Chapter 9 (Part 1) of Book 4: True Feelings or False Intentions

  I was secretly shocked, facing such a fire person, I felt a little at a loss. The fiery flames outlined the enchanting face of the red-hot fire demon, and even her flowing eyes were exceptionally clear. Her front face said: "In the past, Lin Gongzi fought with Liu Cuifei for me." Her left face continued: "Now he has ruthlessly come to kill me." Her right face finally smiled lightly: "A man's heart can change so quickly."

  I sneered, "Yesterday Xiaohong was pitiful in my arms, but now she's intimidating, who has changed faster?" With both fists full of Hunyuan Jiaoyu technique, I struck again, and Chiyan Huomo met me without hesitation.

  "Boom", the two sides clashed fiercely, and the flames suddenly dimmed. Along with the body of Chi Yan Huo, he retreated back, and two of his six arms disappeared. I hadn't even had time to rejoice when the fire tongue spat out, and the missing arms reappeared. Chi Yan Huo said coldly: "Your Chaos Armor Technique is not yet mastered."

  I let out a cold snort and cast dozens of spells in succession, attacking her like a tidal wave. After a fierce battle that lasted for more than half an hour, I still couldn't gain the upper hand, but she couldn't do anything to me either. Suddenly, I had an epiphany and conjured up a gust of wind, flying into the air and launching a surprise attack on her from above.

  Chi Yan Huo smiled and shouted: "Wind Fire Wheel!" Gu Li, Gu Guai jumped up in pairs, transforming into wind wheels and fire wheels. Chi Yan Huo stepped on the Wind Fire Wheel, slowly rising into the air, flying freely in mid-air, continuing to entangle with me.

  Chi Yan suddenly said: "You've been busy all night, and then you'll have another fierce battle with me. Even if you rush to Dacheng City, your energy will be greatly exhausted. How can you still fight against Yun Dalang who is well-prepared?"

  "You demoness, why so much nonsense?" I said irritably. Taking advantage of my momentary distraction, the Red Lotus Fire suddenly plunged straight down, splitting into two arms that flashed towards the pavilion on the cliff like lightning.

  This pavilion was originally dilapidated, and after being ravaged by the strange strong wind, only four stone pillar bases were left, with only a small half exposed. I suddenly found that each of the pillar bases had a bright red talisman attached to it. At this time, as soon as it was touched by the scarlet flame, the talismans immediately burned and turned to ashes.

  "Rumble", with four pillar bases as the center, suddenly cracked open a deep black gap, rapidly expanding outward. Huashengguo and Dahu were fully focused on watching us fight, caught off guard for a moment, and fell into the gap. I was shocked and didn't expect there to be hidden mechanisms here. Not having time to care about the Red Practice Fire, I quickly flew down, rushed towards the gap, and stretched out my hand to grab Huashengguo and Dahu.

  "There's a pair of male and female twin-bodied poisonous spiders hidden inside, which I sealed with the True Flame of Samadhi under this pavilion a few years ago. Young master, be careful, if you get bitten by them, you'll lose your life." A laughter that could stir one's soul echoed from above, while below, Da Hu and Hua Shengyue plummeted straight down into the depths of the chasm.

  I was both angry and anxious, accelerating my fall to the edge of the cliff. My left arm transformed into an iron chain that suddenly extended, just as I was about to rescue someone. Suddenly, the Red Practice Fire opened its mouth and spat out four flames, transforming into four red talismans that flashed onto each pillar like lightning. With a loud "boom", the mountain cliff shook, and the expanding chasm began to shrink, as if it were going to reseal itself.

  I'm secretly suffering, at this moment there are only two choices. Either I jump into the crevice to rescue Hua Sheng and Guo, but I'll also be trapped inside, and who knows, we might all die together; or I simply don't care about their lives or deaths. Damn it, should I save them or not? This is really a big problem!

  In the blink of an eye, the opening had shrunk to a half-foot wide crevice. Looking down, it was bottomless and pitch black. The shadows of Big Tiger and Huasheng Guo were getting smaller and smaller inside, and Huasheng Guo's cries of surprise pierced my eardrums like needles. Gritting my teeth, I leapt into the crevice without hesitation. "Boom", the crevice closed, and in the instant when the last ray of light above me disappeared, I saw Chi Yan's complex gaze staring down at me.

  All around was dark and empty, I rapidly fell downwards, while operating the Mirror Pupil Secret Path Technique to observe, iron chains suddenly stretched out to scoop up the peanuts and big tiger below. In the darkness, two people fell like bullets, halfway through they suddenly bounced back up, then fell down again, repeatedly bouncing several times before finally stopping in mid-air.

  I took a closer look and found that below was a dense, giant net stretching out in all directions towards the foot of the mountain, its color pitch black. It just so happened to catch the falling fruit. I also landed on the net, surrounded by crisscrossing black threads with great elasticity. With a light jump, I was bounced high into the air.

  The peanut fruit covered its little buttocks, looking around in a frightened and uncertain manner: "What kind of place is this? Why is it so dark?"

  I carefully examined the giant web under my feet, recalling Chi Lian Huo's words and remembering the three characters "Spider Pavilion" on the pavilion sign. I immediately became fully alert: "We are trapped in the mountain belly, there may be a spider spirit nearby. You all keep your voices down, don't disturb it." Silently cursing Chi Lian Huo for being so sinister, she had actually set up this trap, waiting for me to fall into it.

  The big tiger got up, took out a small iron tube from its bosom, fiddled with it for a moment, and a faint yellow light suddenly shot out of the tube. The round halo was projected onto the mountain wall. I curiously said: "What is this thing? It looks like a lantern."

  "Ah, I call it a Hand Lantern," said the big tiger with a silly grin. "The front end of the tube is filled with rotten grass, and the back end contains a liquid called 'Summer Night'. In the middle, there's a sealed partition that blocks them off. When you're in a dark place, just remove the partition and let the Summer Night liquid flow into the rotten grass, and it will produce fireflies to light your way."

  I gasped in amazement, the big tiger shook his hand and lit up the tube, and we could see some of the scenery around us. All around were steep stone walls, damp and cold, with a few drops of water seeping out from the cracks in the wall and dripping onto our heads. At this moment, the giant web suddenly trembled a few times. Two green beads slowly approached from afar, the beads kept flashing, and the green glow was very eerie.

  "It's a giant spider! No, it's Spiderman!" Peanut snatched the flashlight from Big Tiger's hand and shone it at Green Pearl several times, screaming.

  This is a spider with legs as large as desktops, its body covered in colorful patterns. Its lower half was six thick and fluffy legs that moved clumsily, shaking the giant web back and forth. The upper half however was a robust man, green eyes blinking greedily staring at us, mouth spewing out black sticky liquid.

  It turned out that there really was a spider spirit! This giant web must have been a spider's web. I didn't hesitate, and with a swift slash of my knife, the dazzling golden light tore through the darkness, causing the spider spirit to let out a short, pained screech as its waist split open with a large wound, blood spraying out.

  "I thought you'd be more formidable, but it turns out you're not that tough after all!" Peanut Fruit said with a shake of his head, then suddenly widened his eyes in shock.

  The spider spirit's blood miraculously stopped, the wound healed quickly, and it became lively again. It opened its mouth at us, and a black liquid gushed out like a spring, flowing along the web and rapidly spreading towards where we stood.

  I secretly wondered, could this spider spirit also have the ability to automatically heal wounds like Long Qi? I blew out a gust of wind and pulled up Da Hu, Hua Sheng Guo flew up, leaving the spider web, looking down on the spider spirit from above.

  On the back of the spider spirit, there was another spider spirit. The lower half also had six spider legs, and the waist was connected to the male spider spirit. The upper body was a naked woman with a slightly bulging belly, full and high breasts, and green milk dripping from them.

  No wonder Chi Yan Huo said there was a pair of male and female connected poisonous spiders!

  I blew a gust of wind, sweeping past the spider spirit's body, aiming at the male spider spirit, and sprayed out the Samadhi True Fire. The fierce flames immediately burned a large black hole in his chest. The male spider spirit let out a miserable cry, and the female spider spirit suddenly pressed ***, squeezed out milk, and applied it to her own chest in the same position.

  A strange thing happened, although the female spider spirit wiped her own chest, but the male spider spirit's wound healed instantly. It seemed that milk could penetrate through the female spider spirit and seep into the male spider spirit's body.

  It seems that to kill the male spider spirit, I must first get rid of the female spider spirit and not give her a chance to treat the male spider spirit. As I was thinking about making my move, the female spider spirit suddenly spat out a few strands of black, green-glowing spider silk from her mouth, radiating in all directions. In no time, spider webs were formed everywhere, layer upon layer, dense and tight, leaving almost no empty space in the air, completely covered by the spider webs. I was forced to land on one of the webs as I couldn't fly anymore.

  Along the spider web, the spider spirit slowly crawled over. This pair of spider spirits was extremely cunning, with the male spider spirit always facing me and not allowing me to come into contact with the female spider spirit. A stream of black sticky liquid flowed along the spider silk towards us, emitting a foul odor.

  I knew this must be the spider spirit's venom, once stained it would be a fatal cry. Taking advantage of the venom not yet spreading throughout the web, I'll take the initiative to strike first. Summoning my divine power, I stepped on the spider web and bravely killed towards the spider spirit.

  Damn it! I rushed halfway, suddenly couldn't move, my feet were stuck to the spider silk, and no matter how hard I pulled, I couldn't pull them out. These spider silks were spat out by the female spider spirit just now, with an astonishingly strong viscosity, completely different from the spider silks of the giant web before. I hurriedly tried to cut off the spider silk, but neither the Pulse Knife nor the Soldier's Armor Technique could cut it off.

  I broke out in a cold sweat and sprayed the Triple-Truth Fire to burn the spider silk. With a "sizzling" sound, my feet loosened, and the spider silk snapped. Before I could regain my composure, the entire spider web suddenly lifted up and covered me from head to toe, rushing towards me like a wave of raging tides. The nearby spider webs one after another rushed towards me, covering me. Once the spider silk stuck to my body, it firmly adhered, making it impossible for me to move.

  The peanut fruit and the big tiger shouted in unison, the spider spirit kept getting closer and closer, ferociously pouncing over, its hairy long legs almost reaching my face.