Killing a Person Also Attacks Their Heart, I've Taken Your Spine!

The inner circle of the Star Dou Forest.

The air was so thick it felt as if it might drip water, and the heavy scent of blood mixed with the distinct, cloying stench of the Human-Faced Demon Spider, making one nauseous.

"Damn it! I'm so close!"

Tang San knelt halfway in the mire, gasping for breath.

A wound on his right arm, deep enough to reveal bone, had been carved by spider silk; due to the erosion of potent venom, the entire limb had turned a ghastly, bruised purple.

Yet, in his bloodshot eyes, a near-maniacal obsession flickered.

Before him, the Human-Faced Demon Spider, with a cultivation nearing two thousand years, was also at the end of its rope.

Two of its spear-like legs had been severed, and the human-face pattern on its abdomen had become distorted and blurred under the impact of his Mysterious Heaven Skill.

"As long as I absorb this Soul Ring, as long as I grow stronger!!"

Tang San reached back toward his Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges, his fingertips already brushing against the final Zhuge Divine Crossbow.

Just at this life-or-death moment, as the outcome was about to be decided, the dim sky above the forest suddenly split open without warning, revealing a golden fissure!

"BOOM—!"

A pillar of pure, sacred golden light, accompanied by the rolling sound of thunder, descended from the heavens like a Sword of Judgment, instantly piercing through the dense canopy.

Following closely, a figure clad in snow-white robes, without a single speck of dust on his hem, stepped out from the void, accompanied by the phantom of an angel.

It was Su Yun.

He hadn't even truly activated his Martial Soul; merely by relying on the overwhelmingly tyrannical pressure of the Judgment Angel, he had caused the air within a hundred-meter radius to solidify completely.

"CRACK!"

A crisp, bone-chilling sound of shattering erupted.

Su Yun's foot landed with pinpoint accuracy on the Human-Faced Demon Spider's hardest cranial shell.

The head armor, capable of withstanding a full-force strike from a Soul Ancestor, was as fragile as a freshly cracked egg under Su Yun's foot, instantly collapsing into a spray of gore and debris.

The forest assassin, the Human-Faced Demon Spider, died on the spot!

As the dust slowly settled, Su Yun elegantly retracted his foot, lightly waving his Ivory Folding Fan, and even found the leisure to flick a speck of non-existent dust from his cuff.

He turned his head slightly to look at the stunned, blood-soaked Tang San not far away, revealing a bright smile as if he had just run into an old friend.

"Yo, isn't this Little San? What a coincidence, bumping into you here? Are you here for community service in the forest, or just here to play in the mud?"

Tang San's expression could no longer be described as merely shocked.

His eyeballs nearly popped from their sockets as he stared fixedly at the spider carcass that had been reduced to pulp, his mind a complete blank.

"That was... my prey..."

Tang San's voice turned sharp and grating due to extreme rage and weakness; he lunged to his feet, swayed, and roared:

"Su Yun! You despicable villain! I had already crippled it! I nearly lost my life for it! By what right do you steal my Soul Beast!"

Watching Tang San's frantic, exasperated state, Su Yun didn't get angry; instead, he wore an expression that suggested he was doing this for Tang San's own good.

"Tsk tsk, Little San, how can you say that to your savior?"

Su Yun shrugged, his tone leisurely:

"I was patrolling high above and happened to see this evil spider preparing to spit silk and ambush you.

I only stepped in because we're classmates, reluctantly descending with divine punishment to save you from fire and water. This is called executing justice, understand? No need to thank me; I've been kind-hearted since I was a child and can't stand to see the weak being bullied."

"You... you shameless wretch!"

Tang San was so angry he felt his lungs might burst.

He had clearly held the absolute advantage and was one strike away from the harvest; Su Yun was spouting complete nonsense!

"PFFT—!"

With his heart burning from rage and his injuries backfiring, Tang San could no longer suppress the blood in his chest, spraying a mouthful of it onto the pile of dead leaves before him, his complexion shifting instantly from pale to deathly white.

"Oh my, why are you spitting blood? Didn't your master teach you to keep a level head?"

Su Yun laughed mockingly, then proceeded to sit cross-legged right beside the spider's carcass.

"Since you're so weak, I'll graciously accept this Soul Ring and the remaining fortune on your behalf. After all, waste is a grave crime."

With that, Su Yun closed his eyes in front of Tang San.

A purple Soul Ring, so dark it bordered on black and reeking of thick, evil energy, rose from the spider's body and was instantly enveloped by the golden holy light within Su Yun.

Tang San stared fixedly at Su Yun, feeling that a crucial destiny, one that had originally belonged to him, was rapidly slipping away with the absorption of that Soul Ring.

The next second, a strange scene unfolded.

As the Soul Ring merged, deafening dragon roars and phoenix cries erupted from Su Yun's spine.

The External Soul Bone produced by the Human-Faced Demon Spider should have been eight hideous, venomous, and barbed dark-purple spears—the very symbols of evil and slaughter.

But under the assimilation of Su Yun's god-tier Martial Soul, the Judgment Angel, and the unreasonable purification function of the system, that evil energy was instantly washed away!

"HUM—!"

Behind Su Yun, his pristine school uniform instantly tore apart.

There was no expected protrusion of bloody bones; instead, eight golden orbs of light, as dazzling as the sun, condensed in the void.

Following this, eight golden Wings of Light—divine, noble, and covered in countless fine feathers—slowly unfurled behind his back!

Each wing radiated ripples that purified everything, illuminating the gloomy forest as if it were heaven.

[Ding! Key plot point intercepted: Human-Faced Demon Spider External Soul Bone!]

[System purification successful, External Soul Bone evolved into: Six-Winged Angel · Wings of Light (Pseudo, evolves up to eight wings with level)!]

[Due to the host's extremely brutal act of theft, Tang San's Luck Value has decreased by: 500 points!]

The moment these divine wings unfurled, Tang San, who was in the distance, suddenly let out a heart-wrenching scream.

He collapsed to his knees, his hands digging fiercely into the mud.

He felt as if the most important bone in his body had been ground to pieces and ripped out by a dull blade at that very moment!

That sense of emptiness, that agony as if his soul's core had been lost, made his sea of consciousness tremble violently.

Looking at the divine wings behind Su Yun, a sense of inferiority and jealousy emanating from his very bones instantly overwhelmed him.

Why?

That should have been mine!!!

"Su Yun... I... with you..."

Before Tang San could finish his sentence, the backlash from the plane due to his luck being forcibly snatched away caused his head to spin. Unable to hold on any longer, his vision went black, and he collapsed limply into the mud, fainting on the spot.

Su Yun slowly opened his eyes, feeling the extreme speed and power brought by the wings on his back, and a wicked curve tugged at the corner of his mouth.

"Phew, this spine really does feel better to use than the original."

He glanced at the fallen Tang San, brushed off his backside as he stood up, and took out the Diary once again.

[Today's check-in: Star Dou Forest.]

[Battle results: One Human-Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring, one pair of god-level Wings of Light.]

[By the way, I made a certain 'pure and flawless' Son of the Plane contribute a mouthful of blood. Tsk tsk, the color of that blood was truly beautiful.]

"Let's go, Xiao Wu, Big Brother will take you to the core area to see the scenery."

Su Yun tucked the diary away, took the hand of the already stunned Xiao Wu, and with a flap of his wings, transformed into a streak of light that shot into the sky, leaving behind only a scene of devastation and a protagonist who had become a joke!