Chapter 1278: Nine Sons Mother Spider

Spirit could be born in just the span of inches. A saber could burn like hellfire in less than a second.

Somehow, this slash seemed deadlier than even the Loulan Slash.

It wasn’t because this slash was faster, stronger, or sharper than the Loulan Slash. It was because it possessed one advantage that the Loulan Slash didn’t—surprise.

Ye Qing certainly seemed surprised. He failed to react before the slash hit him squarely in the forehead.

A grunt escaped his lips as light burst out of his eyes. Instead of retreating, he threw a punch at Xie Loulan’s forehead instead.

Incredibly, Xie Loulan did not try to dodge the attack. As if she had accepted her death, she raised her left hand and struck the back of her blade with the Boundless Hand.

It looked like she was planning to cleave Ye Qing in half using the combination attack.

THANG!

Pressed against Ye Qing’s forehead, the Loulan Saber rang long and loud as light burst out of its body. At the same time, infinitely sharp saber intent clashed against Ye Qing’s profound light and elicited savage noises that sounded much like metallic screeches.

So strong was the combination attack that it sank an inch into Ye Qing’s forehead.

Despite this, Ye Qing remained completely unperturbed. The fist traveling toward Xie Loulan’s forehead remained as steady as it was ruthless.

It was as if Ye Qing was planning to punch Xie Loulan into a puddle of blood and gore no matter what.

Surprisingly, when the punch finally connected, Xie Loulan’s head did not explode into a shower of blood and brain matter. It only caused the woman to shake a little. It was so anticlimactic one almost wondered if Ye Qing and Xie Loulan were putting on a show.

“Uwah...”

The next moment, a baby’s cry came from inside Xie Loulan’s body. It was evil, eerie, and mind-bending. Everyone who listened to it suddenly felt dizzy and saw things that shouldn’t be there.

“Get out!”

This state of things only lasted an instant as a thunderous shout ripped apart the veil of illusions to bits. The next moment, they saw Ye Qing ripping a pale, transparent infant out of Xie Loulan.

Perhaps it wasn’t accurate to call it an infant. After all, the only part of it that even resembled an infant was its face. It possessed a spider’s body with four arms, four legs, and eight eyes. It was snow white from head to toe except its eight crimson eyes. Inside its eyes brimmed what looked like infinite resentment and violence.

“A Spider Infant!”

The crowd recognized the creature instantly. A Disaster-class Stranger, the Spider Infant was a Stranger born from the resentful soul of an infant who died young.

A Spider Infant enjoyed feeding on pregnant women. It often appeared during or after midnight. Its voice inflicted dizziness and hallucinations, and anyone who saw it would decay in body and rot in soul. It was a terrifying Stranger.

This Spider Infant seemed different from your ordinary Spider Infant though. It had an umbilical cord that vanished into a certain point in space, eerie and anomalous.

The Spider Infant’s cry grew louder after Ye Qing ripped it out of Xie Loulan’s body. It glared at Ye Qing with red, hateful eyes and bared its rows and rows of cold, sharp teeth at him.

Ye Qing glared right back with equal coldness and tightened his grip. The Spider Infant instantly exploded into pieces.

However, the Spider Infant instantly regenerated where its umbilical cord was. At the same time, eight identical Spider Infants crawled out of seemingly nowhere and cried loudly. They all had umbilical cords.

The combined cry of the nine Spider Infants was no joke. A tidal wave of resentment darkened the Unbounded Platform and filled the sky with resentment, transforming the place into a ghastly domain instantly.

Inside the ghastly domain, the umbilical cords were as thick as tree trunks, as flexible as tentacles, and as numerous as a spider’s web. They covered the sky and unleashed waves of taint and yin qi with every vibration.

The nine Spider Infants had also become as big as houses. They crawled all over the web-like umbilical cords and glared at Ye Qing with deep hatred and resentment.

Right now, the large majority of the spectators was beginning to hallucinate and rot in mind and soul. Sure, there were some strong warriors who weren’t affected by their influence, but that was partially because they weren’t the Spider Infants’ main targets.

𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

That “privilege” was reserved solely for Ye Qing.

Their cries were layered in tides of resentment that threatened to corrupt his mind and pollute his senses with all kinds of illusions.

Their scarlet red eyes burned like the redness of sunset or a candle flame. Despite being intangible, they were hitting his physical body like they were solid.

Ye Qing remained unmoved despite all this, however. His eyes continued to shine as bright as the sun and moon mixed with a tinge of disgust and bloodthirst.

“Uwah!”

Realizing that their cries and their gazes weren’t enough to injure Ye Qing, the nine Spider Infants finally lost their cool and climbed toward him through the web of umbilical cords.

When they opened their mouths, flames of resentment shot into the open. It looked like they were planning to swallow Ye Qing whole.

“Hmph!”

Ye Qing grunted as two wisps of profound light shot out of his nostrils. They transformed into dragons that devoured the nine Spider Infants as soon as they made contact with the flames of resentment, and the filthy qi within the ghastly domain was burned away like the driest wood in just the blink of an eye.

“Wah wah wah!”

No matter how much the umbilical cord twisted, shook, and cried as if they were trying to regenerate the Spider Infants, the dragons stopped it all with their deadly power.

Realizing that the attack had failed, the umbilical cords began withdrawing into the deeper parts of space.

The umbilical cords wanted to leave, but Ye Qing wasn’t going to allow them as a matter of course. The dragons of profound light abruptly transformed into palms before grabbing and pulling the umbilical cords in one smooth motion.

The eerie, lightless domain was immediately ripped into pieces, revealing an old woman.

The old woman had hair like withered grass and a face like a chicken’s skin. The most eerie part about her was that she was carrying a huge belly like she was ten months pregnant.

One umbilical cord grew out of her bellybutton before splitting into nine. They flailed here and there like snakes.

Right now, all nine umbilical cords were caught firmly by the giant palm of profound light.

“The Nine Sons Mother Spider! It’s the Nine Sons Mother Spider!”

Someone recognized the old woman in the sky and cried out in shock.

The Nine Sons Mother Spider was an infamous heretic of the Dark Ways. a Great Trueman, she wasn’t named on the Earth Champions Ranking not because she was unworthy, but because she was part-human and part-Stranger. She wasn’t a Strangerkin though. She was something unspeakable. That was why she did not qualify to enter the Earth Champions Ranking.

The Nine Sons Mother Spider’s greatest power was her ability to control nine Disaster-class Spider Infants at once. She was as powerful as she was evil.

After being ripped out of her domain, the Nine Sons Mother Spider immediately let out a hoarse, piercing screech that caused her withered hair to grow like crazy. What looked like a sea of hair quickly swarmed Ye Qing’s palm of profound light from every direction.

At the same time, the Nine Sons Mother Spider wept dark red tears that turned into dirty, bloody rivers as soon as it hit the ground.

The next moment, the river of blood and the withered hair engulfed the hand of profound light.

They failed to destroy the hand of profound light though. In fact, the river of blood suddenly bubbled like boiling water, and the sea of withered hair abruptly burst into flames.

There was an explosion, and the river of blood evaporated, and the withered hair crumbled into dust. The Nine Sons Mother Spider let out a bloodcurdling scream before attempting to escape into the sky.

The hand of profound light kept chasing though. As it climbed up, it grew stronger, bigger, and brighter. On the other hand, the Nine Sons Mother Spider only grew weaker and smaller with each passing second.

“This is the heroes’ arena! An evil filth like you does not deserve to contaminate this mountain!”

Suddenly, a stern yell erupted from somewhere, and a patch of fiery clouds abruptly appeared in front of the Nine Sons Mother Spider’s path of escape. It burned the unholy creature to a crisp in just the blink of an eye.