Everyone returned to Three Pure Ones Hall to rest.
The atmosphere was silent and gloomy.
Feng Ling's gaze swept over each of their faces—
Pei Xianjue looked deeply worried, probably fretting over how to burn the tree;
Baozi kept staring at Pei Xianjue, likely worried about her;
Li Qing lowered his eyes, expressionless, looking as though the matter had nothing to do with him;
Huangfu Miaomiao looked around, occasionally glancing outside.
Following Huangfu Miaomiao's gaze, Feng Ling looked outside. The Cat Spider and Cat Owl were tearing apart the spider remains on the ground, swallowing them bite by bite and leaving behind empty skulls.
These spiders were like hermit crabs, using the skulls of various creatures as houses and crawling around with skeletons on their backs.
Feng Ling guessed that, like the black bugs, they could spread disease. It was just that these people had eaten Purple Fruit, so they felt no effects.
Since the Maze's birth, no one had ever entered it. These spiders probably had no natural predators at all, and who knew how many tens of thousands they had reproduced...
As Feng Ling pondered, she broke the silence. "We've seen two Forms of the Boss. The first, the clay statue form, possesses Mental Pressure. The second, the old woman form, can release Mental Pressure, control poisonous insects to spread plague, and after being injured, create illusions for creatures nearby. That's very similar to what happened in Fox Village."
She glanced at Li Qing and continued, "The Administrator said before that the Maze is a large-scale genetic testing ground. Can I understand it this way? The game system extracted information related to Sanqing Mountain and Taoist culture, then introduced a batch of genes here. After that, the creatures began mutating and evolving. Foxes had a high compatibility with