The facts proved that the area Flender, who was in a hurry, searched was far larger than everyone had thought, at least completely exceeding the communication range of the current Soul Communicators.
Zhao Wuji had no choice but to give up on contacting Flender right now. Just as everyone was preparing to ask Xiao Wu about what had happened—
There was movement from Tang San's side, who had been quiet until now.
When everyone turned their heads, they saw that the purple spirit ring that had been continuously releasing spirit power was now gradually shrinking.
In the end, it became the same size as the other two spirit rings on Tang San's body, slowly floating up and down around him.
The blood-colored mist that had almost completely covered Tang San's entire body was also slowly dissipating. It was clear that Tang San's attempt to absorb beyond his level was about to succeed.
This scene made the students—whose nerves had been tight the entire night—and Zhao Wuji all exhale in relief. Just as someone was about to speak, a sudden change occurred.
Only to see the eight spider legs on the corpse of the Human-Faced Demon Spider beside Tang San suddenly release a strong purple light. The purple light instantly shot into Tang San's body.
Then, a painful groan came from the still-unconscious Tang San, and his spine suddenly arched forward.
Everyone standing nearby could clearly see eight bulges appear on Tang San's back—four on each side aligned with the spine.
The bulges grew larger and larger. About three seconds later, they burst open, and deep purple long, strip-like objects extended outward from the ruptured skin.
The miraculous thing was that although eight large holes were torn open on Tang San's back, not a single drop of blood flowed out, as if those deep-purple strips had naturally grown from Tang San's body.
After about thirty seconds, the eight deep-purple strip-like objects stabilized at a length of three meters and stopped growing.
Looking closely, it wasn't hard to see that the eight things growing from Tang San's back were almost identical to the eight spider legs of the Human-Faced Demon Spider beside him.
Tang San's Blue Silver Grass spirit automatically released, completely wrapping his body.
The blue-purple cocoon combined with the eight spider legs protruding behind Tang San looked extremely eerie.
But right now, no one had the mind to worry about aesthetics. They had just watched the spirit ring absorption succeed, were ready to celebrate, and now this happened—who could handle that?
The most anxious, Xiao Wu, subconsciously shouted "Ge!" and was about to pounce toward Tang San, her voice already carrying clear sobs.
Fortunately, Ao Sichen was right beside her. He immediately grabbed her and pulled her back. Seeing Xiao Wu still trying to rush forward without realizing her own movements—
Ao Sichen hurriedly shouted:"Everyone, don't panic—this should be a good thing!"
This one sentence drew everyone's panicked gazes toward him, and successfully made Xiao Wu calm down for the moment.
Without delay, Ao Sichen quickly picked up a tree branch from the ground and walked rapidly toward the Human-Faced Demon Spider's corpse.
Upon reaching it, he lightly touched the eight ferocious spider legs with the branch.
With Ao Sichen's action, the spider legs directly turned into ashes and vanished.
Seeing the spider legs disappear exactly as he expected, Ao Sichen continued:
"Ge, Fatty—do you still remember what happened when I obtained my Flame Armor Shield?"
Hearing Ao Sichen's reminder, the quickest to react, Oscar, immediately recalled Ao Sichen's situation back then. Indeed, it was extremely similar to the current Tang San.
"You mean that the Human-Faced Demon Spider's legs will become part of Tang San's body like that rhino horn did for you?" Oscar asked, somewhat uncertain.
"That's right. I think Tang San's situation should be no different from what I experienced back then."
As he spoke, Ao Sichen displayed his Flame Armor Shield external spirit bone.
At this moment, the Flame Armor Shield—after being fully activated and trained countless times—had long ceased being just a dark-red armor that covered his fist.
Instead, it completely wrapped Ao Sichen's entire right arm. The rhino horn's length had not changed, remaining ten centimeters long.
Shaking his cool-looking and powerful right arm, Ao Sichen continued:
"My Flame Armor Shield—everyone should already be very familiar with it, so I won't say much about that.
What I want to tell everyone is that my Flame Armor Shield is actually a type of spirit bone, except it doesn't belong to the conventional six spirit bones. It's called an External Spirit Bone.
The difference between External Spirit Bones and conventional spirit bones can be summarized in two points:
First, once an External Spirit Bone is absorbed by a spirit master, even if the spirit master dies, it cannot be removed and absorbed again like the six standard spirit bones.
Second, External Spirit Bones are growth-type. As the spirit master's strength increases, the abilities of the External Spirit Bone also become stronger.
For example, my Flame Armor Shield originally only increased my strength by 15% and my defense and fire resistance by 25%.
But now, the boost it gives to my physical attributes has already increased significantly.
My use of the Flame Armor Shield is no longer passive—I can now use it actively.
A few days ago, in order to block San's hidden weapons without using my mech for protection, I used the Flame Armor Shield to generate a fire-attribute shield similar to a Soul Device's shield. You all remember that, right?
That is the first ability I developed from the Flame Armor Shield—allowing me to possess strong defensive ability even without Soul Devices.
Secondly, I can use the Flame Armor Shield to control a certain degree of fire-attribute spirit power, letting my attacks carry the power of flames.
You could say the Flame Armor Shield has significantly compensated for my weaknesses of relying entirely on Soul Devices and lacking close-combat ability.
You can even understand it like this: now, with the Flame Armor Shield, I can pretend to be a defense-type Battle Spirit Master with a rhino martial spirit even without using Soul Devices.
Alright, back to Tang San.
The eight spider legs you see now should be the External Spirit Bone given to Tang San by the Human-Faced Demon Spider.
This External Spirit Bone is fusing with Tang San's body right now, and that will take some time. As long as Tang San isn't disturbed, there is actually no danger."
Hearing Ao Sichen's explanation, everyone's expressions finally brightened, and the weight in their hearts fell away. Many instantly felt their exhaustion.
After an entire day of almost nonstop travel and combat, and then a night without rest while running anxiously for a long distance—
Even after finding Tang San, no one had relaxed. Take the time before Xiao Wu returned, for example:
Everyone looked like they were lying in bed sleeping, but except for Ao Sichen, none of them were actually asleep.
When Xiao Wu returned, Zhao Wuji's one shout of "Who goes there?" woke them all instantly.
Only Ao Sichen was truly woken up by someone, which was why he was the last to come out.
Now that Xiao Wu had safely returned, and although Tang San hadn't woken yet, it was confirmed he was fine—everyone naturally relaxed, and exhaustion showed without restraint.
Seeing everyone's tired looks, Ao Sichen spoke again:
"Everyone, quickly go rest. San will probably need a few more hours before he wakes up. There's no need for us to stay up like this.
Teacher Zhao, you've worked hard all night. Now that Tang San and Xiao Wu are fine, you should rest too. I'll handle the night watch and contacting the dean.
My heart is big—I slept well earlier, so I'm full of energy. With the detection Soul Device here, nothing will happen."
Zhao Wuji glanced at Tang San and saw indeed it wasn't something that would finish anytime soon. Thinking of Ao Sichen's consistently reliable behavior, he nodded and agreed.
Xiao Wu originally wanted to continue guarding Tang San, but Ning Rongrong directly pulled her back into the cabin, so she didn't insist.
About an hour later, Ao Sichen finally got in touch with Flender. After learning Xiao Wu had safely returned, Flender brought Cowen back to the camp half an hour later.
At this moment, the sky outside should have already begun to brighten, but inside the Star Dou Forest it was still pitch-black.
After explaining Tang San's situation to Flender and telling him they still hadn't asked Xiao Wu how she escaped, Ao Sichen had Flender go rest as well.
Flender, who was indeed exhausted, didn't refuse and went straight to rest.
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