Chapter 198 - 150: Mysterious Cave

Chapter 198: Chapter 150: Mysterious Cave

The roaring flames turned night into day.

Shen Yunjiao’s Swordsmanship was concise, with few fancy maneuvers, but it was brutally effective. With her right hand, she swung her sword—a slash here, a flick there, an occasional thrust—and each movement claimed the lives of numerous spiders, splattering blue-green blood everywhere. Her left hand was held like a claw, her fist loosely clenched.

Streams of crimson energy rose from the corpses of the Spider Demon Beasts, which she then absorbed.

Zhao Zuo was even more composed. He simply directed his black flames toward the Demon Beasts, which was enough to clear the area, though it consumed a considerable amount of his Mana.

He advanced at a steady pace, and the blanket of black flames moved with him. The scorching heat caused the air to twist and shimmer.

At that moment, Zhao Zuo truly felt the power of a Cultivator. With just a slight manipulation of his Mana, he could effortlessly reap lives. Everywhere he walked became a scorching domain of flame.

Elsewhere, Shen Yunjiao continued to push forward. To her complete surprise, the spiders around her began to retreat, parting to form a path about a meter wide. Instead, they swarmed, wave after wave, toward Zhao Zuo and his flames.

"A one-on-one, is it?" Shen Yunjiao glanced toward the forest depths. Without a moment’s hesitation, she charged toward the massive silhouette within.

The pressure on Zhao Zuo increased dramatically. He stared intently at several dozen basin-sized spiders, which continuously spat highly corrosive venom from thirty meters away.

Every time he tried to charge forward and finish them off, they would reposition under the cover of the other spiders, preventing him from getting near.

SWISH! SWISH SWISH SWISH!

Globs of venom shot toward him, and he deftly dodged the rain of attacks, at times moving sideways, at others leaping high into the air.

As he moved, more blue-green venom shot in from afar. The spiders were doing everything they could to restrict his movements. Meanwhile, Zhao Zuo kept his eyes trained on them, searching for a weakness.

He knew he had to deal with these spiders quickly. Otherwise, Shen Yunjiao would likely get hurt, and his entire plan would go up in smoke.

Soon, Zhao Zuo came up with an idea. He just needed to create an opportunity.

He then cleverly used several ancient trees for cover. While dodging the attacks, he inched closer to the Venomous Spiders. Then, from a shadowed corner, Zhao Zuo threw his Sky-Breaking Saber.

A streak of cyan light shot across dozens of meters in an instant. At the same time, Zhao Zuo slapped a Divine Wind Talisman onto his body. As a current of air swirled around him, he felt his body grow significantly lighter.

THWUMP!

The Sky-Breaking Saber pierced through four or five spiders in a row. Their bodies burst apart as if struck by cannonballs, showering a ten-meter area in a rain of blue-green blood.

But that was far from enough. The Sky-Breaking Saber landed and embedded itself in the ground. A cyan tempest instantly erupted around it. Within the storm, razor-sharp wind blades burst forth like swords.

The wind blades howled through the storm, their sharpness rivaling that of a Lower Grade Magical Artifact. They tore through the air at incredible speeds, slicing into the spider swarm and cutting open their hard carapaces.

The violent wind blades tore through the air with a terrifying, high-pitched shriek.

The Sky-Breaking Saber continued to release its Wind Series Energy, and the wind blades spun ever faster. They sliced into the spiders’ bodies, inflicting numerous fatal wounds. A palpable fear spread through the surrounding spiders; they scrambled back, trying to escape the blades’ range.

The sudden storm threw the spiders’ formation into disarray. Zhao Zuo seized the opportunity to advance another ten meters. He had no intention of letting the Venomous Spiders escape. Tensing his right arm, he coiled his body like a bow and launched the Black Flame Saber.

The black flames merged with the wind blades in a fiery explosion. The wind fanned the flames, and the flames empowered the wind. Black fire, carried on the gale, spread in all directions. In an instant, the dozens of meters surrounding them transformed into an Endless Purgatory.

The raging fire seared the wounds carved open by the wind blades, and the Venomous Spiders let out agonizing shrieks. Flames poured into the gashes, burning their internal organs. Gradually, they were reduced to charred corpses.

Most of the Venomous Spiders were annihilated. The few that remained were no longer a threat.

Seeing the flames around Zhao Zuo begin to die down, the other Spider Demon Beasts rushed forward as one, forming a living Heaven and Earth Net with their bodies. In the distance, other web-weaving spiders were already preparing a new round of traps.

"Sigh."

Zhao Zuo let out a faint sigh and drew the Hidden Blade Giant Sword from his Storage Bag. He gripped it with a single hand. With his current strength of over twenty thousand jin, the greatsword’s weight felt just right.

He swung the sword horizontally. The Hidden Blade Giant Sword cleaved through them in an unstoppable arc. Any Spider Demon Beast it touched was instantly torn asunder. Though one might call it being ’torn,’ it was more like being utterly crushed by immense force. Foul-smelling, blue-green blood splattered everywhere.

Zhao Zuo continued to stride forward. He brought the Hidden Blade Giant Sword down in a vertical chop, smashing the carapaces of several more spiders. Faced with his assault, the creatures had no way to dodge; their only recourse was to launch a desperate counterattack in their final moments.

But their slender, iron-hard legs had no effect whatsoever. In Zhao Zuo’s wake, only dozens of lifeless spider corpses and a stretch of pitted, broken ground remained.

Zhao Zuo raised the Black Flame Saber in his left hand, commanding the flames, while his right hand hacked relentlessly with the Hidden Blade Giant Sword. All the while, within a ten-meter radius, his Sky-Breaking Saber darted through the air like a hunting shark.