Chapter 96 Hidden Dragon Bone (Bonus Chapter for Monthly Tickets)
These ghost skulls, which can ignore the collision of matter, are excellent at acting as eyes, often able to detect the ghost-eyed spiders from a distance.
This greatly facilitated their hunting mission.
Fortunately, this Ghost Eye Cave is perpetually shrouded in darkness, and its dense, yin-cold spiritual energy makes it feel like home to them.
It's harder to kill spiders in groups; two people are better at targeting lone ones or groups of two or three.
In just half an hour, they collected 20 ghost eyes and five complete spider corpses.
"We have enough. Next, we need to find a first-tier peak Ghost Eye Spider."
"Yes, thank you for your trouble, Brother Situ."
"No problem."
Apart from the invisible ghost-eyed spider we encountered when we first entered, the others were much more normal, with only one or two possessing this special ability.
This situation also brought them a quiet sense of relief; as long as not every Ghost-Eyed Spider possessed it, the problem was relatively easy to solve.
Inside the cave, the direction of progress gradually descends, and many more interconnected passages appear, occasionally connecting with other Ghost Eye Caves.
At that time, they, belonging to two different spider colonies, will fight each other.
At this point, the disciples need to intervene, at the very least blocking the connection and then applying talismans or restrictions to seal it off, which is quite troublesome.
“It’s almost noon now. We must leave the cave before 7 p.m. This luminous bead can not only provide light, but also indicate the way back outside.”
During the journey, Situ Hong suddenly spoke up, saying something out of the blue, but Wang Yu naturally understood what he meant.
The anomaly in Ghost Eye Cave No. 5 indicates that there may be some unknown treasure here, which is difficult for the two people to divide, and the amount required for the mission has just been completed.
Next, we'll split up and perhaps find the source of these spiders' mutation.
Wang Yu acted in accordance with the trend.
"In that case, why don't we, fellow disciples, split up and act separately? There's no need to argue about the distribution of the Ghost Eyes, what do you say?"
"Can."
Situ Hong nodded and waved the Hundred Ghosts Banner in his hand. The ghost heads that were active outside returned one after another and followed his guidance to the passage on the left.
In his view, with his superior investigative skills, he was more likely than Wang Yu to find the source of the Ghost-Eyed Spiders' mutation. He could leave ordinary hunting spiders alone, but when the opportunity arose, it was the right thing to keep it to himself.
Seeing him walk away, Wang Yu shook his head and entered the passage on the right. He flicked his finger, and several strands of spiritual energy condensed into an ice crystal that was embedded in the wall. After leaving a wisp of divine consciousness inside, he quickly moved forward.
Soon after, after confirming that they were far away.
He put the Radiant Pearl into his storage bag, and his vision was completely dark, with only the two crescent moons in his eyes emitting a faint glow.
Similarly, if Situ Hong wanted to enjoy it all to himself, so did Wang Yu.
The Night Concealment Spell activated naturally, transforming him into a shadow as he swiftly traversed the cave passage, ignoring the ghost-eyed spiders he encountered along the way.
He simply noted down the locations of those peak-level first-tier Ghost Eye Spiders and dealt with them later. He needed to first figure out the internal terrain. Given the cultivation level of the monsters here, even a second-tier Spider Queen would have a hard time seeing through the Night Concealment Spell.
He thrives even in the dark.
It took nearly three hours to figure out the terrain inside the cave. Unfortunately, they did not find the Spider Queen's nest, which means that Situ Hong actually wanted to try to obtain the second-tier Ghost Eye if possible.
What a pity.
However, some secrets about the stealth spider have been discovered.
This is a vertical passageway with a faint white light seeping down from above; it should lead to the summit of Spider Mountain.
The passageway, though described as vertical, is actually somewhat curved, and is filled with spider webs, with enormous spiders, each about half a person's height, crawling on it.
There are at least a dozen of them, with varying strengths, but they all share one notable characteristic: they can become invisible!
Clinging to the cave wall, Wang Yu carefully passed through the dense spider webs and peered down into the vertical passage. After a moment's thought, he decisively took action.
He formed a hand seal and slapped it towards the ground.
As the surging spiritual energy burst forth, the thick ice layer divided the passage into two parts, separating the dozen or so spiders. Wang Yu seized the opportunity to jump out from the shadows.
Look up—and breathe fire!
fierce~
Pale white with a grayish tinge, and encased in a blue outer flame, cold flames burst forth from his lips as if he were blowing air, yet they brought terrifying extreme cold and heat!
Caught off guard, the spiders fell one after another, their limbs flailing erratically. Only a few peak-level first-tier ghost spiders spat out long, dark nails.
This is a bloodline technique of demonic beasts; they are born with it.
The solidified shadow spikes pierced through the layer of frost flames, but by the time they reached him, they had already been significantly weakened.
Wang Yu used the Black Scale Shield to intercept the attacks with several thuds. He then formed a sword finger with his right hand, transforming his perfected Ice Sword Technique from ten swords into two, resulting in two ice swords of significantly improved quality.
This is different from giantification; the overlapping technique strives for a qualitative change through compression!
It is also his secondary development and utilization of perfect-level spells, which can play different roles in different environments.
With the ice sword of significantly improved quality, under Wang Yu's divine sense and gaze, it was quickly reduced to charred corpse pieces that fell nearby.
Without time to deal with it, Wang Yu stuffed everything into his empty storage bag and looked down at the passage below, which was isolated by a thick layer of ice, where a number of ghost spiders had already gathered.
Spiritual energy surged.
The ice beneath his feet melted open automatically, creating a hole about the size of a finger. Wang Yu used the same trick again, unleashing his Flame Breathing Technique at the hole.
The thin flames burst forth after passing through a three-meter-long passage, accompanied by increasingly loud screams. He could see what was happening beneath his feet.
After waiting for three breaths, the ice completely melted, and the two sharp ice swords, which had undergone five superimposed qualitative changes, attacked again. Wang Yu swung them as he fell.
After a few breaths, it landed safely.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of body parts fell down, completely surrounding him. The spider's body parts were a bit disgusting, so Wang Yu collected them all before he had time to assess the situation.
The style below is completely different from Ghost Eye Cave; it's more like the dwelling place of some large creature, with some shed, dark gray scales remaining on the walls.
In the corner, there were still many weathered, unknown skeletons piled up. This was clearly not how spiders fed. Although there were many more spider webs now, they were all very new in color, indicating that the ghost spiders had not been here for long.
After looking around and searching, Wang Yu found a skeleton seven or eight meters long in a haystack, densely covered with spider silk, and some small spiders the size of a palm crawling on it.
He was killed by Wang Yu with a few casual sword strikes.
Following the tail to the head, its gaze suddenly sharpened.
Using the ice sword to cut through the spider silk, right at the skull's location, there was a bone fragment inscribed with mysterious symbols, emitting some unusual fluctuations.
"This is a precious bone..."
"The treasured bones of the Hidden Dragon???"
Precious bones are the remains of demonic beasts whose bloodlines have reached a certain level and which have perished.
(End of this chapter)
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