1st Spirit Ring and Surprise

He was confident enough in his own capabilities to defeat the Man Faced Demon Spider on his own, just with his martial skills and the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword. Hun Tiandi also had a secret trump card, which was the Nihility Devouring Flame Bloodline, which allowed him to use the Nihility Devouring Flame. 

Albeit, it was possible only in very limited quantities because controlling the Nihility Devouring Flame right now seemed to be impossible. Even at the peak of his power, he had problems controlling the Nihility Devouring Flame as the Heavenly Flame developed a very high degree of sentience and became its own being.

Though right now, it only seemed that he had some seed of the Nihility Devbourign Flame within his Bloodline that was turned into his very own Bloodline. So, while there was no risk of any kind of sentience or something similar, it still remained the fact that controlling the Nihility Devouring Flame was hard. 

It was hard even in the controlled environment within the Spirit Hall when he was refining Pills, because due to the very own characteristics of the Nihility Devouring Flame made it pretty hard to control and use.

At the same time, using it in direct combat was, for now, almost out of the question, but when there was the need, Hun Tiandi was confident that he could control it for around thirty seconds, which was far more than enough for him to do wonders with its power. 

He held the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword in his right hand, as he could feel that the Martial Soul was hungry for blood. The Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword never faced anything in real combat, in real life and death situations, and it seemed like the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword sensed that it was time.

Time for it to taste some blood.

He also knew that if things really went bad, he had two Titled Douluo on his back to cover for him, but something was telling him that it wouldn't be really needed today.

Soon enough the Man Faced Demon Spider noticed him observing it as the Spirit Beast charged toward Hun Tiandi at a very fast speed, despite it's huge size. While the Man Faced Demon Spider was a very big Spirit Beast, it was also highly agile and fast.

This species of the Spirit Beasts wasn't called Predator of Predators for nothing because they were indeed one of the most dangerous species among the Spirit Beasts that could easily and effortlessly hunt for the other predators among the Spirit Beasts.

He needed to avoid the legs of the Man Faced Demon Spider as one hit would be everything needed to cleave him in half. Their legs were their sharpest weapon, but avoiding them was rather easy due to the Hun Tiandi's small size.

As the size difference between him and the Man Faced Demon Spider was huge, he knew that the Spirit Beast would have a very hard time hitting it precisely. And it was indeed true, because the moment when the Man Faced Demon Spider arrived and hacked at him with his several legs, Hun Tiandi effortlessly dodged to the side. 

It wasn't much of a problem because the Man Faced Demon Spider was very big, and he was small on the contrary, and also pretty fast. For the time being, he wasn't really attacking or doing anything, as he was just gauging the exact powers of the Man Faced Demon Spider.

At the same time, he was also aware that this entire situation where he was just dodging the legs of the Man Faced Demon Spider must be driving the predator to the madness because the Man Faced Demon Spiders were always top dogs in the area where they were resizing.

So, seeing something as insignificant as a human in its eye and being able to dodge every single attempt to kill him must be driving the Man Faced Demon Spider into a rage, and he was very true to this one. 

Spirit Beasts, in some cases and in some areas, were far more emotional than the humans, as they were being ruled by their instincts more than humans. This often led to Spirit Beasts being more emotional and easier to provoke and lead around. 

Just like in this case, and when Hun Tiandi gathered enough information about the combat style of the Man Faced Demon Spider, and its patterns, it was time to really start fighting against the Spirit Beast and kill it for his 1st Spirit Ring. 

He held the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword and rushed towards the Man Faced Demon Spider at fast speed, aiming at one of the joints in the leg of the Man Faced Demon Spider.

During the time he was dodging the attacks by the Man Faced Demon Spider that was attempting to skewer him up with its lance-like legs, Hun Tiadi noticed that due to the huge size of its body, especially the legs, there were several joints in its legs that could be cut through. 

With one swing of the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword, he cut through one of the legs of the Man Faced Demon Spider as the Spirit Beast shrieked in pain from having one of its legs cut, but having one leg cut wasn't that of a problem for the Man Faced Demon Spider, because spiders have eight legs.

At the same time, the Man Faced Demon Spiders were known for their fearsome generation and capabilities of being able to regrow their entire legs. The regenerative capabilities of the Man Faced Demon Spider were obviously no joke, and if he left the Spirit Beast some more time, it would become dangerous for him.

Now that he had created an opportunity, he needed to act very quickly to kill the Man Faced Demon Spider as fast as possible because the beast had been disoriented for some time; as he aimed the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword at the other leg, once again targeting the joint and severing another leg.

Soon enough, the Man Faced Demon Spider was down to six legs from the eight legs, and it wasn't stopping there because Hun Tiandi wasn't stopping his onslaught on the Spirit Beast until the creature was finally dead.

As the blood spluttered everywhere, he needed to be extra careful about the blood of the Man Faced Demon Spider because that one was highly poisonous and corrosive. It's corrosive poison could corrode even metals and bones, but fortunately, the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword was okey. 

Even if the Martial Soul had problems withstanding the corrosive blood of the Man Faced Demon Spider, he could always use a bit of the Nihility Devouring Flame to burn the blood away in the worst case.

Just as he was about to sever another leg of the Man Faced Demon Spider, the spider was much faster and managed to dodge with his leg and counterattack with another one of his legs.

It took everything that he had for Hun Tiandi to dodge. He gritted his teeth, when he noticed that the speed of the Man Faced Demon Spider seemed to double or triple out of nowhere, and the spider also became far more aggressive. 

He knew that the Man Faced Demon Spider was probably already enraged enough and would right now stop at nothing to deal with him. It seemed that the Man Faced Demon Spider finally took him as a serious opponent because till this time, it was more than enough clear that the Spirit Beast was playing with him.

Hun Tiandi wasn't really surprised by that, because from the viewpoint of the humongous Man Faced Demon Spider, he was just a tiny human waving a sword. It seemed that the arrogance would be the downfall of this Spirit Beast.

He found it rather ironic.

The entirety of the situation.

He was in the exact place of the Man Faced Demon Spider in the past, because he too, lost only due to his arrogance. Everything was destroyed only due to his arrogance, and he never really took that brat from the Xiao Clan seriously, which allowed him to grow strong enough to contend with him.

Not only that, but he even unknowingly created perfect conditions for him to destroy everything that he had built during the many millennia. Yet, everything was lost due to his arrogance, something that he would be bearing in his heart for the rest of his life.

Because it was his own mistake and misguided belief in his own invisibility and might.

And it still crumbled like the house of cards.

He had learned from the mistakes of the past, and the experiences that he suffered at Xiao Yan's hands curbed down the arrogance that he had built. He would never allow for something like that to repeat once more, when he lost everything in a few moments, just because he didn't kill that rat when he was still weak.

Hun Tiandi looked at the Man Faced Demon Spider, who was prepared to throw a web at him, which would most probably end the fight if he was caught in that. While he was confident in his capabilities and the power of the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword, he knew that once he was trapped in the web of the Man Faced Demon Spider, it would be game over.

The webs of the Man Faced Demon Spider were extremely sticky and durable, so by the time he managed to cut through the webs and free himself with the help of the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword, the Man Faced Demon Spider would have long ago made chopped meat out of him.

So he needed to dodge the web at any cost, so when he noticed that the Man Faced Demon Spider was preparing to shoot it's web at him, he decided to act in an instant and did something that the Man Faced Demon Spider didn't predict at all.

From the experience of the Man Faced Demon Spider, most of the Spirit Masters would either try to escape from the opposite direction if they could recognize it, preparing to shoot its web at them, but most of the Spirit Masters wouldn't, so they got caught instead.

It was for this reason that the creature was confused about the behavior of the tiny human that managed to severe two of its legs, but it was already too late, as the Man Faced Demon Spider shot the web from his stinger at the end of its huge belly and the human ran towards the Man Faced Demon Spider, essentially missing the web by an inch.

This enraged the spider even further because the Man Faced Demon Spider was confident that the web would be ending this farce, as it had already suffered enough at the hands of this human with two of its precious legs being already gone, and it would need a lot of time to regenerate those legs.

It would even hinder its time of advancing to greater heights because right now, it would be using all of its energy and power to regenerate to the perfect condition. Not many people knew about it, but the Man Faced Demon Spiders were very intelligent Spirit Beasts and the ones that loved to prey on the humans and, especially, the Spirit Masters.

Hun Tiandi, meanwhile, as he dodged the web, raised the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword as he used the Martial Soul to tear through the belly of the Man Faced Demon Spider in the unprotected moment when the Spirit Beast was having a blank period after it shot out the web. 

In the bestiaries within the Spirit Hall, there was a lot of written information on the various kinds of the Spirit Beast, including the Man Faced Demon Spider, and the best time to attack them was right after the spider shot out the web.

When the Man Faced Demon Spider used the web ability, it would create some time, approximately one or two seconds, when the Man Faced Demon Spider was weakened for that time, and it was this time that he made use as he stabbed the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword into the heart of the Man Faced Demon Spider after he took it out from the belly of the spider.

Now it was time to absorb the Spirit Ring of the Man Faced Demon Spider, as he noted that the Golden Crocodile Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo had exited their hiding spaces while observing the combat from a safe location.

When the Man Faced Demon Spider finally lost its life, both of the Titled Douluo exited their hiding place, as both of them were rather surprised by the Hun Tiandi's fight against the powerful Spirit Beast that was very powerful for its age.

"You did a splendid job fighting that Spirit Beast, Tiandi. You can now absorb the Spirit Ring of the Man Faced Demon Spider."

He received praise from Jin Eyu because he managed to kill the powerful Spirit Beast, such as the Man Faced Demon Spider, which was around 2,500 Years old on his own, which was a really staggering achievement considering that he didn't have any Spirit Skills or Spirit Rings. 

In the Douluo Continent, the Spirit Skills and Spirit Rings were basically everything, and they reigned supreme, while the martial arts and other things on that level were in the background, something that was rather illogical to the Hun Tiandi.

While he knew that the Spirit Rings and Spirit Skills were wonders of the Universe and certainly gave tremendous power to their users, they were also faulty because over-dependence on one type of skill was dangerous once the user lost access to the said skill or just couldn't use it.

He looked at the corpse of the Man Faced Demon Spider as he prepared to absorb the Spirit Ring of the Man Faced Demon Spider as the 1st Spirit Ring for this Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword Martial Soul.

Spirit Rings are the part of the remains released by Spirit Beasts following their death, sacrifice, or contract with humans. Only the person who delivers the killing blow can absorb the Spirit Ring and needs to be at a bottleneck, so Hun Tiandi, who is at the Spirit Rank 20, could absorb two Spirit Rings.

He started absorbing the Spirit Ring of the Man Faced Demon Spider into the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword Martial Soul, as the remnants of the Man Faced Demon Spider glowed a bit and Spirit Energy from the corpse entered the Bloodviolet Seven Star Fiend Sword Martial Soul, while Purple Ring formed around the sword itself.

This signifies that the 1st Soul Ring that he obtained for his Martial Soul was more than 1,000 years old, though hopefully, it would evolve to an even higher age. The older the Spirit Ring was, the stronger the Spirit Skill would become.

It took him around half an hour to complete the absorption of his first Spirit Ring, it was rather taxing on his body, but it didn't end here. Soon enough, his clothes were torn on his back, as eight purple-black spider legs quickly emerged and waved irregularly around.

"Damm... this is what you call lucky... he even got External Spirit Bone from all of this."

The Spirit Bones were the bones that were left following the death of a Spirit Beast. The chances of a Spirit Beast dropping the Spirit Bones are extremely rare. Generally speaking, the lower the cultivation of a Spirit Beast, the lower the probability of producing a Spirit Bone.

However, the possibility of dropping a Spirit Bone increases if the Spirit Beast feels a huge amount of resentment before getting killed, dies willingly, or is grateful for their death.

Spirit Bones are considered as extremely important, as much as Spirit Rings, as they provide new abilities to the spirit master. Not only can a spirit bone strengthen the bone in whichever area it is contained in, but it can also strengthen everything within, including meridians, muscles, bones, and so on.

So, having a Spirit Bone is a comprehensive enhancement to the body. Unlike the Spirit Rings, Spirit Bones will not disappear because of the death of a Spirit Master and will remain. As long as they are not destroyed, they will be preserved forever.

"Yeah, and obtaining the External Spirit Bone at that... ts, it's like he has the blessing of the world itself."

Golden Crocodile Douluo Jin Eyu remarked as he watched Hun Tiandi assimialting the External Spirit Bones from the Man Faced Demon Spider. 

External Spirit Bones are extremely rare forms of Spirit Bones that deviate from the normal six Spirit Bone infusion sites. Their value is immeasurable and second only to 100,000-Year Spirit Rings.

They have the possibility to grow and evolve into higher forms.

"Nevertheless, it seems that the gains from this trip would be far higher than we have anticipated... if he could evolve the External Spirit Bone to a higher form, it would give him a tremendous edge over the other Spirit Masters. Not to mention, even now, the External Spirit Bone is related to the swords because he obtained the lances of the Man Faced Demon Spider that could be used as a blade."

During the time that the two Titled Douluos were speaking with each other, Hun Tiandi finished the assimilation of the Spirit Ring and also the External Spirit Bones, which he named Eight Spider Lances.

He could control the eight spider-like legs that were fused with him like they were part of his body, so manipulating them at will wasn't any problem. When he didn't need them, he could also recall them in his body, storing them as energy near some of his ribs.

The Eight Spider Lances contained the extremely potent poison of the Man Faced Demon Spider within the vertebra where the bone attaches to Hun Tiandi's spine, and these lances can be used to inject poison into another.

Anyone who gets even as little as a scratch or comes into contact with a lance without Spirit Energy defense will immediately be poisoned and will shortly die unless he removes the poison.

The Eight Spider Lances can also drain the life energy out of any living being and temporarily use it as its own.