Chapter 483
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Chapter 483: Following the Internet Cable
Traveling the world is a key feature of adventure, and crashes are inevitable—such events shouldn’t be overlooked.
It could be a stroke of luck: encountering a great opportunity, finding a secret book, saving a woman, or gaining the favor of a master. Even someone with average abilities can become a hero, like Guo Jing.
But it could also be the result of scheming: ending up with a setback, or even losing one’s life due to a small incident or an unexpected accident. It’s possible to be targeted by evil forces, even when one hasn’t done anything wrong, being played with and killed by them.
The world is like a card pool—without ten pulls or a guaranteed outcome. You might see many people receiving rare rewards, but in reality, most people disappear silently in unseen places.
Therefore, it’s easier to achieve things with powerful support behind you. By relying on a certain power, you can ensure you have a card up your sleeve and a protective umbrella while traveling the world.
The female gatherer, named Colored Bead, is a spider demon with over 130 years of cultivation. Different demon races have different habits. Spider demons aren’t common in the Mountain and Sea realm or the Great Wilderness era. Though arthropods have a long history, there aren’t many powerful spider demons. They don’t possess many top-level fierce beasts or exotic bloodlines, but they have gradually developed as communication between realms opened up.
Spider demons have strong reproductive abilities, but short lifespans. Very few demon races can break their lifespan limits and cultivate for over fifty years. Compared to other races, they have stronger bloodline connections. Due to their racial characteristics, the Colored Spider demon race is classified as a demonic or evil cultivation, and they are not well-received by various factions. As a result, they can only operate in the world, helping certain important figures in exchange for resources and living space.
But nowadays, things have changed. The area where Caizhu resides, in Hujia Grave, occupies three peaks of the Nineteen Yin Mountains. Her master is a top-tier sorcerer, even regarded as a formidable figure in Ba State. Even the city defense generals dare not provoke her, and she feels hopeful for her future.
Caizhu desires a superior life and lifestyle. Her talent is good, and if she continues with her routine cultivation, she could live many more years. But there is no pure land within the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom—even for sorcerers. Today, someone is feasting on the flesh and blood of others at the dining table, and someday, the skull of an enemy might be replaced with her own.
She wants a safe life, much like a retired pirate. If things continue, life will become increasingly difficult. It would be better to earn more money, wait for the turmoil to subside, and then escape to another country to start anew.
Over the past few decades, Caizhu has committed many wrongdoings. She has wholeheartedly carried out the tasks assigned to her by her sect, but with some reservations. Even her innocence has worn away. Her desire to leave is not about repentance, but because the risks have become too high. Continuing on this path, she sees no future and feels hopeless.
She originally planned to slowly save money and explore opportunities to work abroad or marry a wealthy man to gain family assets through a circuitous route… Inspired by a TV drama.
Unexpectedly, she encountered Princess Bai Ze. She felt that her luck had turned. She couldn’t miss this opportunity. She considered herself careful enough, but everyone underestimated her strength. Caizhu thought she had a deep disguise, but she revealed her thoughts too easily. She thought she had control of the situation, but Bai Wei’s few words exposed her true nature—ambitious, yet narrow-minded.
Only when she was pinned down by Crouching Tiger did she realize the grave mistake she had made. Desperate, she quickly thought of a way to make amends, pretending to submit on the surface.
Anxious in her heart, she called for the hidden emerald green spider.
Her senior sister, with a cultivation of 150 years, was stronger than her. Even if it was just a clone, it could unexpectedly capture her.
If being tough won’t work, she would resort to sneaky tactics.
Senior sister, it’s your turn to take action!
Hurry, go!
She felt an urgency in her heart. Though in a very embarrassing position, pinned to the ground by a tiger, she shouted for her senior sister to save her in a desperate manner.
The emerald green spider was a clone. Its true form was Biyu, a rare jade emerald spider with innate powerful spiritual consciousness.
It could split into multiple clones and establish a connection through spiritual consciousness, but it still wasn’t a truly powerful soul. The mental connection meant her true form remained vulnerable. If the clones were eliminated, her own spiritual essence would be damaged.
To compensate for various shortcomings, she specifically cultivated a broken mystic art to control her unique treasure.
The emerald green spider transformed into a thin needle, and the clone’s spiritual essence became a sharp weapon, aiming directly at the young man’s forehead.
Instead of using regular spider venom, it was better to directly destroy the opponent’s soul.
Soul-destroying needle, go!
The emerald spider released invisible power, and the soul fluctuation was subtle, difficult to notice. But in the eyes of Bai Wei, whose soul power was extremely strong, this surprise attack was no less impactful than a mosquito flying into his ear, the sound piercing his eardrums.
Bai Wei instinctively tried to dodge, but in the next moment, he saw the needle still flying towards his forehead. The locked attack couldn’t be avoided, much like a targeted attack—some people teleport away to escape their limits, only to end up being taken by a pursuing regular attack.
He stopped dodging and let the green needle pierce his forehead.
“Well done, senior sister! Great job!” cheered the female herb gatherer, still pinned to the ground by cat claws, eating dirt.
The emerald spider transformed, rising from the ground with green smoke, and appeared as a figure, covering its lips and smiling.
“Having been hit by my soul-destroying needle, even if you don’t die, you’ll become an idiot and a fool. Even if a warrior’s vitality is strong, can it withstand my penetrating attacks on the flesh and soul?”
It looked towards the female herb gatherer.
“Good junior sister, don’t forget our 70-30 agreement.”
“Not in half?”
“Now it’s thirty-seven. It’ll cost more to help you kill this master,” Beckoning Jade smiled enchantingly.
“Why did it increase by twenty percent?”
“Because…” Beckoning Jade didn’t finish speaking, suddenly realizing that the one asking this wasn’t her junior sister, but…
Bai Wei crossed his arms and asked in puzzlement, “Am I only worth twenty percent?”
Seeing Bai Wei completely unscathed, Beckoning Jade’s heart filled with unease. She was absolutely certain that her Soul-Damaging Needle was unavoidable. It was a unique treasure, crafted with decades of poisonous tactics.
“How can you be unharmed?” she exclaimed in shock.
“Are you looking for this?” Bai Wei raised his hand, holding the needle between his fingertips. With a slight squeeze, there was a crisp sound as the Soul-Damaging Needle snapped.
The jade spider was stunned. This special treasure, passed down through generations, was said to be part of their body. Could it have really been crushed so easily?
What kind of monster is this? They can crush antiques like they’re nothing!
The emerald spider had dreams of wealth and reaching the peak of life, but in that moment, she no longer had that thought.
He is definitely not just a martial artist! The power of his soul is far stronger than I imagined!
“Junior sister, this… I can’t handle this! I’ll leave first,” she felt an overwhelming urge to retreat.
She couldn’t afford to be targeted by this person, so she decided to sacrifice her junior sister’s body instead.
You only lost your physical body, but I lost one-tenth of my spiritual essence!
The jade spider wanted to retreat, but when she saw the opponent’s finger move, another cat’s paw descended. It missed.
The spider spirit tried to evade, dodging several cat paws in a row. But in the end, like a cat chasing a laser, Crouching Tiger swept his tail and knocked her to the ground.
Bai Wei threw the broken needle into the fireplace and asked curiously, “Why do you think it can escape from my hand?”
The emerald spider didn’t look pitiful—after all, only a clone had died. It was a big loss, but not unbearable.
She raised her head firmly, saying, “You can kill me, but you will pay a price you can’t imagine afterward!”
Bai Wei asked, “Are you threatening me?”
“I’m just stating the truth, you fool!” she sneered. “Our clan will be waiting for you at Hujia Grave! There’s no place for you in the whole Ba State—or even in the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom. You…”
Bai Wei saw her calm expression and said calmly, “Do you think staying here is a clone, so I can’t kill you?”
The jade spider laughed coldly, “So what if you figured it out? The one here is just a clone. Are you brave enough to kill me? You dare not! Can you kill my true form? You can’t! That’s it!”
Bai Wei’s expression subtly changed.
“No more words?” she mocked. “If you don’t want a miserable death, kneel and beg for mercy. Offer Bai Ze and Bi Fang to us, and we may spare your life! Your strength is impressive, you’re qualified to be our vicious dog. Otherwise…”
The jade spider continued to breathe out a fragrant scent, thinking that since the loss was so great, there was no turning back. She might as well curse before the clone was destroyed.
Though victory was impossible, she wanted to mentally defeat the opponent. Even if the clone was crushed, she hoped to disgust the opponent.
Then, what else could be done?
Can’t even talk back when unable to win a fight?
If she was already like this, shouldn’t she be allowed to become a spiritual warrior?
“Your clone exists here based on the division of your soul, and your geographical location isn’t far. That proves you’re not using the path of the Ether ocean,” Bai Wei remarked. “If it were the spiritual world’s ocean, I’d be unable to track you, but since your soul cultivation is shallow, your clone was made through mutual sensing. For me, tracking is easy.”
He looked down on the jade spider.
“You can make your true form open its eyes and see what’s in front of her.”
Hujia Grave, a cave in one of the nineteen gloomy mountains.
The jade spider spirit was scared by this sentence, quickly opening her eyes and looking around. Seeing no one in the dim light of lamps and candles, she relaxed.
“Dare to frighten me! Really…”
“What is it?” A loud voice echoed in the empty cave. The emerald spider’s eyes narrowed. A golden light formed a pathway, as if space was being torn apart. A semi-solid pale gold figure walked out.
Bai Wei looked at the motionless emerald spider and, with a tone warm like a gentle breeze in March, said:
“Please continue, I’m listening.”
