Chapter 79: Chapter 79: A Desperate Strike

A few minutes later, Wang Wu returned to Lady Spider’s corpse with a calm expression.

A live bear won’t be suffocated by dung; he just used his claws to dig a half-meter deep hole, delivering a bit of warmth to the big tree along the way…

The effect was quite good.

Next, he used a bit of Ice Spiritual Qi to preserve Lady Spider. This was his greatest trophy, and the cost was definitely worth it.

During this time, he also tried to find Lady Spider’s Bone-Transforming Soul-Devouring Needle, but to no avail—it seemed to be hidden inside.

There was no rush for that, as Wang Wu didn’t want to ruin the food; if it wasn’t consumed in time, the Spiritual Qi inside would quickly dissipate.

Time passed slowly, and just before dawn, a sudden downpour startled Wang Wu awake from his sleep. He looked at the tree hollow, which now resembled a curtain of water, utterly confused.

He didn’t know how the Black Spider Race used to shield the tree hollow from rain before, but after the big fire, the branches above were burnt, leaving it exposed to the elements.

As the rainstorm intensified and the water accumulated, he feared that he’d end up being the victim of his own warmth delivery.

Yes, it was almost inevitable.

Fretting endlessly, Wang Wu considered using Ice Spiritual Qi to form an ice barrier above the tree hollow, but who knew how long this rain would last?

It was the peak of summer, and there could be several days and nights of heavy rain.

He didn’t have enough Ice Spiritual Qi to seal the tree hollow.

Dammit, better open a drainage tree hollow!

This truly was a case of the bear’s calculation not matching up to nature’s; he had planned to hide in the tree hollow for a while, enjoying his spoils before leaving nonchalantly, and he didn’t want to open any doors.

“Swipe!”

Popping out two sharp bear claws, Wang Wu continued to bore outward from the pit he had previously started. Swipe, swipe, swipe, the claw shadows flashed, wood shavings flew, and before long, he dug a small tree hollow twenty centimeters deep and thirty centimeters in diameter.

His bear claws were indeed formidable!

But the trunk of this big tree was just too thick.

Based on his earlier estimation, this tree required at least ten people to encircle it, and it might actually be thicker.

Even if we take the ten-person circumference value, the tree’s diameter would still be about five meters.

As it stood, the diameter of the tree hollow he was in was roughly two meters at the top and about three meters at the bottom, so he had to keep expanding the tree hollow.

So, amidst the pouring rain, Wang Wu worked relentlessly, swipe, swipe, swipe.

The water in the tree hollow kept rising, forcing him to accelerate. Finally, when the water had reached over ten centimeters deep, he broke through the tree trunk, and then he widened it to thirty centimeters in diameter.

At that moment, the accumulated rainwater inside the tree hollow gushed out like a dragon emerging from the water.

Indeed, because the tree hollow’s bottom was nearly two meters above ground.

“This terrain is nice!”

A hint of excitement surfaced in Wang Wu’s mind; with some remodeling, this tree hollow could serve as a temporary cave dwelling.

But this thought fleetingly passed, because he knew that was impossible.

He was better suited to roam freely and carefree as a Little Demon; if he stayed here as a regular resident, news might soon reach the ears of that Gray Fox.

Furthermore, the four mighty Demon overlords—Black Spider, Black Beetle, Black Mountain Sparrow, and Armed Wild Bees—all had connections and were backed by powerful individuals. If he thought he could seize their lair and become a power himself, what was he thinking?

“So this heavy rain came right on time, allowing me to linger here for a few more days. Otherwise, I might have had to flee by now.”

Wang Wu mused, while lying down in the tree hollow, getting rained on and half-sleeping, occasionally applying some Ice Spiritual Qi to preserve Lady Spider.

It was pretty good; in such an environment, only 0.3 points of Ice Spiritual Qi were needed to achieve the effect that usually required 1 point.

Time passed slowly from morning until evening.

The heavy rain, as expected, fell ceaselessly. He didn’t know what was happening outside, but inside the tree hollow, the water kept rising, forcing him to keep enlarging the drainage opening, finally stopping when it reached around thirty centimeters in diameter.

By this time, the outside world was already a vast expanse of water.

Wang Wu remembered that around this time last year, there was also several days of continuous heavy rain—like when the White Rat besieged the Fiery Scorpion King.

“It can’t just be a coincidence, right?”

Thinking this, Wang Wu felt a twinge of unease. Despite the entire day passing, his Satiety was still too high to enter Passive Concealment.

Without the tree hollow, or if not for the torrential rain, he would be a sitting duck.

The night deepened, and the rain continued to fall. Wang Wu was already drenched like a drowned rat. To ensure a good preservation environment for Lady Spider, he had already used up 6 points of Ice Spiritual Qi. If this continued, he’d take a loss.

“Wait, something’s wrong!”

Suddenly, Wang Wu leapt up and rushed to the drainage opening. In the next second, he couldn’t help but wail internally. Damn it, the worst thing had indeed happened.

Due to the heavy rain, the river had overflowed, and the water level had risen to the tree’s drainage opening. Earlier, he had been delivering warmth to the fish and shrimp; now it was their turn to ’warm’ him.

“Goodness, last year’s rain wasn’t this bad; there must be at least two meters of accumulated water!”

When he had first dug the drainage opening, he felt assured, but within less than a day, he’d been severely proven wrong.

“I have a feeling my spoils are going to waste.”

Wang Wu glanced regretfully at Lady Spider’s corpse. This thing weighed several hundred kilograms, and if soaked in the floodwaters, it would rot quickly. How much Ice Spiritual Qi could he afford to waste like that?

He took a quick look at his attribute bar. As of now, his body’s satiety was still at 900 points, whereas 700 points was the reasonable limit.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t eat anymore, but he needed to activate his Level 10 Passive Concealment at a critical moment.

“Damn it, wasting food is disgraceful.”

After hesitating for a moment, Wang Wu made up his mind—eat!

The food that goes into his stomach is truly his.

Without any further hesitation, he opened his bloodthirsty mouth and devoured with a frenzy.

Speaking of which, he had considerable experience eating spiders like those Little Demons—the Black Spider was quite fatty, while the Blood Spider was somewhat thin. Only the Grasshopper Spider had a nice balance of fat and lean parts, making it quite delicious.

But this Little Demon whose strength had already reached the Senior Patrol Demon Soldier level—its taste was simply beyond compare.

Delicious, sweet, firm, elastic, with a high return rate.

Wang Wu had only eaten a small portion when his satiety soared straight to 1,500 points, his growth increased by 3% to reach 70%, and the Spiritual Qi he gained amounted to 210 points.

Calculating this way, if he ate the entire Lady Spider, he could gain about 5,000 points in satiety, around 10% in growth, and no less than 800 points in Spiritual Qi.

So, Lady Spider was probably a Ninth-Grade Demon as well.

“I can’t eat anymore; if I continue, I might actually eat myself to death!”

Soon, with great determination, Wang Wu stopped this binge eating, and promptly consumed 200 points of Spiritual Qi to raise his Life Value to 470 points.

Just as he was about to use Ice Spiritual Qi to re-freeze Lady Spider, unprompted, the Lady Spider, which supposedly had long since died, suddenly stabbed a needle into his shoulder—the Bone-Transforming Soul-Devouring Needle!

It wasn’t dead!

It was playing dead all along!

At this moment, Wang Wu was so shocked he almost had an out-of-body experience. He wanted to counterattack but it was too late; the Bone-Dissolving Poison attached to the Bone-Transforming Soul-Devouring Needle started acting rapidly, causing waves of dizziness that made him stumble to the ground, unable to hold on.

Yet Lady Spider did not follow up with an attack. It was also on the brink of death, having been severely injured by the fiery flames that burned away all its limbs, and its core body was frozen by Ice Spiritual Qi, not to mention Wang Wu had eaten quite a bit of it.

This was a long-bottled force that found a slight chance for a desperate strike.

In fact, shortly after it attacked, it died completely.

As for Wang Wu, his problems weren’t severe. Although he swallowed a few mouthfuls of water in the pooled waters, he quickly climbed up, leaning on the tree trunk.

Following that, a line of vigorous information floated rapidly.

“You were struck by Lady Spider’s dying blow.”

“You were wounded by a Ninth-Grade Demon Artifact, the Bone-Transforming Soul-Devouring Needle, receiving 140 points of piercing damage. Due to your 35 points of Defense, you ultimately took 35 points of damage.”

“You were corroded by the Ninth-Grade Bone-Dissolving Poison. Enhanced by the Ninth-Grade Soul-Devouring Needle, this poison’s power greatly increased, delivering you 350 points of bone-dissolving damage.”

“Due to your one-point Bone-Dissolving Poison Resistance, you exempted 10 points of bone-dissolving damage.”

“Due to your ordinary level perfect Spider Poison Resistance, you exempted 15 points of bone-dissolving damage.”

“You ultimately sustained 325 points of bone-dissolving damage.”

“Your Level 10 Healing Talent has been activated…”

——

The damage was still very high. Had this been the previous Wang Wu, he could have been killed instantly.

However, now that his Life Value had reached 470 points, though terrifying, it wasn’t enough to kill him outright!

Wang Wu, groggy, endured the state where he was about to faint for two to three minutes before the dreadful dizziness finally began to ease.

And at this moment, his Life Value had nearly been restored to full.

Nonetheless, the Bone-Dissolving Poison was still stubbornly resisting. This process would still take about a dozen minutes, during which his body would gradually adapt and attempt to generate poison resistance.

Meanwhile, he would still feel very uncomfortable, with symptoms including but not limited to foaming at the mouth, bleeding from all seven orifices, vomiting and diarrhea, and convulsing limbs.

Yet Wang Wu was quite used to it, for he was already very experienced.

Thus far, wanting to build his Negative Resistances, when had he not gone through this?

This was what they meant by ’endure hardships before the battle, so you won’t lose your life in the fight.’

In this Cultivation Realm, if you don’t push yourself, where’s your chance to live?

Over ten minutes later.

As expected, a line of information arrived.

“Due to your Level 10 Healing Talent, your body’s adaptability to the Bone-Dissolving Poison has increased, and you’ve gained a point of poison resistance, currently at (2/25).”

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