All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 149 Shocking Changes in the Cave Abode: A Third-Tier Gu Master! (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader)
Zhou Qing slapped the water's surface and leaped to the shore.

Not far away was a cave entrance about ten feet in diameter. The entrance was dark and gloomy, and no one knew where it led. A cold, damp wind blew out from the cave.

"Let's go!" Chen Feng glanced at the cave entrance, gripped the hilt of the longsword on his back, and took the lead towards the cave entrance.

Wuchenzi followed closely behind.

Seeing this, Zhou Qing walked at the very back.

After entering the dark cave entrance, they found themselves facing a downward stone staircase. After descending the staircase, the three of them found themselves in a huge underground cavern.

A dozen or so fist-sized beads are embedded in the ceiling of the cave, emitting bursts of fluorescence that illuminate the entire cave.

"A luminous pearl?" Zhou Qing's eyes lit up. A single luminous pearl was worth a thousand taels of silver, so a dozen or so would be worth more than ten thousand taels.

Although the top of the cave is tens of meters above the ground, which is generally inaccessible to Bone Refining Realm martial artists, he has Gu worms. When he leaves, he can have the Golden Silkworm Gu worms take down the luminous pearl.

"Brother Ding, that's the Blood Jade Mushroom! It looks like it's grown very well after more than twenty years!"

At this moment, Wuchenzi pointed to the cave wall a hundred meters away.

Zhou Qing stared intently and saw a red mushroom, about half a foot tall and only the size of a palm, growing among a pile of white bones.

Whoosh!
As soon as Wuchenzi finished speaking, he flew out and came to the side of the Blood Jade Mushroom. He took out a jade shovel and removed the Blood Jade Mushroom, along with its roots, intact.

"Many medicinal herbs can only be harvested using a special jade shovel, so as not to damage the roots and affect the medicinal effect."

Wuchenzi explained to Zhou Qing while digging.

"I will keep these Blood Jade Mushrooms safe for you, and we will distribute them after we leave the cave."

After saying that, Wuchenzi put the Blood Jade Mushroom into the jade box.

Zhou Qing had no objection to this.

After carefully storing the Blood Jade Mushroom, Wuchenzi looked ahead at a set of steps leading to the next level.

Zhou Qing looked down and saw that the steps here were bluish-white, like they were made of jade, unlike the steps on the first floor.

rustling.
rustling.
Suddenly, a series of dense sounds came from the underground cavern.

"What's that sound?!" Zhou Qing's heart sank, his eyes fixed on the steps below. The sound seemed to be coming from down below.

However, before long, eerie sounds that sent chills down one's spine came from all directions.

At this moment, soil, rocks, and dust began to fall from above the cave.

Zhou Qing looked up abruptly and saw one after another holes the size of a human head appearing above him.

"This is."

The dozen or so luminous pearls embedded on his head suddenly moved at the same time.

The next moment, what happened before his eyes made Zhou Qing's pupils shrink sharply. What was glowing was not a luminous pearl at all, but clearly the eye of a giant white spider the size of a calf.

rustling.
rustling.
The giant spider awoke, its dozen or so eyes simultaneously fixed on Zhou Qing and the other two. From the opening of the cavern above their heads, countless white spiders, each the size of a fist, fell down.

Hiss hiss hiss!!

The spiders' eyes glowed green, and their hissing filled the entire cave, as if they had been starving for a long time.

Zhou Qing didn't have time to ask Wuchenzi. He immediately flipped his wrist, and a strangely shaped curved knife appeared in his hand. The knife was about two feet long, and the blade had a distinct curve, like a crescent moon.

bass!
As true essence was poured in, the Heavenly Centipede Blade shone brightly red. Zhou Qing simply slashed out, and dozens of arc-shaped blade lights, resembling crescent moons, shot out.

Each of these blades was less than a foot long, but there were enough of them.

A dense, impenetrable web formed above Zhou Qing's head, shredding countless spiders into fragments with the flash of the blade, scattering their remains across the ground and covering it completely.

"Excellent swordsmanship!" Wuchenzi praised. He took out a whisk, swung it forcefully, and countless highly condensed needle-shaped strands of true energy shot into the sky, killing all the spiders in their path.

As for Chen Feng, he actually sat cross-legged behind the two of them, clasped his hands together, and chanted devoutly, "Please draw the divine sword!"

Whoosh!
The next moment, the long sword on his back slowly came out of its sheath, and the dazzling golden light dyed the entire cave wall with a layer of gold.

Buzz!
Accompanied by the clanging of swords, a longsword shrouded in golden light trembled violently, multiplying from one to two, from two to four, and from four to eight.
In a short while, hundreds of pale golden sword lights appeared above Chen Feng's head.

The sword light swept past the countless small spiders and went straight for the giant spider the size of a calf.

The giant spider immediately flew away to dodge, spraying out a large amount of white silk threads from its body as it swung in mid-air, avoiding the sword light.

boom!
The sword light struck the top of the cave, instantly producing a deafening roar.

Although the giant spider dodged most of the sword beams, a small portion of them still struck its body.

Bah! Bah!
Several hairy spider legs fell off, and the giant spider immediately lost its balance.

The giant spider, severely injured, became ferocious. It landed on the ground and crawled rapidly toward the three of them.

However, Chen Feng unleashed another wave of sword light, which the giant spider dared not take head-on, and could only fly up and swing its spider silk to dodge.

However, the needle-shaped true energy released by Wuchenzi cut the spider silk.

The giant spider fell again.

boom! !

The next moment, more than a dozen scarlet blades struck the giant spider's abdomen and pierced its body.

"hiss--!!!"

The giant spider let out a painful hiss.

The next moment, flashes of blades, swords, and needle-shaped true energy were unleashed simultaneously, and the giant spider died on the spot.

The remaining spiderlings were also easily wiped out by the three of them.

Seeing that they were outnumbered, the spiders all burrowed back into the hole.

At this moment, a faint white mist began to emanate from the area, and the temperature dropped further. Seeing this, Zhou Qing prepared to go up and collect the spider blood.

This giant spider was likely one of the sources of the cave's chill; its blood quickly congealed, forming a layer of white frost, suggesting it was some kind of unusual species.

"Brother Ding, wait a minute!"

Suddenly, Wuchenzi spoke up.

Zhou Qing looked back.

"Brother Ding, the cave's opening time is limited, so let's hurry up and go to the next level first," Wuchenzi said hastily.

"If you are in a hurry, Daoist, you can go ahead with Brother Chen. I will store the spider's remains and blood and then come back," Zhou Qing said to himself.

Wuchenzi pondered for a moment, then nodded: "That's fine too."

Seeing this, Chen Feng put away his golden longsword and stepped onto the next floor.

Wuchenzi went down with him.

Seeing the two leave, Zhou Qing released a golden silkworm worm to follow them.

After confirming that the two had gone far away, he put the spider's remains into the inner space of the Spirit-Guiding Disc, and then released hundreds of Golden Silkworm Gu worms to devour the small spiders scattered all over the ground.

Anyway, Wuchenzi and Chen Feng probably don't care about these little spiders.

After the golden silkworm worms had devoured all the spider carcasses scattered on the ground, Zhou Qing did not rush to enter the next level. Instead, he explored the cavern around and sent several golden silkworm worms into the holes to see where the little spiders' nests were.

The cave opens only once every twenty-four years. Where do these little spiders get their food?

Some worms will automatically enter a dormant state if they do not eat for a long time. Over time, they will become weak and even degenerate, but it is difficult for them to starve to death directly.

These little spiders are not Gu worms; their vitality is not as tenacious as that of Gu worms.

"If Wuchenzi isn't hiding something, then something must have happened here that he's unaware of."

Zhou Qing fell into deep thought.

When Wuchenzi and Chen Feng made their move, they didn't hold back at all; it didn't seem like they were putting on an act.

"Um?!"

Just as Zhou Qing was pondering, he suddenly lost contact with the golden silkworm worm that had entered the second level.

Immediately afterwards, the golden silkworm worms that had burrowed into the hole also lost contact one after another.

"Something's wrong!!"

Zhou Qing's expression changed slightly.

It can instantly sever the connection between the Golden Silkworm Gu and other creatures, something that even ordinary Bone Refining Realm martial artists cannot do.

Especially the one that secretly followed us to the second underground level, which was a mutated golden silkworm worm, suddenly lost contact.

"What should I do?" Zhou Qing's mind raced.

A moment later, he returned the way he came, taking the stone steps back to the cold pool where he had started.

thump!
Zhou Qing jumped directly into the icy pool, only to find that it was less than ten meters deep. He quickly swam to the bottom.

There is absolutely no way out.

Zhou Qing released Gu worms to explore, but found no secret passages.

Left with no other choice, he had to return to the next level of the underground cavern.

"We have no choice but to move forward!"

Zhou Qing gritted his teeth and walked towards the blue and white steps leading to the second floor.

He was protected by hundreds of golden silkworm gu insects, and he also put the corpse worm gu king into the wooden king cauldron, merging it with the supreme wood spirit corpse, ready to be released to fight at any time.

After Zhou Qing walked up the hundreds of blue and white steps, he came to a rectangular stone chamber that was a hundred feet in diameter. The walls of the entire chamber seemed to be made of ice crystals.

In the very center of the stone chamber was a circular stone platform, and sitting cross-legged on the platform was a handsome man wearing a white cloak, with a faint smile on his lips.

Wuchenzi and Chen Feng stood motionless, one on each side of the handsome man, with their backs to Zhou Qing.

"Taoist Master? Brother Chen?"

Zhou Qing did not step into the stone chamber, but called out to the two from a distance.

At this moment, Wuchenzi, who had heard the commotion, turned around first and excitedly said to Zhou Qing at the entrance of the stone chamber:
"Brother Ding! Come quickly! This is actually the cave of a third-tier Gu Master. This person is none other than the 'Mysterious Spider Venerable' who once dominated the Southern Frontier!"

After speaking, Wuchenzi turned back to look at the handsome man sitting cross-legged on the stone platform.

"Taoist Priest?!"

Zhou Qing called out again, but Wuchenzi did not respond.

"Brother Chen?!" Zhou Qing looked at Chen Feng standing to the side.

Chen Feng turned around stiffly, only to see that his once handsome face was now covered in frost, and ferocious, spider-like eyes appeared on both sides of his cheeks, making him look extremely grotesque.

"Go quickly!"

Chen Feng's face was contorted as he squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth, as if he were enduring some kind of pain.

"Damn it!" Zhou Qing's face instantly darkened.

"You're quite cautious, young man."

At that moment, a mocking voice rang out from inside the stone chamber.

(End of this chapter)