Alone and Infinite.

Chapter 31 Destroying the Giant Spider (Please continue reading)
To go or not to go?
Without much hesitation, Li Xia changed direction and headed towards the location marked on the minimap.

It has a map, specific location, and directions; it's almost perfect. If you don't even dare to take the risk, then there's no need to stay in the hall.

Li Xia suddenly remembered something and took out a compass from her emergency kit.

Logically, a compass should point south using the Earth's magnetic field, but since Middle-earth is not Earth, it shouldn't be usable.

But this compass isn't equipment, yet it can still be brought into the world. Who knows if the products from the Temple of Light contain any black technology or black magic?

Under Li Xia's gaze, the pointer wobbled up and down, sometimes turning into an electric fan as if it were powered on, but it was clearly unusable.

Great, now we have another advantage.

Unless you're actually deep inside, it's hard to believe that such a vast, dense forest isn't flat, but rather has uneven elevations and bottomless ravines.

Sometimes you even need to climb up the branches to get to the broken soil layer, and more often you have to be very careful of the occasional 'crack'.

This place was once a flat highland, but it sank under Morgoth's curse.

The once lush and vibrant 'Great Green Forest' has been transformed into a strange, dense forest filled with shadowy power and inhabited by monsters.

Carefully parting a drooping vine, a clod of earth slid and rolled down into a bottomless crack at my feet.

Li Xia slowly exhaled, but did not immediately inhale. Instead, she carefully watched the path beside her feet.

A burning pain shot through my lungs, but after getting used to breathing air, this pain from oxygen deprivation became commonplace.

Based on previous experience with the 'Shadow Power' attack, the dazed state usually occurs when you take a breath.

After crossing the dangerous ravine and reaching a more spacious area, he used breathing techniques to take a deep breath.

The putrid air rushed into Li Xia's abdomen, and he felt a buzzing in his head. The scene in front of him flickered rapidly like a faulty slideshow before the strange sensation gradually subsided.

However, this was the last dangerous part of the journey. With a slightly excited heart, Li Xia climbed over the strangely growing, collapsed branches that lay between two trees.

He felt like he had discovered a hidden treasure while playing a game; no, the feeling was even stronger and more direct at that moment.

Without even looking, Li Xia spotted the round cocoon hanging from the branch in front of him, wrapped in spider webs.

However, this place seemed to be an invisible dividing line, and the entire dark forest seemed to turn white, with dark gray spider webs covering almost everything in sight.

Countless cocoons were suspended, like the fruits of this strange forest.

The bright cocoons were right next to those 'fruits'.

After thinking for a moment, Li Xia picked up a rotten branch from the ground and threw it forcefully toward the cocoon, which was more than ten meters away.

The white spider web rippled gently like ocean waves, and soon, accompanied by a rustling sound, a spider, about half the size of a person, swiftly swung its claws and crawled along the web.

It searched suspiciously at the center of the vibrating spiderweb, its disgusting four-lobed mouth opening and making a 'click-click' sound.

The relevant data was immediately displayed in Li Xia's monocle.

[Giant Spider's Combat Strength: 3]

An adult's combat power is only around 2, so this spider, which is half the height of a person, has such a high combat power rating, which is probably related to its venom.

After watching the spider come up empty-handed, Li Xia slowly left. A few minutes later, he picked up the stone on the ground again, but this time he used much more force than before.

The white spiderweb trembled. There were five or six spiders this time, circling the stone they had thrown, clicking their mouths in confusion.

Finally, the spiders seemed to get angry, and one of them nudged the stone, throwing it off its web.

Before they left, Li Xia picked up another stone and tossed it in her hand.

"Hiss—" A huge amount of air was drawn into his mouth.

Li Xia used all her strength to throw the stone in her hand at the spider.

The stone, accompanied by a terrifying whooshing sound, transformed into a white streak and struck the spider.

The spider, half a person's height, shattered without warning, spraying out a disgusting, viscous green liquid. Its limbs twitched unconsciously a few times before it fell from its web. [You have slain the Corpse Giant Spider, gaining a 0.2% chance of transcendence.]

There's even a reward? Li Xia's gaze fell on the somewhat flustered giant spiders, and for a moment, symbols seemed to appear above their heads.

That is the opportunity for them to transcend their value.

More spiders swarmed in from all directions until the web was completely covered with them, clicking their four-lobed mouths as if they were having a heated discussion.

More than twenty of them—these must be all the giant spiders in the vicinity?
Li Xia had assumed that there would be hundreds of giant spiders, given their incredibly high reproductive rate, but then he realized that in a resource-poor place like the Dark Forest, giant spiders couldn't possibly reproduce excessively.

Hiking boots crunched on the fallen leaves and branches, and a jet-black spear appeared out of thin air in an open palm.

The giant spiders suddenly stopped clicking and turned towards this spot.

With a flick of his wrist and deft manipulation of his fingers along the shaft of the spear, Ye Ji obediently drew circle after circle.

The "click-clack" sound of the four-lobed mouth striking each other was like the sound of dense rain, echoing throughout.

Li Xia stood with one hand holding a gun, in a neutral stance, the tip of the gun pointing diagonally at the ground, exuding an elegant killing intent.

"Come!"

The giant spiders trembled with excitement at the discovery of the delicious humans, and the clicking sounds grew more and more frequent, turning what started as a light drizzle into a continuous chorus.

They emitted strange hissing sounds, their eight long, segmented limbs thrashing about as they lunged straight at Li Xia.

"A spear is like a waist lock; if you can't penetrate the spearhead, then the spear is useless!" The old masters' solemn words seemed to echo in my ears again.

Li Xia's gaze swept quickly around the approaching spiders, and he had already raised his spear to his waist.

Faced with the spider lunging forward, he simply straightened his wrist, straightened his shoulder, twisted his waist, and gently extended his hand to present the gun, as light as a breeze. But as his arm was about to be fully extended, the muscles in his arm tensed up completely, and a terrifying force was unleashed.

The spear tip seemed to come alive, darting forward like a serpent before swiftly retracting, its speed so fast it was as if it had remained stationary the whole time.

The giant spider let out a painful hiss and fell onto the withered leaves, its eight legs curled up, and thick, foul-smelling green liquid spurting from its pierced mouthparts.

Li Xia seemed not to notice, only slightly adjusting his direction, his spear flashing forward before quickly retracting.

In this small open space, it was like pear blossoms blooming with a cold, gleaming light.

For two months, Li Xia spent almost all his free time practicing spear thrusting. He had never been so diligent or devoted to it before.

Having discarded all distractions and focused solely on that pure self, he gradually improved and surpassed his previous self. He seemed to have truly become the peerless genius that Master Qi had described.

Now was the moment of truth. Li Xia's gaze sharpened, and with a slight exertion of his right hand, the spear traced an arc from bottom to top, striking the spider that was swooping down from the air squarely.

The soft abdomen offered no resistance to the spearhead, piercing in as easily as a hot knife through butter, without any hesitation.

"laugh----"

The air surged within his body, and Li Xia exerted force with both arms, wielding a sledgehammer like a hammer, and smashed the spider away. The spider let out a piercing scream and flew backward, smashing the spider that was about to pounce into two limp corpses.

"call----"

The hiking boots strode over the spider corpses scattered on the ground without stopping, and walked up to the shiny spider cocoon. With a flick of the spear, the spider cocoon fell to the ground and rolled limply a few times.

The corpse, now reduced to nothing but skin and bones, was revealed, and a ring on its hand emitted a faint glow.

You have gained the opportunity for transcendence: 5%

You have obtained the Mithril Ring.

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1. Monthly pass 2. Recommendation vote

(End of this chapter)