Emperor Huizong of Qing imposed martial law, causing widespread panic within the sect.
Half of the enforcement team was in front of the barrier on the back mountain, and the other half was in Lu Zhaozhao's room. They searched the place thoroughly, but still found nothing.
Ying Che is now standing in front of Lu Zhaozhao's house. He hasn't slept all night and has searched the entire sect, but he still can't find any trace of Lu Zhaozhao.
After dawn, he stood quietly in front of the house, clutching a peace charm tightly in his hand.
That was sewn by Lu Zhaozhao for him over half a month before his first trip.
Years have passed, and the already rough stitches have long since fallen off, but Ying Che has always carried it with him.
Nian Zhi stepped out from behind him and gently comforted him, "Master has already gone down the mountain to personally pursue the villains. I hope you can rest assured, Senior Brother. If Senior Sister Lu comes back, she certainly won't want you to be like this."
Ying Che nodded almost imperceptibly, but his gaze never wavered.
At this moment, Lu Zhaozhao was unaware of the magnitude of the upheaval that had occurred within the sect.
From the moment she entered the back mountain last night, she felt a dangerous atmosphere permeating the surroundings.
The back mountain is a place where ferocious beasts and evil spirits are imprisoned. For thousands of years, when Emperor Huizong of the Qing Dynasty went down the mountain to travel, all the strange beasts, ferocious beasts, and even demons and evil spirits that were difficult to kill were imprisoned here.
Therefore, this was the most dangerous place for Emperor Huizong of the Qing Dynasty, because the things inside were driven by primal malice, regardless of right or wrong.
Grinding their teeth and sucking blood, they kill without hesitation. Here, there is no sunlight, no human voice.
Lu Zhaozhao looked up; she hadn't seen the sun since she came in.
This place is shrouded in miasma, with trees hundreds of feet tall. Every step must be taken with caution, or you could lose your life in the slightest carelessness.
Unlike when she first entered, dressed in pristine white, Lu Zhaozhao's clothes were now covered in mud and blood. A closer look revealed that her legs, trembling from running, were slightly unsteady.
She moved swiftly through the forest, gripping the magic weapon tightly in her hand in a defensive stance.
Not long after she entered the back mountain last night, she sensed a powerful fluctuation outside the barrier. Just as she turned around, a long-haired, sharp-legged creature seized the opportunity to attack. Lu Zhaozhao was unable to dodge in time and suffered a large gash on her back.
Before she could react, the other leg followed closely behind.
Lu Zhaozhao hurriedly summoned Niye to defend herself, and her feet collided with Niye, sparking a burst of fire.
Lu Zhaozhao made a decisive move, twisting her wrist into a strange arc, causing Ni Ye to rotate half an arc on her feet, and then slashing it away heavily.
To her surprise, the long hair on those feet was incredibly tough, as if covered by a layer of tempered armor. When she slashed at it, she only managed to cut off a tuft of hair.
But the owner of those legs seemed to feel pain and withdrew them.
Lu Zhaozhao stood facing him with her sword drawn, feeling waves of pain in her back.
She recalled the step she had just taken and thought to herself that if she hadn't cultivated a body-refining technique, she would probably have been cut in half on the spot.
The blood was still flowing; the first drops had long since dried and congealed on the clothes, layer upon layer.
But Lu Zhaozhao didn't have time to deal with it, because the owner of the foot was gradually revealing himself from the shadows.
It is a hairy spider that is one and a half times the height of a person.
Eight long legs support its massive body, and eight simple eyes are arranged in two rows at the front of its head and thorax. The pair of chelicerae and pedipalps at the very front are extremely sharp, inspiring fear even from afar.
Lu Zhaozhao gasped, her eyes fixed on the spider that was getting closer and closer.
The spider stopped when it was about two zhang away from Lu Zhaozhao.
Its body cast a huge reflection in the moonlight, completely enveloping Lu Zhaozhao, which was terrifying.
But strangely, after it stood still, nothing more happened.
Lu Zhaozhao didn't believe it intended to just stand there, so she scanned it all over several times but couldn't figure it out.
Just as she was about to make the first move and strike, the branches and leaves just a few feet away from her suddenly twitched.
In the dense forest, a single movement can have far-reaching consequences. The slight trembling of a leaf produced a rustling sound, which immediately caught Lu Zhaozhao's attention.
There was no wind, and nothing else around. What could possibly make the leaves tremble? Could it be...?
Lu Zhaozhao was startled and immediately retreated quickly. The spider opposite her noticed her movement, realized that her intentions had been exposed, and immediately changed direction.
The once silent forest was suddenly filled with the rustling of leaves. In the darkness, invisible blades sliced through the branches before her, and a strong killing intent swept over her, but there was nothing in front of her.
Lu Zhaozhao was greatly alarmed and swung Niye to stab him. But Niye missed its target in mid-air and was grabbed by an invisible force.
A pair of invisible hands were wrestling with Lu Zhaozhao for the sword in her hand.
Lu Zhaozhao was speechless. She clearly hadn't seen anything, yet this power was undeniably real.
Her mind raced. From the very beginning, Lu Zhaozhao had felt a strange sensation, but she was too busy to think about it carefully. Just now, when she looked up and stabbed at the air, she suddenly understood.
The spider initially attacked with its legs while hiding in the shadows, but it remained silent after it actually appeared.
In Lu Zhaozhao's mind, spider webs should be the companions of spiders.
Spiders typically hunt by using their webs to slowly devour their prey. But since she first saw this spider, she hadn't seen anything else except its legs and this unseen thing before her.
A bold idea popped into Lu Zhaozhao's mind.
She stretched out her other hand and slashed hard at the hand that was being pulled, leaving a large gash on her fair hand.
Lu Zhaozhao forcefully flung her hand in the direction of Niye, causing large amounts of blood to splatter outwards.
Intersecting red lines appeared in the sky.
Just as I thought!
Lu Zhaozhao's eyes lit up. It seemed she hadn't guessed wrong; the attacking creatures weaving through the leaves were indeed spider silk.
She took a deep breath. The pause she had just made allowed the spider silk, which had been some distance away, to catch up. She could hear rustling sounds all around her.
In a short while, invisible threads wrapped around her legs, and a tingling sensation surged up.
Fortunately, Lu Zhaozhao's skin and flesh underwent a qualitative change after experiencing the first stage of body tempering. The spider web's toxins could only remain on the surface and could not penetrate further.
But the current situation is not good either.
Needless to say, the spider's web must have already been laid, because the enormous spider was slowly moving towards Lu Zhaozhao's direction.
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