My mother is the white moonlight of the cultivation world.

Lingxi turned sharply to Huayue, her voice trembling with emotion: "Huayue, my people are still waiting for me! I must go and save them!"

"Calm down." Hua Yue pressed down on his cold shoulder, her gaze sweeping over the merfolk who had just escaped their predicament, exhausted both physically and mentally.

Du Shifang, picking his teeth, lazily remarked, "Exactly. You can't just rush in headfirst to save someone, little prince. That Coral Cave—just the name says it's no good. Who knows how many spider demons are waiting to feast inside."

"But..." Lingxi wanted to say something more.

Hua Yue had already made her decision. She looked at the old merman and said, "Senior, you should stay on this rocky island for now. It's close to the sea, so if anything happens, you can quickly escape into the sea. We'll be right back."

Her voice was soft and not very loud, but it was like a pair of hands gently patting your back, making you feel inexplicably at ease.

Looking at her, Lingxi felt a strange calming of the turmoil and unease surging within him. He nodded, then turned to his people and said in a deep voice, "Wait for me, I will definitely bring you home!"

Guided by Lingxi, the four of them dived back into the deep blue sea.

The waters of the Immaculate Abyss, which should have been crystal clear, were now murky and filled with rotting debris and eerie demonic energy. The deeper one descended, the dimmer the light became, and the greater the surrounding pressure grew.

Soon, an enormous underwater mountain range appeared before them, covered with corals of various shapes and sizes, all of which were a sickly grayish-white, as if they had long since died. In the center of the mountain range, a deep, dark cave entrance faced them, like the open mouth of a giant beast, constantly spewing out nauseating demonic energy.

Around the cave entrance, countless translucent spider silks were visibly wrapped around the cave entrance, shimmering faintly in the dim seawater, forming a vast, inescapable net.

"This is it." Lingxi's voice came through telepathy, carrying a hint of suppressed anger.

"This net looks weird," Du Shifang clicked his tongue. "How do we get in? Force our way in?"

"No," Hua Yue immediately objected. "These spider silks must serve as a warning; if we touch them, the big spider inside will know."

Lingxi added, "I'll clear the way. The water-based escape techniques of the Merfolk can circumvent these obstacles to the greatest extent possible..."

Before he could finish speaking, a sharp buzzing sound suddenly came from the depths of the cave.

Immediately afterwards, the spider silk that had been still at the entrance of the cave seemed to come alive, suddenly tightening and emitting a vibrating sound like a harp string!

"Oh no! We've been discovered!" Du Chengfeng exclaimed.

Almost at the same time, countless dark figures surged out from the depths of the coral cave like a tide!

Leading the charge were the merfolk controlled by demonic energy! Their eyes were empty, their expressions numb, and they held crude weapons carved from coral, thrusting them towards their prince without hesitation.

Behind them, more half-human, half-spider monsters clung to the cave walls and coral, constantly spewing out new spider silk, sealing off all escape routes around the four of them!

"Damn it!" Du Shifang cursed, and with a snap of his dragon mouth open, a burst of scorching dragon flame was about to erupt.

"Don't use fire!" Lingxi shouted urgently, "It will hurt my people!"

Du Shifang forced back the dragon flame, almost choking himself. Frustrated, he could only conjure dragon claws and carefully parry the attacks of the merfolk.

For a moment, the four of them found themselves in an extremely passive situation.

Although these merfolk were controlled, they were not weak in themselves, and with their superior numbers, they were fearless and undaunted. Meanwhile, the human-demon spiders lurked in the rear, constantly harassing and ambushing them with their silk, restricting their movements and preventing them from using their full strength.

"Dad! Put some more force into it! It's like tickling me!" Du Chengfeng transformed into a pair of giant wings of the Kunpeng true form, stirring up a gale and temporarily blowing open a gap, while still complaining.

"Shut up! Your father is just worried about hurting friendly forces! What do you know about tactics!" Du Shifang was so angry that he blew his beard and glared at his enemies. He slapped away a human-demon spider that pounced on him with a backhand.

The battle reached a stalemate.

Hua Yue's Phoenix Eye Sword moved with lightning speed, constantly severing the incoming spider silk, but there were simply too many threads to cut them all, seemingly endless. Her brows furrowed, her mind racing.

This can't go on; they'll be worn down and die here.

The mastermind behind this, Si Luo, is clearly cunning and treacherous. He doesn't show himself at all, but instead uses these puppets to wage a war of attrition against them.

Just then, Du Shifang, unable to contain himself any longer, finally spat out a small wisp of dragon fire at a particularly troublesome spider that was spewing silk the most.

"boom!"

The dragon flames instantly ignited the spider silk in that area, sending flames soaring into the sky and illuminating the dark cave entrance as bright as day.

At the very moment this powerful spiritual energy erupted, Lingxi, who had been carefully observing the entire battlefield, suddenly turned serious!

He saw it!

Deep within the fire-lit cave, in an inconspicuous corner, a spider silk thinner than a hair briefly reflected a faint light due to the impact of this energy! At the same time, a surge of magical energy emanated from that direction!

"Hua Yue!" Ling tide immediately transmitted her voice, her tone both surprised and delighted, "I think I've found that guy's sensory node!"

He quickly explained his discovery: "These spider silks are like a giant web; any strong energy fluctuations will be transmitted through this web, thus exposing some of its key locations!"

Hua Yue's eyes lit up.

Can we find its true form by following the spider silk?

She's very familiar with this approach!

"I understand!" Hua Yue made a quick decision, and a clear plan took shape in her mind.

"Listen to me," her voice carried clearly through the telepathic system to everyone's ears, "since it relies on this network for perception, let's give it a big one, let it sense everything it wants!"

"Du Shifang, Du Chengfeng!"

"Yes!" the father and son said in unison.

"Compress your spiritual energy and create a super bomb, the more powerful the better!"

"Lingxi, you're in charge of the feint attack. Find a place with lots of spiders, make a huge commotion, and draw all the giant spider's attention to it, making its web taut!"

"Okay!" Lingxi agreed without hesitation.

Hua Yue looked at the three of them, "I'll lock onto the target's location; I guarantee a single, decisive strike!"

The plan was deployed in an instant, and the four understood each other perfectly, immediately taking action.

Lingxi took a deep breath, abandoning his defense and instead charging towards the most densely populated area of ​​the human-demon spiders. He formed hand seals, and countless water arrows materialized out of thin air, like a torrential downpour, covering that area!

"Boom boom boom!"

The deafening explosions echoed continuously, and the spider webs and man-eating spiders in that area were instantly wiped out.

This action immediately enraged Silu, who was hiding in the shadows.

The spider silk throughout the cave began to vibrate violently, and more puppet merfolk and human-demon spiders surged towards Lingxi from all directions, clearly intending to tear this daring challenger to shreds.

At the same time, Du Shifang was already suspended in mid-air. He opened his dragon mouth, and a golden ball of light containing terrifying dragon spiritual power was rapidly condensing.

Du Chengfeng flew at high speed around the ball of light. He flapped his giant wings, and a series of cyan wind blades, like the most precise carving knives, continuously compressed the violent energy ball inward and compressed it again!

The golden sphere of light visibly shrank, and its color gradually changed from a brilliant gold to a deep dark gold. The energy fluctuations contained within it caused the surrounding seawater to begin to boil.

All eyes were on Hua Yue.

Hua Yue closed her eyes slightly, her consciousness highly focused, sensing the energy flow throughout the spider web.

Under Lingxi's frenzied attacks, countless streams of energy, like rivers flowing into the sea, converged and fed back in the same direction. And at the end of that energy flow, a point was becoming increasingly clear!

That's it!

At the top of the cave, where countless spider webs intertwine, lies an inconspicuous stalactite!

"Now!" Hua Yue suddenly opened her eyes and pointed directly in that direction!

Du Chengfeng was already poised to act. The moment he heard the command, his huge pectoral fins flapped violently, and the dark golden spiritual energy bomb, which had been compressed to the extreme, transformed into a streak of light and shot precisely at the stalactite that Hua Yue had pointed to!

At the same time, Du Shifang spat out a thin stream of dragon flame, which arrived first despite being delayed, and accurately struck the "bomb"!

"boom--!!!!!"

An unprecedentedly loud explosion resounded from the seabed!

A terrifying energy storm swept outwards from the stalactite in all directions! Intense spiritual energy fluctuations were transmitted back along the spider webs, and in an instant, thousands upon thousands of spider silks throughout the cave emitted a blinding light, like lit lamp filaments!

The torrent of light eventually converged on a huge coral fossil deep within the cave, resembling countless human faces twisted together.

"Ugh—!"

A painful yet sharp groan came from inside the huge coral fossil!

found it!

The four exchanged a glance, and without further hesitation, their figures transformed into four streaks of light, rushing straight towards the coral fossil that had made the sound.