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Entrance to Wujia Village.

The peaceful Wujia Village, which was like a paradise during the day, has now been transformed into a blood-red hell on earth.

Moonlight seeped into the clouds, and the entire village entrance was shrouded in a faint, blood-red mist.

The houses collapsed, leaving only ruins.

"weep--!!!"

Amidst the ruins, a colossal creature is wreaking havoc.

It was a giant spider that was over three zhang (approximately 10 meters) in size.

Its tall body is covered with fine, grayish-white down.

Eight eyes, shining like black gemstones, were now flashing a mad crimson light.

Its eight thick spider legs were like iron spears, each gleaming with a cold, eerie light.

"boom--!!"

A spider leg swept across.

The walls of the adobe house were cracked like paper, with tiles and dirt flying everywhere.

The villagers, who were sleeping peacefully inside the house, were stunned by the shrill screams and had no time to escape. They were crushed under the collapsed roof beams and died.

The spider demon opened its mouthparts, revealing two rows of teeth as sharp as solid ice.

One by one, the villagers pierced by the spider's legs were picked up like candy beans and put into its mouth.

"Click—click—"

The sound of chewing bones was particularly jarring in the quiet night, sending chills down one's spine.

With each villager it devoured, the spider demon's aura grew stronger.

The originally almost transparent pale red demonic aura deepened at a visible speed, becoming increasingly thick and terrifying.

"My Lord, why...?"

In front of the ruins of a collapsed house, an old woman, holding a lifeless child in her arms, muttered to herself with bloodshot eyes.

Why has the deity who has protected their Wu Family Village for decades suddenly become like this?

She doesn't understand.

He just stared blankly as the sharp spider legs drew ever closer.

"puff!!"

The old woman and the child in her arms were stabbed through, and the life in her eyes quickly vanished.

"Lord Kami..."

The last words escaped from the old woman's lips.

The spider demon seemed not to hear.

The violent potency of the Bloodlust Powder raged within its body, burning away all its reason.

At this moment, it was left with only the purest instinct to kill.

as well as......

It originates from the very bones of demons—a craving for human flesh and blood.

..................

In the center of Wujia Village, in front of the ancestral hall.

Wu Dehou stood leaning against the door of the ancestral hall, his face ashen, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

The spider demon's shriek caused him, whose strength wasn't particularly high, to have a splitting headache.

The screams and sounds of collapsing buildings coming from afar were like hammer blows, striking his heart again and again.

Why, why is Dream Weaver going crazy?

Wu Dehou couldn't understand why the Dream Weaver, who had protected their village for decades and was older than his father, would suddenly storm into the village and slaughter the villagers she had once protected.

"Village Chief Wu!"

Two dark figures emerged from the darkness and landed in front of the ancestral hall.

It was Qin Yuan and Ma Xuan who had been following Wu Dehou all the way.

At this moment, neither of them looked too good.

Ma Xuan's face was pale, while Qin Yuan was in slightly better condition, but his expression was still grave.

He looked at Wu Dehou and asked, word by word, "Village Chief Wu, what was that shriek about?"

Ma Xuan rubbed his temples with one hand and gripped the heavy hammer in the other, staring warily at Wu Dehou.

Seeing the two men exuding murderous intent, Wu Dehou trembled, his lips quivering before he slowly uttered, "It's...it's Lady Weaver of Dreams..."

"Dream Weaver?"

Qin Yuan frowned deeply: "Explain it more clearly!"

Wu Dehou lowered his head, not daring to meet Qin Yuan's gaze: "Seven...seventy years ago, my grandmother found a snow-white egg in the mountains. After the egg hatched, it was a small spider, which was the Dream Weaver..."

"Over the years, Lady Dream Weaver has been secretly protecting our Wu Family Village."

"In exchange, all we need to do is sleep more."

Wu Dehou quickly recounted the origins of Master Zhimeng and his situation over the years.

As Qin Yuan listened to Wu Dehou's account, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and his voice grew cold: "You actually worship demons!?"

Upon hearing this, Wu Dehou, emboldened by some unknown source, raised his head and looked earnestly at Qin Yuan: "Lord Qin, Dream Weaver is different!"

"She's a good demon! Unlike other demons, she never eats people!"

"For seventy years, she has never harmed a single villager, and even took the initiative to help us drive away other monsters!"

"Lady Zhimeng must have been persecuted by villains. We beg Lord Qin to investigate thoroughly and spare Lady Zhimeng's life!"

Wu Dehou bent down, his forehead touching the ground, his expression earnest.

Qin Yuan fell silent.

As a veteran of the Demon Slaying Division, he had seen and killed countless demons.

In his mind, a demon is a demon, and eating people is their nature. There is no such thing as a "good demon" or a "bad demon".

But Wu Dehou's expression as he spoke, and the tranquility of the villagers during the day, seemed genuine...

Damn, how did a seemingly ordinary new task suddenly become so complicated!

"boom!!"

Just then, the sound of a house collapsing came from afar, pulling Qin Yuan back to reality.

Qin Yuan took a deep breath, suppressing the complex emotions in his heart, and said in a deep voice, "No matter what it was like before, it has gone mad now."

"Demons that eat people should be killed!"

After saying that, Qin Yuan ignored Wu Dehou's pleas and immediately led Ma Xuan toward the direction from which the sound came.

"Dream Weaver... Dream Weaver... Why...?"

Wu Dehou knelt on the ground.

Puzzled voices echoed in the empty ancestral hall.

..................

Wujia Village is not large, and the ancestral hall is not far from the village entrance.

In just a minute or two, Qin Yuan led Ma Xuan to the place where the spider demon "Dream Weaver" was wreaking havoc.

Collapsed houses, shattered rubble, and dirt roads stained with blood.

Each scene made Qin Yuan's heart sink even deeper.

When Qin Yuan arrived, he saw the spider demon pierce a young man's chest with its spider legs, lift him into the air, and put him into its mouth.

"Click—"

The sound of bones cracking was like stepping on ice shards in winter, crisp and cold.

Qin Yuan had witnessed too many scenes of monsters eating people, but every time he saw it, an uncontrollable rage would still surge in his chest.

He reached into his sleeve and grasped a nearly man-sized horse-slaying sword.

The blade gleamed with a heavy, dark luster under the moonlight.

"Ma Xuan, cover for me!"

After speaking, Qin Yuan's internal energy surged in his dantian.

The earth-attribute true energy condensed from cultivating the "Breath of Earth to Generate the Source Dantian Construction Method" spread along the meridians of his arm to the blade, making the already heavy horse-slaying sword even heavier.

Qin Yuan took a step forward, his entire body shooting towards the spider demon "Dream Weaver" like a cannonball.

"Drink it—!!"

The saber was raised high above his head, whistling through the air, and slashed down fiercely at the spider demon's head.

"Thick Earth and Heavy Blade" - The Opening Ceremony!

The saber struck one of the spider demon's legs, producing a dull metallic clang.

Sparks flew everywhere.

Qin Yuan's expression changed drastically.

That powerful and heavy slash only left a shallow white mark on the surface of the spider's leg.

At that moment, the spider demon's compound eyes lit up with a scarlet light.

"weep--!!"

The shriek reappeared.