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Novel: [The Primordial Law]
Volume 2: [Jiuli Insect Valley]
Chapter 53 (80): [The Four-Winged Spider King]
(53rd of Volume 2)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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Li Weiyi couldn't possibly abandon the Cistanche.
"Precious Medicine emits a medicinal fragrance," he said, "How are you going to deal with the scent on you? You should have considered this before the trial."
Yaoyin was still struggling to respond when Li Weiyi pulled out a massive black cloth and wrapped the crimson Cistanche inside.
Instantly, all light and scent were concealed.
It was the Ghost Banner.
Li Weiyi himself crawled inside, intending to use the Ghost Banner's concealment to bypass the trial directly.
After a moment's thought, he poked his head out and looked at the stunned little girl sitting at the bow of the boat: "Do you want to hide in here?"
Yaoyin let out a muffled sound and turned her head away.
"Alright, just try to suppress your aura as much as possible. Don't attract the Flying Winged White Spider!"
Li Weiyi retreated back into the Ghost Banner, his mind racing.
Earlier, he had deliberately fallen from mid-air, feigning vulnerability to test whether Yaoyin would seize the opportunity to kill him. If she had attacked, Li Weiyi wouldn't have hesitated to eliminate her first.
The situation remained the same now.
Though seemingly defenseless, wrapped in the Ghost Banner, Li Weiyi was actually waiting for Yaoyin to strike.
"She's only fifteen, and it's clear she's been sheltered her entire life. No matter how cold she pretends to be, she's still soft-hearted. With such a temperament, even if she possesses a Pure Immortal Physique, she might not survive to the end."
"Forget it, I won't intervene. I'll leave this to those who have opened the Eighth and Ninth Springs. They'll likely see the Pure Immortal Physique as their primary enemy."
Li Weiyi took a bite of Cistanche and began to chew.
A five-hundred-year-old Precious Medicine truly was different. It melted in his mouth like liquid jade, filling his mouth with a radiant glow. A warm current of medicinal energy spread from his lips and tongue down to his abdomen, then radiated throughout his body.
Li Weiyi felt a warm, soothing sensation throughout his entire body, as if he were soaking in a hot spring.
After a month of arduous cultivation, the barrier of the Eighth Spring had grown thin, ready to be shattered at any moment.
For Martial-Mystic Cultivators who had opened the Eighth Spring, the most challenging aspect, aside from refining their Meridian Veins, was actually cultivating their Fengfu (Wind Palace).
The Wind Palace was like an internal world, similar to the Third Eye Spiritual Realm, or a Lesser Qi Sea.
Li Weiyi possessed the Buddha's Relic, a spatial treasure that could assist in cultivating his internal world. This meant the final hurdle was essentially nonexistent.
Once he opened the Eighth Spring, he could focus on dealing with Li Qing first, then test the difficulty of the Psychic (Telekinetic) Mural.
With Master Coffin's letter in hand, like holding an imperial sword, Li Weiyi felt emboldened.
After all, he was the descendant of the Jiu Li Tribe's leader from a thousand years ago.
Being a bit extraordinary was only fitting.
Yaoyin sat alone at the bow of the boat, her jade-green eyes scanning the riverbanks with intense vigilance, of course also wary of Li Weiyi.
Gradually, dense spiderwebs appeared on the river, some forming nets that blocked the boat's progress.
Yaoyin glanced at the figure hidden beneath the black cloth, ultimately deciding not to rely on him.
She retrieved a Spiritual Artifact dagger hidden in her sleeve and carefully began slicing through the webs.
These spiderwebs were incredibly tough, even stronger than the webs of the Giant Spider.
They could be woven into battle robes or used to craft low-level Spiritual Artifact ropes.
But here, they were deadly.
Once entangled, there was no escape.
The boat's progress became agonizingly slow.
She saw numerous human skeletons suspended upside down in the water, trapped within the webs. It was obvious they were Seven Springs Trial-Takers from previous years.
Just a few meters away on the riverbank, clusters of fist-sized, white globes with membranous wings were scattered about.
These were clearly dormant Flying Winged White Spiders.
The scene before her filled Yaoyin with extreme tension. She dared not imagine the horror of waking them all.
Meanwhile, Li Weiyi lay on the boat, practicing the Jade Void Breathing Technique, completely absorbed in his cultivation.
About half a day later, the boat came to a complete stop.
The sudden change in the environment jolted Li Weiyi from his cultivation. Curious, he wondered why Yaoyin had stopped the boat.
Suddenly, a faint, stifled whimper drifted from outside the Ghost Banner. It gradually grew more pained, with rapid breathing and louder cries.
"What are you doing?"
Li Weiyi emerged from the Ghost Banner, fixing his gaze on Yaoyin, who was curled up at the bow of the ship, trembling uncontrollably.
The dim light made it impossible to see what she was up to.
Li Weiyi scanned the surroundings.
Above, a dense web of spider silk hung, dotted with dormant White Spiders and Fierce Insects, along with several inverted skeletons.
He inhaled sharply.
"Don't make too much noise. If you wake them, we'll both be strung up today, our flesh devoured until nothing remains."
However there was no response.
Sensing something was terribly wrong with Yaoyin, Li Weiyi cautiously crawled out of the Ghost Banner.
She was curled up like a kitten shivering on a winter street, her body wracked with some unknown agony. Her whimpers were barely contained.
"Why is she so cold?"
The moment Li Weiyi approached, he felt a bone-chilling cold. He gently touched her forehead, cheeks, and arm. Her entire skin felt like ice.
Even more terrifying, her skin was covered in a dense network of ice cracks.
Li Weiyi had no idea what had happened to her, but her cries were growing louder, and the Flying Winged White Spiders around them had begun to stir.
Logically, Li Weiyi could have seized this opportunity to end Yaoyin's life with a single sword strike, ending the matter once and for all.
However, Yaoyin had refrained from taking advantage of him earlier, so Li Weiyi naturally couldn't do the same.
"Forget it. Consider her just that baseball bat. I can't bring myself to break her with my own hands."
Li Weiyi lifted Yaoyin and stuffed her entirely into the Ghost Banner, forcing her to cling tightly to the Cistanche, which radiated intense heat. He also fed her a mouthful.
Whether she could survive depended on her own fate.
Once the Ghost Banner was tightly sealed, the muffled, groaning sound of Yaoyin struggling with the object in her mouth became barely audible.
Drawing the Yellow Dragon Sword, Li Weiyi sat at the bow of the boat, preparing to cut through the spider silk blocking the river.
Suddenly, a strange cry echoed from behind him.
Without a second thought, he turned and slashed backward with his sword, severing the white spider silk that had been shot toward him.
"Gugu!"
A fist-sized Flying Winged White Spider scurried rapidly along a strand of spider silk several yards away before disappearing.
But its cry had awakened all the sleeping white spheres along the riverbanks.
One by one, they raised their heads, revealing dark red eyes that resembled a dense crimson starry sea.
"Damn it."
Li Weiyi abandoned all caution, desperate only to escape. He channeled his Spiritual Qi into the Yellow Dragon Sword and slashed forward with all his might, clearing a path through the dense web.
Any strand touched by the sword's yellow glow instantly melted.
"Swish! Swish! Swish..."
Countless spider threads shot toward him from all directions.
"Ruyi Qiankun Sword Strike."
Li Weiyi unleashed the second sword technique from the Chan Sect's Twelve Dispersed Technique, exploding into the realm of Heavenly Dao and Law Harmony Realm.
With a single strike, his sword split into a hundred shadows.
The cascading sword images formed an impenetrable defense, like a torrential downpour.
Every spider thread was severed.
But soon more threads surged forward, and some White Spiders even took flight, their razor-sharp wings slicing through the air as they swarmed the boat.
The entire spider cave erupted in a cacophony of shrieks.
White Spiders filled the sky, their membranous wings glinting like blades.
Li Weiyi managed to hold them off for only a single breath before releasing the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors from the insect tube on his back.
They clashed with the swarming White Spiders in a fierce battle.
Catching his breath, Li Weiyi quickly severed all the spider threads clinging to him and rushed to the bow of the boat.
He slashed his sword to clear a path while paddling furiously with the oar.
Though only at the Seven Springs cultivation level, he couldn't replicate Yin Ershi Si's feat of releasing Spiritual Qi to propel the wooden boat.
That was a technique only attainable in the Five Seas Realm.
Fortunately, the boat was drifting downstream, moving at incredible speed.
"Aren't you Emperor-Level? Shouldn't a mere wisp of your aura be enough to intimidate these Soldier-grade Fierce Insects?" Li Weiyi was displeased with the Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors' performance.
Three of the Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors immediately ceased fighting.
Li Weiyi hastily interjected, "I have a hundred pounds of five-hundred-year-old Cistanche! Whoever kills the most Fierce Insects gets the biggest share. I'll be keeping count..."
The three moth emperors that had stopped fighting immediately took flight again, their bodies erupting in multicolored radiance.
Their combat prowess surged to its peak as they charged back and forth through the swarm of White Spiders.
Insect corpses rained down like rain.
"Gugu!"
A deep, resonant cry echoed from the depths of a cave on the right.
Li Weiyi immediately grew alert. He discovered a Cistanche emitting purple light growing deep within the cave, dozens of yards from the river channel.
This indicated that the Precious Medicine was eight or nine hundred years old, not far from reaching the age of a Millennial Essence Medicine.
"How could it have grown here for eight or nine centuries without being harvested?"
As Li Weiyi pondered this, a White Spider the size of a human face crawled out from the purple glow of the Precious Medicine. Four blood-red wings sprouted from its back.
The deep, resonant cry that echoed through the cave came from its mouth.
"Clatter!"
The White Spider, now the size of a washbasin, moved its eight legs with lightning speed, charging toward the flat boat on the river like a streak of light.
"This Spider King is definitely not Soldier-Level!"
Li Weiyi immediately summoned his Black Iron Seal and struck it with the hilt of his sword.
"Boom!"
The thunderous roar shook the entire cave, and a bolt of lightning erupted like a radiant serpent.
The Four-Winged Spider King, flapping its wings, neither dodged nor evaded the attack. It spat out a beam of blood-red light that collided with the lightning serpent, surprisingly managing to withstand the blow.
Its four wings stirred up a violent gust of wind, growing closer with each flap.
Li Weiyi's expression shifted dramatically. He had never faced such a terrifying beast before.
He pulled out the Evil Camel Bell and channeled his Spiritual Qi into it.
Ignoring the risk of being corrupted by evil thoughts, he shook the bell frantically.
"Whoa!"
A giant camel, half-illusory, half-real, materialized on the boat and slammed into the Four-Winged Spider King as it flew toward them.
This blow finally sent the Spider King flying backward.
But in an instant, the Four-Winged Spider King was back, its roar even more ferocious.
"Don't kill it! Push the boat and get us out of here!"
Li Weiyi used his Mental Spiritual Power to command the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors. Though small, they possessed great strength and incredible speed.
Perhaps influenced by the Evil Camel Bell's malevolent aura, five of them had gone berserk, leaving only two to obey his order and push the boat.
"Clang! Clang!"
He shook the Evil Camel Bell again, and the giant camel struck the Four-Winged Spider King a second time, sending it reeling.
Li Weiyi knew his Spiritual Qi was rapidly depleting; he couldn't hold out much longer.
Of course, he had a trump card: the Buddha's Relic on the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish.
But the Four-Winged Spider King was too fast. He could only capture it within a three-meter range and store it in the Blood Mud Space.
The window of opportunity was fleeting. If he hesitated even a moment, his body would be torn apart. If he acted too quickly, he wouldn't be able to capture it at all.
Moreover, his three Masters were still inside the Blood Mud Space. Capturing another Spider King would endanger them as well.
"Don't force me to break through the Eighth Spring with the Combined Spring Technique!"
Li Weiyi desperately wanted to avoid such a dangerous method to break through.
Though the flatboat was speeding through the air, the Four-Winged Spider King relentlessly pursued it.
After repelling the king for the third time, Li Weiyi felt a serious health problem inside his body. A ringing sound echoed in his mind, the Six Desires Talisman on his chest flickered, and his entire body rapidly grew scorching hot.
It was like adding fuel to the fire - the Six Desires Talisman chose this critical moment to act up.
"Gugu!"
The Four-Winged Spider King led a swarm of White Spiders in rapid pursuit.
There was no time to search for pills.
Bloodshot eyes blazing, Li Weiyi's emotions ignited by the Evil Camel Bell, the Six Desires Talisman, and the life-or-death crisis before him.
He roared, "Kill!"
Malice transformed into battle intent, lust ignited his blood, overriding all reason.
Riding a camel that was half-real, half-illusory, he brandished the Yellow Dragon Sword and charged off the flatboat, stepping onto the River of Blood to launch a counter-offensive against the pursuing spider swarm.
The seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors were stunned, then transformed into seven streaks of multicolored light to follow.
A chaotic battle erupted over the River of Blood, raging until the sky turned dark.
"Boom! Boom..."
Li Weiyi wielded his swords, clashing fiercely with the Four-Winged Spider King. Wounds multiplied on his body, torn by the razor-sharp spider wings. Yet, the more he fought, the more invigorated he became, his rationality and consciousness gradually sharpening.
"How am I even locked in combat with the Spider King? Thank goodness for the seven Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors assisting me. Without them, I wouldn't have lasted this long. As for my so-called Guardian Wife... She is utterly unreliable. She hasn't even shown her face in this life-or-death situation."
"My head... it hurts so much. It's the Fengfu (Wind Palace)..."
Li Weiyi realized a sharp pain was radiating from his Fengfu Acupoint at the back of his head, as if a needle were piercing it. Instead of alarm, his heart filled with joy.
This is the sign of a Spring about to open!
He quickly steadied his mind and consciousness, activating his Breathing Technique.
Gradually, wisps of Spiritual Power began to seep from his Fengfu Acupoint.
Without hesitation, he channeled his spiritual light to activate the Buddha's Relic, drawing gentle spatial energy to converge on the Fengfu Acupoint.
"Boom!"
Moments later, as Li Weiyi slashed his sword at the Four-Winged Spider King, the internal space beneath his Fengfu Acupoint opened.
A torrent of violent Spiritual Power surged forth, imbuing his strike with unprecedented power.
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