Qing Xuanzi said, "We'll find out what it is when we go and see for ourselves."

Following Yue Ling's directions, everyone walked for over 300 meters. Yue Ling then said, "We've arrived."

Looking in the direction Yue Ling pointed, one could see a faint blue glow appearing and disappearing in the shadows of intertwined vines.

The cluster of spiritual herbs grew on a high platform made of rotten wood. The herbs were translucent, and their veins shimmered with a starlight-like glow as they swayed gently in the wind.

"It's Starshine Grass!" Rong Jiaojiao exclaimed happily, "This is the main ingredient for refining top-grade antidote pills."

However, besides the spiritual herbs, the surroundings were also covered with a dense, spiderweb-like slime, which had an eerie bluish-purple hue and reflected a cold, eerie light under the moonlight.

"Something's wrong. Quickly take the antidote," Qing Xuanzi warned.

Yue Ling has already fed the antidote pills to everyone.

Just as everyone took the antidote pills, the surrounding tree canopies suddenly began to shake violently.

Accompanied by a chilling rustling sound, thousands of fist-sized purple-striped spiders dangled from the branches and leaves, each with a swollen, bluish-purple venom sac on its abdomen.

"It's a Spirit-Eating Spider!" Qing Xuanzi's pupils shrank sharply, and the Crimson Blood Sword was already drawn. "Their venom can corrode protective true energy. Use a talisman!"

After saying that, he had a handful of Flame Talismans in his hand, which he threw out without hesitation.

The talismans exploded amidst the spider swarm, creating a continuous "boom" sound.

As Rong Jiaojiao watched more spiders fill the area, her scalp tingled, and the spatial runes on her forehead shimmered.

The surging spiders were silently and neatly cut in half or several pieces at this moment.

Zi Ling followed suit, burning wherever Rong Jiaojiao went. Suddenly, a roar a hundred times sharper than any spider's hiss came from the depths of the rainforest.

A spider as large as a small mountain burst out of the ground. Its body was covered with a jet-black carapace, its eight giant legs were covered with barbs, each one thicker than an adult's arm, and three bony spikes that shimmered with a ghostly blue light grew on its head.

"It's the Spider Queen!" Qing Xuanzi reminded everyone. "This is at least a demonic beast at the Earth Master level!"

The Spider Queen's scarlet compound eyes scanned the crowd. Suddenly, she opened her mouth and spat out clumps of corrosive spider silk, instantly corroding deep pits into the ground wherever it passed.

Qing Xuanzi's expression turned solemn. He quickly formed hand seals, and the Twelve Yuan Chen Array was deployed again, forming a light shield to protect everyone. Spider silk struck the light shield, producing a hissing sound, and the light shield trembled violently, rippling outwards.

Rong Jiaojiao held the Lingyuan Sword and inscribed spatial runes on the sword with her divine sense.

In an instant, wisps of spatial power gathered and coiled around the Spirit Abyss Sword.

She uttered a soft shout: "Spatial Slash!"

Before the words had even faded, the Lingyuan Sword suddenly unleashed thousands of dark blue sword lights, each carrying a powerful force capable of tearing through space, like a reversed Milky Way, slashing towards the Spider Queen.

Sensing the deadly danger, the Spider Queen's three bone spikes on her head lit up simultaneously, transforming into three rotating, eerie blue light shields.

However, the moment the sword light touched the light shield, space twisted violently, and the surface of the light shield cracked inch by inch, and was directly shredded into dust.

The Spider Queen's enormous body swayed violently in the spatial turbulence, her eight giant legs sinking deep into the ground, yet she was still pulled unsteadily by an invisible force.

Qing Xuanzi seized the opportunity, and the Crimson Blood Sword resonated with the Twelve Yuan Chen Array. The white light wheel, carrying powerful spiritual energy, slammed into the Spider Queen's side.

Xiao Jin transformed into a golden dragon several meters long, its tail sweeping out and creating a golden hurricane that knocked the Spider Queen to the ground.

However, this Earth Master level demon beast had amazing recovery ability. It roared and stood up again, its mouth wide open, spewing out no longer ordinary spider silk, but clumps of purplish-black poisonous mist. Wherever it went, even the air made a sizzling corrosive sound.

A cold glint flashed in Rong Jiaojiao's eyes, and the spatial runes on her forehead shone brightly: "Spatial Cage!"

In an instant, the space around the Spider Queen suddenly froze, and countless silver chains emerged from the void, binding her tightly.

Taking advantage of the Spider Queen's immobility, she leaped into the air, her Spirit Abyss Sword pointing straight at the sky, the tip of which condensed into a space radiating a dazzling silver light: "Space Shatter!"

As the sword cleaved down, a silver vortex with a diameter of ten feet suddenly took shape.

The Spider Queen's desperate roar was swallowed by the vortex, her enormous body twisting and deforming in the collapsing space, her flesh, shell, and bone spurs being shredded into dust.

When the last glimmer of light faded, all that remained was a patch of scorched earth and a spider leg half-buried deep in the ground.

However, before everyone could even breathe a sigh of relief, the ground suddenly shook violently.

Beneath the Spider Queen's remains, destroyed by spatial collapse, a pool of eerie black liquid seeped out.

The liquid quickly coalesced into a vortex, from which millions of tiny spiders crawled out, scattering in all directions to escape.

They wouldn't let them escape. The two people and two beasts attacked together, and in no time they burned the little poisonous spider and its blood to ashes, leaving a black demon core on the ground.

Qing Xuanzi ignored the spiritual herbs and looked at his disciple first, "Jiaojiao, how are you feeling?"

Rong Jiaojiao smiled and said, "Master, I'm fine. Using the space skill with the Lingyuan Sword doesn't consume much spiritual power, really."

After that experience of consuming a lot of spiritual energy while killing monsters at sea, Rong Jiaojiao has been researching how to use a sword to assist in casting spatial skills.

I've refined my spiritual power in this space, but I haven't tried it outside. I only decided to give it a shot today because I felt this place was relatively safe.

After confirming that she was alright, Qing Xuanzi glared at him: "I'm still here, do you need to rush to the front in everything?"

Rong Jiaojiao hugged her arm and laughed, "Master, it's because I feel I can boldly try new tricks with you here!"

Qing Xuanzi had no choice but to tap her on the head and say, "Next time, give me a heads-up."

"Yes, Master. Let's go and see the spiritual herbs."

After confirming that there was no further danger around them, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Rong Jiaojiao walked quickly to the patch of starlight grass and carefully picked it.

The leaves felt cool to the touch, and the starlight flowing through the translucent veins danced on my fingertips, as if I were holding a miniature night sky.

"The quality is excellent!" she exclaimed with delight. "Each plant is enough to refine three batches of top-grade antidote pills. There are so many here, enough to refine dozens of batches."

As she spoke, she gathered all the mature spiritual herbs and stored them in the small secret realm for Yue Ling to refine.

Qing Xuanzi picked up the black demon core from the ground, probed it with his fingertip spiritual power, and raised an eyebrow, saying, "This Spider Queen demon core contains corrosive power. If we can refine it into poison powder, it might be useful to us."

Zi Ling sniffed the demon core, then suddenly sneezed and flicked her tail in disgust.

Rong Jiaojiao was taken into the small secret realm and given to Yue Ling to study.

Little Gold spotted the few remaining bone spikes of the Spider Queen and scratched at them with its tail: "Master, these bone spikes are as hard as black iron. They can be melted down and reforged into weapons."