The True Plan, the Deadly Eight Trigrams

Any other man who heard her call him "master" would have dropped to his knees and called her mommy already.

Ji Feng had never played Va, that game for freaks. He shook his head, unmoved.

Spider-Woman frowned deeply and said to Ji Feng, "You're not interested in me? Can't get it up?"

"It's not that I don't want you, and it's certainly not that I can't get it up," Ji Feng said.

Spider-Woman thought for a moment, then said, "Could it be that you can't accept killing people to take their flesh and blood? Are you really that kind?

"Actually, I don't want to do that either. Maybe we could try taking the flesh and blood of soul beasts. I think the results should be about the same. As long as you accept me, I'm willing to scrape by with you."

She extended her hand toward Ji Feng, but he did not take it.

Ji Feng even moved a little farther away.

He knew nothing about spirits. If she pulled a dirty trick on him, he would die a truly miserable death.

"You still don't want me." A trace of resentment crept into Spider-Woman's voice.

Ji Feng said, "It's not that I don't want you. I just don't want this magic array. Can you exist outside it?"

A smile blossomed on Spider-Woman's face again.

"You don't want the magic array? Wonderful! I don't want it either. I've been bound here for far too long. Once I enter that Blood Gate, I'll be yours. Take me inside."

Take her into the Undead Demiplane?

Would that work?

It seemed possible.

The Undead Demiplane had been created by Electrolux. Traces of light remained within it, capable of suppressing the undead.

No matter how Ji Feng looked at her, Spider-Woman did not seem like a creature immune to light. Once inside the Undead Demiplane, she would definitely be suppressed.

Then I can take my time studying how to strip away her regenerative ability and graft it onto myself.

If anything goes wrong, I can trap her in the Undead Demiplane. After being locked up for a while, she should be purified by the light soul power.

Ji Feng drew a deep breath, maintaining his Martial Soul Possession and taking every precaution.

Spider-Woman was a spirit, and Ji Feng did not know how to deal with spirits. If anything unexpected happened, his only option would be to attack her physical vessel, the Bagua Mirror.

Spider-Woman's body dissolved into strands of blood that slipped back into the Bagua Mirror.

With everything ready, Ji Feng scattered blood, picked up the Bagua Mirror with his dragon claw, and carried it into the Undead Demiplane as fast as he could.

He set the Bagua Mirror on the ground and slowly backed away, retreating to a familiar spot.

He remembered leaving the Fire Fold there.

Spider-Woman's face surfaced in the Bagua Mirror once more.

Her seductive smile gradually faded, replaced by boundless coldness!

Her eight spider legs reflected a merciless gleam, and her bloody fangs were deathly pale, as though she might choose someone to devour at any moment!

There was nothing wrong with Ji Feng's reasoning or his actions. Under normal circumstances, the Undead Demiplane could suppress a spirit, or even subdue it.

But he had overlooked one thing: the gap between their cultivation levels.

The Undead Demiplane was indeed powerful. It was the creation of the Holy Necromancer Electrolux, an existence beyond ordinary gods, and its rank was extraordinarily high.

But Ji Feng's cultivation was too low. He was only a Soul Scholar and could not unleash even one ten-thousandth of the Undead Demiplane's power.

If Spider-Woman had still been at the Soul Elder level, as she had been in the Picture, it would certainly have suppressed her, perhaps even subdued her.

No one could have imagined that Spider-Woman's innate gifts were so astounding. She possessed both a vampire bat's rapid growth and a Man Faced Demon Spider's terrifying talent for combat.

Soul beasts and Soul Masters alike were nourishment for her growth.

After cultivating in the Star Dou Great Forest for thirty years, her strength had shot straight to the peak of the Soul Emperor level. By soul beast standards, that put her on the level of a twenty-thousand-year soul beast!

Ji Feng had absolutely no way to face a Soul Emperor head-on.

Spider-Woman had refrained from killing Ji Feng because she wanted to use him to kill the Old Woman and free herself from the magic array's restraints.

The influence of this Holy Spirit Cult magic array prevented her from attacking the Old Woman.

Spirits could turn on their masters. At the very beginning, she had killed the man who created her.

There were three paths she could take.

The first was to become far stronger than her contractor.

That man had never imagined Spider-Woman's strength would increase so quickly, and she had turned on him outright!

But the magic array the Old Woman brought had clearly been strengthened, and Spider-Woman was not powerful enough.

The second was for someone to take her out of the magic array.

She looked so terrifying that no one dared take her outside. Those she bewitched did not count; whoever took her away had to be fully conscious, with a clear mind.

The third was to break the contract.

That was simple. If another person called Spider-Woman's name and her original contractor did not object, the original contract could be broken. All she had to do, as the spirit, was agree.

Spider-Woman had chosen the third method: breaking the contract.

Back in the house, if Ji Feng had followed her instructions and called her name, the dead Old Woman would never have objected.

The contract between Spider-Woman and the Old Woman would have been broken, releasing her from the magic array's restraints.

Ji Feng was not a member of the Holy Spirit Cult and did not know how to control the magic array. She could kill him immediately and gain her freedom.

Spider-Woman had been watching Ji Feng all along, looking for a chance to seize a vital spot and force him to call her name.

But this man was extremely cautious. He had maintained his Martial Soul Possession the entire time, never releasing it. His attribute was so unusual that Spider-Woman could not approach him either.

The route of getting him to call her name had been blocked.

She changed tactics, persuading Ji Feng to bring her into this portable space.

Spider-Woman had succeeded. Ji Feng had believed her lies and taken her out of the magic array.

This space suppressed her somewhat, but not very strongly.

There was no way Ji Feng could withstand a Soul Emperor's attack now!

He had no chance of surviving!

The Bagua Mirror spun rapidly, and the eight trigrams on its surface emerged, trapping Ji Feng in their center.

Ji Feng was caught in the Eight Trigrams Formation. If he moved into any of the corresponding trigram positions, he would suffer a powerful elemental attack.

Ji Feng was about to move into the li position, where terrifying Soul Emperor-level flames would erupt and burn him to ashes.

As his foot was about to enter the li position, Spider-Woman's smile grew increasingly sinister.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

Roar!

A blaze of fire lit up, accompanied by a dragon's roar!

Ji Feng was startled. Why had this dragon corpse started roaring on its own?

Spider-Woman ignored the dragon corpse.

Boom!

Flames instantly erupted from the li position, ghostly blue earthfire bursting out of the ground.

Ji Feng desperately unleashed Dragon Shadow Strike, but it was futile. He could not dodge at all; the eight trigrams had already locked him in the formation's center!

Swish!

A wave of spiritual force swept through, effortlessly dispersing the li fire gushing from the ground.

Spider-Woman stared at the dragon corpse with blood-red eyes!

What was going on?

Wasn't this thing dead?!

Something dead dared stand in my way?

Who gave it the nerve?!

Boom, boom, boom!!!

Heavenly thunder rolled. Beside herself with rage, Spider-Woman spun the Eight Trigrams Disk and summoned the power of the zhen trigram.

Zhen represented thunder. In an instant, ten thousand serpents of lightning flashed through the Undead Demiplane!

She targeted not only Ji Feng but the dragon corpse as well. She would blast the dragon corpse into charcoal along with him!!