Wherever Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures grew, strange beasts were sure to guard them.
After the Wuqicao and the Thousand-Year Longevity Fruit, he had gradually come to believe that claim.
Although the Thousand-Year Longevity Fruit had no strange beast guarding it,
it did have that thousand-year-old monster Li Si watching over it.
So ever since he entered this cave and saw the Lock-Spirit Ginseng, he had remained on full alert.
He had been guarding against any strange beast that might appear.
That was why he reacted immediately when he felt the rush of wind behind his head.
He simply had not expected
that the strange beast this time would be a giant spider!
And such an enormous one at that!
Gu Cheng could not help remembering those gigantic human-faced spiders in the television series Dragon Ridge Labyrinth.
He wondered which was bigger, this one or those things.
Having missed its strike, the spider seemed angry.
It spat a strand of silk at Gu Cheng.
It was called spider silk, but it looked thicker than hemp rope.
Gu Cheng immediately dodged again.
He avoided the silk's attack.
But before he could steady himself, another strand shot over and stuck directly to his left arm.
The blade flashed in Gu Cheng's hand.
But the silk was so tough and elastic that the Ghost Soul Blade failed to cut through it.
"Damn it, what a piece of crap!"
Gu Cheng grumbled out of habit.
Unexpectedly, another strand shot over and wrapped around his foot.
Gu Cheng's foot slipped at once. He fell straight to the ground and was dragged toward the giant spider.
"Damn it, are you ever going to stop? I haven't even lost my temper yet, and you keep coming at me?! You think just because this tiger hasn't shown his