A Pleasant Surprise: An External Spirit Bone, and the Crypt Demon Spider Emperor Appears

Chu Hao saw the change in the Man-Faced Demon Spider King, and his brows tightened slightly.

He had not expected the Man-Faced Demon Spider King to stake its life so quickly, burning its vitality right from the start and using its most powerful spirit skill.

Clearly, this thing intended to pit itself against him and see who was stronger.

That was fine too. They would go straight to their ultimate moves and decide life and death in one strike.

Chu Hao turned his hands slightly, and the Heavenly Giant Sword in his grip erupted with even more powerful force.

He slashed out, killing intent towering to the heavens, murderous aura surging in waves. That terrifying might descended like the sky itself was collapsing, enveloping everything ahead.

It even left a deep sword scar along its path.

The Heavenly Giant Sword burst forth with a violent storm of sword energy. Everything it passed was shattered to pieces, and the nearby swarm of spiders was torn apart beneath the gale. Endless slaughter aura surged madly toward Chu Hao, strengthening him without limit.

The instant the Heavenly Giant Sword fell, the sword-energy storm had already swept the Man-Faced Demon Spider King into the air.

Even the power gained from Spider God Possession could not let it break free. It could only be tossed about at will.

Left with no choice, the Man-Faced Demon Spider King frantically burned its life force, pushing Spider God Possession to its limit.

And as its life burned away, the Man-Faced Demon Spider King obtained unprecedented power and directly blasted the sword-energy storm apart.

But at that very moment, the Heavenly Giant Sword had already descended. Its sharp sword radiance cleaved through the Man-Faced Demon Spider King's hard carapace.

In an instant, the Man-Faced Demon Spider King was cut in two, and all the vitality in its body was devoured by the Hades Sword.

Even in death, the Man-Faced Demon Spider King never understood why a human who looked so young possessed such overwhelming strength.

"What pure life force. As expected of a ten-thousand-year spirit beast with a king's bloodline. It finally raised my spirit power by another level."

Chu Hao felt the feedback from killing the Man-Faced Demon Spider King, and his heart filled with wild joy.

As long as he absorbed this spirit ring, he would be able to raise his spirit power to level forty in one go.

The moment he thought of that, he could hardly wait to absorb the spirit ring.

So he made a bold decision, transforming the Hades Sword into eight sharp swords and arranging them according to the Eight Trigrams positions recorded in the Ten Thousand Swords Art.

After the final sword was inserted into its corresponding position, endless heaven-and-earth origin energy swarmed in, forming an invisible slaughter sword aura that enveloped Chu Hao within.

After briefly sensing the power of the sword aura, Chu Hao directly summoned his second martial spirit, the Ancient Tree of Life, to draw over the spirit ring produced after the Man-Faced Demon Spider King's death.

He believed the power of the sword aura was enough to block the few remaining demon spiders.

Little did he know that the moment Chu Hao killed the Man-Faced Demon Spider King, the remaining demon spiders had long since been scared out of their wits. How would they dare advance? They had already fled without a trace.

Sure enough, when Chu Hao began adding the spirit ring to the Ancient Tree of Life, not a single demon spider appeared nearby anymore.

No—more precisely, not a single mature demon spider.

Among the countless demon spider corpses, there was still a tiny shadow darting back and forth, continuously devouring the remaining spirit power within the demon spiders' bodies.

If Chu Hao looked closely, he would certainly discover that this tiny shadow was none other than the little spider that had strutted smugly and arrogantly before him earlier.

The reason it devoured the flesh and blood of its own kind was so it could rapidly increase its strength.

Because for a spirit beast as cold and murderous as the Man-Faced Demon Spider, even dead kin were food.

Even its own birth mother was no exception. This was the law of survival in nature.

Of course, Chu Hao did not notice this. He was actively absorbing the Man-Faced Demon Spider King's spirit ring.

After an unknown amount of time, Chu Hao finally finished absorbing the spirit ring, successfully adding one spirit ring to the Ancient Tree of Life.

His spirit power level also smoothly rose to level forty.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, for adding the first spirit ring to the Ancient Tree of Life. You have successfully activated the Ancient Tree of Life's active attribute and obtained the ability to instantly detoxify poison (poison immunity).]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, for killing a thirty-thousand-year spirit beast with a king's bloodline. Reward: one thirty-thousand-year right arm spirit bone.]

[Ding: Congratulations, host, for killing over one thousand spirit beasts and collecting over one thousand spirit beast souls. Reward: all spirit ring ages increased by one thousand years.]

The moment Chu Hao finished absorbing the spirit ring, the system's notification sounded in his mind.

He did not care about the system's rewards. To him, they could be described as dispensable.

Only the Ancient Tree of Life's active attribute satisfied him greatly.

After all, raising his spirit rings' ages by one thousand years truly had no effect on improving him at all. It could only accumulate.

Only when it accumulated enough one day to raise the first two spirit rings of his first martial spirit to ten thousand years would it be useful.

As for the thirty-thousand-year spirit bone, that was even less useful. It was simply inferior to his Mystic Eyes. At the very least, it would have to be a hundred-thousand-year spirit bone to be decent.

The moment Chu Hao thought of spirit bones, he thought of the Man-Faced Demon Spider King.

This was a spirit beast with a king's bloodline. The probability of it producing a spirit bone after death was extremely high.

He remembered that Tang San's external spirit bone had come from a thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spider.

Since that was the case, then the Man-Faced Demon Spider King he had killed should also have a high probability of producing an external spirit bone.

Thinking of this, Chu Hao could hardly wait to check whether the Man-Faced Demon Spider King had produced a spirit bone.

With one look, he indeed discovered a miracle.

Good heavens. This Man-Faced Demon Spider King truly had not disappointed him. It really had produced a spirit bone similar to the Eight Spider Lances.

He just didn't know whether this soul bone was an external soul bone or not.

Since he didn't know, he might as well ask the all-knowing system.

"System, what type is this soul bone?"

[Ding! External soul bone: Eight Spider Lances (king-grade, evolvable).]

When Chu Hao heard the system's notification, he was overjoyed and hurriedly fused with the soul bone.

After a painful fusion process, Chu Hao finally succeeded in merging with the soul bone and obtained a powerful soul skill: Devour.

This soul skill could devour the opponent's soul power and replenish his own soul power consumption one hundred percent. It could also devour deadly poison and use it for himself.

And every spider lance contained deadly poison.

But just as he was rejoicing over it, a cold, sinister aura swept toward him.

Chu Hao looked over in that direction and saw a Crypt Demon Spider approaching, roughly the same size as the Man-Faced Demon Spider King.

Although this Crypt Demon Spider was about the same size as the Man-Faced Demon Spider King, its aura was far stronger than the Man-Faced Demon Spider King's.

Seeing this, Chu Hao was overjoyed. He knew this Crypt Demon Spider's age and cultivation had to be much stronger than the Man-Faced Demon Spider King's.

One had to know that Man-Faced Demon Spiders were generally twice as large as Crypt Demon Spiders.

Since this Crypt Demon Spider was nearly the same size as the Man-Faced Demon Spider King, that meant this Crypt Demon Spider's cultivation was roughly twice as high as the Man-Faced Demon Spider King's.

In other words, this Crypt Demon Spider should have around sixty thousand years of cultivation.

Sure enough, under the gaze of the God-Demon Eye, his guess was confirmed.

Moreover, its bloodline was not an ordinary one, but the rare emperor bloodline.

One had to know that above the emperor bloodline was the divine-grade bloodline, the so-called divine beast bloodline.

From that, it was clear just how rare an emperor bloodline was.

Chu Hao had never expected to run into one here. His luck was simply outrageous.

From what he observed, this Crypt Demon Spider Emperor was male, while the Man-Faced Demon Spider King was female.

Presumably, the Crypt Demon Spider Emperor and the Man-Faced Demon Spider King were husband and wife.

And the little spider was their child.

No wonder the little spider had such high intelligence and was different from ordinary Man-Faced Demon Spiders. So it had inherited their genes. Its future was promising indeed.

Just as Chu Hao guessed the little spider's background, the little spider appeared in front of the Crypt Demon Spider Emperor.

It raised its four front legs, pointed at Chu Hao, faced the Crypt Demon Spider Emperor, and kept chattering away with its little mouth.

Although Chu Hao couldn't understand it, he could guess that this little thing definitely wasn't saying anything good. It had to be badmouthing him.

Sure enough, after hearing the little spider's account, the Crypt Demon Spider Emperor glared at him in fury.

That cold, murderous intent came straight at him.

The little spider smugly gestured at Chu Hao a few times, then vanished with a whoosh.

It seemed to be saying, "Big villain, you're dead. My dad's here."