I Really Want to Be Friends with Her (Please Keep Reading)

"Crack, crack, crack!"

A large amount of dark red armor poured from Zhuang Hong's body, completely covering him in the blink of an eye.

Holding the Dragon Tendon Sword, Zhuang Hong flashed in front of the Spider Monster. A great surge of source power flowed into the sword as he swept it horizontally.

The Spider Monster slightly raised one of her jointed legs to block.

"Clang!"

A crisp ring sounded as sparks burst from the point of impact.

The Spider Monster paused slightly, then raised another jointed leg and stabbed it toward Zhuang Hong.

Zhuang Hong immediately used Ejection to retreat, barely dodging the strike.

The Spider Monster continued chasing Dancer. "You're getting anxious! I'm so beautiful—how could you call me a monster? Regretting it now? Hurry up and apologize to me!"

Zhuang Hong blocked the Spider Monster's path again. Once more, she raised a jointed leg covered in steel spikes and viciously thrust it at him.

"Clang!"

The longsword collided with the jointed leg, sending sparks flying everywhere.

Zhuang Hong was hurled far away by the tremendous force. After a flip, he landed steadily.

He stared grimly at the Spider Monster and thought, As expected, a Purple Rising Spirit Beast is far stronger than me. There's a huge gap in physical strength, as well as in the quality of the source power within our bodies. I have no advantage in a direct confrontation.

Then, should I use the power of my Liberation Form?

But that was his trump card. Before figuring out his opponent's capabilities, he did not want to use it lightly.

The best time to use it would be to catch her off guard and suddenly strike for a killing blow.

Seeing that the Spider Monster still wanted to pursue Dancer, as though she had set her sights on her, Zhuang Hong immediately found the situation troublesome.

He knew this Spider Monster intended to use Dancer to probe his abilities.

He had not expected the Void Spirit to possess some intelligence. When fighting, she even liked using such fancy tactics.

After considering it, Zhuang Hong straightforwardly apologized. "My apologies, beautiful Void Spirit Lady. I was blind just now!"

To his surprise, the Spider Monster chuckled. "It's too late to apologize now!"

Zhuang Hong grumbled, "If you won't accept it, why make me apologize?"

The Spider Monster was much faster than Zhuang Hong. In the blink of an eye, she had caught up behind Dancer.

Seeing that she could not escape, Dancer clenched her teeth and turned around, raising her sword to fight for her life.

She was not sure whether this monster's attacks would be as impossible to block as before, but she had no other choice. She could only gamble.

Laughing wildly, the Spider Monster raised her two front legs and fiercely stabbed them at Dancer.

"Whoosh!"

However, just as the Spider Monster's two front legs had descended halfway, they were forced to stop.

At some point, those two legs had become wrapped in dense Fine Silk, tangled together with her other six jointed legs.

Pulled taut by the resilient Fine Silk, the Spider Monster could not move even an inch, no matter how hard she tried to stab downward.

Zhuang Hong gripped a mass of Fine Silk in his hands and chuckled. "Got you."

Dancer looked at Zhuang Hong's dark red armor and the countless Fine Silk strands connected to his hands in bewilderment, but she did not hesitate in the slightest. She turned and continued running.

Zhuang Hong opened his hand toward the Spider Monster again, firing a barrage of armor bullets from his palm.

"Pfft, pfft, pfft!"

They struck the Spider Monster's huge body with precision.

"Clang, clang, clang!"

Yet when the armor bullets hit the Spider Monster's body, they made the sound of metal striking metal. They produced only sparks and failed to harm her in the slightest.

The Spider Monster ignored the bullets hitting her body altogether. Instead, she lowered her head to look at the Fine Silk wrapped around herself and said in astonishment, "This is... spider silk? You can use spider silk too?"

Then she burst into laughter. "Using spider silk in front of me? How ridiculous."

A hissing sound came from her massive body. Then, a sticky fluid secreted from her body surface, and the Fine Silk wrapped around her melted as soon as it touched the fluid.

Zhuang Hong dispersed the Fine Silk, his brows tightly furrowed.

He could not hurt her, could not bind her, and she was stronger than him.

This huge, hard Spider Monster covered in steel spikes left him feeling somewhat at a loss.

The Spider Monster said, "Let me show you what real spider silk is."

As soon as she finished speaking, her massive body began to writhe, producing gurgling noises.

The next moment, the Spider Monster slightly opened her tiny mouth.

"Whoosh—"

A streak of white light shot from her mouth, expanding against the wind. In the blink of an eye, it spread to five or six meters across and enveloped Zhuang Hong completely.

It was a giant web!

Zhuang Hong's expression changed slightly. It was already too late to dodge, so he could only pour source power into the Dragon Tendon Sword and slash downward!

"Whoosh!"

A flash of white light passed by, and the giant web was instantly split in two by Zhuang Hong. He rushed forward through the opening.

Yet the severed web remained under the Spider Monster's control and closed in around Zhuang Hong, barely catching his right leg and making him pause for a moment.

At the same time, the Spider Monster's mouth kept spraying webs, one after another, over Zhuang Hong.

In the blink of an eye, Zhuang Hong was tightly wrapped in a heap of spider webs.

Then the Spider Monster fired a great number of steel spikes, which pierced through the webs and nailed themselves into Zhuang Hong's body, nearly turning him into a hedgehog.

"Ahahaha!"

Having landed a successful blow, the Spider Monster laughed loudly. Her eyes remained fixed on Zhuang Hong, but her body continued chasing Dancer.

Zhuang Hong finally reached the end of his patience.

He struggled free through several gaps in the webs and reached through a gap in the armor on his thigh to pull out a lighter.

"Click!"

A small flame rose and ignited the webs wrapped around him.

"Whoom!"

As if gunpowder had been lit, the flames spread rapidly. The spider webs wrapped around Zhuang Hong ignited explosively and turned to ash in an instant.

Zhuang Hong regained his freedom and used his armor to force out the steel spikes embedded in his body one by one.

The Spider Monster's laughter abruptly stopped.

Zhuang Hong stared coldly at the Spider Monster and began guiding the air masses within his body throughout every part of himself, activating the power inside him.

First Liberation Form - Agile Form!

The fierce sounds of battle by the island lake drew many disciples from Eternal Prosperity Gate.

But when they saw that enormous, bizarre Spider Monster from afar, they were all stunned. One by one, they slowed their steps, until they finally stopped advancing.

Simply looking at that monster made an irresistible fear rise from the depths of their hearts, leaving them without the courage to stand before it.

A voice in their hearts told them, I can't beat it. I'll die. Run! But... the woman on the monster is so beautiful. I really want to be friends with her.

At that moment, someone suddenly pointed in Zhuang Hong's direction and exclaimed, "Look, what is that..."

Everyone looked over, only to have their eyes nearly pop out at the sight that followed. Their mouths fell open so wide they could practically fit a lightbulb inside.

Dancer could not help turning back to look as well, and her face immediately filled with astonishment.

"Gurgle, gurgle~"

Zhuang Hong's body rapidly swelled like a balloon. A thick tail burst from his tailbone and swayed rhythmically behind him.

Large amounts of dark red shell grew over his body, covering his surface. Its lines were exceptionally smooth, giving it an overall beauty of agility and speed.

Once the shell completely covered his body, it spread along the Dragon Tendon Sword in his hand, entirely wrapping it. It continued growing longer and thicker until it became a savage giant saber.

In the blink of an eye, Zhuang Hong transformed from an ordinary armored man into a shell-armored giant nearly five meters tall. His long tail swayed rhythmically behind him as he held a huge saber, looking utterly imposing.

The people who had rushed over after hearing the commotion all stood frozen as they watched Zhuang Hong transform.

Clearly, this scene exceeded the martial artists' imagination.

At that moment, their understanding of the world shattered.

The commotion from Zhuang Hong's transformation caught the Spider Monster's attention, making her stop involuntarily.

She could sense a dangerous aura from Zhuang Hong's Agile Form.

That made her completely calm down. She immediately cast Dancer from her mind, turned her entire body to face Zhuang Hong, and a question rose within her.

Can a Core Combination Level alien insect transform too? My caution was indeed justified. If I had rashly attacked him, he might have caught me off guard.

She had spent a long time in the void, yet she had never heard of alien insects being able to transform. After all, transformation was rare even among Void Spirits.

Still, although she sensed danger from Zhuang Hong, she was not overly concerned.

Because no matter how Zhuang Hong transformed, he was still merely a Blue Core Combination Insect.

And she was a Purple Rising Spirit Beast!

The difference of one level was like heaven and earth. The power of the Purple Spirit Ascension Level was beyond what the Blue Core Combination Level could imagine.

The Spider Monster gave a strange laugh, lightly leaped forward, and landed before Zhuang Hong. She raised her four front jointed legs and stabbed madly at him like a machine gun.

"Pfft, pfft, pfft!"

Zhuang Hong stamped his foot.

"Boom!"

Grass and stones flew into the air.

Zhuang Hong's towering figure vanished from the spot, causing every one of the Spider Monster's attacks to miss.

"So fast!"

The Spider Monster shuddered in alarm, her pupils abruptly shrinking. She turned her head and saw that Zhuang Hong had somehow appeared behind her, his giant saber already raised high.

She instinctively raised one hind leg to block.

"Whoosh!"

The dark red saber fell, drawing a streak of Red Light.

"Crack—splat!"

The hind leg she had raised to block was severed on impact. The saber continued downward, viciously cutting across her enormous body.

The hard gray shell and steel spikes on her body parted like foam beneath the blade. A great spray of blue-violet fluid burst from within the Spider Monster.

"Ah!"

The Spider Monster screamed and explosively fired the steel spikes on her body outward, hoping to force Zhuang Hong back.

Zhuang Hong stamped his foot and retreated with the momentum, raising his saber to block in front of himself.

"Crack, crack, crack!"

The eruption of steel spikes had been too sudden and too dense. Even with Zhuang Hong's speed, he could not dodge them all, and more than a dozen steel spikes became embedded in his body.

However, his shell's defensive power was extremely strong. The force of those suddenly unleashed spikes was limited, and they only lodged shallowly in the shell without harming him at all.

Zhuang Hong's shell grew again, forcing the steel spikes from his body onto the ground. Then he stared coldly at the Spider Monster and thought, I can break through her defenses, but her body is too large. I can't deal a fatal wound with a single strike. Then I'll switch targets and try cutting off her human half.

No matter how one looked at it, the half-human body embedded in the spider's body was a vital point.