Chapter 67 Great Opportunity
Luo Xuanyi was feeling both anticipation and trepidation, but she couldn't help but be shocked by the scene before her.
The dome was covered with some kind of densely packed plants of a dark green color that could not be seen clearly. Dozens of huge cocoons wrapped in spider silk hung down here and there. The spider silk was pure white, but the cocoons were yellow like thick phlegm, and corpses were wrapped inside.
The blood of those people was rolled into the spider silk like a spool of thread, and the whole place looked like a large breeding farm. However, Luo Xuanyi soon discovered that the cocoons did not have any reaction that a living organism should have, and the blood that was drawn out accumulated at the bottom of the cocoon.
There were also many corpses scattered on the ground, some sitting and some lying, so dry that only a frame remained.
Luo Xuanyi bravely walked up to a cocoon and took a closer look. She didn't think it was disgusting at all. After all, compared with the various research conducted by Taoist Hua Shen over the past few hundred years, these were nothing big.
The person inside the cocoon hunched over, seemingly trying to find a sense of security, but it was completely useless. His eyeballs melted into liquid, floating around his face. There was a huge bloody hole in his chest, his heart gone, and only his intestines could be seen swimming inside.
After examining several, they all lost their hearts. The heart is the divine master of the unpredictable yin and yang, and taking a human heart is often used as an aid to cultivating spiritual consciousness and supernatural powers. Luo Xuanyi finally remembered what the thing on top was.
This evil creature, known as the Vine Demon Spider, is highly beneficial to demonic cultivators. Its main form is a vine, but to absorb human blood for nourishment, it initially transforms into a pure white spider, which it hunts and consumes for nutritional gain. After a hundred years of growth, it metamorphoses, transforming its main form into a phantom. It no longer consumes spiders, but instead feeds on human hearts, drawing nourishment from spider cocoons.
Since the cultivation level of the Vine Demon Spider varies greatly between a hundred years and a half, and it has no consciousness before a hundred years, the devil will keep the Vine Demon Spider with him from a young age, supplying it with his own blood as its main source of life. After a hundred years, the Vine Demon Spider will become intelligent and automatically recognize its master.
The benefits of the Vine Demon Spider lie in its spider and cocoon. For a cultivator, eating one white spider is equivalent to consuming three Foundation Establishment Pills, without any poison, while also strengthening the body and nourishing the body.
After a hundred years, when a cocoon forms, the benefits of absorbing the essence from it are even greater. Not only does it boost cultivation, it also strengthens one's spiritual consciousness, expands the sea of consciousness, and stabilizes the inner demons from being disturbed by illusions. This is something that can only be achieved by an eighth or ninth grade elixir that is priceless and in short supply. If it weren't so sinister, it would have long been highly praised.
The Heavenly Dao cultivators hated it immensely, unable to use such a valuable item, and were determined to exterminate it. However, while the Ivy Demon Spider was difficult to breed and had no means of self-preservation before its first century, once it survived past that age, eradicating it would be extremely troublesome.
It possesses a rare and powerful power capable of disrupting the divine consciousness: a telepathic thought. Anyone who attacks it will be subjected to a telepathic thought. Those struck by this power will mistake themselves for the white spider of the Vine Demon Spider, subject to its control. As their divine consciousness is gradually eroded, their soul will slowly transform into a white spider, their body becoming nourishment for the Vine Demon Spider.
This was why it cultivated with human minds, and it was also the source of Luo Xuanyi's thoughts about his true form. The Ivy Demon Spider's reputation was truly formidable. Even though all newly born Ivy Demon Spiders had been strangled over the past few thousand years, they were still feared.
The vine demon spider before her was already dead, but it had left behind these cocoons, which hadn't been fully absorbed. Luo Xuanyi was so excited that she almost jumped up and hugged the cocoons. To absorb the cocoons, she had to reach the root of the spider silk. Luo Xuanyi immediately took out the bamboo slips and flew towards the top.
The tangled vines glowed a terrifying green light, but Luo Xuanyi was filled with excitement. She finally landed on a vine, but upon closer inspection, she discovered it was withered, the shrunken corpse of a white spider emitting a faint glow.
She didn't care about her image at all, lying down where the spider silk connected the vines, and bit the flexible spider silk with her mouth.
Luo Xuanyi swallowed the cool air along the spider silk in large gulps, then transformed it. The cocoon slowly swayed, and the blood and corpse began to transform into liquid and flow into the spider silk. As the cocoon deflated, Luo Xuanyi finally opened her mouth and sat down, letting out a long breath and unable to suppress a burp.
"I'm so full. Just one person has so much spiritual energy?" Luo Xuanyi didn't dare to let the spiritual energy accumulate in her body for too long, so she immediately sat cross-legged and began to digest it. She had just started when she was so surprised that she almost broke her circulation.
"I can practice now? And I'm starting to grow!"
Her body, which had been destroyed by the initiation and poison, could only store spiritual energy. Although she could use magic tools to replenish it, she still felt insecure because she had no strength of her own. Unexpectedly, when she was about to store the spiritual energy in the cocoon, she felt that her cultivation began to improve rapidly!
Her original pseudo-foundation building stage was just an empty building, ready to collapse at the slightest push. But she could feel this shaky foundation rapidly filling up. And because of the framework, her cultivation progressed so quickly that it seemed as if she had reached true Qi training perfection in the blink of an eye.
As the absorption became more and more complete, her bones began to crackle. Her body, which had remained unchanged for several years, began to grow rapidly, stretching and growing taller. After a while, it finally slowed down. Although she still looked childlike, she had transformed from a ten-year-old child into a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl.
Her stomach, which hadn't been hungry any longer, was practically screaming. Luo Xuanyi quickly stuffed everything she could eat from her storage bag, even using up the herbs until only one or two layers remained before she felt half full. She touched her face; it was skin and bones, with not a trace of flesh to be found.
She was thin, but she could feel that her body was more stable, and the bones that had been drained by the initiation were slowly showing signs of recovery.
The body is repairing!
Her robe had become too short, but Luo Xuanyi didn't care for that right now. Her first reaction was to check her lifespan, but after a thorough examination, she sighed. She only had six years left, the same as before, no more, no less. Her ecstasy was extinguished by a bucket of cold water, and she began to seriously analyze her current situation.
The massive spiritual power impact of the Ivy Demon Spider did indeed bring about an increase in cultivation and a stable body, but that was not the key. Luo Xuanyi turned her palm over and looked at the immortal pill of fortune in her right palm, feeling a surge of excitement and regret.
She had not studied this mark so seriously before, but now she is really facing it.
The perfect mark appeared naturally on the hand, and in the center was a small inscription, but the words were incomprehensible to Luo Xuanyi.
Recalling the past, Luo Xuanyi finally grasped a new understanding. The elixir and its memories were likely the remnant of the ancient alchemist's spirit. The ease with which she had retrieved the stone tablet and discovered the maze was due to the master's permission. The elixir already had a connection to the immortal realm; taking one would allow her to achieve a breakthrough, and repairing her body would be no big deal. It was simply that Luo Xuanyi hadn't encountered anything at the time, so she hadn't noticed the changes in her body in time.
It was because Luo Xuanyi helped the elixir become a success and suppressed her greed that was not in line with her strength that the ancient alchemist left her the key to unlock these opportunities.
Luo Xuanyi looked at the dozens of remaining cocoons and licked her lips.
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