Chapter 385: The Fall of the Spider Emperor

To kill a top-ten demon emperor within the Thousand Demons Cavern.

Shen Yi knew better than anyone how great the risk of this task was.

But what he knew even better was that his lion's disguise had reached its end within the Thousand Demons Cavern.

To obtain anything further,

one would have to trade the lives of human cultivators—and it was unavoidable.

He had only pretended to be a demon, never intended to become a true one.

Now he needed a higher status.

Even if he had to abandon this identity entirely, he still had the skin of the Phantom-Tail Demon Emperor to use, and he had already slain one of the top ten demon emperors—no matter how you counted, it was worth it.

Crimson ink flooded into Master Lingxi and the Xuanming Spider Emperor's vision.

Then quietly settled upon the Spider Emperor's body.

In an instant, flesh and blood gurgled, and that supreme demonic body boiled open.

Like a searing branding iron, it clung tightly to its body, becoming a streak of crimson ink.

"Aaaah!! Kill the one who set the array! Kill him!"

The Xuanming Spider Emperor shrieked in agony, curling into a ball and rolling on the ground.

Watching this horrifying scene,

Master Lingxi froze for a moment—from her angle, the one who set the array… looked just like that lion.

She suddenly remembered what Master Yu had told her earlier.

That lion had great ambition; he seemed to have a habit of using human cultivators to turn his own kind against each other.

To hell with it! Killing one is better than nothing!

Master Lingxi suddenly realized: last time, it was her moment of distraction that led to the deaths of her junior brother and sister.

She would never make the same mistake twice.

"Flickering Cloud, Treading Sea Seal!"

True Person Master Lingxi simultaneously formed the hand seals.

The great seal, shimmering with spiritual light, reappeared and slammed down upon the Spider Emperor!

In the instant the Spider Emperor dodged, another streak of black ink surged toward it, binding it firmly in place.

The spiritual seal crashed deep into the Spider Emperor's body, spewing scalding demonic blood, then exploded within!

On the other side, crimson ink spilled forth.

The Xuanming Spider Emperor rolled twice across the ground; with its massive body, it easily stirred up a hundred-zhang torrent of lightning sludge.

"… "

True Person Master Lingxi hastily dodged.

But the Spider Emperor, though grievously wounded, seized the chance and spat a torrent of dark silk, wrapping her body tightly.

Sssshhh—

Watching the lightning sludge swallow Master Lingxi whole, the Xuanming Spider Emperor trembled as it wrapped its wounds in silk, then turned to look at Shen Yi: "It was you…"

It wasn't some mindless fool.

To coordinate so perfectly with Master Lingxi, the perpetrator must have been right there.

"You're dead… you're finished…"

The Xuanming Spider Emperor staggered to its feet, trying to use a human cultivator to eliminate itself—what a vast ambition, utterly ruthless.

It must survive and escape.

The crimson ink still surged toward it.

The Xuanming Spider Emperor wrapped itself in dark silk and bore the blow head-on, all its focus fixed on breaking the array.

It had seen Iron Brush, Tiehua Yingou before.

Though it couldn't memorize the entire array, with enough time, escaping the confinement wouldn't be difficult.

"Though I know not how you learned this great array, remember this: every move you make now…"

The Xuanming Spider Emperor, enduring excruciating pain, trembled as it probed for an exit, its voice thick with boundless hatred: "I will repay every single one of them tenfold upon you—until you are eternally damned!"

"… "

Shen Yi waved his hand indifferently, sending out two more streaks of crimson ink.

From the array's activation until now, barely hundreds of breaths had passed, yet the Spider Emperor was already grievously wounded, on the brink of death.

Iron Brush, Tiehua Yingou deserved its name as a Reversal Void array.

If combined with a sealing array, no one below Reversal Void could possibly survive.

But the Spider Emperor's breadth of knowledge had exceeded Shen Yi's expectations.

He lowered his gaze to the lightning sludge, pausing in thought.

Immediately, sharp cries erupted again around him.

"Aaaah!! Aaaah!!"

A figure wrapped in spiritual light leapt from the lightning sludge, abandoning all hand seals, lunging straight at the Spider Emperor and gripping the fur atop its head.

With spiritual energy bolstering her, she wrenched the massive spider backward, flipping it over.

Her hands like blades, she hacked and gouged into the Spider Emperor's eyes, splattering thick, foul-smelling pus.

She seemed desperate to bury herself entirely within it.

"You fucking—"

The Xuanming Spider Emperor stared in shock at the escape route it had just found; in furious rage, several of its legs retracted simultaneously, piercing Master Lingxi's body and lifting her into the air.

Sssshhh—a portion of her body was torn away.

Then he suddenly flung the remaining part into the Thunder Magma.

Splash.

Master Lingxi thrashed with one hand in the Thunder Magma, her eyes blood-red, wishing to kill her way up again.

She now had only one thought.

That was to prove she was not trash.

Boom—

The Spider Emperor lunged out violently, desperately searching his mind for the structure of the Iron-Stroke Tiehua Yingou Great Formation.

It seemed a spark of inspiration had been triggered between life and death.

It looked joyfully toward a certain spot, then threw its entire body out again.

"Hah."

Shen Yi's gaze grew even deeper.

Looking at the great demon emperor that had only one breath left, his figure suddenly vanished from the spot.

Boom!

His muscular body rose high, his powerful arms blocking in front of the Spider Emperor.

Beneath the mane, those golden eyes were filled with killing intent.

"Get back for this Emperor..."

Nine demons within Shen Yi's body roared together, and their mighty demon power burst forth entirely.

Finally, they pushed the Xuanming Spider Emperor back several zhang.

At the same time, a crimson ink mark gathered in the air into the character "Kill," falling once more onto the Spider Emperor's back.

"You dare come in?"

The Xuanming Spider Emperor, as if anticipating something, erupted with madness in its dense eyes, most of which had been chiseled to pieces: "This Emperor dies! On what grounds do you live?!"

Several spider arms reached out again.

Shen Yi watched helplessly as they pierced his heart and chest-abdomen, yet still gripped the opponent's long arm.

With early Soul Transformation, he forcibly killed a late-stage Soul Transformation great demon emperor.

He had only this one chance.

The blood-red character "Kill" carved into the Spider Emperor's body, nearly crushing it.

Shen Yi reached into its body without hesitation, forcibly tore out the demon core, and even before wiping off the spider blood on it, stuffed it into his mouth.

Beneath his seemingly gruesome wounds, not a single hair was actually damaged.

But the magical robe was fiercely absorbing Shen Yi's foundation, nearly draining him dry in an instant.

Only when the demon core entered his throat and the mighty demon power began to replenish did this situation improve.

Boom—

Master Lingxi watched helplessly as the Spider Emperor's body collapsed.

She widened her eyes, struggled out of the Tongming Lei Chi, took a Bai Yu long sword from her storage bag, and gripped it tightly in her palm.

Then she struggled to crawl beneath the Spider Emperor's corpse.

Almost successful! As long as she killed that lion!

"Die for me!"

She let out a shrill cry, then beneath the Spider Emperor's corpse, saw a handsome face full of speechlessness.

Black hair stained with blood, slightly fluttering.

Clear eyes held a hint of exhaustion.

Thud—

Shen Yi reached out and slapped Master Lingxi's head into the ground, threw away the long sword in her hand, then lay back on the ground, panting heavily, and said softly, "Still not leaving."

Master Lingxi pulled her head out of the ground, and when she looked again, where was the handsome youth? Before her eyes was still that fierce Lion Emperor.

"Uh."

She blankly shook her head; the words from before seemed like an illusion.

Yes, yes... it's time to go.

She looked at the Lion Emperor's face again, but could never match it with the handsome face from just now.

"..."

Shen Yi sighed, grabbed her body, and flung her straight out!

So stupid, how did you get this cultivation?

After doing all this, and only after the demon core was fully digested, did Shen Yi have the strength to cast the Nanyang Transformation Art to adjust the wounds on his body.

Changing all the piercing wounds from the spider arms into spirit seals and sword wounds.

Then he found a comfortable spot, tilted his head, and began to play dead.

(End of this chapter)