In the silent forest, countless spiderwebs clung haphazardly to the branches.
Tang Ya stared resolutely at Huo Yuhao before her, his dark purple eyes reflected in her pupils.
"Very good. Since you've cast everything aside, you must be ready!"
As Huo Yuhao finished speaking, he released the threads in his hand, and a cold gleam flashed from his longsword.
The Man Faced Demon Spider discovered that the threads binding it had vanished. Its many legs turned, ready to flee.
Facing this scrawny human, it actually could not muster the desire to resist.
Huo Yuhao lifted his foot lightly. Violent Soul Power instantly spread through the surroundings, and terrifying currents of air swirled around him.
The black robe he wore billowed in the wind as his terrifying might bore down on the Man Faced Demon Spider.
Before Tang Ya's astonished eyes, the black figure vanished on the spot.
The Man Faced Demon Spider's compound eyes suddenly widened, reflecting multiple black figures.
In the blink of an eye, Huo Yuhao appeared before the Man Faced Demon Spider.
With a twist of his waist, he spun halfway around in midair and brought one foot crashing down, kicking the Man Faced Demon Spider squarely.
Countless fragments of stone shot in all directions, instantly piercing countless tree trunks and leaving holes of every size.
Where Huo Yuhao's kick landed, the ground tore apart, splitting into a spiderweb of cracks.
The Man Faced Demon Spider lay sprawled in the center, its body caved in.
Huo Yuhao vanished again. The longsword in his hand swept through the light, leaving countless afterimages.
With deft swordsmanship, he slipped the blade beneath the Man Faced Demon Spider and suddenly exerted force through his wrist.
The Man Faced Demon Spider had only just felt an immense force beneath it when weightlessness instantly struck.
It flew straight into the air!
The scenery on the ground receded and shrank in its compound eyes.
Huo Yuhao moved his feet, vanished once more, and appeared directly above the Man Faced Demon Spider.
"Still too weak. How utterly boring."
Huo Yuhao shook his head, hovering in midair as he looked at the Man Faced Demon Spider beneath his feet.
Dark purple Soul Power flowed like water, rapidly coating the longsword in his hand. As the sword swung, it left trails of sword marks in the air.
The blade slowly rose upright before Huo Yuhao's eyes.
Huo Yuhao raised his left hand. As though answering a summons, the Soul Power on the blade began to gather, condensing against it.
The longsword's tip extended, and the entire sword began turning transparent, an eerie purple light flickering over it.
Huo Yuhao's entire body began to blur. Four identical figures, each holding a raised sword, surrounded the Man Faced Demon Spider.
The Man Faced Demon Spider screeched as though it had sensed the terror of death, its many legs flailing chaotically in the air as it struggled!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The four figures took a step through the air, breaking the sound barrier with deafening sonic booms.
The four figures exchanged positions in the blink of an eye!
The swords in their hands slowly swung down, plain and unadorned, like a movie in slow motion.
As his blade slowly descended, Huo Yuhao flicked his hand. The black sword dimmed, turning into black water and merging back into his robe.
A gentle breeze passed. The other three figures slipped through the Man Faced Demon Spider's body like phantoms before finally merging into Huo Yuhao's body.
Pshhh!
Countless bloody gashes suddenly appeared across the Man Faced Demon Spider!
Without warning, countless flashes of sword light appeared in the space the Man Faced Demon Spider occupied.
Sword light flashed!
The Man Faced Demon Spider's body split apart inch by inch!
Cracks began appearing along its eight hard legs before spreading toward its body.
The cracks grew increasingly distinct and kept widening, blood seeping out. In less than five seconds, more and more cracks appeared, covering every part of the Man Faced Demon Spider's body.
Countless bloody wounds burst open. Green blood sprayed out, falling like rain!
The Man Faced Demon Spider was in an utterly wretched state!
Only thin strands of flesh still held its body together, yet under Huo Yuhao's exquisite control, it actually retained a final breath!
Huo Yuhao enveloped it in Soul Power and slowly descended.
Tang Ya raised her head and stared blankly at the figure in the sky. He was her only god!
Green liquid dripped down onto Tang Ya's delicate skin, leaving speckled marks.
Under Huo Yuhao's attacks, the Man Faced Demon Spider's highly poisonous blood had actually lost all its toxicity!
"Shadow... Lord Shadow, you are my only salvation!" Tang Ya murmured.
Huo Yuhao returned to the ground with the Man Faced Demon Spider.
Beneath his black robe, the corners of his mouth rose, and a faint red light flashed in his eyes. "Are you ready to receive your power?"
Tang Ya wiped her face, her eyes shining even brighter. At this moment, the only person she wished to follow was the one before her.
She nodded emphatically.
"I'm ready!"
"Very good. Kill it, and I shall grant you boundless power. You shall one day stand with me beneath the moonlight and merge into the darkness!"
Laughing wildly, Huo Yuhao raised both hands. His Soul Power enveloped the dying Man Faced Demon Spider and delivered it to Tang Ya.
Without another word, Tang Ya turned her hand, gripping a small knife firmly.
She plunged the knife down!
"Roar!..."
The Man Faced Demon Spider let out its final screech and at last set foot on the road to the Yellow Springs.
Dense black Soul Power emerged above the ruined corpse, condensing into a black Soul Ring.
A Fifty Thousand Year Soul Ring appeared!
Along with the Soul Ring's appearance, intense hatred spread from within it.
Curses, resentment, and intense hatred filled it. The Soul Ring even carried the pungent, foul stench of rotting blood!
Sensing the Soul Ring's presence, Tang Ya felt somewhat chilled with fear.
She was only rank thirty, and the Soul Ring's negative emotions-even the unwillingness within its soul-could very well erupt while she absorbed it!
Her frail body simply could not withstand it.
"How dare such an inferior soul harbor thoughts of revenge?"
Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes slightly, gathering Soul Power in his hand. Like flames, the dark purple Soul Power danced continuously over his palm, mesmerizing to behold!
"Go!"
Huo Yuhao pressed two fingers together, and the Soul Power flames shot out, enveloping the black Soul Ring.
"Roar... roar!"
Above the Soul Ring, the Man Faced Demon Spider's decaying soul was forced out.
Its eyes held terror, and its soul trembled violently!
The flames wrapped around it with a sizzling hiss!
In an instant, the soul within the Soul Ring dissipated, leaving no possibility of a counterattack!
Wrapped in Soul Power flames, the Soul Ring flew straight to Tang Ya. Before she could react, the flames entered her body along with the Soul Ring.
"Ah~ Yuhao, slower, slow down..."
Tang Ya cried out, her voice suggestive and her pretty face slightly flushed, involuntarily inviting wandering thoughts.
The Soul Ring's power poured out, continuously flooding into Tang Ya's body.
She had no choice but to hurriedly sit cross-legged and circulate her cultivation technique, absorbing as much of the Soul Ring's power as possible.
Huo Yuhao reached out and closed his hand into a fist in the air. The Soul Beast corpse enveloped in Soul Power began compressing in midair.
The enormous corpse shrank in the blink of an eye.
"Hmm? How interesting."
Huo Yuhao chuckled. Within the corpse enveloped in Soul Power, the flesh had long since disappeared, yet a section of something resembling a spine still glimmered faintly!
"Boss! That's good stuff! An External Soul Bone-you can only encounter one by chance, not seek it out! You can fuse with it..."
Before the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could finish, Huo Yuhao wrapped the bone in Soul Power and shot it straight into Tang Ya's body.
Tang Ya gave a muffled groan, her brows knitting slightly and fragrant sweat pouring down as she processed the Soul Power within her body.
"The dark night has chosen her. I shall naturally make her become the dark night..."
Huo Yuhao murmured, standing with his hands behind his back as his black slime robe slowly receded.
"Boss, that thing was pretty valuable, but you weren't tempted at all. I really did choose the right person to follow!"
The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm flew wildly about Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness in delight.
The boss he had chosen, Huo Yuhao, truly was an immortal upon this earth, untouched by joy or sorrow-a fine example to the mortal world!
"What did you just say?"
"Boss, I really did choose the right person to follow..." the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm answered in confusion.
"No, the sentence before that!"
"That thing was pretty valuable..."
"Urgh." Huo Yuhao clutched his chest, aching at the loss. He seemed to see Gold Soul Coins flying away before his eyes.
"Boss, what's wrong?!" the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm asked anxiously.
Huo Yuhao hurriedly waved a hand, then tucked both hands behind his back again and put on an act. "I am fine..."
Huo Yuhao then sealed off his Sea of Consciousness.
Too late for regrets! Far too late for regrets!