Loyal Martyrs of a Fallen House: Seven Generations of Human-Faced Demon Spiders Nurture Three Gods

Meng Hongchen's heart jolted when she heard Ye Fan's loud warning.

She hurriedly activated her defensive soul tool, thinking that would ensure nothing could go wrong.

But she had still underestimated her opponent.

With a slight movement of Tang Ya's hand, a repeating crossbow appeared. Before Ye Fan could make out her technique, countless arrows shot from her hand toward Meng Hongchen's face.

"Zhuge Divine Crossbow?"

Ye Fan was alarmed. The Zhuge Divine Crossbow was a Tang Sect hidden weapon said to instantly kill anyone below level forty.

He was worried about Meng Hongchen, but his body could not keep up with his eyes. He could only watch helplessly as Meng Hongchen took Tang Ya's hidden weapon assault head-on.

At the same time, he could only hope that Meng Hongchen's defensive soul tool could withstand Tang Ya's hidden weapon attack.

Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen had also noticed Tang Ya's subtle movement.

When Xiao Hongchen saw Tang Ya unleash the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow, he did not think much of it. He did not believe a mere hidden weapon could break Meng Hongchen's Invincible Shield.

Jing Hongchen, however, wore an uncertain expression, as though he were pondering something.

In the end, the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow's arrows struck Meng Hongchen's Invincible Shield in rapid succession.

After just one hit, the Invincible Shield shattered with a crack.

Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen panicked at once. "Meng Meng!"

But the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow was simply too fast. Neither of them could save her in time.

"Hmph, Tang Sect hidden weapons are the strongest."

Seeing the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow instantly break Meng Hongchen's defensive soul tool, Tang Ya finally revealed a faint, imperceptible smile.

Just as Tang Ya quietly waited for the follow-up arrows from the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow to kill Meng Hongchen—

Something strange happened.

The Zhuge Repeating Crossbow's arrows were all knocked away mere inches from Meng Hongchen's body. Some were even reflected back at Tang Ya.

"No, impossible!"

"You're only a level-thirty Soul Elder. How could you have such defense?"

Meng Hongchen touched the faint defensive barrier over her chest. She was still shaken by the brush with death, but at that critical moment, she had poured a massive amount of soul power into the ninth-rank defensive soul tool Jing Hongchen had given her.

Although Meng Hongchen was not strong enough to fully unleash the power of such a ninth-rank soul tool,

Even one-tenth of its power was enough to block every attack from the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow.

The rebounded arrows shot straight toward Tang Ya. Her face darkened as she repeatedly used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track beneath her feet, barely evading the lethal strikes. Even so, her hands and feet were still injured.

At this point, one had nearly exhausted her soul power, while the other was severely wounded.

Just as Ye Fan thought there was no need for either side to continue fighting,

Meng Hongchen took out a bottle from her soul tool and crushed it instantly. Miraculously, she recovered some of her soul power.

Then, amid Tang Ya's despairing expression, Meng Hongchen unleashed an endless barrage of firepower.

"Senior Sister, please save Xiao Ya!"

Outside the arena, seeing his beloved in danger, Bei Bei no longer cared about his ambiguous relationship with Zhang Lexuan and pleaded with her.

Hearing this, Zhang Lexuan's expression became extremely ugly. But when she thought of her tangled fate with Bei Bei, she ultimately nodded in agreement.

A bright moon rose behind Zhang Lexuan, and then she vanished from where she stood. The next second, she appeared between Tang Ya and Meng Hongchen.

With one hand, she blocked all of Meng Hongchen's attacks.

At the same time, she declared domineeringly, "We surrender. The Human-Faced Demon Spider is yours."

After venting a round of artillery fire, Meng Hongchen became weak once more and no longer had the strength to fight.

Seeing this, Jing Hongchen also felt there was no need to continue. He flew to Meng Hongchen's side and caught her steadily.

That counted as accepting their surrender.

Thus, the soul master duel between Tang Ya and Meng Hongchen ended in this manner.

As soon as Meng Hongchen's firepower ceased, Ye Fan saw Bei Bei rush forward anxiously to catch the injured Tang Ya.

He then carried Tang Ya over to Xuan Zi, without even giving Zhang Lexuan an extra glance.

Zhang Lexuan was not surprised by this.

In the end, after exchanging a few pleasantries with Jing Hongchen, Ye Fan, and the others, she left with Xuan Zi's group.

Only Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Ye Fan remained at the scene.

Since Meng Hongchen had lost a tremendous amount of soul power, everyone decided to rest where they were for a while.

As for the Human-Faced Demon Spider, to ensure it survived until Meng Hongchen could kill it,

Ye Fan could only step in personally and use the power of Life to keep it barely alive.

The next day, Meng Hongchen finally recovered some soul power.

She could now kill the Human-Faced Demon Spider and obtain her third Soul Ring.

Amid everyone's expectant gazes, Meng Hongchen fired her soul cannon, sending the Human-Faced Demon Spider to meet its great-grandmother with a single shot.

Just like that, a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring appeared in the air.

Meng Hongchen hurried forward to absorb the hard-won Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

While Meng Hongchen absorbed the Soul Ring, Ye Fan grew bored and began rummaging through the Human-Faced Demon Spider's corpse.

"Ye Fan, what are you doing?"

"Don't tell me a low-level soul beast like this could produce a Soul Bone?"

Xiao Hongchen stood nearby, turning over the Human-Faced Demon Spider's stinking corpse and feeling his stomach churn.

Even Jing Hongchen was curious about what Ye Fan was doing.

However, unlike Xiao Hongchen, he did not ask aloud and instead waited quietly at the side.

"Holy shit, what's that?"

"Hm? Could it really have produced a Soul Bone?"

At last, amid Xiao Hongchen and Jing Hongchen's shock and suspicion, Ye Fan picked a bone shaped like an external Eight Spider Lances from the Human-Faced Demon Spider's corpse.

"Ye Fan, what kind of bullshit luck is this?"

"You casually dig through a soul beast corpse and actually find a Soul Bone."

Xiao Hongchen could no longer remain calm.

"And it's an External Soul Bone, the finest kind among Soul Bones."

Even someone as formidable as Jing Hongchen could not help praising him repeatedly.

Ye Fan, however, did not think much of it.

There was a classic saying in the Douluo circle about Human-Faced Demon Spiders: "Seven generations nurture three gods, including the Sea God Tang San from ten thousand years ago and the Rakshasa God Bibi Dong."

What it meant was that Human-Faced Demon Spiders had an extremely high drop rate on Douluo Continent. Other than Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, they were in the highest tier for producing Soul Bones.

But Ye Fan was not foolish enough to tell Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen any of this.

Inside Ye Fan's soul tool ring, the God of Destruction was equally astonished. "A benefactor truly is a benefactor. Such fortune is simply unheard of. An ordinary Thousand-Year Human-Faced Demon Spider actually produced a top-grade External Soul Bone."

"According to my benefactor's memories, this is called protagonist's aura."

"It seems I must properly nurture my benefactor. That will give me another measure of confidence in defeating Tang San in the future."

In his heart, the God of Destruction already regarded Ye Fan as someone on the same level as himself. Ye Fan was merely still weak and needed his careful protection and cultivation.

"I was just bored!"

"I only happened to dig out a Soul Bone."

Ye Fan did not want to reveal that he was a transmigrator, so he casually made up a flawlessly convincing excuse.

After hearing it, Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen both found it impossible to refute, though they still felt that something was off.

Just like that, everyone began studying the Human-Faced Demon Spider's External Soul Bone.