Chapter 67: Giant Human-faced Spider, Thousand-year Inner Core
The various strange sights in this Ghost Tomb were like layers of mist enveloping a mysterious space, making Hu Ba Yi and the others hesitate to proceed.
The Suspended Soul Ladder had already nearly cost them their lives, and if they entered this Illusion Array now, it might as well be killing them.
Hu Ba Yi had sharp eyes and immediately spotted a Tomb Raiding Hole on one side of the tomb wall ahead. It was dug very neatly, exactly like the one made by the tomb raiding predecessor who built the Fish Bone Temple.
“Let’s go from here, I don’t want to go in there anymore!”
Wang Pang Zi and Da Jin Ya also hurriedly nodded.
Su Mo glanced at those tomb walls and found the magnetic field there chaotic, with no Treasure Light or anything like that.
Clearly, that was also a chaotic area where a Western Zhou Tomb overlapped with a half-finished Tang Tomb, with nothing of value at all, and the Dragon Bone definitely wasn’t there.
According to the original story, there was still space below, possibly inside this Tomb Raiding Hole dug by Golden Abacus.
Thinking of this, Su Mo nodded:
“Let’s go in through this Tomb Raiding Hole!”
With Su Mo’s permission, Hu Ba Yi immediately dove headfirst into the Tomb Raiding Hole. Wang Pang Zi and Da Jin Ya also hurriedly crawled in, not wanting to see the chaotic scene of the Zhou Tomb and Tang Tomb overlapping for even a moment. The four instantly became Su Mo bringing up the rear.
This Tomb Raiding Hole connected to a cave. The cave was unfathomably deep, and when Hu Ba Yi encountered it ahead, he immediately didn’t dare to proceed.
This kind of cave eroded by groundwater beneath the loess plateau was unfathomably deep; falling in would surely leave no bones behind!
He was searching for a way out when he suddenly heard a strange sound from ahead. He immediately raised his Wolf Eye Flashlight and shone it forward, and upon shining, he couldn’t help but break out in cold sweat.
He saw what seemed to be a person standing in the cave ahead, a large face looking bloodless under the Wolf Eye Flashlight’s beam, appearing extremely eerie!
Hu Ba Yi immediately retreated a few steps in fright, bumping into Fatty. Wang Pang Zi couldn’t help but say:
“Old Hu, what are you doing!”
“There seems to be something ahead again!”
Hearing Hu Ba Yi’s words, Da Jin Ya and Wang Pang Zi hurriedly shone their flashlights forward together.
Under the light, they saw several eerie human faces appearing in the darkness!
The three were instantly so frightened their hair stood on end. Da Jin Ya’s legs went soft and he collapsed to the ground. Immediately after, he felt his ankle tighten as a great force dragged him forward.
“Master Su, Hu Ye, Fat Ye, save me!”
Although Da Jin Ya had crucifixes, Buddha, Bodhisattva, and various amulets hanging around his neck, at the critical moment he still called out to Su Mo and the others.
Hu Ba Yi saw he was being dragged forward and hurriedly lunged to grab his arm, but the force from the other side was extremely strong, pulling both of them sliding forward together.
Wang Pang Zi hurriedly shone his flashlight carefully forward.
He saw that what was ahead wasn’t human faces at all, but clearly several huge Human-faced Spiders!
These Human-faced Spiders were enormous. The smallest were calf-sized, the larger ones had bodies nearly two meters long, plus eight long legs, at least three or four meters in total length. No wonder that human face on their backs looked so terrifying in the darkness.
“Master!”
Hu Ba Yi and Da Jin Ya were dragged sliding forward. In panic, even using their entrenching tools couldn’t stop them, so they could only shout loudly for help.
Su Mo was at the rear and heard the three’s voices were off, so he immediately rushed forward quickly out of the Tomb Raiding Hole. Seeing several giant Human-faced Spiders ahead, with Hu Ba Yi and Da Jin Ya entangled in spider silk and being dragged, he quickly dashed to their side in one stride and grabbed the spider silk on Da Jin Ya’s leg.
The spider silk wasn’t too thick, but the mucus on it was extremely sticky. After Su Mo grabbed it, Hu Ba Yi and the other’s sliding momentum was immediately stopped by him.
Before the two could catch their breath, they heard Su Mo roar angrily. They saw Su Mo grabbing the spider silk and actually dragging the largest Human-faced Spider toward himself.
This Human-faced Spider was the largest, about four meters in size, yet Su Mo directly dragged it toward himself by the spider silk.
It seemed to sense danger, continuously spitting spider silk from its abdomen while rapidly crawling forward with its long legs, apparently wanting to escape quickly.
But at that moment, Su Mo suddenly dashed toward it in one stride, arriving behind this giant Human-faced Spider in an instant, while a cold gleam flashed in his hand.
Slash!
The Frost Moon Sword slashed down fiercely, instantly severing the giant Human-faced Spider’s body in half at its narrowest central point!
A surge of green, sticky pus blood immediately poured from the Human-faced Spider’s body, filling the space with a foul stench.
The other Human-faced Spiders immediately became agitated, seemingly sensing the aura of their kin’s death, and grew fearful as well.
Su Mo suddenly roared:
“Get lost!”
This roar contained the power of Kirin Sacred Blood and the Buddhist Lion’s Roar, instantly scaring the Human-faced Spiders into turning and fleeing, vanishing without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Seeing these Human-faced Spiders flee, Su Mo snorted coldly and turned to look at the Human-faced Spider he had slain.
As the saying goes, a centipede dies but never topples. Although this Human-faced Spider was severed into two at the body, its front limbs were still wriggling.
Su Mo then thrust his sword into its head.
The Human-faced Spider’s severed front limbs convulsed for a moment before going still, pierced through the brain by Su Mo and thoroughly dead.
Su Mo glanced at this Human-faced Spider.
This thing had grown so large, who knew how many years it had survived in the chaotic, interlocking caves beneath Dragon Ridge. There should be something like bezoar or canine treasure inside it.
He then used the Great Yin Meditation Technique and looked carefully at the Human-faced Spider.
Upon looking, he indeed saw a flicker of Treasure Light inside the chest cavity of this Human-faced Spider.
Su Mo then slashed open the spot with the Treasure Light with one sword, indeed finding a bead there that was entirely emerald green, the size of a pigeon’s egg.
It was precisely this Human-faced Spider’s Inner Core.
【Human-faced Spider Inner Core: Nurtured by a Human-faced Spider for a millennium. Swallowing it grants lifespan and bloodline growth, and bestows an aura that commands fear from Human-faced Spiders!】
Seeing the information that appeared before him, Su Mo couldn’t help but feel delighted.
Coming to this Dragon Ridge Ancient Tomb, all along it had been various Illusion Arrays, but now he finally had some harvest!
He then placed the Inner Core to his lips and swallowed it in one gulp.
The Inner Core wasn’t too large and went down easily. Once it entered his abdomen, Su Mo felt his bloodline stir, and the flow of his blood suddenly accelerated greatly.
And on his body, there seemed to be an additional dark aura.
This was an aura sufficient to make cave creatures feel chills of fear!
