"This is... deterrence?" Tang San's eyes widened in surprise, sensing the fear and retreat emanating from the Blue Silver Emperor.
"Something like that. Brother, it's already in my grasp. Let's finish it now," Tang Sui replied vaguely, lowering her eyes.
Tang San nodded, pushing off the ground with his feet. As he leaped into the air, he spread out his Blue Silver Domain.
"Clear Sky Hammer, emerge!"
Dark light surged in his left hand as he firmly grasped the Clear Sky Hammer, laced with wisps of electricity.
Tang Sui, slightly behind, illuminated six spirit rings beneath her feet. Her first and fifth spirit rings pulsed, and two beams of auxiliary light fell upon Tang San.
The humanoid spider, frozen by the deterrence, could only watch as Tang San charged towards it, getting closer and closer.
It couldn't comprehend how it had offended the dominant spirit beast, but it knew that the human it had fought before had its sights set on it, and that unknown dominant spirit beast was clearly aiding the human.
To survive, it had to destroy this pursuing enemy.
It didn't want to die.
Give it another thirty thousand years, and it would have reached true dominant beast strength, becoming a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast!
A strong will to survive surged, even surpassing Tang Sui's bloodline deterrence.
Tang Sui let out a "yee," and observed as the humanoid spider's six frantically moving spider eyes suddenly gathered golden-red light. Her gaze sharpened, and she quickly warned Tang San, "Brother, be careful!"
A dense gray light erupted from the humanoid spider, forcing the approaching Tang San to raise his hammer and retreat over ten meters.
Then, a bizarre scene unfolded.
The gray light enveloping its body acted like a cocoon. As its form writhed, its already massive body expanded further, its main trunk instantly swelling to a diameter of over seven meters, like a colossal grinding mill. Countless sharp barbs grew from each thick spider leg, resembling thorns capable of easily piercing hard rock.
"Roar—!"
The humanoid spider let out a screech accompanied by a mental shockwave. Layers of gray airflow swirled around its body, and the thickness of its armor increased by at least double. It had directly broken through the bloodline suppression, repelling Tang Sui's deterrence completely.
Under extreme will to survive and the threat to its life, the humanoid spider activated its special ability—Spider God Possession.
Spider God Possession was akin to a human spirit master's Martial Soul True Body, but the immense power it unleashed at this moment came at the cost of burning its cultivation.
For every second it maintained this state, its cultivation would be burned away by one year.
Even though it had lived for seventy thousand years, if it continued to fight in this state, it would collapse and die from energy depletion before long.
Moreover, there was another consequence: it would be even further from its goal of becoming a dominant beast.
Hatred and the will to survive became nutrient fluid, watering the seed of "revenge." The humanoid spider, having broken free from Tang Sui's deterrence, was the first to attack Tang San, whose strength it perceived as weaker.
"Brother!"
Tang Sui, who had been challenged by a spirit beast's deterrence being broken for the first time, snapped back to reality. The humanoid spider in front of her moved with lightning speed, appearing before Tang San in the blink of an eye. Its two front spider legs, covered in a scarlet glow and resembling poison blades, were raised high and swung down in a cross shape, crushing towards Tang San!
"First Spirit Skill, Entanglement!"
A Blue Silver Emperor vine flew from the side, wrapping around Tang San's waist and forcefully yanking him sideways, narrowly dodging the frontal cross-slash.
Simultaneously, to buy time, numerous Blue Silver Emperor vines erupted from the ground, coiling around the humanoid spider's enlarged body. However, they immediately began to emit corrosive smoke.
The humanoid spider in its Spider God Possession form possessed terrifying power, coupled with its already considerable cultivation. With the movement of its spider legs, the rapidly corroding Blue Silver Emperor vines were snapped within two seconds.
"Roar—!"
A glint of exhilaration flashed in its six spider eyes, glowing with golden-red light. The next moment, its hind legs slammed into the ground. Like a creature equipped with springs, its massive body shot straight towards Tang San in mid-air. Its mouthparts, dripping with foul-smelling saliva, writhed, emitting a hissing sound that made one's head spin. Sudancan.com
Another mental shockwave!
The immense pressure caused Tang San's expression to become solemn.
After activating Spider God Possession, the humanoid spider's strength, while not yet comparable to the Titan Giant Ape or the Azure Bull Python, was already close to that of a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast.
"Bang bang bang—!"
Four masks, flying at high speed, shot out from Tang San's side, brushing past him and heavily impacting the humanoid spider. With dull thuds, they collided with its incredibly hard body.
Under the powerful blows, the humanoid spider's protective spirit energy, breached by the armor-piercing attribute of the masks, stopped its mental assault. It let out a pained, resentful shriek, and then with a "poof," spat out a massive gray spider web, more than enough to ensnare ten people. It was used extravagantly against the four masks.
Of course, the spider web couldn't touch the fox-faced masks.
Just before the spider web could reach the edge of the masks, the four masks vanished in rippling distortions of air. Tang San, behind them, had also quickly shifted his position during the preceding three seconds of collision, beginning to charge his fifth spirit skill—Blue Silver Tyrant Spear!
"Third Spirit Skill, Facade of the Void."
The deep purple spirit ring lit up. The humanoid spider, suffering a mental backlash, cried out in pain and retreated several meters as if it had stepped on a hot coal, showing signs of withdrawal.
"Trying to run?"
Tang Sui's figure flickered, disappearing into the void and blocking the humanoid spider's path. The four masks simultaneously emerged, their eye sockets glowing with a faint light. Following their master's will, they launched a fierce, high-speed barrage of attacks on the humanoid spider.
"Bang bang bang!!!"
You're fast, you dodge a lot, so what?
If you can't be pinned down, then a different approach—high-speed impact, head-on confrontation!
Under the void state and continuous impacts, the humanoid spider's spider web was useless as it couldn't touch the masks or Tang Sui. Even its proud spider legs couldn't hit Tang Sui.
Amidst the dull, repeated impacts and the sounds of hard metal colliding, it couldn't help but let out an angry, sharp cry, cursing the dominant spirit beast wearing a human skin for its lack of martial ethics.
Tang Sui, unable to understand the creature's curses, attacked single-mindedly, buying time for Tang San to charge the Blue Silver Tyrant Spear. The four masks, however, which understood the humanoid spider's curses, struck even harder and more ferociously!
"Boom—"
A golden-red light suddenly erupted through the forest. On Tang San's side, the Blue Silver Tyrant Spear was fully charged!
"Fifth Spirit Skill, Blue Silver Tyrant Spear!"
Having broken through to the Soul Emperor level, even without obtaining a sixth spirit ring, this fifth spirit skill, Blue Silver Tyrant Spear, was the strongest offensive ability he currently possessed.
In a certain sense, its destructive power and impact were even greater than the Clear Sky Hammer, which had no spirit rings!