He raised his right hand, and the blue light of the Blue Silver Grass Spirit slowly materialized in Tang San's palm.
Taking a deep breath, Tang San summoned the Spirit Ring of the Man Faced Demon Spider. The purplish-black light seemed to have been waiting for a long time, finally finding an outlet to vent. The instant it sensed Tang San's Spirit, it surged towards him like a hundred rivers rushing to the sea.
Seeing the dense purplish-black light instantly envelop Tang San's body, Flender couldn't help but be secretly astonished by the powerful Spirit Power fluctuations. Just how many years of cultivation did this Man Faced Demon Spider actually have?
As the one experiencing it, Tang San felt it even more clearly. He felt a huge surge of hot energy suddenly rush into his body. Before he could react, the hot energy began to burn his body like scorching flames.
The Man Faced Demon Spider's inherent dominance dictated the ferocity of the Spirit Ring it formed. As the powerful aura entered Tang San's body, it immediately began to forcibly transform his body. Although the energy contained in the Spirit Ring had no consciousness, it was not something Tang San's consciousness could control at all.
Under the strong Spirit Power fluctuations, Tang San felt as if his body was about to explode. The intense pain caused him to instantly spit out a mouthful of fresh blood.
Tang San, who was sitting cross-legged in the center, was no longer visible. At this moment, his entire body was enveloped in a layer of light red mist. The red in the mist was not the light of some Spirit Power, but Tang San's own blood.
Not long after, with the intense Spirit Power fluctuations, Tang San's skin began to ooze a layer of fine blood beads. As the Spirit Power evaporated into the air, it turned into this light red mist.
Tang San's brows were tightly furrowed, his lips pressed together, and his body was constantly convulsing. Coupled with the blood beads emerging from under his skin, one could imagine how intense the pain he was enduring was. Within the mist, the crackling sound of bones occasionally emanated.
However, the third Spirit Ring, which should have appeared upon successful absorption, never materialized. This proved that Tang San had not yet fully absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider's Spirit Ring.
The pain Tang San was enduring at this moment was known only to him. Facing the Man Faced Demon Spider Spirit Ring's energy, he felt as if his entire body was being cut by countless sharp blades. His internal organs ached everywhere, and the powerful energy constantly tore at his body, keeping him in extreme pain.
Because Man Faced Demon Spiders were so scarce, even if Yu Xiaogang were conscious now, with his unrivaled theories, it would be difficult to determine the true cultivation range of this specific one.
According to his theory, a Spirit Master's third Spirit Ring could absorb a maximum Spirit Beast cultivation of over 1,700 years. Only when reaching the fourth Spirit Ring could one absorb a Spirit Ring of about 5,000 years of cultivation. The upper limit for the fifth Spirit Ring was around 12,000 years. The upper limit for the sixth Spirit Ring was 20,000 years. The seventh Spirit Ring ranged from 30,000 to 50,000 years, depending on the different attributes of different Spirit Masters. Only at the eighth Spirit Ring was it possible to absorb a Spirit Beast Spirit Ring of over 50,000 years. Only the final ninth Spirit Ring had the possibility of absorbing a 100,000-year Spirit Beast. Of course, among all known Spirit Masters, no one has been able to absorb a 100,000-year Spirit Beast as their last Spirit Ring.
The first Man Faced Demon Spider Tang San killed had a true cultivation of over 2,000 years. Although it had just exceeded that mark, it had already surpassed the limit a Spirit Master's third Spirit Ring could absorb. If he had chosen to absorb the first Man Faced Demon Spider Spirit Ring, he likely would not have been able to withstand its terrifying energy at all.
The second Man Faced Demon Spider, although much lower in cultivation, also exceeded 1,000 years, being approximately in the 1,100 to 1,200-year range.
Tang San's situation was different from most Spirit Masters because he possessed Twin Spirits. Furthermore, he cultivated the Mysterious Heaven Skill recorded in the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record. His body's toughness was much better than that of ordinary people.
Logically speaking, although he was indeed quite weak now, that was only in comparison to the other Shrek members, and he still possessed 30th-level Spirit Power. If it were an ordinary Spirit Beast, absorbing a Spirit Ring of around 1,000 years for his third Spirit Ring wouldn't be a big problem, given his physical advantage.
However, this Man Faced Demon Spider was not an ordinary Spirit Beast. Its inherent ferocity and power made its Spirit Ring extremely domineering. Coupled with Tang San's very poor, even weak, physical condition, this immediately plunged him into a huge crisis.
If Tang San's current situation could be calculated, then his ultimate outcome could only be one: his body would be unable to withstand the energy impact of the Man Faced Demon Spider and would explode and die. After all, that energy had already exceeded the range he could safely absorb.
The powerful energy fluctuations continuously increased, and the blood mist around Tang San's body became more and more obvious. Within the blood mist, there was even a faint fishy smell seeping out. It was unclear whether it was impurities within Tang San's body or toxins belonging to the Man Faced Demon Spider.
Just then, a very dense and pure energy quietly spread out from within Tang San's body. Then, it actually directly enveloped the violent energy that had invaded his body and successfully purified it. Even Tang San himself had not expected such a situation to occur in his body at this critical moment.
In reality, it was the Six-Position Earth Spirit Pill he had taken earlier. Not all of this spiritual medicine's energy had been absorbed by his body; a portion of it had remained within. Who would have thought it would play a role at this time?
If the Man Faced Demon Spider Spirit Ring's energy had consciousness, it would surely realize that each time its violent energy seemed to be about to break through Tang San's body, it was always resisted and devoured at the last moment. And in each of these resistances and devourings, the energy contained within the Man Faced Demon Spider Spirit Ring was being absorbed by Tang San's body, bit by bit. With this ebb and flow, this violent energy was also continuously weakening.
The most critical problem Tang San now faced was how the absorbed Spirit Ring energy would integrate with his body and the Mysterious Heaven Skill, and with his Blue Silver Grass Spirit. Although the Blue Silver Grass itself was weak and not very resistant to external forces, the energy of this Man Faced Demon Spider Spirit Ring was too domineering, to the extent that the Blue Silver Grass Spirit was somewhat unwilling to absorb it. It was this process of mutual contention that brought Tang San the greatest pain.
A quarter of an hour later, the bones in Tang San's body began to emit dense crackling sounds. This seemingly not loud sound gave people a heart-stopping feeling, as if Tang San's entire body could rupture at any moment.
A faint layer of gray gradually appeared in the blood beads oozing from the surface of his skin. Accompanying the absorption of the Spirit Ring, the energy contained within the Man Faced Demon Spider was impacting Tang San's body in an extremely forceful manner. The intensity of the pain contained within was unimaginable.
The fine blood beads no longer oozed out, and Tang San's tightly furrowed brows also relaxed a bit. A faint blue light began to quietly seep out from within his body.
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