"Brother Chu Fei, Brother Chu Fei! I want a hug!"
While Tu Ya was still talking with Chu Fei, Xiao Wu, who felt left out, suddenly barged in.
Her tender, pink little face was pouting, puffed up like a steamed bun. Standing on tiptoe, she stretched out her arms to hug Chu Fei and rubbed against him.
The two were much of an age, and Xiao Wu was simple-minded by nature. Feeling Chu Fei's aura, she felt an incomparable sense of peace, no different from being in her mother's arms.
"This—" Chu Fei didn't know how to handle this, so he just let Xiao Wu cling to him like taffy.
Chu Fei didn't really mind Xiao Wu's clinging and soft demeanor. Her soft body and a unique, fresh floral fragrance lingered at the tip of his nose.
Suddenly snapping out of his trance as Xiao Wu's weight tipped him backward, Chu Fei could only look at Tu Ya beside him with a trace of awkwardness.
Xiao Wu's Mother was still watching right here.
Seeing Xiao Wu like this, Tu Ya simply covered her mouth and chuckled softly, her silver-bell-like laughter echoing gently.
After a moment, she smiled and explained to Chu Fei, "Master, because you still carry my aura, and because you were the one who resurrected me, Xiao Wu feels very close to you."
"Even I, her mother, am being left out on the side."
The second half of her sentence was just teasing Xiao Wu, but Xiao Wu didn't care about any of that. Selfishly and stubbornly, she buried her head in Chu Fei's arms, rubbing against him while letting out silly, muffled chuckles.
"You little rascal." While saying that, Tu Ya turned her gaze toward Daming and Erming, who had hurried over to help.
One Azure Bull Python, one Titan Giant Ape. If these two brothers hadn't been around, I'm afraid Xiao Wu would have fallen victim to foul play.
She stepped forward two steps, reached out to each of them, and gently stroked their scales and fur. "Daming, Erming, thank you both."
"If not for you, I really wouldn't have known what to do about Xiao Wu."
"Aunt Tu Ya, you flatter us!" The two brothers hurriedly shook their heads and said with silly grins, "Seeing the two of you reunited makes us very happy, taking care of Sister Xiao Wu is no trouble at all."
"Since you're all right now and have even reshaped your body, we brothers will be heading off."
"If you are ever hunted down again, just call us from within the Star Dou Great Forest. No matter what we're doing, we'll rush right over!"
Daming and Erming came fast and left fast. Seeing Tu Ya safe and sound was enough to satisfy their simple hearts, leaving no other thoughts.
The two brothers hurriedly left again, taking Xiao Wu with them.
Bidding farewell to the two brothers who were also their benefactors, Tu Ya returned to Chu Fei's side.
She bowed slightly and asked, "Master, where are we going now?"
Having acknowledged Chu Fei as her master, everything naturally took Chu Fei's priorities first.
Chu Fei nodded and then said, "There's no rush to leave the Star Dou Great Forest just yet. I actually plan to go acquire my second soul ring."
"Master, when I performed the sacrifice, I should have already provided you with a soul ring," Tu Ya said in surprise before smiling and explaining.
"Tu Ya, my innate Soul Power is at rank twenty, so I'm still missing one," Chu Fei explained.
Innate rank twenty Soul Power?
Tu Ya marveled that Chu Fei possessed such talent, though on second thought, it seemed only natural.
At such a young age, he even possessed the means to resurrect her; it would be abnormal if he didn't have such talent.
Tu Ya pointed deep into the forest and told Chu Fei, "Since Master lacks a second soul ring, we'll stay here for a little while. Having lived in the Star Dou Great Forest for so long, I should be able to help."
With Tu Ya acting as a guide, finding a high-quality and suitable soul ring would be much easier than if he searched by himself.
Four days later.
Smoke billowed everywhere in the forest, and vast swaths of spider webs covered the area, the white, sticky webs littered with countless piles of white bones.
"Screee—!"
A piercing, shrill shriek cut through the air, and its source was none other than a massive spider.
The spider's entire body was covered in sharp-angled black armor, its body a full eight meters long—even larger if counting its eight spider legs. Each spider leg sank deep into the ground with every movement, their sharpness rivaling that of long spears.
Most terrifying of all, the spider's abdomen bore a hideous, pale, roaring human face, and its eight pitch-purple eyes for vision were plastered right there, scanning its surroundings.
This was the most notorious Man-Faced Demon Spider in the Star Dou Great Forest. This type of soul beast possessed an extremely intense desire for slaughter and was frequently killed off by powerful soul beasts; for one to cultivate to a thousand years was already extremely rare.
Because of its insidious and hard-to-guard-against nature, a specimen merely a hundred years old could already fight ordinary thousand-year soul beasts.
And judging by the human face on its abdomen, this Man-Faced Demon Spider was at least a fifty-thousand-year specimen!
Pity that it ran into Tu Ya.
No matter how fast those eight spear-like spider legs scrambled, it was still far from enough in front of Tu Ya, who moved almost like teleportation.
The moment it raised its head, Tu Ya's feet had already clamped around its most vulnerable head. Before the Man-Faced Demon Spider could burn its cultivation to fight, terrifying force had already thoroughly flung it out.
Its massive body was like a sandbag, every impact smashing a deeply recessed crater into the ground, and every smash was even more powerful than the last!
Soft Bone Shackle!
In Tu Ya's eyes, naturally, there was no fondness whatsoever for such an evil soul beast, and she spared no effort in her attacks. However, she was well aware that the purpose of this trip was to hunt a soul ring for Chu Fei.
Therefore, on the final throw, she reined in her strength. The violent explosion threw the Man-Faced Demon Spider upside down with its eight legs in the air, completely immobilized with all the life-saving armor on its body shattered.
Taking advantage of this, Chu Fei stepped forward, thrust his hand straight into the abdomen of the Man-Faced Demon Spider, and ended its life with a single strike.
A deep, strange, ten-thousand-year soul ring emerged. He immediately sat cross-legged within a Sea of Blood, beginning to guide the Soul Power to draw the soul ring into his body.
Absorbing a soul ring above one's rank was extremely dangerous; at worst, one's body and soul would be destroyed. Tu Ya guarded him from the side, while Chu Fei wrapped himself in the Sea of Blood to prevent accidents.
Although Chu Fei had a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and soul bone to enhance his physique, even so, he was still put through the ringer by this fifty-thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spider soul ring.
That volatile soul tried to use a soul shock to backlash against Chu Fei. Taking advantage of the moment the soul ring was incorporated, Chu Fei condensed a second Blood God Child.
He used the same method, step by step suppressing the soul of the Man-Faced Demon Spider and guiding it into the Blood God Child, only then managing to resolve the soul turbulence.
The Blood God Child entered through the demon spider stood sluggishly in place, tilting its head and looking around blankly. Although it inherited the soul of the Man-Faced Demon Spider, ultimate ownership still remained in Chu Fei's hands.
The fifty-thousand-year soul ring condensed into a level seventy-one Blood God Child.
"I'll call you Blood Spider." Chu Fei casually gave it a name, and a slight stirring suddenly erupted from his back.
Tu Ya watched in shock as eight spider legs suddenly burst out from Chu Fei's back, her expression instantly turning to wild joy. "Master, you... you even obtained a soul bone?!"
Recovering his wits as he looked at the red Eight Spider Lances on his back, Chu Fei finally realized that while absorbing the soul ring, he had unexpectedly absorbed an external soul bone as well.
Unlike other soul bones, an external soul bone was absorbed directly during the absorption of the soul ring and did not need to be absorbed separately.
Furthermore, an external soul bone would continuously evolve as Soul Power increased, making it even rarer than ordinary soul bones.
In the original story, the external soul bone Tang San initially acquired was only from a thousand-year Man-Faced Demon Spider, but Chu Fei's external soul bone was a fifty-thousand-year one, making its power far greater than the one Tang San had in the original story.
And because Chu Fei had absorbed a soul ring above his rank, his Soul Power increased by three ranks, reaching exactly level thirty.