Ruby Blue

Ruby Blue was exceptionally picky about its growing environment: dark, dry places, with no light and no ventilation.

This place perfectly suited its growing conditions.

It was just that...

She wanted an endless supply of Ruby Blue. Simply picking it would be rather wasteful.

"Linglong, is there a way to directly bring them into the space for planting?"

Jiang Lu asked directly in her mind.

"Master, the entire cave environment can be taken into the space. It's just that your strength is currently too low, so I can only take in the places you touch."

Linglong's childish voice rang out.

Jiang Lu nodded. She looked around at the cave. It was not particularly large, so she reached out and stroked the cave walls.

Then, the spirit plants around her, together with the stone walls their stems grew from, vanished before her eyes.

After those stone walls and Ruby Blue were taken into the space, Linglong fashioned a cave that was an exact one-to-one replica of this one.

The space would continuously change as more living things entered it, eventually becoming suitable for the survival of any spirit plant.

In the future, this Ruby Blue would only grow more and more abundant.

Seeing the empty surroundings, Jiang Lu nodded in satisfaction. She now possessed nothing of value, so naturally, she would save where she could and take whatever she could.

She nodded with satisfaction, paying no heed to the utter mess around her. Where was the mystery the place had possessed when she first arrived?

She continued deeper inside, passing through several turns.

Then she heard the howl of the wind. Her expression changed, and she executed several backward flips, retreating to one side.

One hand braced against the wall, the other pressed to the ground, she stared ahead vigilantly.

Along with the wind came a rustling sound, and a black-and-white spider slowly emerged.

It had red eyes, two sharp fangs protruding from its mouth, and fine white webs wrapped around its eight legs.

Scarlet Demon Spider!

An adult was a fifth-rank demonic beast, but because its webs were exceptionally tough and resilient, its actual strength was more than doubled.

This one before her was only second-rank. It was likely just a hatchling.

Scarlet Demon Spiders were solitary demonic beasts. The mother spider scattered her eggs in places suitable for survival, where they would hatch into little demon spiders on their own.

Moreover, to secure their dominion over their territory, each one stayed far apart from the others. There was no need to fear that killing it would immediately bring other demon spiders seeking vengeance.

However, if one became entangled in its web, one would slowly suffocate to death.

"Chi Li, Cangchen, flank it from both sides."

"Yes, Master!"

Before it could approach, Jiang Lu struck at it with several streams of spiritual power. Fortunately, she had already reached the Qi Refinement Second Layer. If she were still at the Qi Refinement First Layer, she definitely would have struggled to detect its movements this time. She would likely have been ensnared the moment they met.

Still, a second-rank demonic beast possessed strength equivalent to Late Qi Refinement or Foundation Establishment Early Stage. She was no match for it now. Meeting it head-on would simply be courting death; she had to outwit it.

As Jiang Lu attacked, she scanned the surroundings. It attacked only her, which meant she carried nothing that the Scarlet Demon Spider feared—but Chi Li and Cangchen did.

Chi Li: What a joke. What I breathe out is divine fire. Though my strength is not apparent, how could this mere demonic beast possibly withstand it?

Cangchen: Chi Li's fire is fire, and my water is water. This is Milky Way Water hanging above the Ninth Heavens—not something just anyone can touch.

For the moment, Jiang Lu knew nothing of the little schemes in the two Spirit Beasts' hearts. She merely fled without pause.

Jiang Lu suddenly spotted a pillar not far away. Got it!

She ran toward the pillar, then ordered Chi Li and Cangchen to forge a wall of fire and a wall of water, trapping it within.

The two beasts nodded, then waited on either side as Jiang Lu instructed.

The Scarlet Demon Spider let out a sharp cry, then swiftly attacked Jiang Lu.

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Jiang Lu kept climbing and leaping across the pillar.

At the same time, she continuously flung spiritual power from her hands to obstruct it.

The Scarlet Demon Spider's webs repeatedly struck the stone pillar as it circled beneath Jiang Lu, pursuing her in a killing frenzy.

Seeing this, Chi Li and Cangchen surrounded it with water and fire, then steadily closed the flames and water in around it.

It worked!

Smelling the scorching odor wafting through the air, Jiang Lu's face lit up with delight.

The flames burned every strand of web it spat out to ashes.

Even when the Scarlet Demon Spider tried to wrap itself in webs and escape, it could not move.

Jiang Lu looked at the fire and water before her, and something suddenly flashed through her mind, but she failed to grasp it. For now, she only felt that these two Spirit Beasts seemed rather useful.

She had thought their fire and water could merely restrain the Scarlet Demon Spider. She had not expected them to burn through its webs, and now, seeing its curled-up form, they had even burned it to death.

After a while, once the Scarlet Demon Spider had completely curled into a ball, Chi Li's flames swept over it. Before long, its body vanished entirely.

Jiang Lu watched, her expression somewhat inscrutable.

It seemed she had contracted two truly extraordinary things. Reduced to ashes and scattered to the winds!

These were perfect tools for murder and plunder. After all, cultivators' spirit flames could dispose of their opponents, but they always left behind traces of their aura.

Yet as she sensed the air now, the Scarlet Demon Spider's aura had completely vanished, as though it had never existed.

If she ever needed to destroy a corpse and erase the evidence in the future, with Chi Li around, there would be nothing to fear.

Chi Li: I am a mighty Divine Phoenix. Using me for murder and plunder—isn't that like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

The surroundings had already been wrecked beyond recognition by their battle. After checking and finding no opportunities here, Jiang Lu headed in the direction from which the Scarlet Demon Spider had come.

Cangchen's eyes widened excitedly.

"Master, it's right ahead!"

In the past, how could it possibly have cared about such things?

But now, a dragon fallen into the Lower Realm was bullied by men.

Their portable space had been sealed. As a dragon clan member who needed to hug treasures to sleep every day, heaven knew how unbearably itchy its heart had been these past days.

But now!

It finally had a chance!

Treasures, here it came!

Before Jiang Lu even drew near, she could sense the aura radiating from the treasure.

No way!

Was this for real?!

As she approached, she saw that the surroundings were piled high with glittering spirit stones!

They were mostly supreme-grade and high-grade spirit stones!

And judging by their appearance, they were mostly small pieces. The Scarlet Demon Spider had likely gathered them from all around.

There were also quite a few mid-grade and high-grade spirit stones scattered nearby. She had Chi Li burn away the webs with a burst of fire, then stored all the spirit stones in the space.

She had not experienced the feeling of becoming rich overnight in her previous life, but in this life, she had gotten a taste of it.

With these spirit stones, she would have some confidence when she left Medicine King Pavilion in the future to travel through various regions and gain experience.

Under Chi Li and Cangchen's expectant gazes, she gave each of them one piece.

The two Spirit Beasts excitedly hugged them, clutching the spirit stones tightly as they nestled in the cloth pouch at her waist.

Seeing that there seemed to be no more treasures around, Jiang Lu continued farther in.

That cave entrance was so small that demonic beasts could not enter. Since a Scarlet Demon Spider had appeared here now, there was likely another entrance.

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