The Cavern Chamber
Zhang Xuezhou created the illusion that Hu Yu was investigating, but he didn't expect that Hu Yu would actually come.
Having eliminated any potential magical seals that might be affecting him and dealt with 'Dingkui', Zhang Xuezhou, holding the Golden Turtle of Fortune, continued to approach the Spider God's Cave.
As they drew closer, the image appearing on the auspicious golden tortoise became clearer and clearer.
Just as Zhang Xuezhou was about to dive into the underground river to search, he heard a tiger roar in the air, accompanied by waves of mental energy.
Hu Yu's meaning is simple: let's keep to ourselves and not interfere with each other's affairs. The river he dug up and burned in the underground oil well is the dividing line.
On this side of the dividing line, anything can be done; on the other side, the status quo must be maintained, and the spider colony cannot be allowed to multiply and cause destruction without restraint.
He was willing to give face, but the Spider God's disruption of the status quo greatly displeased him, especially since the Spider God had taken away his captured white dragon and white horse.
Amidst his continuous roars, Hu Yu even resorted to invoking his status as an elder to make threats.
Although he shouted fiercely, Zhang Xuezhou could tell that Hu Yu was all bark and no bite.
Without Dingkui, Hu Yu was like someone whose wings had been cut off. He still possessed great strength, but it was insufficient to cope with the current situation.
Lacking in strength, they make up for it with empty talk.
Hearing the other party's repeated roars and calls, Zhang Xuezhou quickly plunged into the icy water of the underground river.
If the Spider God can focus his attention on Tiger Breeding when he descends, this will undoubtedly be an excellent opportunity for him to investigate.
Zhang Xuezhou's fluorescent markers were still visible in the river. At this point, there was no need for a scout or leader. Zhang Xuezhou traversed the underground river at an extremely fast speed, constantly probing areas with abnormal water temperatures.
"This should be it!"
Meltwater from ice and snow is extremely cold. While some hot water may flow into the river, it does not affect the overall temperature of the river, but it can cause temperature variations in the direction the river flows.
With careful observation, even at the entrance, one can likely discern subtle differences in water temperature.
After repeatedly confirming the route, Zhang Xuezhou abandoned the Badun route and began searching for a new one.
Continuing along the underground river, and relying on fossil techniques to destroy several underground caves that were difficult to navigate by diving, Zhang Xuezhou saw the reddish-copper color emerging from the Golden Turtle of Fortune appear before his eyes.
At this moment, the image of the Golden Turtle of Fortune did not include the giant rock, which was jet black and shimmered with red copper color and light. The Spider God's descent had obviously left the giant rock.
"Could this thing be an altar for communicating with the Spider God?"
Zhang Xuezhou had not witnessed the sacrificial scene of the Spider God ritual, and Badun did not make up what he had seen, so as not to cause any misleading behavior.
He carefully examined the boulder and kept a close eye on the scene around the cave where the Spider God's descent had occurred, thus judging how far away the other party had gone.
The boulder did not emit Spiritual Qi, and apart from being extremely hot, it did not exhibit any other special characteristics, which led Zhang Xuezhou to quickly rule out the possibility that it belonged to the category of spiritual jade.
The Spider God's descending form, within the image of the Golden Tortoise of Fortune, swayed its eight legs on its abdomen, continuously moving towards the entrance of the Spider God's Cave.
It was unclear whether the opponent was hiding or if this was their only speed. The Spider God's descent was moving at a speed similar to that of an ordinary person running, unlike the ferocious spider beast which was as fast as the wind. It took a very long time to traverse the winding caverns.
When the familiar cave passage came into Zhang Xuezhou's view, he quickly determined the other party's location and calculated the distance by comparing it with the location at the end of the glacier.
"Three, two, one!"
After a long and patient wait, the Spider God's descent drew ever closer to the cave exit.
Countless spiders guarded her body from all sides, and as she opened her mouth to emit warning sounds, Zhang Xuezhou also began a countdown.
The fossil technique involves cutting into the stone and extending upwards continuously.
A nearly one-meter-thick layer of karst rock collapsed, and Zhang Xuezhou carved out a small, passable space in that area.
He leaped up, and the cave space where the Spider God's descent body was located quickly came into Zhang Xuezhou's view.
In the dim red glow shimmering from the giant rocks, everything here seemed to be shrouded in a layer of Blood Qi.
There were no spiders in the cave, but some scraps of cloth remained on the ground, along with remnants of an unwrapped ground roller, guns, and long knives.
The Omega-style design suggests that some of the country's Sequence Holder perished here. Given this configuration, these remnants were not used by a woman like Montesbingo, but rather belonged to another Sequence Holder.
Zhang Xuezhou scanned his surroundings, but before he could finish, he felt a gust of wind behind him.
A golden light appeared around his body, and a muffled groan followed.
"Steel mill?"
With a quick glance, Zhang Xuezhou saw Montess unleash a series of powerful punches.
The opponent's strength was limited, and he had been genetically modified by Badun into someone with a gene type similar to Zhou Xin who could withstand beatings, so the force of the continuous blows was not enough to break his body.
He could almost defeat Hu Hao, Bai Jiao, and Bai Ma with a single blow, but against someone like Montes Ganghao, it would take several rounds of back-and-forth fighting.
He threw a punch with his right hand, and Montessler instinctively dodged. When Zhang Xuezhou reached out to grab it, Montessler dodged again.
It wasn't until Zhang Xuezhou used his control that he managed to grab Montessganghao's neck in a rapid movement. After delivering several heavy punches, Montessganghao, whose eyes were glowing red, collapsed with wide eyes.
"The steel dagger is still lying here?"
Fossil techniques can reconnect caverns damaged by fossilization, but damaged steel cannot be restored to their original state.
Even if the Spider God's incarnation were slow-witted, it would still notice that this place had been explored.
Zhang Xuezhou originally intended to come and leave quietly, to gather information before discussing joint actions with the others, and even to unite their forces in the underground river below the cave to kill the Spider God's descending form.
But things would inevitably be discovered to be unusual, and he wouldn't have that chance anymore.
"This guy didn't do any work, he just kept causing trouble!"
Whether Zhang Xuezhou knocks Montessler unconscious or kills him, the other party's unusual behavior will inevitably be noticed.
When he had a headache, Zhang Xuezhou could only try to plunder something or cause some damage that the Spider God's descent could not withstand, in order to weaken the opponent as much as possible or provoke conflict and shift the blame onto Hu Yu.
"This place is ridiculously poor!"
The Spider God Guardian still wielded the divine weapon 'Thorn', but this cavern space was empty, with nothing but some remaining debris on the ground.
Zhang Xuezhou searched high and low, but couldn't find a single item of value.
He stared intently at the spider god descending upon the golden tortoise of fortune, responding to the tiger's nurturing, and scanned it repeatedly.
After a while, Zhang Xuezhou turned his gaze to the black boulder where the Spider God's descent form was sitting.
Although he didn't know what the black boulder was for, the Spider God's descent form had been sitting on it for a while, and Zhang Xuezhou felt that even a stone stool should be crushed.
"If she's sensitive to the cold, without this heating stone, she'd freeze to death living in this cave for a long time..."
Muttering his unreliable guesses to himself, Zhang Xuezhou thoroughly scavenged the area, since besides the Montes steel mace, there was nothing else left to destroy in the cave.
A fossil spell was cast, and the shell-like powder of the gold and stone mineral layer fell away.
But the fossilization technique quickly lost its effect; the copper-colored outer shell peeled off, revealing a flesh-colored membrane Zhang Xuezhou.
Like Sequence Holder soaking in a tank awaiting the development of a resistance layer, a creature that is neither human nor spider emerges from the membrane, its body bobbing up and down in the red solution.
The opponent's physical form was almost identical to the Spider God's Descendant that Zhang Xuezhou had seen on the Golden Tortoise of Fortune, the only difference being the difference between its juvenile and mature forms.
However, unlike the intact human-bodied spider-tail creatures that Zhang Xuezhou had seen before, this juvenile creature still had a claw mark on its face.
If he wasn't mistaken, Zhang Xuezhou thought it was very likely a trace left by Huang Daoxian.
It's clear that Huang Daoxian used his trump card and was confident he could defeat his opponent, which is why the Spider God Liao Meng, who is skilled in healing, still has scars.