Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor [486] (Patreon)

Because he feared the appearance of high-year soul beasts, Tang Xiao didn’t dare venture too deep into the Star Dou Great Forest. Instead, he found a secluded cave in the mixed zone near the core area, killed a ten-thousand-year tiger-type soul beast, and occupied its lair as a temporary shelter.

At this moment inside the cave, Tang Chen was lying on a stone table, a tiger skin beneath him. His face was completely bloodless, and the wound torn open by the Destruction Lightning was still slowly bleeding. Tang Chen’s condition could only be maintained if someone was constantly changing his bandages and injecting soul power.

Divine Descent isn’t a simple matter; it puts great demands on the body. Tang Chen was just barely qualified, but after being struck by the Destruction God’s Lightning, his body—which had only managed to stay together under the power of the Asura God—began to crack again.

If the Asura God hadn’t gone to extra lengths to keep him alive, Tang Chen would have long since died from his shattered body.

The prison cart holding Tang Hao was placed in a corner of the cave. Neither Tang Xiao, Tang San, nor the elders of the Clear Sky Sect chose to let Tang Hao out. Usually, only Dai Mubai would reluctantly feed him water and food to keep him from starving to death.

No one attacked Tang Hao, since he had been forcibly taken by Tang Chen, and no one dared make any decisions before Tang Chen woke up. But no one paid much attention to Tang Hao either, because, in the hearts of everyone who knew him, Tang Hao was now nothing more than a stinking pile of dog shit.

Surviving was already the limit for him. No one thought of letting him out of the cart, let alone treating his injuries. Their cold indifference made Tang Hao’s heart ache even more, even though he thought he’d grown used to pain and contempt.

Everyone looked at Tang Hao with hatred in their eyes. The sharp gazes made the now broken and defeated Tang Hao unable to lift his head. Especially the gaze from Tang San—it left Tang Hao silent for a long time, unable to say a word.

In this heavy silence, a sinister wind suddenly blew in from the entrance of the cave. The wind was like the icy chill of the Nine Hells, freezing to the bone. It was also like a foul wind from hell, filled with the scent of blood and malice.

Everyone’s hair stood on end in an instant, as if a steel blade was scraping from their neck down their back, the edge gliding along the spine, ready to slice into the skin and separate flesh from bone.

Tang Xiao shouted, instantly summoning the Clear Sky Hammer without hesitation. He stood in front of the cave entrance, releasing his soul power to form an invisible barrier, firmly protecting everyone inside.

“Who dares to challenge the dignity of my Clear Sky Sect?”

“Kekeke, I don’t know, does your sect have any dignity left these days?”

Massive trees, grown for decades, centuries, even millennia, were violently pushed aside as if they were nothing but chopsticks, easily snapped. A gigantic Man-Faced Demon Spider slowly stepped out, the human-like pattern on its belly twisting with strange expressions, as if alive, taunting Tang Xiao with a mocking voice.

The size of spider-type soul beasts has always been an issue of note. Take the Man-Faced Demon Spider for example—even with a thousand years of cultivation, its diameter barely exceeds a meter, and its legs are just over three meters long.

Compared to most soul beasts of equivalent cultivation, which are already quite small, but among spider-type beasts, the Man-Faced Demon Spider is a giant.

Due to their species, spider-type soul beasts generally don’t grow very large, so any large spider-type soul beast is, without exception, extraordinarily powerful.

The Man-Faced Demon Spider Emperor appearing now had a diameter of over fifteen meters, and its eight spear-like legs were thirty meters long, each step driving deep into the ground. The human face pattern on its belly twisted its features as if alive, emitting an evil voice. Its carapace, like black iron armor, was faintly traced with lines of purple-gold.

With a casual swing of its legs, ancient trees were sliced apart like butter. Wherever its body passed, the ground turned purple, becoming pools of stinking poison.

The moment Tang San sensed this aura, he involuntarily fell to his knees, trembling uncontrollably, teeth chattering. He felt like a slave before a king—his heart held no resistance, only pure terror.

Now, Tang San had the deeply-rooted bloodline of the Man-Faced Demon Spider. As his soul power grew, so too did this bloodline, and in some ways, it was even more intrinsic to him than his Blue Silver Grass and Clear Sky Hammer martial souls. This both strengthened Tang San and also bound him to the bloodline.

At this moment, both his Blue Silver Grass and Clear Sky Hammer martial souls were being violently suppressed. Although not completely unusable, he could barely muster about seventy percent of his normal strength, even with great effort.

No one paid any attention to Tang San’s abnormal state, though, because the overwhelming evil energy had caused even the Clear Sky Sect’s elders to blank out momentarily.

“A hundred-thousand-year soul beast? A fierce beast? Or a soul master?”

Tang Xiao was tense, his eyes locked on the massive Man-Faced Demon Spider, guessing at its identity.

Though he’d never seen a true untransformed hundred-thousand-year soul beast, from his understanding of Ah Yin and Xiao Wu’s aura and origin, Tang Xiao could roughly gauge the power of a normal hundred-thousand-year beast. As long as its bloodline wasn’t extraordinary, it would generally be around level ninety-five in strength.

But this Man-Faced Demon Spider Emperor was at least as strong as himself, if not stronger.

Given the personality and nature of Man-Faced Demon Spiders, if such a fierce beast existed, it would surely leave a mark on the continent’s history. Yet Tang Xiao had never heard of such a beast.

Judging from its contemptuous tone, Tang Xiao strongly suspected that this Man-Faced Demon Spider Emperor was the true form manifestation of some soul master’s martial soul.