Bibi Dong's soul rings blazed, her aura like a black sun burning.
[Sixth Soul Skill: Bloodsucking Spider Spear!]
Venom-colored light coalesced into a three-meter spear in her grip, surging purple mottled with red. Its edge shimmered with penetrative killing intent. With a thrust, the spear whistled through the air and struck.
Pfft!
It pierced straight into the Titan Giant Ape's iron-flesh, sinking over half a meter deep.
"Hoohhh!!!"
The colossal beast roared in pain. The spear's color changed, purple draining red as it sucked greedily at its blood. Power siphoned, feeding directly into Bibi Dong's body, her aura growing sharper still.
The Titan writhed. Its golden eyes bled scarlet, fury washing through as humiliation burned. No one had ever dared stab it this way! Its massive muscles bunched, swollen with violent strength, and with a wrench of brute force it snapped the spider spear free, flinging it to the ground.
Rage shrouded it. Its knuckles burst like thunder.
BOOOM!
A crushing gravitational field emanated from its body. The earth itself cried out, pulling at everything. Even Bibi Dong staggered, her movements slowed under the monstrous field. Leaves spiraled and pebbles rolled as though the planet bent to the ape's will.
The Titan's fists came down like meteors.
Bibi Dong skated back, catching most with her spider armor, but several hammered into her defenses. She grimaced faintly. So this is why they call him Forest King. Both strength and speed at the pinnacle. Were it not for my level… such a beast would already rule as untouchable.
Her eyes sharpened.
[Seventh Soul Skill: True Body of the Death Spider King!]
Her frame transformed. Dark purple-black armor sheathed her limbs, thorned web patterns crawling up her long, white legs like living stockings. Her chest armor formed into a terrifying spider's skull, fangs curling around her torso. A purple spider mark lit across her brow.
In that instant, she was no longer merely Pope of Spirit Hall.
She was the Spider Queen of Death itself.
She clashed fist-to-fist with the Titan, each strike a quake. White rings of concussive force rippled like waves, forcing trees to bow as winds scattered leaves. With one supreme blow she even shoved the Titan back, claws scraping furrows across the earth.
From afar, Ghost Douluo trembled. To think even alone, Bibi Dong can stalemate the King of the Forest…! Just one wrong turn of fate and all that power lashes here. Too terrifying. Too magnificent. He obeyed her command, vanishing back to guard Subei with twitching reverence.
But the Titan's fury never abated. Its lantern-eyes locked only on Subei.
And then, with a startling leap, the beast shattered the battlefield stalemate. It ignored Bibi Dong's killing webs, ignored Ghost's interference, and soared one hundred meters in a single bound, fist swinging, not at them—
—straight for where Subei stood.
"No!!"
Tang San's body blurred. Ghost Steps surged as he dashed, reaching his Teacher first. He flung his arms forward with suicidal devotion. "Teacher! If you must live, let Xiao San bear it! In this life or the next, I will always follow you—!"
His voice cracked with sincerity.
Yet Subei tilted slightly aside at the last breath, letting Tang's "sacrifice" swish past like a gust.
He sighed inwardly. This child… his loyalty touches me, but his dramatics may one day kill me from shame.
Still, it hardly mattered. The Titan's massive hand closed anyway around them both. With a single heave, it plucked Subei and Tang San like toys into its palm and thundered away into the trees.
Bibi Dong's eyes bulged.
"You can fight me—fine. But you dare touch my disciple?!"
Her killing intent pierced heavens.
[Fourth Soul Skill: Thorn Spider Carapace!]
Long spikes, each a meter, erupted across her armored limbs, shredding through trees as she took chase. Her every step melted the earth black.
Her fury crested. [Eighth Soul Skill: Spider Emperor Clone!]
From her body, a shimmering doppelgänger sprang, both charging from separate angles to box the Titan in. "Release him—or die!"
…
In the Titan's palm, Tang San squeezed his eyes shut. "Teacher… don't resist. If we must die together, at least I will accompany you."
Subei stared silently at him. If only you knew. This ape doesn't mean harm. It's not hate, but desperation. It only wants wine—and news of Xiaowu.
"Throw us!" Subei barked suddenly to the Titan, figuring speed alone could calm Bibi Dong's wrath.
Incredibly—the Titan Ape listened.
Its giant arm swept down. Tang San and Subei were hurled gently outward, landing in the incoming corridor of Bibi Dong's arms.
For barely a breath, victory seemed secure. Bibi braced to snatch her precious disciple safely.
But then—
Shadow.
A vast looming obscurity blotted the moon. Even larger, even heavier, even deadlier than the Titan.
The forest itself shuddered. Leaves rained like dark snow. An immense serpent's form rose from the depths of Star Dou—
Azure scales, horns glistening, eyes gleaming with mountain-heavy patience.
The Azure Bull Python.
The titan of guardian waters, every bit the Titan's equal… if not more.
Gasps echoed through the party. Bibi Dong's face, for once, lost composure.
Two Rulers of the Star Dou were now before them.
And unbelievably—they both stared straight at Subei.
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