CHAPTER 757: Surrender

With each breakthrough in the demonic arts, Han Shuo's soul characteristics would change. When Han Shuo was still on the Profound Continent, Han Shuo was nowhere near as powerful as he was today. Therefore, the current 'appearance' of his consciousness was very different from that of the past.

However, it was not difficult at all for Han Shuo to change his soul characteristics, considering how miraculous his consciousness was. When he entered Demon Mountain, his consciousness had begun to transform to mimic its previous state when Han Shuo fought Rose on the Profound Continent.

When the Spider Goddess Rose saw that Han Shuo continued on even after hearing her warning, she became angry and was ready to end Han Shuo's life.

Although Rose had to abide by the rules of the City of Shadows and not make unprovoked attacks on others, she was allowed to kill those who entered her territory and did not leave immediately after being warned.

Rose was about to fill the mountain with her dark divine energy when she suddenly heard Han Shuo ask, "Remember me, Rose?" She immediately stopped what she was doing and looked at Han Shuo in confusion. Rose grew more and more suspicious as Han Shuo's soul trait changed. Then, when the transformation was complete, Rose's chilling voice sounded from inside the cave, "So it is you!"

"That's right. We spoke on the Profound Continent! What an honour that you remember me. Very good, very good!" Han Shuo replied as he walked calmly into the mountain, going deeper and deeper into the cave, completely ignoring the looming danger within. Han Shuo added, "Oh, right, those divine essences you lost here, they were taken by me. You should remember that too, right?"

Rose was furious. She sneered, "So you came here to offer your soul? I'd gladly take it!"

Several small spiders crawled out from the depths of the cave, moving around Han Shuo and towards the cave entrance behind him. The small spiders began to spew silk, sealing the opening in no time. The silk carried an intense dark divine energy.

Han Shuo could see everything that was happening behind his back. He knew that Rose wanted to kill him. However, Han Shuo was not bothered by her actions as he had no need to escape.

His stepping into the mountain was an ample demonstration of his confidence!

As the small spiders spun webs to seal the entrance, Han Shuo flew at high speed through the winding tunnels, arriving at the large cavern that the elite metal zombie had visited earlier. At the centre of the cobwebbed cavern was Rose's huge body. The pair of cold, ruthless eyes on her beautiful, seductive face stared straight at Han Shuo in front of them.

Any ordinary person would find the Spider Goddess attractive for her beautiful face if they could look past her huge body. Her face was beautiful and seductive. She had eyes that shone like dim moonlight and full lips that were as red as roses. From every angle, she had the face of beauty.

"Hey Rose, just out of curiosity, why do you, a Highgod, insist on staying in this cave out of the reach of the sunlight?" asked Han Shuo nonchalantly after stepping out with a smile and looking around the cave.

Rose's cold gaze was fixed on Han Shuo, but she did not answer Han Shuo's question. From what Rose saw, Han Shuo was just a Midgod. She couldn't understand why a Midgod would come to seek death.

Rose's heart was filled with doubt and suspicion, especially when Han Shuo had not shown a trace of fear. Having noticed this, although she hated Han Shuo to the bone, she did not dare to attack ruthlessly.

I came here with the intention of settling an old debt!" Han Shuo continued when he saw that Rose did not answer his question. He looked at Rose with a smile and said, "Back on the Profound Continent, you nearly killed me with your slave named Adele. After that, you even had Adele defile my territory. Tell me, how do you want to settle this?"

"Me? Settle what?" Rose sneered, "You had repeatedly interfered with and destroyed my plans on that low level material plane. You even raped my follower to death! Then, after coming to this material plane, you stole my divine essences. And now you ask me how I am going to settle this? How dare you! I'll tell you how I'm going to settle this - I'm going to take your life!

"There seems to be no divine essence left in your cave. Sigh, I guess I won't be getting much booty this time," Han Shuo said in a somewhat disappointed manner after looking around the cave.

These words had obviously been very effective in provoking Rose. She could no longer contain her anger as she remembered the divine essences Han Shuo had stolen from her. She let out a deafening scream that echoed through the mountain.

At the same time, her large and sharp claws, like giant scimitars, slashed at Han Shuo.

Her dark divine energy flowed like a liquid into her sharp, glistening claws. At the same time, her Dark Domain of Divinity was unleashed. The already murky dark cave was instantly plunged into absolute darkness. The Element of Darkness converged on Rose's Domain of Divinity from every direction. Every ray of light was consumed by the darkness as the Element of Darkness gathered.

Seeing Han Shuo's bizarre performance and his fearless demeanour, Rose dared not take Han Shuo lightly. She had put all her strength into her first attack and had considered Han Shuo as an opponent of the same class!

Han Shuo stood still as he looked straight at Rose with a calm face. It was only when Rose's claws were about to reach him that he finally unleashed the seventeen flying swords.

Following his thought, the seventeen flying swords spread out from his back like a peacock spreading its tail. All of Rose's hacking claws were intercepted. Not only were the flying swords sharper than her claws, but they also carried a terrifying corrosive power and a chilling aura. After a burst of clanking noises, Rose drew her claws back in a flash.

As the flying swords made contact with her claws, an immense corrosive power and chilling aura permeated her body through her claws. The dark divine energy in the claw that was meant to kill Han Shuo was all used to resist the corrosive power and chilling aura. The attack was ineffective.

Rose was lucky that she had used all of her power in the first attack instead of underestimating Han Shuo because of the deceptive Midgod strength he was displaying. Otherwise, Rose would have suffered a major setback in the very first strike.

"Young man, what kind of energy are you using? Why is your vision unaffected? And why is your divine weapon so vicious?" Rose shouted after drawing back her claws.

As soon as her claws made contact with the flying swords, she noticed the demonic yuan in them, a type of energy she was unfamiliar with. She was also shocked by the malevolent corrosive power and cold aura of the flying swords. Now, after exchanging blows with Han Shuo, the more she looked at Han Shuo, the more he seemed unfathomably powerful!

"None of your business!" Han Shuo smiled mischievously. The seventeen flying swords hovering behind him suddenly shot forward and headed straight for Spider Goddess Rose.

The seventeen flying swords whistled through space, completely unaffected by the region of absolute darkness around Rose. They began to circle around Rose in the trajectory of the Avici Godslaying Sword Formation. Since Rose possessed Mid-stage Highgod strength, without access to the energy of the Cauldron Spirit, Han Shuo had to use all his strength to attack.

The whistling sound of the flying swords was deafening. It was quite similar to the screams that Rose was making. But clearly, the whistling sound of the seventeen flying swords was much louder and lasted longer compared to Rose's scream.

The whistling made Rose feel uneasy. Rose did not hesitate. Her white hair, which looked like spider silk, began to flutter. Little spiders glided across her white hair and flew out. After they landed, they would crawl rapidly towards Han Shuo. There were hundreds and thousands of those little spiders. The scene would give any observer a scalp-numbing sensation.

The little spiders held Rose's darkness divine energy. It goes without saying that getting swarmed by the spiders will not be a delightful experience!

After launching the little spiders away with her long hair, her glistening claws begun waving about, forming a layer of barrier made of dark radiance around herself, firmly resisting Han Shuo's seventeen flying swords.

Rose was afraid of the terrifying corrosiveness of Han Shuo's seventeen flying swords. She did not forget to defend against the flying swords while using the little spiders to attack Han Shuo.

Although Han Shuo currently could not deploy 'Ceaseless Pain' as he could not borrow Cauldron Spirit's energy, defending against the most basic form of Avici Godslaying Sword Formation would still be very challenging, especially when the seventeen flying swords carried immense corrosive power and chilling aura.

Cling! Clang! The seventeen flying swords struck the barrier that Rose had formed by waving her claws. The corrosive power and chilling aura of the seventeen flying swords consumed Rose's dark divine energy at an astonishing rate. Rose was in terrible pain!

Rose wailed in her heart. She repeatedly commanded the hundreds and thousands of little spiders to quickly chew Han Shuo to death.

Han Shuo sneered as he saw the chirping little spiders rushing towards him, "Rushing to seek death? Okay!"

Han Shuo casually grabbed a handful of green hypergolic dust and threw it at the little spiders. As soon as the dust made contact, the little spiders began to burn with bright green flames. The Green Hypergolic Dust could set fire to anything. The hundreds and thousands of little spiders that had been packed together were all set ablaze by the dust.

The Green Hypergolic Dust was also a vicious demonic weapon. Against those little spiders with mediocre vitality, the Green Hypergolic Dust was like an atomic bomb. As the green flames ripped through their bodies, the little spiders chirped and squealed in pain. The air was filled with the smell of something being charred.

Spider Goddess Rose had pinned her hopes on the swarm of little spiders. When she saw them set on fire, her face shook and her heart ached.

"I will kill you!" Rose let out another scream as the little spiders were reduced to tiny dark shapes in the sea of green flames. Suddenly, the huge spider web that enveloped the entire cave began to sway and covered Han Shuo. Because the spider web covered a large area, and because it descended at such a high speed, Han Shuo couldn't react in time.

Han Shuo was enveloped by the huge spider web. The spider silk was alive and agile. They would tighten and constrict around Han Shuo. A moment later, Han Shuo was tightly wrapped in the spider web.

Rose, whose divine energy was rapidly depleting as she defended against the seventeen flying swords, immediately sneered in a loud voice when she saw Han Shuo firmly trapped in her web. "Young man, you are so dead!"

Upon finishing these words, Rose injected her dark divine energy into the cave. With the help of her Dark Domain of Divinity, which enveloped the entire cave, her Dark Divine Energy flowed into the spider silk that wrapped around Han Shuo's demonic body. They became even tougher and more durable after being strengthened by the dark divine energy.

While some of the spider silk tightly trapped Han Shuo, a small portion of it loosened before shooting towards Han Shuo like sharp needles.

The Omen Invincible Body deployed automatically. The demonic art which Han Shuo had mastered to the second level was astonishing in its defensive power. The needle-like spider silks that went stabbing on Han Shuo's demonic body seemed to have met an indestructible object. Sharp and clear ringing noises were heard but the spider silks couldn't even pierce Han Shuo's skin.

"Impossible!" shrieked Rose. She did not expect Han Shuo's body to be so tough and her mind was thrown into small chaos.

Ting! Ting! Ting!… Unwilling to admin failure so quickly, Rose continued sending more spider silks to stab Han Shuo. However, Han Shuo remained completely unharmed.

Although Han Shuo couldn't escape from the spider silks, he remained calm and continue to attack Rose by maneuvering the seventeen flying swords. He even remarked in a contemptuous tone, "Stop wasting your energy. These spider silks can't hold nearly enough divine energy to do me harm!"

"I don't believe that every inch of your body is impregnable!" yelled Rose. The spider silk began to crawl towards Han Shuo's ears, nose, eyes and every other orifice!

"Then I will convince you!" Han Shuo smiled faintly. Then, using the insane control he had over his physical body, he began to alter his ears, nostrils and other parts of his body. Small lumps of flesh suddenly sealed his orifices. The spider silk could not harm him.

If this attack of Rose's had landed on other gods, even Erebus and Aobashi, experts of the same strength as Rose, they would have been injured from head to toe and most likely lost their lives.

But unfortunately for Rose, her opponent was Han Shuo.

Han Shuo's main body was incredibly tough to begin with. On top of that, after reaching the second stage of his Invincible Omen Body cultivation, the defensive power of his body had increased significantly. And since the spider silk couldn't hold too much dark divine energy, Rose couldn't hurt Han Shuo.

Rose felt like she had met a monster when she discovered that Han Shuo was not only invulnerable from head to toe, but could even control his nostrils and ear canals with his thoughts. Of course, she had never met a Demonic art cultivator before. She had never imagined that a person could have such absolute control over their body.

Seeing that her attacks were ineffective, as she had used a large amount of her divine energy to defend against the flying swords, the thought of retreating crept into her mind.

With the seventeen flying swords flying around, Rose could not get close to Han Shuo to hurt him. Seeing that Han Shuo was firmly restrained by her spider silk, she thought that Han Shuo couldn't do much to stop her from leaving. Now would be the perfect opportunity to escape!

"Young man, I will not forget you. I will not keep you company any longer. But I will be looking for you to take my revenge sooner or later!" said Rose after she shot a glare at Han Shuo with her cold, sinister eyes.

Seeing that Rose was about to leave, Han Shuo began to struggle to free himself from the spider silk that was wrapped around him. However, Han Shuo could not use his full strength as the seventeen flying swords needed the support of his demonic yuan. With the spider silk being strengthened by Rose's dark divine energy, and with layers wrapped around him, he could not free himself immediately.

"Our battle today is only a draw. I spent too much divine energy and there are some attacks I couldn't use. Next time, next time, I'll get you!" said Rose as she tried to leave.

Although Rose said it was a draw, she knew in her heart that she had lost. If she did not leave, not only would she not be able to hurt Han Shuo, but sooner or later her divine energy would be depleted by the seventeen flying swords. When that happens, she will undoubtedly be dead.

"You cannot escape, Rose!" After struggling a few times and failing to free himself, Han Shuo sent one of the flying swords attacking Rose back to himself to quickly cut off the spider silk.

The spider silk was indeed quite tough. Each stroke of the sword could only cut a few threads. It would take some time to cut all the spider silk with just one flying sword.

But Rose obviously wasn't going to wait for Han Shuo. After one of the flying swords flew away, the pressure on Rose decreased considerably. Without wasting any words with Han Shuo, she ran for the exit, defending herself against the sixteen flying swords. She struck the cave wall with her claws, causing large rocks to fall and block the flying swords.

With his mind, Han Shuo sent all sixteen remaining flying swords flying back to him. The seventeen flying swords then quickly spun around him to cut off the spider threads.

Soon Han Shuo was free. He expanded his consciousness and instantly sensed the direction in which Rose was fleeing. He immediately activated the Demonic Ninth Heaven Art and went after her. Rose had used up an enormous amount of her divine energy. It was the best time to eliminate her. If Han Shuo missed this opportunity, it wouldn't be easy to find her again.

Although Rose was fast, Han Shuo was even faster. When she was only a few hundred kilometres away from the mountain, Han Shuo was standing in her way. Without a word, he unleashed the seventeen flying swords. The moment Rose was trapped by the flying swords, he charged at her with the Demonslayer Edge in his hand.

"Wait! Actually, there is no enmity between us that cannot be resolved. I don't want these divine essences anymore!" Rose had truly lost her head when she saw Han Shuo charging at her, but she couldn't win and she couldn't run. Her tone began to soften.

Han Shuo did not move. His eyes continued to stare at Rose and his face remained cold. It was clear that Han Shuo would not let her go.

"I surrender. I will be your servant!" Rose cried out in panic as she saw that Han Shuo was still determined to kill her.