A Meeting Gift from Sunset Forest

"So this was what you meant by taking me out to have fun?"

Bibi Dong stared at Qian Mochen with a face full of black lines.

"Didn't we come out?"

"Who goes out for fun with an entire escort team? And you even summoned two Titled Douluo as guards!"

Bibi Dong pointed at the group outside the carriage, her voice carrying a trace of jealousy she had not noticed herself.

"I'm the Pope of Spirit Hall now. If anything happened to me, Spirit City would fall into chaos without me."

Qian Mochen rolled his eyes at Bibi Dong. "I can't exactly count on you to protect me, can I?"

"You're a Titled Douluo yourself. Are you really afraid of assassins?"

"That's different. I'm the Pope. If some petty thug showed up and I had to deal with him myself, wouldn't that make me look cheap?"

Hearing the several hundred freshly credited Emotion Points in his mind, Qian Mochen stuck his head out and shouted to the two Titled Douluo at the front, "Yue Guan, Gui Mei, pick up the pace. We'll camp in Sunset Forest tonight!"

"Yue Guan (Gui Mei) obeys!"

That was right. For this outing, Qian Mochen had directly called Yue Guan and Gui Mei along.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei had only recently broken through to become Titled Douluo, but their Martial Soul Fusion Skill was enough to contend with a level ninety-five Super Douluo. With Qian Mochen's own strength added in, they could swagger through most places on Douluo Continent.

The reason Qian Mochen had brought two Titled Douluo was also because he worried that his recent actions might catch the attention of the Asura God or Sea God in the God Realm, who might slap this anomaly to death.

Speaking of the God Realm, Qian Mochen could not help complaining about the two married couples: Goodness God and Evil God, and Destruction God and Life Goddess.

Those two couples spent all day thinking about romance and did not manage the affairs of the God Realm at all, allowing the Asura God to do whatever he pleased.

There had clearly long been a rule that those who became gods at level one hundred could not interfere with the lower realm, yet that rule was treated like a joke.

When Tang San faced the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, it was the Sea God who gave Tang San a cheat, allowing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King to die with regret.

Later, Tang San fought Bibi Dong, who had inherited the Rakshasa God's divine position, one-on-one. Tang San had already been beaten to death by Bibi Dong, yet the Asura God showed up again.

With one palm strike, he heavily injured Bibi Dong, then revived Tang San, directly leading to the destruction of Spirit Hall.

Two gods, one of them even a God King, chose their pieces and made their moves, only to flip the board the moment they saw they were about to lose.

Qian Mochen refused to believe that the four God Kings—Destruction God, Life Goddess, Goodness God, and Evil God—had failed to see what the Asura God and Sea God were doing.

Qian Mochen only had one thing to say: if they could not afford to lose, they should not have played.

Letting love-struck fools become the strongest beings in this universe was the universe's tragedy.

Just wait. Once he dealt with the future Tang God King first, Qian Mochen would sooner or later ascend to the God Realm and drain the water from those love-struck fools' brains.

Six hours later, the sky had gone completely dark by the time Qian Mochen's group finally arrived at Sunset Forest.

The two Titled Douluo, Ju and Gui, walked at the front and rear of the group respectively, their Titled Douluo pressure bearing down upon the dark forest and startling countless soul beasts hunting in the night.

"Running into a Soul Beast Forest in the middle of the night—are you really tired of living?"

Qian Mochen seemed not to hear the sarcasm in Bibi Dong's words. He spread his hands. "Can't be helped. The thing I'm looking for only comes out at night."

Before Bibi Dong could figure out what Qian Mochen was searching for in the dead of night, she heard him cry out, "Found it!"

The next second, Qian Mochen vanished into the darkness. Bibi Dong wanted to chase after him, but Chrysanthemum Douluo stopped her outright.

"Bibi Dong, you're too weak. You'll be safer staying with us."

Bibi Dong stared unwillingly in the direction Qian Mochen had disappeared, her nails digging deeply into her palms.

Qian Mochen sensed a large creature fleeing through the darkness and immediately gave chase. Before long, its full form entered his sight.

It was a massive spider, entirely dark purple with dark blue gleams flowing over its body. Its eight nimble legs stretched six to eight meters wide. The pitch-black forest was its most comfortable hunting ground, and its eight legs moved deftly among the trunks, each leap carrying it twenty or thirty meters.

It should have been a predator at the top of Sunset Forest's food chain, yet the eight compound eyes of this Nether Demon Spider were filled with unmistakable panic and fear.

"Little one, I've already spotted you. Still trying to run?"

Qian Mochen lightly tapped off the ground, borrowing a little force from several tree trunks. In the blink of an eye, he appeared before the Nether Demon Spider. After carefully judging the length of its eight legs, he estimated that this Nether Demon Spider was around forty-six thousand years old—just right.

The instant Qian Mochen closed in before the Nether Demon Spider, the venom sac beneath its abdomen churned, and it spat out a cloud of blackish-purple poison mist that instantly engulfed him.

Wherever the poison mist passed, grass and leaves withered, while countless tiny holes were corroded into the tree trunks. A trace of cunning flashed through the Nether Demon Spider's eyes. Even a powerful human would not fare well after touching its venom.

Qian Mochen neither dodged nor retreated before the incoming poison mist. A flame carrying golden flowing light suddenly ignited in his palm. He pushed it forward, and the poison mist vanished in an instant.

The Nether Demon Spider's eight compound eyes locked onto the inconspicuous flame in Qian Mochen's palm. For the first time, it felt true fear. The flame looked weak, but if it touched even the slightest bit of it, it would surely become fuel and be burned alive.

Run!

Run now!

Instinct drove the Nether Demon Spider to turn around and flee deeper into the forest.

"Trying to run? Nothing I set my eyes on has ever gotten away."

With a flick of Qian Mochen's finger, the flame in his hand turned into several streaks of light. They caught up to the Nether Demon Spider in an instant, transforming into ropes that tightly bound it in the blink of an eye.

The deadly danger spreading from its eight legs left the Nether Demon Spider utterly afraid to move.

"Come back with me. Don't run around. Understand?"

The Nether Demon Spider nodded repeatedly.

Qian Mochen sealed the Nether Demon Spider's mouth shut. One end of the flame-rope was held in his hand, while the other wrapped several times around the Nether Demon Spider's body.

The group had not waited long when the sound of trees collapsing suddenly echoed through the night. Ju and Gui revealed their Soul Rings, ready to strike at any moment.

Torchlight illuminated the massive creature approaching them—a Nether Demon Spider more than forty thousand years old.

The instant Ju and Gui's Soul Rings lit up, Qian Mochen's voice rang out from atop the Nether Demon Spider's back.

"Elders, don't hurt my prey."

When the Nether Demon Spider drew near, everyone finally saw Qian Mochen sitting atop its back, and their vigilance immediately dropped.

"Everyone, get on. Let this big fellow carry us!"

Watching the Nether Demon Spider obediently lie on the ground to make it easier for everyone to climb aboard, the people in the group grew even more impressed with Qian Mochen.

As expected of our Pope. He could even subdue such a terrifying Nether Demon Spider as a pet.

Bibi Dong moved beside Qian Mochen and asked curiously, "Such a huge spider... are you planning to bring it back to Spirit Hall to play with?"

"Secret."

With the Nether Demon Spider serving as transportation, the group quickly arrived at a suitable place to settle down. Qian Mochen called Bibi Dong out of the tent.

"What is it?"

"I'm taking you to obtain your seventh Soul Ring."