Chapter 331 Sun Mo’s Students Are Really Strong!
After killing these spiders, their travel through the tunnel ahead was smooth-sailing. There were no longer any obstructions.
The spirit qi roaming dragon floated in the air and wagged its tail. This action made it seem as though it was swimming in the lake at a very fast speed.
“What’s that?”
Zeng Gang and the others were dumbfounded.
This creature resembled a large loach, yet it could actually float in the air. What in the world were they witnessing?
Because they weren’t able to identify it, they all knew it was rare. Hence, everyone understood that this creature was surely a valuable one.
“Baiwu, you should support the rear!”
Li Ziqi gave the command.
It wasn’t that she was exceeding her bounds. Rather, Zhang Yanzong had no time to manage this.
The human-faced spiders almost pissed themselves when they saw that these humans didn’t flee but turned and headed to the broodmother’s cave instead. If the broodmother died, their tribe would be destroyed. Hence, they frantically pursued the humans.
Zhang Yanzong and a few others who were responsible for the rear felt an exceedingly great pressure on them.
Ying Baiwu didn’t hesitate. She turned and rushed over while brandishing her bow, infusing her spirit qi into it.
Bzz~
An arrow formed from spirit qi materialized.
Wing King’s Rage!
Swish
A thick arrow whistled out, directly blasting through the crowd of spiders.
Jiji
The spiders screamed. A moment later, their flesh and blood splattered as their limbs were severed.
“What archery technique is that?”
Everyone was dumbfounded. This attack by Ying Baiwu wiped out over ten large spiders and greatly impeded their speed.
The spiders were suffering a calamity. In such a narrow tunnel, they had no way to flee. Hence, every shot by the iron-headed girl achieved a huge effect.
A few minutes later, Xuanyuan Po roared loudly. “We’ve arrived!”
The tunnel ahead suddenly became broad. It was a much larger cave and after they rushed in, they found themselves in a nest that was about half the size of a soccer field.
The place where the broodmother was located would naturally be spacious and comfortable.
There were thick layers of spider silk here, so thick to the extent where they were like carpets. Luckily, they had been here for tens of years and had lost their sticky properties. If not, the students would have been like moths caught by the web.
In the cave, there was a sack made from piled-up furs, and a large spider was lying within.
Its body was as large as an all-terrain vehicle and was covered in various green-colored patterns. When its mouth opened and closed, sharp sword-like teeth could be seen. The most terrifying part was still its head. It had a multitude of compound eyes, but they didn’t glow green like the other spiders. They were malevolent red instead. Also, there was a human-faced picture on top of its head that resembled a beautiful human female in extreme agony. “You guys, block this area. Zhiruo, Tantai, Xu Dingjiang, the three of you come with me!”
Li Ziqi ran over as she stumbled, doing her best to maintain her balance.
When the broodmother saw the human invaders, it let out a ‘jiji’ screech.
“She is jeering at us!” Lu Zhiruo translated. “Xu Dingjiang, Tantai, impede it to buy time for me, please?”
After Li Ziqi spoke, she started to enter meditation and use the spiritual control technique, attempting to form a mental connection with the broodmother and communicate with it.
Rumble!
A wave of mental impact blasted over, directly causing Li Ziqi’s body to tremble. Her head was wrecked by a splitting pain.
“Eldest martial sister!”
Lu Zhiruo supported the little sunny egg. “I’m fine. You should hide at the side.”
Li Ziqi pushed the papaya girl aside and continued to ‘convince’ the broodmother.
(A tiny human actually dared to try and enslave me?) (Hmph, I’m going to drain you of your body fluids and use your skin as my bedding. Even if you die, I won’t let your soul rest in peace.)
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Xu Dingjiang’s arrows hit their targets, but it was useless as the broodmother’s chitin armor was too strong. The arrows basically weren’t able to penetrate them.
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“No, I can’t hurt it!”
Xu Dingjiang wanted to despair, he was really trash.
“Two more should go over and help them. Baiwu, you should be one of them!”
Zhang Yanzong found the time to glance over and immediately felt a headache. The broodmother was stronger than what he expected. What should they do?
“Group leader!”
Zeng Gang called out. Because of Ying Baiwu’s long-range suppression, the spiders had no way to surge forward en masse. But if she left, the pressure on the others would instantly spike up.
“Shut up!”
Zhang Yanzong took two steps forward and stood at the front.
At this moment, if they couldn’t handle the broodmother, everyone would die.
Tantai Yutang continued coughing. He suddenly took out a pellet the size of a chicken egg and tossed it at the broodmother.
Jiji
The broodmother laughed mockingly. (The puny human wants to kill me by tossing a stone?)
But at the next moment, it could no longer laugh. The pellet smashed into the floor before the broodmother. With a bang, it was crushed and large amounts of green vapor flowed out, engulfing it.
Bzz«
The broodmother exerted force to protect her abdomen and directly leaped up, dashing over ten meters away.
Bang!
The broodmother landed on the ground. Its abdomen softened and the skin grazed the ground. If it wasn’t for the soft spider silk webbing here, her skin would surely be broken and she would bleed.
“What did you do?”
Xu Dingjiang was astonished. He hurriedly evaded the green miasma that drifted over. “Will this thing injure us too?”
“Naturally. It’s impossible for the miasma to differentiate between friends and foe, right?”
Tantai Yutang felt joyful.
“You are grinning?”
Xu Dingjiang shivered despite not being cold. He felt that this sickly invalid was a mad man. He actually used a poisonous miasma in this enclosed space.
Bang!
The sickly invalid tossed another over and struck the broodmother.
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The broodmother got up shakily. This time around, it no longer had the strength to leap and could only crawl away rapidly. Because the miasma emitted by the pellet had numbed its nerves, its body was devoid of strength.
Jiji!
The broodmother screeched. It lifted its head and opened its mouth. Chi-Chi-Chi
Twelve shots of green-colored venom blasted out like shots from a crossbow. However, Tantai Yutang was given ‘special’ care.
Pu!
The venom rapidly melted the spider silk upon coming in contact with the ground. After that, poisonous gas rose, emitting sizzling sounds as the spider silk carpet was corroded.
“Are you not done yet?”
Xu Dingjiang gulped down a mouthful of saliva.
“Don’t disturb her!”
Tantai Yutang warned.
Pu!
Li Ziqi coughed up a mouthful of blood as her face paled.
This type of forceful enslavery would cause a mental backlash to the spellcaster once it failed.
“Group leader, think of other solutions!”
Chu Jian turned his head back and glanced. He wasn’t surprised at such a result.
Broodmothers were intelligent creatures, and their combat and mental strength were both higher than a body-refinement expert like Li Ziqi. How would she be able to enslave a broodmother?
One could say that the Central Province Academy had lost this bet and failed. After failing three times, Li Ziqi gritted her teeth and took out a treasured pearl from her pocket. She bit the tip of her tongue and spat a mouthful of blood on the pearl! Bzz!
The pearl shone with a golden light.
Chi! Chi! Chi!
Another blast of venom shot over.
Li Ziqi hurriedly evaded and she started to mutter the spell words. She mustn’t be distracted. If her reading was cut off half-way, this would end in a failure.
“Careful!”
Tantai Yutang suddenly shouted, but it was too late.
Although the broodmother lunged toward Tantai Yutang, this was just a diversion. Spider silk shot out of its butt and landed on Li Ziqi’s robes. The broodmother then began to withdraw the spider silk, reeling its target in.
Swish
Li Ziqi was pulled toward the broodmother.
The broodmother turned and opened its mouth, preparing to bite this human who dared to attempt to enslave it.
At the decisive moment, Tantai Yutang suddenly rushed over with a dagger and quickly cut the spider silk. After that, he heavily slammed into Li Ziqi’s body.
Bang!
Li Ziqi fell and rolled away.
“Tantai?”
Li Ziqi screamed in fear.
The broodmother’s opened mouth turned to the sickly invalid. Its sharp fangs glistened and began piercing toward him.
“Stop screaming. I, Tantai, will not die in such a place!”
Tantai Yutang still hadn’t given up. Just when the mouth of the broodmother was about to bite off his head, it suddenly stiffened as though it was petrified.
The spiders who were rushing over also suddenly stopped.
“What’s going on?”
Chu Jian turned his head. “Could it be that the broodmother discovered its consciousness and decided to spare us?”
“Maybe it’s a vegetarian?”
Xuanyuan Po, who had always been paying attention to the battle, also felt somewhat curious now.
The others weren’t idle enough to give wild guesses. All of them were panting heavily as though their mortal enemy had just arrived.
“Has it been enslaved?”
Li Ziqi had an astonished look on her face as she looked at Lu Zhiruo.
She didn’t consider the papaya girl to have any combat strength. Yet, she actually managed to enslave the broodmother?
One couldn’t help but say that Lu Zhiruo’s luck was really good. The position she was standing in was an overlooked area. Besides, her body was weak and small, causing the broodmother to treat her as a salted fish with zero threat. This was why the papaya girl had time to use the spiritual control technique.
But no one expected that she had succeeded on her first try.
“How did you do it?”
Li Ziqi was curious. Only after trying it herself did she realize how difficult it was to enslave a lifeform with high intelligence.
The backlash had caused a mental impact that almost reduced her to an idiot.
“I did what Teacher taught us and mumbled the spell words when facing it!”
Lu Zhiruo explained.
“Are you sure you have enslaved it?”
Zhang Yanzong questioned.
“Sit!”
The papaya girl gave an order. Putong
The broodmother lay down.
“Eh!”
Lu Zhiruo sweated, thinking that she failed. However, everyone else heaved a sigh of relief and slumped onto the ground limply.
This time, it was really a close brush with death!
“Luckily, the terrain of the cave made the spiders unable to rush us en masse. If not, we wouldn’t be able to delay things to the point where Lu Zhiruo successfully enslaved the broodmother!”
Xu Jialiang felt a lingering fear.
Naturally, the main point was that Xuanyuan Po was truly strong. He stood there with his silver spear and exuded an aura of one man blocking a pass against 10,000 enemies. The performances of Ying Baiwu, Li Ziqi, and even Tantai Yutang also shocked everyone.
Oh right, there was also Lu Zhiruo who had turned the despairing situation around.
In this rescue operation, the performances of others weren’t bad, but when compared to them, they were clearly much inferior. “The students of Sun Mo are all very impressive!”
Zhang Yanzong sighed ruefully. His confident and arrogant heart was impacted.
“What should we do next?”
Lu Zhiruo asked.
“It’s naturally time for us to return in triumph!”
Tantai Yutang chortled.
After enslaving the broodmother, they now had the chance to get first place in this competition. Most probably, those people who looked down on the Central Province Academy would jump in fright, right?
Chapter 332 Congratulations to the New Student Group from the Central Province Academy, Battle Spoils Obtained!
At a tunnel 50 meters away from the broodmother, Sun Mo’s group and the observer squatted and observed the battle situation through a crystal board. “What is this? We can monitor them in real-time?”
Sun Mo was curious.
The crystal board in the observer’s hands was flat and smooth. Although the scene on it was a little blurry, all of them could roughly see what was happening in the cave. “The Saint Gate has excavated many darkness technologies from the ruins of the Darkness Continent. This crystal board is just one of them.”
Gu Xiuxun explained.
“Can we buy it on the market?”
The current Sun Mo didn’t lack money.
Gu Xiuxun didn’t say anything, but the observer couldn’t control it anymore.
“Stop dreaming. Such darkness technologies are sealed to the outside world, and only us from the observer group can use them. After this is over, we have to return the crystal boards to the Saint Gate!”
The observer explained.
Let alone buying, ordinary people wouldn’t even have a chance to see this.
Sun Mo’s lips twitched. Wasn’t it just a stupid crystal board? What was the big deal? (This daddy had played games on a 10,000 RMB computer less than one year ago and watched adult movies on a 4K HD screen. Have I ever been arrogant?) “Speaking of which, are you not nervous at all?”
The observer felt curious. (Your students are in a life and death situation!)
“We are so close to them and can instantly save them if danger arises!”
Although Sun Mo was unhappy about the observer’s attitude, he couldn’t help but admit that this fellow was impressive indeed, being able to appear and disappear silently. His tracking abilities were also awesome and he was constantly monitoring the battle situation.
“Oh now, Li Ziqi is in danger!”
Fan Yao shouted.
Just when Gu Xiuxun wanted to go over to help, Sun Mo had rushed out.
(Where’s the calmness you showed earlier? So, you are actually more nervous than anyone else!)
“Sun Mo halt. If you continue to run over, I will strip your school’s participation qualification!”
The observer threatened.
“Sun Mo, it’s fine. It’s settled!”
Gu Xiuxun swept a glance at the crystal board and immediately stopped Sun Mo when she saw that the broodmother’s attacks had stopped.
“I needed to pee urgently.” Sun Mo shrugged. “The observer wants to meddle in matters like this as well?”
The observer was speechless. He was so angry that his chest was heaving as he couldn’t fault this ‘explanation’.
Gu Xiuxun was unable to restrain a smile as she mentally mused, ‘your nickname as Black Doggy Sun is truly apt. Your toxic tongue can anger a human to death.’
The observer took out his little notebook and pretended to record something with a straight face, wanting to try and frighten Sun Mo. In the end, when he snuck a glance at Sun Mo, he discovered that Sun Mo didn’t even seem to care.
“Is Lu Zhiruo’s spiritual control technique so powerful?”
Fan Yao had a face filled with shock. After he wiped away the sweat on his forehead, he heaved a sigh of relief. (Damn, if this continues, this daddy’s heart is going to stop beating from fright.) But after that, his face turned to one of joy. He was smiling so widely that it looked like a flower blooming. Earlier, after seeing the human-faced spiders using a battle strategy and surrounding the new student group, Fan Yao was in despair. He felt that the Central Province Academy was going to fail this year. However, he didn’t expect that the students not only didn’t choose to escape, but they even chose to enter the broodmother’s nest instead, wanting to enslave it and to find a chance to live in the face of death……
The courage was truly worthy of admiration!
“The luck of you guys is truly good!”
The observer had nothing to say, but he had to admit that the performances of these students were very awesome. This was especially so for Sun Mo’s students. It could be said that their presence had determined the success and failure of this operation.
If they continued excelling like this, the Central Province Academy had a hope of ascending to the ‘C’ grade this year! “Zhang Yanzong is pretty impressive too!”
Song Ren complimented Gu Xiuxun a little.
“Hehe!”
Gu Xiuxun felt unhappy. Zhang Yanzong was willing to sacrifice himself to bring up the rear. This was very tyrannical, but Xuanyuan Po was doing the same thing as well. Also, he was inferior in the aspect of strategy when compared to Li Ziqi.
If people judged his comprehensive strengths, Zhang Yanzong didn’t really have any flaws. However, he wasn’t outstanding in any areas either.
“You guys should feel content. If I could recruit even one of your students, I would be smiling in my sleep for an entire month!”
Fan Yao felt envy and jealousy.
Who didn’t want good students?
(These students of Sun Mo are all very outstanding, and they will surely display great brilliance in the league tournament. At that time, great teachers would come and headhunt them. I wonder if Sun Mo would be able to keep them?)
Fan Yao felt some worry.
In the great teacher world, great teachers wouldn’t usually headhunt the students of others. However, given how vast the forest was, there would surely be all sorts of birds. There was a small portion of great teachers who wouldn’t follow the rules.
Naturally, they would find a suitable reason and give compensation to smooth things over.
This was like the soccer world. When the rich Manchester United wanted to recruit players, they would definitely poach soccer talents from the other top teams. Dreams of fame weren’t a joke. Some soccer talents were willing to take a pay cut if they could join the big shots.
In the great teacher world, such situations existed as well. After all, if an 8-star great teacher came to poach students, very few of them would be able to withstand such a temptation.
As for 9-star? -
star great teachers didn’t need to poach people because a flood of students would be queuing at their doorsteps. Even if they wanted to select a disciple, they wouldn’t be able to finish selecting! This was simply human nature. Who didn’t aspire to climb higher?
Gu Xiuxun’s expression was filled with gratification and worry. She was afraid she might not be able to make Zhang Yanzong stay.
In the cave, everyone crowded over.
“Can I touch it?”
Shi Qiao looked at the picture of the beautiful female on the broodmother’s head, feeling a strange sense of beauty.
“It’s so ugly, why do you want to do that?”
Zeng Gang didn’t understand. He sat on the ground and panted, almost frightened to death earlier.
“You won’t understand.”
Shi Qiao stretched out his hand, wanting to touch the picture. But before he could do so, he already saw Xu Jialiang lifting his leg and trampled on the broodmother’s butt.
Ji!
The broodmother immediately turned. Its mouth was wide open, wanting to bite and kill Xu Jialiang.
Swish
Everyone hurriedly retreated and arranged themselves in a tight formation.
“Sis spidey, he has no ill intention!”
Lu Zhiruo hurriedly pacified the broodmother.
“What were you doing?”
Zhang Yanzong glared at Xu Jialiang.
“Alright, let’s quickly leave this hellish place!”
Chu Jian urged.
“Wait a minute. Zhiruo, why don’t you ask if there are any hidden treasures around here?”
Ying Baiwu moved toward the papaya girl and whispered in a soft voice.
Since the broodmother knew how to use battle strategies, many humans must have perished before it, being captured and turned into food. Maybe there were some treasures among their items.
Lu Zhiruo immediately moved her hands and legs around and creaked the word ‘Ji~’, conversing with the broodmother.
Everyone was completely dumbfounded. Even a spirit controller wouldn’t communicate with their spiritual beasts in such a manner, right?
“I got it, the treasures are under its throne!”
Lu Zhiruo reported. She then took out a handful of popcorn and passed them to the broodmother. But before it could eat, the little loachie rushed over and finished the popcorn first.
“Throne?”
Everyone subconsciously glanced toward the broodmother’s old nest.
“What are we waiting for?”
Zeng Gang had a look of joy on his face, wanting to rush over. They were going to be rich!
“Wait a minute!”
Zhang Yanzong held him back. “Let me make things clear first. This is a competition. No matter how we split the spoils, no one must have any resentment. If not, I would rather all of us give up on the treasures.
“That’s for sure!”
Several students nodded.
“Zhiruo, you’ve enslaved the broodm……”
“It’s enlisting not enslaving!” The papaya girl interrupted Zhang Yanzong. She would never treat the broodmother as a slave.
The kind Lu Zhiruo immediately gained good will from everyone.
“The battle spoils will be split according to the danger levels we faced earlier. Whoever gave out the most would gain the most. The broodmother is captured by Zhiruo, so she will get the majority share. Li Ziqi came out with the strategy and guided our actions, she will get the second-highest share. Tantai Yutang and Ying Baiwu have impeded the broodmother, and the degree of danger is extremely high. They will get the third-highest share. After that, Xuanyuan Po and I will get the fourth-highest share because we are the main forces in charge of bringing up the rear. After that, the rest of you will split the remaining battle spoils. Any objections?”
Zhang Yanzong spoke, backed with logic.
“No objections!”
The students agreed. Everyone could see for themselves who had saved the situation. Honestly speaking, Sun Mo’s students were truly impressive.
It was unknown how he taught them.
“Oi, Tantai. Is it easy if I want to take Teacher Sun as my teacher now?” Xu Jialiang asked in a small voice.
“What do you think?”
Tantai Yutang laughed. “Stop dreaming, it’s extremely difficult!” Shi Qiao sighed. If they could take Teacher Sun as their personal teacher, how would it ever be Xu Jialiang’s turn?
The broodmother’s throne was shifted away, and there was a large hole underneath. There weren’t many things inside, but they looked quite valuable.
There were gems, spirit stones, herbs, and a few weapons. There were also some bones and some unknown ores.
Everyone exchanged mutual glances. They had no idea what these were.
“Ziqi, can you give us a summary of them?”
Xu Dingjiang smiled obsequiously. Everyone was already used to how learned Li Ziqi was. If they encountered anything they didn’t know, they would ask her first.
“The herb is known as the Hundred Spirit Grass. It can clear your meridians and increase the amount of spirit qi stored in your body. Judging by its size, it should be a 300-year old herb.”
“The weapons are ordinary. Only that short blade is a spirit weapon, but it’s merely a mid-grade one.”
“These ores are worthless and only beautiful in appearance!”
Li Ziqi introduced the main points of the objects.
“By calculating, everything should be able to fetch about 100,000 spirit stones!” “So much?”
Everyone started panting.
JijiThe broodmother clicked its teeth. The papaya girl quickly consoled it and reminded everyone in a low voice, “The broodmother says that these items are her treasure. Whoever touches them should be prepared to be bitten to death by her!”
“Can we ignore the amount of money first?”
Tantai Yutang’s lips curled. “We are still in the middle of a competition!”
“Bring the items along, we will split the shares when we are setting camp tonight!”
Li Ziqi urged.
Just when everyone was packing up the battle spoils, the few unlucky fellows who were unconscious started to wake up.
“Who am I?”
“Where am I?”
“Where’s my wife-in-waiting?”
Peng Kunqi rubbed his head and sat up. There was a look of agony on his face.
“Wife-in-waiting?”
Zeng Gang pursed his lips. (Hmph, as expected of a descendant of a rich clan. Even if he is ugly, he wouldn’t lack a wife.)
“Ah!”
When Wu Jitong opened his eyes, he immediately saw the hairy abdomens of a few large spiders standing beside him. He was so frightened that he directly screamed.
Siiii
Even his pants were wet.
(Am I going to die?) The students from Chongde also woke up and they were extremely nervous. One even grabbed a stone and tossed it at the spiders. That person eventually sank back into unconsciousness by a kick to his head from Xuanyuan Po.
“Everyone from Chongde, we are the ones who saved you. Remember to pay us back this huge favor!”
Li Ziqi smiled. She actually didn’t mind the favor. She only spoke like this because she wanted to anger these fellows. Who told them to look down on the Central Province Academy earlier?
Alright, it was fine to look down on the Central Province Academy. However, the Central Province Academy was her teacher’s school. This naturally mattered then.
As long as something had a connection with her teacher, she wouldn’t allow anyone to look down on it. Otherwise, those who looked down on it should be prepared to pay the price!
“Sa……saved us?”
The students from Chongde had dumbstruck looks on their faces.
[1] Wife-in-waiting: in the past, rich clans would purchase ‘child brides’ from poor families. They would raise the female child, and the female child would be married to their son.
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