His Hope of Turning the Tables After Two Lifetimes Shattered on the Spot!

Xiao Wu's thoughts were tangled like a skein of hemp when a large, warm hand naturally clasped her slightly cool, delicate one. Su Chen stood on the blue stone, his purple-gold double pupils quietly shifting.

"Don't panic. He won't hurt us."

Then his steady voice sounded directly in Xiao Wu's consciousness sea. "He's going to take you away. Just go with the flow. Use this chance to condense your third soul ring. I'll wait on the outskirts for you to rejoin us."

Xiao Wu trembled and looked up into Su Chen's double pupils. His eyes held the certainty of someone with everything under control, along with a gentle warmth.

The heart lodged in the girl's throat finally settled back into her chest.

Roar!!

Er Ming, the Titan Giant Ape, unleashed a savage roar that shattered the clouds. His black-furred hand, vast enough to blot out the sky, plunged straight into the camp amid howling winds!

Yet the seemingly violent grab turned gentle the instant it reached Xiao Wu, gathering the girl into his palm. The next second, his enormous body abruptly sprang backward, shooting toward the mountain ridge behind him amid a raging surge of air!

As Er Ming leaped away, a black wave of energy rippled out from his body. In the blink of an eye, gravity throughout the entire valley multiplied several times over!

A hundred-thousand-year soul beast's innate talent... Gravity Control Domain!!

In a hidden thicket only a few hundred meters from the camp, the Shrek group, who had been secretly following them, suffered a crushing catastrophe!

"Damn it! Is that a hundred-thousand-year Titan Giant Ape? Activate your martial souls!"

Flender's shrill scream echoed through the dense forest. As an Agility-Attack Soul Saint, the instant gravity increased tenfold, his bones let out a string of grating cracks as they slipped out of place. Like a vulture with broken wings, he slammed heavily into the mud.

"Seventh Soul Skill, Martial Soul Avatar!!"

Zhao Wuji's eyes turned blood-red. With a furious roar, he unleashed seven soul rings-two yellow, two purple, and three black-and transformed into a five-meter-tall Great Strength Vajra Bear, trying to withstand the sudden gravity storm through brute force.

But before a hundred-thousand-year soul beast's absolute domain, a Seven-Ring Soul Sage's defenses were as fragile as tissue paper!

Crack... Gravity crushed down in layer upon layer, like Mount Tai bearing down on him. The bear bones Zhao Wuji took such pride in caved in on the spot, and his martial soul avatar was forcibly knocked back into his original form in an instant!

The raging wave of air continued to wreak havoc like a tsunami, flinging Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun dozens of meters away as well.

"Cough... cough, cough!!"

Yu Xiaogang struggled wretchedly out of a muddy pit. His once-neat robes had been shredded into ragged strips, and the agony of his crippled legs twisted his face. Beside him, Tang San struggled into a sitting position, his hair hanging loose and disheveled.

"Teacher... Dean Flender and the others were scattered..." Tang San panted, his bloodshot eyes filled with panic.

Before Yu Xiaogang could answer, an eerie rustling suddenly came from the dense canopy overhead.

Rustle... rustle...

Thick black mist spilled through the gaps in the canopy. Eight cold, eerie green compound eyes slowly lit up in the gloom. Then a hideous creature, black from head to toe, with a cold metallic sheen on its carapace, silently slid down.

Beneath its grotesque abdomen, pale markings formed a demonic human face that gave off a thick aura of potent neurotoxin.

"A... a Man Faced Demon Spider?! A two-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider!"

Alarm bells rang in Tang San's heart as his mind raced through the entries of the Poison Classics in the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record.

He knew all too well how terrifying this evil soul beast was-it was the nightmare of the entire soul master world. But he knew even better what an exceptional treasure its soul ring would be for a Control System Soul Master!

But if... if I can kill it! Even if my first soul ring is already ruined, as long as I can absorb this supreme two-thousand-year soul ring beyond my level and gain its domineering poison, I'll still have a chance to turn the tables!

"Teacher, hold it off!!" Tang San roared, his face contorted with ferocity, and forced himself up out of the mire.

With the five fingers of his left hand, the only ones he could still move even slightly, he reached fiercely toward the last life-saving weapon inside the Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night at his waist... the Godly Zhuge Crossbow!

Click! The sound of the spring mechanism cocking was especially piercing in the silent forest.

The Man Faced Demon Spider sensed the threat. The human-face markings on its lower abdomen twisted sharply as it released an ear-splitting screech. Its eight spear-like legs kicked hard against the ground, sending its massive body hurtling toward him with a whistle through the air. A tough web spewing ghastly green poisonous mist spread out to blot the sky and descended over Tang San's head!

"Die!!" His face twisted savagely, Tang San exhausted the last trace of Mysterious Heaven Skill internal power in his dried-up sea of qi and viciously pulled the trigger, aiming at the vulnerable underside of the Man Faced Demon Spider's abdomen!

Thwang! Thwang! Thwang!

Sixteen refined-iron crossbow bolts shot out with shrill whistles that tore through the air. This was Tang San's final trump card, a desperate counterattack he had staked his life on!

At the lightning-quick instant before the bolts struck the Man Faced Demon Spider's carapace, a dazzling beam of dark-gold divine light pierced down from the nine heavens. Bearing the supreme majesty of the Dragon Emperor, enough to crush the Nine Netherworlds and Ten Lands, it blasted the ghastly green poisonous web and all sixteen refined-iron bolts into powder that filled the sky!

The Man Faced Demon Spider, which had been pouncing down so fiercely, seemed to collide with a mountain. It released an utterly agonized shriek as an incomparably terrifying gravity forced its massive body into the ground. Three of its eight sharp legs snapped at once with crisp cracks, and its hard black armor shattered inch by inch!

Where the dust cleared, a tall, slender youth in spotless, plain white brocade robes slowly descended from midair.

His black hair fell over his shoulders, his expression indifferent. The Ancestral Dragon Hegemony Body Art circulated within him, while two purple thousand-year soul rings and two jet-black ten thousand year soul rings hovered around his body!

Purple! Purple! Black! Black!

"S-Su Chen?!" Tang San's eyes widened enormously. "How could you be here... didn't you go after Xiao Wu?!"

Su Chen strolled up to the violently twitching Man Faced Demon Spider, which was still trying to burrow underground and escape. He turned his right palm over, and within a breath, Pure Yang Dragon Aura gathered between his index and middle fingers, forming a Three-Foot Sword Ray that pulsed with pure golden divine radiance.

"A thousand-year mutant. A sturdy carapace, but its bloodline is far too inferior." Su Chen uttered those few words lightly and thrust his sword fingers straight forward!

Squelch! The Man Faced Demon Spider's back armor, sturdy enough to withstand an all-out strike from a Soul Grandmaster or Soul Elder, shattered on contact with the divine-level Pure Yang Dragon Aura.

The golden light pierced straight through the demon spider's brain. With an exceedingly faint whimper, the two-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider's enormous body stiffened abruptly, then collapsed completely into the muddy pit, dead beyond doubt.

Hum! A dense thousand-year soul ring, shimmering with a deep black-purple glow, slowly rose above the demon spider's enormous corpse!

At the split in the beast's back, eight strange spider-leg bones, seemingly carved from purple crystal and radiating extreme devouring and piercing power, began to gleam faintly with a peculiar bony radiance under the influence of the heaven and earth laws!

An external soul bone! A one-in-ten-thousand rarity in the soul master world, even rarer than a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone!

Lying prone in the distance, Yu Xiaogang had been paralyzed with fear, but now his eyes bulged. "A soul bone... th-that's an external soul bone? Heavens! A two-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider actually dropped an external soul bone!"

Having spent his entire life researching martial soul theory, Yu Xiaogang naturally understood what such a divine treasure meant. It was a supreme blessing capable of utterly transforming a soul master, with the potential to grow alongside their soul power all the way to the divine level!

But the instant Tang San clearly saw those eight purple-crystal spider legs, he felt as though he had plunged into an ice cavern ten thousand fathoms deep!

Instinct! The instinct born of two lifetimes screamed madly! That should have been mine!!

That Man Faced Demon Spider, that exceptional soul ring, and those eight external soul bones that could mesh perfectly with Tang Sect Hidden Weapons... they were clearly a heaven-defying opportunity fate had prepared for him, Tang San, to turn the tables!

As long as I get it, I can wash away every humiliation! It'll let me stand at the continent's pinnacle again!

"That's mine... that's mine!!" Tang San lost his mind completely, a beast's frenzied roar rising from deep in his throat.

Ignoring the searing agony of the shattered bones in both arms, he kicked desperately at the mud with his legs and wriggled toward the Man Faced Demon Spider's corpse. "Su Chen! How dare you steal my opportunity! You already have four soul rings-you can't absorb it at all! Give it back! That's mine!"