"Naive" Youth

The formation Lady Silken Web was to set up was called the Harmonious Strength and Gentleness Vitality Garden.

Ning Zhuo had carefully selected this formation after considering Lady Silken Web's abilities.

Its main ingredients were the Golden Silkworm Steel Cable and Nether Moon Water Essence.

The former was a metal rope forged from Ten Thousand Year Cold Iron and Crimson Sun Metal Essence, then subjected to Thousand Hammer Refinement upon a Mechanical Platform.

The latter was an exceedingly soft marvel produced in the depths of the Nine Nether Sea Eye. Its form was peculiar—a mass of slowly flowing dark-blue gel.

Lady Silken Web adjusted herself in advance, then began to circulate her natal demonic fire, wrapping it around a bundle of Golden Silkworm Steel Cable.

The Golden Silkworm Steel Cable was not easily forged. Lady Silken Web painstakingly scorched it for nearly half a shichen before its surface finally began to melt slightly.

However, once the qualitative change occurred, the subsequent burning became somewhat easier. More and more of the steel cable melted, and the process grew increasingly faster.

When the bundle of steel cable had melted to the point where it could barely retain its shape, Lady Silken Web immediately began stretching it with precision and reshaping it.

For a time, her ten fingers flew like phantoms. As she stretched and shaped it, she also inscribed dense formation patterns upon the steel cable.

The Golden Silkworm Steel Cable contained abundant Yang Metal Qi, sharp as needles. Whenever Lady Silken Web inscribed formation patterns, it inevitably sprayed forth, piercing her fingertips, seeping beneath the skin of her arms, and damaging meridian after meridian.

Lady Silken Web's face gradually turned pale. Her fingers and arms were pierced through by Yang Metal Qi, blood droplets continuously seeping out.

She gritted her teeth