Big! Bigger! Bigger! Bigger Still! Small! Smaller! Smaller! Smaller Still!

Lu Li directly chose to ignore the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannon and the High-Temperature Ray.

A Level 5 Soul Tool and a Level 7 Soul Tool simply were not worth Lu Li's attention.

At most, when Tang San used the Zhuge Divine Crossbow in the future, Lu Li could take them out and crush him with a difference in levels.

Lu Li's gaze went straight to the replicated External Spirit Bone, the Void Sword.

[Void Sword: Silent and traceless, it directly tears through space to attack enemies. When the Void Sword tears open space and enters it, even deities cannot detect its movements.]

The brief introduction fully demonstrated the Void Sword's power.

"Silent and unexpected. I just wonder how powerful it is."

Lu Li was extremely satisfied with the Void Sword.

This thing was practically a divine weapon for assassination and catching enemies off guard!

Just imagine it: while an enemy was wholly focused on fighting you, an attack suddenly appeared behind them.

It was like being ready to take off, only for your parents to suddenly open the door while your phone was still on speaker.

Lu Li looked at his left arm in satisfaction.

The Void Sword had already fused with it automatically.

An External Spirit Bone could be attached to any part of the body, unlike ordinary Soul Bones.

Those were limited to the limbs, head, and torso.

With a thought from Lu Li, dark gray light appeared over his left arm in the next instant.

Above his left arm floated a short sword about one meter long, radiating dark gray light.

The entire short sword was gray. At first glance, it looked like a perfectly ordinary little sword.

Of course, that was only if one ignored the spatial fluctuations emanating from its blade.

"So short?"

Lu Li looked at the short sword floating above his left arm, feeling somewhat puzzled.

Tang San's Eight Spider Lances seemed much bigger than this, didn't they?

Lu Li glanced again at the Void Sword's description on the System Panel.

[For every level increased, the Void Sword grows by one meter. It can be freely contracted. Its power also increases twofold from its original strength.]

Fine, I was wrong. I shouldn't have called you small.

Lu Li thought this to himself as he called out the words he had always dreamed of shouting.

"Big! Bigger! Bigger! Bigger still!"

Golden Hooped Rod... no, wait.

The Void Sword's originally one-meter blade began growing larger bit by bit.

Lu Li's current Spirit Power level was forty-one. Adding the Void Sword's original one meter, the Void Sword was now a terrifying forty-two meters long.

Looking at the forty-two-meter path cleared by the Void Sword, Lu Li could not help giving it a thumbs-up.

He had not even launched an attack. The sharpness of the Void Sword's blade alone had already cleared away all the trees and flowers around it.

As for the remains of those trees and plants, Lu Li had used the Void Sword to cut open space and suck them inside.

The sound of those trees collapsing would have been too loud and could easily wake Tang San, who was absorbing his Spirit Ring.

That would cause him to fail in absorbing it.

Lu Li did not care about the consequences of Tang San failing to absorb the Spirit Ring.

What he cared about was Tang San being affected by it and never recovering from the setback.

That would leave Lu Li with no opportunities to fleece from him.

"Small! Smaller! Smaller! Smaller still!"

Lu Li silently recited the words. In the next instant, the forty-two-meter Void Sword shrank until it was as thin as a strand of hair.

"What a pity. Why can't it be a staff?"

A majestic figure flashed through Lu Li's mind. That had been his idol since childhood!

After retracting the Void Sword, Lu Li looked toward Tang San, who was still absorbing the Spirit Ring.

The Eight Spider Lances were a fine thing. Naturally, Lu Li could not possibly leave them for Tang San.

Giving this thing to Tang San was no different from drinking yogurt without licking the lid.

No, it was even worse than that!

While Lu Li waited for the Eight Spider Lances to emerge from Tang San's back, a gentle azure-blue energy suddenly lit up within the Ancestral Dragon Ring.

Lu Li frowned.

He remembered that he had never stored anything in the Ancestral Dragon Ring.

The best things inside seemed to be those several hundred Purple-Gold Cards, each loaded with one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Lu Li sent a strand of spiritual power into the Ancestral Dragon Ring.

He first glanced at the Purple-Gold Cards scattered across the ground. Only after confirming that they were unharmed did Lu Li follow the source of the light.

"Isn't this Ah Yin? She actually didn't die!"

Lu Li looked at Ah Yin's true body at the center of the light, unable to contain his shock.

After Lu Li had taken Ah Yin from Holy Soul Village and placed her in the Ancestral Dragon Ring, he had forgotten all about her. If her true body had not suddenly begun emitting azure-blue light this time—

Even another ten years might not have reminded Lu Li that Tang San's mother was still inside his Ancestral Dragon Ring.

"Six years without sunlight, and not only is she alive, but why does her life force seem even stronger than it was six years ago?"

Lu Li carefully sensed the life force emitted by Ah Yin's true body.

Compared to six years ago, the life force emanating from Ah Yin's true body was far more abundant.

If Ah Yin six years ago had barely been maintaining her vital signs, then now she could maintain them normally, without worrying about dying at any moment.

Just then, Ah Yin's previously motionless branches and leaves suddenly stirred.

Yet there was a distinctly humanlike confusion in that movement.

Just as Lu Li was about to go closer and see whether he had mistaken it—

The swaying branches and leaves suddenly became completely motionless again.

While Lu Li was puzzled by this, Tang San, who was absorbing the Spirit Ring outside, suddenly let out a miserable scream.

Lu Li no longer cared what was happening with Ah Yin and immediately withdrew that strand of spiritual power.

Outside, Lu Li looked at Tang San, whose back had sprouted eight Demon-faced Spider Legs, and his eyes immediately lit up.

It was here. After waiting so long, it had finally come.

The Eight Spider Lances had not yet completed their final fusion with Tang San. Snatching them now would at most make Tang San faint from pain; it would not endanger his life.

"Void Sword."

Lu Li silently called out in his heart.

External Spirit Bones were extremely sturdy. Even the Eight Spider Lances, which had not completed their final fusion and were only around two thousand years old, were exceptionally tough.

Lu Li also wanted to find out just how powerful the Void Sword was after being enhanced countless times.

After all, every level increased its power twofold from its original foundation.

Calculated that way, the Void Sword had now been strengthened by a full eighty-two times.

"Go."

As the word fell, the Void Sword that had been floating above Lu Li's left arm directly vanished into the void.

In the next instant, under Lu Li's control, the Void Sword tore open the void and slashed straight toward the Eight Spider Lances on Tang San's back.

Originally, Lu Li thought the Void Sword would encounter at least a little resistance when it struck the Eight Spider Lances.

But in truth, the instant the Void Sword touched them, it sliced through them as smoothly as cutting tofu, severing the Eight Spider Lances directly from Tang San's back.

"Ah!!!"

Tang San had already endured tremendous pain when the Eight Spider Lances grew from his back.

Now that they had been forcibly cut off, the pain was more than a hundred times worse.

After letting out a scream of extreme agony, Tang San immediately fainted from the pain.

Lu Li walked over to Tang San's unconscious body, bent down, picked up the still-bleeding Eight Spider Lances, and placed them in the Ancestral Dragon Ring.

"Tsk, it's even stronger than I imagined."

Lu Li stroked the Void Sword's blade.

"Master, the Soul Saint from last night is heading this way. He is only five hundred meters away from us."

Dragon One's voice sounded in Lu Li's mind.

"A Soul Saint? Flender."

Lu Li's eyes brightened.

Wonderful. He had been worrying about finding someone to test the Void Sword's power on, and now his test subject had come right to him.