Douluo Continent: My Martial Soul is the Black Dragon, I am the Lord of the Gods

Chapter 126 Eight Spider Spears

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"I heard that Senior Dragon Lord is chasing a soul beast?" Xuanming turned to look at Dragon Lord.

"I wonder what kind of spirit beast that is?"

“A human-faced demon spider.” Long Gong didn’t hide anything. After all, Meng Yiran had already obtained a soul ring and possessed a precious soul bone, so he no longer needed to chase after that human-faced demon spider.

"Where did it go?" Xuanming asked.

Long Gong pointed to the west, "Over there, I sensed that old woman's presence just now, so I came to check it out..."

"Until we meet again." Xuanming called out, then grabbed Arou and shot away.

"Hey!" Meng Yiran quickly got up, about to say something, but Xuan Ming had already disappeared.

"Uh..." Dragon Lord was also a little confused.

No, so urgent?
“Yiran, take control for a moment and put the soul bone away,” Meng Shu said, turning around.

This soul bone is no ordinary treasure, not to mention that the one on Meng Yiran's body is the rarest type of torso bone!

"Grandpa, why didn't you stop him?" Meng Yiran said with a hint of resentment.

"He just did me such a big favor, and I haven't even properly thanked him yet."

"Stop me? Can I stop you?" Meng Shu looked helpless.

"Didn't you see how fast he moved just now?"

That kind of speed must mean there's something urgent going on. Even if he could stop him, it wouldn't be appropriate.

"Yiran, don't worry, he's in Tiandou City. There will be plenty of opportunities to see him in the future," Chao Tianxiang reassured her.

"You should first fully fuse with this soul bone and take good control of it. Then we can find an opportunity to personally visit and thank you."

Meng Yiran was somewhat disappointed, but looking at the strange scorpion tail behind her, she knew now was not the time. "Okay..."

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"Why are you looking for the Man-Faced Spider?"

Under the cover of night, Xuanming pulled Arou along as they flew swiftly through the forest. To accelerate, he used a bit of the Ice Dragon King's power, leaving a layer of fine ice crystals in the air that shimmered in the moonlight, like stars falling from the sky.

"Let's try and see if we can get a soul bone using the same method as before," Xuanming said.

"That method just now..." Arou's expression was somewhat unnatural.

The Snake Granny couldn't discern the snake-scorpion beast's condition, but she could clearly sense it.

The serpent beast was tortured to the point of collapse by Xuanming and wanted to commit suicide!
Sacrifice itself is a form of suicide, except that it is a willing sacrifice of everything for the other person.

The little girl was able to successfully absorb the serpent beast's soul ring and the mutated torso bone largely because the serpent beast had an extremely strong suicidal desire.

In a sense, Meng Yiran's killing of it also helped it.

The serpent beast harbored no resentment towards Meng Yiran; in fact, it felt a sense of gratitude, which could be considered a unique form of sacrifice.

"Don't talk about killing but not abusing life. I've suffered plenty of abuse, so I don't have that kind of taboo," Xuanming said.

"Moreover, the soul beasts I chose are all ferocious predatory soul beasts. They have never killed any herbivores. That's already generous enough."

Arou hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but then stopped.

She used to eat grass too.

“I didn’t kill you, I just wanted you to be sacrificed. In a sense, you are living and dying with me,” Xuanming said.

"If I succeed, you will live; if I fail, we will both perish."

"Although this is forced upon you, it won't be so painful if you treat it as an investment."

Arou looked puzzled. "You..."

"Stop, don't say I'm shameless, I'm just trying to comfort you," Xuanming said.

“I know exactly what I’m doing. Killing is killing, and threatening is threatening.” “As for my attitude towards you, I’m not a psychopath. I don’t have any twisted thoughts about destroying beautiful things.”

“Beautiful?” Arou was taken aback.

“If you two are ugly and don’t fit my aesthetic standards, then I won’t have any psychological burden when I start taking action,” Xuanming said.

Arou's expression froze.

Do you have to be so blunt?

Before long, Xuanming and his companion approached the location of the human-faced demon spider. A sinister aura permeated the air, and the surrounding environment grew increasingly dark. The trees twisted and swirled, as if they had been corrupted by some evil force.

A rustling sound came from the woods, as if something was slowly crawling in the grass.

Xuanming slowly descended from the sky. The moment his feet touched the ground, before he could get any closer, a huge spider web erupted from the shadows. The web was large and dense, spreading out in the air almost instantly, like a net of death, trying to completely engulf Xuanming.

Xuanming's eyes narrowed, and white light instantly spread around him, accompanied by a rapid surge of coldness.

He showed no mercy, freezing the spider web in mid-air and simultaneously unleashing several ice crystal arrows at the human-faced spider, giving it no chance to continue its attack or escape.

A chilling fog instantly enveloped the forest, freezing the human-faced spiders that were about to launch a sneak attack solid.

Xuanming walked through the bushes and came forward. The human-faced demon spider was frozen in the ice. Its hideous face was twisted, its eyes were full of anger and resentment, and its eight long legs trembled incessantly, trying to break free from the cold restraints.

Xuanming didn't waste any words. He intensified his domain, and the power of ice and fire surged. The same ice and fire tempering technique used by the serpent beast landed on the head of the human-faced demon spider.

Arou stood quietly to one side, saying nothing.

She might have felt reluctant to kill other soul beasts, but she wouldn't have any qualms about killing a creature like the Human-Faced Demon Spider, a nightmare for small soul beasts.

As time passed, the struggles of the human-faced spider gradually subsided, and its hideous, distorted face lost its anger, replaced by deep fear and despair.

You can't live if you want to, and you can't die if you want to.

Finally, the human-faced spider also collapsed.

Those eyes, which were once full of ferocity, were now only filled with deathly silence.

Whoosh!
Another ice crystal arrow shot out, ending the life of the human-faced spider. Immediately afterward, a dazzling light rose from its body—a soul ring radiating a dark purple glow.

At the same time, a peculiar fluctuation of soul power emanated from the corpse of the human-faced demon spider.

“This…” Arou was stunned.

External soul bone?!
It's really been leaked?
In one day, a mutated torso bone and an external soul bone appeared?
What kind of luck do you have?
Xuanming stepped forward, and surging flames erupted from the black dragon's mouth, quickly incinerating the human-faced demon spider's corpse, leaving only a shrunken, coiled soul bone.

"Eight Spider Spears..." Xuanming put the Eight Spider Spears that had exploded into his soul tool. Looking at the purple soul ring in front of him, he thought for a moment and took out the Blood Spear.

If his own spirit ring could be devoured by the Blood Spear, what about the spirit ring that wasn't absorbed?
Do whatever comes to mind.

Xuanming immediately tried it out, drawing the human-faced demon spider's soul ring onto the blood spear, not absorbing it, but devouring it.

"What are you doing?" Arou asked, puzzled.

"Don't speak." Xuanming concentrated his mind and activated the devouring power of the Blood Spear, attempting to swallow the soul ring.

Time passed second by second, and Xuanming's complexion grew increasingly worse.

Finally, just as Xuanming could no longer hold on and was about to stop, the dark purple human-faced demon spider soul ring suddenly flashed and disappeared.

"Success?" Xuanming was stunned, clearly not expecting that it could actually be done.

Devouring takes time to digest. After each time the Blood Spear devours something, the blood energy and energies are stored in a special devouring space at the tip of the spear, slowly nourishing the Blood Spear.

He could sense that the human-faced spider's soul ring was currently within the Blood Spear's unique devouring space.

"You really aren't picky about food, you even eat soul rings." Xuanming quickly put the blood spear away.

The Blood Spear is really crazy right now; it's okay if we don't use it, we can barely control it.

But once it's taken out and its soul power is activated, this thing will tear at his body like a starving ghost.

(End of this chapter)