"Sui Sui!" Tang San cried out. Tang Sui, understanding, emerged from her ethereal state, returning to solid form. In the next second, she activated her third spirit ability again.
"Void Face!"
A surge of mental shock mixed with immense demonic energy directly impacted the scarred human-faced spider.
Caught off guard, the human-faced spider was like someone walking at night suddenly blinded by high beams. Its already strained eyes nearly went blind, and its six spider eyes snapped shut for an instant.
"Hmph!"
Tang San aimed the Blue Silver Overlord Spear at the human-faced spider, his spiritual power locking onto it firmly. He forcefully threw the spear.
Like an arrow loosed from a bow, the moment Tang Sui's figure drifted to the side, a furious strike followed from behind, narrowly missing Tang Sui!
"Hoo hoo—!"
Augmented by the Blue Silver Domain, the Sea God's Heart, and Tang Sui's multi-elemental enhancements, the Blue Silver Overlord Spear, now crimson gold, erupted with boundless blood flames the instant it left Tang San's arm. The killing intent contained within it froze the surrounding air, and a black rift, like a black hole, even tore open in the sky, madly devouring everything around it.
"Roar—!"
The human-faced spider, finally regaining its vision, saw such a terrifying attack heading straight for its face.
It immediately exclaimed: "!!!"
"Boom—!"
With a thunderous roar, the human-faced spider's massive body, now in its Spider God Incarnation state, was blasted back several meters.
Its retreating colossal form brought misfortune to the surrounding vegetation.
"Crack crack!"
Large cracks appeared on the hardest part of its carapace, and its entire body was flipped into a deep pit in the ground.
It was also in a state of extreme dizziness.
This was the moment to finish it off!
Tang San once again summoned the Clear Sky Hammer he had retracted to charge the Blue Silver Overlord Spear. His Eight Spider Lances simultaneously extended. In a blink, he was above the human-faced spider, his dark Clear Sky Hammer and his Eight Spider Lances striking down simultaneously.
"Roar—!"
Piercing pain shot from its abdomen, where a human-like face had grown, and from its limbs.
It thrashed wildly on the ground, but was enveloped layer by layer by the Blue Silver Emperor vines that continuously erupted from the earth.
Even as the Blue Silver Emperor vines in front were corroded by its poison, more and more kept wrapping around it.
Under the strain of its desperate struggle and extreme pain, the golden-red light in the human-faced spider's six eyes faded unwillingly. Its twitching spider legs gave a final kick, and it lay still.
Tang San retracted the Clear Sky Hammer but did not retract the Eight Spider Lances.
This was because his Eight Spider Lances were currently absorbing the potent poison energy of the human-faced spider.
He could clearly feel eight streams of cold energy surging from the Eight Spider Lances piercing the human-faced spider's legs into himself, coalescing behind his back.
Tang Sui landed lightly, tilting her head as she watched Tang San, his eyes closed, a faint blood-red light shimmering on his body.
Absorption?
Speaking of which, her brother's Eight Spider Lances evolving method was very similar to how she used demonic energy to absorb other energies to strengthen herself.
And if she remembered correctly, in the original timeline, her brother could also enhance himself by using his Eight Spider Lances to absorb the energy of powerful soul masters?
With this thought, Tang Sui's eyes flickered. Her compassion stirred, but she didn't disturb Tang San. She raised her hand, a black-red demonic energy glowing in her palm, and cast it outwards, forming an energy barrier around them.
Meanwhile, the human-faced spider, in its Spider God Incarnation state, gradually shrunk. Soon, it returned to its original size. Under the continuous absorption of the Eight Spider Lances, it even became smaller, as if its blood had been drained.
This "blood" poured into Tang San's body, but it only coalesced behind his back, not entering his internal organs, still different from Tang Sui's absorption.
Tang San understood this situation, likely because the absorbed subject was the same type of spirit beast as the one that formed the Eight Spider Lances.
A deep black spirit ring slowly rose from the human-faced spider. With its potent poison absorbed by Tang San's Eight Spider Lances, the human-faced spider's body gradually shriveled, even its hard carapace softening.
There was a burning sensation behind his back, but it gave him a feeling of utter comfort.
Tang San looked at the black spirit ring. His Eight Spider Lances withdrew from the deceased human-faced spider's body and landed on the smooth ground. He sat down beside the withered corpse, began to channel his energy, resonated with the black spirit ring, and started absorbing it.
"Buzz—"
As Tang San was absorbing the spirit ring, a burst of blood-red light suddenly exploded from his body, similar to the blood-red light Tang Sui had seen on Tang San's Eight Spider Lances before.
Tang San, his eyes tightly closed, broke out in a fine sweat on his forehead. He felt a heat flow from behind him resonate with the spirit ring's energy, forming a more scorching aura that rapidly condensed in his chest and abdomen.
Strangely, this time Tang San did not suffer the soul shock from a soul beast of ten thousand years or more. Perhaps it was because the human-faced spider's will to live had been completely extinguished by the continuous attacks. It was similar to the situation when Ma Hongjun absorbed the Earth King, who had been severely beaten by Liu Erlong, long ago.
This human-faced spider, after being beaten black and blue, had lost the will to live. Its seventy thousand years of cultivation plummeted during its Spider God Incarnation. Its proud attacks were nothing to Tang Sui. Even if it could grow into a hundred-thousand-year overlord soul beast, what was the point in front of this little devil?
Thus, under such a drastic disparity, the human-faced spider wished for death even more.
The fortunate Tang San clearly felt something hard extending from his back and gathering towards his chest.
To Tang Sui's slight surprise, Tang San, having finished absorbing the spirit ring, opened his eyes. He looked down as if sensing something, only to see his clothes had already turned to ash within the spreading blood-red light. Even the Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night and the Wishful Hundred Treasures Pouch were covered by this blood-red light.
He could feel his internal soul bones seeming to stir.
Different energies converged towards the Eight Spider Lances behind him. Each of the evolved Eight Spider Lances had shrunk in volume, from their original four meters to about three meters. However, after absorbing the energy, the blood-red color on them was no longer murky, having returned to a crystal-clear hue.
As the blood-red light spread to his front, it began to ripple like water, quickly enveloping Tang San entirely. Even the Eight Spider Lances began to change, transforming into a form-fitting blood-red armor, as transparent and hard as ruby, extending all the way to his neck.
"Oh, a mobile suit," Tang Sui exclaimed softly, watching the transformation of the Eight Spider Lances.
Tang San, immersed in the Eight Spider Lances transforming into armor, subconsciously responded with a "Ah," and then, with a violent bout of dizziness, he broke out in a cold sweat as he deactivated this peculiar form, reverting the Eight Spider Lances to their original leg-like shape. The rapidly consumed soul power finally ceased fluctuating.
—Author's Notes—
Cold Joke: Why did the human-faced spider suffer from eye strain? Sudian Novel Network
Answer: Because it had six eyes open, haha.
P.S.: I've been a bit busy these past two days, even starting to cut it close (tears jpg). But seeing so many sweet comments yesterday, Mo Li suddenly felt like she could still do it! See you tomorrow~