Flame Demon Ape, Bibi Dong Breaks Through Level Forty

The Flame Demon Ape slammed the ground with its fists, making the earth shake and the mountains tremble as dust flew everywhere.

The next moment, the Flame Demon Ape shot into the sky and smashed down with a punch.

"Second Soul Skill, Thousand Spider Poison Silk."

Bibi Dong spat out highly corrosive venomous silk, attacking the Flame Demon Ape.

The venomous silk collided with the Flame Demon Ape's fist, but the flames immediately burned away the spider silk. Bibi Dong took the opportunity to widen the distance between them.

Bibi Dong knew she could not let the Fire Demon Ape get close. If one of its punches landed, it would be no joke.

She had no desire to return covered in bruises.

"Third Soul Skill, Death Spider Web Binding!"

Bibi Dong sprayed out a dark purple spiderweb filled with poisonous fumes. It rapidly expanded and entangled the Flame Demon Ape as it attacked again.

Su Mu stood to the side, watching carefully. He was quite familiar with this Soul Skill.

Once this Soul Skill reached the Titled Douluo level, it could restrain massive Soul Beasts such as the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Giant Titan Ape.

The effect was indeed excellent. After briefly binding the Flame Demon Ape, Bibi Dong immediately unleashed her First Soul Skill, Bloodthirsty Spider Lance.

Her arms instantly transformed into two enormous spider lances, stabbing toward the Flame Demon Ape and continuously leaving wounds across its body.

The Flame Demon Ape let out a pained roar, clearly furious and dissatisfied with Bibi Dong's attack.

"Roar!"

The Fire Demon Ape erupted with a powerful heat wave in a frenzy. The spiderweb binding it instantly melted under the extreme heat. After breaking free, it lunged fiercely at Bibi Dong.

Bibi Dong was not worried in the slightest. She calmly dodged, and whenever she could not evade, she used both her arms and the Eight Spider Lances to block the Fire Demon Ape's attacks.

Under this immense pressure, Bibi Dong's Soul Power seemed on the verge of breaking through its bottleneck.

Seeing this, Qian Xunji smiled faintly. "Little Mu, what do you think of Dong'er's attacks?"

"Does Teacher want to hear the truth or a lie?"

Su Mu asked in return.

"What's the lie?" Qian Xunji asked.

"The lie is that Dong'er's attacks are excellent and have effectively suppressed the Flame Demon Ape."

"And the truth?"

"The truth is that her attacks lack coordination. The more she fights, the more chaotic they become. Besides, where would she find so much chaos to wear it down? She could clearly stay in the trees and continuously use venom and spider silk to exhaust it."

With the Death Spider Emperor Martial Soul, she could move through this dense forest as freely as a fish in water. But Bibi Dong sought something different.

"If that's the case, it seems Dong'er is still lacking in certain details."

Qian Xunji began to ponder. In the past few years, Bibi Dong truly had not attended many theory or practical combat lessons. It seemed she had spent most of that time lying on Su Mu's lap and sleeping.

"She must make up for that knowledge when we return."

Qian Xunji had already made up his mind.

Elsewhere, under the Fire Demon Ape's relentless assault, Bibi Dong swiftly retreated and opened up some distance. The Fire Demon Ape leaped into the air and smashed the ground fiercely, causing waves of flames to rise before it and rush toward Bibi Dong.

"You bastard!"

Bibi Dong cried out and immediately released a Soul Power barrier to block the attack. Under the intense heat, her body was beginning to struggle. Yet beneath the Flame Demon Ape's earlier hammering and this current siege of fire, the Soul Power that had been stuck at its bottleneck suddenly loosened.

The Soul Power that had been stuck at its bottleneck suddenly loosened. In an instant, she broke through the level thirty-nine bottleneck and successfully reached level forty.

"The time is about right."

Qian Xunji stepped forward. A powerful pressure enveloped the Flame Demon Ape, and the flames dispersed.

"I'm going to slaughter you!"

Just as Bibi Dong prepared to act, Su Mu grabbed her arm.

"Senior Brother, why are you stopping me?"

Bibi Dong was utterly confused.

"We only found this Soul Beast for training. There's no need to kill it. Besides, Spirit Hall does not permit the indiscriminate slaughter of Soul Beasts."

Su Mu patted her shoulder. "Put away your Martial Soul. Senior Brother will restore you."

"I'll listen to Senior Brother." Bibi Dong nodded obediently and withdrew her Martial Soul. Her eight spider legs vanished, and she returned to human form.

With Martial Soul Possession activated, six pairs of pure white angel wings unfolded behind Su Mu. Warm golden light flowed across them. There was no sharp aura of slaughter; instead, they were filled with the compassionate warmth of life. Golden motes drifted continuously from around him and entered Bibi Dong's body.

Bibi Dong's body gradually returned to its original state, once more brimming with vitality and life.

"I've recovered."

"Senior Brother's Martial Soul really is amazing."

One day, I should get Senior Brother onto a bed and study him properly. As his Junior Sister, how could I not? I like him so much.

After releasing Martial Soul Possession, Su Mu looked at Bibi Dong. "Healing alone, without defense or offense, won't do."

Bibi Dong smiled. "What are you afraid of? I'm here to protect you, Senior Brother. Who would dare bully you?"

Su Mu shook his head and did not argue further.

Qian Xunji withdrew his pressure, but the Flame Demon Ape still lay motionless on the ground.

Qian Xunji paused. "What, do you want to die?"

Upon hearing that, the Flame Demon Ape immediately got to its feet. Seeing that Qian Xunji intended to let it leave, it instantly turned around and fled at full speed.

It already could not defeat them and had thought it would be killed and turned into a Soul Ring. Instead, they had merely used it as a sparring partner for his disciple and had no intention of taking its life.

"This Soul Beast is rather interesting. It runs pretty fast."

Bibi Dong looked into the distance. That Soul Beast was completely different from how it had been when fighting her moments ago.

"Forget this Soul Beast. Let's find your fourth Soul Ring!" Qian Xunji began searching for a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast.

With Bibi Dong having absorbed an External Soul Bone, along with a fifty-thousand-year right leg bone, absorbing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring would be more than manageable.

It was difficult for them to find a suitable Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest. After searching for two days without finding one, they finally came to Death Valley to try their luck.

Within Death Valley lived a hundred-thousand-year Death Spider Emperor, the Soul Beast that would become Bibi Dong's ninth Soul Ring. However, it dwelled at the innermost core.

They wandered near the inner region for three shichen. Just when they thought they still would not find anything, they heard a sound as they passed a cave.

Bibi Dong looked into the cave. "Teacher, they say caves always have good treasures inside. Why don't we go in and take a look?"

"Very well." Qian Xunji led the two of them into the cave. The moment they entered, they saw numerous Soul Beast corpses bound in spider silk, along with dense webs everywhere.

A drop of liquid fell from the ceiling. The three hurriedly looked up and saw a pitch-black Nether Erosion Demon Spider staring at them from above. It was poised to attack.

Its body was covered in heavy dark purple armor. Its eight thick spider legs were lined with sharp barbs, while a ferocious human-face pattern covered its abdomen. Its compound eyes glimmered with eerie green light, corrosive black mist coiled around its body, and dark green venomous fluid dripped from its legs.

"An eleven-thousand-year Nether Erosion Demon Spider. Shall we choose this one, Dong'er?" Qian Xunji asked for Bibi Dong's opinion.

"This one will do, Teacher."

Bibi Dong felt that it was suitable.