not even have noticed it.

But Qian Ye could. His god-level martial soul and Million-Year Soul Ring had mutated his eyes, allowing him to see things others could not.

Angel's Eye.

It also allowed him to hear sounds others could not.

Smack~

Suddenly, a huge web shot straight at his face.

It came without a sound, making it difficult to evade.

Qian Ye flashed away and was already a hundred meters off.

Once he steadied himself, he saw a web where he had been standing. Viscous fluid dripped from it, thick with poison.

Qian Ye recognized it. This was not a rope net woven by humans, but a spiderweb.

The web was thick and enormous, covering several square meters.

Yet the thing that had spat it out had not shown itself.

Qian Ye sensed that it was right in front of the web, its gaze fixed in his direction.

It was huge, yet it made no sound as it moved.

Naturally, Qian Ye was not fooled. It was not that it made no sound while moving, but that it could conceal those sounds.

It could even turn invisible.

Well, well. Let's see what you are!

Although he had already guessed what it was, he still wanted to see it with his own eyes.

Suddenly, golden light flashed across Qian Ye's forehead, and the mark of a tiny twenty-four-winged angel appeared there.

His pupils instantly turned gold. This was the ability of Qian Ye's Angel's Eye. Sweeping his gaze forward, he immediately saw a soul beast standing before the spiderweb.

That was right. It was a Man Faced Demon Spider.

The Man Faced Demon Spider was not only a formidable enemy of soul masters, but also the nightmare of soul beasts.

A ten-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider was comparable in strength to an ordinary soul beast around thirty thousand years old.

Wherever one appeared, it would kill the other soul beasts nearby.

It was a demon. It was hell.

Qian Ye examined this Man Faced Demon Spider. Its cultivation was around thirty thousand years.

It was likely the Man Faced Demon Spider with over thirty thousand years of cultivation that Tang San had encountered in the original novel.

Qian Ye studied its appearance again. Its lower abdomen bore white markings, black and white interwoven in a rather comical pattern.

Its body was black, but the white markings formed the shape of a vicious human face. That was the origin of its name.

The Man Faced Demon Spider had eight small eyes glimmering with faint purple light, pressed tightly against its lower abdomen, making it look exceptionally eerie.

The body of the Man Faced Demon Spider before him had a diameter exceeding eight meters, making it massive.

Together with its eight spear-like legs, each nearly ten meters long.

Its entire body was covered in glossy black armor. The tips of its long legs were slender, silently piercing into the ground as it moved forward, sharp beyond measure.

Such a massive Man Faced Demon Spider was truly an embodiment of evil.

Slaying the Man-Faced One

Qian Ye intended to get rid of this great evil.

As a life-devouring creature, the Man Faced Demon Spider was hated by all soul beasts.

It was terrifying, a true evil butcher.

The Man Faced Demon Spider possessed abilities that other soul beasts did not.

Once their strength reached ten thousand years, they gained the ability to conceal their bodies and aura, as well as block their opponent's Spiritual Power detection.

A soul master who was not powerful enough would face only death against a ten-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider.

Qian Ye's eyes had already locked onto it.

The Man Faced Demon Spider's concealment was useless against his Angel's Eye.

But it did not know that yet.

Qian Ye immediately created several carrots as supplements for Soul Power, speed, healing, and strength.

Buzz, buzz, buzz~

Five soul rings rose beneath him.

Purple, then black, black, black, black—one thousand-year soul ring and four Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings.

Qian Ye also activated the Golden Bell Shield as defense.

He simply waited for the Man Faced Demon Spider to come closer so he could kill it.

The viscous fluid from the huge spiderweb a hundred meters away fell to the ground, where it began to emit black smoke.

The fluid carried the Man Faced Demon Spider's venom.

Once caught in its web, even if one did not die, one would lose a layer of skin.

Qian Ye stared at it without blinking. He had no choice.

The Man Faced Demon Spider was too fast, too powerful, and poisonous. One moment of carelessness, and he could die beneath those eight sharp leg tips.

Suddenly, the Man Faced Demon Spider moved. It turned into an afterimage and vanished from where it stood.

In the blink of an eye, it appeared before Qian Ye.

Good grief!

Qian Ye had finally witnessed just how terrifying its speed was.

With a single use of Treading Snow Without Trace, he instantly retreated and narrowly avoided its strike.

The Man Faced Demon Spider's stabbing leg tips struck empty air.

It blinked its eight small eyes at Qian Ye, who had retreated a hundred meters away, as if surprised that its opponent was no slower than it was.

Qian Ye suddenly dashed forward. "Second Soul Skill: Stick, stick, stick—Nunchucks! Long stick, short stick, Light Ray stick! One stick after another—Cut!"

Within a hundred meters, Light Rays flashed into existence and sliced around the Man Faced Demon Spider, trapping it within.

Though the Man Faced Demon Spider possessed formidable speed and defense.

It was too late to dodge the sudden encirclement of Light Rays.

Creak~

The Light Rays scraped against the Man Faced Demon Spider's armor, producing the sound of cutting.

Scratches had already appeared on its shell.

Perhaps its armor was simply too hard, preventing it from being cut through immediately.

The key was its cultivation of over thirty thousand years, which had saved it.

Had it been a Man Faced Demon Spider only a few hundred or thousand years old, it would likely have been sliced into countless pieces by the Light Rays by now.

Golden light suddenly flashed over the Man Faced Demon Spider's body. Its defense surged, and its strength rose sharply. Its abilities erupted as it broke through the cutting Light Rays, lunged at Qian Ye, and spat out another web.

Qian Ye had long been on guard against this move. It was also the Man Faced Demon Spider's final trump card, its life-saving skill.

Perhaps it would have worked against other soul masters, but Qian Ye already knew everything about it and had prepared a response.

Just as the web stuck to Qian Ye, golden light flowed over his body. In an instant, his entire body turned gold from head to toe.

The web immediately bounced off him. Surprise and fear appeared in all eight of the Man Faced Demon Spider's small eyes.

It could not understand how the human before it differed from the humans it had killed before.

Why did this move work against other soul masters and soul beasts, yet fail against him?

Naturally, it did not know that Qian Ye's Invincible Golden Body could negate all attacks.

Even its prized spiderweb could not restrain him.

While the Man Faced Demon Spider stood stunned, Qian Ye had already soared into the air. Gripping his blades with both hands, he struck at its eight eyes—blade down, blade down, blade down...

In just a moment, all eight of the Man Faced Demon Spider's eyes had been pierced through with gaping holes.

The Shadow Follows Twin Blades skill was meant for close-range assassination. Once Qian Ye got near it, the Man Faced Demon Spider could not avoid injury.

Creak~

Having lost its eyes, the Man Faced Demon Spider began shrieking endlessly. It wildly waved its eight long legs in defense against Qian Ye.

It was terrified of the human before it. The sense of danger and pain had thrown its mind into chaos, leaving it with no will to fight.

The Man Faced Demon Spider waved its front legs to fend off Qian Ye's attacks while retreating and sprinting away.

Qian Ye gave an evil grin. "Man-Face, why didn't you run earlier?"

"Now you want to run? You'll have to ask whether my Nunchucks agree!"

Qian Ye used Treading Snow Without Trace and followed close behind. No matter how fast the Man Faced Demon Spider ran, it could not escape his line of sight.

Besides, it was already injured. After using its berserk skill, its cultivation had also dropped greatly. It would only get slower and slower.

"Wata, wata, wata..." Qian Ye swung his Nunchucks, striking it over the head from time to time.

The Man Faced Demon Spider was beaten so badly that it could no longer tell east from west.

Its eight eyes were completely blind, leaving it unable to distinguish direction from obstacles. Every so often, it rammed headfirst into another tree.

If its armor had not been hard enough, it would have smashed itself to death against a tree long ago.

Qian Ye felt that the Man Faced Demon Spider had suicidal tendencies. Otherwise, why did it keep deliberately crashing into trees?

After repeated collisions and relentless fear, no matter how strong its vitality or how hard its armor was, the Man Faced Demon Spider had reached the point of utter physical and mental exhaustion.

Finally, unable to endure Qian Ye's torment any longer, the Man Faced Demon Spider fell onto its back after half an hour.

Before Qian Ye, it no longer moved at all.

It seemed to be telling him, I'm not running anymore, I'm not running anymore. I can't escape anyway. Come on, come on. I can't run anymore. Do whatever you want. I don't want to run anymore, never again. Please stop tormenting this Man Faced Demon Spider! Just give Man-Face a quick death!

Hmph~

Without another word, Qian Ye leaped up. His blades fell, fell, fell...

The final strike completely killed the Man Faced Demon Spider.

Buzz~

At once, a shining black soul ring rose from the Man Faced Demon Spider's body. It was a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

"Looks like the Man Faced Demon Spider was nothing special after all. No matter how much it boasted, it still fell to me!"

Only then did Qian Ye relax. He planned to eat something before absorbing the soul ring.