133: Soul Devouring and Childbirth? Soul-Stealing War

"Soul-Binding Spider Silk..."

Su Ling's heart tightened suddenly, the speed of his hand seals abruptly increased, and the blue-green thunder light around the thunder shadow sword surged.

It instantly transformed into a giant sword about ten feet long, slashing heavily toward the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother with a sharp air-tearing sound!

But as soon as the blade touched the space above the black pool, it was blocked by a pale purple Formation light shield.

"Clang!"

With a dull thud and thunder light splashing everywhere, the giant sword was actually bounced back forcefully, and the Formation light shield only rippled slightly before returning to its original state.

Su Ling's pupils constricted slightly as he understood instantly.

Bai Yifan and the others obviously couldn't do anything to this Soul-Devouring Spider Mother, so they used a Formation to trap it here.

As a result, the Spider Mother couldn't get out and could only attack him with the Soul-Binding Spider Silk, which was somewhere between tangible and intangible.

And his thunder shadow sword and thunder Spells were likewise unable to break the Formation and harm the enemy in a short time.

He hurriedly activated the Immortal Eye of Treasure Appraisal, attempting to find the locations of the Formation Flags or the Formation Plate.

But when the Immortal Eye swept over the Formation, it couldn't identify the core information of the Formation at all.

"It seems I can only focus on defense for now!"

Su Ling gritted his teeth and shouted low, channeling the thunder-attribute mana in his body into the thunder shadow sword, "Heavenly Dipper Evil-Slaying!"

Before his voice could fade, the sword body suddenly split into thirty-six sword shadows, each surrounded by dense thunder arcs, like thirty-six bolts of blue lightning, forming the 'Tiangang Evil Slaying Sword Formation' from the Startling Thunder Sword Art in the air.

As the sword shadows interlaced, they emitted violent explosions and, with a momentum that could tear everything apart, slashed toward the Soul-Binding Spider Silk sprayed by the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother.

The Tiangang Evil Slaying Sword Formation could push the evil-suppressing and demon-slaying effects of the Azure Heaven Thunder to their limit.

As soon as those transparent spider silks touched the thunder arcs, they melted like snow meeting fire, and more than half were slashed away by the sword Formation in the blink of an eye.

The Soul-Devouring Spider Mother let out an angry hiss, its two thick pedipalps waving violently, as more Soul-Binding Spider Silk formed an airtight net and covered toward Su Ling.

At the same time, its eight spider legs grabbed at the rock wall, actually dragging over a dozen third-tier Peak Wandering Souls curled up in the crevices into the range of the Formation.

Then it opened its hideous mouthparts and sucked all those Wandering Souls into its belly.

In just a moment, dozens of small spiders, pitch-black and surrounded by black mist, were born from its abdomen.

They were exactly the Soul-Devouring Demonic Spiders in their soul-body state!

When Su Ling manipulated the sword Formation to crush the spider silk net, the Immortal Eye of Treasure Appraisal swept over those small spiders, and his heart couldn't help but skip a beat.

Although these soul-body small spiders only had second-tier Peak strength, they had inherited the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother's 'Soul-Shaking Shriek'.

If he were surrounded by them, even with the protection of the bodhi soul nurturing plaque, his Divine Soul would inevitably be damaged.

"So this is the origin of the 'Soul-Devouring Spider Mother'... it can actually devour souls to give birth!"

He didn't dare delay any longer; if the Spider Mother devoured a few more waves of Wandering Souls and birthed more small spiders, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Soul Seizing!

Su Ling made a prompt decision and activated the ten thousand souls banner with all his might.

The large black banner fluttered in the wind, and a black tornado suddenly blew through the mine tunnel, its powerful suction sweeping toward those third-tier Peak Wandering Souls that had not yet been captured by the Spider Mother.

But just then, something unexpected happened.

Under the suction of the ten thousand souls banner, strands of transparent spider silk suddenly became visible.

These spider silks had long been wrapped around the Wandering Souls and were stretched taut, obviously set by the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother in advance!

No wonder there were still so many high-tier Wandering Souls staying where the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother was.

They were likely rations it had imprisoned.

Between the suction and the pulling, the Wandering Souls shook violently between the two, actually forming a stalemate.

"Hiss!"

Seeing this, the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother and those soul-body small spiders emitted a Soul-Shaking Shriek simultaneously.

The sharp sound waves were like invisible blades, stabbing fiercely toward Su Ling's Sea of Consciousness.

He frowned deeply as a sharp pain came from his mind, but fortunately, he had already activated the bodhi soul nurturing plaque.

A soft white light lit up in his Sea of Consciousness, barely blocking the impact of the Soul-Shaking Shriek.

Taking advantage of the moment the Spider Mother was distracted, Su Ling suddenly increased the suction of the ten thousand souls banner.

With a soft 'snap', a strand of spider silk wrapped around a Wandering Soul suddenly broke, and that Wandering Soul was sucked into the banner like an arrow from a bow.

Then, several more spider silks snapped, and more Wandering Souls were snatched by Su Ling.

Seeing its 'rations' being snatched away by a Core Formation Cultivator it could have originally destroyed at will, the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother was furious.

The spinneret under its abdomen rotated frantically, and countless transparent spider silks sprayed out.

One part charged toward Su Ling, while another part tightly entangled the remaining Wandering Souls, vowing to stop him from continuing to seize the souls.

Ghost Soul Arrow!

With a thought from Su Ling, dozens of pitch-black Ghost Soul Arrows instantly condensed around him and shot straight toward the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother and those soul-body small spiders.

To his surprise, the Ghost Soul Arrows actually penetrated the Formation light shield directly, shooting into the small spiders' bodies like a rainstorm.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

A series of explosive sounds rang out, and those soul-body small spiders instantly turned into wisps of black smoke, dissipating in the air.

And the Ghost Soul Arrows that shot into the Spider Mother's body, although failing to severely wound it, caused it to let out a cry of pain.

"It really works!"

Su Ling's heart settled, and he pointed at the ten thousand souls banner; hundreds of second-tier Wandering Souls surged out of the banner, hovering in front of him.

Then, he quickly performed a strange hand seal, and thick black mist rose from his fingertips.

The next moment, a large hand condensed from black mist suddenly appeared above the Spider Mother's head.

It was exactly the enhanced version of the Soul Capturing Art that Su Ling had spent over ten years modifying, combining the soul-absorbing characteristics of the Ghost Soul Arrow!

Unlike the Soul Capturing Art performed by Yun Qingluan, this Netherworld Ghost Hand, while grasping the Spider Mother's Divine Soul, was also continuously absorbing the power of those second-tier Wandering Souls, the black mist becoming denser and its power growing stronger.

Even though the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother already had Fourth-Tier strength, being grabbed by the enhanced Netherworld Ghost Hand caused it to pause slightly, and its Divine Soul showed a brief loosening.

The originally stalemated battle for souls instantly tilted toward Su Ling's side.

Dozens of third-tier Peak Wandering Souls broke free from the spider silk's constraints and involuntarily threw themselves toward the ten thousand souls banner.

"Hiss!"

The Soul-Devouring Spider Mother's dark compound eyes suddenly cleared, and then it let out an extremely sharp hiss that made Su Ling's ears ring.

But by this time, the Netherworld Ghost Hand had finished absorbing all the second-tier Wandering Souls, and its soul-snatching power surged.

It actually caused the Spider Mother's eyes to return to a daze once more.

A soul-body spider, black-purple all over and shaped like the Spider Mother, slowly emerged from its body.

It was exactly its Divine Soul core!

The soul-body spider was only an inch out of the body and remained motionless.

"This is... a Demonic Soul?!"

Su Ling's expression was grave, and fine beads of sweat seeped from his forehead.

Demonic Beasts have no Demon Core or Demon Nascent Soul.

They only have a Demon Nucleus as the core of their demonic power, and a Demonic Soul.

In a sense, it's quite similar to a Cultivator's Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Primordial Spirit.

But as a Cultivator's strength increases, their Divine Soul will merge with their Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Primordial Spirit.

Demonic Beasts are different; no matter what level their strength reaches, the Demon Nucleus and the Demonic Soul are separate.

And the Divine Soul strength of an ordinary Fourth-Tier Demonic Beast is not even as good as Liao Qinglin, the deacon of the Haoyang Sect's External Affairs Hall.

But this Soul-Devouring Spider Mother itself specializes in Divine Soul Spells, and its Divine Soul strength is actually a notch stronger than Liao Qinglin's.

He used all his skills and could only manipulate the Netherworld Ghost Hand to control it, unable to spare any energy to perform other Spells.

The two sides fell into a tug-of-war on the level of the Divine Soul.

The cave instantly became eerily quiet, with only the ten thousand souls banner snapping in the wind, spontaneously releasing soul-absorbing power to its surroundings.

At a certain moment, a first-tier remnant soul emerged from the ground and threw itself straight into the ten thousand souls banner.

Then, two, five, twenty... in just a moment, hundreds of remnant souls of varying strengths actually ignored the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother's presence.

They surged out frantically from all directions, being sucked into the banner as if summoned.

Su Ling was initially a bit secretly pleased; the more remnant souls the ten thousand souls banner absorbed, the stronger its power would be.

But soon, his heart suddenly sank, and his pupils constricted abruptly.

A terrifying thought surged into his mind.