Chapter 345: Crossing the Chencang in Secret (Extra for Greedy Snake)

With the boss in trouble, the little brothers certainly had to help. Giant wild boars and large and small snake groups rushed up to relieve the siege and fight the spider group. Under the moonlight, this scene was as lively as a pot of boiling water.

The onlookers on the hillside were terrified; once demons go wild, there's no place for humans.

However, Tu Zhongli and the others took advantage of the chaotic battle between the demons to quietly descend the sinkhole along tree roots and vines.

Who would have known that Zhu Xiuer hadn't suffered such a loss for a long time and had been beaten into a true rage? At this moment, it tried its best to lift its head and sprayed several clusters of spider silk at the big trees in the distance.

The big trees above the sinkhole were at least seven or eight hundred years old, all magnificent ancient trees that were extremely thick.

After the spider silk stuck, Zhu Xiuer pulled with great force, actually dragging this large group of demons, including the other two demon kings, down into the sinkhole together, tangled and lively!

There was a drop of over ten zhang, and after landing, the small demons on the periphery were shaken away, scattered in all directions.

There were spider webs everywhere down here, usually leaving only a small path for humans to walk. Creatures with smaller bodies were accidentally shaken into the spider webs and were stuck immediately, especially the snakes, which were in bad luck.

The three great demons were still entangled together, rolling down the terrain, and fell into the water with a splash.

The sinkhole water was very deep.

The behemoths fought underwater for a long time, and Siwen Wang was the first to be unable to hold on. It was a purely land-dwelling demon and couldn't hold its breath for so long, and high-intensity combat was particularly energy-consuming. Not to mention that countless eels crawled out from the bottom of the water—the small ones were only the thickness of chopsticks, and the big ones surpassed a sea bowl—and they were gnawing and biting on it.

Usually, it certainly wouldn't be afraid; these little things couldn't even break its defense. The problem was that it had already been pierced with over a dozen holes by spider guards, and venom had been injected inside. Its pig skin didn't shrink as well as usual. These eels specifically drilled into the wounds to make trouble, making it both painful and itchy, and extremely uncomfortable.

Not to mention there was one as thick as a bowl, vicious and ruthless, specifically wanting to drill into places it shouldn't.

Looking at the other two demons, the giant python Bowengun was originally an amphibious monster and could sleep underwater without issue. Zhu Xiuer didn't have that ability, but the stiff bristles on its body absorbed countless air bubbles after entering the water. When it couldn't hold on, it just needed to take a breath, and some air bubbles would even seep directly into its body.

After a quarter of an hour, Siwen Wang couldn't hold on and turned to surface.

With one less main attacker, Zhu Xiuer was able to focus on dealing with the giant python. Bowengun was a bit overwhelmed.

As a long-time great demon, Zhu Xiuer's claws were sharper than steel knives, and even the stiff bristles were directly attached with venom, so it didn't need to bite Bowengun to inject venom.

Of course, Bowengun itself was also a master of using poison, and its fangs were stuck on the spider demon's shoulder plate, wishing it could pour all the venom in its body into it.

But it soon discovered something wrong: Zhu Xiuer's combat power hadn't weakened, as if its venom hadn't taken effect.

How was this possible?

A single drop of its saliva could poison hundreds of humans to death. With Zhu Xiuer's physique being so tough, how could it be fine after having over ten jin of venom poured into it? Just at this moment, one of Zhu Xiuer's eyes swelled larger and larger. When the volume became twice that of the other eyeballs, it floated up, drifting slowly, and the color turned from black to red.

This eyeball was actually a spider, but it shook its legs twice in the water and died.

Seeing this scene, Bowengun suddenly understood: could it be that this fellow Zhu Xiuer had gathered all the snake venom into its eyeball and directly discharged it in this way?

The two sides were old rivals for many years, and Zhu Xiuer still had so many trump cards! However, at this time, it suddenly discovered wisps of flocculent material floating in the water, sticking a layer onto its body whenever it touched it.

Spider silk!

Zhu Xiuer had actually been spraying silk quietly all along.

This kind of silk didn't dissolve in water, and its stickiness didn't even weaken for a period of time after entering the water. Usually, the spider group used it to catch fish.

Now Zhu Xiuer wanted to use it to catch snakes.

Thanks to the water, spider silk was floating everywhere, and Bowengun couldn't dodge it. Once it was completely entangled, this wasn't land; Bowengun couldn't find a point to exert force, nor could it break the net as fiercely as it could on land.

Calculating this way, Bowengun's only chance of winning was to find a way to return to land and attack together with Siwen Wang.

Thinking this through, it decisively let go of Zhu Xiuer and swam quickly to the water surface.

Outside the Demon Nest, the battle was earth-shattering, but inside the underground palace, it was quiet.

One team of spiders after another rushed out to support, and the rustling sound soon moved away. The huge Demon Nest was empty, and the remaining spider guards held their posts and no longer went out.

In the deathly silence, the Demon Nest's wine cellar suddenly had movement: one of the two large rows of wine vats that had been transported in earlier was slowly pushed open, and someone poked their head out to look around twice, whispering, "No guards, safe!"

Four or five more wine vats had their lids removed, and the mountain bandits hiding inside jumped out one after another.

Hiding in wine vats to sneak into the underground palace was indeed a flawless and good method.

"Quick, find out where we are going!"

"Where's the map?" The mountain bandits called to the companion who had emerged first. "Old Six, look at the map quickly!"

There were also fluorescent spores in the wine cellar, so illumination wasn't a problem.

Old Six took a piece of black and gray snake skin from his bosom and looked at it against the light.

"We should be here!" He pointed to the map. "Then we should go here... eh, it doesn't seem right?"

"Are you capable or not? Don't lead us astray!" The mountain bandits urged him incessantly.

The demons outside would help them buy time, but the duration was uncertain, and they didn't trust these demons, so completing the mission quickly was the right thing to do.

Old Six pushed the snake-skin map toward them. "If you're capable, you do it?"

No one else took it. "You do it, you do it. Just be quick."

No one else's ability to recognize the way was as good as Old Six's.

"Hmm, it should be here. Follow me." Old Six finally recognized the path and touched out of the wine cellar nimbly. "Bowengun said this was originally its lair, so the map it gave should be very accurate."

There were no guards at the entrance of the wine cellar—

Nonsense, whose wine cellar is afraid of being stolen from? But Old Six discovered that there seemed to be a flash of light at the end of the passage, so he couldn't help but shrink back.

A few breaths passed, and there was no movement, so he walked out. The fluorescent spores inside the underground palace had grown, and sometimes they would suddenly start to glow, so this wasn't strange.

This Old Six really had a knack for looking at maps. Entering the complex, multi-layered underground palace for the first time, he could roughly distinguish the orientation just by holding something like a compass.

Although he took a few detours, the direction they were moving in was clearly Zhu Xiuer's residence, the heart of the entire Demon Nest!

Of course, there were spider guards patrolling on the road, but these few people also had countermeasures. Whenever there was no way to hide, they would take a piece of snake skin and block it in front of them. So when the spider guards walked over, what those big eyes saw was just ordinary rock walls—

Illusion arts were cast on this snake skin, which had the ability to camouflage. With the spider guards' cultivation, they couldn't see through it.

As for the few mountain bandits, they had long since smeared grass juice and wood fragrance on their bodies to cover up the human scent.

In this way, they deceived several waves of guards and walked further and further into the depths of the cave.

Despite having a map, the vastness and complexity of this three-dimensional Demon Nest still exceeded their expectations. The mountain bandits bit the bullet and asked Old Six, "How much further?" Just walking had taken a quarter of an hour, and they had delayed too long.

Their boss had sounded out Bowengun. Although this giant python boasted about its combat power, it also admitted Zhu Xiuer's strength and warned humans to enter and exit the Demon Nest quickly, otherwise they would die without a burial place.

"Enter quickly" didn't seem to have been achieved, and "exit quickly" might not have a chance either. Finally, they touched into a huge cave, the entrance sealed by dense spider webs.

Old Six was pleasantly surprised instead of shocked. "It must be here, the defense is so tight!"

Spider webs couldn't be touched; the stickiness was astonishing. Everyone was prepared, and the two bags of sand they were carrying finally came in handy.

They sprinkled the sand onto the web, handful by handful.

No matter how good the spider web's stickiness was, once it was wrapped in layer after layer of sand, it had no use. Finally, Old Six touched the spider web with an axe and found it didn't stick to the axe, so he said, "We can pass now."

They couldn't cut it, but the spider web had good elasticity, so everyone squeezed through it.

They had just entered the door and hadn't had time to pat the sand off their bodies when they saw several huge, dark spider demons standing against the wall, dozens of eyeballs seemingly staring at the doorway.

Everyone was startled, and the map in Old Six's hand almost fell to the ground.

So, so big—bigger than Zhu Xiuer outside! Everyone smoothed their wildly beating hearts before realizing that these giant demons weren't moving at all, as if they were in a deep sleep.

"Are, are these the ones?"

"Old, Bowengun wants the spider molts, these should be them!"

"Which one should we pick?" Discovering there were no guards in the hall, everyone moved over, looking at this one and touching that one.

Seeing such big demons for the first time, they couldn't help but be curious. Someone even reached out and knocked on a spider leg—it was hard as a board. "There are four here."

"Bowengun didn't say which one it wanted either." Perhaps that giant python didn't know there were four spider molts in here? "Just pick the biggest one."

Another mountain bandit shook out a snake-skin bag. "How do you use this thing?"

"That big snake said, just put the Qiankun bag over the spider molt from the head down."

The mountain bandit had no choice but to use both hands and feet to climb onto the mountain-like giant spider molt. But the stiff bristles on the spider legs were like a wall of swords, making him have to be extremely careful with every step he took, fearing that one stumble would...

The companions below were anxious and kept urging him, "Hurry up, what are you dragging your feet for, hurry up and go up!"

"Aren't you usually very nimble when climbing Widow Wang's bed?"

"Could it be that your legs are soft? I saw him walking a bit floaty today."

This mountain bandit was annoyed and turned around, shouting, "Stop shouting, if you can go up, you go up... ah!"

He twitched violently, shook as if he were having a seizure, and fell headfirst.

The stiff bristles on the spider molt were like stabbing swords; he had rolled down all the way, and he didn't know how many bloody holes had been opened on his body, just like a leaking cloth bag.

Everyone was startled and flipped him over, seeing his face blue and black, his whole body twitching, and his skin swelling at a speed visible to the naked eye, just as if someone were blowing air into his body.

The blood flowing out of the wounds soon turned yellow-green; rather than looking like blood, it looked more like pus.

This extra chapter took three days to write... sigh!

This chapter is specially added for @GreedySnake's Treasure Hand. There's no one else with the luck to hit 6666 monthly tickets in one go.

Everyone come and soak up some of the light, stick to some good luck.

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