Chapitre 24: Soul Devouring Spider

As dusk approached, the setting sun cast its glow across the sky.

The western sunset and the Star Dou Forest complemented each other, creating a unique and magnificent scene.

Inside the forest, Lan Si had been wandering for days but still had not found a suitable spider-type soul beast for himself.

He looked at the darkening sky and surveyed the surrounding terrain before stopping on a large tree. Leaning against the trunk, he realized he needed to find a safe shelter.

Otherwise, even though this was just the outskirts of the Star Dou Forest, he could still encounter unpredictable dangers at night.

Lan Si took out some dry food and a water flask from his storage soul guide. After a simple dinner, his slightly rapid breathing gradually calmed. He scanned his surroundings.

Suddenly, a strange rustling sound caught Lan Si's attention.

With his sharp vision, Lan Si looked towards the sound. Hundreds of meters away, in a pile of grass, he saw the source of the noise.

A combination of black and purple that filled one with revulsion. The creature was an ugly spider. Its body was over two meters in diameter, with eight spear-like legs extending over three meters. Its main body was black, with strange purple patterns that stretched out to its eight legs.

The tips of its legs were slender and translucent purple, silently piercing the ground with each step, emitting a faint purple glow.

"The Soul Devouring Spider, it's actually the Soul Devouring Spider."

Lan Si was ecstatic. He had given up hope of finding such a rare soul beast, but now, his blood was boiling.

This was a powerful spider-type soul beast, even rarer than the Man-Faced Demon Spider. It was the predecessor of the Soul-Eating Spider Emperor, the second martial soul of the Spirit Hall's Supreme Pontiff, Bibi Dong.

Compared to it, the Man-Faced Demon Spider was nothing. Although both could instantaneously shoot webs covering ten times their range, the Man-Faced Demon Spider could only shoot three times a day, while the Soul Devouring Spider could shoot almost infinitely, as long as it had enough soul power to consume.

It primarily absorbed soul power through its webs and legs. When its webs or legs came into contact with its enemies, it could drain their soul power.

There was also a more direct method—swallowing its prey whole.

In addition, the neurotoxin of the Soul Devouring Spider was terrifying and no less potent than that of the Man-Faced Demon Spider.

It was one of the most terrifying spider-type soul beasts, rivaled only by a few others, such as the Death Demon Spider.

However, with great strength came weaknesses.

Before reaching 50,000 years and evolving into the Soul-Eating Spider Emperor, the Soul Devouring Spider had a fatal weakness—its abdomen, where it stored its webs, was not yet covered by a sturdy shell.

As long as its abdomen was destroyed, if not fatally injured, it could at least lose its ability to release webs, making it much easier to deal with.

After a moment of excitement, Lan Si's eyes turned serious. He knew that the spider had also noticed him. Its eight long legs moved quickly, leaving a series of purple shadows in the air. In a flash, it was in front of Lan Si, shooting a semi-transparent purple web at him.

Without hesitation, Lan Si stomped on the tree trunk, leaping into the air to avoid the giant web while summoning his Green Lotus Martial Soul. The tree, once full of vitality, withered upon contact with the web, turning to rotten wood. A breeze blew, and the tree fell with a crash, the web-corroded area turning into vapor, with smoke rising.

Two yellow soul rings ascended from Lan Si's feet, their dazzling glow spiraling around him. Standing on the Green Lotus platform and using its flight ability, Lan Si hovered in midair, looking down at the Soul Devouring Spider.

His second and first soul rings lit up one after another.

The Green Lotus beneath his feet split into four identical lotuses. One of them turned into eight sharp blades, and with a wave of his hand, they spun in the air and spiraled toward the Soul Devouring Spider.

As the eight blades approached, the Soul Devouring Spider's eight purple-glowing eyes shone brightly, shooting out another giant web. Six blades were blocked by the web, while the remaining two pierced through the gaps, only to be knocked away by two of the spider's legs.

Lan Si's expression grew grim. He knew that without destroying the Soul Devouring Spider's abdomen, he couldn't harm its body. The web alone could block most attacks, and the eight legs were both offensive and defensive. To rush forward would be suicidal.

Lan Si recalled the eight blades, controlling them to continue attacking the spider. Meanwhile, the other two lotuses transformed into sixteen blades, forming twenty-four in total that attacked from all directions.

This time, Lan Si had learned his lesson. He noticed that the spider couldn't move its eight legs while shooting webs, and the web couldn't cover all angles. It couldn't defend against blades attacking from all directions.

Sure enough, the spider didn't shoot more webs but used its eight agile legs to dodge and parry.

But the spider was faster than Lan Si expected. It left a series of purple shadows on the ground, distancing itself from the flying blades. Then, using the opportunity, it shot a web at Lan Si in the air, intending to pull him down.

Lan Si smirked and, without leaving his position, pulled out an AK-47. As the web shot up towards him, he was already aware of its maximum reach—between 20 to 25 meters. He stayed above 25 meters in the air.

As expected, the web stopped just below Lan Si's feet, falling back onto the spider itself.

The spider roared, a dark purple glow emanating from its body, dissolving the web that had stuck to it.

Lan Si seized the moment, leaping into the air and aiming the AK-47 at the spider's exposed abdomen.

Rat-tat-tat.

The spider failed to dodge in time, and its abdomen was riddled with bullets. Sticky purple fluid flowed out.

With its vital abdomen destroyed, the spider went berserk. Its eight sharp legs moved wildly as it charged toward Lan Si's landing spot, cutting down all vegetation in its path. The plants' surfaces were smooth as a mirror, lifeless and eventually corroded by the remaining venom.

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