vncnus Chapter 113, External Soul Bone 8: Spider Spear
Chapter 113, External Soul Bone 8: Spider Spear
Chapter 113 External Soul Bone - Eight Spider Lances
After traveling for about two days, the two finally arrived in Soto.
The two barely exchanged a few words along the way, as if they were strangers.
Surprisingly, the first hotel they encountered after entering Soto City was the Rose Hotel. Yang Podi was speechless; it seemed like no time traveler could avoid this hotel.
Yang Podi turned to leave, but was stopped by the hotel manager: "Esteemed guest, it's the admissions season for universities in Soto City recently, and all the hotels are probably full. We suggest you stay at our hotel instead."
Yang Podi glanced at the hotel manager: "Two rooms, please."
The hotel manager glanced at Yang Podi, then at Zhu Zhuqing not far away, and said with a half-smile, "This guest, I'm really sorry, but our hotel only has one room left."
Yang Podi ignored the hotel manager's words and directly took out a large bag of gold soul coins from his soul tool and threw it to the hotel manager. There were more than a hundred gold soul coins in it: "Give me two rooms, and I want them to be quiet."
The hotel manager took the gold coin and was overjoyed: "Don't worry, guest, I'll arrange a room for you right away, and I guarantee it will be quiet."
After the hotel manager finished speaking, he took out two room keys from somewhere, and Yang Podi casually took one and walked into the hotel.
Zhu Zhuqing, who was behind her, seemed to hesitate for a moment before picking up another key.
Yang Podi came to Soto City mainly to find out the current time. If it was still early before Shrek Academy started, he planned to take a trip to Notting City. If he had already missed the start time, he would make other plans.
As for the several beauties of Shrek Academy, Yang Podi really didn't think much of them.
Many people adore Zhu Zhuqing, mainly because she is incredibly hardworking and almost always follows Dai Mubai, making her a typical virtuous wife and loving mother. However, Zhu Zhuqing is actually the most difficult girl to pursue among all the girls in Shrek Academy. She has an extremely strong sense of family and is bound by the Zhu and Dai families her entire life, making her more like a traditional woman.
Xiao Wu is completely out of the question; she's just a 10-year-old rogue rabbit. If it weren't for Tang San and the powerful forces behind him, she would have become someone else's spirit ring long ago. Moreover, Xiao Wu is incredibly clueless; aside from playing, she never seems to seriously cultivate.
As for Ning Rongrong, thinking about the little witch's past antics gave her a headache.
After confirming the details, Yang Podi learned that Shrek Academy would be opening the day after tomorrow, leaving him with no time to go to Notting City, let alone search for Holy Soul Village and that priceless soul bone.
After thinking it over carefully, Yang Podi decided to watch the famous opening ceremony of Shrek Academy before leaving.
Sure enough, the incident occurred at the Rose Hotel the next day.
A blond man, with his arm around a pair of twins, arrived at the Rose Hotel. At the same time, a young couple also arrived at the Rose Hotel. The two groups then clashed over a matter concerning the hotel.
Upon closer inspection, Yang Podi realized that the two sides involved in the conflict were Dai Mubai and Tang San and Xiao Wu from Shrek Academy.
Judging from Dai Mubai's appearance, he was indeed tall and handsome, with dazzling golden hair, and his demeanor seemed to be full of arrogance.
As for Tang San, just as described in the original novel, he was indeed rather plain-looking. Xiao Wu, on the other hand, had a great figure and appearance, resembling a beautiful young girl. It was just a pity that she was a bit brainless and particularly fond of causing trouble.
Zhu Zhuqing's face turned deathly pale as she looked at the scene, especially when she saw Dai Mubai with one woman on each side; she seemed to have lost all hope.
However, Yang Podi paid no attention to Zhu Zhuqing at the moment. Tomorrow would be the real show, and all of this was Zhu Zhuqing's own choice.
The next morning, Yang Podi and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at Shrek Academy. Shrek Academy was located on the outskirts of Soto City. In fact, it was more like a village than a city, surrounded by rural areas and farmland, completely unlike a city.
Meanwhile, a long queue had formed outside Shrek Academy, and even Zhu Zhuqing herself had joined the queue.
Looking at Shrek Academy's enrollment situation, Yang Podi couldn't help but complain in his heart. With Shrek's ridiculous conditions, how come so many people still came to apply?
Moreover, judging from his registration requirements, one needs to reach at least level 20 in soul power, which is the same as the registration requirements for the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
Moreover, students must pass four rounds of testing. Those who pass all four tests are basically students with a soul power level of 25 or above. Where wouldn't students of this level be given special attention and training?
The first three rounds of entrance tests were fairly average, but the fourth round was a bit over the top. Just like in the original story, Zhao Wuji faced off against four freshmen from Shrek Academy.
The battle, especially the one-on-one fight between Tang San and Zhao Wuji, was quite exciting.
Tang San not only demonstrated his unpredictable movements, the Mysterious Jade Hand, and the Crane Control and Dragon Capture, but also his powerful hidden weapon skills.
Especially when using hidden weapon techniques, each attack is extremely unpredictable and virtually impossible to defend against. Even Zhao Wuji, a Soul Saint, was caught off guard. He is indeed very powerful. No wonder in the original work, the techniques on Tang San's Xuan Tian Bao Lu were like a cheat code in Douluo Continent, making him invincible in the early stages.
After watching the entrance exam from the shadows, Yang Podi couldn't help but shake his head and left alone.
Based on the current situation, Tang Hao will likely remain at Shrek Academy for the next couple of days, and will return to the waterfall in Holy Soul Village, Notting City, in a maximum of two days. In terms of time, he simply won't have time to do anything.
Furthermore, based on what just happened, Tang Hao should be observing Tang San's battle from the shadows, which means he must also be paying attention to Yang Podi. Taking rash action would be extremely unwise. Yang Podi is currently incapable of dealing with a Title Douluo, especially a peak Title Douluo.
Yang Podi's current destination is the Star Dou Great Forest.
Of Tang San's many opportunities in the original story, the greatest were the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, the Eight Spider Soul Bone, and the 100,000-year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone. He had already intercepted the immortal herbs inside the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and the 100,000-year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone was probably out of reach for the time being. The only hope was the Eight Spider Soul Bone.
After leaving Soto City, Yang Podi went directly to the nearby Star Dou Great Forest.
The Star Dou Great Forest borders the Barak Kingdom, and is only about 500 kilometers away from Soto City. Yang Podi spent a day to reach the outer edge of the Star Dou Great Forest.
After entering the Star Dou Great Forest, Yang Podi began to carefully search for his target soul beast, which was the two-thousand-year-old human-faced demon spider.
Throughout the entire original Douluo Continent novel, there are almost no external soul bones like the Eight Spider Soul Bone. The Eight Spider Soul Bone is like a freakish existence, possessing extremely strong attack power and very potent toxins, which can even absorb life force.
Yang Podi searched for several days in the Star Dou Great Forest and found many spider-like soul beasts, including several human-faced demon spiders, but he just couldn't find the one he wanted, which made him a little irritable.
Especially in the Star Dou Great Forest, after fighting with soul beasts many times and seeing a lot of blood, he seemed to go even crazier, and his killing intent seemed even more uncontrollable. In the end, he couldn't help but use pills to calm his mind.
However, luck sometimes seems strange. Yang Podi had been searching for the human-faced spider for many days without success. Just when Yang Podi was about to give up, he actually encountered the human-faced spider.
That night, while Yang Podi was resting, everything around him seemed to fall into silence, which Yang Podi himself found a little strange.
Just then, a huge spider web suddenly rushed towards Yang Podi, seemingly trying to surround him.
Yang Podi instantly teleported away from the spider web's attack range and was surprised to find a huge spider on the tree, seemingly ready to attack him at any moment.
What comes into view is a bizarre giant spider with a body diameter of over 1.5 meters and eight spear-like legs that are over 3 meters long. Its entire body is covered in a shiny black carapace, and the tips of its long legs are slender. With each step forward, it silently pierces the ground, showing how sharp it is.
On the spider's lower abdomen, there are some white stripes that contrast sharply with its black body. These white stripes form the shape of a ferocious human face, with eight small eyes that gleam with an eerie purple light right next to its lower abdomen.
This is indeed a human-faced demon spider, and judging from its age, it should be a little over two thousand years old. It is the human-faced demon spider that Yang Podi has been longing for, and it is also Tang San's third soul ring in the original work.
When Yang Podi saw the human-faced demon spider, he was overjoyed; it was indeed obtained without any effort.
It was merely a thousand-year-old soul beast. Yang Podi summoned his martial soul, the Soul-Breaking Spear, and the instant the Human-Faced Demon Spider spat out its silk at him again, he swiftly flashed towards it, gripped the spear with both hands, and thrust with all his might. This was the first move of Yang Podi's Nine Soul-Breaking Techniques: Instantaneous Strike.
It must be said that this is quite formidable even for the human-faced spider, as it reacted immediately and used its spider legs to block the attack.
But at this moment, Yang Podi's Soul-Shattering Spear had exceeded two thousand jin, and it directly pierced off the spider legs of the Human-Faced Demon Spider like a devastating blow, and its attack was unimpeded, directly piercing the body of the Human-Faced Demon Spider.
The human-faced spider seemed to be in great pain after being stung, letting out a strange cry. Its other spider legs quickly attacked, clearly indicating that this human-faced spider was extremely ferocious.
But Yang Podi didn't care about this crooked thousand-year-old soul beast. He gripped his spear with both hands and slashed directly, splitting the human-faced demon spider, along with its legs and body, in two.
The human-faced spider had just died, and a purple soul ring appeared on its body.
Yang Podi had no interest in the soul ring and directly used the Soul-Breaking Spear to dismantle the corpse of the Human-Faced Demon Spider. Sure enough, a crystalline light appeared on the corpse.
Yang Podi suppressed his murderous aura and took out the crystalline object, which was a soul bone, like a miniature human-faced demon bead. In the middle was a vertical main bone, and on each side were four small bones, like spider legs.
Yang Podi carefully put away the external soul bone, swallowed a medicinal herb, changed into a clean set of clothes, and prepared to leave the Star Dou Great Forest.
Recently, I've been staying in the Star Dou Great Forest, fighting with soul beasts many times and killing quite a few. My killing intent seems to have become stronger and more uncontrollable, which has caused my pills to be consumed very quickly. I need to return to the Breaking Clan as soon as possible.
Although he had no grudge against Tang San for the time being, from the perspective of his family, he would have to face Tang San and Tang Hao sooner or later. Taking this external soul bone would be a way to reduce future threats in advance.
(End of this chapter)