Chapter 38

Pei Ling followed his rough idea of the route leading outside. After escaping from the lair, he was about to catch his breath when he suddenly felt the hill behind him shake slightly. Immediately, a shrill cry sounded!

Before he could react, he felt as if a huge rock had slammed into his chest. He was dizzy and tasted blood in his throat.

F*ck!

Is the Man-Faced Spider back!?

Pei Ling did not have the luxury of time to think as he hurriedly shouted, “Miss Wuliu! I have already cultivated the [Blood Spiraling Escape Technique]. Please come out!”

The surroundings remained empty and quiet for a long time.

Wu Liu was really not here?

Pei Ling’s heart sank. He did not place his hopes on this female ghost anymore. After finding his direction, he fled towards Spiral Mountain City.

It was a demon beast that even City Lord Duanmu, who was at the Foundation Establishment stage, did not dare fight head-on. Other than Spiraling Mountain City, he could not think of any other safe place.

He had only escaped for some distance when he heard continuous vibrations from behind him, accompanied by the furious shriek of a demon beast—Pei Ling took the time to turn around and take a look. He saw that more than half of the hill where the spider lair was originally located got lifted, and a spider, the size of a house, emerged from the lair.

This spider was entirely pale, and there was a lifelike human face on its abdomen. The corners of its mouth were naturally curved up as if it was smiling. It looked ferocious and strange.

Its pedipalps were still stained with the flesh of unknown demon beasts. Clearly, it had just returned from its hunt and had been confronted with the death of this batch of children.

At this moment, it was full of rage. It looked around and noticed Pei Ling’s rapidly departing figure. It then sensed the residual scent in the lair and could not help but let out another shrill cry. Its four pairs of legs began moving as it cleaved through the trees in front of it and chased after him madly.

Pei Ling was scared out of his wits when he realized what was coming. He frantically executed the Blood Spiraling Escape Technique in an attempt to get further away from the man-faced spider.

Fortunately for Pei Ling, the escape technique came from Fairy Li, and it had been cultivated through the system. Pei Ling had already escaped for a while, and the distance between them quickly widened to the naked eye. No matter how the Man-Faced Spider charged toward him mindlessly, even spitting out spider webs in anger, it could only watch helplessly as Pei Ling’s figure turned into a black dot.

“The Blood Spiraling Escape Technique is so powerful!” After confirming that the man-faced spider was much slower than him, Pei Ling heaved a sigh of relief and could not help but be fascinated. “I wonder if Fairy Li has any more cultivation techniques for me after learning this escape technique?”

He would like to have a dozen more of such powerful cultivation techniques for free.

Pei Ling looked forward to it for a while. He thought of how he would answer to City Lord Duanmu after he entered Spiraling Mountain City.

After all, City Lord Duanmu was not willing to provoke this Man-Faced Spider…

“Anyway, although the Foundation Establishment Man-Faced Spider has some intelligence, it can’t speak.” Pei Ling quickly thought of an excuse. “When he asked, I’ll say that it provoked me first.”

As for why? He was only a new outer sect disciple of the Deep Sea Sect at the fourth level of Qi Refinement.

What evil intentions could he have?

Even if he had any, who would believe that he had the ability to provoke a man-faced spider in the Foundation Establishment stage?!

With that thought, Pei Ling relaxed as if a huge burden lifted from his shoulders.

However, his expression changed soon when he realized the harsh reality: he did not have enough spiritual power!

Although the Blood Spiraling Escape Technique gave him super speed, it consumed a lot of spiritual power.

Pei Ling was so focused on escaping that he did not notice it just now. In this short span, half of the spiritual power in his body was gone. If this carried on, he could forget about escaping into Spiraling Mountain City since he would probably get caught by the Man-Faced Spider before he even left the forest at the foot of the mountain.

“Damn it…” Pei Ling’s face was ashen. He thought quickly and changed directions suddenly, heading for the gorge where he had previously gotten trapped in!

It was impolite not to reciprocate!

The reason he angered this Man-Faced Spider was that Chen Huan and the others had forced him to.

Since that was the case, how could he let them stay out of it?

If he did not have enough spiritual power to return to Spiral Mountain City, he would make Chen Huan and the others buy time for him!

As Pei Ling rushed toward the gorge, there was an empty space that someone had cleared up a few kilometers outside the gorge. The place was filled with a complex array patterns formed by cinnabar and human blood. In the middle of the empty space was a Soul Summoning Banner.

This Soul Summoning Banner was roughly the same as the Soul Summoning Banner used in the market during funerals. However, more than ten souls were struggling hysterically on the surface of the banner, their faces twisted with resentment. “Chen Huan! You will die a horrible death!”

“Huang Xian, I treated you as my older brother, but you betrayed me like this! You will suffer retribution sooner or later!”

“Mei’er… Mei’er… Why don’t you look at me? Back then, you said you liked me. But you turned around and tricked me into a trap. Not only did you kill me, you even took my blood essence and soul to refine a talisman for Chen Huan. You… Don’t you feel any guilt after treating me like this?!”

“Zhang Zhongqin! You animal! If I hadn’t saved you back then, you would have died a long time ago! How could you repay kindness with ingratitude!! Animal! Animal!!”

“Xiao Tasha, you b*tch! You and I are cousins! How could you harm me just for Chen Huan! You will die a horrible death! How are you going to answer to your parents and elders if you enter the underworld after you die and see them?!”

“Cousin, stop struggling.” On a makeshift altar, Xiao Tasha stood on seven stars, performing a series of hand seals, and bit the tip of her tongue to spit out a mouthful of blood. However, the patterns on the altar lit up with a faint bloody glow.

She was pale, and there were traces of blood at the corner of her mouth, but she seemed extremely excited.

She first teased the female ghost in the banner and replied, “You were pursuing the Great Dao wholeheartedly, but you were slow-witted. Now that you’ve entered the Soul Summoning Banner, Senior Brother Chen’s cultivation will improve in the future. Once he becomes successful in the Great Dao, you’ll ascend to the heavens as well. Wouldn’t that be equivalent to fulfilling your wish? Why must you scold me? You should be thanking me.”

She then turned to Chen Huan and said with a smile, “Senior Brother Chen, I’ll never fail you. This mother array is finally complete! We only need to wait until midnight.”

Chen Huan, Huang Xian, Zhang Zhongqin, and Chen Mei stood at a specific position in the array while holding a talisman flickering with spiritual light. Blood could be seen on their wrists, and all of their faces were pale while their breathing was rapid. Especially Chen Mei, who had the lowest cultivation, her legs went weak when she heard this, and she directly knelt on the ground.

When she looked up at the talisman floating in front of her, there was actually some fear in her eyes as she said with lingering fear, “Fortunately, I made it through. Although Senior Sister Xiao’s method of using the Talisman Array can allow her to set up an array beyond her cultivation realm, it’s too costly in terms of spiritual energy and blood essence.”

She felt like she was going to be sucked dry!

“Junior Sister Xiao, it’s all thanks to you this time.” Chen Huan was the most powerful of them all. Although he had suffered much, he was still in high spirits. He ignored his sister and went up to support Xiao Tasha. After showing concern to Xiao Tasha, he said to Chen Mei, “Go down and see how Pei Ling is doing.”

Before Chen Mei could calm down, she was already unhappy. “Him? He can’t even come out. What else can he do?”

As she spoke, she summoned the Tracking Bee from her sleeve.. To her surprise, the Tracking Bee did not fly toward the gorge as it flew south without hesitation!