Douluo: A Century-old Legend I Am the Second Uncle Chenxin

Chapter 1868 Spider-Woman

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The night was deep. Although it was an underground fortress, all the lighting equipment in the warehouse courtyard—glass gas lamps, incandescent crystal clusters, and even floating neon mother-of-pearl lights—had been turned down to the lowest brightness or simply turned off. Only a few "black oil torches" stuck in the corner of the passageway emitted a dim, flickering light, barely dispelling the heavy shadows in the corner of the courtyard wall.

The air was filled with the damp, cold air unique to the underground, mixed with the faint smell of burning black oil and the earthy smell.

Inside a room, the pretty woman (registered name "Qingluo") quietly opened her eyes in the darkness, her pupils adjusting to the dim light in an instant.

She propped herself up, her gaze like that of a cautious nocturnal animal, slowly sweeping over the other seven sleeping "roommates" on the earthen bed.

They huddled on the earthen bed covered with a thick layer of "shade moss" (a type of fern that grows on the edge of underground rivers, with tough fibers that effectively insulate against the cold air from the ground), breathing evenly, clearly already fast asleep.

Even in summer, the underground fortress remains damp and gloomy.

After confirming that everything was correct, "Qingluo" deftly parted the warm, shady moss beneath her, and her fingers briefly explored along the edge of the pit, touching a small, cold, and hard object.

She pried it out, and by the faint light of the torches shining through the window, she could see that it was a uniquely shaped bone key.

She precisely inserted the key into the hole on the side of the soul power shackles on her wrist, and deftly twisted and pulled her wrist.

"Click."

A very faint click of a mechanism was amplified by the silence.

The shackles came off with a click and slid onto the thick moss without making a sound.

She silently slid off the earthen bed, her bare feet stepping on the cold, rough stone floor. Without pausing, she walked straight to the closed door.

Before opening the door, she glanced back one last time at her seven roommates sleeping soundly on the earthen bed, her eyes filled with complex emotions. She was leaving, which might be detrimental to them.

He then took a deep breath, opened the door just wide enough for one person, slipped out, and gently closed the door behind him.

Just as the door closed, the person on the earthen bed near the door tucked in the earthen pit twitched their eyelids slightly and then opened their eyes a crack.

Those eyes darted around in the dim light, saw "Qingluo," and then closed again after a moment, as if they had never woken up, their breathing still steady.

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The light in the courtyard was dimmer than inside the house, and the tall courtyard walls cast distorted shadows under the flickering torches.

The air was cold and silent, with only the occasional soft footsteps of patrolling guards coming from the distant passageway.

As soon as "Qingluo" stepped out, her eyes flashed like lightning as she quickly scanned her surroundings. The five-meter-high courtyard wall looked particularly oppressive in the night.

Without hesitation, she moved like a ghost, skimming along the ground, her target clearly set on the west side—the huge gap that had been blasted open by Ma Liang's Phoenix Heavenly Blade during the day.

Although Zhu Wuneng later directed the construction of a temporary barrier about three meters high using rubble, it was far from a perfectly sealed city wall.

She lightly touched the protruding rocks with her toes and leaped up to the top of the pile of stones as nimbly as a cat.

Standing at the breach, she cautiously scanned the inside and outside of the wall again. After confirming that no one was nearby, she jumped down without hesitation.

It landed without a sound!

Without stopping, she determined her direction and ran as fast as she could towards the north—the direction where the defenses of the fortress facing south were relatively weak and only about 700 meters from the city wall!

As long as she follows the passageway, passes through this area, and approaches the city wall, she will have a great chance of escaping, given her martial spirit and strength!
However, after running less than twenty steps, a fierce and extremely powerful wind, carrying a chilling aura and a metallic whistling sound, swept in from the darkness on the side without warning!

At the same time, a calm yet slightly mocking middle-aged man's voice suddenly rang in her ear: "Young lady, it's the middle of the night, and you want to leave without even saying hello? Do you think our Chen family hasn't been hospitable enough?"

"Damn it!" Alarm bells rang in Qingluo's mind, and she cursed under her breath.

The fact that her opponent could intercept her path so precisely and launch an attack so silently meant that their strength far surpassed hers. In that life-or-death moment, her footwork suddenly became ethereal and unpredictable—it was her family's secret movement technique, the Luo Yan Step, which made her famous!

In a perilous moment, a sharp black gust of wind grazed the hem of her clothes, the force of which stung her skin.

But the attacks didn't stop!
Having missed its target, the middle-aged man in the darkness swung his dark, ominous, sharp-metal-like longsword once more.

Brush brush!
Several equally jet-black sword gusts, tearing through the air, silently yet swiftly pursued Qingluo, sealing off all her space to dodge in all directions.

The sword wind was almost completely invisible in the dim light!

"So fast! So tricky!" Qingluo was shocked.

In times of crisis, she held nothing back!

"Martial Soul Possession!" A low shout rang in her heart.

hum!
A layer of crystalline, deep, dark green light instantly spread from her body, covering her entire body.

Her eyes suddenly lit up with a ghostly green light in the darkness, instantly activating her powerful night vision and perception far surpassing those of her peers.

Under this "night eye"-like insight, the trails of those deadly black sword winds were finally captured with a trace.

She twisted her waist at an incredible angle, her toes barely touching the ground, and her body dodged several times in that small space.

Puff puff!
Several sword gusts grazed past, slamming heavily into the walls and ground on either side, leaving deep cracks and debris that made a dull but clear explosion in the silent night!

"who?!"

"There's movement! A breach in the west!"

"Quick! Turn on the lights! Blow the whistle! Signal an alarm!"

The sound, heard in the quiet night, immediately alerted the several Imperial Guards on duty at the gate of the warehouse compound.

They reacted extremely quickly, shouting loudly while blowing the sharp bone whistles hanging on their chests without hesitation!

"Beep—beep beep—!"

The piercing whistle cut through the night sky like an alarm!

Immediately afterwards, the lighting devices in the warehouse courtyard and nearby passageways were quickly activated.

The "blue phosphorus crystal lamps" hanging on the wall lit up one after another with a cool blue light, while the "blazing fire crystal clusters" embedded in important nodes also burst out with a bright orange light, instantly illuminating the area near the western opening.

The pursuing Imperial Guards rushed out from around the corner. Under the lamplight, they could clearly see a middle-aged man with a tall and straight figure, dressed in the distinctive uniform of the Xuanlin Guards, standing with his back to them. He held the Ghost Gold Soul-Splitting Sword, which shone with a dark metallic luster, steadily in his right hand, with the tip of the sword pointing diagonally at the ground.

About ten meters ahead of him, a woman shrouded in dark green soul power was frantically dodging and weaving among various obstacles.

Even more terrifying was that she suddenly extended eight thick, menacing foot spikes covered with dark chitinous carapaces and sharp, spear-like tips!

Four of her spurs are firmly attached to the wall or the ground, supporting her to climb and jump in ways that are far beyond what is possible, making her seem to be "flying over walls"!
Its martial spirit form was fully revealed—an extremely rare spider-like beast martial spirit that combines power and agility!

"It is an adult!"

"Assassin! Seize that Spider Woman!"

As soon as the Imperial Guards realized the situation, they roared and surrounded the fortress, while more whistles and shouts rose and fell throughout the fortress.

(End of this chapter)