A wild gale swept across Spider Swamp. Countless venomous spiders, large and small, crawled out from who knew where, packed together in dense masses. The vast Spider Swamp had nearly become a living, writhing carpet. As far as the eye could see, spiders crawled and squirmed madly—dazzlingly multicolored, of every kind, every size, and every grotesque shape—gathered in a sight enough to give anyone nightmares.
Spire floated in midair, his enormous body carrying the young man transformed from the two-headed man-wolf and the gigantic mottled python. Xielisi sprayed blood as she swayed her huge head, likewise maintaining her spider form in the air. The blood she spat out was frantically fought over by the countless spiders below. Whenever a lucky one swallowed a drop or two of Xielisi's blood, its body swiftly swelled and grew.
Before long, great swarms of venomous spiders the size of calves had gathered in the swamp beneath Xielisi. These ugly, ferocious toxic creatures widened their emerald compound eyes and glared at Sasan and the others in the sky, spewing venom one after another. From behind their abdomens, several strands of sticky, slick spider silk would occasionally shoot out.
Donkey stood upright before Xielisi, gently stroking one of her gleaming dark-green fangs. This enormous venom fang was nearly as large as Donkey's body, wisps of faint poison mist constantly spreading from it without affecting him in the slightest. Looking at Xielisi as she kept coughing up blood, he consoled her softly, his eyes brimming with affection.
"Oh, this truly breaks my heart! How could those damned bastards bear to hurt you? Xielisi, you're so beautiful... and you have such a magnificent chest. How could they bear to hurt you?" Donkey eagerly pulled out a fist-sized jade-green potion bottle and poured its fragrant white medicinal liquid into