Clearly Very Strong Yet Excessively Timid

The timid Ming Luo unexpectedly arrives at the Suoma Continent, where demons and monsters run rampant. As the only human, she embarks on an unconventional path of cultivation to preserve her life.<...

Chapter 1: Controlling the Face Spider

Mingluo felt like a fool now, a fool riding a bicycle staggeringly on the rugged mountain road in the deep mountains and forests.

Something's wrong, the whole thing is wrong.

She is a female college graduate who just graduated. In order to support herself, she worked part-time while looking for a job. She was riding a shared bicycle and humming a little song on her way home the previous second. How could she end up in such a strange forest the next second?

After looking around, even the most careless person would notice the strangeness of this situation. The moon was bright and clear, and the shadows of the trees were dense. The moonlight filtered through the dense leaves, making it difficult to see clearly.

Ming Luo's hair stood on end as the cold wind blew. The biting night wind was mixed with a faint smell of blood, as if warning her that this was a crime scene. She listened nervously with her ears pricked up, and there seemed to be screams in the wind.

Mingluo panicked and quickly dropped her bicycle. She followed the wilderness survival tutorial and found a tree hole that was barely big enough to hide in. However, just as Mingluo hid in, she heard a rustling sound above her head.

Mingluo was notoriously timid. Out of fear of unfamiliar things and environments, she didn't dare to look up rashly. She had to continue hiding shivering in the tree hole, thinking that everything would be fine after daybreak.

However, what she didn't know was that as she hid in fear, strands of thin spider silk quietly wrapped around her smooth ankles.

"ah!!!"

As soon as the rustling sound passed, Mingluo was hung upside down on the tree trunk by his ankles.

As Mingluo dangled in mid-air, she noticed a pair of greedy green eyes staring at her from the dark shadows of the trees. The green eyes gradually emerged from the shadows, and in the bright moonlight, Mingluo finally saw the true face of the person coming.

Beneath those fierce green eyes lay a seductive, mature woman. She walked stiffly toward Mingluo, her slender waist seemingly unable to support her. After only two steps, she crept to the ground, her face still strangely pointed toward her prey. Even more terrifying, she had eight thick, hairy legs behind her, resembling those of a spider.

Oh shit, did I encounter a spider monster?

Seeing the humanoid spider approaching Mingluo step by step, she struggled and shook the spider silk frantically, but the spider silk was too tough. No matter how Mingluo shook and struggled, it showed no signs of breaking.

Oh, right, spider silk is afraid of fire! Mingluo suddenly had an idea and immediately took out the lighter he had left in his bag while working. He didn't care whether it would burn his ankle or not, and just held the lighter and struggled to move towards his feet.

The humanoid spider faltered when he saw the flames coming out of Ming Luo's hands, with a hint of contempt in his eyes, "It's just a trifle. With your little tricks, you don't deserve to be here."

Eh? This spider spirit can speak human language? But the tone is terrible. The cracked voice is totally unsuitable for its pretty face.

Mingluo didn't dare to relax her hands. While the humanoid spider was talking, she burned the spider silk in a hurry. It didn't matter whether it was a trivial trick or not, as long as it worked!

As soon as the spider silk broke, the girl's body fell heavily to the ground from mid-air on the tree trunk. "Ugh..." The girl let out a painful groan from her throat, but she didn't dare to stay on the ground for long. She endured the severe pain and tried her best to stand up and run away.

From above, the humanoid spider looked down at her with an arrogant expression, "How fragile."

"What is this place?" Ming Luo mustered up the courage to try to communicate with her.

However, Mingluo's inquiry received no response. The humanoid spider caressed its charming face, looking extremely narcissistic. "Although that abominable old man warned me not to attack the Crossing World contestants, since you came to me on your own, there's no reason to refuse."

After saying that, the humanoid spider suddenly rushed to the ground. Her strange face was only one step away from Mingluo. Then this strange face split into a hideous huge mouth covered with densely packed fine teeth, and it was about to swallow the helpless girl.

At the critical moment, Ming Luo ignored the pain in his feet and tried his best to escape.

But there is a huge difference between the speed of humans and monsters. No matter how hard Mingluo tried, she could not escape the hunting range of the humanoid spider. Her body was scratched with scars by the thick legs of the humanoid spider, and her originally beautiful and elegant appearance became miserable.

Ming Luo tried to use the lighter to scare the humanoid spider again, but the humanoid spider was not afraid at all. Instead, there was a hint of mockery in its eyes. She waved her hand and the spider silk wrapped around the lighter and threw it out. "Stupid, you dare to use this trick a second time."

What the hell is this place?! Mingluo is just an ordinary, insignificant person, how did she end up in front of a monster? In despair, the girl's eyes were filled with stubborn unwillingness, and she vaguely felt that something in her head was about to explode.

Just when Mingluo was having a headache, a black shadow fell from the sky, and a tall man in ancient costume appeared in front of her.

His flowing black hair was tied up high, and he exuded a solemn and heroic aura.

From the side, the black-haired man's facial features were angular, showing his handsome appearance, but his thick eyelashes weakened the coldness of his face like a small fan.

Someone stood up for her at her most desperate moment, and Mingluo's heart finally settled down. But looking at the situation, was this man going to fight a monster?

The humanoid spider glared at the man who had suddenly intruded into her hunting grounds, laughed wildly, and said, "Oh, you want to play the hero rescue..."

Spider glanced at Ming Luo's disheveled and dirty face, then took back the word "beautiful" and continued, "A good show to save my daughter? You have a pretty face, why don't you be my food too!"

The villain dies because he talks too much! Ming Luo was originally quite afraid of this monster, but when she heard that this face-obsessed monster also disliked her appearance, she just wanted to roll her eyes at it.

The black-haired man didn't respond. He rushed towards the monster with his bare hands and hit the humanoid spider's weird and pretty face directly.

"Be careful!" Ming Luo watched the man rushing forward like a fool, and was very anxious. "It's a monster!"

"Kill the monsters." The man's clear voice sounded. Although it was a violent sentence, it did not make people feel the cold-blooded cruelty, and even made people feel calm.

The humanoid spider grinned so exaggeratedly that the corners of its mouth seemed to stretch to its temples. It bared its teeth and claws, waving its hairy legs as it pounced on the black-haired man. The man's figure was extremely ghostly, and his speed was so fast that it was hard to see clearly. The ground was filled with holes caused by the spider's smash, but the man was completely unharmed.

The humanoid spider was not having any luck in close combat, so it wanted to retreat back to the tree and use the terrain advantage to restrain the man with spider silk. But just as it leaped backward, it was pressed to the ground by an invisible force, and no matter how it struggled, it could not break free.