972: Save people

"Something's happening!"

"It's here!"

Hearing these sounds, Wen Xiucheng and Du Xingchen exchanged glances, two different thoughts playing out in their minds.

A moment later, the five-person team led by Du Xingchen gathered together.

"There's such a terrifying screeching sound over there, that's a Beast King level existence!" Liangcai Sword said quickly upon arriving.

Everyone around them also looked serious.

"Young Master." The two Grand Sage Masters instantly appeared before Du Xingchen, awaiting orders.

"Let's go, let's take a look." Du Xingchen shouted without any hesitation.

Just that roar was enough to determine that the opponent's Realm was at least above thirty thousand years!

And such an existence was extremely rare in this area of the Jiaomang Mountain Range!

Combining this with the time period, Du Xingchen could instantly confirm that it was the Beast King that the Demon Hall's Fourth Squad had encountered!

If he wasn't mistaken, those guys were facing the Beast King head-on, and their casualties were soaring!

Towards the direction of the sound, Du Xingchen and the others were led by the two Grand Sage Masters.

Everyone's hearts were still set on checking out the situation.

However, within the time it takes to steep a cup of tea, everyone arrived at a desolate forest covered in withered branches and fallen leaves.

The scenery of this forest was vastly different from the scenery in other areas of the Jiaomang Mountain Range.

While the ground was covered in withered branches and fallen leaves, the trees were all like ghost claws with bare branches, and between these trees with only branches, there were transparent silk threads clinging to the rainwater!

Looking at it as a whole, it looked more like a withered and abandoned Village covered in spider webs than a forest.

This scene was completely influenced by the Strange Beast living within it!

After entering this area, everyone clearly sensed an energy fluctuation emerging from the depths of this forest.

The two Grand Sage Masters released their Martial Soul power with serious expressions, cautiously adding defensive shields to Du Xingchen and the others first.

Here, everyone's speed slowed down considerably.

After a dozen breaths, everyone paused slightly.

Because everyone could clearly see, under the misty rain, standing on the withered branches and fallen leaves, were more than a dozen wooden figures!

Seeing the appearance of people, everyone frowned slightly, unsure of the situation for a moment.

Du Xingchen explained to them, "These people are all dead. There is no trace of life on them. They have all become Puppets now."

Speaking of this, Du Xingchen provided more information, "The place where that Strange Beast lives is this kind of forest, plus the previous roar that was like a beast but not a beast, and this striking method of turning people into Puppets, we can roughly determine that this Strange Beast is a Puppet Spider King!"

"Those people on the ground are all Puppets made by the Puppet Spider King!"

"Puppet Spider King?!" Hearing the name of this Strange Beast, everyone's breathing stopped, as they all understood.

The Puppet Spider King was considered a Beast King level existence among those below forty thousand years!

Therefore, people were not unfamiliar with it.

Combined with the previous screeching sound, it was enough to determine that its Realm was at least above thirty thousand years!

"Was it in conflict with people or other Strange Beast just now?" Wen Xiucheng said, combining the sound he had just heard.

"Boom!"

In the distance, a considerable roar suddenly erupted, interrupting Wen Xiucheng's question and drawing everyone's attention.

It was after this shift in gaze that everyone, in the misty rain, through the intertwined branches, saw a huge spider figure and the pile of human figures surrounding it!

The distance closed in slightly, and then the situation before their eyes instantly became clear.

It was a giant eight-legged Spider!

Its eight eyes were like blood-stained gems, its cold mouthparts opened and closed like a gate, and its eight hairy spider legs didn't seem to have much killing power, but the most eye-catching thing was the Spider's bloated abdomen, which was as big as a room!

Threads invisible to the naked eye extended from the Spider's tail, connecting to the figures around it one by one.

These figures that seemed to surround it were actually Puppets controlled by the Spider!

In front of the Puppet Spider King, there was a pile of warm corpse fragments!

In the center of the ground covered in corpses was a pale-faced, blood-soaked, half-kneeling, thin Man whose Martial Soul was faintly glowing behind him, concealing his final life-and-death attack!

"These people are unlucky, they met such a Beast King." Liangcai Sword shook his head.

His teammates and the two Grand Sage Masters around him also didn't make a move, they just watched quietly from the side.

This kind of behavior was very normal.

After all, facing a Beast King of this level would inevitably involve huge risks.

It wasn't worth taking such a risk for someone who was completely unrelated.

Of course.

For the two Grand Sage Masters, the threat of this Puppet Spider King was very limited.

They could save the person with a casual move.

However, they had no reason to save the other party.

Du Xingchen took out the Treasure Hunting Plate from his person.

He looked at the bright light spot on the Plate representing the God's Bloodline, then turned his gaze to the dying young Man who was still stubbornly standing in place in his field of vision, and already had the answer in his heart.

"Save him." These simple two words were Du Xingchen's reason, or rather command, for the two Grand Sage Masters to act.

His words caused everyone to look over in surprise.

Afterward.

The two Grand Sage Masters didn't hesitate and immediately rushed forward!

The sudden appearance of the two Grand Sage Masters drew the attention of both the Puppet Spider King and the person on the ground who was at the end of his rope.

"Hiss!" The Puppet Spider King saw the Human who had suddenly appeared, raised its Spider legs high, and its screech conveyed a warning of danger.

"Hmph!" One of the Grand Sage Masters let out a cold snort, and a large saber Martial Soul appeared in his hand: "You beast, die!"

"Boom!" With a clear roar loud enough to affect the surrounding space, the large saber in the Grand Sage Master's hand erupted with a burst of light, directly striking towards the Puppet Spider King!

At this instant, the bright saber energy attack, wrapped in the heavy rain, arrived with a crash in front of the Puppet Spider King's body!

In such an urgent situation, this Beast King only had time to construct a spider web shield as thin as a cicada's wing but as hard as a rock in front of it!

"Thump~"

After a dull thud, the two sides were evenly matched.

"Hiss!"

The Puppet Spider King looked at the Grand Sage Master holding the saber in the void before it, then glanced at the other Grand Sage Master, and began to screech uneasily.

Without giving it any extra time to think about how to respond, the two Grand Sage Masters attacked together!

It didn't take long.

Half an incense stick later, the Puppet Spider King, with all eight legs removed, lay on the ground screeching unwillingly and despairingly.

It was also because it was a Beast King level existence that it took the two Grand Sage Masters half an incense stick to deal with it.

If it were an ordinary Strange Beast of this age, it would probably take less than a third of the time.

"Are you a Student from Black Python Academy?" While the two Grand Sage Masters were fighting the Puppet Spider King, Du Xingchen had already started talking to the surviving Man.

His question was, of course, asked knowingly.

Du Xingchen knew this guy was a genius of the Demon Hall.

However, the words 'Black Python Academy' were clearly written on the academy-style clothes this person was wearing.

This Black Python Academy was actually an academy secretly founded by the Demon Hall, but there was no information leaked to the outside world, so people wouldn't associate it with the Demon Hall.

Hearing the question from the person who had arrived, the Man in extremely poor condition didn't even have the strength to answer, he just looked up at Du Xingchen, then his head fell back, and he fainted in the puddle of rain and blood.

The slowly bleeding wounds all over his body confirmed that his condition was at its absolute worst.

...

That night.

The carriage heading to Shield City, after staying in the Jiaomang Mountain Range for two days, finally set off again.

When they reached the main road, as expected, there were bandits who came to block their way.

However, when the bandits saw the huge Puppet Spider King being escorted on the carriage, and felt the terrifying aura of that Strange Beast, the bandits who were blocking the road for money quickly moved the large tree in the middle of the road, and with a smile apologetically, handed over the toll to Du Xingchen and the others.

The Puppet Spider King was really too eye-catching, and in order to keep it alive and not waste Soul Card, it hadn't been killed yet.

In this situation, the deterrence it brought was naturally sufficient.

"Cough cough~"

In the carriage, the Man coughed weakly a few times, then, sweating profusely, he slowly and with difficulty opened his eyes.

"You're awake?" A calm voice sounded from the side.

These words instantly cleared the mind of the Man on the bed.

Today, he and his teammates went to hunt Strange Beast to prepare suitable Strange Beast cards for his teammates and also to gain experience, but they encountered the Puppet Spider King midway, which resulted in all his teammates and the two Saint Master teachers leading the team being wiped out!

Even he had reached the point where he couldn't escape death, and in despair, another group of people saved him!

After sorting out the information in his mind, the Man turned his head to look to the side.

What came into his sight was exactly the Man he had seen in the rain during the day.

At that time, the other party had also asked him if he was from Black Python Academy.

"Thank you." The Man looked at Du Xingchen, and through his dry throat, he uttered two words as he swallowed.

Although he was a person from the Demon Hall, he was clear about gratitude and grudges, and he remembered favors.

The other party had saved him, so of course he wouldn't put on a cold face.

Du Xingchen was not surprised by the other party's words.

He understood this person, and the reason he saved him was because, on some level, he was very similar to Wen Xiucheng and his other teammates, they were the kind of people who would yield returns if invested in.

He just lacked the favor of Luck, so in the original work, he was just a brilliant passerby and didn't have much screentime.

This kind of character appears in many books.

Because the readers only focus on the protagonist and the people around him, this kind of person is destined to not have much written about them.

Facing this person's thanks, Du Xingchen didn't pause and poured cold water on him: "Don't be happy too early, although you've been saved, your physical condition doesn't seem to be good, it's a pity about your talent."

"If I'm not mistaken, you should already be a Five-Star Soul Card Master in the Late Stage, right?"