The interior of the cave was not damp. On the contrary, it was very dry.
Spider silk covered everything, but the ventilation was excellent, and there was no foul stench inside.
Clearly, the Hundred-Eyed Spider Empress liked to keep things clean.
Carrying the spider silk the Hundred-Eyed Spider Empress had given them, Lin Fan and Jiang Sheng walked calmly through the cave. The Hundred-Eyed Spiders around them, large and small alike, all parted to let the two pass.
Jiang Sheng even noticed that quite a few Hundred-Eyed Spiders seemed faintly afraid of Lin Fan. His battle with the Hundred-Eyed Spider Empress must have caused quite a stir.
The cave twisted and wound through rugged terrain. Lin Fan led Jiang Sheng for roughly five hundred li before they finally emerged.
Looking back, they discovered that they had already reached another mountain.
"These Hundred-Eyed Spiders actually tunneled through an entire mountain?" Jiang Sheng asked in surprise.
"That empress's mother was also a great demon of the Golden Core Realm," Lin Fan said.
Jiang Sheng nodded. "Then it's hardly surprising."
Having passed through a mountain, Jiang Sheng gazed at the endless mountain ranges ahead, the clouds veiling their slopes and the drifting poisonous miasma. "Who knows how many opportunities lie within this Thousandfold Mountain Valley?"
"Let's go. We'll be there in another six hundred li." As he spoke, Lin Fan rose into the air and flew toward a mountain.
Jiang Sheng took flight right behind him.
An hour later, Lin Fan and Jiang Sheng landed in a valley.
Mountains soaring a thousand zhang into the clouds surrounded them. A waterfall plunged from a sheer cliff on the northern mountain, joining a stream flowing down the western mountain to form a deep pool in the valley.
Mist shrouded the pool, and clouds and moisture