Lu Zhaozhao swallowed hard, and goosebumps rose all over her body as she watched the enormous creature approaching step by step.
"Hey! Wei Zhanjie! Come out, stop playing dead, what should I do?"
Lu Zhaozhao called out softly, but there was no response from anyone else in the air.
Damn it! Lu Zhaozhao cursed inwardly, refocusing her gaze on the spider.
Everything has its weaknesses, Lu Zhaozhao thought. When Ni Ye collided with its leg just now, it only shaved off a tuft of fur, so it was best not to confront it head-on here.
What about the rest of the body parts?
Head? Or abdomen?
Lu Zhaozhao's gaze moved from the spider's chelicerae and antennae to its two rows of eyes, and then to its abdomen, which was spinning silk.
The spider was approaching step by step, and the distance between them was less than three feet.
Lu Zhaozhao's legs were fixed in place by a transparent silk net. She held a sword in her right hand, raised it above her head, and lightly made a sword gesture. Her left hand was hidden in her sleeve, stroking the cracks on the Yuanxu Mirror.
She took a deep breath and stared intently at the distance between herself and the spider.
Thump, thump, my heart is beating uncontrollably.
There was no other sound around, the netting must have been set up, and even the rustling of the branches and leaves around us had stopped.
Two feet, one foot...
So close!
The sound of her heart pounding filled her ears as the spider in front of her opened its pincers, raised them high, and brought them down hard on Lu Zhaozhao's head.
"when--"
The moment the chelicerae fell, Yuan Xujing also left Lu Zhaozhao's palm, touching the chelicerae above her head.
At the same moment, Niye stabbed towards the spider's abdomen above.
Time seemed to stand still at that moment. The rebellious karma had reached the spider's abdominal shell, and the cracks in the Yuanxu Mirror on its head were constantly widening.
Thump, thump.
The sound of her heart pounding filled her ears once again.
This is a high-stakes gamble; a right bet means survival, a wrong bet...
Lu Zhaozhao held her breath as fragments of Yuan Xu's mirror fell from her head to her shoulder.
She didn't have a second Yuanxu Mirror, and her legs were bound by a silk net. If she made the wrong bet, the odds would probably be against her.
The cold light of Niye was hidden under the spider's shadow. This was an exceptionally outstanding killing sword. The souls that had perished beneath its blade had nourished its unique sword intent. The ancestors of the Lu family once used this sword to dominate the region.
In this dark, sunless back mountain, its sword's edge is hidden in the quiet forest, like a venomous snake lying in ambush, waiting to strike and kill.
At this moment, just like every time it was drawn, the sharp blade rubbed against the spider's shell, emitting sparks, and sliced through the seemingly indestructible outer shell, plunging straight into the spider's abdomen.
The viscous green liquid flowed down, gradually outlining the spider web that covered the surrounding area along the transparent spider silk.
At that moment, the chelicerae shattered the Yuanxu Mirror, and the sharp spikes fell, smashing down directly onto Lu Zhaozhao's head.
Lu Zhaozhao used her waist strength and moved to the right with all her might.
The spike fell and pierced her left shoulder.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock."
The impact to the shoulder aggravated the wound on the back, staining most of the white dress from the left shoulder down to the back with bright red blood, which dripped down the fabric.
One drop after another, falling towards the ground, only to be stopped in mid-air.
The spiderweb beneath my feet was revealed, and the red and green liquid made the entire spiderweb, which had been hidden in the space, fully visible.
These two distinct colors slowly approached each other along the spider web, but at the moment of close contact, they could not merge for a long time.
A bewitching spider web, interwoven with red and green, unfolded before me.
The intense pain stimulated her tear glands to secrete tears, which blurred her vision. Through the blur, Lu Zhaozhao could see the dark figure in front of her struggling fiercely, its abdomen convulsing violently as it tried to shake off the piercing blade.
Its head was pulled high, and its chelicerae were pulled out of Lu Zhaozhao's shoulder.
The sharp spikes, deeply embedded in the flesh, were pulled out in an instant, gushing out along with blood from ruptured blood vessels, splattering in all directions.
One of the splashes landed on Lu Zhaozhao's cheek, causing her to squint her left eye.
You made the right bet!
Lu Zhaozhao chuckled softly.
He pulled out the spider silk from its abdomen, severing the silk that was continuously being supplied.
The spider retreated, the shadow it had been casting disappeared, and moonlight shone down, falling on Lu Zhaozhao's face.
Lu Zhaozhao's skin was already fair, but after excessive blood loss, it turned a sickly pale white. The blood droplets splattered on her cheeks were bright red and alluring, like a blooming spider lily, blooming alone in the soil of this dark night.
Niye was still tightly held in her right hand, while the penetrating wound in her left shoulder made it impossible for her to control her left hand for the time being.
Lu Zhaozhao bit her lower lip with her upper teeth, a bloody taste filling her mouth. She forced herself to swing Niye, using the Qinghui Sword Technique, which was deeply ingrained in her bones and could be used subconsciously even when she was seriously injured.
With each sword strike, the spiderwebs were torn apart by the blades' sharp edges.
The more blood flowed, the more dizzy Lu Zhaozhao felt. She gasped for breath and broke free of the spider silk binding her legs.
The stung spider was still writhing. Lu Zhaozhao glanced at it, forcefully clutched her left shoulder to stop the bleeding, turned around and strode off, running in the opposite direction with all her might.
In her current state, she is not capable of fighting again, so she must run far away before the spider recovers.
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