Chapter 129: The Hunt Begins! Swarm of Spiders Appears!
Leveraging this battle to fully absorb the medicinal power of the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum.
Chrysanthemum Douluo's confidence in facing the three 90,000-year Thousand Armed Ant Emperors alone stemmed from his belief in his own strength.
Moreover, Su Yun's presence wouldn't particularly contribute to the situation.
If he had already mastered the ability to pause time, then he might have been able to make a significant difference at a crucial moment.
"Alright, Su Yun, you go ahead first. I'll take care of those three soul beasts behind us." Sensing the aura behind them getting closer, Chrysanthemum Douluo gently pushed with his hand, sending Su Yun towards the ground with a soft force of soul power. Then, with a flash of golden chrysanthemums beneath his feet, he turned and sped back towards the pursuers.
Seeing Chrysanthemum Douluo's soul power dominantly spread across the sky in an instant, Su Yun didn't linger and took the opportunity to head towards the outer regions of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Now that he was separated from Chrysanthemum Douluo, Su Yun's focus naturally shifted to searching for the millennium soul beast—the Man-Faced Demon Spider.
The Man-Faced Demon Spider that Tang San hunted in the original story was over two thousand years old, which logically should reside in the mid to outer regions of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Su Yun spared no effort, fully unleashing his power and propelling himself with the Wind God's Legs towards the forest's periphery.
Thanks to his recent breakthrough, both his physical and soul power were at their peak. Su Yun calculated that he had only rested two or three times along the way, spending the rest of the time sprinting at full speed.
He encountered several ten-thousand-year soul beasts along the way, but fortunately, those he met were plant-type soul beasts.
With the assistance of the Blue Silver Emperor, he managed to escape each time.
Time continued until the early morning of the next day. Su Yun noticed the sky beginning to brighten, realizing he had spent the entire night on the move.
Throughout the night, Su Yun had been running while also observing the species and age of the surrounding soul beasts.
After a thorough search and discernment, Su Yun finally found a habitat of the Man-Faced Demon Spider.
"The location here is quite close to the periphery; the possibility of the Man-Faced Demon Spider residing here is quite high." Seeing the white spider webs, fresh sticky liquid, and body tissues unique to the Man-Faced Demon Spider all around, Su Yun was almost certain this was the habitat of a group of Man-Faced Demon Spiders.
"Moreover, I probably only need to look for a Man-Faced Demon Spider with legs longer than three meters." Having read the original story, Su Yun felt he could narrow down the number of Man-Faced Demon Spiders he needed to hunt.
"Time to start the hunt."
Su Yun took a deep breath, first creating a Blue Silver Emperor leaf to chew on, allowing his condition to return to its peak.
Simultaneously, Su Yun's Blue Silver Emperor also released its fragrance into the surroundings, attracting the target.
Calmly, with Ah Yin keeping watch, Su Yun quietly assimilated with the plants around him.
Once the preparations were complete, rustling noises began to emerge from all around the forest.
Hearing the sounds, Su Yun's lips curled into a slight smile, indicating the scent of the Blue Silver Emperor had successfully attracted their targets.
Swoosh!
In the next second, a Man-Faced Demon Spider with a body diameter exceeding one and a half meters and eight steel spear-like legs, each longer than three meters, flashed out.
The Man-Faced Demon Spider, radiating a dark aura, lifted its powerful legs. The moment it saw Su Yun, the human face on its abdomen, with eight purple eyes, flickered with a ghostly light. It rapidly moved its eight legs toward him, rhythmically tapping the ground with such speed that it was in front of him in the blink of an eye.
However, this sudden attack from the Man-Faced Demon Spider did not cause Su Yun to panic. Instead, it made him smile with interest, as he didn't even feel the need to exert his full strength in a one-on-one fight.
Buzz! A long spear appeared in his hands, a glint of cold light shining in Su Yun's eyes. The next second, he leaped forward with a speed the Man-Faced Demon Spider couldn't imagine, transforming into an afterimage and aiming directly at its weakness—the eight eyes.
Seeing Su Yun daring to attack, and even targeting its weakness, the Man-Faced Demon Spider became furious and spat out its first web of the day. A millennium Man-Faced Demon Spider could spit out a maximum of three webs per day. These webs were not only extremely tough and elastic but also contained potent neurotoxins.
Even some highly experienced Soul Honor level soul masters wouldn't easily let themselves be touched by the Man-Faced Demon Spider's web.
Unfortunately for the Man-Faced Demon Spider, its web, though formidable, was anticipated by Su Yun thanks to the Blue Silver Grass he had assimilated with on the ground, which informed him of the spider's bodily changes in advance.
Predicting its move, Su Yun easily dodged and then thrust his spear into one of the Man-Faced Demon Spider's eyes!
Before the Man-Faced Demon Spider could cry out in pain, Su Yun swiftly executed thirty strikes from the Inferno Spear Technique in a fluid motion, unleashing them on the human face on the spider's abdomen.
Bang! Bang! Bang! With the final strike of his spear technique, Su Yun followed up with a Wind God Leg kick.
This move, named [Wind Amidst the Sturdy Grass], not only carried great force but also concentrated all its killing power into one kick. Without proper defense, one would end up bedridden for a hundred days.
For the Man-Faced Demon Spider, which was being overwhelmingly defeated by Su Yun's Soul Ancestor level power, this kick directly caused its abdominal human face to burst open.
Su Yun didn't give it a chance to recover, swinging his spear in a frenzied assault.
In less than a minute, the first Man-Faced Demon Spider's body finally fell to the ground, and shortly after, a purple thousand-year soul ring quietly rose.
However, Su Yun didn't find the so-called external soul bone on its corpse, and crucially, the system didn't indicate that the mission was completed.
"Indeed, completing the mission wasn't going to be that simple," Su Yun sighed, checking the system's time reminder.
Ten hours had passed since the mission was issued last night. If he couldn't find the right Man-Faced Demon Spider by 7 p.m. tonight, the mission would likely fail.
Su Yun became increasingly anxious; he was very keen on obtaining the time-stopping skill.
In the world of Douluo, aside from Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo's Extreme Polar Ice and Fire domain, he might be the only one able to achieve it.
At this thought, another rustling sound came from all around, and judging by the noise, the number of Man-Faced Demon Spiders coming this way seemed substantial.
Following that, pairs of purple, ghostly eyes accompanied by the hoarse cries of the Man-Faced Demon Spiders continuously appeared before Su Yun.
Seeing them, Su Yun's excitement grew, his fighting spirit eager to burst forth as he roared lowly, "I've been waiting for you."
As he spoke, a figure holding a spear leaped up, and the Blue Silver Grass on the ground instantly grew, turning the entire forest into a sea of gold.
(End of Chapter)
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