“Bearded one, weren’t you quite proud of yourself when you were chasing me? Why can’t you say anything now?”
On the second floor of the internet cafe, amidst the broken walls.
The nearly unscathed man-faced spider stood arrogantly.
Wuzzy Beard sat in the corner, one hand leaning on a cracked broadsword, covered in blood.
He was right; his feeling was correct. This out-of-control Demon Cultivator’s strength had indeed reached the rank of a soldier.
There is only a single level difference between the ranks of master and soldier, yet it is a chasm-like gap.
Wuzzy Beard struggled to lift his head, his mind dizzy, the pain almost consuming him. In his blood-red vision, he could clearly see the smug and疯狂face of this out-of-control Demon Cultivator.
This person was originally a normal awakened individual with the ability to control spiders, making them grow to enormous sizes. However, since he refused to join the Demon-Slaying Division, Wuzzy Beard had no choice but to send people to keep an eye on him.
But one day, the informant who reported to him every day suddenly disappeared.
When he tracked down the situation, he found that the awakened individual had already transformed into a spider monster. The dispatched informants were scattered across the living room as parts, with some even inside the belly of the spider monster.
Such spider monsters have a unique name among the leadership of the Demon-Slaying Division —— an unpredictable out-of-control Demon Cultivator.
These special out-of-control Demon Cultivators began gradually appearing after the shocking ‘Black Coffin Ling Tian’ awakening incident in Changbai Mountain three years ago. There isn’t enough evidence yet to prove the connection between these two incidents, but it’s highly likely.
Currently, the Demon-Slaying Division’s understanding of awakening events is still too rudimentary.
Even the initial ‘Kunlun Celestial Palace’ from ten years ago hasn’t been thoroughly researched.
They only obtained the breathing technique —— Gui Yuan Zhen Gong —— from a stone tablet beneath the thousand steps outside the palace.
And deciphering this breathing technique took a full ten years!
“If it were just two days ago, our Demon-Slaying Division of the Heavenly Abode District might have really been wiped out by you!”
“What?” The man-faced spider narrowed its eyes at Wuzzy Beard.
The man in front hung his head, seemingly at the end of his strength.
Yet, there was a grin on his scruffy face.
Wuzzy Beard stood up, shakily raising his hand. The man-faced spider, sensing something amiss, shot forward like a bullet. Its sharp spider legs slashed upward, severing one arm diagonally.
“Hahaha!” Wuzzy Beard laughed as the approaching man-faced spider drew near.
Suddenly, the right hand hidden in his pocket shot out, slapping a bloody talisman onto the man-faced spider’s body.
His lips moved: “Bang!”
The air was momentarily silent.
Nothing happened.
The man-faced spider’s mouth twitched. It raised its claw, tore off the talisman from its forehead, threw it on the ground, and kicked Wuzzy Beard over with one leg. Its smile became increasingly sinister: “Bang what bang? What are you pretending for?”
Wuzzy Beard stared at the talisman on the ground, dumbfounded.
Could the talisman given to him by Chen Huaian be fake?
It shouldn’t be. The brilliant righteousness on the talisman couldn’t be fake!
But when he looked closely at the talisman’s front, his heart sank. The brilliant righteousness on the talisman had somehow disappeared.
“Answer me, bearded one. What are you pretending for?”
The man-faced spider mockingly slapped Wuzzy Beard’s face.
When Wuzzy Beard pulled out the talisman earlier, it had genuinely panicked, thinking it was some sort of killer move.
But then what?
Isn’t this funny?
Thinking about the days Wuzzy Beard pursued him, the man-faced spider’s resentment grew even stronger.
Letting Wuzzy Beard die like this would be too much of a waste.
It coldly laughed: “How should I torture you? For example, tying you up with spider silk, exposing only your head, then injecting digestive fluid into your feet, letting your body be gradually digested from the feet upwards while you can only watch helplessly as I slowly eat away at your body! Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Hehehe!”
Suddenly, a faint breathing sound came from behind, very close!
The man-faced spider’s scalp tingled, and it quickly turned around.
It realized that at some unknown point, a young man with a very handsome crew cut was already standing behind it.
The distance between them was less than two meters.
The young man held a talisman, identical to the one Wuzzy Beard had used earlier.
“Who are you?” The man-faced spider stared at Chen Huaian, filled with caution.
It didn’t know how this person had appeared behind it.
Had its attention been solely focused on Wuzzy Beard, lowering its vigilance towards its surroundings?
Chen Huaian glanced at the man-faced spider but remained silent, moving closer to stick the talisman.
The man-faced spider stepped back half a step, staring at the talisman and sneering: “Do you really think such a useless thing would work on me?”
Chen Huaian took another step closer with the talisman: “So what? If you don’t believe me, why don’t you try sticking it on?”
“Do you think I won’t dare to stick it?”
“I bet you won’t.”
“Haha, I’ll show you right now!”
“Then stick it!”
“I’m sticking it right now!”
Chen Huaian shouted loudly: “Stick it ——!!!”
The man-faced spider raised its claw to grab the talisman but suddenly stopped.
“You little brat, do you think I’m stupid?”
Its face twisted into a grotesque smile, its crimson eyes flashing with wisdom: “If I’m not mistaken, once this talisman is stuck, thick smoke will immediately fill the area like a smoke bomb. Once my eyes are obscured, you’ll take the opportunity to rescue that bearded one!”
Chen Huaian remained silent.
He simply jabbed the talisman into the man-faced spider’s face.
Then he rolled under the table, pulling his legs in and grabbing a chair cushion to shield himself in front while covering his ears with both hands……
“Wuzzy Beard, may you find your own salvation.”
He silently sighed.
Light, thunder, and fire erupted before the man-faced spider’s eyes.
Bone-chilling heat spread rapidly from the scalp throughout the body.
Boom——!
The entire second floor was pierced through by a blinding white light!
After the explosion, the second floor was almost collapsed.
A palm-sized spider, its whole body scorched and smoking black, ran toward the internet cafe entrance in panic.
“Run, must run!”
“The old schemer’s talisman was actually real!”
“How could a talisman have such immense power? Could this be related to the breathing technique the Demon-Slaying Division deciphered?”
The spider’s mind was in chaos.
It had countless questions without answers.
But there was one question with an answer.
Only by running could it survive!
It darted past overturned computer desks, dodged bricks falling from the second floor, jumped over ignited keyboards……
With a powerful leap, it covered dozens of meters and charged toward the door.
Suddenly, a girl appeared in front of the door.
That didn’t matter; it wouldn’t stop its escape.
However, the girl raised her hand and stuck something on the door.
The moment the spider saw it, its six eyes widened drastically.
“Shit, no——!”
Boom——!
Another bolt of lightning flashed.
Chen Huaian, crouching under the table, closed his eyes compassionately.
Inside his clothes pocket, the game interface on his phone popped up a notification.
【Spider Demon killed, reward received: Demon Cultivator fragment x1, Spider Silk Soft Armor x1 (delivered)】
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