Chapter 83 Green Hat Spider
The black spider finally realized that it was very likely that the strange sound was the culprit, but it was too exhausted to move and could only twitch occasionally to show that it was still alive.
[Lan Yue: A herbivorous demon beast in the carnivorous family; she likely has some untold past. I need to find out!]
[So that's how it is, it's a genetic mutation. But this guy's love history is also amazing. He actually fell for 88 female spiders, and ended up being cheated on by them all.]
It's not fair to say it was cuckolded; the female spider always looked down on it for only eating vegetables and openly ran off with other spiders.
[These spider brothers almost killed me with laughter. They just kept fighting, accumulating more spiritual fruits, planning to make a final, stunning debut and make all the female spiders regret their actions.]
[I told you, if you had brought one less branch and prepared more delicious food for them, maybe this would have worked out! Who can eat vegetarian food all day with you? Even with all sorts of spiritual fruits, it's still too monotonous.]
Lan Yue didn't notice that the spider opposite her suddenly lit up, as if it had realized something.
Just as she was about to leave, she noticed that the spider had sprung up again, slowly hanging on its silk, and disappeared without a trace.
Lan Yue blinked. She didn't plan to stay here any longer. Lying down was nice, but the ruins still needed to be explored. Yun Xi and the others were still missing.
She untied the spider silk binding her and stood up.
As expected, the spider monsters nearby remained motionless; each spider web was the territory of these spiders.
"Yinxue, we're going to..." Lanyue was about to say that they should leave immediately when she saw the moving tree branches swinging over.
Specifically, it should be that the black spider covered in spirit fruit branches returned again. It excitedly placed all the spirit fruits on its web and rubbed its front legs.
[Lan Yue: What is it doing?]
[System: Perhaps thanking you?]
The system also had some doubts.
Lan Yue's pupils dilated in shock. She had taken so many things, and this spider was going to thank her?
She tried to gather all the branches away, but the black spider didn't move and even seemed a little excited.
Lan Yue couldn't understand it and was greatly shocked.
At least she still had some conscience in the end, leaving the spider with two monster bodies.
She killed both of these demonic beasts while training in Green Jade Mountain, so she gave them to the spider as compensation, hoping it would find a wife soon.
Having collected so many spiritual fruits, Lan Yue felt a slight pang of conscience, but she quickly ignored it and was carried away from the towering ancient tree by Yin Xue.
The spiders around her, perhaps exhausted from fighting, only symbolically spit out a few strands of silk, which were easily cut by Yin Xue.
"Junior sister is amazing!"
Lan Yue had just landed and walked a short distance when she heard this voice. She gripped her silver-white longsword tightly, her eyes wary.
From the tall grass in the distance, a young man dressed in white gradually emerged. He had a pair of narrow, fox-like eyes with a smile at the corners.
"Junior sister is amazing. She actually managed to come out of the Black Spider's lair unscathed. She's truly powerful," the young man exclaimed in admiration.
The Xuan Tian Black Spider is a very peculiar species in the cultivation world. These spiders gather together to form a colony.
Whenever a colony is formed, there must be a Golden Core stage Xuan Tian Black Spider within it. That's why he hasn't made any rash moves yet, for fear of disturbing that Golden Core stage demon beast.
Unexpectedly, just as he was about to take a detour, a sound came from above.
These sounds didn't seem to be transmitted through sound, and it was unclear how the girl in front of them managed to send them out.
"You want to kill someone to steal their treasure?" Lan Yue couldn't help but think the other person looked shifty and sneaky.
This feeling was even stronger when she obtained so many high-level spiritual fruits!
"Why would you think that, Junior Sister? Although I come from the Holy Land of Beiling, I greatly admire your talent. Why don't we act together?"
"I am now at the Foundation Establishment stage, so I can travel together with my junior sister."
Let's also take a look at what's going on with that strange sound.
Nangong Ye smiled very gently.
"Excuse me, may I pass?" Lan Yue stepped directly onto the Silver Snow Sword and flew away swiftly, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Instead, Nangong Ye, who was behind him, was stunned.
After a long while, he smiled again, a very bright smile.
Even from afar, familiar voices can still be heard.
[Lan Yue: Isn't Nangong Ye also a villain in the later parts of the original story? He acts like a bad guy and tries to fool me? Dream on!]
Nangong Ye, who remained where he was, fell into deep thought. Although he did not know what the original work was, he could at least understand the meaning of the word "villain".
Does this mean he looks like a bad guy?
Nangong Ye subconsciously touched his face, wondering if he really looked that terrible.
He wanted to hear a few more words, but then he found that the sound had disappeared, and the little girl on the other side had also vanished.
"It seems that the sound is related to distance; you can't hear it if you're far away. That's interesting."
Without further delay, Nangong Ye jumped onto a tree and quickly left.
"I wonder if that guy from Baili Xingzhou actually found the Tree of Heaven. Could there really be a legendary artifact left behind by the Central Holy Land ten thousand years ago in this ordinary ruin?"
He walked quickly while muttering to himself.
At the other end of the forest, Yunxi and Libai, along with the disciples of the Northern Ridge Holy Land led by Baili Xingzhou, were fighting against the monsters in the forest.
They both accidentally fell into the lair of the scaled serpent, and haven't stopped since they entered the ruins.
Later, Baili Xingzhou sensed the fighting here and came to help, which led to their current struggle.
"Although these scaled snakes are only at the third or fourth rank, they are not the main snake. There must be scaled snakes of a higher rank controlling them from behind."
Baili Xingzhou glanced at the snake's body lying on the ground and guessed.
Third and fourth tier demonic beasts correspond to the early and late stages of Foundation Establishment. If there are even higher-ranking demonic beasts to be controlled, their strength is definitely no weaker than that of Golden Core cultivators.
If that's the case, then it's troublesome.
For those demonic beasts, the fourth rank is a watershed moment, just like the difference between a Golden Core cultivator and a Foundation Establishment cultivator in the human race—a world of difference.
"If all else fails..." Baili Xingzhou clenched his storage ring.
"Senior Brother Baili, absolutely not!" the disciple behind him shouted.
"The things our master gave us are for completing missions, we can't waste them here!"
Have you forgotten why we came here?
Hearing him say that, Baili Xingzhou frowned deeply.
If we don't deal with these scaled snakes, we probably won't be able to complete the mission.
"Senior Brother Baili, you should have just let those two from the Southern Spirit Sect fend for themselves back then. Instead, you had to bring us here. Now look what happened, we're all going to die together!" someone complained.
"Shut up! How can you talk about Senior Brother Baili like that? Have you forgotten his status?" the others scolded.
The man curled his lip. He was right; it was Baili Xingzhou who had acted on his own initiative.
If his master had entrusted the task to him, it might have been completed by now! Instead of wasting time here on unimportant people.
"Do you really think we can move freely without fighting these scaled snakes?" Baili Xingzhou pursed his lips.
"I used the divination given to me by the ancestor to calculate that all directions leading to the mission location are inhabited by monster hordes. The scaled snakes here are the weakest. If you really want to change direction, you can leave on your own."
The man scurried to the back of the group, crestfallen, and remained silent.
At that moment, a series of heartfelt thoughts suddenly echoed in the minds of all of them.
[Lan Yue: Strange, what's that? There's a snake over there incubating eggs, and it's a male snake at that. What are you doing there, a male snake, so enthusiastically incubating them?]
[Why are you glaring at me? No matter how much you glare at me, those little eggs you give birth to aren't going to just pop out!]
[Don't be so fierce, let me see when you'll finally hatch.]
Lan Yue looked at the enormous scaled snake in front of her, her face covered in cold sweat.
What kind of luck is this? She just escaped the spider's lair, and now she's next to such a huge scaly snake. If it weren't for the fact that the snake was focused on incubating its eggs, it would probably have swallowed her whole in no time.
"Hey Snake Bro, is there anything I can help you with? I can find it for you!"
Lan Yue patted her chest and repeatedly assured him, even offering him several handfuls of spiritual fruits.
I have to give a gift, otherwise this scaly snake in front of me will start drooling.
Even the silver snow in his arms was bristling, which showed just how powerful this scaled snake was.