Volume 1 Chapter 10: Worry-Free Wooden Spirit Stone

  "Thud!" With a loud noise, Feng Ruochen fell heavily to the ground. Despite his strong physique and protective magic, he was still shaken to the core, his blood rushing up.

  Fortunately, his mind was still clear and he knew that he couldn't stay in the same place, or else he would become a meal for the silver spider.

  Because the cave was pitch black, Feng Ru couldn't even guess how big it was. He could only roughly estimate that the cave was at least three or four zhang deep from the ground. With such a height, he wouldn't be able to climb up for the time being, let alone with a spider above!

  At this time, a "sizzling" sound came, and Feng Ruo raised her head to take a look, only to find that the silver spider had caught up and was quickly crawling down the cave.

  He didn't dare to be slow, and hastily poured a thread of spiritual power into the Moonlight Short Sword. Instantly, a small cluster of flames appeared on the sword's body. Now he really had to thank his experience in refining the Hemostatic Powder from before; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to manipulate his spiritual power so skillfully.

  Taking advantage of this glimmer of light, Feng Ruo stumbled forward, fortunately the cave seemed to be extremely spacious, and there was no need to worry about being trapped to death in a short period of time.

  It was here that the silver spider's lair was finally located, and in an instant, the silver spider caught up, opened its mouth, and a very fine web thread once again wrapped around Feng Ru's right leg, the huge pulling force almost causing him to fall to the ground.

  "Despicable!" Without thinking twice, Feng Ruo's Flame Blade was activated again, directly cutting off the spider silk. However, after using the Flame Blade twice in a row, he had already consumed a large amount of magic power. Adding to that, his previous sprint had put him in an extremely precarious situation. After all, his Flame Blade had a limited number of uses, whereas the silver spider's web could be shot out continuously. This wasn't going to work!

  He quickly took out a packet of Revitalizing Powder from his Qiankun Bag and swallowed it, causing a surge of warmth to burst forth in his body, and in the blink of an eye, he recovered some of the little spiritual power that remained.

  With a sudden gritting of her teeth, Fang Ruo directly sent all the spiritual energy within her body to the Reflecting Moon Short Blade. In an instant, a dazzlingly bright flame burst forth, and under this light, the dark cave was suddenly as bright as daylight!

  Perhaps stimulated by this bright firelight, the silver spider that was originally rushing forward actually retreated a little.

  Taking advantage of this brief opportunity, Feng Ru quickly swallowed another packet of Huo Luo San and looked around at the surroundings, finally finding a narrow slit on the left stone wall of the cave.

  "It's there!" Having confirmed the target, Feng Ruo immediately sprinted over. Given the current situation, even if this cave was incredibly vast, he wouldn't be able to escape the silver spider's pursuit. So it was better to find a position that was easy to defend and hard to attack, which might allow him to survive for a little while longer.

  As he squeezed into the narrow slit, the firelight on the short knife also slowly disappeared due to the lack of spiritual energy. At this moment, he couldn't care about anything else, and desperately squeezed in, then shrunk inside, with his back against the stone wall, holding the knife with both hands towards the outside, which was now his only means of defense.

  Very soon, the huge silver spider rushed over, but unexpectedly, it stopped for a moment and then directly spat out threads of web to completely seal off the entrance of this gap!

  "What is this beast trying to do? Does it want to suffocate itself or preserve itself as food?" Feng Wu thought in shock, but at the same time, a chill rose up in his heart, because he suddenly realized that the spider seemed to be acting not just on instinct like ordinary wild beasts, but rather as if it had gained intelligence, and such an opponent was undoubtedly the most terrifying.

  Taking a deep breath, Feng Ruo forced himself to calm down. Now that the entrance was sealed by the spider silk, he couldn't rush out, so he had to think of another way. But after touching the hard stone wall behind him, he could only smile bitterly. Was he supposed to dig an escape route on this wall? His Moonlight Short Sword might not be sharp enough for that!

  "No! Actually, I can try the Flame Blade!" Suddenly, Feng Ruo's eyes lit up as he thought of this method. The Flame Blade wasn't just sharp, but combined the power of the Five Elements Stone and his own magic, so cutting through the stone wall wouldn't be a problem. The only drawback was that even with the remaining three packets of Revitalizing Powder, he could only barely manage to use the Flame Blade five times.

  "Now there's only the hope that spider really thinks it has trapped itself!" Feng Ruo thought to herself, strongly enduring without taking the Revitalizing Powder, and instead swallowed a rice cake. Then she cleared her mind of various distractions, silently circulating the first layer of the Qingyun Incantation to recover her depleted magical powers.

  It wasn't until about five or six hours later that the spiritual energy he had previously consumed was restored, and this speed was already quite good for him. After all, his conditions were fundamentally incomparable to those of the third generation disciples of the Qingyun Sect.

  He slightly moved his hands and feet, and Fang Ruo carefully listened to the movement outside for a while, but he still couldn't confirm whether the silver spider was still in this cave, so he didn't dare to take the risk of rushing out.

  Without thinking much, Feng quickly ran his hand over the stone wall in the gap to determine the position of excavation. However, what made him extremely disappointed was that all positions were incredibly hard stone walls, and there was no soil or sandstone as he had hoped. From this, it can be seen that this cave should be naturally formed, not dug out by that spider.

  He let out a quiet sigh, and then silently activated his magic power. The Moonlight Short Sword released a half-foot long flame before he began to carve into the stone wall behind him!

  As expected, the Flame Knife's power was indeed able to excavate that hard stone wall, but the effect was somewhat different. By the time the flames on the Mapping Moon Short Sword disappeared, he had only managed to dig out a hole the size of a skull. Fortunately, during the "ding ding dang" process just now, the silver spider didn't react at all, otherwise his plan to escape would have been ruined.

  Next, Feng Wu continued to wield the Flame Knife to carve through the stone wall, only leaving a little magic power each time to cast the Flame Knife, just in case the silver spider suddenly rushed in, fortunately this did not actually happen.

  It was unknown how long it took, but after Feng Ru opened up several meters, he suddenly discovered a tree root passing through the hard rock from above. It was also unknown what kind of power this was, but where the tree root passed, the hard rock cracked open with cracks.

  He was stunned for a moment, and then Feng Ruo immediately changed the direction of excavation, digging along the roots of the tree. This suddenly made his excavation speed much faster, and when more roots appeared, he basically didn't need to use the Flame Knife to advance quickly.

  And when Feng Ru approached the center of the tree roots, he suddenly found that among the many tree roots, there was a space of about one to two meters!

  "Huh?" Fang Rong was initially puzzled, but immediately overjoyed, for this space was filled with a rich and dense spiritual energy, its thickness even surpassing the spiritual energy he had felt in his courtyard at Ningyuan.

  Realizing this, Feng Ruo hastily drilled into the space and sealed the entrance of the tunnel she had dug with mud to prevent the thick spiritual energy from dissipating.

  After doing all this, Feng Ruo carefully transmitted a thread of spiritual power into the Short Sword of Mapping Moon. Along with a faint flame lighting up, the situation in this space also fell into his eyes.

  Only dense and lush tree roots seem to be commanded by some kind of power, spreading out in a very regular manner, then forming an empty space similar to a wine jar in the middle. In this empty space, those scattered tree roots intersect again, and at that central intersection point, a small bulge is formed.

  Feng Ruo just took a glance and immediately confirmed that the dense spiritual energy in this space came from this location.

  "Could it be that this is the wooden attribute spirit stone!" Fēng Ruò squatted down, thinking excitedly. He had also heard Kǒng Fēi and others mention this spirit stone before. This object was even more precious than the five-element stones, because the spiritual energy contained within could be completely absorbed by cultivators, making their daily cultivation twice as effective.

  And this spirit stone is also divided into various attributes such as gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and thunder, it's just that this thing is really scarce, even the lowest grade of spirit stone, one needs hundreds of five-element stones to buy it, even a merchant like Qu Yun can't afford it.