Chapter 9 (Part 2) of Book 4: True Feelings or False Intentions

  At the critical moment, I recited a thousand knots curse. A string of bright and shiny threads flashed by, wrapping around the spider spirit's long legs, and the crystal threads quickly tied into knots. The spider spirit struggled desperately, but once the curse was tied, how could they easily untie it? After tying dozens of curses, the spider spirit finally stopped moving, its long legs covered in curses, its green glowing eyes staring at me with fear and confusion.

  "Didn't think so? My silk is more awesome than yours!" I exclaimed triumphantly, calmly spitting out the Triple-Truth Flame to burn away the spider silk wrapped around me. After another meal's worth of effort, I incinerated all the nearby spider webs.

  The peanut fruit curiously approached and touched me: "Brother Lin, you're probably a spider demon too? Otherwise, how can you also spit out silk?"

  I boasted a few words and walked up to the pair of spider spirits, wanting to kill them. Suddenly, tears flowed from the eyes of the male and female spider spirits, and their faces showed a pleading expression. I laughed in my heart and teased: "You still want to live?"

  The male and female spider spirits nodded in unison, so I teased them: "I'll spare your lives, but I can only let one of you go. Either kill the male or kill the female, you choose."

  The male spider spirit let out a few choking sounds from his throat, stretched his head in front of me and nodded repeatedly. I smiled and asked: "Do you mean you're willing to die?"

  The male spider spirit nodded, the female spider spirit's face showed a look of anxiety, she shook her head at me and then quickly stretched her head in front of me. I exclaimed: "You also want to die?"

  The female spider spirit nodded, the male spider spirit grumbled a few times in his throat, as if protesting, and then squeezed his head forward, tears streaming down. My heart softened, my gaze fell on the female spider spirit's swollen belly, and after a moment of contemplation, I silently chanted the spell to release the curse, saying: "You two have a deep love for each other, taking this into consideration, I'll let you off today."

  The male and female spider spirits were overjoyed, their hairy legs dancing wildly as they let out strange, grateful cries from their throats. I put on a stern face: "However, you must tell me how to get out of here. You've lived here for so long, you should know the exit."

  The male and female spider spirits shook their heads in unison, I sighed, it seemed that they were indeed sealed here by the Red Lotus Fire, so they didn't know the way out either. I had no choice but to force open a path from where we came. Summoning the Blowing Air Wind, I grabbed the Flower Fruits and Big Tiger, flying upwards.

  The male spider spirit waved its long legs and let out a urgent cry. I was taken aback and stopped to ask, "Is there something else?"

  The female spider spirit nodded, spat out a web from her mouth, and wrapped it tightly into a cup shape. She then squeezed out green milk from ***, poured it into the cup, sealed the opening with another web, and handed it to me with her six long legs.

  I'm supposed to drink spider milk? This way of thanking me is too inconsiderate. I took the cup with a bitter face, casually stuffed it into my bosom, and flew all the way to the top with a gust of wind. Below, the spider spirit was still waving its long legs at me, as if bidding farewell.

  "Boss, why don't we just kill them?" Hua Sheng Guo asked in confusion.

  I patted his head: "The enemy of the Red Lotus is our friend, isn't it? I remember Master saying that when doing things, we can't just look at immediate gains and losses, but think about the long-term. Besides, the female spider spirit's belly was slightly bulging, she might already be pregnant, how could I bear to strike? They have no grudge against us."

  The peanut fruit seemed to understand and nodded, I raised my head, staring at the dark stone wall above, it was just falling from here, now the mountain wall is completely closed, can't see a crack, apparently re-sealed by the Chiyan fire. With sufficient dragon and tiger secret path technique, I used all my strength to punch the stone wall.

  "Bang", my fist felt like it had been thrust into a scorching hot fire, the pain forcing me to quickly withdraw. After some thought, I extended the blue dragon butterfly claw, cold air spreading, forming a blue icy frost, and once again grasped towards the stone wall.

  With a "whoosh", the dragonfly's claws scratched the stone wall, causing it to crack open, but I didn't feel any pain. I knew the method was working, as the icy coldness could counteract the scorching heat from the flames outside. The dragonfly's claws rapidly scraped again, and the rocks crumbled, sending debris flying everywhere. With a loud "boom", a bright light burst forth from above, revealing a large crevice, and I shot upwards with great force.

  Dazzling sunlight shone directly on my head, and I flew up into the air before slowly falling down. Gu Li and Gu Guai were sitting on the cliff, looking at me with their heads thrown back in astonishment. Behind them, Bai Guangguang, Hua Shengpi, and Hua Shengke lay sprawled out.

  "Grandpa, sister!" Hua Shengguo excitedly waved and shouted. I took a glance around, didn't see Chi Lianhuo, and asked, "Guri, where did the demoness with the surname Chi hide?"

  "Miss has left. She instructed me to tell you that she tried every means to keep you here and not let you go to Dacheng City to die, and she has already been very kind to you. Now return the Peanut Skin and others to you, whether you live or die in the future, it has nothing to do with her, and she doesn't owe you anything anymore."

  I was taken aback and sneered, "Spare me the sweet words and hidden knives. I'm sure she's very disappointed that the spider spirit didn't kill me."

  "An ungrateful whelp! Your strength is about the same as Miss's, she had expected you to be fine, just didn't think you'd break the flame seal so quickly." He pointed at a pile of paper ash by the pillar and continued, "Miss also said, let's wait until sunset to lift the talisman, and let you leave. Otherwise, why do we need to stand guard here? Do you enjoy drinking mountain wind?"

  He finished, and Guai also repeated it angrily. I was skeptical, thinking of Chi Yan's gift of ice ants and warning signs, which were indeed good intentions. Could it be that she took away the peanut skin and others, just to prevent me from going to Da Qian City to die?

  The peanuts, the big tiger ran to the side of the three people in the peanut skin, they were motionless, their eyes closed, and each one was unconscious. Gu Li said slowly: "They have been given a soul-stirring soup, temporarily asleep, after a day and night will automatically wake up. Lin Xiaozi, now hand over the person to you, Miss and your grievances are cleared from now on." Before I could say anything else, he pulled up Gu's strange hand, and the two of them turned into wind and fire wheels, flying away into the distance.

  I stood dazed at the top of the cliff, bewildered for a moment, completely confused by the scarlet flames. The sunlight cast my shadow obliquely on the mountain rocks, and I suddenly felt a shock in my heart - it was already afternoon, and the Great Thousand City must have been in an uproar long ago.

  "Peanut fruit, I'm going to rush to the Great Thousand City immediately. You and Big Tiger take care of Grandpa." Throwing down a few words, I drove up the blowing air and left.