The moment the web landed on Tang San, the Man Faced Demon Spider advanced step by step on its long legs. It raised two thick legs, their sharp tips aimed at Tang San's head, ready to deliver the final blow.
Tang San still wanted to struggle, but his limbs kept going weak. The Soul Power inside him was nearly exhausted, and he did not even have the strength to raise the Godly Zhuge Crossbow.
I'm really going to die this time.
Xiao Wu, I'm sorry I can't save you.
Boss Chu, I might have to let you down.
As Tang San watched the spider legs draw closer, his life began flashing through his mind like a revolving lantern.
Just as the spider legs were about to pierce Tang San's skull, a figure burst through the bushes, smashing through every tree along the bank.
Chu Feng flashed over. Before the spider legs could fall, he lowered his waist and sank his hips, gathering Soul Power and force at his shoulder before ramming into the Man Faced Demon Spider's body.
Boom!
Pure physical strength sent the Man Faced Demon Spider flying sideways, knocking down towering trees along its path before it crashed deep into the forest.
"Boss Chu!" Tang San stared at Chu Feng before him, both delighted and stunned.
On the boundary between life and death, Chu Feng had arrived in time and pulled him back from the abyss of death.
"Don't move." Chu Feng's words pulled Tang San out of his thoughts.
Chu Feng frowned deeply as he examined Tang San's injuries.
He inserted Oscar's and Dai Mubai's badges into the Martial Soul Sublimator.
"First Soul Skill: Holy Light."
A warm white light shone down on Tang San from above.
Under the light, the web immediately dissolved into drifting smoke.
The wounds on Tang San's body healed visibly.
The paralyzing toxin that had been rampaging through his meridians rapidly receded beneath the warm light.
Tang San closed his eyes and quietly waited for the treatment.
Several minutes later, the warm light vanished, and Tang San stood up.
"Boss Chu, thank you," Tang San said solemnly. After speaking, he even moved to kneel on one knee before Chu Feng.
Chu Feng was inwardly taken aback.
Holy crap, Tang San actually wants to kneel to thank me.
Looks like this past month of ideological reform has gone pretty well.
Before Tang San could kneel, Chu Feng stepped closer and pulled him up.
"There's no need for that. As long as you're all right. A companion I have high hopes for can't be dying on me."
Hearing this, Tang San felt warmth flow through his heart.
Aside from Xiao Wu, this was the first time he had felt such sincere affection.
"Boss Chu..."
Seeing that Tang San was on the verge of tears, Chu Feng immediately turned toward where the Man Faced Demon Spider had landed.
"You did very well to survive this long against a seven-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider."
All I can say is, that's Tang San for you.
Even against a Man Faced Demon Spider like this, he managed to hold out for so long.
If it had been the two-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider from the original story, Tang San probably would have killed it long ago.
Even if I hadn't shown up, Tang San probably could have turned the tables and killed it in that desperate situation.
After all, this kid is currently the son of destiny.
"Seven thousand years old." Tang San sucked in a breath of cold air.
So that was the kind of monster I was fighting just now.
It was already completely beyond what his current strength could handle.
He felt even more grateful to Chu Feng.
Boss Chu really is my destined benefactor. Once we get back, I'll share the Mysterious Heaven Skill and my other techniques with him.
Tang San had already thought it through. Since Chu Feng treated him this way, he naturally would not be stingy either.
Besides, in his view, Chu Feng did not particularly need his Mysterious Heaven Skill.
Perhaps Chu Feng had something better.
Whoosh, whoosh!
Just as Tang San was about to say something else, the Man Faced Demon Spider suddenly charged out of the dense forest.
Its eight legs spread wide as it clawed at Chu Feng.
This damned human! That collision just now knocked out everything I ate this morning.
Chu Feng neither dodged nor evaded, inserting Dai Mubai's and Ma Hongjun's badges into the Martial Soul Sublimator.
"White Tiger Heaven-Burning Roar!"
Light flared around Chu Feng, half snow-white protective Qi and half crimson Evil Fire.
The phantom white tiger and phoenix behind him intertwined.
A tiger's roar and a phoenix's cry erupted together, forming a gigantic flaming white tiger shock wave in the blink of an eye that blasted forward.
Boom!!
The white tiger's protective Qi carried the Evil Fire, becoming a raging torrent that slammed into the Man Faced Demon Spider.
The Man Faced Demon Spider had already been severely injured by Chu Feng's physical collision.
Now it had no way to withstand this fusion skill.
The white tiger's protective Qi tore its shell apart, and Phoenix Evil Fire poured through the cracks into its body.
The Man Faced Demon Spider experienced a true burning of its body by the flames of desire, its massive frame convulsing violently.
Within just a few breaths, this Man Faced Demon Spider, over seven thousand years old, lost every trace of life.
Tang San watched in a daze.
The Man Faced Demon Spider he had been unable to defeat even while fighting for his life had been killed in a single blow.
Just how strong is Boss Chu?
I need to work twice as hard at cultivating. I can't relax at all.
Otherwise, forget standing at the same height as Boss Chu-even catching sight of his back will be a problem.
He, Tang San, had his own pride. He would never allow himself to fall too far behind.
"Oh, there's another one." Chu Feng looked toward the distant forest.
Rustling sounds quietly rose from within the dense woods.
"I'll leave this one to you."
The moment Chu Feng finished speaking, another spider-type Soul Beast emerged from the forest.
But this spider was completely different from the savage, dangerous Man Faced Demon Spider.
It was only about two meters in size, far smaller than the Man Faced Demon Spider.
Its entire body was jade green, with fine, flowing emerald patterns running across it.
Its eight slender legs were clean and translucent, without any venomous hooks.
Every time its legs touched down, the scorched weeds on the ground actually revived slightly.
"A six-thousand-year-old Soul Beast, the Azure-Patterned Tenacious Life Spider."
"This kind of Soul Beast is very interesting. It's the natural enemy of the Man Faced Demon Spider."
"Generally, wherever there's a Man Faced Demon Spider, you'll find one of these."
Chu Feng introduced it to Tang San.
When the Azure-Patterned Tenacious Life Spider saw Chu Feng and Tang San, it showed no intention of attacking. Instead, it looked at the Man Faced Demon Spider's corpse on the ground and waved its legs excitedly.
Clearly, the Man Faced Demon Spider's death made it very happy.
Chu Feng rubbed his chin. Sensing the rich vitality emanating from the Azure-Patterned Tenacious Life Spider, he said to Tang San beside him, "Little San, a suitable Soul Beast for you has arrived."
"Go make it your Soul Ring."
Tang San pointed at himself, then at the Azure-Patterned Tenacious Life Spider.
Wait, I'm supposed to fight it?
I couldn't beat a seven-thousand-year-old Man Faced Demon Spider, so how am I supposed to beat this Azure-Patterned Tenacious Life Spider?
Even if this spider Soul Beast doesn't look frightening.
At that age, it still isn't something I can beat, is it?
If it were a six-thousand-year-old Lone Bamboo, I'd dare to give it a try.
Though he was brave, he would not fight an enemy he knew he could not defeat.
"Boss Chu, isn't this a little unsuitable?"
"It's too old. I can't absorb it either." Tang San found an excuse.
That really was the case.
At his current level of thirty, he could only absorb a Soul Ring around seventeen hundred years old at most.
If this six-thousand-year-old Azure-Patterned Tenacious Life Spider became a Soul Ring, wouldn't his body explode and kill him?
Hearing Tang San's words, Chu Feng could not help chuckling.
Little San, oh, Little San, why are you chickening out?
"Don't worry. I'm not asking you to hunt it down and kill it."
"I'm asking you to defeat it."
"As long as you can defeat it, I'll make it your Soul Ring."