228: Chapter 224 Demon Spirit Appears 228: Chapter 224 Demon Spirit Appears Within the black clouds, there were leech-like creatures, easily numbering in the tens of thousands.
At first, Chen Hai was merely testing the waters; naturally, he did not give it his all.
From among the black clouds, only six or seven tiny leech-like creatures darted out, lightly landing and clinging to the fine strands.
The leeches that divided from the rest may have been small, but compared to those strands, they were still considered massive.
Using their suckers to cling to those strands was an act that seemed somewhat forced for these small leeches.
However, these leeches were the transformation of Chen Hai’s Divine Soul; they were not real solid objects.
Too large to hold on?
That wasn’t a significant issue at all.
With a single thought from Chen Hai, the six or seven leeches began to split once more, one into two, two into four, rapidly dividing.
When these small leeches divided into the size of toothpicks, they had reached the limit of Chen Hai’s control.
However, fortunately, leeches of this size could already barely manage to cling to the fine strands.
The strands, which had already developed spirituality and seemed alive, did not react at all to the absorption of the small leeches, as if they didn’t notice them.
Inside the strands, the power contained wasn’t much, but it was indeed pure demonic power, which could be slowly consumed by the small leeches, bit by bit.
Although the demonic power each small leech absorbed was truly meager and insignificant,
when the number of small leeches hanging from the strands increased, the power brought to Chen Hai was still not a small figure.
In the beginning, Chen Hai remained cautious, worried about an unexpected change.
Latter on, when he saw that the strands continued to show no reaction,
with a thought from him, the black clouds churned, and countless tiny leech-like creatures, like an overwhelming tide, swept towards those strands.
The once colorless and transparent, hair-thin strands, once covered and suspended by the leeches, became visibly blackened and thicker.
The strands stretched into the unknown depths of the void, and the numerous small leeches, using these strands as leverage, extended into the depths as well.
Whether it was the large leeches or the small ones, they were all transformations of Chen Hai’s Divine Soul.
Every move they made was in accordance with Chen Hai’s will, completely under his control.
As the countless small leeches began to continuously consume the power within those strands, Chen Hai felt his own power growing rapidly and couldn’t help but feel secretly delighted.
“Squeak…
Squeak…” Just at this moment, an unexpected change occurred; several strange cries suddenly echoed from the depths of the void.
The next instant, the void above Chen Hai’s head twisted and changed, becoming blurry.
Subsequently, innumerable transparent silken threads appeared out of nowhere, intertwining in every direction.
In just less than an instant, a gigantic spider web had coalesced in the void, seemingly enveloping the entire area within it.
“What in the world is this…” Sitting on the ground, Buck Teeth Zhu, who had already closed his eyes, unknowingly opened them at some point.
Having never cultivated Taoist Skill and being just an ordinary person, he could clearly see the enormous spider web that suddenly appeared in the void.
Of course, the reason for this was undoubtedly linked to the fact that he was directly involved; the curse had been triggered by him, which was a significant factor.
At the villa entrance, his subordinates were all baffled, their faces blank.
Aside from the unexplained fear welling up in their hearts, they couldn’t see any anomalies or hear any unusual sounds.
“Chen Hai, be careful, something is trying to emerge from the depths of the void!” Hou Donggui, who was not far away, suddenly changed his face and called out to Chen Hai.
On normal days, he addressed Chen Hai as Younger Brother Chen.
But at this moment, he had no time for pleasantries with Chen Hai and instead called him by name.
However, Chen Hai did not respond.
Because at this time, he was still in a state of soul departure.
The countless small leeches that had split off earlier, sensing that something was amiss, had already recombined, transforming into a human-sized leech-like Divine Soul.
In the fierce gaze of its ten compound eyes, the section of the void pierced by the silken threads had originally been empty.
But now, as the void twisted and blurred, one by one, giant eyes the size of an adult’s head, blazing with a crimson glow, slowly began to emerge.
After as many as eight of these massive eyes appeared, the vague form of the monster began to manifest intermittently.
From just a few eyes, Chen Hai could not yet discern what the creature was!
But as its body began to appear more clearly, Chen Hai inhaled a sharp breath of cold air.
The terrifying spider, the size of a small hill, would not easily leave anyone calm and collected upon sight, let alone Chen Hai.
The only consolation for Chen Hai was that the body of the Spider Demon Spirit seemed very ephemeral.
Perhaps, due to some unclear, indescribable reason, an existence like it simply could not fully descend into the Material World.
The spider phantom Chen Hai currently faced was merely a projection of that entity’s power.
“Blasphemer, die…” With its mouth wide open, the spider phantom roared furiously.
The sounds it emitted were just weird squeaks, but when the extremely odd syllables reached the ears of Chen Hai and Hou Donggui, they understood the contained meaning immediately.
“Brother Zhu, run!
As far as you can, just run!” Hou Donggui, on the side, yelled frantically at Buck Teeth Zhu.
These unknown entities in the dark, to ordinary people, if there’s no interaction, are like parallel lines that never meet.
But once some entanglement creates a connection between them, the moment you can see it, it already has the strength to inflict great harm upon you.
Buck Teeth Zhu was just an ordinary man.
But because of the curse on him, he had obviously intersected with the Spider Demon Spirit, entangled together.
Aside from Chen Hai and Hou Donggui, who were cultivators, out of all the people in the villa, only he could truly see the ethereal and terrifying presence in the void.
Just as Hou Donggui finished speaking, Buck Teeth Zhu, already alert, didn’t care about any array; he took to his heels and ran outside.
Unfortunately for an ordinary man like him, everything he could do was utterly futile when facing the horror of the spectral spider in the void.
He had only run about a dozen steps before he was lifted into the air from nothing.
What Chen Hai and Hou Donggui saw was that the threads binding Buck Teeth Zhu suddenly tightened and pulled him into the sky.
At the villa entrance, Buck Teeth Zhu’s men could only witness their boss suddenly becoming a flying man, yanked toward the sky—an eerie sight.
“My God, what did I just see?
Brother Zhu can actually fly?”
“Flying my ass, didn’t you hear Master Hou’s urgent shouts?
Something’s happened to Brother Zhu!”
“Grab the tools, let’s go, hurry and help Brother Zhu…”
These guys had things like steel pipes and machetes in their cars at all times.
Seeing things going south, they rushed out from the cars, grabbing their tools, and sprinted towards where Buck Teeth Zhu was.
“Shan-Long Lian-Zhen has a direction, Shui-Long Ju-Men sees water, amnesty is granted, the Five Ghosts appear…”
Hou Donggui had already sat down cross-legged, his mouth mumbling incantations, pointing at Buck Teeth Zhu, who was dragged to a height of four to five meters.
In an instant, red, blue, black, white, and yellow lights burst forth, five blurry shadows materialized in the sky.
They grabbed the threads wrapped around Buck Teeth Zhu, trying to pull him back down to the ground.
Hou Donggui, exerting all his might to control the Five Ghosts, was sweating profusely, his face pale as death.
Regrettably, even the combined effort of the Five Ghosts only maintained a stalemate, preventing Buck Teeth Zhu from being dragged any closer to that spider web in the void.
This was mainly because the Spider Demon Spirit hadn’t focused its attention on Buck Teeth Zhu, but merely played a slight thought on him.
Elsewhere, Chen Hai, who was entangled in a fight with the Spider Demon Spirit, was also beginning to complain incessantly.
“He can pull an adult man like Brother Zhu into the sky?
This definitely is a spiritual interference into the material world!”
“Just a phantom and it can already do this much, what on earth is this ghostly thing?”
“Damn it all, coming to help Brother Zhu was a huge mistake!”
Chen Hai’s leech-like Divine Soul was in an abysmally miserable state.
The moment he saw the spider’s shadow emerge from the void, he thought about running away without a second word.
Unfortunately, this idea was completely unrealistic.
The sacrilegious being that the spider demon spirit’s roar referred to was undoubtedly Chen Hai.
More than ninety percent of its attention was on Chen Hai, and as soon as the roar ended, it immediately lunged toward him.
The vast spider web in the void now covered the entire area.
Wherever the web was present, the phantom of the Spider Demon Spirit moved as quick as lightning, almost like instantaneous movement.
Chen Hai, though his Divine Soul was equally fast, could only see a faint shadow flickering on the web.
To say he was fighting with the Spider Demon Spirit was just Chen Hai trying to glorify himself.
More accurately, he was being one-sidedly brutalized.
In front of that demon spirit phantom, he was like dough, getting flattened then stretched forcefully.
He tried to find an opportunity to attach himself onto the phantom spider and take a few big bites.
Unfortunately, although the spider’s body was just a phantom, its defense was still terrifying.
Chen Hai’s leech-like Divine Soul couldn’t breach its defenses or get his sucker onto its body.
Thankfully, Chen Hai’s Divine Soul possessed an Undying Characteristic with an extremely strong Life Force.
Otherwise, he might have been soul-shattered many times over already.
“Lucky I prepared this just in case.
You’re forcing me to use my last resort!”
“Sacrifice bloodline, trace back to the source…”
Once again suppressed beneath the massive form of the Spider Demon Spirit, Chen Hai barely managed to escape by turning into a small leech.
His gaze landed on the leeches inside two big washbasins not far away.