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The phantom spider has eight legs. When it stands up, it is three or four feet tall, and its body is bigger than a wash basin. Each of its legs is thicker than Du Heng's arm, and there are many barbs on its legs. However, because of its color, it looks not only not ferocious, but also a little fresh.
The phantom spiders moved slowly. After one crawled out of the cave, the other one took a long time to crawl out slowly.
Du Heng was skeptical of Xuan Yu and the others' statement: "Is this really not a king crab?"
As soon as Du Heng finished speaking, the mouth of the phantom spider that had just crawled out began to move. After a slight "puff" sound, a stream of ice-blue liquid spurted out of the phantom spider's mouth.
When the liquid met the sea water, it spread out and turned into a large suspended liquid that looked like smoke or a spider web. The thing was suspended in the water, swaying slightly with the waves.
It looks like a large jellyfish, hazy and dreamy, and still changing its posture.
The Zhou brothers immediately showed disgust on their faces: "Here it comes again, hurry up and leave. It will be very troublesome if you get entangled with this thing."
Du Heng thought the cloud of smoke blooming in the water was pretty. He smiled and said, "Is this the attack method of the phantom spider? It's pretty cute."
The phantom spider's eyesight may not be very good, so it didn't spray anyone. Du Heng thought that they didn't have big claws to protect themselves, so they could only spray this kind of venom. He felt that this attack was like a rabbit's teeth, and it would only bite people when it was forced into a corner.
However, he soon changed his mind. A dense sound of puffing came from the cave, and strands of ice-blue liquid bloomed in the water. Soon the water around the platform was dyed ice-blue. If anyone touched this sea water, they would involuntarily fall into an illusion.
Everyone stood far away in the fork of the road. Jing Nan asked with a bald head, "Is there any cave nearby that can accommodate us?" Xuan Yu said, "If it really doesn't work, we can only dig one ourselves."
However, this illusion was too powerful. It was difficult to dig a hole or even leave a scar on the rocks. If they stayed in the fork, they would be swept away by the turbulent current. At this time, they really hoped to encounter some sea beasts, so that they could kill them and occupy their nests.
However, they looked around but couldn't find a suitable place to stay.
Xiaoxiao couldn't walk anymore. He turned into his original form and lay in Du Heng's arms: "Du Hengheng, I'm tired and hungry. When can we stop?"
At this point, everyone finally realized one thing: if they wanted to leave here, they had to break the illusion array. To break the illusion array, they had to face the illusion spider that they least wanted to face.
Xuan Yu stopped and said, "Let's... go back."
When everyone saw the icy blue water again, they all fell silent. Xuan Yu sighed, "I might be a little abnormal in a while, so don't pay attention to me."
After inhaling the toxin of the phantom spider, the cultivator will fall into the thing he least wants to face. Xuan Yu thought so. He rushed into the cave and killed all the phantom spiders inside. With his cultivation level, he should not be worried about his life, but he could not control what the sequelae would be.
The generals rolled up their sleeves and said, "Lord Long, we will go with you." Feng Gui said, "I will go too. This way, it will be faster."
Jing Nan sighed, "Du Heng, Xiaoxiao and I will stay here. Someone has to clean up the mess." In case everyone is poisoned and lies down, someone has to be left awake to detoxify.
The phantom spiders are not afraid of water or fire, and their shells are hard, so you have to fight them head-on. In fact, it is not too difficult to kill these things, but the sequelae of the toxins are too serious. Moreover, the phantom spiders fight desperately and spray more and stronger toxins, so even if the monks shield their five senses, they will be contaminated by the toxins.
The reason why the sea demon cultivators turned around and left when they saw the phantom spider was because they were too entangled when fighting this thing. There was no sense of accomplishment, and after the fight, they were tortured by the poison and became unconscious. Unless they were forced to the extreme, most people would not think of looking for trouble with the phantom spider.
After Xuan Yu and the others took a red pill from Jing Nan and threw it into their mouths, they led the generals to rush to the cave. It was a silent battle. Du Heng and the others saw a number of phantom spiders that were pierced flying out of the cave. After the phantom spiders died, their bodies changed from beautiful ice blue to dark blue, and they looked no different from ordinary sea crabs.
The seawater near the cave was dyed blue by the venom of the phantom spider, which looked beautiful and dangerous. Jing Nan and the others had to retreat further.
Du Heng said worriedly, "Nannan, look, the seawater near the cave entrance has been dyed blue. How long will it take for it to dissipate? Are Xiaoyu and the others okay in there?"
Jing Nan said, "The phantom spider will stop spraying venom when it dies. If there is turbulence later, the venom will be swept away. As for Xiaoyu and the others, you don't have to worry. They have high cultivation levels, and I just gave them anti-poison pills, so their lives will not be in danger."
As he spoke, Jing Nan took out a vermilion pill from the bottle and handed it to Du Heng: "Here, hold it in your mouth." Du Heng took the pill and held it in his mouth. The pill was sweet, like a candy ball.
Xiaoxiao tilted her head and looked at Jingnan: "Nannan, I want to eat the anti-poison pill too." Jingnan patted Xiaoxiao on the butt: "You have already eaten it just now, and you are immune to all poisons, the poison of the phantom spider will not have much effect on you."
Du Heng sighed: "Didn't you say that it is immune to all poisons?" Jing Nan put his hands in his pockets: "There are tens of thousands of poisons in this world, and there are always some that are specially toxic." Otherwise, the phantom spider would not have become the most hated existence among the water demon cultivators.
What Jing Nan said made a lot of sense and Du Heng was speechless.
After a while, there was no movement at the cave entrance. Jing Nan said, "It seems that they have gone very deep inside." The generals were not seen throwing the spider's body out of the cave.
At this time, a strong spiritual energy swept in from the direction of the cave entrance. This spiritual energy belonged to Feng Gui, and it was obvious that Feng Gui had used his ultimate move. The phantom spiders and their venom in the cave were overturned by the spiritual energy, and the dark blue phantom spiders mixed with blue venom gushed out of the cave in a fan-shaped manner.
Jing Nan quickly set up a barrier to protect Du Heng and quickly retreated. If they were touched by the thick venom, both of them would suffer!
At this time, Du Heng witnessed the horror of the poison gas. Jing Nan's barrier was clearly airtight, but the poison was slowly seeping in from the front of the barrier. Jing Nan had to keep strengthening his barrier, but the harder he tried, the faster the poison flowed.
Jing Nan frowned: "What a trouble. It seems that we will also be affected." Jing Nan has never been poisoned by the phantom spider so far, and he doesn't know what the reaction will be after being poisoned.
In a hurry, Du Heng also helped Jing Nan, and the light blue spiritual energy suddenly expanded. Strangely enough, after the barrier was expanded, the venom that had flowed into the barrier gradually dissipated! Not only did the venom inside the barrier dissipate, but even the venom outside bypassed Du Heng's barrier as if it had encountered a poisonous snake or a ferocious beast!
Jing Nan's eyes widened in shock. He looked at Du Heng with a strange expression: ...
Du Heng scratched his head: "Huh?"
Jing Nan suddenly remembered something, and he clapped his hands: "How could we forget such an important thing!"
Du Heng is a pure wood spiritual root, and the purification ability of wood spiritual roots is first-class. It's just that Du Heng is too innocent after reincarnation, and looks stupid. He spends all day around the stove, making many people forget that he was once the number one cultivator in the Taixu Realm!
It's OK if Jing Nan and the others forget it, even Du Heng himself will forget it unconsciously. If a cultivator asks him for advice now, he has no idea about magic, but he can easily come up with recipes.
Who would have thought that the phantom spider venom, which is not afraid of water, fire, metal, or stone, would actually be afraid of wood-type spiritual energy? !
After figuring this out, Jing Nan, Du Heng and the other two observed a moment of silence for the people who had rushed into the cave. Then they turned into a stream of green light and rushed into the cave.
The cave was full of phantom spider corpses, lying limply on the ground with their eight claws swaying here and there. The venom in the cave was so thick that it couldn't be dispersed. Deep in the cave, Xuan Yu and his men were still killing phantom spiders.
Looking into the depths of the cave, Du Heng and the others couldn't help but feel their scalps tingling. All they saw was a long stretch of ice blue. On the cave walls on all sides, phantom spiders were moving slowly one after another, so dense that it made people's hair stand on end.
Du Heng raised his hand and cast a layer of wood barrier on everyone, but Du Heng acted too late, and the generals were already poisoned. They all looked serious, and their moves were open and closed, but many of their moves were missed.
Du Heng's aura was fully open. He held the Qingshuang Sword in his hand and swung the killing sword from the Everlasting Sword Art at the phantom spiders deep in the cave. After one strike of the sword, the phantom spiders were overturned. Some of the phantom spiders changed color while they were still tumbling in the air.
If Xuan Yu and the others were still awake at this moment, they would definitely be shocked. You know, even if Xuan Yu swung his sword and crushed the phantom spider into pieces, the venom in the phantom spider would still flow out slowly.
Before, they didn't take Xuan Yu and the others who rushed into the cave seriously at all. Even though Xuan Yu and the others killed countless phantom spiders, the remaining phantom spiders still continued to crawl slowly towards Xuan Yu and the others.
After Du Heng swung his sword, the phantom spiders scattered and those that were not blown away by the sword energy ran away. They rushed towards the cave entrance, swearing and scurrying. Their speed overturned Du Heng's impression of phantom spiders. After a while, all the phantom spiders in the cave ran away. Would Du Heng lie about this? !
Jingnan and Xiaoxiao: ...
Du Heng was very upset: "I'm so stupid!" Xiaoyu and the others had wasted so much effort.
Xuan Yu and the others were now suffering from serious aftereffects, and everyone's performance was different.
Mao Buyan waved his hands and shook his head: "I, I am a jellyfish~ floating and floating~" Chonghua lay on the ground: "I am a starfish..."
Yun Zheng faced the wall with a blank look in his eyes, Lao Dao was agitated and swore at everything he said, Tai Shuhong sniffed and big tears dropped down his face.
Feng Gui sat next to Xuan Yu holding his natal spirit sword. They both looked quite sober. But as soon as they opened their mouths, they were exposed. Feng Gui said, "I can't eat anymore."
Xuan Yu responded: "I can't find it."
Jing Nan and Du Heng looked at each other in surprise: "Oh no..."
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The poisoned monks were restlessly running around in the cave. Jing Nan stewed some Chinese medicine to detoxify the monks in the cave, but the pungent smell of the medicine was so bitter that it was hard to swallow.
Chonghua crawled on the ground a little bit aggrievedly: "Where are my horns? Why do I only have four horns? I should have five! I am incomplete."
Du Heng coaxed him: "There are also starfish with four horns."
I don't know what the feud between this person and the starfish is, but after being poisoned, he firmly believes that he is a starfish. He has already changed several places to stick to.
Mao Buyan was easy to deal with. He thought he was a jellyfish, and now he was in his true form, flapping his wings and saying, "Fly, fly, fly~"
Jing Nan couldn't help it, he punched Mao Buyan unconscious, "You useless thing, there are so many monsters in the sea, but you think you are a jellyfish. Jellyfish are worse than starfish!"
Du Heng narrowed his eyes and said, Jing Daxianer, you will only provoke hatred between the jellyfish and starfish tribes by doing this, isn't it?
Lao Dao couldn't curse anymore because he was beaten by Yun Zheng. After beating him, Yun Zheng actually cried, and Lao Dao, who was beaten, actually smiled in confusion.
Du Heng really wanted to know what the two had seen! Of course, he wanted to know more about what Feng Gui and Xuan Yu were thinking.
Feng Gui was lying on the ground, holding Jing Nan's hand and reading the menu: "Spicy chicken, pickled pepper chicken offal, chopped pepper fish head, dry pot rabbit cubes... so many things to eat..."
Jing Nan wiped his face and said, "Wait until you wake up and eat slowly, okay?"
Feng Gui smiled and rubbed against Jing Nan's arms: "I don't like it. I don't like it at all. I want to leave it for Nan Nan and Xiao Yu, and also for Qing Heng."
Jing Nan's eyes were slightly red, and he smiled: "We already have a lot of delicious food, Xixi, it's okay if you don't want to keep any."
At that time, Qing Heng was so poor that he used all his spirit stones to buy elixirs, and the remaining money could only buy a few things. Whenever Qing Heng brought something back, the three little ones would give way to each other, and every time they would find a good excuse.
Feng Gui always used the same excuse. He always turned his head away proudly and said, "I don't even care about these things."
In fact, it's not that he doesn't like it. In a life of scarcity, even a hard ball is a good thing. Feng Gui knows that as long as he shows a little bit of interest, others will give him the things.
Jing Nan hugged Feng Gui and kissed her between the eyebrows: "We have a lot of delicious food, Xixi, you don't have to be modest."
On the other side, Xuan Yu held Du Heng's hand and kept repeating: "I can't find it."
Du Heng asked him, "Xiaoyu, what are you looking for?"
Xuan Yu kept repeating this sentence in a low voice. Du Heng asked him several times, but he didn't answer. Just when Du Heng was about to give up questioning and give him medicine, Xuan Yu said sadly: "I can't find the stars."
He had been searching for thousands of years in the Zhou Tian Xing Chen array. There were so many stars, so bright, but he couldn't find the one that belonged to him.
Xuan Yu was so sad that he almost cried: "I can't find him."
After saying this, Xuan Yu turned his head and big tears rolled down the corners of his eyes.
At this point, Du Heng understood what the stars Xuan Yu was talking about. He was so heartbroken that he could hardly breathe. What kind of pain did his departure bring to Xiaoyu? He didn't dare to think about it, and he couldn't think about it. He could only hug Xuan Yu tightly and kiss his face: "I'm here."
After a long struggle, Jing Nan and Du Heng finally got everyone who was poisoned to drink the medicine. The poison of the phantom spider was a bit slow to cure, and everyone became weak after drinking the medicine.
Xuan Yu and Feng Gui closed their eyes and fell asleep. They killed the most phantom spiders and were the most poisoned.
Feng Gui was fine, as his auspicious body could still be immune for a while. Xuan Yu was a little worse than Feng Gui, and Jing Nan forced him to drink two bowls of Chinese medicine. Xuan Yu's face turned pale due to the bitterness, but Jing Nan was very happy, as he finally got the chance to take revenge in a fair and open manner: "You deserve this day! It's what you deserve!"
After being interrupted by Jing Nan, Du Heng's self-blame and guilt flew away. He was in the mood to clean up the mess in the cave. The body of the phantom spider was scattered all over the ground, and it looked delicious.
Du Heng stared at the phantom spider thoughtfully: "Nannan, is the phantom spider still poisonous after it dies?"
Jing Nan said: "It should be gone. You can tell by the color. The venom of the phantom spider is ice blue. If it is poisonous, you can tell it at a glance."
Du Heng hesitated and said, "Nannan, there is a kind of crab in our hometown that looks very similar to this one and is very delicious..." Jing Nan turned his head suddenly: "Huh?!"
Xiaoxiao rushed over from nowhere: "Du Hengheng, I heard you say 'very delicious'! Let's make something delicious! Look, I've become skinny due to hunger!"
Du Heng looked at Xiaoxiao's round face. He held back his smile and said seriously, "But I don't think you've lost weight." Xiaoxiao was angry and couldn't be coaxed.
Du Heng picked up a phantom spider and took the grill out of the car. Without Xuan Yu's help, Du Heng always felt that he was not doing things well.
Jing Nan said lazily, "Is there anything I can help you with?"
Du Heng looked at Jing Nan who was leaning against the car curtain and said honestly, "Just don't cause me any trouble."
Jing Daxian'er is a first-rate elixir maker, so forget it if he is asked to do housework. Jing Nan didn't feel offended by Du Heng, he was happy and relaxed: "How do you want to make a phantom spider?"
Du Heng chopped off the legs of the phantom spider, and the eight thick legs filled the table. He looked at the cross section and found that the shell of the phantom spider was not thick, so even a kitchen knife could easily cut it open.
Holding the kitchen knife horizontally, he split the upper shell, revealing the dark blue, slightly transparent flesh inside. In order to expose more of the flesh inside the shell, he switched to a scalpel.
The scalpel cut twice along the sides of the split crab shell, and the thick shell fell on the chopping board. After the cut, half of the crab legs were exposed, which looked pretty good. Based on his intuition, Du Heng felt that the crab legs would taste good.
After hearing Jing Nan's words, he said, "I'll make a charcoal grilled phantom spider leg."
Xiaoxiao poked her head out from the frame, and he calmed down: "Du Hengheng, I want two legs!" Du Heng smiled and said: "Don't worry, yours will be indispensable."
Du Heng took out the grill. The crab legs were a bit long. Even though Du Heng split a crab leg into three parts at the joint, the longest crab leg was as long as an arm. When putting the crab legs on the grill, they need to be placed horizontally. Only two crab legs can be placed on one grill.
The temperature of the charcoal fire gradually increased, and the crab shell slowly changed from dark blue to red. Then the crab meat next to the crab shell changed from slightly transparent to milky white, and the crab meat above gradually became firmer due to the heat.
There was also a layer of orange-red membrane on the crab meat. After seeing this layer of membrane, Xiaoxiao said to Du Heng: "Du Hengheng, look at this side, it's similar to the lobster we ate yesterday."
Du Heng held a large bowl in his hand and said with a smile, "Yes, the shrimps and crabs in the sea are indeed similar."
Du Heng's bowl was filled with garlic sauce, which tasted good when steamed or grilled. After the crab meat shrank slightly, Du Heng used a wooden spoon to spread the garlic sauce evenly over the crab meat. He also scratched the crab legs a few times with a small knife, fearing that the crab legs were too big to absorb the flavor.
While the crab legs were being roasted, Du Heng was processing the crab shell. As mentioned before, the body of the phantom spider is very large, with a diameter as big as a basin and a thickness of one foot. When you see the crab shell, you can tell how this phantom spider died.
There was a long and narrow sword mark in the middle of the crab shell, which pierced through the crab's heart. Judging from the wound, it should be Xixi's work.
Du Heng was a person who didn't like to waste food. When he hid the crab legs before, he still kept the crab leg joints. Now that the crab body was in his hand, he opened the crab body without saying a word.
The crab shell is full of yellowish crab roe, and the crab body below the crab shell looks a bit thin. However, the crab body is large, and there is still a lot of meat in the crab shell.
Du Heng took a large bowl and scooped out the crab roe from the crab shell. The bowl was full of crab roe!
The meat in the crab body needs to be steamed before it can be taken out, so Du Heng simply set up his stove. He placed the crab body and crab joints in a steamer and propped it on the stove.
Jing Nan looked from the grill to the steamer and asked curiously, "What are they doing?"
Du Heng said: "Take out the crab meat and make crab meat steamed eggs, and the crab roe will be used to make crab roe tofu. The shells can be used to make soup."
Jing Nan gave a thumbs up: "If the phantom spiders knew that they would be eaten by you like this, they would definitely be very satisfied."
Du Heng scratched his cheek: "Ah? I think they will die with regrets."
The water in the pot slowly heated up. Du Heng said to Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, please keep an eye on it for me. Let me know after two cups of tea."
However, Du Heng did not get a response from Xiaoxiao. He turned around and saw Xiaoxiao standing next to the grill, staring at the grilled crab legs.
The crab shell has been roasted into a beautiful orange-red color, and some of the spikes near the charcoal fire have been burnt. But inside the crab shell, the crab meat is being roasted and oozing with juice. The crab meat has turned milky white, and under the slightly yellow garlic paste, the crab meat is showing a little bit of white meat.
The rich juice drips down the broken crab shells on both sides of the crab legs. Every time the juice drips onto the charcoal fire, the red charcoal fire will make a crackling sound and emit a burst of white smoke with a delicious smell.
The aroma of garlic and the freshness of seafood came towards me. Today, without Xuanyu's smoke, the smell of charcoal fire became more obvious. The steam from the crab legs mixed with the white smoke from the charcoal fire. The scene was too tempting, and the smell was too tempting.
Du Heng rubbed Xiaoxiao's head and said, "Sit over there. I'll serve you grilled crab legs."
Xiaoxiao turned her head, drooling: "Du Hengheng, I really like you so much. Chirp chirp~"
Du Heng laughed so hard that his belly hurt. He put the roasted crab legs on a large plate in front of Xiaoxiao and Jingnan. He asked them, "Would you like to have a taste?"
Jing Nan subtly picked up a piece of crab meat with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. The sweet crab meat was tender and fragrant, and the garlic sauce gave it just the right amount of saltiness. After just one bite, Jing Nan was conquered by the crab meat. He gave a thumbs up: "Delicious!"
Xiaoxiao's eating manner was much more heroic. He picked up a large piece of crab meat with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth. The fire demon cultivator was not afraid of heat. He took a big bite of the crab meat, and his eyes narrowed with happiness: "So fresh! It's as delicious as the garlic lobster meat!"
It is said that crabs have bones on the outside, but there are actually bones inside the crab legs. The bones inside the crab legs are slightly transparent and appear in the shape of long strips. Xiaoxiao gnawed out two very elastic bones in a short while.
He even drank the juice from the crab shell. After putting down the crab shell, Xiaoxiao wiped his mouth happily and said, "I declare! Grilled phantom spider legs are the most delicious food in my heart!"
Du Heng asked, "Tied for first place? What other delicious foods are tied for first place?"
Xiaoxiao said: "There are many. As long as you make it, it's all ranked number one in taste!" Du Heng felt embarrassed by such flattery.
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