On the other side stood a valiant man in black armor, a silvery-white cape draped behind him and long hair bound up with a jade crown. He was not handsome in a refined way, but he looked exceptionally heroic. With his arms folded across his chest, he watched the battle before him at his leisure, seemingly not taking the extremely powerful purple demon spider seriously at all.
Beside the valiant man in black armor stood a woman dressed entirely in plain white and wearing a white hooded cloak that concealed her features.
The armored man occasionally exchanged a few words with the woman, and the woman in the white hooded cloak would sometimes reply.
"Zhou Wu, Qi Ying, fall back." Seeing that the two of them were struggling to gain the upper hand against the purple demon spider, the woman in the white hooded cloak spoke softly.
"Senior Sister Shan Bing, this purple demon spider can't do anything to us either. Let us fight it a little longer." The silver-armored woman called Qi Ying spoke with obvious reluctance.
"The important matter comes first. We shouldn't waste too much time here at the Scarlet Demon Spider." Shan Bing raised a palm, and several water-blue ice spikes descended from the void. The instant they appeared, the sound of flowing water rang through the air, like a mountain stream striking the banks in a desolate wilderness—empty, yet full of life.
At that moment, the water curtain within the Greenwater Jade Pool was like countless enormous bubbles. A thousand-mile radius shattered one stretch after another beneath those water-blue ice spikes, clearing out a scenic area of picturesque beauty.
The instant the purple demon spider saw the water-blue ice spikes appear, it immediately reacted as if facing a formidable enemy and let out a series