Chapter 71 Encounter with the Giant Spider
What was happening before their eyes was unbelievable to everyone, but at that moment everyone was in the midst of a super strong gale, and they couldn't care less about being shocked.
It was impossible for Xi'er to repair the spatial rift, because the gale was too strong. Even if Hong Yuan transformed into his true form, he could only temporarily withstand the cutting force of the gale and could not cast the spatial repair spell.
With the extraordinary perception of a sacred beast, Hongyuan managed to find a passage through the gale.
Following this passage, He finally led everyone away from the passage.
The moment everyone rushed out of the passage, they felt a blur before their eyes, and then they found themselves trapped in a giant spider web.
The spider web continuously wrapped around them, each strand of silk being sticky, quickly binding everyone's hands and feet.
Hong Yuan's newly recovered 30% of his mana was completely depleted after being assaulted by the spatial gale.
Finally, it couldn't hold on any longer and transformed back into a tiny kitten the size of a palm.
"Little Star, why have you turned back to your old self?" Xi'er asked worriedly, looking at the little guy entangled in the spider web in her palm.
“My magic power is exhausted, so I naturally revert to my original state,” Hongyuan said.
"You, you, you, Little Star, you can actually talk?" Xi'er said belatedly.
“I can speak, shouldn’t I?” Hong Yuan said.
"But why didn't you say a word before?" Xi'er asked again.
"If I didn't want to talk about it then, I naturally wouldn't. Alright, enough nonsense, I'm going to get down to business now."
"Now I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?" Hong Yuan was completely exhausted and had long given up struggling, but her tone remained arrogant.
“Good news,” Xi’er said without hesitation.
Everyone is now tightly entangled in the spider web and can't break free, so she wants to hear the good news first.
"The good news is that we have crossed the spatial rift and arrived at the Cloud Abyss Mirror from the Dust Continent."
The bad news is, we've fallen into the trap of the cliff spider.
These cliff spiders live at the bottom of cliffs, where they like to spin webs on steep cliff faces.
Each one is at least the size of a bathtub, and the spider silk it spews is as tough as black iron wire, which cannot be cut by any sword or blade.
Once prey falls into their spider webs, there is a 99% chance it won't be able to escape.
Fortunately, this giant cliff spider was a female, and it must have laid eggs, so it didn't eat us, its prey, right away.
Instead, it wrapped us up and kept us as food reserves for its children. Hongyuan finished speaking quickly.
Once the giant cliff spider senses its prey, it will automatically begin to draw out the spider silk, wrapping it around and binding the prey.
If He doesn't finish speaking quickly, the spider silk will soon strangle Him so much that He won't be able to speak anymore.
"Little Star, how do you know so much?" Xi'er asked hurriedly.
"Stop! Don't call me Little Star. My name is Hongyuan. I'll only say it once, remember?" Hongyuan couldn't help but reveal his real name.
These past few days, she's been calling him "Little Star," and he's been having a really hard time putting up with it!
Even though it is a male sacred beast, it is being called by a name that only a little female beast would use.
“Alright, Hongyuan, your name is so beautiful. Can you tell me how to escape from the web of this giant cliff spider?” Xi’er asked.
"How would I know? All I know is that this spider silk can't be cut or broken," Hong Yuan said irritably.
He had only once overheard the old patriarch of the Youyuan family mention the characteristics of this cliff spider by chance; otherwise, he wouldn't have recognized it.
Bo Yiyan finally spoke up to comfort her, "Xi'er, don't be afraid. With your Uncle Bo here, there is no spider silk that cannot be melted!"
He first directed his contracted plant, Thousand Silk, to grow several slender vines, blocking the continuous stream of spider silk.
Then, he took out several highly corrosive and toxic agents from the space, sprayed the liquid onto the spider silk, and experimented with each one. Finally, he selected the one from the five liquids that had the best corrosive effect on the spider silk.
A quarter of an hour later, Bo Yiyan was the first to break free from the spider silk bindings, and then rescued Xi'er and her three contracted purple demons.
After regaining his freedom, Hongyuan couldn't wait to leave this awful place. He had never been so disheveled in his life. Many of his soft, smooth fur had been stuck to the spider silk.
Xi'er smiled and said, "No rush. These spider silks are so strong, they will definitely be useful if we collect them."
Bo Yiyan laughed along, "You've grown up now, you're sensible, you've even learned to live frugally."
“Of course! If you have valuable treasures and don’t keep them, that’s a waste of resources, and you’ll be struck by lightning,” Xi’er said.
So, Bo Yiyan took the potion and sprayed it all over the surrounding spider webs, quickly melting most of them apart.
Then everyone worked together to collect the spider webs.
By the time the giant spider on the cliff discovered that its web was damaged, only a few broken pieces remained.
The mother spider charged forward menacingly, wielding her six claws like sharp swords, slashing at the group.
Endless immediately activated its invincible state and withstood the mother spider's attack.
With Wuyi and Qilu attacking from both sides, and Bo Yiyan and Xi'er attacking from the front and back, they quickly severed all of the mother spider's claws.
The mother spider hissed and sprayed silk mixed with sticky fluid from her mouth, trying to trap everyone.
However, with Bo Yiyan's potion present, the spider silk it sprayed was quickly melted and broken.
The battle lasted for about twenty minutes before it ended.
Following its scent, Xi'er found four oval, transparent eggs the size of duck eggs, which were the unhatched children of the mother spider.
"These spider eggs look delicious," Xi'er said, her eyes shining as she stared at the spider eggs.
Hong Yuan finally couldn't help but speak up: "Take the eggs of the Cliff Giant Spider back and raise them. You can form a blood pact with them. Once they hatch, they will become a great help."
Xi'er was a little disgusted. She thought the mother spider she had just killed was ugly, and she had no intention of forming a contract with its children.
Rather than contracting five ugly spiders, she would much rather taste the grilled spider eggs.
“Ahem! Didn’t you just say you were good at managing money? These giant spider eggs are very valuable. When we get to a populated area, we can take them to the market to exchange for money,” Hong Yuan said.
Hearing Him say that, Xi'er finally gave up the idea of roasting the spider eggs.
Then she turned her attention back to the spatial rift she had just crawled out of.
Because of the huge spider web blocking the view, no one would have noticed this spatial rift.
Of course, even if someone discovers it and reports it to the nine major families, they will not choose this spatial passage.
The gale inside was far too strong. If Hong Yuan hadn't exhausted his magic power to protect them today, they would probably have been badly injured, if not killed.
“This spatial rift won’t pose a major threat to the Dust Continent for the time being, but Xi’er, you’ve suddenly disappeared. Your parents and the High Priest must be frantic with worry,” Bo Yiyan analyzed.
"Hehe! I bet they won't be worried, because they'll definitely think that I ran away from home with Uncle Bo to escape my mom's punishment."
With Uncle Bo by my side, and in the future, there will be Wujin, the other two, plus Fusheng and Ruomeng.
"We're simply the strongest combination; we can practically roam freely across the Dust Continent!" Xi'er laughed smugly.
“Alright, for now, all we can do is find a sufficiently strong shield here, then return here, and finally cross the spatial rift to go home,” Bo Yi said.
"You're oversimplifying things! I sensed several passages in the spatial rift just now."
It was pure luck that I managed to climb out of this passage.
It's impossible to predict which tunnel you'll crawl out of next time you go in.
"There's even a possibility that they'll get lost in the spatial gales and never be able to climb out again," Hong Yuan said.
“Then let’s go find the people from the nine great families. They must have a way to open the spatial rift, otherwise the elite disciples they sent out would never come back,” Xi’er said.
"You're thinking too simply, because the last spatial rift was torn open by me."
You've already patched up that underwater rift. I can only tear through space after my magic power is fully restored.
"There's nothing I can do before this, so you'll just have to obediently accompany me on my travels around Yunyuan Shangjing," Hongyuan said.
"What?! So you're the culprit who killed so many sea creatures?!" Xi'er was furious and raised her little fist to punch him.
Hongyuan closed his two heterochromatic eyes and quietly waited for the little fist to land on him.
He has no magic power at all now and is powerless to resist.
But after waiting for a long time, the fist still didn't land on him.
He opened his eyes again and saw the human girl in front of him gesturing at his body with her pink fist.
Xi'er gestured for a long time, but still didn't know where to place her fist.
The little guy had lost his magic power at this moment, and was just a tiny, fluffy ball of a ball, looking both cute and pitiful.
She really didn't know where to start!
Xi'er gritted her teeth and glared at the culprit. After a while, she finally flicked the tip of His nose with her finger.
The tip of Hongyuan's nose was one of the most sensitive spots on her body. She immediately felt a stinging sensation in her nose and tears welled up in her eyes.
Those two wet, heterochromatic eyes met Xi'er's, and for some reason, a line of poetry came to mind—"Water is like the horizontal waves of the eyes, mountains are like the gathering of the eyebrows."
I wonder how beautiful this little guy will be when he transforms into human form.
Staring into those beautiful eyes, Xi'er could no longer bring herself to punish the little guy.
Then I started to find reasons for it in my mind: Hongyuan didn't want to harm anyone, it was just being used by those people.
They used its ability to tear space apart, but Hongyuan was unaware that tearing space apart would cause the deaths of so many sea beasts.
Xi'er thought this way because after they were sucked into the rift by the spatial gale, Hongyuan transformed into his huge form and protected everyone.
If it's truly hopelessly bad, it won't protect them.
Judging from the kitten-like appearance that Hongyuan showed after losing its magic power, it should still be a cub.
The cub doesn't understand anything, so what bad intentions could it possibly have?
It is essentially a knife now. Whether this knife does good or evil depends entirely on the good or evil in the heart of the person wielding it.
Xi'er decided to try her best to keep Hongyuan by her side so that it would never unintentionally harm anyone in the future.
Thinking of this, Xi'er solemnly asked it, "Hongyuan, are you willing to follow me for the rest of your life?"
Hongyuan: Heavens above! Earth below! He was just a cub, how could he have been confessed to by a female?
It's no wonder Hongyuan misunderstood; He crawled out of the eggshell on his own, without the guidance of parents.
Everything He knows comes from inherited memories.
In traditional beliefs, when courting someone of the opposite sex, one would ask, "Would you like to spend your whole life with me?"
The six-winged unicorns are naturally monogamous; once they choose a mate, both male and female will remain faithful to that mate for life.
In ancient times, they would naturally mate with their own kind to continue their lineage.
But now, His race has long since disappeared into the long river of time, leaving only a handful of them.
These few are scattered in different universes, making it almost impossible for Hongyuan to find a member of the same species to mate with.
The inherited memories told Him that He could choose to mate with other races, but only if the other party could take human form, so as not to create racial segregation.
But Hongyuan never expected that he would be confessed to by a human girl before he even came of age.
He was troubled: should he accept her confession or reject her outright?
Hongyuan actually quite liked Xi'er's aura. When choosing a mate, the most important factor for sacred beasts is their aura.
When their energies blend together, there will be no sense of repulsion, making it possible to make the next choice.
For example, is the other party strong enough? Are their qualifications excellent? Is their level high enough?
Only after going through multiple rounds of selection will one consider whether they like it or not.
Hongyuan knew that as a sacred beast, finding a female that could match him was actually a very difficult thing.
The reason He is not in a hurry is simply because He is not yet an adult.
But now a female has taken the initiative to confess her feelings to Him, and she is a female that He does not dislike.
Okay, it's even better than not disliking it.
She treated Him very well, feeding Him lots of delicious food and holding Him in the palm of her hand. All of this was done under the premise that He concealed His aura and she did not know how powerful He was.
No wonder she fell for Him and confessed her feelings after He used 30% of His power to protect her once.
If I reject her, will she be very sad?
When an orc's courtship is rejected, he either uses force to subdue the other party or turns away proudly, without feeling particularly sad.
However, humans are different. Hongyuan has personally witnessed many humans, especially females, who would cry for a long time after being rejected by males. Some of the weaker ones would even die of depression.
The thought that Xi'er might cry because of His rejection made Hong Yuan feel a pang of sadness.
After much deliberation, He finally looked up at her and said, "Alright, since you're the one asking me, I'll reluctantly agree to be with you."
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