Chapter 486

However, don't say, the power of several hundred Soul-Devouring Spiders launching the Soul-Devouring Technique together was still very huge.

The surrounding walls all had a slight feeling of shaking. Lin Zhangqing even saw that the space in front of him was slightly distorted.

But that was just it. Countless roots suddenly stabbed out from the void, and every Soul-Devouring Spider had several roots on its body.

Afterwards, their bodies began to wither rapidly. Lin Zhangqing quickly told Lin Changliu to leave the second-tier demon cores for him and not to suck everything dry.

Fortunately, he spoke relatively early, and Lin Changliu agreed to his request. After a little while, the bodies of all the Soul-Devouring Spiders withered to about the size of a palm.

Afterwards, all of Lin Changliu's roots also disappeared. Lin Zhangqing went up and touched the remains of a second-tier Soul-Devouring Spider.

He didn't expect it to shatter at a touch, leaving only an intact second-tier demon core. He quickly found all the second-tier demon cores in the surroundings.

He found a total of twenty-six demon cores and put them into the jade box specifically for demon cores.

Afterwards, he found a spirit beast bag and collected all the Soul-Devouring Spider eggs he could see. He didn't count the quantity specifically.

However, he initially estimated that there were definitely more than one thousand. The rest were these cocoons hanging on the wall!

After observing initially, there were at least more than one hundred cocoons, but Lin Zhangqing had read the introduction on the Strange Insect List and knew the habits of the Soul-Devouring Spider.

That is, they would inject a kind of venom into the prey and wrap it into a cocoon, waiting for the prey to turn into liquid in the cocoon before coming to eat.

One could imagine how terrifying it was for the prey's flesh to turn into liquid, so in order not to make things difficult for himself, he didn't prepare to open these cocoons to check!

Lest he see any disgusting scenes, affecting his mood and appetite, although he knew that there were at least three cultivators' belongings inside.

And the five Soul-Devouring Spiders that were just killed by the Purple Crystal Scorpions not long ago must also be in these one hundred and more cocoons.

Since he didn't prepare to open those cocoons to check, but it would be a bit unwilling to retreat like this, so he simply put a few fireballs around.

Then he stood in the center of the Soul-Devouring Spider's nest, watching the raging flames burning all around, and all the spider webs turned into ashes rapidly.

Afterwards, a pungent smell permeated the cave. Lin Zhangqing immediately used mana to seal his sense of smell.

After the flames went out, Lin Zhangqing scanned with his spiritual sense and discovered a man-made trace on a cave wall.

It seemed like there was a cave entrance there, but the cave entrance was piled with layers of stones, basically blocking the cave entrance! Seeing this situation, Lin Zhangqing felt very strange. If it was a cultivator's method to block a cave entrance, shouldn't they use spells? How could they use stones to block the cave entrance, this kind of mortal means? Since that was the case, he definitely had to open it to take a look!

Afterwards, he constantly used the Beast Taming Art to move the stones out one by one. Not long after, a cave entrance more than one person high was revealed.

Lin Zhangqing didn't rush to approach, but scanned with his spiritual sense first and discovered that it was also a natural cave path, but it wasn't too deep, only about thirty or forty zhang deep.

At the very bottom of the cave path, a skeleton was lying on the ground. He scanned it several times with his spiritual sense and confirmed there was no danger before he entered the cave path.

He observed carefully. This skeleton should have been there for quite a few years, and the bones had traces of jade-ification, which met the characteristics of a Foundation Establishment cultivator. There was not a bit of skin or flesh on the whole body, proving that it couldn't have been formed in a short time, and it looked like it had been at least several hundred years. Lin Zhangqing checked and looked around.

He found two storage bags and a second-tier superior spirit beast bracelet, and nothing else! By this time, he already had some guesses in his heart, but he didn't know if they were correct!

These White Jade Soul-Devouring Spiders on the periphery of this cave path were more like protecting the skeleton inside from being disturbed!

And, there was a great possibility that these stones were piled up by the White Jade Soul-Devouring Spiders to protect the skeleton inside!

So, there was a great possibility that several years ago, a cultivator participating in the trial was unfortunately injured!

And ran into this cave to heal his wounds, but in the end, his injuries were too severe to be cured, and he died here. And the White Jade Soul-Devouring Spiders he left outside.

Although they were backlashed, they finally survived, slowly multiplied, and finally formed the scale that Lin Zhangqing saw.

Of course, this was just his own guess, but the smell in this cave was really too unpleasant, and he didn't want to get too much of this disgusting smell on his body.

And Chen Zi Ya was still outside. In order not to let her worry, Lin Zhangqing also had to go out early.

So he left Lin Changliu here to deal with the Soul Jade mine vein, and he himself left the cave at the first opportunity.

He successfully returned to the camp and reunited with Chen Zi Ya. At this time, she had already fully recovered. When she saw Lin Zhangqing, she quickly asked:

"Green Brother! Are you okay! Have the Soul-Devouring Spiders inside been cleaned up? Any harvest?"

Lin Zhangqing saw that she had fully recovered, so he felt at ease. He originally thought about resting here for a day, but it seemed it wasn't needed! So he took out the two storage bags and spirit beast bracelet harvested last, and shared his general experience and final discovery with Chen Zi Ya!

It made her dumbfounded. She didn't expect such powerful White Jade Soul-Devouring Spiders to be spirit insects left behind by others!

So, in order to verify whether Lin Zhangqing's guess was correct, the two of them simply refined the storage bags they had just obtained.

After completion, they poured all the things inside onto the ground, but the things stored in the first storage bag should be some demon beast corpses.

But because the time was really too long, what was poured out were all some black and mushy substances, and the smell emitted was also very unpleasant.

It scared the two of them, and they quickly moved outside. The things in the other storage bag were much more normal.

There were some medium and low-tier spirit stones, several dozen bottles of pills, seven or eight pieces of various spiritual artifacts, and a large pile of jade boxes. A rough estimate was that there wouldn't be less than three hundred!

The rest were some sundries and identity tokens. Lin Zhangqing specifically took a look. The original owner was actually a disciple of the Ghost Controlling Sect! The rarest thing was that they actually found four jade slips, which was something rarely encountered.

(End of chapter)