Smoothly Killing the Human-Faced Demon Spider, Outsmarting the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear

At that moment, the two Spirit Pagoda staff members had arrived at entirely different conclusions, muttering almost in unison.

"Human-Faced Demon Spider, why aren't you pressing the distress signal? Do you want to feel that agonizing, bone-piercing pain?"

"Human-Faced Demon Spider, hurry and use your vines to jump into a tree, then run!"

Two completely different voices, yet both concerned for Lin Yu, muttered outside the Spirit Pagoda.

Unfortunately, Lin Yu could not hear the two Spirit Pagoda staff members at all.

Lin Yu was fully focused on the Human-Faced Demon Spider. Staring at the lifelike human face on its abdomen, he could not help taking a deep breath.

After meeting its gaze for a moment, Lin Yu took two steps back. The spider did not seem eager to attack him either. After his martial soul possessed him, the sickly sweet poisonous aura belonging to the Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower appeared to make even the Human-Faced Demon Spider somewhat wary.

Lin Yu stared at the Human-Faced Demon Spider and broke into a grin. If he took this thing out too, it might be another heavy blow to Tang Wulin's opportunity.

Although Lin Yu guessed that after he defeated the Human-Faced Demon Spider, the Spirit Pagoda staff would most likely debug things again and return it to the Junior Life Platform.

Taking it down would still be a good thing for raising his spirit.

"Hiss!!!"

After facing off for a while, the Human-Faced Demon Spider seemed to lose its patience. Its entire body nearly reared upright, its upper half stretching forward to reveal the manifested human face on its abdomen.

From that face's mouth came spider silk carrying a thick, foul stench.

Lin Yu sidestepped it, then violently flung out the vines of the Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower. This was not a soul skill, but a pure extension of his martial soul.

This was also one of the key reasons why the Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower could become a tool martial soul. Even without relying on soul skills, it could use simple abilities such as vine entanglement, much like a weapon's whip.

The Human-Faced Demon Spider's legs carried poison. Even brushing against them would cause bruising.

The Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower's vines were the same. When poison met poison, the Spirit Pagoda personnel believed that as long as Lin Yu survived the Human-Faced Demon Spider's first round of attacks, this battle would drag on for a long time.

But Lin Yu's target was the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear, along with the external soul bone it represented. Naturally, he would not waste too much time on the Human-Faced Demon Spider.

After using two vines to bind two of the Human-Faced Demon Spider's legs, Lin Yu and the spider briefly wrestled against each other.

Ordinary human soul masters found it difficult to compete in strength with spider-type soul beasts, because insect-type soul beasts of roughly human size were generally far stronger than humans.

But Lin Yu had not swung that hammer for three years for nothing. For a time, the vines and the Human-Faced Demon Spider's legs strained against each other, neither side able to gain the upper hand.

And Lin Yu's goal was not merely to bind two of its spider legs and restrict its movements. As his second soul ring flashed, green grass-like threads began flooding wildly through the vines and into the Human-Faced Demon Spider's body.

Although most of these flower seeds were killed by the poison on the Human-Faced Demon Spider's surface, as Lin Yu continuously injected new seeds, they gradually established a protective layer of flower seeds inside the spider's body, like forces seizing territory.

Once both sides had tensed their entire bodies from the struggle, Lin Yu suddenly let go. Caught completely off guard, the Human-Faced Demon Spider's eight legs scrambled rapidly backward from inertia, only steadying itself after its two front legs plunged into the ground.

Lin Yu took a deep breath, looked at the Human-Faced Demon Spider, and revealed a victorious smile before snapping his fingers.

Countless vines burst from the Human-Faced Demon Spider's body. It convulsed in agony, then reacted in a manner completely opposite to the Black Albatross.

It charged at Lin Yu. Clearly, this ill-tempered soul beast intended to bite Lin Yu in two before his vines killed it.

Lin Yu remained utterly calm. He sharply swept his hand backward, and several of the vines suddenly shot forward, wrapping directly around large trees.

Under the Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower's corrosive poison, the vines instantly sank into the tree trunks.

However, Lin Yu had chosen with great precision. The trunks he selected were ironwood trees thick enough for two people to wrap their arms around, exceptionally hard in texture. After withstanding the Human-Faced Demon Spider's charge and the vines' corrosion, their trunks held the vines firmly in place.

It was as though the Human-Faced Demon Spider had been leashed to the trees. It glared hatefully at Lin Yu and suddenly spat out several clumps of spider silk.

Lin Yu had long been on guard against this move. When it spat the silk, he sidestepped and avoided it, while simultaneously activating his Corrosive Poison Power to destroy the Human-Faced Demon Spider's internal body structure.

No matter how powerful a soul beast was, attacks from the inside out produced much the same result. The Human-Faced Demon Spider struggled painfully a few times, then stopped moving.

A cluster of light stronger than the one from the Black Albatross entered Lin Yu's body. After roughly calculating the increase in years, Lin Yu did not continue wandering around. Instead, he headed straight in one direction.

He soon arrived at the boundary between the Junior Life Platform and the Intermediate Life Platform.

After taking just a few steps, he heard a wild bear roar.

Following the sound, Lin Yu saw a giant bear covered in dark-gold fur, standing over three meters tall. Its arms were especially thick, and its broad, powerful shoulders resembled city walls. At the ends of its two massive arms were incomparably sharp dark-gold giant claws, each more than a meter long.

It was the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear, Lin Yu's ultimate target this time. Along the way, his spirit had already reached the threshold of another increase in years.

By this point, the two Spirit Pagoda soul masters had practically given up. From the moment they watched Lin Yu kill the Human-Faced Demon Spider, they knew today's Life Platform session was destined to lose money.

Lin Yu's battle with the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear was not much different from his battle with the Human-Faced Demon Spider. The only difference was that after binding the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear with vines, Lin Yu did not foolishly try to wrestle it.

Competing in strength with a pure brute like this would be idiotic.

Using a method similar to how he had restrained the Human-Faced Demon Spider, Lin Yu found several sturdy tree trunks to restrict the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear's movements. At the same time, he planted a grass seed in the ground beside the Life Platform.

This was also a self-created soul skill Lin Yu had developed from his second soul skill. Parasitism essentially involved placing flower seeds inside a living creature, then growing branches of the Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower to destroy the soul beast's internal structure.

Although these Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower branches would quickly wither away once Lin Yu's soul power vanished, they were still, in essence, complete Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flowers.

And as Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flowers, they had to follow the growth laws of their kind.

After a flower bud grew, matured, and withered, it would produce a fruit unique to the Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower.

Unlike the Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower's own tyrannical poison, while this fruit's poison far surpassed that of an ordinary Jade-Scaled Seven-Extinction Flower, it gave off no poisonous aura whatsoever. The first time Lin Yu saw this fruit, he had even been drawn in by its fruity fragrance.

He had nearly stuffed it straight into his mouth. Later experiments proved that its poison was so potent that a single drop of juice could kill a fully grown adult tiger.

After finishing all this and forcing the flower fruit to grow, Lin Yu immediately turned and ran out of the Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear's field of vision.

The Dark-Gold Dreadclaw Bear had long since grown hungry during its struggle with Lin Yu. After seeing Lin Yu flee into the distance, it caught a fruity fragrance with its nose and immediately turned its gaze toward the fruit.

It reached out, grabbed the fruit, and without a second thought stuffed it into its mouth.