90: Chapter 90 The Lair of the Human-Faced Demon Spider

Chen Lingyang led Su Yu and continued moving forward.

Sunset Valley is located to the west of Cang Prefecture. It is sparsely populated here, and the quantity and quality of Yao Beasts are far from comparable to the Wanshou Mountain Range, but there are also quite a few Tier 2 and Tier 3 Yao Beasts here.

Therefore, Chen Lingyang only dared to wander around the outer perimeter. The outer perimeter would at most only have some High Grade Tier 1 Yao Beasts, and Tier 2 Yao Beasts rarely appeared. If they really did appear, they would have long since been wiped out by people sent by the Yuxu Sect.

Along the way, the two of them remained silent, and Su Yu also put away her little thoughts. Some things should not be overdone; otherwise, it would not be a good thing, but a bad thing.

To be able to Cultivate to the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining all by oneself without any discernment, she would have long ago become bones in a tomb.

"Have you noticed anything?" Chen Lingyang said in a low voice.

"Is Fellow Daoist Chen referring to...?" Su Yu said thoughtfully.

"Along this way, we have encountered more than one Human-Faced Demon Spider. Logically speaking, this kind of Yao Beast is solitary, yet they have appeared continuously in this place," Chen Lingyang continued.

"Either these Human-Faced Demon Spiders are the Spirit Beasts of some Cultivators, or the Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen needed to reproduce, which is why she built her lair here," Su Yu guessed.

Chen Lingyang's gaze was profound. This group of Human-Faced Demon Spiders could not be anyone's Spirit Beast, which meant that a Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen existed in this area.

Su Yu beside him also figured out this crucial point.

The two looked at each other and both saw the joy in each other's eyes. The Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen was indeed a good thing. Although her cultivation reached the Low Grade Tier 2, she could be said to be a treasure from head to toe.

The spider silk she spat out can be used to refine Low Grade Tier 2 Magical Artifacts. Its value could not be considered low, and it is worth at least several thousand Spirit Stones.

And this was only the intrinsic value of the Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen.

Most importantly, the lair chosen by the Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen is generally built in some cold environments. These places are most likely to give birth to some yin-attribute Spirit Medicine or some yin-attribute Ores.

Back then, a Cultivator once found the lair of a Human-Faced Demon Spider, not only harvesting a large number of spider eggs, but also obtaining a lot of yin-attribute Spirit Medicine and yin-attribute Ores. By exchanging these things for a large amount of resources, his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds.

Thinking of this, Chen Lingyang took out the message talisman. After all, the Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen was a Low Grade Tier 2 Yao Beast. Relying on the two of them alone, they could not reach the lair of the Human-Faced Demon Spider; they needed a Foundation Establishment Cultivator from within the Family to step in.

Su Yu consciously left this place, walked to the side, and waited silently.

After a while, Chen Lingyang said, "Fellow Daoist Su, it is getting late. Let us find an Immortal Cave to rest first."

Su Yu looked up and nodded.

...

The next day.

Chen Lingyang took Su Yu to continue keeping an eye on the Human-Faced Demon Spiders. Following the traces of the Human-Faced Demon Spiders, they found the lair of the Human-Faced Demon Spider.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Several sounds of breaking through the air came, and the two Chen Lingyang looked over.

Before their eyes, five streaks of escaping light quickly flashed past the tops of the two people's heads, heading from east to west.

The two frowned. The direction those five people were heading was precisely the lair of the Human-Faced Demon Spider.

However, judging by their appearance, they did not know there were Human-Faced Demon Spiders ahead.

Not good.

The Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen is a Low Grade Tier 2 Yao Beast, especially since she is reproducing.

The Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen during this period is very sensitive and irritable. If these five people disturb the Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen below, it wouldn't matter if they died, but they were afraid of implicating the two of them.

Sure enough, when the five people passed the Human-Faced Demon Spider lair, the huge commotion attracted the attacks of quite a few Human-Faced Demon Spiders.

"Be careful." The oldest Cultivator among the five had an aged face and a surprised look in his eyes as he hurriedly reminded them.

"Sixth Grand-uncle, what is this?!" a young Cultivator said in shock. He hadn't noticed that there were so many Yao Beasts here just now. If it weren't for Sixth Grand-uncle's prompt warning, given his experience of facing this kind of battle array for the first time, he would have died just then.

The few others also looked at the old man in fear and confusion, successively summoning their own defensive Magical Artifacts.

Although the sudden attack of the Human-Faced Demon Spiders caught them somewhat off guard, after all, they were not venturing into the Immortal Realm for the first time. Facing this situation, they immediately reacted.

"These are Human-Faced Demon Spiders, and there are actually so many Human-Faced Demon Spiders here. Their lair probably exists underground," the old man said with a pleasantly surprised expression on his face while explaining to the others.

Except for the youngest Cultivator who looked a bit strange, the other three all revealed expressions of joy.

"Sixth Uncle, since there is a Human-Faced Demon Spider lair here, doesn't that mean... Ah." Before the only female Cultivator in the team could finish speaking, she was dragged away by several strands of spider silk much thicker than those of other Human-Faced Demon Spiders.

"Save me quickly," shouted the female Cultivator.

"Not good, it's the Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen! Strike quickly, or it will be too late," the old man shouted anxiously.

Hearing this, the others also immediately attacked those strands of spider silk, but their cultivation was at most at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining, and they simply could not shake those strands of spider silk.

By the time the female Cultivator was completely dragged into the cave, the few people looked with sorrow at the already despairing female Cultivator.

The old man could not afford to continue grieving and immediately ordered the others to retreat.

"Damn it, this old man forgot that the Human-Faced Demon Spider lair must have a Tier 2 Yao Beast like the Human-Faced Demon Spider Queen. It's all this old man's fault for getting Yanran killed."

"Sixth Uncle need not blame yourself. The most urgent task is to quickly escape the territory of the Human-Faced Demon Spiders, and then send a message back to the Family asking Fourth Uncle to make a move," said a middle-aged male Cultivator.

The old man nodded.

Just as they turned into escaping light and left, a large number of Human-Faced Demon Spiders immediately dispatched, chasing after the few people.

Two miles away, the two Chen Lingyang also perceived the commotion on this side and hurriedly escaped to prevent being dragged down by them.

However, the direction they were advancing in happened to be the direction the four people were fleeing. As they turned and escaped, the four people seemed to have also sensed the two Chen Lingyang and turned along with them.

"Sixth Uncle, there are people ahead," said Zheng Yanqun, the middle-aged male Cultivator.

"I know. These two people must have known for a long time that there is a Human-Faced Demon Spider lair here. When we passed by here just now, we ignored the two of them, yet they didn't even make a sound to remind us. If I had known earlier, I would have killed them on the spot," said the old man Zheng Qingsu with murderous intent flickering in his eyes.

"Catch up to them, slaughter them, and avenge Yanran," the old man commanded.

The few nodded and accelerated their escaping speed to chase after the two.

Feeling the murderous intent from behind, Chen Lingyang thought to himself that it was bad. These people probably wanted to silence them. After all, those five people had already discovered the two of them when they passed by earlier, and he and Su Yu had already left before those few provoked the Human-Faced Demon Spiders.

He hadn't expected the other party to still chase after them relentlessly.

Chen Lingyang glanced at Su Yu behind him. Her cultivation was too low, only at the Fourth Layer of Qi Refining. Even if she escaped with all her might, it would probably be very difficult to evade the pursuit of the four people behind.

He also had the heart to abandon her, but after getting along these past few days, Su Yu had indeed helped him a lot, and he really couldn't harden his heart to do so. Moreover, he was only at the Sixth Layer of Qi Refining; even if he abandoned Su Yu, he couldn't outrun that old man at the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining.

However, when he came, he had used quite a bit of contribution to exchange for a Low Grade Tier 2 ice crystal talisman. When the time came, worst-case scenario, he would just use it. Anyway, keeping it until the end—if he died, it would just be given away to someone else anyway.