With this Withered Heart Marrow, this trip into the grotto realm had not been in vain.
Besides the Withered Heart Marrow, the expressionless Horse-Face Ghost had also obtained a palm-sized creature resembling a bullfrog. According to Yan Libing, it seemed to be a treasure-seeking mutant species. It was neither poisonous nor harmful, yet it possessed the ability to seek fortune and avoid calamity—relatively speaking, of course.
In any case, they were all external objects, with no particularly obvious effect on direct Martial Dao Cultivation for the time being.
About half an hour later, the group finally encountered an attack from a huge creature.
It was a giant spider two stories tall. Its slender, spear-like legs were covered in countless dense hairs that glimmered with blue light.
Its terrifying compound eyes and savage, horrifying fangs alone could frighten some fainthearted people to death.
What posed an even greater threat was that this creature could lay eggs and rapidly breed little venomous spiders.
In Meng Zhao's judgment, this giant spider stood between the Innate Limit and Grandmaster realms. Combined with its terrifying physical body and highly venomous nature, it could barely be called a Half-step Grandmaster. Of course, in actual combat, it was certainly not as formidable as human experts with their intricate offensive methods and brilliant martial civilization.
Horse-Face Ghost did not even need to make a move. Meng Zhao, Yan Libing, and the Lei Family experts wore it down and dealt with it.
Of course, Meng Zhao had certainly not used strength beyond Lei Chongfeng's level. Otherwise, he could probably have killed the giant spider without even needing a single move.
The gift it left behind was not bad either. Within the spider's body was a basin-sized, deep-blue pearl, formed from its inner core. It contained the essence of all