"That is!?"
Liu Sanniang's voice rang out abruptly, wild with joy.
Chen Qing and Yue Shan followed her gaze and saw seven or eight plants of varying shapes growing in the shadows by the rocky wall at the edge of the poison pool!
Some were wholly dark purple, their leaves like bone spurs; some had tangled vines bearing vermilion fruits; some resembled orchids, with dewdrops like ice crystals gathered at their tips... Every plant emitted dense, pure spiritual energy fluctuations, and all were clearly over ten years old.
Among them was a precious herb shaped like ganoderma, its surface covered in fine silver patterns. Spiritual energy curled around it, faint rays of light flowing across it. It was likely nearly twenty years old!
Chen Qing's heart stirred, and his eyes narrowed into slits.
Where precious herbs grew in clusters, fierce mutant beasts were sure to guard them—this was common knowledge in the Ten Thousand Poisons Swamp.
True qi silently circulated within him as his vigilance rose to its peak.
Yue Shan's eyes shone as well, and his breathing grew heavier. "Heaven is helping us! So many precious herbs..."
He instinctively started forward.
Yet just as his feet shifted—
"Splash!"
The thick, dark-green poison pool exploded!
A jet-black spider leg covered in bristles and shaped like a steel spear shot out like lightning, precisely hooking Du Kui's mangled half-corpse and instantly dragging it into the churning depths of the poison pool!
"Not good!"
Chen Qing's pupils contracted sharply. He barked a low warning and retreated several yards, holding the Cloud-Coiling Spear across his body.
The green waters of the poison pool surged violently, and an enormous, heart-chilling figure burst from the water!
It was a giant spider the size of a millstone!
Its entire body was covered in dark-red bristles, as