Chapter 279: Chapter 44 Mountain Spider [Bone Attachment Device]_2
In just a few breaths, the cancerous transformation had spread across the entire body of the giant spider. Da Ai Mi Tian had silently infiltrated the interior and exterior of the fake magical treasure.
Bang...
The giant spider collapsed heavily, and the turbulent air currents it stirred were blocked by the new and old layers of skin. Li Mo continued meticulously grinding the mother-child stone.
The originally half-meter-sized mother-child stone had visibly reduced by a significant layer.
"Ah, no wonder even the Human Demon Sect has abandoned the soul banner and replaced it with the more controllable human-faced beast."
Li Mo didn’t even glance at the giant spider, instead directing the Blood Soul to collect the mother-child stone powder and carefully store it into a specially crafted glass bottle.
After tidying up the spiritual materials, he used his divine sense to inspect the giant spider.
The Spider Demon’s multiple-armed spine had reached the level of a fake magical treasure, transforming completely into an entity better described as a "Mountain Spider."
The Mountain Spider wasn’t a conventional magic artifact or treasure.
In fact, a soul banner, upon reaching the fake magical treasure phase, often transforms into a deceitful object. The Mountain Spider was slightly better, being in a state of half-deceitful object, half-magic treasure.
Perhaps its promotion was barely achieved due to the Spider Demon’s spine consuming immense amounts of human brains and being nourished by innate essence.
Tens of thousands of eyes endowed the Mountain Spider with considerable spiritual wisdom, but also with pure resentment. Even after refining the Mountain Spider, there remained a constant risk of it spiraling out of control at any moment.
"Interesting."
Li Mo absorbed the artifact refining skill gleaned from the Mountain Spider’s body. Its half-flesh, half-magical treasure construction diverged greatly from conventional Refining Methods.
This left the hammer and anvil significantly enhanced.
"Li Mo! Li Mo!!!"
The Mountain Spider panted heavily, regaining a sliver of strength momentarily, hatred flowing unrestrained in its countless eyes fixed on Li Mo.
It tried to rise again, its limbs snapping under the strain.
Li Mo extended his finger and pressed it against the spider’s brow. Cancer cells surged madly, leaving the cave filled only with the giant spider’s anguished roars.
Within a few breaths, tumors and fleshy nodules proliferated rapidly across the Mountain Spider’s body, engulfing it entirely and swelling it to a staggering two hundred meters in height.
The Mountain Spider ceased all movements, faint whispers murmuring the name "Li Mo" echoing faintly.
Li Mo stepped forward and stared at it for a long while, unable to help his amazement.
Inside the Mountain Spider, a honeycomb-like metallic thread structure had formed, blending elements of flesh and treasure, showcasing an exceptional subtlety.
He also discovered that the spirit pattern brewed within the Mountain Spider wasn’t the usual soul spirit rune but a far more sinister and eerie "Artifact Soul Spirit Pattern."
The Artifact Soul Spirit Pattern belonged to the lower grade spirit patterns, but the power it exhibited was by no means inferior.
The Mountain Spider utilized the Artifact Soul Spirit Pattern to ceaselessly devour human brains, nourishing its own body, while also possessing autonomy far beyond the norm.
Li Mo even suspected that the Artifact Soul Spirit Pattern was the first of its kind ever to emerge.
Under normal circumstances, the Mountain Spider should wholly transform into a deceit beast, carrying the soul spirit rune. The Artifact Soul Spirit Pattern was purely an anomaly.
"If it were anyone else, they truly wouldn’t know how to deal with you."
A faint smile curled at Li Mo’s lips as he placed his palm on the Mountain Spider and began to open the blank page within the Creation Book in his mind.
The blank page revealed an indistinct shadow of the Mountain Spider.
If the Mountain Spider were a deceitful object, the Creation Book would have been incapable of imprinting it. However, the Mountain Spider’s unique construction of half-flesh, half-magical treasure, coupled with its infusion of a massive quantity of cancer cells, ensured its compatibility.
Li Mo possessed eleven blank pages, and spending one on the Mountain Spider seemed a worthwhile trade.
Through feedback from the Creation Book, he learned that once imprinted, the Mountain Spider could transform into an external attached organ without interfering with his own body.
Perceiving the looming danger, the Mountain Spider desperately tried to escape Da Ai Mi Tian, but the cancer cells had already fused with it entirely.
The blank page completed its imprint.
The countless eyes on the Mountain Spider’s surface simultaneously shut tight, plunging it into a deep slumber.
Li Mo withdrew Da Ai Mi Tian as the Mountain Spider reverted to its original size and its fractured limbs began to visibly regenerate.
He silently assessed the pros and cons of the Mountain Spider.
The Mountain Spider possessed the restorative power of deceitful objects without the extreme mutation; it retained the growth potential of a magical treasure but was far more prone to losing control.
"Beings like the Mountain Spider must be exceedingly rare, but I could perhaps mass-produce them using the Magic Artifact Catalog."
Li Mo closed his eyes to cultivate while awaiting the completion of the Mountain Spider’s imprint.
The imprinting persisted for a full hundred days before the Mountain Spider awakened, devoid of any trace of hostility. Its thousands of eyes dared not meet Li Mo’s gaze.
The Mountain Spider soon activated its divine skills.
[Bone Attachment Device]
With a single thought, Li Mo covertly utilized the Bone Attachment Device, and the Mountain Spider emitted bone-crushing noises as its body began to destabilize.
The towering hundred-meter beast fragmented into tens of thousands of tiny spiders.
Li Mo swallowed hard as countless miniature spiders crawled along his spine, drilling into his vertebrae beginning from the first segment.
A chill ran down his spine, and he felt thousands of insects burrowing into him, merging with his bone marrow in a deeply unnerving process.
Suppressing his instinctual resistance, Li Mo endured until the Mountain Spider had entirely merged into his spine, then commanded Da Ai Mi Tian to heal the wounds on his back.
"The divine skill Bone Attachment Device enhances bone toughness, and moreover..."
"Allows control over the bones."
Li Mo muttered to himself as he swung his right hand forcefully, the sound of air tearing through the cave followed by an imprint of his fist left on the rock wall.
He began exerting more force, punching repeatedly with increasing power. Though his muscles showed slight signs of tearing, his bones remained entirely intact.
Continuing to activate the divine skill, Li Mo’s bones began to grow rapidly.
In the blink of an eye, his arm swelled to a massive three meters in size. With Da Ai Mi Tian assisting the Bone Attachment Device, its flexibility was unaffected.
Soon after, dozens of slender spider legs extended from Li Mo’s ribs.
The spider legs, covered in eyes, amplified his divine sense by two or three times. Li Mo controlled the legs with such ease, as though they were his own limbs, requiring no additional effort.