Chapter 318: Tang San Loses His External Spirit Bone Again
They traveled thus for half a day and, near nightfall, entered a city.
Bone Douluo appreciated his comforts.
He went straight to a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect branch, where food and drink were provided.
Dugu Feng was happy to go along.
He had business to conduct.
That night, Bone Douluo had two adjacent rooms prepared, one for each of them, then turned in without looking back.
He was, to be fair, responsible—placing Dugu Feng next door so he could respond quickly if anything happened.
As soon as Dugu Feng entered his room, he opened the window.
He leisurely brewed himself a cup of tea.
He drank while watching the stars, and after half an hour, quietly lay down to rest.
In truth, he lay only briefly. Under the cover of the Sea God's Heart, he slipped out the window and flew toward Heaven Dou City.
Within the Sea God's Heart, the rainbow light at Dugu Feng's brow gleamed, and the Tyrant Poison flared to hide his tracks.
He had great confidence in his stealth.
Even Bibi Dong couldn't detect him—let alone Bone Douluo.
Alone this time, Dugu Feng rode his conveyance: the Emerald Dragon-Serpent.
In under half an hour, it carried him the distance he and Bone Douluo had walked in half a day, and he reached Heaven Dou City.
There, Dugu Feng cloaked himself and slipped toward the Power Clan residence.
Yes, he was going to reap Tang San again.
From Bone Douluo that day, he'd learned Tang San's external spirit bone had fully fused, and his soul power had reached level sixty-four.
The tone had been both praise and relief.
As if once the external spirit bone was fused, no problems could arise.
Dugu Feng believed Tang Hao and Tang Xiao were no longer as tense as at first.
After all, in common understanding, once an external spirit bone was fused, it couldn't be taken.
But Dugu Feng had no intention of taking Tang San's external spirit bone.
He would devour it.
Their Eight Spider Lances shared the same origin.
Their energies were fully identical.
Dugu Feng planned to treat Tang San like a Man-Faced Demon Spider and devour the origin of his external spirit bone.
Surely, that would be feasible!
He released the Emerald Dragons.
Two Emerald Dragon-Serpents infiltrated the Clear Sky Sect residence from two directions.
Through the dan beads, Dugu Feng mapped the entire manor's movements in his mind.
Tang Xiao's location.
Tang Hao's location.
Yu Xiaogang and Tang San's location.
And Tai Long and Bai He, occupying rooms around Tang San's.
He saw it all clearly.
He sneered. Guard him as tightly as you like—so what?
He wielded the Tyrant Poison and the Sea God's Heart. Tang San's fate was sealed.
Dugu Feng waited coolly.
Until deep night, when the residence fell utterly silent.
He sensed that Tang Hao, Tang Xiao, and Tang San still cultivated.
Say this for them—they trained hard for revenge.
But with Dugu Feng present, effort would end only in bitter regret.
Hidden in the dark, Dugu Feng quietly employed his signature technique.
From outside the manor, he dug a tunnel straight in, ending beneath Tang San's room.
Since everyone "knew" this evil soul master was earth-attribute and skilled at earth-escape, Dugu Feng would play the part to perfection.
Under such circumstances, no one would imagine the true culprit.
Aboveground, a colorless, odorless toxin drifted in through the room's windows and door.
It was the Dream-Phantasm Thousand Mechanisms Toxin Dugu Feng had used in the City of Slaughter.
Now evolved by the Tyrant Poison.
As the strongest mixed poison, the Tyrant Poison could recombine its components into countless lethal toxins.
With Dugu Feng's mastery of poison, deploying it was as easy as flipping a hand.
Before long, Tang San still sat cultivating in his room, but a close look showed his eyes unfocused—his consciousness gone.
The Tang Sect's poisons were useless against Dugu Feng's spiritual toxins.
At last, it was time to strike.
He stretched out his right hand, and a corroding poison spread upward, boring through from the tunnel to the floor above.
Dugu Feng sprang up, arriving before Tang San.
"Look at you. You just had to absorb Man-Faced Demon Spider rings—three of them, right? Third ring, fourth ring, sixth ring—all Man-Faced Demon Spiders.
You're not Bibi Dong. Why are you picking fights with spiders every day?
An innocent man gets blamed for his treasure. Today, I'll let you feel the Douluo Continent's malice again."
Dugu Feng smiled coldly as eight spider lances burst from his back.
They stabbed hard into Tang San's back.
Tang San's waist and abdomen arched, his whole body went taut, and he began to tremble.
By rights, such a commotion would be loud.
But as Dugu Feng leapt into the room, the Sea God's Heart had already shrouded it.
Not a sound would escape.
At the instant the Eight Spider Lances moved, Tang San sank into unconsciousness.
He fell into a terrible nightmare.
He had dreamt this nightmare twice before. This was the third time.
Tang San was terrified.
The familiarity told him exactly what he faced!
He's here!
He's here again!
He's here to devour my external spirit bone!
Teacher said, once an external spirit bone is fused, it can't be taken. I have to hold on.
Tang San's heart trembled violently as he tried to rouse himself.
He frantically circulated his spiritual power to use the Purple Demon Eye, but spent all his strength and still couldn't open his eyes.
He clearly felt the man behind him.
If only he could cast out his spiritual sense, he could see the man's face.
But reality was cruel. No matter what, he could not throw off the toxin's suppression.
In that hazy state, Tang San felt clearly the energies in those eight ribs drifting away.
Who are you?
Why are you doing this to me?
There was no anger—only fear.
Before, he had been caught off guard, and the other had approached and taken the external spirit bone—just barely understandable.
But this time, the external spirit bone was fused, and his uncle and father were nearby.
Yet the other still struck without a sound.
Such power filled Tang San with fear.
"Father, Uncle, Granduncle, Teacher—someone help. An evil soul master is devouring my external spirit bone!"
Tang San cried out in his heart.
Only darkness answered.
In Tang San's perception, time crawled. For Dugu Feng, the devouring took but a moment.
His Eight Spider Lances had reached the demi-god tier—far stronger than Tang San's.
In an instant, they devoured all energies of the same origin.
Tang San once again lost his external spirit bone.
(END CHAPTER)
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