Outside, Xiao Wu and her companions were at a loss, looking at Tang Sui, who was crying inconsolably. They wanted to comfort her but couldn't reach her.
Frustrated, Xiao Wu even leaped from the ground towards Tang Sui, but each leap was instantly blocked by two masks hovering on either side of Tang Sui. An invisible force pushed them all back, gently but resolutely.
Like continuous waves, vast and deep, all their strength was pushed back, leaving Xiao Wu and the others spinning in place, anxious.
"Ahhh! Xiao San, when will you finish absorbing the spirit ring!"
Ma Hongjun, his heart aching from Tang Sui's soft, small cries, couldn't bear it any longer. He clutched his head and covered his ears, pretending not to hear the pitiful whimpering.
Zhao Wuji opened his mouth but couldn't utter a single word of comfort.
He didn't know when Tang San would finish absorbing the spirit ring.
This was an over-level absorption!
Tang Sui, whom they treated as a younger sister, was crying incessantly. Xiao Wu, unable to comfort her, became extremely agitated.
She gritted her teeth and was about to force her way through the defense of the two masks when Tang San, who had been meditating and absorbing the spirit ring, suddenly let out a muffled groan of pain.
Although it was faint, Dai Mubai and the others caught it precisely.
"Did Xiao San wake up!"
Everyone's eyes lit up as they looked over, only to see Tang San's body begin to ooze dark red blood after the groan.
The blood quickly stained his blue martial attire, already torn in several places, a dark and sticky color.
"Look at Xiao San's back quickly!"
Oscar exclaimed.
Zhao Wuji and the others strode forward. From Oscar's perspective, the clothes on Tang San's back suddenly tore open, and four fist-sized bulges appeared on either side of his spine, like blisters, making everyone's eyelids twitch.
In the next instant, accompanied by the eight bulges, Tang San's back also flickered with a purple light, the same as the thin, deep purple toxic mist surrounding them.
The purple light pulsed, as if nurturing something, and the bulges throbbed with it, as if something was about to be born.
"Crack, crack."
Tang San's body trembled as if in a seizure. Inside the eight bulges, eight thick, purple, tube-like objects, emitting a chilling sound of bone-on-bone collision, slowly extended from Tang San's back.
Dark shadows were cast upon the astonished faces of Ma Hongjun and the others.
The more Ning Rongrong looked, the more familiar the purple tube-like objects seemed. Her eyes widened, and she turned to look at the corpse of the Man-Faced Demon Spider not far away.
Upon seeing the spider legs, which were no different, Ning Rongrong gasped.
"This, isn't this the spider leg of a Man-Faced Demon Spider?!"
At this moment, the thick spider legs extending from Tang San's back had already reached a length of one and a half meters. With another ear-piercing sound of bones moving, the joint at the end of the one-and-a-half-meter spider leg suddenly extended another meter and a half. The spider leg was thickest near Tang San's spine, and the parts extending outwards gradually thinned. By the end, the entire spider leg revealed the sharpest part of spider-like spirit beasts, piercing deeply into the ground like a sharp cone.
A faint purple aura flowed on the spider legs, resembling transparent amethyst.
Tang San's closed eyelids trembled slightly, and he seemed on the verge of waking up.
"It's over, it's over! Sui Sui just became unrecognizable, and now Xiao San is going to turn into a giant spider and chase us, isn't he?" Ma Hongjun looked at the spider legs extending from Tang San's back with utter despair. The thought alone brought involuntary fear to his eyes.
"No! One Sui Sui was already more than enough for us to handle, and now if Xiao San also... will we be able to walk out of the Star Dou Great Forest intact today?!"
The fatty shivered and hugged himself. Dai Mubai's face darkened as he slapped Ma Hongjun's head and scolded, "Fatty, don't talk nonsense!" As if he wasn't also feeling a chill of fear!
"Crack, crack."
The spider legs, deeply embedded in the ground, suspended Tang San, who was the center of the main body, in mid-air. The Blue Silver Grass leaves, which had finished absorbing the spirit ring and now had two yellow spirit rings plus a deep purple one, gradually enlarged. The original blue-purple veins became faintly black, eventually turning entirely black-purple, gradually wrapping Tang San into a thick silkworm cocoon.
"What, what's wrong with Xiao San?"
Xiao Wu, who had never seen anything like this, looked anxiously at Zhao Wuji. Zhao Wuji, being called upon, shook his head, "I don't know either."
To be honest, he had roamed the Douluo Continent for so long, often relying on his own strength and charging headfirst, which led him to make so many enemies and grudges. Now he was quietly holed up in this secluded manor with Flander.
In the next second, a thin vine suddenly emerged from the surface, glowing with a crystal-like purple light. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, it slowly extended towards Tang Sui, who was also suspended in the air, shedding tears.
What made Xiao Wu and the others' eyes nearly pop out was that the two masks, which had been guarding them like thieves, preventing them from getting close, made no move at all as the poisonous-looking vines approached.
— — — Author's Notes — — —
Xiao Wu: ! You two-faced mask, how dare you play favorites!
Then a cute little one asked if Tang San's fourth spirit ring acquisition would follow the anime or the manga.
Mo Li's answer is to follow the manga.
The family enters the same door, siblings must be neat and tidy to unlock the blackening~