CHAPTER 362: CHAPTER 7: CONFLICT ERUPTS

How could this happen?

Watching in disbelief as her pride, the Five-Colored Spider, was defeated in a breath by a lowly Fur Spider, and being overpowered one to five without a struggle, Shalman’s pretty face showed a complex expression, one of disbelief and unwillingness to accept the defeat.

"Are you wondering why my low-level Fur Spider can directly defeat your Five-Colored Spider?" Guo Ziyu brushed the stray hair on her cheek and returned to her previous amiable demeanor with a calm expression.

This woman who seemed amiable had smiles and frowns that made people let their guard down completely, but in the next moment, she could be like a tempest, catching people off guard.

Yue Jinghua couldn’t help but be more cautious. More than the defeat of the Five-Colored Spider, she was curious about the bracelet in Guo Ziyu’s hands. To her knowledge, cultivators like Shalman who walked the great roads, due to the lack of a Summoning Array, could only conceal their tamed Dark Beasts within their Xuan Zhenli.

Beasts like the Five-Colored Spider and Thunder Snake would mostly hide underground, awaiting their master’s unique signal to emerge, inferior to Summoned Beasts.

However, the bracelet in Guo Ziyu’s hand nicely made up for this. With such a bracelet, it was like having a miniature Summoning Array.

Seeing Yue Jinghua staring unblinkingly at the bracelet in Guo Ziyu’s hand, Ximing furrowed his brows.

But Shalman was oblivious to the change in everyone’s expressions, her mind focused on figuring out where her Cultivation Beast fell short compared to that Fur Spider, "I don’t understand, Fur Spiders are just Third-stage Dark Insects, they’re clumsy, slow to react, and difficult to control. Why does your Fur Spider show none of these weaknesses? Could it be that it has mutated? No, it hasn’t mutated, it is clearly a Fur Spider."

"Before answering your question, Miss Sha, tell me first, what did you feed these Five-Colored Spiders during their cultivation?" Guo Ziyu stressed the word "feed," but Shalman failed to catch the nuance in her words.

"Dark Pills, a large number of Third-level Dark Pills," for these Five-Colored Spiders, Shalman even borrowed about one hundred thousand Dark Pills from Yue Jinghua, "Feeding them with Dark Pills is the fastest way for a Dark Insect to grow."

"The fastest growth, but not necessarily the best result. Although this Fur Spider has an ordinary lineage and isn’t a mixed breed, there is one thing: it has followed me for six or seven years, and I have never actively fed it a single Dark Pill. Its food, all of it, was captured by itself, from common Ear Rabbits to the agile Hill Fox, and then the packs of Iron Horned Wolves, and finally its fellow Long-Armed Spiders, and the Killing Flames beasts, its belly has held hundreds of types of Dark Beasts. If I’m not mistaken, the both of you are born from noble families with comfortable means, so you will never understand, under the condition of starving madness, humans and Dark Beasts alike will go mad and explode with astonishing potential," said Guo Ziyu slowly, trying to tell Shalman one thing, a Dark Beast from the greenhouse will never compare to a wild Dark Beast.

Guo Ziyu was also convinced that both Yue Jinghua and Shalman were nothing more than flowers nurtured in a greenhouse.

Shalman’s Five-Colored Spider had too little combat experience and had never devoured other Dark Beasts. They had the most beautiful patterns, but in front of that ugly Fur Spider, they were as fragile as exquisite ceramics.

After hearing this, Shalman fell silent and withdrew her Five-Colored Spiders.

Just like Guo Ziyu said, although she was just a concubine daughter of the Sha Family and had never been valued since she was young, she had also never suffered from hunger or cold, which directly led to her typical wealthy style of breeding spiders.

"Well said, but there is one thing you’ve not made clear. Why would an ordinary Cultivator carry such a ferocious and vicious Fur Spider, and that bracelet of yours is also quite special. I’ve never seen it anywhere else," the youth’s clear voice interrupted Guo Ziyu’s sarcasm.

Guo Ziyu took a subtle breath and slowly looked towards Yue Jinghua, only to see the youth half-leaning against a tree, revealing a set of shining white teeth that were particularly eye-catching.

Guo Ziyu raised her eyebrows, about to speak.

"Bang."

Wood chips flew in the air.

A punch delivered without warning brushed past Yue Jinghua’s ear, the wind from the punch causing Yue Jinghua’s eardrums to buzz.

Where Yue Jinghua stood, there was a Dragon Cypress that was quite common on the ridge of Xuan Beast Mountain. A five-year-old Dragon Cypress had the girth of a child’s waist, yet that casual punch from earlier had blasted away half of the tree trunk, leaving behind a terrifying punch imprint.

The shattered wood chips, sharp as little needles, grazed the right side of Yue Jinghua’s masked face.

Ximing, the culprit responsible for this punch imprint, was shading his face, casting a cold gaze upon Yue Jinghua.

Yue Jinghua’s eyebrows did not even twitch as she dusted the tree debris off her shoulder, "Brother Ximing, had your punch been half a centimeter higher, my head wouldn’t have been much tougher than a watermelon."

"You ask too many questions," Ximing’s figure flickered like a ghost, and he was instantly in front of Yue Jinghua.

"What if I insist on asking?" As she saw Ximing’s fist approaching again, Yue Jinghua shouted, "Sister Zi Qing, your man is attempting to murder your business partner; won’t you stop him?"

While her mouth was clamoring, her feet moved extremely subtly, stepping just into the blind spot of Ximing’s punch.

Guo Ziyu, who had been coldly observing from the side, suddenly let out a ghoulish laugh, "What an interesting person, Ximing, don’t scare our esteemed guest. If you want to know about the bracelet, I can just tell you."

Guo Ziyu stepped forward, looking to hook arms with Yue Jinghua very affectionately.

At this moment, Guo Ziyu was also extremely annoyed with herself for accidentally revealing secrets in front of strangers today, nearly having the matter of the Summon Bracelet interrogated out of her.

The youth before her had a sharp gaze, clearly no ordinary person, and in between Guo Ziyu’s fingers flashed a hint of a chill, carrying an incredibly potent poison.

But no sooner had she touched the back of Yue Jinghua’s hand.

An unprecedented chill penetrated through her skin, deep into her body.

This feeling?

The smile froze on Guo Ziyu’s face, she glanced at Yue Jinghua almost fearfully, and jerked her hand back.

Killing aura, an incredibly intense killing aura.

It surged out from within Yue Jinghua, the Yaksha Killing Flames that the ordinary eye could barely discern, now like a venomous snake spitting out its tongue, stung Guo Ziyu without warning.

In order to hide her unease, Guo Ziyu forced an awkward smile, "Ximing, don’t be impolite, we’re all on the same side."

On the same side?

Ximing and Shalman both were stunned. Since when had they become on the same side?

Could it be that Guo Ziyu and Ximing harbored some special identity?