Eight Spider Dream Shattered, Golden Rhinoceros Douluo

"No..."

At the thought of this,

Tang Hao shook his head fiercely.

He murmured, "It can't possibly be the Defense Clan. Even if their martial souls mutated, it would be impossible for all three of them to mutate in the same direction."

"Besides, the Defense Clan once suffered severe damage to their martial souls. They had only stabilized for a few years. There was absolutely no way three eight-ringed Soul Douluo with such terrifying combat strength could suddenly emerge."

"Could they be some reclusive clan?"

"But that familiar feeling..."

"Forget it. These injuries aren't light. I'll need at least half a month to recover... Xiao San is also about to break through Rank 30. Once I see him obtain his third Soul Ring and confirm that Blade Demon's group hasn't noticed that transformed Soft Bone Rabbit, I'll go investigate the Defense Clan."

After he finished speaking,

Tang Hao suddenly raised a hand and squeezed a wisp of green Soul Power out of his body. He said quietly, "I never expected that, aside from Dugu Bo, there was another Level 93 poison-attribute Titled Douluo on the continent."

"If I hadn't heard a dragon's roar from his martial soul earlier, and known that Dugu Bo had been stuck at Level 91 for many years without being able to break through, I would have suspected that green-robed man was Dugu Bo..."

After his muttering ended,

Tang Hao raised his eyes toward the direction where Jin Feng and the others had been, saying in a low voice, "Blade Demon, you'd better pray that you have so many powerful experts protecting you every time!"

"If you grow too quickly, so quickly that even Xiao San, who possesses Twin Martial Souls, cannot catch up and can only stare after you in the distance, then the next time we meet, even if I burn myself away, I will still utterly destroy you."

Meanwhile,

Jin Feng's group of five had not traveled far before stopping again.

And the reason they stopped this time

was because Jin Feng had spotted a two-thousand-year soul beast.

If it had been any other two-thousand-year soul beast,

Jin Feng would not have stopped to waste time.

But

this one was different.

That was because it was a Man Faced Demon Spider—its body more than one and a half meters in diameter, covered entirely in black armor, with eight three-meter-long spider legs and white patterns covering its abdomen, forming a vicious human face. Countless soul masters called it an evil slaughterer!

At such a special point in time,

encountering a two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider...

made it difficult for Jin Feng not to think of the Man Faced Demon Spider from the original story, the one Tang San had encountered while pursuing Xiao Wu after she had been abducted by the hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape.

And if it truly was that one,

then this two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider before him would be Tang San's tremendous opportunity.

Since he had long decided to seize every opportunity belonging to Tang San, the son of his enemy, he naturally adopted the mindset of killing three thousand by mistake rather than letting even one escape. He would ensure Tang San's External Soul Bone, the Eight Spider Lances, never came into being.

At the thought of this,

Jin Feng watched the two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider desperately flee in terror after sensing the horrifying aura of the Golden Horned Behemoth.

The corners of his lips rose slightly.

He thought, Tang San, Tang San. I don't know whether this is the Man Faced Demon Spider you'll kill in the future, but since I've encountered it, I won't let it leave alive.

Say goodbye to your Eight Spider Lances!

At the thought of this,

with a thought from Jin Feng,

the Golden Horned Behemoth martial soul, linked to his mind, instantly transformed into a streak of golden light and shot toward the Man Faced Demon Spider.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

As sharp tearing sounds rang in everyone's ears, Niu Gao and the others saw countless dazzling golden lines pass through the Man Faced Demon Spider's body.

The next moment,

before the Man Faced Demon Spider could even catch a glimpse of the Golden Horned Behemoth, its vicious, massive body was sliced into countless pieces.

Before the fragmented corpse of the Man Faced Demon Spider could fall from the air to the ground, the Golden Horned Behemoth suddenly appeared, opened its enormous maw, and swallowed all the chunks of flesh along with the purple Soul Ring that had just condensed.

After doing all this,

the Golden Horned Behemoth darted back to Jin Feng's side.

Seeing this,

Gu Yuena asked in confusion, "Brother Feng, that two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider didn't provoke us. Why did you suddenly stop and kill it?"

Naturally, Jin Feng would not say that he wanted to cut off Tang San's opportunity, so he casually replied, "Nothing. Its aura just made both Golden Horn and me uncomfortable."

After saying that,

he immediately changed the subject. "Dugu Bo, you said earlier that the two seventy-thousand-year Diamond Demon Bulls suitable for my uncle and Fourth Elder to absorb were still how far away from us?"

Hearing this, Dugu Bo immediately answered, "Reporting to the Cult Leader, at our current speed, it should take around one day..."

Upon hearing that,

Jin Feng immediately said, "All of you sit on Golden Horn. We'll be faster that way!"

Just as Jin Feng's group rode the Golden Horned Behemoth and sped toward the depths of the Mixed Zone,

inside a small-town clinic outside the Star Dou Forest,

Tang San, who was receiving treatment, suddenly shuddered. That feeling that his own opportunity had been stolen inexplicably surged up again, leaving him extremely irritated.

Inside the clinic,

Zhao Wuji looked at everyone receiving treatment and suddenly said, "Little Ao, I can't leave right now. You'll have to make the trip back to the academy and inform the dean of our current situation."

"It would be best if you could bring Teacher Shao Xin as well. His Sugar Bean Martial Soul will be of considerable help to Tang San and Mu Bai's injuries."

Hearing this,

Oscar did not hesitate.

After nodding in agreement, he turned and left.

That night,

Tang San, half-conscious in his dreams, vaguely saw eight bones like spider legs growing from his back... When he woke up the next morning, that familiar sense of loss from before had inexplicably intensified.

In the blink of an eye,

a week passed.

On this day, within the core region of the Star Dou Forest,

Niu Gao sat cross-legged before the corpse of an eighty-nine-thousand-year Earthshaking Giant Rhinoceros, absorbing its Soul Ring.

Beside him

stood Fourth Elder, who had successfully hunted two seventy-thousand-year Diamond Demon Bulls several days earlier and broken through to Level 83 Soul Douluo, as well as Protector Niu Ben, who had reached Level 82 Soul Douluo.

As for Dugu Bo,

after helping hunt the Earthshaking Giant Rhinoceros, he had continued searching for Jin Feng's target soul beast.

Boom!

Under everyone's watchful eyes,

Niu Gao, who had been in seclusion for over a day, suddenly opened his eyes, which gleamed brightly. As he absorbed the eighty-nine-thousand-year Soul Ring above his head into his body,

a powerful wave of Soul Power burst forth.

When Niu Gao rose to his feet,

nine dazzling Soul Rings—yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, and black—rose beneath his feet in succession.

"Hahaha!"

"Level 92, peak!"

Feeling the astonishing Soul Power flowing through his body, Niu Gao burst into laughter. "From today onward, this old man's title shall be Golden Rhino Douluo!"

"Congratulations, Grandfather, on becoming a Titled Douluo!"

Upon hearing this,

Jin Feng immediately took out a Soul Bone shimmering with flowing light and handed it to Niu Gao. "Grandfather, this is the eighty-nine-thousand-year right arm Soul Bone found on the Earthshaking Giant Rhinoceros. After you absorb it, you will certainly break through to become a Level 93 Titled Douluo."

Niu Gao did not refuse the Soul Bone Jin Feng handed him. After all, Jin Feng could not absorb Soul Bones, and the best effect came from having the same person absorb both the Soul Ring and Soul Bone produced by a soul beast.

Here,

after accepting the Soul Bone,

Niu Gao did not immediately absorb it.

Instead, he subconsciously asked Jin Feng before him, "Little Feng, has Dugu Bo still not found the black tiger soul beast you wanted?"

Hearing this,

Jin Feng had just been about to shake his head

when Dugu Bo suddenly appeared before him, his expression excited. "Cult Leader, I found the soul beast you wanted."