The Hundred Thousand Year Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor

Star Dou Forest, territory of the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor.

A vast number of Human-Faced Demon Spiders gathered here, ruled by a Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor with a cultivation age reaching fifty thousand years.

The two-thousand-year-old Human-Faced Demon Spider that Tang San hunted in the original timeline, which dropped the external spirit bone Eight Spider Lances, also lived here.

A group of ten-thousand-year-old Human-Faced Demon Spiders, having gained sentience, returned from hunting outside.

They dragged various pig-type and rabbit-type spirit beasts behind them, bound in spider silk.

These spirit beasts were tributes offered by the ten-thousand-year-old spiders to their Emperor.

In the gloomy depths of the cave, the fifty-thousand-year-old Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor feasted on the prey brought back by its subjects.

From time to time, the sound of bones being crushed echoed through the dark.

Qian Xunji arrived. Hearing the gruesome sounds and inhaling the thick, bloody stench, he frowned.

This environment, somewhat reminiscent of the blood-soaked Slaughter City, displeased him.

He only wanted to complete his goal as quickly as possible, obtain the hundred-thousand-year external spirit bone Eight Spider Lances, and leave this uncomfortable place.

A roar erupted; he knew this was the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor warning an intruder who had breached its territory.

A spirit beast, not even possessing a hundred thousand years of cultivation, dared to bare its fangs and show hostility toward him.

Truly courting death!

Had it not been for the need to guarantee the acquisition of the external spirit bone, Qian Xunji would have struck long ago to kill the beast that dared to show its fangs at him.

I am not Tang San, Qian Xunji thought. I don't need to label spirit beasts as "evil" just to justify killing them. If I want to kill, I kill; I never need an excuse.

Ninth Spirit Skill: Mental Power Sharing.

Once their mental powers were linked, Qian Xunji could converse with the ten-thousand-year-old spirit beast, which had gained intelligence but lacked the ability to speak human language.

"Vile creature, I will give you one chance to live."

The Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor sensed Qian Xunji's overwhelming strength, and its instinct for survival made it willing to communicate.

His holy, light-attribute energy was a perfect counter to its evil poison-attribute.

It could feel that if Qian Xunji landed a single blow and it failed to dodge, it would undoubtedly die.

"Human powerhouse, would you really be so kind as to spare this Emperor's life?" The Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor's voice carried a note of skepticism.

As a spirit beast that had lived for countless years, it understood one truth.

Not a single word from a human could be trusted.

When humans sought out spirit beasts, they had only one goal: to kill them and harvest their spirit rings and bones.

The powerhouse before it was clearly a Titled Douluo from the human world.

A Titled Douluo already possessed nine spirit rings; since he had come alone, he certainly wasn't here to hunt it for a ring.

A human powerhouse with no need for a spirit ring who came looking for it must be after a spirit bone.

But as everyone knew, only spirit beasts with over a hundred thousand years of cultivation could reliably drop spirit bones.

For other spirit beasts, whether ten thousand, a thousand, or a hundred years old, the chance of a spirit bone dropping upon death was low—it was a matter of luck.

"Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor, that depends on your fortune."

Qian Xunji's airy remark made the spirit beast bristle and shift.

"This Seat will provide you with precise nourishment to help you raise your cultivation to a hundred thousand years."

"Once your cultivation reaches a hundred thousand years, if you can withstand ten of my moves, I will spare your life."

"Conversely, if you cannot withstand ten moves and are unable to continue fighting, then you will use your essence to condense an external spirit bone for This Seat."

"Human, why should this Emperor believe you will keep your word?" The Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor was tempted, but distrust of humans was etched into its very bones.

A human's mouth is a demon's lie.

Every spirit beast that had believed a human had ended up as a spirit ring or bone.

"I, Qian Xunji, successor of the Asura God, swear to the Asura God: if I break this promise, may my martial soul shatter."

As Qian Xunji finished his oath, the blood-sword mark on his forehead emitted a dazzling red light, and a voice resonated.

"Granted!"

That voice, which looked down upon the world, suppressed all living things, and made the souls of mortals and spirit beasts tremble, struck directly into the mind of the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor.

Having lived through the era of the Angel God, it naturally knew of the existence of gods.

Though it did not know what kind of god the Asura God was, a god was a god nonetheless.

For a human to stake his own martial soul and swear to a deity was no ordinary oath.

Unless the human before it was willing to discard his own martial soul.

For a human to discard his martial soul was the same as a spirit beast discarding its bloodline.

"Very well, this Emperor agrees."

As the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor spoke its consent, the blood-sword mark erupted with a burst of intense light once more, illuminating the entire cavern.

"The contract is established. Whoever violates it shall face the Heavenly Tribulation and have their soul and spirit annihilated beneath the lightning!"

The majestic voice resonated once more.

Qian Xunji chuckled inwardly, It is done.

He possessed a massive quantity of Bloody Mary, over four digits' worth of ten-thousand-year spirit beasts, eight hundred-thousand-year spirit beasts, and the flesh of a two-hundred-thousand-year fierce beast.

With such resources, he was confident he could feed a fifty-thousand-year Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor until it reached the hundred-thousand-year mark.

Killing a hundred-thousand-year Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor in an instant would be an easy task.

However, whether it would drop an external spirit bone could not be guaranteed.

As for arm bones, leg bones, or torso bones, he had absolutely no interest in them.

Qian Xunji: Only a prototype of a divine artifact like an external spirit bone is worthy of me putting my mind toward planning and acquisition.

In the following time, Qian Xunji began forced feeding of the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor.

He fed it Bloody Mary by the bucket.

He did not feed it the flesh of the ten-thousand-year Evil Demon Orca King, only the internal organs, which held the highest nutritional value and the most stored spirit power energy.

The cultivation of the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor increased at a speed visible to the naked eye every day.

Sixty thousand years, seventy thousand years, eighty thousand years, ninety thousand years... it was rising at an average growth rate of ten thousand years of cultivation per month.

But the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor was miserable.

The gaze it cast toward Qian Xunji was filled with dread.

This devil in human skin was simply not a man.

When the spider couldn't eat anymore, he would feed it some kind of digestive tablet.

Even when the spider's stomach was full of food, he would say, "This is nothing," and continue the force-feeding.

A tube would be inserted, and food would be stuffed in by force.

If it weren't for the fact that their Human-Faced Demon Spider race possessed the ability to devour and had tenacious vitality, coupled with an Emerald Swan constantly casting healing spirit skills to repair its esophagus and stomach, it would have collapsed long ago.

Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor: This Emperor is going to be fed to death.

"Eat these internal organs of the hundred-thousand-year Evil Demon Orca King to help you achieve the status of a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast."

Qian Xunji was very expectant of the moment the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor's cultivation broke through to one hundred thousand years.

Over these past six months, aside from signing in on time every month—obtaining the Getsuga Tensho, the Yin-Yang Complementary Three Soul Nuclei Condensation Method...

He was either cultivating or force-feeding the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor to raise its cultivation.

As for its subjects, they had all been collected into the Ten Thousand Beast Platform small plane.

Qian Xunji had no intention of letting Tang San obtain the Eight Spider Lances.

As the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor finished consuming and refining the internal organs of the hundred-thousand-year Evil Demon Orca King and a portion of the organs from the two-hundred-thousand-year Tai Tan Snow Demon:

[Race: Human-Faced Demon Spider]
[Cultivation: 100,000 years]

The next day, after the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor digested the food in its stomach, its body returned to its peak state.

The battle began.

To save its life, the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor struck first, spitting a spider web from its mouth.

Soul Shock.

Qian Xunji used only a single move to stun the hundred-thousand-year Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor.

His entire body was shrouded in a defensive barrier formed by golden flames, rendering the incoming spider web useless.

Under the healing of the Emerald Swan, the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor regained consciousness.

"Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor, it is time for you to fulfill your promise."

Qian Xunji's voice lacked any warmth, possessing only the cold, heartless tone of official business.

The instinct to survive caused the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor to subconsciously attempt to flee.

Seeing this, Qian Xunji suppressed it with a backhand, then proceeded to torture the creature while arranging for the Emerald Swan to heal it, until the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor sought only death, offered a sacrifice, and condensed an external spirit bone.

For this, Qian Xunji even had to use two Side-Effect-Free Spirit Ring Deprivation Cards.

The spirit ring provided by the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor clashed with his Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

The evil and sacred attributes erupted in conflict within his body, nearly causing Qian Xunji to suffer internal injuries.

After the Human-Faced Demon Spider Emperor sacrificed itself, it lost its hundred-thousand-year cultivation and was reduced to an ordinary Human-Faced Demon Spider.

Qian Xunji grabbed it and tossed it into the Ten Thousand Beast Platform small plane to be raised as livestock.

Because they preyed on Soft Bone Rabbits and were hunted and driven away by Da Ming and Er Ming, the population of the Human-Faced Demon Spider race was not large.

For the sake of sustainable development, Qian Xunji did not mind raising a group of Human-Faced Demon Spiders.

Moreover, the Eight Spider Lances were capable of evolving by devouring other Human-Faced Demon Spiders.