Master, take me!

Ji Feng stayed on high alert, only to see Spider-Woman repeatedly wiping the glass before her with her own hair.

She was wiping the Bagua Mirror.

The woman had not been combing her hair while facing Ji Feng. She had been combing it while facing the Bagua Mirror.

The Bagua Mirror was also part of the array.

Ji Feng had not been watching these Pictures as a spectator. He had seen everything from the Bagua Mirror's perspective.

Spider-Woman shook out her hair and looked at Ji Feng, her face deathly pale and her eyes blood-red.

"Am I beautiful?"

The ultimate question for a woman—even the queen in the fairy tale had needed the all-knowing magic mirror to confirm her beauty.

Was Spider-Woman asking the Bagua Mirror, or asking herself?

Her eyes were full of contempt, as though she were looking at trash.

Ji Feng thought for a moment, then said, "Beautiful."

Judging by her upper body alone, she really was quite attractive, with something of a little vampire girl about her.

Spider-Woman smiled. She was very pleased with that answer.

Then she asked another question.

"Do you know my name?"

Ji Feng nodded. "I think I do."

"Look at me. Keep looking at me and say my name. Then I'll be yours." Spider-Woman's smile grew even sweeter.

Only then did Ji Feng understand why this house was so grand, far beyond a peasant woman's taste.

An Evil Soul Master.

This house had once been an Evil Soul Master's hideout, and Spider-Woman was the product of his experiments.

Then how had Spider-Woman lived alongside the old woman for so long?

When Ji Feng remained silent, Spider-Woman seemed to understand what he was thinking.

"You want to know about that old woman?"

Clatter!

The Bagua Mirror abruptly spun, the blood-red threads upon it continuing to interweave as Spider-Woman went on with her story.

That Evil Soul Master died, his corpse lying on the ground.

Spider-Woman continued combing her hair with her spider legs.

The man's corpse slowly sank. Sand gradually covered his mouth and nose, as though the earth were swallowing him.

Before long, a skeleton of white bones appeared beside Spider-Woman. Holding a rag, it carefully wiped her spider legs every day.

This clearly was not human. It was more like an undead creature, and these were presumably that man's bones.

Spider-Woman did not spare the skeleton a single glance. She simply smashed it apart and let it sink underground again.

Spider-Woman continued combing her hair, letting time pass, her smile remaining seductive throughout.

People came and went in the Star Dou Great Forest, and from time to time, a party would step within the Magic Array's sphere of influence.

A couple entered the array's range, and the young man suddenly felt that his girlfriend did not seem quite so cute anymore.

The young man felt there was no sweetness in his life. He finally had a day off, yet he was still being forced to accompany his girlfriend to obtain a Soul Ring.

He wanted a sweet life, and only when he saw Spider-Woman did he feel that sweetness.

His expression grew intoxicated. Ignoring his girlfriend's warnings, his flesh gradually peeled away and flew toward Spider-Woman.

His face was filled with devotion, as though offering his flesh and blood to Spider-Woman were the greatest honor of his life.

Ji Feng could not understand the man's intoxication. To him, Spider-Woman was nothing but a monster.

When the last scrap of the man's flesh vanished, Spider-Woman's smile vanished as well.

The man became a skeleton. For the first time, Ji Feng could see sorrow in a skeleton.

She glanced at the skeletal man, then turned into a streak of blood-red light and vanished underground.

The man, now a skeleton, frantically clawed at the yellow earth.

He dug so quickly that a deep pit soon appeared in the ground!

A red curved saber appeared inside the pit. The skeletal man picked it up and climbed out, his hollow black eye sockets staring straight at the young woman!

The young woman screamed in terror at the sight.

Her man had suddenly sacrificed his own flesh and blood to a monster, and now he was pointing a curved saber at her!

The young woman tried to run, but she could not escape this stretch of yellow sand.

Countless white bones reached out of the ground and seized her tightly.

Some of the bones linked together, forming chains that bound the young woman and dragged her back into the great pit.

The skeletal man waited for her in the pit.

Blood splashed everywhere, only to dry upon the yellow sand in an instant.

The young woman died. The blade was drenched in blood, which swiftly vanished again.

The image froze, and Spider-Woman spoke gently to Ji Feng. "This saber is a class-five Soul Tool. Each time it drinks its fill of blood at midnight, it can repair your body with blood-red light.

"I spent three years modifying this saber. Now it can not only repair flesh, but also convert flesh and blood into Soul Power to help you cultivate.

That Old Woman spent thirty years here without learning a thing. I've told you this secret outright—isn't that enough sincerity?"

Spider-Woman's smile grew even more alluring, but Ji Feng was not paying attention to it at all.

"You're lying." Ji Feng shook his head. "That old wretch knows all this saber's secrets. She had zero innate Soul Power, yet she could cultivate. She also chose to keep those sisters until midnight precisely so the curved saber could drink their blood."

Spider-Woman smiled. "That's because I told her. Didn't you notice that her two sons didn't know why they had to keep those sisters until midnight either?"

"Hmph, talking to her meant drawing little figures and even drawing their intestines. She was stupid beyond belief. Helping her cultivate was sheer torture for me!"

Ji Feng pressed on. "Then why did you choose her?"

Spider-Woman shook her head. "I didn't choose her. I had no choice but to choose her. After that man died, she was the first Soul Master I encountered who made an offering to me."

"Before I met her, I was trapped in this Magic Array, unconscious. Only after she made an offering to me did I regain consciousness."

Ji Feng continued, "Then why didn't you kill her? Were you unable to?"

"I couldn't. She belonged to the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Holy Spirit Cult gave her a way to control the Magic Array. The Magic Array restrains me. I can neither kill anyone nor leave this cellar."

Ji Feng gave a little smile. "Then why talk about coming with me? You're locked up here and can't move. Besides, that saber would be useless if I took it away, wouldn't it? It must be paired with you. It only works when you're nearby."

Spider-Woman raised an eyebrow. "Can't you take me away? You've even opened that Blood Gate. Wasn't that an invitation for me to enter?"

Ji Feng raised his eyebrows as well, forcing himself to hide his surprise.

"You could see it?"

Spider-Woman burst out laughing. "How could I possibly not see it? I'm not blind."

Only now did Ji Feng learn that spirits could see the Blood Gate. Fortunately, he had learned that now. It would have been a fine joke if this had caused everything to go belly-up later.

"That Blood Gate of yours connects to a new space. That space is enormous, and the aura inside suits me perfectly.

"All you need to do is move this Magic Array into that space, and I can follow you inside. From then on, when you fight with the curved saber, I can assist you from the side. When you cultivate, I can also use the saber to help you cultivate faster."

The Bagua Mirror kept trembling. Ji Feng instinctively let go, and it flew to the center of the array on its own, spinning continuously.

Blood-red threads burst from the Bagua Mirror, winding around one another to form Spider-Woman's true body.

She slowly walked toward Ji Feng, drawing closer and closer.

"From the moment you entered this house, I knew you were my true master.

"If I had fought with all my strength, you wouldn't have had the slightest chance of defeating that Old Woman. You know that."

"But you were the one who caught my eye. Come, that mother and her two sons are dead. You've already completed the offering. All you need to do is call my name. Call it out! Then you can become my believer.

"Oh, no, you're far nobler than they were. I'm your believer. Come! I'm waiting for you! Master!"

As she cried out "Master," Spider-Woman's blood-red eyes filled with fanaticism!