The Tyrannical Despot, Blazing Bone Dragon Vulture (Part 1)

The Man Faced Demon Spider was an infamous species among soul beasts. Brutal and bloodthirsty by nature, it was known as an evil slaughterer!

"A Man Faced Demon Spider—the human face on its abdomen has only just formed the outline of hair, so it's around fifteen hundred years old! Bei Bei, I want this one!"

Tang Ya immediately grew excited. Blue Silver Grass was not particularly demanding when it came to soul rings, and many soul beasts could meet its requirements. The Man Faced Demon Spider was undoubtedly one of the best choices for her!

She pressed a hand against Huo Yuhao's shoulder, curled up, flipped backward, and landed lightly beside Bei Bei.

Two rings rose from beneath Tang Ya's feet at once. Bright yellow soul rings pulsed up and down as thick blue vines shot forth—the very Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. One strand wrapped around Bei Bei's waist while more vines quietly spread in every direction.

Bei Bei's expression was grave, with none of Tang Ya's delight. Although he was a three-ring Soul Elder and possessed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, the world's strongest offensive beast Martial Soul, enough to reliably defeat most fifteen-hundred-year soul beasts—

The Man Faced Demon Spider had an exceptionally sturdy armored shell, astonishing speed, eight long legs with terrifying piercing power and deadly venom, and horrifying poisonous webs...

One careless mistake could leave him dead here!

"Junior Ling, leave this to Xiao Ya and me. Protect the others and stop the Man Faced Demon Spider from suddenly getting past us," Bei Bei instructed Ling Bai in a low voice.

"Alright."

Ling Bai slowly retreated to Ning Tian's side.

Seeing this, Huo Yuhao and the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm wildly mocked Ling Bai's perfectly justified slacking off within the Sea of Consciousness.

Whether Ling Bai used the Six-Winged Angel that represented holiness in the world or that sinister, bizarre demon spider, man and beast had reached a startlingly unanimous conclusion.

Ling Bai and the Man Faced Demon Spider were probably a three-to-seven matchup.

Ling Bai got three punches.

The Man Faced Demon Spider got a seven-day memorial!

The group had spotted the Man Faced Demon Spider, and naturally, it had also noticed the human soul masters. Its eight long legs moved frantically, trailing a string of afterimages. In the blink of an eye, it had rushed before Bei Bei and Tang Ya. Its two front legs rose instantly and stabbed down at them from above.

"Xiao Ya!"

Bei Bei gave a low shout. A huge pulling force came from his waist, and Tang Ya immediately understood. She swung Bei Bei outward as the first yellow soul ring of her Blue Silver Grass flashed. Her First Soul Skill, Blue Silver Entanglement, activated. Countless thick vines wrapped around the Man Faced Demon Spider in an instant, binding it tightly like a dumpling.

Bei Bei completed his Martial Soul Possession in midair. A dazzling blue light flared from between his brows before spreading through his entire body. Strands of blue-violet lightning slithered around him like little snakes.

The Martial Soul did not change him much. Aside from a blue lightning symbol appearing on his forehead, only one part of his body underwent a transformation from the Martial Soul Possession.

His right arm!

His sleeve burst apart as his arm swelled, crumbling into ash and scattering away. Bei Bei's right arm grew more than half a foot longer, becoming immensely thick and covered in blue-violet scales. His hand had turned into a dragon claw, likewise covered in heavy dragon scales.

The circling blue-violet lightning constantly condensed around or coursed across his arm. His two yellow and one purple soul rings did not rise and fall around his body like those of ordinary soul masters. Instead, they revolved solely around that uniquely transformed arm.

"Dragonification—the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's ultimate technique. I've finally seen it with my own eyes."

Ling Bai lightly stroked his chin, clicking his tongue in amazement.

"His first-stage Dragonification is very stable."

Ning Tian gave an objective assessment.

Wu Feng unexpectedly said nothing. Her eyes were practically glued to Bei Bei's dragon-claw-like right hand, her mind filled with envy and longing.

In theory, all dragon soul masters could undergo Dragonification. However, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had monopolized the secret method for stable Dragonification. To this day, no other dragon soul master on the continent had successfully achieved it.

At the center of the battlefield, Bei Bei's First Soul Ring had already lit up. Amid intense Soul Power fluctuations, a dragon claw formed from blue-violet lightning shot out like an arrow and fiercely slammed toward the Man Faced Demon Spider bound by Blue Silver Grass.

Bei Bei knew full well that even though Tang Ya's Blue Silver Grass had absorbed two soul rings, it could not possibly restrain the Man Faced Demon Spider for long. After all, the Man Faced Demon Spider was a highly venomous soul beast. Its corrosive toxin and neurotoxin could easily break through Blue Silver Grass.

He had to suppress the Man Faced Demon Spider as quickly as possible!

The Man Faced Demon Spider was even stronger than Bei Bei had expected. A hazy purple light sprayed from the human face beneath its abdomen. The Blue Silver Grass binding it actually melted into pools of purple liquid that dripped to the ground, corroding deep pits into the earth.

The Man Faced Demon Spider broke free of Blue Silver Entanglement without obstruction and lunged at Bei Bei. This time, all four of its front legs were raised high. The sharp tips, like spearheads, gleamed with cold light, while its eight small eyes revealed surging, almost human killing intent. It was determined to kill Bei Bei in a single strike!

Boom—

Amid a thunderous roar, the Man Faced Demon Spider pierced through the Thunder Dragon Claw. Bei Bei's expression shifted slightly. His opponent's strength had surpassed his expectations, but fortunately, he was not fighting alone. Tang Ya used Blue Silver Grass to pull him back to the ground again, while the earlier Thunder Dragon Claw had bought him several seconds.

Bei Bei landed and tapped rapidly across the ground, his body becoming increasingly illusory like a ghostly shadow. The Second Soul Ring on his right arm blazed brightly as countless arcs of serpent lightning expanded at once. Bolts of lightning flashed wildly through the air, forming a dense thunder net that covered the Man Faced Demon Spider.

If the Thunder Dragon Claw had been a test against the Man Faced Demon Spider, then Bei Bei's Second Soul Skill, Thunderous Force, was the true killing move. Once enveloped by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's electric net, the Man Faced Demon Spider could pack up and report to the underworld.

Yet the Man Faced Demon Spider revealed its domineering side. Its body suddenly jerked upward, and its long legs struck Thunderous Force head-on. Relying on the sharpness of its legs and its sheer Brute Force, it broke through the net at a single point, tearing open a gap!

Even as it destroyed Thunderous Force, the Man Faced Demon Spider still had the strength to shoot a web from its lower abdomen. The web rapidly expanded in the wind, forming a giant net five meters across in an instant. Under the sunlight, it reflected a lustrous purple glow.

Seeing this, Ning Tian and Huo Yuhao involuntarily took several steps back, wanting to get closer to Ling Bai. Unlike ordinary spiders that slowly spun silk to weave webs, the Man Faced Demon Spider could instantly fire its web. It was extremely sticky and incredibly tough, carrying the deadliest neurotoxin!

Wu Feng's face had also turned somewhat pale. Several hours earlier, she had been hammered into the ground by a thousand-year King Kong Baboon. But if she had to choose between this Man Faced Demon Spider and the King Kong Baboon, she would rather clash head-on with the King Kong Baboon!

The Man Faced Demon Spider was terrifying indeed!

As one of Shrek Academy's favored geniuses, Bei Bei understood that he could not let even the slightest part of his body touch the web. Intense blue lightning flared from his entire body. The scales on his right arm quickly spread over his torso, covering his right chest. His aura surged once more as the purple thousand-year soul ring radiated dazzling light.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's Third Soul Skill, Thunder Fury!

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon was known as the continent's strongest offensive beast Martial Soul. Bei Bei's Third Soul Skill, Thunder Fury, could increase his attack power by fifty percent while multiplying the strength of his lightning attribute several times over.

Thunder Fury was not a direct offensive skill, but it could strengthen Bei Bei's overall combat ability to an entirely different level. Even some four-ring Soul Ancestors with weaker Martial Souls and soul rings would be no match for Bei Bei right now.

The web that blotted out the sky descended, its oppressive aura bearing down on Bei Bei.

Bei Bei snorted coldly. Blue light swirled around the dragon claw formed by his right hand, accompanied by faint crackling bursts of lightning. His Second Soul Ring shone brilliantly. With a sweep of his right arm, a net of lightning spread through the air—Thunderous Force, at least three times larger than before!

Blue and purple clashed madly, producing dull, sizzling sounds. It was the battle between the masters behind the two giant nets: the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and the Man Faced Demon Spider!

In terms of corrosiveness, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon could not match the Man Faced Demon Spider's dual poisons. In terms of destructive power, however, the Man Faced Demon Spider did not possess even a tenth of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's strength!

Each side held an advantage, and in the end, neither could do anything to the other. Blue and purple gradually exhausted one another.

The Man Faced Demon Spider had been utterly enraged by Bei Bei. After its web was destroyed by Thunderous Force, droplets of venom condensed at the tips of its legs. A nauseatingly pungent odor spread through the air as it sprang up on eight long legs and rushed forward.

This time, Bei Bei did not dodge. Facing the enraged Man Faced Demon Spider, he advanced rather than retreated. His right hand swept across his waist, and dozens of white flashes shot out in an instant, flying straight toward the eyes on the spider's lower abdomen.

"What are those?"

Relying on the extraordinary vision granted by his Spirit Eyes Martial Soul, Huo Yuhao saw the white flashes clearly. They were not soul skills at all, but diamond-shaped throwing darts forged from refined iron—the same things Tang Ya had thrown earlier when dealing with the Wind Baboons.

"Tang Sect Hidden Weapons."

Ling Bai answered Huo Yuhao calmly.

"Hidden weapons?"

It was Huo Yuhao's first time hearing the term, and confusion appeared between his brows.

"An outdated relic. The Tang Sect is the only one on the entire continent still insisting on using them," Ling Bai said indifferently.

"Outdated..."

Huo Yuhao murmured to himself. He seemed to understand why the Tang Sect had declined so miserably that a two-ring Soul Grandmaster had become its sect leader.

Those who could not keep pace with the times were destined to be eliminated by them.

The Man Faced Demon Spider's only weakness was its eyes. It hurriedly flattened itself against the ground as the dart-like hidden weapons struck its protective shell, sending up a shower of sparks.

Soul masters could sense the strength of soul beasts, and soul beasts could likewise sense the strength of soul masters.

The Man Faced Demon Spider's cultivation was roughly on par with Bei Bei's. It was deeply wary of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's tyrannical thunder, so it would rather temporarily abandon its attack to protect its weak point. But as it blocked the darts, it seemed to realize that their force was far weaker than it had imagined.

At that moment, the Man Faced Demon Spider understood!

The Soul Power of the soul master before it was nearly exhausted!

Believing it had seen through everything, the Man Faced Demon Spider immediately switched from defense to offense. It endured Bei Bei's unending Tang Sect Hidden Weapons and closed the distance. Its upper body rose high, supported by two long legs, while six spear-like legs stabbed downward in a fatal strike!

This time, it was even faster. Corrosive purple light clung to all six spider legs. Combined with its own neurotoxin, even a slight touch would be enough to kill Bei Bei, let alone a direct hit!

A nightmare of soul beasts and an evil slaughterer, the Man Faced Demon Spider had used this move to devour countless soul beasts and soul masters who had ventured deep into the Star Dou Great Forest!

Just as those six three-meter-long spider legs, like steel spears, came crashing down, Bei Bei smiled—a smug, crafty smile.

"Xiao Ya!"

As the Man Faced Demon Spider raised its legs to attack, the vicious human face formed by white markings on its lower abdomen was naturally exposed. Its eight enlarged violet eyes gave off a cold, bloodthirsty gleam.

Tang Ya, who had remained hidden all this time, seized the opportunity. A black box had appeared in her left hand at some point. Her fingers deftly worked over it, producing a rapid series of mechanical clicks.

Crack, crack, crack!

A series of explosive mechanical snaps rang out from the black box. Sixteen black shadows shot forth. Under Tang Ya's precise control, two shadows entered each of the Man Faced Demon Spider's eyes, all instantly sinking into its body!

Tang Sect Hidden Weapon, the Godly Zhuge Crossbow!

Hiss—

Its miserable shriek was piercing and sharp, exceptionally clear within the silent Star Dou Great Forest.

The bolts from the Godly Zhuge Crossbow pierced through its eyes and into its brain. The Man Faced Demon Spider's black-armored body stiffened for a moment before it began thrashing violently on the ground.

The nearby plants suffered an undeserved calamity. A centipede did not stop writhing even after death, and the Man Faced Demon Spider crazily twisted its body, destroying everything around it. Fragile vegetation was instantly corroded by its poison, while thick trees were smashed apart by its body.

Several minutes later, everything within ten meters had been completely destroyed. The Man Faced Demon Spider's life came to an end, and specks of purple light began gathering above its body.

"Done!"

Tang Ya jumped up and high-fived Bei Bei, then cheerfully ran over to absorb the Third Soul Ring. Bei Bei took out a refined iron saber and walked toward the Man Faced Demon Spider's corpse.

The saber flashed, and the Man Faced Demon Spider's eight long legs flew through the air. The bloody scene resembled dismemberment, but aside from Huo Yuhao, whose expression shifted slightly, everyone else was used to it.

There were two most important things on a soul beast: soul rings and soul bones. Bei Bei was searching for a soul bone.

"Senior Bei."

"What is it?"

Ling Bai walked to Bei Bei's side, his expression grave. "Don't you think we won a little too easily?"

"Easily?"

Bei Bei nearly choked on the breath caught in his throat. After swallowing it with difficulty, he asked, "What do you mean?"

"A Man Faced Demon Spider can fire its web three times a day. Just now, it only used it on you once."

"That..."

Bei Bei froze for a moment, then explained, "Perhaps it was careless and did not release its web. Or maybe it had already used its other two chances today."

"You have a point, but look here."

Ling Bai pointed at the armor on the Man Faced Demon Spider's chest, the hardest part of its entire body. Bei Bei looked where he indicated. There were two gaps in the armor. The wounds were very fresh, and they did not resemble injuries caused by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. Instead, they looked more like marks left by bird claws viciously gouging into it.

"Rather than attacking prey head-on, the Man Faced Demon Spider prefers hiding in the shadows and ambushing its prey. That is also the nature of spider-type soul beasts..." Ling Bai licked his lips. "And think back to how we found the Man Faced Demon Spider. Didn't it look like it was..."

"Running away!"

Bei Bei understood immediately, and his face went deathly pale. What kind of soul beast could hunt down a Man Faced Demon Spider in the Star Dou Great Forest and force it to fire two webs before it could escape?!

The next second, Bei Bei saw Ling Bai raise his head!

Thinking of the marks on the Man Faced Demon Spider's armor...

A bird-type soul beast!

The sky!

A fierce wind suddenly rose as a white phantom lunged toward Ning Tian and the other two behind them!