After the immortal disappeared

The stone chamber was large and hollow, almost in the shape of a regular oval. There was a table, a few chairs, and two spreads of reeds on the floor.

The tables and chairs were very old, and it was difficult for the spider monsters to find human belongings in the wet swamp.

It was very difficult to find tables and chairs, and there was no need for a bed, so the two of them only had reeds.

In the corner of the stone room, there are piles of medicinal materials designated by Dong Rui.

He walked over and flipped it twice, shook his head and said, "It still lacks a lot of flavor."

The spider demon guard walked in and reported: "It will be delivered later."

Even for them, it takes time to go around the swamp and pick unfamiliar herbs.

Dong Rui sat on the chair and looked around: "What kind of place is this?"

"Bladder." This is what He Lingchuan said.

"Devil's Nest." This is what the spider demon guard said.

One person and one spider spoke at the same time, but Dong Rui didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?"

He Lingchuan rubbed his forehead and suddenly asked the spider demon guard:

"Are you familiar with this cave?"

"Yes." The guard would not lie. "I was born here."

He Lingchuan let out a sigh of relief: "This is the Demon's Nest? The 'Devil's Nest' of the 'Devil's Nest Swamp'?"

"right."

Dong Rui also heard something: "You mean, the entire swamp is named after this cave?" What's so special about this cave?

He Lingchuan caressed the mountain wall.

This texture was truly unforgettable to him: "Zhu Erniang said that the Jiana tribe was wiped out by monsters. The great monsters in ancient times all liked to call 'gods' 'demons'. Therefore, this cave was probably the monster's former lair." ? After Zhu Erniang moved to the swamp, she picked a ready-made one and used it as her residence. "

These words sounded ordinary, but after Dong Rui thought about it carefully, he understood the deeper meaning and couldn't help but feel moved:

"Are you saying that the so-called monsters are gods? Were the Jana tribe exterminated because of the anger of the gods?"

"Anyway, we haven't collected all the medicinal materials yet, so we have nothing to do now." He Lingchuan asked the spider guard, "Does Erniang Zhu live here too?"

"The ancestors live in the heart."

He Lingchuan nodded. From the word "heart", it can be seen that Zhu Erniang knows exactly what the "Devil's Nest" is.

"Can you take us to see it?"

Spider Guard: "Wait for us to report!"

After that, one of them turned and left.

Dong Rui asked He Lingchuan: "What are the codes for 'atrium' and 'bladder'?"

"Your table is at the level of the bladder." He Lingchuan said, "Zhu Erniang lives at the level of the atrium, that's the literal meaning."

Dong Rui looked at him as if what he said was not human. Is this devil's nest named after human organs?

It's okay for the Spider Guard to know, so why does He Lingchuan, the newcomer, also know?

He's going crazy.

He Lingchuan discovered another characteristic of this man besides his bad mouth, that is, he was extremely curious. "I'll tell you after I confirm it for the final time."

After more than a quarter of an hour, the spider guard came back and said: "Follow me, don't wander around."

It seems that Zhu Erniang is also very carefree and is not afraid of others looking at her boudoir.

Now the spider guard led the way, and they took another winding journey, which was further than before.

He Lingchuan memorized the route silently.

After this trip, they discovered that this was the base camp of the spiders, and they could encounter one within a few steps. Some intersections are guarded, or are directly blocked by dense spider webs, so no one can enter.

Soon, the atrium arrived.

This is almost the core of the entire cave. The two people squeezed out of the narrow passage, and their eyes suddenly opened up:

In front of him was a huge cave, seven or eight times larger than the cave where the two of them worked, and more than five feet in height. Every shout was echoed.

There are more fluorescent spores here than anywhere else, growing densely in the rock crevices, illuminating the entire cave as if it were daytime.

Dong Rui glanced around and pointed at the mountain wall, his voice full of exclamation: "This, this?!"

There are several spider demons standing under the mountain wall, each one bigger than the other. The largest and tallest one is over three feet (ten meters) tall!

Even the strong Zhu Erniang looks small and compact in comparison.

Even if they stand there quietly, they still show their power and no one else dares to approach them.

This is the real Big Mac. How many people will be scared to death if it is released?

He Lingchuan knocked his fingers back: "You can't even call me Qiuqiu."

He took the opportunity to count them, one, two, three, four, five. There were only five giant spiders here.

"Huh?" Dong Rui was still immersed in the shock of the visual impact.

"How do you know if you haven't come close?" Zhu Erniang's voice sounded behind the two of them.

It followed me at some point without making any sound.

A body that is larger than a house can actually shrink to one-fourth or one-fifth of its original size, allowing it to walk through narrow passages.

After it climbed out of the channel, it grew back in size, like a fat ball thrown into the water.

In fact, Zhu Erniang's questions are very good.

The several spider monsters standing in a row against the wall have to be handsome and menacing, and the spiders have no eyelids, so they always look like they are glaring at people. They just don't move, so why do you say they are not alive?

He Lingchuan answered like a god: "They have fluorescent spores growing on their joints. If they are still alive, they will be cleaned up at least, right?" If he remembered correctly, spiders are quite clean creatures. It's not like an old turtle can let barnacles attach themselves to its shell.

Zhu Erniang seemed to laugh: "Clever."

This confirmed He Lingchuan's judgment. Dong Rui was overjoyed. He strode over and walked among several spider demons. He knocked here and touched there. He was even more happy than the blue kid who got his beloved toy. ban.

Even Zhu Erniang felt flattered after seeing it: Does this man like it so much?

"These are the remnants of what I shed."

"Ah?" Dong Rui looked at it, then at these giant spiders, "Oh!"

No wonder they all look the same, but in different sizes, like matryoshka dolls.

He recalled what He Lingchuan had said before, pointed to the largest spider slough and said, "Is this your demonic body from ancient times? Seriously, seriously!"

The ancient objects are almost rotten now, let alone the remains of demons and immortals.

Just seeing these few things, he felt that the trip to the Demon Nest was worthwhile.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Erniang's tone suddenly dropped: "The body of the demon is not here."

"ah?"

Zhu Erniang did not explain, but He Lingchuan suddenly understood. He remembered that there were a total of six giant spider sloughs he saw in the spider nest in Panlong's dream. Sure enough, it was not that the dream was wrong, but that Zhu Erniang was missing one.

Where did the largest corpse go?

"That's amazing." The surprise and admiration in Dong Rui's tone finally pleased Zhu Erniang, and he introduced them to the two of them one by one, "This is from the end of ancient times, this is from the early Middle Ages, this is from the middle, this is from the late... "

The closer we get to the present, the smaller the spider slough becomes.

Dong Rui glanced at He Lingchuan and said to Zhu Erniang: "I understand. You took the initiative to entrust your Taoism to the outer shell and shed it together, right?"

Zhu Erniang touched the ground with her sharp front paws: "Exactly."

"Smart, really smart!" Dong Rui gave a thumbs up, "The ancient immortals disappeared from the world because they could not adapt to the increasingly thin environment of spiritual energy. No one else can learn your method."

He Lingchuan said nothing because the sacred bone necklace on his chest became hot again.

Entering the Atrium Cave, the Divine Bone Necklace reacts, indicating that it covets something here.

The cave is empty, only the spider slough is the most conspicuous, so what it wants is Zhu Erniang's shell?

He Lingchuan looked at Zhu Erniang and thought, this requirement of the divine bone necklace is not easy to satisfy.

Speaking of which, how did Zhu Erniang transport such a huge spider slough all the way here, and then stuff it into the narrow passage into the atrium cave?

It seems that it has a secret method.

On the other side, Dong Rui touched the spider slough like a woman touching jewelry. He couldn't put it down and suddenly said to Zhu Erniang: "I take a little bit from each spider slough. It will be of great help in drug development!"

"Seriously?" Zhu Erniang was not happy when she heard that her body was going to be touched. "What's the truth?"

It makes no sense, Dong Rui might become its dinner today.

"Just one bristle!" Dong Rui quickly explained, "The biggest difficulty in developing new medicines for you is that there are too few comparison objects! Although you have many heirs, their cultivation is far behind yours. Qianli, the medicine prepared based on their characteristics may be too weak for you; these spider sloughs come from you, as long as I take out the samples and compare them separately, the difficulty of making medicine will be greatly reduced!"

Zhu Erniang is also well-informed, and what he said makes sense. Moreover, she only picks out one quill from each corpse, so the loss is very small. So it thought for a while, personally took a bristle from each of the five spider sloughs, and handed it to Dong Rui.

After leaving this huge showroom, the Spider Queen personally led the two of them forward and into two small rooms.

Although it is called "small", it is only relative to a showroom.

One room here is the spider queen's residence, and the other is sealed airtight with spider webs.

"here it is?"

"The center of the Demon Nest. I rarely come here, so I might as well seal it off."

The spider queen used her claws to open the web herself, otherwise others would not know how much effort it would take.

There was a thick layer of dust here. After He Lingchuan looked at it, he didn't dare to take a deep breath even though he was shocked.

This stone room is smaller than Dong Rui's workshop, with a stone platform in the middle.

There seemed to be many curtains hanging around the stone platform, but when I grabbed one and looked closely, I found that this thing was actually soft and very elastic, like a rubber band, but more like——

It's more like what He Lingchuan saw in the Chifeng Mine in Panlong's Dreamland, the tendons connecting Yun Gu to the entire mine!

It's just that it has been through for too long, and although it is not corrupted, it has dried up.

"Fortress of Flesh and Flesh." He Lingchuan murmured the name that once made him tremble in fear in his dreams. "The one who ate up the Jiana people was not a monster, but a tormentor!"

No wonder when he walked into this cave, he had the illusion that his nightmare had come true.

It's just true.

Dong Rui frowned: "What is that?" From the moment he entered the cave, he had been asking questions. He seemed to be the most ignorant among the three living beings. He hated this feeling.