LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 44: Eight Spider Lances
Chapter 44: Eight Spider Lances
In the Star Dou Forest, a figure holding a spear could be seen darting through the trees, pursued by a Man-Faced Demon Spider, a creature towering over the man in both size and speed.
The spider was clearly faster than Su Mo, and Su Mo could only use the trees to create obstacles in its path.
Slash! Slash! Slash!
Every tree that stood in the spider's way was swiftly sliced apart by its razor-sharp legs.
When Su Mo sensed that the timing was right, he began to slow down deliberately, pretending to be exhausted and leaving intentional openings for the pursuing spider.
Upon noticing that its prey was losing strength, the Man-Faced Demon Spider let out an excited screech, and as soon as Su Mo reached an open area devoid of obstacles, the spider pushed off the ground with its legs and lunged at him.
Yet, Su Mo never once looked back, giving the spider the illusion that he hadn't seen its attack.
"When you raise the scythe to strike, you've already entered my range for harvesting!"
Su Mo had been waiting for the spider to close the distance, knowing that its aggressive lunge would make it the perfect target for his counterattack.
"Overlord's Turn!"
Boom!
Without any warning, Su Mo, without even looking back, thrust his Hunting Soul Spear from beneath his left armpit, the tip of the spear shooting straight toward the eye on the underbelly of the Man-Faced Demon Spider.
The move’s name sounded grand, but it was simply a clever variation of a well-timed counterattack.
Su Mo didn’t even use his soul ring skills, knowing that the soul power fluctuations would alert the spider.
Halfway through the strike, Su Mo’s body finally turned, completing the motion.
Ssst!
By now, the tip of Su Mo's spear was inches away from the spider's underbelly.
Screech!
The Man-Faced Demon Spider realized the danger only at the last moment, but by then, it was too late to dodge.
Thud!
Su Mo’s spear pierced the eye on the spider’s underbelly with precision, breaking through the protective membrane and driving deep into its body.
In the original story, even Tang San’s Zhuge Divine Crossbow could penetrate the spider’s defenses, so Su Mo’s Hunting Soul Spear, a fusion of soul weapon and artifact, was no exception.
The real challenge was landing the hit.
Screeeee!
The massive body of the Man-Faced Demon Spider convulsed violently before collapsing to the ground with a heavy thud.
Huff…
Seeing the spider finally dead, Su Mo exhaled in relief.
If not for his strategy, it would have been nearly impossible to defeat the Man-Faced Demon Spider. Its speed and the frequency of its eight legs' attacks meant that in a direct confrontation, Su Mo would have been on the defensive the entire time.
Buzz...
A purple, thousand-year soul ring appeared above the spider’s head.
“What a shame, you’re not at level 30 yet. Otherwise, the Man-Faced Demon Spider's soul ring would be an incredibly high-quality one,” Bibi Dong remarked with a hint of regret.
“The soul ring of the Man-Faced Demon Spider doesn’t suit my Hunting Soul Spear anyway,” Su Mo replied, not feeling any sense of loss. The spider’s soul ring would likely enhance his spear with poison-based attacks, but that wasn’t what Su Mo was after.
He pursued pure destructive power with his Hunting Soul Spear.
As he spoke, Su Mo’s attention shifted to the spider’s corpse, searching to see if an external soul bone had dropped.
Su Mo had taken the risk of helping Tang San all for the chance of obtaining an external soul bone.
As for the belief that one couldn’t absorb a soul bone without first absorbing the soul ring—Su Mo didn’t mind.
Bibi Dong had already told him the truth: under normal circumstances, external soul bones were absorbed alongside soul rings by the soul master.
This was how the idea that absorbing a soul ring was necessary to obtain a soul bone had spread.
However, if a soul ring isn’t absorbed, an external soul bone can still be dropped, just like any other soul bone.
Since it can be dropped, it must be absorbable!
Otherwise, why would soul masters who obtained external soul bones not dare reveal them when they were still weak? It was precisely because they feared stronger opponents would steal them.
If someone could steal it, it proves that the thief wouldn't need to absorb the soul ring along with it.
In the original story, even Poison Douluo once contemplated seizing Tang San's Eight Spider Lances.
However, he stopped when he realized that Tang San had already fully fused with the Eight Spider Lances. Once fully fused, even killing the owner wouldn’t cause the external soul bone to drop again.
“Huh, what’s this?”
Sure enough, Su Mo quickly noticed something unusual about the Man-Faced Demon Spider’s corpse. There was soul power flowing through its eight legs, emitting a faint purple glow.
“This is… an external soul bone!”
“It’s actually an external soul bone!”
Hearing Su Mo’s voice, Bibi Dong also looked over and gasped in astonishment.
“Could this be Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances?”
Bibi Dong was secretly thrilled.
She had known Su Mo was entering the Star Dou Forest, but hadn’t paid attention to the details after that. So when Su Mo was escaping earlier, she asked why he was alone.
Thus, Bibi Dong was well aware that Su Mo had helped Tang San fight off the Man-Faced Demon Spider.
Seeing the external soul bone now, Bibi Dong could easily deduce that if Su Mo hadn’t joined Shrek Academy and hadn’t helped Tang San hold off the spider, it would have been Tang San who killed it and obtained the Eight Spider Lances.
There was no other explanation. External soul bones don’t drop easily.
“Well done, Su Mo! You’ve done a fantastic job!”
Realizing this, Bibi Dong couldn’t help but excitedly praise Su Mo.
This was like snatching a treasure from Tang San’s hands—a treasure comparable to a hundred-thousand-year soul ring, no less!
“Hurry, absorb this soul bone right away! This is an incredibly precious external soul bone!”
Bibi Dong urged Su Mo to absorb the Eight Spider Lances without delay, fearing that waiting too long might somehow lead it back into Tang San’s hands.
“Alright!”
Without any hesitation, Su Mo sat cross-legged on the ground and reached out to touch one of the Man-Faced Demon Spider’s legs.
Buzz—
As soon as Su Mo touched it, the spider’s body began to glow, especially its eight legs. The bones from the eight legs floated up and condensed into a small Eight Spider Lances that shot directly into Su Mo’s body.
Absorbing a soul bone was similar to absorbing a soul ring, so Su Mo immediately began the process of refining it.
A two-thousand-year-old soul bone was well within Su Mo’s capacity to absorb at this stage.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
After half an hour of refining, the Eight Spider Lances were fully absorbed, and eight spider legs emerged from Su Mo’s back, neatly arranged behind him.
Su Mo tried to control them and found that they moved with ease, responding to his will without difficulty.
Unlike Tang San, he didn’t experience any loss of control.
This was likely because Su Mo had directly absorbed the Eight Spider Lances, while Tang San had only absorbed the soul ring and unknowingly obtained the external soul bone, meaning he hadn’t fully refined it.
“My soul power level…”
Su Mo soon realized that his soul power level had also increased.
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