The Emerald Bird's beak was exceedingly sharp and long. It hovered before a jade-green spirit fruit, plunging its beak deep into it as though sucking out the juice within. Above the spirit fruit were several withered branches, and an old, tattered spiderweb stretched between them, strands of broken silk drifting in the wind.
Just as Cai Zhuoxia spotted the Emerald Bird and was about to slap her hand against her storage pouch, a fist-sized black-haired spider suddenly emerged from somewhere atop the tattered web. The spider raced along the web, and when it reached the center—directly above the Emerald Bird's head—a strand of pitch-black silk shot from its abdomen, silently stabbing toward the Emerald Bird!
The spider silk was soundless and swift. In the blink of an eye, it had reached the Emerald Bird's wing. Yet at that very instant, the Emerald Bird abruptly shifted sideways, neatly evading the silk. Without even the slightest pause, it transformed into a fine jade-green line and flew elsewhere. In another blink, it had vanished without a trace!
Only then had Cai Zhuoxia's hand just landed on her storage pouch!
She gnashed her teeth in fury! That was Cai Zhuoxia's only feeling. Without slowing, she continued flying past the spirit fruit, but as she passed it, she drew out a Fireball Talisman from her storage pouch and flung it at the spider and the tattered web. With a boom, spider and web were burned to ashes within a fireball!
Afterward, Cai Zhuoxia sighed and hastily flew off in a direction different from the Emerald Bird's. Her Spirit Seeking Talisman had extremely demanding requirements—not only cultivation, but essence blood as well. It could only be used three limited times in a day, and Cai Zhuoxia had to rest for a while before she could cast