Douluo: The Unrivaled Demon Lord

Chapter 75 Soul-Devouring Spider King ①

As his consciousness gradually became chaotic, everything from the past appeared before his eyes like a slideshow. His past life overlapped with his present life, and the past merged with the present. Shu Yan felt as if his consciousness had fallen into an abyss, and he could only feel boundless nothingness and despair. Apart from that, there was only eternal darkness.

In a daze, Shu Yan seemed to hear a sharp screech, and then his consciousness completely disappeared, and he was lost in endless chaos.

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The fog was thick with moisture in the latter half of the night. A drop of rain fell on Shu Yan's face, and his eyes trembled slightly. His confused consciousness seemed to be gradually recovering. His clothes and hair, which were already soaked by the fog, were wet and stuck to his body, making him feel very uncomfortable.

Shu Yan's first feeling upon waking was not confusion or fear, but a splitting headache that seemed to penetrate to the bone.

It was a tear from the depths of his soul, as if a part of his soul had been forcibly cut off. Even just thinking about it for a moment was enough to make him turn pale and tremble all over from the pain.

The azure lake in the Sea of ​​Spirit suddenly rippled again, countless pure life energies surged, temporarily suppressing the excruciating pain. At this moment, the ethereal but weak voice of the Spirit of Life also rang out:

"Master, I'm so glad you're awake..."

While Shu Yan was unconscious, its newly formed consciousness was also affected by external influences. However, it still dutifully mobilized its energy to repair the most severely damaged areas of Shu Yan's spiritual sea.

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After the pain subsided somewhat, Shu Yan heard the loud roar of the rushing river beside him.

On the riverbank not far away, a woman in a dark green dress was gazing blankly into the distance. Noticing Shu Yan's awakening, she slightly turned her gaze, a flash of red light in her eyes, and then she chuckled softly:

“Little guy, you are special. Even I did not realize that there was such a terrifying trump card hidden in your sea of ​​consciousness. I failed to devour your sea of ​​consciousness and almost harmed myself instead.”

Shu Yan struggled to his feet from the sandy ground. Judging from the scene he saw in the last moment before losing consciousness, the woman in front of him could not possibly be human. In fact, her aura was much stronger than that of the Crimson King that Shu Yan had already seen.

In other words, this is an unparalleled ferocious beast with a cultivation level of at least 300,000 years.

"Senior, do you want the life force in my sea of ​​spirit?"

Shu Yan coughed a few times, then said in a deep voice.

The woman simply nodded slightly. She raised her hand as if trying to catch the night breeze, but all she could hold onto was the coolness between her fingers.

"I won't live much longer. The shattering of my spiritual sea is causing my spiritual essence to quietly slip away every second, and my life is disappearing little by little. I desperately want to do something to make amends, but after a thousand years of effort, I have only just seen a glimmer of hope."

"Your luck is both good and bad. The good thing is that you obtained a terrifying amount of life energy that even frightens me. As long as I obtain that life energy, the damage to my spiritual sea may be restored... The bad thing is that you almost died at my hands just now."

"But overall, you are lucky, because just now, I made a somewhat absurd decision."

As she spoke, the woman slowly turned around. Her figure was absolutely perfect, and she was even a head taller than Shu Yan, with a total height of over two meters.

In the words of her past life, this was the perfect, unparalleled carriage… Her gaze met Shu Yan's, and then she smiled again, softly saying:
"The spiritual seed in your spiritual sea has an extraordinary origin and is too powerful for me to devour your spiritual sea or even the life energy within it."

"I tried to forcefully devour it, but at the last moment of success, I was forced back by the seed of spirit. It even absorbed a portion of my already meager spiritual essence."

“I don’t know your background, but you are indeed the most talented and mysterious human I have ever met,”

"After careful consideration, I have decided to merge with you, seeking a new path through you. Of course, this is probably the last struggle of my life. My remaining spiritual essence can only sustain me in a conscious state for about thirty years at most, but what can I possibly do in just thirty years? It seems I have no better choice than you..."

A sense of melancholy and confusion spread through her, and then she sighed softly, the intensity of her emotions in her eyes startling.

Shu Yan had roughly grasped the outline of the matter. After pondering for a while, he spoke again:

"Please answer a question for me first, senior: who exactly are you?"

The woman glanced at Shu Yan upon hearing this, but then spoke again:
"My true form is the Soul-Devouring Spider King, a soul beast with both evil and spiritual attributes. As for my cultivation level, it's barely over 500,000 years. To be honest, kid, you've really hit the jackpot..."

"The Soul-Devouring Spider King?"

Shu Yan was slightly taken aback, but before he could say anything more, the woman continued:

"I am not a native soul beast born in this wild land. If I had to say, I am an evil soul beast that was driven out of the Star Dou Great Forest."

“My sister was a 100,000-year-old Soul-Devouring Spider Queen. After she was killed by the Rakshasa God of your past, I, who only had 90,000 years of cultivation at that time, was chased by several guys who had a grudge against my sister and me, and thus left my original territory. But later, by chance, I successfully devoured a jade swan with nearly 10,000 years of cultivation. With the help of the vast life energy in its body, I successfully advanced to the 100,000-year level.”

"The Beast God was enraged and dispatched the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear King to eliminate me. Unfortunately, that fool, the Bear King, was far too arrogant and overconfident. He thought he could easily kill me with his strength, but he forgot that our Soul-Devouring Spider clan has the special ability to create substitute bodies. With the help of the substitute body, I successfully escaped from the Dark Gold Terrorclaw..."

"Unfortunately, the difference in strength between me and Xiong Jun was simply too great. Even though I managed to escape from its clutches, the Dark Gold Terror Claws still severely injured me. Afterwards, I fled the Star Dou Great Forest and spent nearly a thousand years in this desolate land before I could barely recover most of my injuries..."

A hint of surprise flashed in Shu Yan's eyes. He was no longer very afraid. After thinking for a moment, he spoke:
"So, senior, you successfully survived four heavenly tribulations within ten thousand years?"

The woman nodded, her expression tinged with reminiscence, her voice carrying a hint of wistfulness:

"Did you know that ten thousand years ago, this area didn't look like this at all..."

"Back then, the environment here wasn't exactly thriving, but it certainly wasn't as desolate and harsh as it is now."

"I personally turned this place into a barren wasteland bit by bit. Hatred and resentment drove me mad. I devoured the vast majority of living beings here, and the continuous flow of souls and primal power allowed my cultivation to advance rapidly."

"Later, the war you humans waged more than four thousand years ago and the subsequent beast tide also contributed countless resentful souls to me. Just from those two events alone, my cultivation level increased by nearly two hundred thousand years. If I had to say, half of my five hundred thousand years of cultivation was obtained from you humans..."

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(End of this chapter)