The golden-scaled blood crow essence was on the verge of fully taking shape. The blood-red ground, which had looked perfectly ordinary, suddenly bulged. With a squeal, the blood-soil exploded, forming a huge hole, and a blood-red spider shot out like lightning. The golden-scaled blood crow essence darted away, using some trick to leave the tiger demons behind in the blink of an eye. By the time the two tiger demons reacted, the blood-red spider had already drawn quite close.
"Damn it!" the female tiger demon cried furiously, lunging forward in an attempt to intercept the blood-red spider. But the creature was exceptionally cunning and seemed to have prepared for this. Without any visible movement from it, the ground exploded several times more. Dozens of spider eggs flew out of the earth, and within them, countless hideous spiderlings could be seen writhing, desperate to break free.
Amid a rapid series of explosions, swarms of spiderlings burst from the eggs. They grew at a startling rate, then charged at the tiger demons, hideous and savage.
The two tiger demons were mid-Integrated Body Stage body cultivators. How could a few spiderlings stop them? Ax shadows flashed, lightning-fast, and the spiderlings fell dead one after another. But with the spiderlings blocking them fearlessly, the tiger demons' speed was ultimately slowed, if only a little. Against a monster like the blood-red spider, even the slightest hesitation could bring countless changes—let alone the far longer delay the two tiger demons were suffering now.
The blood-red spider was drawing ever closer to the golden-scaled blood crow essence, which had only a few scales left to form before it would be fully mature. If the spider took the essence too early, it would inevitably diminish its potency.
Whatever the reason, Lu Xiaotian would not let the blood-red spider