Severing Tang San's Fortuitous Opportunity, Snatching the Eight Spider Lances

As time passed, the scene before him confirmed Lin Yan's suspicions.

Tang San spun as he swung his hammer below, stirring the surrounding air into a small vortex. With every swing, the next hammer blow carried even greater force. No matter how the Man Faced Demon Spider attacked, Tang San could block it.

Even when the Man Faced Demon Spider tried to avoid his edge and disrupt Tang San's swinging rhythm, Tang San would strike the ground to keep the passive effect going...

Wasn't this the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer?

Lin Yan's expression suddenly turned incredibly grim.

"Unbelievable! I'm starting to wonder whether, if I go down there and stop Tang San now, a bolt of lightning will just come down from the sky and strike me dead! Someone is obviously handing him cheats!"

Watching the Man Faced Demon Spider, still at full health and mana, get beaten into retreat by an injured Tang San, Lin Yan felt as though the sky were falling.

Honestly, he had considered taking this chance to kill Tang San outright. That would have eliminated his greatest enemy in this world for good. Now, though, it seemed that the people of the God Realm had already begun watching Tang San.

Or perhaps Tang San's transmigration to Douluo Continent had been a planned conspiracy from the start...

"Whatever!"

"Even if I can't kill him now, I absolutely can't just stand by and watch him obtain this opportunity. Otherwise, I won't be able to stop him in the future."

Seeing the Man Faced Demon Spider's disadvantage becoming increasingly obvious, Lin Yan's eyes flashed with resolve. The next second, he picked up a huge stone from nearby and flew between the man and beast.

"Lin Yan?"

Lin Yan glowed with golden light in the darkness, and Tang San spotted him as he flew over.

The Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer he had been charging abruptly slipped from his grasp when Tang San lost focus. At the same time, his waist even let out a crack...

The Man Faced Demon Spider thought it was a perfect chance to attack, but in the next moment, a huge stone suddenly smashed into its back. The tremendous force drove its sharp spider legs deeply into the mud, leaving it unable even to struggle wildly.

"Not dead? Then have another billion smashes!"

Seeing that the Man Faced Demon Spider had not died, Lin Yan raised the stone and smashed down again—once, twice, three times...

Tang San watched a slender figure wielding a boulder several times larger than himself and wildly smashing it into the Man Faced Demon Spider. He was completely dumbfounded!

"Isn't Lin Yan a Healing Soul Master? How is he so strong? But... why does it somehow seem perfectly reasonable?"

Miserable shrieks mingled with the sound of the boulder striking flesh. Only after roughly two or three minutes did a purple Spirit Ring slowly solidify and rise, at which point Lin Yan finally stopped.

"Phew~"

"How are you? Are you hurt?"

Lin Yan let out a long breath, wiped away nonexistent sweat from his forehead, and smiled at Tang San.

Tang San raised his eyes and looked at Lin Yan's smiling face, then at the Man Faced Demon Spider beneath his feet. For some reason, he suddenly felt as if he had lost something important. The emptiness in his heart left him deeply unsettled.

Yet when he tried to describe it, he could not put it into words.

In the end, Lin Yan had saved him from danger. Tang San could no longer bring himself to give Lin Yan a cold face.

"I... I'm fine."

"Why did you follow me?"

Lin Yan put on a casual expression.

"What are you saying? We may argue and fight, but we're still classmates, aren't we?"

"I was worried about you, so I came to take a look. See? I really did help..."

At the mention of helping, the emptiness in Tang San's heart worsened. His instincts told him that he had already lost something very important, but faced with Lin Yan's gentle, golden-glowing smile in the night, he truly could not bring himself to show it.

After all, he had deliberately opposed Lin Yan before, only to end up in danger himself... Zhao Wuji had not come, Dai Mubai had not come, but this little support he had always disliked the most had come instead. Where was Tang San supposed to put his face now?

"Th... thank you!"

Tang San's face was stiff, and his expression could not have looked uglier.

Lin Yan merely smiled and waved his hand.

"No big deal!"

[First Soul Skill: Holy Light Healing]

Since he was going to play the good guy, Lin Yan might as well see it through. After dealing with the Man Faced Demon Spider, he promptly cast a healing Spirit Skill on Tang San.

Golden light seeped into Tang San's body, once again healing all his injuries and restoring all his strength.

Only then... did Tang San finally understand what Ning Rongrong had meant when she said, "One of Lin Yan's Spirit Skills is countless times more useful than Blue Silver Grass."

Tang San looked at Lin Yan with eyes full of emotion.

"Lin Yan, I'm sorry!"

"I treated you that way before, and you still came to save me despite the danger. I... I..."

Tang San stumbled over his words. Perhaps he truly did not know what to say, or perhaps he was simply too stubborn and embarrassed to voice his gratitude.

Lin Yan was not interested in that, though. Even if Tang San sincerely wanted to thank him, could he hand over the Mysterious Heaven Skill?

Besides, the saying about Tang Buddha—repaying the kindness of a spring with a drop, while a drop of kindness led to a path of death—had not come from nowhere. Lin Yan did not dare accept Tang San's gratitude.

He only wanted to take the Eight Spider Lances as soon as possible.

"Right, have you found Xiao Wu?"

"Xiao Wu!"

Tang San slapped his thigh, only then remembering that he had gone out to look for Xiao Wu.

"I can't talk anymore. I still need to find Xiao Wu. If I make it back alive this time, I'll definitely thank you properly."

All the complicated emotions on Tang San's face vanished, replaced by anxiety over finding Xiao Wu.

Before his words had even finished, he had already darted into the forest, not giving Lin Yan any chance to speak.

"Then be careful!"

"Got it, thanks!"

The moment Xiao Wu was mentioned, Tang San no longer cared how he should face Lin Yan. He no longer hesitated, nor did he feel awkward.

Their brief exchange ended just like that. Standing atop the Man Faced Demon Spider's corpse, Lin Yan watched Tang San's retreating figure as his feigned gentle smile gradually darkened.

"Hehe~"

"External Soul Bone! Mine!"

He used the Soul Guidance Dagger to cut open the Man Faced Demon Spider's back for quite some time before finally finding the intact External Soul Bone—the Eight Spider Lances.

They were eight spider legs curled into the shape of a shield, glowing faintly purple and carrying a trace of bloody stench. They were both sharp and highly poisonous.

In the original story, Tang San's path of cheating began with the Eight Spider Lances. But now... Lin Yan gripped the Eight Spider Lances and looked up at the sky.

"Surely a bolt of lightning won't really strike down, right?"

He waited for a long time, but the clear night sky remained completely unchanged. Only then did Lin Yan finally let out a breath of relief.

"Phew~"

"Scaring myself! Maybe the Man Faced Demon Spider just happened to live here."

"But... won't that kid run into a Spirit Ring even more suitable for him? Probably not, right?"

At that thought, Lin Yan's expression, which had only just relaxed, became tense again.

"No! I still need to go take another look."