Chapter 247
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Chapter 247: The Underground Base in the Demon Spirit Realm is Destroyed
As the Five-Spirit Enlightened Monkey lunged at the Earth Crystal Spider, Xu Fan noticed a cold smile on the spider’s almost human-like face.
Xu Fan suddenly felt that this situation was more serious than he had thought.
A little spider at the Transformation Stage, and it wasn’t afraid of a massive Void Refinement Stage Five-Spirit Enlightened Monkey like me.
“Today, the food is you, Transformation Stage Five-Spirit Enlightened Monkey,” a rough little girl’s voice rang out.
“???” Xu Fan.
Xu Fan looked at the one-meter-long Transformation Stage Earth Crystal Spider and revealed a playful smile.
This was the first time he encountered such a creature that spoke the harshest words but could take the most brutal hits.
A massive rocky hand suddenly appeared beneath the feet of the Transformation Stage Earth Crystal Spider.
Just as it was about to crush the Earth Crystal Spider, the area was shrouded in an endless web, finer than hair.
Then it began to constrict the space in that region.
‘Slice~~’ The rock giant formed from the Five-Spirit Enlightened Monkey was cut into pieces before it could react.
Then, the one-meter-long Earth Crystal Spider quickly scurried to where the Five-Spirit Enlightened Monkey had been sliced, searching for scraps of meat.
“Eh, where did the meat go?” the Earth Crystal Spider said in a little girl’s voice while rummaging through the fragments on the ground.
A giant rocky hand suddenly clutched the Earth Crystal Spider.
“The meat is right here; I wonder if you’ll survive to eat it,” Xu Fan said with a smile.
There stood the rock giant formed from the Five-Spirit Enlightened Monkey, its eyes playfully gazing at the Earth Crystal Spider.
“From your voice, it seems you haven’t even matured yet you’re out hunting; doesn’t your family worry about you?” Xu Fan’s tone held a hint of murderous intent.
Grape had just reported that the Earth Crystal Spider invasion had been mostly suppressed, but several reserve spirit stone vaults had been raided by the Earth Crystal Spiders.
More than fifty-eight percent of the original puppets in the underground base had been damaged, all cut into pieces, making recovery value low.
With over half of his years of effort destroyed, Xu Fan certainly wouldn’t let this little spider go.
“You better let me go; otherwise, when my mother comes, you’re done for,” the little Earth Crystal Spider said, trying to appear important.
“Oh, I wonder how your mother would feel upon seeing your corpse.”
Xu Fan smiled as he brought the little Earth Crystal Spider closer to his eyes, saying, “Not to mention, your small appearance is quite cute; it makes me hesitate to kill you.”
“Then you should let me go! My mother is very powerful; even monkeys like you are just snacks.”
The little spider noticed the blatant killing intent in the rock giant’s eyes and its tone began to weaken.
“Still dare to threaten me?”
A blade formed from Five Elements Spirit Fire appeared and slowly aimed at the Earth Crystal Spider’s forehead.
“Then you can wait underground for your mother.” Xu Fan stated as he controlled the blade to stab down.
“Stinky monkey, go die! I’ve remembered the scent of your soul.”
“When I reach Void Refinement stage, I will definitely eat you,” the little Earth Crystal Spider declared, taking a deep breath.
Just as the blade was about to pierce the little Earth Crystal Spider, a spatial force appeared, whisking the Earth Crystal Spider away.
Xu Fan looked at the hand holding the small Earth Crystal Spider and sighed, "We need to relocate the base."
While controlling the Earth Crystal Spider, Xu Fan used his powers to seal off the surrounding space completely. Breaking through this sealed space would require at least the strength of someone at the Core Formation stage or higher. The spatial force that had just appeared seemed more like a powerful beast race sealing technique embedded within the small Earth Crystal Spider. To be cautious, Xu Fan decided to move the underground base in the Demon Spirit Realm.
"Grape, transfer all valuable items from the underground base to the underground space of Hidden Spirit Island," Xu Fan ordered. "Create a new layer in the underground space to store these items. Also, send a few teleportation formations to the Thick-Shell Honey Badger clan and establish a branch base underground there. It’s time to activate our contingency plans."
"Understood," Grape responded.
After issuing his commands, Xu Fan controlled the Five-Spirit Enlightened Monkeys and returned to Satellite Island to continue his training. He noticed that as his technique improved, controlling the Five-Spirit Enlightened Monkeys became easier.
"Maybe I should reward the Pangolin. The Five-Spirit Enlightened Monkeys wouldn’t have progressed so quickly without its help," Xu Fan mused, stroking his chin.
As for the losses in the underground space of the Wan Chong Mountain Range, Xu Fan wasn’t too concerned. Aside from the puppets, he had only lost some spirit stones that powered them. The core treasury remained intact, and as long as he brought its contents back to Hidden Spirit Island, everything would be fine.
"It’s a shame we only explored a fifth of this place," Xu Fan said regretfully. "Finding another location like the Wan Chong Mountain Range won’t be easy."
Although the Wan Chong Mountain Range wasn’t overflowing with resources, its safety and variety of spirit ores made it ideal for establishing an underground base. As the underground base in the Demon Spirit Realm was evacuated, the underground space of Hidden Spirit Island became packed. The second layer of the underground space wasn’t fully developed, leaving it in a cramped state.
Looking at the partners he had gathered over the years, Xu Fan sighed, realizing how quickly time had passed. Without noticing, the underground base in the Demon Spirit Realm had been developed for several years.
"Let’s merge and upgrade the tool puppet production lines," Xu Fan instructed. "Replace all the Foundation Establishment stage tool puppets with Golden Core stage ones. Upgrade the battle puppet production lines to the Nascent Soul stage."
"Understood," Grape replied.
The entire puppet production line in the underground space of Hidden Spirit Island was undergoing upgrades and construction. The production lines for Transformation Stage heavy armor puppets and standard Transformation Stage puppets had been successfully established and were undergoing small-scale adjustments. Most importantly, the production line for Void Refinement Stage Puppets was under construction. Thanks to the artifact-level alloy formula developed by Sha Diao, the cost of manufacturing Void Refinement Stage Puppets had been reduced several times.
As Xu Fan pondered how to initiate resource collection in the Demon Spirit Realm, Grape reported that the underground base had been attacked by a Great Ascension stage Earth Crystal Spider. All the puppets in the underground base had been destroyed.
"All spirit ores and exotic treasures in the central treasury have been evacuated," Grape said. "The puppets sent to deliver the teleportation formation disks to the Thick-Shell Honey Badger clan have made it safely."
"Report the losses," Xu Fan ordered.
"The core area treasury storing spirit stones was completely invaded, resulting in a loss of 43.46 million top-grade spirit stones," Grape reported. "We lost 124,862 Nascent Soul stage battle puppets, 64 Transformation Stage heavy armor puppets, 106 teams of Mining Puppets, and several professional transport puppets…"
Listening to Grape’s report, Xu Fan felt relieved that his commands had been timely. If he had delayed even a moment longer, the core treasury would have been lost. After silently calculating the losses, Xu Fan found them acceptable.
Looking at the closed teleportation formation, he murmured, "Good thing I left plenty of backup plans."
