The disciples of Pavilion Among Flowers had suffered one calamity after another these past few days. People in many towns made an eerie discovery: the higher-ups of Pavilion Among Flowers in the surrounding areas were becoming fewer and fewer. Sometimes, enormous spiders even charged into the towns.
Then, under everyone's terrified gazes, those giant spiders would rush forward and slaughter the disciples of Pavilion Among Flowers. With every slaughter, not even corpses or bones remained. Yet people soon discovered that these giant spiders simply would not attack ordinary folk like them. The only ones who died were Pavilion Among Flowers experts, and naturally, the consorts were not spared either.
Previously, in the central region, nearly all of Pavilion Among Flowers' Spirit King Realm experts had gathered together. Therefore, there were no Spirit King Realm experts within Pavilion Among Flowers' territory at this time, and information had become exceptionally blocked off.
It often happened that when Huo Hai swept through an area, he found that the people inside had no awareness whatsoever of their current situation. Facing spiders at the Spirit Emperor Realm, those who had not even reached the Spirit King Realm could do nothing but wait for death.
The commoners also discovered that those experts they had once been utterly incapable of resisting possessed no ability to fight back whatsoever when facing these spiders. No matter what attacks they unleashed, even when they struck the spiders, they had no effect at all. In contrast, these spiders looked only slightly larger than humans, yet their attacks were completely beyond what those experts could withstand.
Over several days, Huo Hai swept through Pavilion Among Flowers back and forth several times. During that time, some people who had received the news finally began to flee. They either ran toward sect residences or