The Pack of Man-Faced Demon Spiders, and the Frightened Little Spider

Chu Hao left the little river and walked toward the place where he had slaughtered the soul beasts earlier.

Though it was hard to tell direction at night in Sunset Forest, and even the path was barely visible, for Chu Hao, who had activated the God-Demon Eye, everything was clearer than in daytime.

Sure enough, before long, he found the marks.

Following the marks, he returned to the killing ground from before.

One had to know that the thick stench of blood was the best lure for attracting soul beasts.

He had killed so many soul beasts during the day that it was bound to draw the attention of nearby soul beasts.

Even if he had killed all the soul beasts in the vicinity, those farther away could still follow the smell of blood here.

And night was precisely when many soul beasts were active.

These piles of corpses naturally became an enormous temptation.

Sure enough, as soon as he returned, dim beastly shadows were already weaving through the many corpses.

Chu Hao went closer and saw that it was actually a pack of Man-Faced Demon Spiders.

Speaking of Man-Faced Demon Spiders, they were rather interesting.

They could be said to be the soul beasts most fated with Tang San.

Over the course of his growth, he encountered Man-Faced Demon Spiders four times, gaining quite a few benefits from them, and even obtaining an extremely rare external soul bone.

Unexpectedly, Chu Hao had also encountered Man-Faced Demon Spiders in Sunset Forest.

Perhaps he could gain an unexpected benefit from them.

It was just that the pack of Man-Faced Demon Spiders currently feeding was not very old in cultivation age. At most, they were only a few thousand years old, far from the standard Chu Hao wanted.

However, since Sunset Forest had such a large pack of Man-Faced Demon Spiders, there should presumably be older ones among them.

In that case, he would draw them out.

It would be best if he could slaughter every Man-Faced Demon Spider in Sunset Forest.

By then, his strength would surely undergo a qualitative leap.

That was because the Man-Faced Demon Spider was a soul beast with a bloodthirsty nature.

It was powerful, with a solid carapace, incredibly swift speed, and eight long legs with extreme penetrating power and deadly poison. In the soul beast world, it had a resounding title: the terrifying, evil slaughterer.

Even a hundred-year-level Man-Faced Demon Spider could kill an ordinary thousand-year-level soul beast.

That showed just how terrifying the Man-Faced Demon Spider was.

It was precisely because of this that the killing intent Chu Hao gained from killing one Man-Faced Demon Spider was equivalent to killing ten soul beasts of the same cultivation age.

This was practically a soul beast born for him.

It was just like how Slaughter City was a holy land for his cultivation—the same principle.

"Kill!"

Chu Hao shouted sharply and charged straight at the nearest Man-Faced Demon Spider.

Using his hand as a sword, he pointed through the air, sending out a streak of sword energy that killed the Man-Faced Demon Spider in front of him on the spot.

The pack of Man-Faced Demon Spiders discovered Chu Hao and surrounded him one after another, spraying webs from their mouths that carried terrifying neurotoxic poison, flinging them toward him.

At the same time, the Man-Faced Demon Spiders closest to Chu Hao extended their long legs, which had extreme penetrating power and carried deadly poison, like enchanted streaks of shadow-sword light stabbing toward him.

Chu Hao looked at the dense webs sweeping over him and smiled coldly.

His sword fingers turned, and streaks of slaughter sword energy erupted from within him.

In an instant, the immensely sticky and incomparably tough spider webs were sliced into shredded netting and fell all over the ground.

The Man-Faced Demon Spiders charging toward him were likewise cut to pieces by the slaughter sword energy bursting from Chu Hao's body.

Dark green spider blood splattered across the ground, raising wisps of green smoke.

Seeing this, Chu Hao's brows tightened slightly. He hurriedly blocked off his sense of smell and mobilized the soul power within him, condensing a layer of protective aura around his body.

This green smoke came from poisonous spider blood. When it touched the ground and came into contact with oxygen, it transformed into a toxic mist with extremely powerful neurotoxins.

If it touched the skin, or if one smelled it, one would be gravely poisoned.

And just as the green smoke spread rapidly, the pack of Man-Faced Demon Spiders seemed to receive some kind of order and began circling Chu Hao at high speed.

They launched sneak attacks from time to time, as if deploying troops in battle.

Seeing this, Chu Hao knew there was a highly intelligent Man-Faced Demon Spider in the pack directing them.

Otherwise, with only these few-hundred-year and few-thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spiders, there was no way they could be this clever.

In that case, he would find it.

Perhaps it was the surprise he wanted.

To find it, Chu Hao pushed the God-Demon Eye to its limit and searched for the leader of the Man-Faced Demon Spiders.

After searching for a while, he finally found it.

On a small slope at the outermost edge of the Man-Faced Demon Spider swarm stood one that did not look very large, but whose black carapace gleamed with an unusual polish.

Especially the eight little eyes beneath its abdomen, which flickered with rhythmic purple light, as if transmitting some kind of message.

This was a trait none of the other Man-Faced Demon Spiders possessed.

Since he had already found it, he ought to make good use of this Man-Faced Demon Spider's position within the swarm.

After all, given the current situation, killing every Man-Faced Demon Spider would take him quite a bit of time.

As long as he enraged this little spider and made it issue a death order to the swarm, he would have a chance to wipe them all out in one sweep.

At that thought, Chu Hao came up with a very good idea.

With his formidable strength, he cut his way out from under the swarm's encirclement.

Holding a slaughter sword condensed from slaughter sword qi, he charged to assassinate the little spider.

The little spider watched Chu Hao come killing toward it, and the little eyes beneath its abdomen burst with dazzling purple light.

At that moment, the Man-Faced Demon Spider swarm seemed to receive some kind of command and charged madly at Chu Hao.

Seeing this, Chu Hao's cold eyes flashed with a chilling gleam.

Where his sword pointed, sword qi was born without end. Endless slaughter sword qi erupted fully at this moment, like a fierce gale of sword energy, howling forward.

The Man-Faced Demon Spiders charging at him were slaughtered clean in an instant, dozens of them in all.

Then Chu Hao, holding the slaughter sword, charged at the little spider again.

When he was only a few meters away, he casually slashed out a streak of sword qi.

The little spider was startled by this and hurriedly dodged, its eight little legs flailing wildly. With a slick dart, it vanished and reappeared ten meters away.

So fast!

Chu Hao was shocked by the little spider's reflexes and speed.

As expected of the leader of this group of Man-Faced Demon Spiders, its bloodline was clearly extraordinary.

Rustle, rustle!

While Chu Hao was still stunned, the remaining Man-Faced Demon Spiders charged at him with no regard for their lives.

It seemed his actions just now had enraged the little spider.

Chu Hao watched the swarm come killing toward him and knew the time had come.

When the swarm closed to within only one or two meters of him, Chu Hao suddenly summoned the Hades Sword and unleashed his second soul skill, Soul-Shaking Evil Sound.

At once, every Man-Faced Demon Spider that heard the evil sound fell into a daze.

Chu Hao seized the opportunity and controlled the Hades Sword, transforming it into ten thousand sharp blades that surrounded the spider swarm and slaughtered them all at once.

Severed limbs and broken bodies littered the ground, blood flowing everywhere like purgatory.

For a moment, a heaven-toppling murderous aura surged wildly toward Chu Hao.

At this moment, murderous aura swirled around him, making him look like a death god reaping lives.

When the little spider saw the scene before it, the eight little eyes beneath its abdomen flickered with purple light again and again, without the slightest rhythm, as if it had already panicked.

After confirming that it was the only commander left without a single soldier, the little spider turned and ran.

"Mommy, I'm scared..."