The snake's shadow roared like a hurricane.
Jade-green light ran rampant, blotting out the sky.
In that instant, death took on a color.
The area within a hundred meters of the Black Luan's corpse became a zone of death.
Plants withered in an instant, and the small beasts within were reduced to bare bones.
A purple Soul Ring rose.
The Black Luan, a powerful seven-thousand-year Soul Beast.
It was dead!
"A Thousand-Year Soul Ring..."
Xiao Yan swallowed.
Beside him, Yu Tianming looked equally shocked.
"That poison..."
Xiao Yan wasn't even sure whether that stuff could still be called poison.
It was practically an enhanced version of concentrated sulfuric acid.
"Old Yu, could you withstand that stuff!?" Xiao Yan asked.
"Withstand it?"
"Didn't you see even that rock get corroded into mush?"
Yu Tianming shook his head.
He couldn't withstand that poison.
Even as a Soul Saint with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul, he could only retreat before that green snake venom.
"So whoever unleashed it was at least a Soul Douluo!?"
"Or even..."
"A Titled Douluo!"
Xiao Yan's eyes widened.
After more than eight years on the Douluo Continent, was he finally going to meet one of the strongest people in the entire world?
Yu Tianming nodded slightly and said with certainty, "It's undoubtedly a Titled Douluo."
"Among the Titled Douluo, there seems to be only one who specializes in snake venom!"
"Poison Douluo: Dugu Bo!"
His face turned grim. "Isn't that guy an honored guest of the Heaven Dou Empire's Imperial Family? What's he doing here?"
"Could he be hunting a Soul Ring for someone too?" Xiao Yan asked.
After all, that was what they were doing.
On the Douluo Continent, it was perfectly normal for the strong to hunt Soul Rings for the younger generation.
And those who were weaker often couldn't obtain a suitable Soul Ring.
After all, not everyone had someone to rely on.
That was also why Yu Tianming had insisted on helping Xiao Yan.
Without a powerful companion, anyone who entered a Soul Beast gathering place alone had only one fate awaiting them.
Death!
"With Poison Douluo here, our chances are much slimmer." Yu Tianming glanced at the green circle below, still shaken.
The terrifying poison was still spreading.
That was enough to show how powerful Poison Douluo was.
"Let's avoid him!"
Xiao Yan and Yu Tianming changed direction and headed down another rugged mountain path.
The Meteor Swift Fire Steed waited nearby.
The setting sun hung in the sky, painting heaven and earth the same color.
The rugged mountain path cut through the Sunset Forest.
The rich sunset clouds lay spread out like terraced fields, creating an unusual sight.
The two searched at an unhurried pace, starting from the outskirts.
"A Wind-Chasing White Moon Wolf. It must be around three hundred years old, right?"
"Oh, an Emei Golden Monkey! That's a top choice for a metal-attribute First Soul Ring!"
"Oh! A Man Faced Demon Spider!"
"Huh? Why isn't this one running away from us?"
Xiao Yan was intrigued. This Man Faced Demon Spider was the only one that hadn't run at the sight of them.
Croak!
Croak!
A grating, agitated sound came from the Man Faced Demon Spider as it suddenly spat out white silk.
Yu Tianming raised a hand, and thunder and lightning struck.
The spider silk turned to dust!
"This little spider actually wants to eat us!" Yu Tianming was furious.
As a Soul Saint, he understood what the demon spider's cries meant.
I can't afford to provoke Poison Douluo, but how dare a little spider like you, barely a thousand years old, act so brazenly!
Bang!
Another thunderbolt exploded.
The Man Faced Demon Spider's flesh burst open, and purple blood flowed.
But it didn't die.
Seeing how fierce Yu Tianming was, the creature immediately turned and ran.
"Stop it! We're eating spider meat tonight!"
Hearing that, Xiao Yan made his move too.
"Martial Soul, activate: Ultimate Fire!"
Hum!
A fierce flame erupted.
His level-ten Soul Power, honed over a long time, burst forth in an instant.
A fire snake flicked its tongue and charged at the demon spider.
At first, the Man Faced Demon Spider paid the eight-year-old child's attack no mind.
But when the flames rose and burned its legs without going out...
Even the Man Faced Demon Spider's face turned fiery red.
A strong burnt smell rose into the air.
Seeing this, Yu Tianming was just about to act.
But the Man Faced Demon Spider suddenly bent all eight of its sharp legs!
Eight enormous gouges appeared as the Man Faced Demon Spider pushed off and shot into the air.
Croak!
Several spiderwebs spread out, blotting out the sky.
The creature actually had another trick up its sleeve, hoping to use it to block the two of them.
"Roar!"
A dragon's roar rang out. Clad in lightning armor, Yu Tianming tore through the webs!
But by the next moment, the Man Faced Demon Spider had already escaped from sight.
"That Man Faced Demon Spider is interesting. It's actually learned to think in battle."
"That's something only a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast should be capable of..."
Before Xiao Yan could think it over, Yao Lao suddenly spoke. "Follow it!"
"There's a strange presence about that demon spider!"
"Old Yu, hurry and chase it!! There's something odd about that Man Faced Demon Spider!" Xiao Yan hurriedly alerted Yu Tianming.
A Soul Saint-level expert had already mastered the ability to fly.
That way, they might be able to catch it!
"Okay!" Yu Tianming asked no further questions.
"Fourth Soul Skill: Thunder Hurricane!"
Boom!
A fierce tornado of lightning surged upward.
Yu Tianming took Xiao Yan with him as he soared into the sky.
Hum!
Their speed was simply jaw-dropping!
"My Fourth Soul Skill came from a Thunder Wind Bird, so I can travel incredibly fast on the wind!"
In just a few breaths, the two spotted the Man Faced Demon Spider from before!
It had a strange herb in its mouth.
It was healing its wounds.
"A near-immortal herb! That creature is actually wasting a near-immortal herb!" Yu Tianming felt as though his head was about to explode.
What the Man Faced Demon Spider was chewing on was actually a near-immortal herb!
Xiao Yan was shocked too.
No wonder Yao Lao had said it was special. It actually had a near-immortal herb!
A near-immortal herb could bring the dead back to life and put flesh on bare bones!
It could cleanse the marrow and replace the bones, clear the meridians and nourish the blood.
It could give a person a new lease on life!
Even someone on the brink of death had a good chance of surviving after eating one.
And if it were an immortal herb!
Its effects would be even more astounding!
The Man Faced Demon Spider was dumbfounded too. These two humans had actually caught up!
And they were staring at what was in its mouth like resentful wives.
Those gazes...
They were even more terrifying than those of the widow spiders it had abandoned.
Boom!
A bolt of lightning struck!
The demon spider stumbled, narrowly dodged it, and ran for its life.
It had to be said, it was clever.
Almost human.
Once it realized how powerful its opponents were, it turned and ran.
It spat out a strand of silk that stuck to a tree three hundred meters away.
The Man Faced Demon Spider used the momentum to swing across.
"Holy crap, Spider-Man!"
"Even Spider-Superman has to die for me!"
It had to be said, Yu Tianming had gone mad.
A half-immortal herb could extend one's life.
For an old man like him, that was far too tempting.
Two men and one beast.
One fleeing, the others pursuing.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived among a range of mountains.
The Man Faced Demon Spider stumbled. After hesitating again and again, it went inside.
Yu Tianming was about to follow when Xiao Yan stopped him.
Xiao Yan's eyes burned as he stared at the entrance to the valley.
There was a plant there.
Its name was the Jade Phosphor Seven Absolute Flower!
He raised his head again.
In the valley beyond stood two mountain peaks.
One was an ice mountain, the other a volcano!
"This is the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well..."
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