"Little madman, group battles are your home turf."
Shen Fuguang's words still echoed in her ears, but when she actually faced the marrow-eating spider and used the method he taught her, she truly understood the meaning of those words.
The dark green vines resemble endlessly regenerating spider silk. The four initial vines can split into thousands upon thousands of vines of varying thicknesses, which are more flexible and dangerous than the silk of the marrow-eating spider. Wherever they pass, the spider silk melts as if it were touching lava, and even the marrow-eating spider will become weak and limp after being touched for a moment.
Each vine can extend for more than 500 meters, its fine barbs spreading out to scrape away flesh and bone, plunder energy, and devour life.
The area within a hundred meters in front of Chang Le was almost entirely covered with dark green vines, as if the gaping maw of an abyss was open, ensuring that all the marrow-eating spiders that pounced on it would never return.
Wan Buxun led six members of the Dragon Soul Army to clear the spiders on the left and right, while Iris and the remaining five stayed by Chang Le's side.
Chang Le's vines were quite lethal, and the scene was very eye-catching, even Wan Buxun and Iris couldn't help but take a sidelong look.
Iris was amazed by Chang Le's growth.
After Chang Le's accident, when the two met again in District Nine, Chang Le was only at the fifth level of cultivation and was considered a novice in combat. When they met again in District Seven, Chang Le was still recovering from serious injuries. Later, his injuries improved and his strength increased significantly. Now, Chang Le has made rapid progress in terms of cultivation, physical strength, combat ability, and experience.
Wan Buxun was amazed by Chang Le's profound cultivation.
He could sense that Chang Le's cultivation level was probably around the seventh or eighth rank, but to maintain such a high level of output for such a long time without changing his expression was truly astonishing.
What amazed Wan Buxun was Chang Le's advantage over others in group battles.
She doesn't "devour," she "swallows and spits."
While the vines may seem to be fiercely devouring everything, they are actually silently supplying energy to the main body.
Maintaining so many vines in combat at the same time is very taxing, but she replenishes them quickly.
In particular, after discovering and using her fusion ability multiple times, her fusion skills became stronger.
Before the mixed energy from the marrow-eating spider was fused, most of the impurities were eliminated, leaving only the purest absorbable energy.
Chang Le's strategy in group battles—healing while dealing damage—results in near-infinite damage output.
In other words, if the marrow-eating spiders wanted to use the power of their group to wear down Chang Le, they would likely have already exhausted their own group before that.
This is the true secret behind Chang Le's group battles, and also the source of her truly powerful [Ingestion] ability.
The intense battle lasted for nearly an hour.
The ground was littered with the corpses of marrow-eating spiders; the casualties were heavy.
On the other hand, Chang Le was unharmed, as Iris and Wan Buxun were safe, and Chang Le was also unscathed thanks to Iris's protection. The twelve members of the Dragon Soul Army consisted of one seventh-tier and one eighth-tier soldier. Only the two seventh-tier soldiers at the forefront suffered minor injuries, which had no effect whatsoever.
In comparison, the marrow-eating spider's defeat is inevitable.
Chang Le's gaze suddenly sharpened, and with a swift movement of his arm, he quickly retracted the vines in the distance.
Wan Buxun's voice rang out almost simultaneously: "The Spider Queen is here!"
The vines retreated rapidly, and a huge figure leaped high into the air, its eight spider legs covered in barbs sending up countless fragments of vines.
Chang Le's face turned slightly pale.
The spider queen suddenly attacked, tearing apart nearly a hundred of her vines.
The vines are her byproducts; as long as the initial four vines don't all break, they won't cause serious harm to her body. However, the numerous broken vines that branch out will consume a significant amount of her abilities.
"Watch out!" Iris stepped aside to shield Chang Le. "Its cultivation is close to the ninth level."
Wan Buxun frowned slightly, exchanged a glance with Iris, and the two quickly switched places.
Iris rushed forward, saying, "This guy's poisonous, I'll handle him!"
"Bang—"
The iris, its entire body enveloped in a purple-gold light, collided heavily with the Spider King.
The Spider King's legs failed to pierce the Iris's defenses, and instead, its own legs made two crisp "crack" sounds.
The Spider King is highly poisonous, and even other ninth-tier experts would be wary of it. Unfortunately, the Iris's demon bloodline emphasizes "indestructibility," giving it a certain degree of immunity to various poisons.
The outcome of this battle is no longer in doubt.
Chang Le's eyes searched the field, and he swung out a vine that pierced a spider that was half a person's height, dragging it over by force.
Just as the spider was about to spread its eight legs to grab Chang Le's head and devour her brain, a vine pierced through its brain first.
The spider twitched a few times and then stopped breathing.
Chang Le unearthed its energy stone, which is the primordial core.
The seventh-order marrow-eating spider pronucleus.
Is Bai Ge enough?
Chang Le thought for a moment, then caught a few more seventh-tier creatures and extracted their original cores.
Seeing this, Wan Buxun silently walked away and then came back, giving her an eighth-tier original core in his hand.
"You can't accept something for nothing. This is your own spoils of war." Chang Le didn't take it.
Wan Buxun still extended his hand, his tone sincere: "Please accept this as an apology for my previous offense."
Chang Le's lips twitched as she stared at the man who looked to be in his forties or even older, thinking to herself: What an honest man.
Chang Le did not refuse and accepted it.
These pronuclei should be enough for Bai Xie.
"Bang!"
The spider king crashed heavily to the ground, five of its eight legs were broken, and its abdomen was dented from the impact.
Iris walked over, flexing her wrists: "Although we can kill it, I suggest we don't. The Spider Queen of the Marrow-Eating Spiders is quite intelligent and has mysterious means of controlling its colony. If we kill it, it may trigger a riot among all the remaining Marrow-Eating Spiders. We can't be held back, and we should also try to minimize the consumption of our powers."
Wan Buxun said, "I agree. If we leave it behind, and encounter it again on the way back, given the nature of the marrow-eating spider, it will most likely back down, which will save us a lot of trouble."
Chang Le nodded: "Okay."
Iris turned and walked to the Spider King, raising her fist.
The spider queen let out a hoarse cry, struggled several times, and barely managed to raise its two legs to block.
Iris's fist landed on the ground beside it.
The Spider King was stunned for several seconds, then suddenly limped away, rolling and tumbling.
The other marrow-eating spiders looked at each other and then ran away.
Wan Buxun glanced at Chang Le, who looked slightly tired, and asked, "Shall we rest for a bit first?"
Chang Le said, "Keep going!"
Two hours later, after being attacked by three waves of unorganized alien species, the group approached the incident area, less than three miles from the Bone-Melting Pit.
The group had no choice but to stop.
Chang Le and the others hid behind the low hill, secretly peeking out to look at another group of people in front of them.
They were more than 500 meters away. The group consisted of eight people, all wrapped in gray-white robes, appearing extremely mysterious.
The woman in the lead had a stunning figure; her wide robe billowed in the wind, subtly outlining her remarkable curves.
Chang Le hadn't yet recognized who these people were when Wan Buxun and Iris suddenly changed their expressions drastically.
The two looked at each other and nodded at the same time.
Chang Le noticed and lowered his voice to ask, "Do you know them?"
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