The Man Faced Demon Spider's Drop Rate Was Truly High

The deep-purple Soul Ring hovered in the morning mist by the pool, as though carved from dense violet jade. With every faint pulse, it radiated a suffocatingly heavy pressure.

The lifetime essence of a three-thousand-five-hundred-year Hybrid Demon Spider was condensed within it. Its savagery was far beyond that of his twelve-hundred-year First Spirit Ring.

Bibi Xu took a deep breath of the cool morning air, suppressing the surging excitement in his heart. He condensed his spiritual power into an extremely fine thread and carefully touched the edge of the Soul Ring.

"Slowly. The first wave of impact is the strongest." Bibi Dong's voice sounded beside him, carrying a trace of barely detectable tension. "Speak up immediately if you can't endure it. Don't force yourself."

"Mm." Bibi Xu answered, held his breath, and gently drew with his spiritual power.

Boom—

The instant the Soul Ring descended onto him, a violent torrent of energy surged wildly into his body through every pore like a mountain flood bursting through a broken dam.

Compared to the impact of his First Spirit Ring, this force was more than several times stronger.

Bibi Xu let out a muffled groan. His chest suddenly seized up, and blood instantly seeped from the corner of his mouth.

It felt as though his meridians had been filled with scorching magma, then repeatedly pierced by countless poison-coated steel needles. Tearing pain spread through every limb and bone, making even his sea of consciousness tremble.

The soul-devouring power of the Thousand-Thread Demon Spider intertwined with the Man Faced Demon Spider's deadly venom. One corroded the walls of his meridians, while the other assaulted the source of his spiritual power. The double torment came one after another.

Right from the start, it dealt him a crushing blow.

"Ah Xu!" Bibi Dong's expression changed drastically as she raised her hand, intending to use her Soul Power to suppress it.

"No." Bibi Xu gritted his teeth and forced out the word through clenched teeth. His fists tightened so hard that his nails dug deeply into his palms, and the taste of blood filled his mouth.

He could not admit defeat at the very beginning. He could do this.

Enduring the agonizing pain, he forced himself to calm down and followed the profound cultivation method personally taught by Bibi Dong, mobilizing the Soul Power in his dantian to meet it head-on.

Having absorbed a Millennium Soul Ring once before, he was much more familiar with the rhythm of guiding energy. The abundant Soul Power of Innate Rank Twenty spread through his meridians like a resilient net, gradually separating and wrapping the violent Soul Ring energy before guiding it slowly toward his dantian along the circulation paths of his meridians.

But the energy of three thousand five hundred years was simply too vast, and it carried the unique ferocity of a Hybrid Demon Spider.

Each circulation could only grind away a layer of its violent aura. The remaining energy still surged like raging tides.

Several times, the poison reached the edge of his heart meridian, on the verge of damaging his foundation. At such moments, the Life Azure Lotus deep within his dantian gently swayed, releasing a circle of warm azure light.

Wherever the glow passed, his damaged meridians healed at a visible rate. Most of the violent poison was neutralized, and even his turbulent sea of consciousness gradually calmed.

With the Life Azure Lotus safeguarding him, Bibi Xu's heart finally settled completely.

He no longer rushed for quick results. Like an old millstone grinding grain, he steadily refined the Soul Ring energy without haste.

Second by second, the aura around him changed from violently fluctuating to gradually stabilizing. Then, it began to rise steadily at a visible rate. Rank Twenty-One... Rank Twenty-Two... Rank Twenty-Three...

Beyond the barrier, the night faded completely as the morning light grew brighter. A thin mist floated over the pool, dyed into scattered flakes of gold by the rising sun.

Bibi Dong stood beside the barrier, her gaze never leaving Bibi Xu for even a moment. At first, her nerves had been taut, and Soul Power had gathered throughout her body. Black light flickered at her fingertips several times as she remained ready to intervene and save him at any instant.

But as she watched, the worry in her heart slowly eased.

The boy sat cross-legged, his back perfectly straight. Though his face was pale as paper and cold sweat ran down his jawline, soaking his clothes, his breathing remained steady, and the rhythm of his Soul Power never faltered.

He was clearly only a six-year-old child, yet he possessed resilience and composure far beyond that of an adult Soul Master.

"This child..." Bibi Dong murmured softly, an unconscious, proud smile rising at the corner of her lips.

She had seen many exceptionally gifted Soul Masters, but one like Bibi Xu, who possessed both peerless talent and such determination, was absolutely unprecedented.

Given time, this child's achievements would surely surpass even hers, his mother's.

While Bibi Xu's absorption entered a stable phase, Bibi Dong's eyes fell on the Hybrid Demon Spider's corpse beside her.

Its nearly three-meter-long body lay sprawled across the grayish-brown rocks. Dark green blood dripped through the gaps in its carapace, while the human-face pattern on its lower abdomen had long since lost its glow.

As the owner of the Spider Empress Martial Soul, she was especially sensitive to the aura of spider-type soul beasts. When she had crippled this soul beast earlier, she had vaguely sensed an unusual energy fluctuation. It did not resemble residual Soul Ring energy; instead, it was more condensed and gentler.

She stepped forward twice, gathering a slender thread of black Soul Power at her fingertips and probing it through a gap in the carapace where the spider's cephalothorax joined.

Her Soul Power had penetrated less than half an inch when it touched something hard and warm. It contained pure energy that shared the same origin as the demon spider's Soul Power, yet possessed extremely powerful vitality and potential for growth.

Bibi Dong's eyes lit up.

A Soul Bone!

With a flick of her wrist, her Soul Power condensed into sharp claws and lightly picked at it. With a crisp crack, the hard carapace split open, and a dark-green Soul Bone slowly floated out before settling steadily in her palm.

The Soul Bone was not large, only about the length of a palm. It resembled a curved spider-leg spear, covered in dense natural patterns. One end was sharp as an awl, glowing with an eerie blue poisonous light, while the other pulsed faintly as though alive.

Most precious of all, it was not an ordinary torso bone or limb bone.

"An External Soul Bone." Bibi Dong spoke softly, her eyes filled with delight.

Soul Bones were already treasures of heaven and earth, one in ten thousand. Countless Soul Masters could go their entire lives without obtaining a single piece.

External Soul Bones, however, stood at the very pinnacle among Soul Bones.

They did not occupy any of the normal six Soul Bone slots, effectively granting an additional set of Soul Bone abilities.

Outside, even a Millennium Soul Ring-level External Soul Bone would make Titled Douluo-level powerhouses fight fiercely over it.

"This child's luck is far too good." Bibi Dong weighed the Soul Bone in her hand, both amused and exasperated.

At three thousand five hundred years, it was not considered exceptional among External Soul Bones. But it was incredibly rare, and its attributes perfectly matched Bibi Xu's One-Body Twin Spider Emperors Martial Soul. It possessed both soul-devouring corrosion and deadly venom paralysis, as though it had been tailor-made for him.

She carefully placed the Soul Bone into a specially made cold-jade box, intending to give Bibi Xu a surprise once he finished absorbing the Soul Ring.

At that moment, Bibi Dong suddenly frowned and sharply turned toward the northwest of the canyon.

An incomparably powerful and ancient aura came from an extremely distant place.

The aura was cold and domineering, carrying dense death and poison attributes. It shared the same origin as her Death Spider Emperor Martial Soul, yet was several times more powerful.

Even a trace of its leaking pressure made her, an Rank Eighty-Five Soul Douluo, feel her heart tremble. Even her Martial Soul quivered faintly.

A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!

Bibi Dong's pupils contracted, and her heart seemed to skip a beat.

How could this be? Demon Spider Canyon was merely an outer region of the Star Dou Great Forest. The highest-ranked soul beasts here were only around a thousand years old. How could a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast exist here?

No. It was not Demon Spider Canyon.

That aura came from the neighboring Death Grand Canyon. It was more dangerous and remote than Demon Spider Canyon, filled with deadly miasma. It was a forbidden land acknowledged across the continent, a place even Soul Sages dared not enter deeply.

She had never expected a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast to be hidden inside—and a Death Spider Emperor at that.