While the vampire was still reminiscing about his life, his butler, Melazoff, who was practically the captain of the guards, walked in and went straight to his parents' bedside: "Master."
"What is it?" the lord asked, sitting up.
"That spider monster and the dragon seem to have built their nest in the forest not far from the town," Melazoffie whispered in the lord's ear.
"What did you say!" The lord stared at Melazoff in disbelief.
"Sigh, I was just thinking I'd never see them again," the vampire cried out in his mind as he listened to his father and butler's words.
In the middle of the night, a group of people quietly sneaked into the lord's house. After dealing with the guards, they used magic to infiltrate the sleeping lord's bedroom. Just as they were about to make their move, they suddenly felt a sharp pain in their bodies and collapsed and died the next second. However, due to the magic on their bodies, they did not wake the sleeping lord and his wife and the vampire.
On top of a large tree outside the town, in a wooden house (built by Lu Tianyu using magic).
Spider-Man's eyes glowed red as he looked at the fallen humans. He smugly snorted and said, "My new move is called {Thousand-Mile Eye Curse Evil Eye}. It's an unavoidable, fatal blow launched from several points at an extremely far distance. Even I'm afraid of my own power."
Lu Tianyu stared speechlessly at the self-absorbed Spider, then burrowed his head into the warm blankets. He wanted to sleep, completely ignoring Spider's delusional behavior.
Chapter Thirty-Four: The Minister of Body Management is Forever a God
The lord, just waking up the next morning, found a pile of people lying flat in his room. He summoned his butler, Melazoffy, who, after having the bodies removed, ordered him to increase patrols around the house and investigate who had sent these elves.
Meanwhile, in a treetop cabin in the forest outside the town, Lu Tianyu, who had just gotten up, turned to look at Spider, who was eating fruit: "Last night, when you were tracking that thug you deliberately left behind, did you find anything?"
"It's an elf, an elf!" The spider, having finished the fruit in its hand, complained with a look of utter disillusionment, "I never imagined that the thug's girlfriend would be an elf. The impression of elves is that they are a noble race that loves nature, but the elves in my world don't even have a trace of nobility in them."
After listening to Spider's complaints, Lu Tianyu thought of the elves in his world. Well, they were just as bad as slaves.
"Tianyu's attack on the vampire bandit gang earlier seems to have put him in cahoots with the elves. It appears their targeting of the vampires is also due to the reincarnations," Spider analyzed, looking at Lu Tianyu.
"After all, your teacher is a total traitor. Although she initially only wanted to save her students, she ended up with a major villain," Lu Tianyu shrugged, speechless at Spider-Man's naive and innocent teacher.
"By the way, Spider, when you beat up your mom, didn't your grandma, Ariel, come to beat you up?" Lu Tianyu looked at Spider curiously.
"Hehe, I sent the Body Manager over there by following the spiritual connection between my mother and the Demon King's clan," Spider said shrewdly.
Looking at the smug Spider, Lu Tianyu, the "Body Minister," never expected that in the end, even the Demon Queen Ariel couldn't escape the Body Minister's clutches and was destined to become a silly goose. The Body Minister is forever a god.
"It seems the Demon King is coming back this time," Lu Tianyu said, stroking his chin. "I'll hold Ariel back while you go and collect experience points to evolve."
"Sigh, but Ariel is no longer hostile towards me. After the Body Minister went there, I think we merged quickly because our strengths were about the same." Spider-Child observed from the Body Minister's perspective: "Right now, Ariel is shouting a bunch of cringey skill names, having just easily defeated the oldest earth dragon, and she's standing in front of it saying, 'Such a big head, I'd better eat it all up. Leftovers are part of my rules.' That's about it."
Lu Tianyu was shocked after hearing this. The Minister of Body Management was truly a god; he had transformed the cautious and aloof Ariel into a silly, gluttonous demon queen, and what's more, she had even lost all her hostility towards Spider-Man!
"Alright, let's do our best today and wipe out all the thieves!" After telling Lu Tianyu the untold story of his body minister and Ariel, Spider slowly walked out of the treehouse and began to use his magic eye to indiscriminately kill the thieves.
Lu Tianyu watched Spider, who was reaping experience points from thieves like he was clocking in for work. After thinking for a moment, he realized he didn't have anything to do, since he didn't need experience points, so he turned around and went back to the wooden house, intending to practice the top-level Taoist foundation-building technique {Eight Consciousnesses Returning to Origin Method} that Senior White had passed on to him last time.
This Taoist foundation-building method differs from Song Shuhang's. It uses meditation, introspection, and mantras to move one's own Qi and blood and open the mind's orifices.
Lu Tianyu sat cross-legged on the bed, forming the Daoist hand seals as instructed in the Foundation Establishment Method, calming his mind, and introspecting his truest 'self'. The exceptionally talented young man saw his 'true self' formed in his sea of consciousness, or, in cultivation terms, his sea of awareness, as soon as he sat down.
Its entire body was covered in sacred silver-gold scales, its powerful form radiating an immortal light. A pair of broad, elegant dragon wings were slightly spread on its back, and atop its head were nine small golden horns forming a crown-like shape. Each scale was as if meticulously crafted from the most sublime and beautiful material in the world.
This is my true form. As expected, I'm still as handsome and charming as ever.
After briefly indulging in his own beauty, Lu Tianyu began to calm himself. He started silently reciting the mantra from the {Eight Consciousnesses Returning to Origin Method}:
If your heart is pure and clear, you will not be alarmed even if the sky falls.
Amidst constant change, one remains steadfast, with a tranquil and serene spirit.
Forget yourself and guard the One, and the six senses will be greatly calmed.
With a mind free from hindrances and an intention free from attachments.
Release the mind and spirit, and you will find no soul.
When the spirit is pure and unified, the vital energy dissipates.
The water flows without disturbing my heart, the clouds drift without slowing my mind.
With a mind free from worldly desires, one can find true freedom throughout history!
As soon as he recited the mantra, Lu Tianyu hurriedly followed the instructions on the {Eight Consciousnesses Returning to Origin Method} and began to guide the powerful Qi and blood in his body, which had been flowing from birth, to his heart.
Guided by his true self, Lu Tianyu's powerful qi and blood surged from all directions around his heart.
As this process unfolded, the powerful Qi and blood within his body began to flow into his heart. Lu Tianyu felt a warm sensation in his heart, and his heart began to beat strongly in his chest.
The pounding of a heartbeat emanated from the hut where Lu Tianyu was. The birds and beasts of the entire forest scattered and fled the moment the sound rang out, but by the second pound, all the birds and insects in the sky had exploded. With the third pound, all the beasts that had been running collapsed, coughing up blood, and died.
Sensing this situation, Lu Tianyu, who was immersed in his first cultivation, set up a barrier around himself. He did not expect that his first cultivation of the Heart Aperture would cause such a big commotion just from the powerful heartbeat at the moment of successfully opening the Heart Aperture. Fortunately, he was in the forest and he was quick to react, otherwise the town where the vampire lived would have been destroyed.
She had just finished collecting her humanoid experience points outside and was lying in the sun, munching on an apple and observing the vampire spiders, when she suddenly felt a surge of blood energy coming from Lu Tianyu's room, followed immediately by a heartbeat. The apple she was holding exploded in her face, and she looked at the cute fruit she had just found, which she had only taken a bite of, and the pile of other fruits that were gone.
Spider sensed that Lu Tianyu had finished his cultivation, kicked open Lu Tianyu's door, and looked at Lu Tianyu sitting cross-legged: "Pay up!"
"Huh?" Lu Tianyu opened his eyes, looking at Spider with a question mark on his head, and suddenly noticed the juice and crumbs of fruit on her hands and face. He also noticed there was a lot more behind Spider.
"I'm sorry, Lord Spider. I admit my mistake and will make amends immediately." Knowing he was in the wrong, Lu Tianyu sincerely apologized and took out some spiritual fruits from his spatial ring to give to Spider.
Time passed slowly as Spider-Zip clocked in and out every day, harvesting the inexplicably appearing humanoid thieves (we were spies, elves. Just pretending to be thieves, not real thieves, our last act of defiance). Lu Tianyu, meanwhile, cultivated under a protective barrier. During this time, Lu Tianyu successfully achieved the Rank 2. It took a week, one aperture per day. As for why it took a week, it was because the cultivation day was the fifth day of the lunar month, and he didn't want to cultivate on weekends, so he spent his time chatting in the group watching Spider-Zip's monster hunts.
Because Spider-Zoo only targeted thieves during this period, and the lord's wife believed that Spider-Zoo, who saved them, was a messenger sent by the goddess, the whole town was spreading rumors that Spider-Zoo was a divine beast.
Chapter Thirty-Five: The Divine Beast Master Spider and the Divine Beast Envoy Lu Tianyu
The lord's house, study.
The lord looked at the flyer that introduced the Spider-Beast and said it was a messenger of the Goddess, and it even had a picture of the Spider-Beast on it.
"What is this?!" He threw the flyer down, staring at Melazoff, who was both butler and head of the guards.
"The number of thieves has increased, and kidnapping incidents are frequent, but thanks to that spider monster, these phenomena have subsided across the entire area," Melazoffy explained.
"Was it done by that spider monster?"
"I'm afraid so"
The lord, feeling a headache coming on, covered his face with his hands: "My wife went into the street and said that the monster was a divine beast, and the people have started to believe it is. She completely ignores how worried I am."
Melazoff looked at the lord, who was troubled by this matter, and asked, "No matter what, it is a divine beast, but it is still a monster that escaped from the Great Labyrinth of Elro. The Kingdom of Oz fears it as the {Labyrinth Nightmare}. And that unknown monster that claims to be a dragon, it is most likely from there as well."
The lord looked at Melazoff, his face grave: "I heard it blasted the Oz Kingdom's fortress to smithereens in an instant. That dangerous S-class Gundam must be about the same size."
"But judging from the fact that it only targets thieves, it's quite intelligent. Besides, that being who called himself a dragon saved us; maybe we can negotiate with it," Melazoffy analyzed.
"High intelligence doesn't equate to the ability to communicate. Are you confident you can communicate with those lunatics from the Divine Word Cult?" the lord retorted, looking at Melazoff.
"Uh..." Melazoff looked at the lord with disbelief.
"Something terrible has happened!" a guard rushed into the room and reported to the lord and Melazoffi.
"What's wrong? Why are you so flustered?" the lord asked, looking at the panicked guards.
"A nightmare saved a critically ill patient," he said with an incredulous expression.
"What exactly is that spider trying to do?" the lord asked helplessly, looking out at the forest where the spider was.
Just half an hour ago, our Spider, after thoughtfully providing a one-way ticket to all the thieves in the vicinity, looked towards the lord's manor and said to Lu Tianyu beside him, "The lord still seems to think we two are in danger. Well, after all, we are demons. But the lady seems to be quite friendly to us. Apparently, in the Goddess Cult that this town worships, spiders are sacred beings, and there is even a divine beast who was once a messenger of the Goddess."
"Spider, your grandma has the title of an ancient mythical beast, and you're her granddaughter, so it's not wrong for you to be the goddess's mythical beast," Lu Tianyu teased with a chuckle.
"It seems so," Spider thought when he heard Lu Tianyu say that, since the Demon King was now one of their own (the Minister of Body is forever a god).
"Someone's here, looking for your Spider," Lu Tianyu said, looking at the woman carrying a child as she approached from under the tree.
The woman holding her child looked at the spider and pleaded, "My Lord Divine Beast, please, please save my child!"
"Go ahead. After you save him, your reputation as a divine beast will spread, and that fat pig will come." Lu Tianyu looked at the woman holding the child below. Although he could decide the fate of thieves and humans about to become Spider-Men without batting an eye—since they had chosen to stand against him—he only needed to eliminate enemies without mercy. However, he could also coexist peacefully with ordinary people and become friends. He never felt that those weaker than him after becoming stronger were ants.
In his past life, he was just a simple homebody. Although he's no longer human in this life, he's quite harmonious with everyone except his enemies, and he's even a bit silly. There's no need to pretend to be high and mighty; he's not a show-off, that's too tiring.
The spider flew down from the tree and walked up to the woman. Seeing the spider approach, the woman took a step back in fright, but thinking of her child, she stepped forward and looked directly at the spider. (Great maternal love)
Spider looked at the woman who walked forward, nodded, and looked directly at the little boy in her arms.
"Liver cancer," Spider-Man exclaimed in surprise, looking at the little boy. "He's still so young. Is his family so poor that he ate something strange?" He looked up at the woman gazing at him expectantly and realized she, too, had a lot to hide.
"Please," the woman pleaded again, looking at the spider.
The spider raised its left claw and cast a healing spell on the two of them.
A flash of green light appeared, and the little boy in the woman's arms woke up. The woman also felt as if her body had been reborn.
The woman quickly bowed and thanked them with her child, taking out her most precious food, an apple, from her backpack.
"A thank-you gift? Great! Good deeds are rewarded!" Spider happily accepted the apple and said to them, "Take this as a lesson. From now on, pay attention to your daily routine and make sure your meals are nutritionally balanced."
This sentence was translated to them by Lu Tianyu, who had just flown down. Otherwise, the spider couldn't speak human language, and to them it would just be a "squeak squeak squeak" sound.
The two bowed to Spider and Lu Tianyu again and said, "Thank you so much, Divine Beast Lord and Divine Beast Messenger," and then left with the little boy.
The next day, after learning that the spider had healed the mother and her babies, the entire town confirmed that the spider was indeed the divine beast. Early in the morning, a large group of people came to worship her. The area under the tree was filled with people praying to the spider.
"My divine beast, what a beautiful day this is!" an old woman said devoutly, kneeling before the spider.
And so the name of the Spider Beast spread to various countries.
Inside the lord's manor, in the lord's room at this moment.
"What Oz Kingdom? They've lodged a protest?" the lady asked, looking at the lord.
"Let us hand over the spider monster and that other monster, claiming ownership as theirs," the lord said, looking at the letter in his hand with an absurd expression. "That's ridiculous. What kind of ownership do wild monsters have?" He then crumpled the letter into a ball and threw it on the ground.
"Why did they bring up this idea?" the wife asked her husband, puzzled.
"The fortress of the Kingdom of Oz was destroyed by that spider demon, also known as the Labyrinth Nightmare. The demon beside it was probably involved too. They must be punished for this!" the lord said angrily.
The vampire beside him, watching his exasperated father, recalled the words he had just heard and thought of the spider-like creature and Lu Tianyu, who had killed all the thieves with a single sentence: "They are indeed very dangerous. For some reason, people call them divine beasts and divine beast messengers. People from other countries come in droves, constantly seeking to talk to my father. Some ask to be sold, while others inquire whether they pose a threat."
The woman looked at her husband and asked, "What was your reply?"
"I can only keep explaining sincerely, telling them that it's not our country's business," the lord said helplessly.
"Master, we have a guest!" a maid called from outside the room.
"No guests today, send them home," the lord replied, annoyed.
"It won't take long, it'll be ready soon," the guest said, opening the door himself and introducing himself, "I am the chieftain of the Elven race, my name is Bodimas."
Chapter Thirty-Six: The Fatty's Messenger Arrives, Delivering a One-Way Ticket
The lord turned to look at the elven chieftain, and quickly stood up, looking at Bodimas and saying, "Chieftain of the Elven race?"
"I apologize for the sudden visit," said Bodimas, looking at the lord who stood up to greet him.
"Not at all, we didn't expect the chieftain to come in person." He extended his hand and shook Bodimas's hand. "We are honored."
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