Lu Liangsheng rushed out of the cave, the sunlight shone into his eyes and his vision became wider. An old donkey flapping its ears nearby heard footsteps, and while chewing grass, it raised its head and saw its master standing at the entrance of the cave. It hummed and barked twice, then ran over excitedly, imitating a woman in a black dress and rubbing its long mouth on the scholar's thighs.
"Where is Cheng'en?" Lu Liangsheng glanced around and asked the old donkey who was having fun. The old donkey blinked his donkey eyes, turned around, and pointed his head in one direction and moved it up and down.
Over there, under the branch of an old pine tree, a white cocoon was hanging and swaying from side to side, as if something was struggling inside.
The connected silk thread was broken with a "snap" sound by the flying stone. The moment the white cocoon fell, Lu Liangsheng caught it in mid-air and gently put it on the ground.
When the scholar touched the texture, he knew what it was.
"Spider silk."
His index finger lit up a flame and wiped the upper part. The layers of dense spider silk broke when they came into contact with the fire. After removing the upper circle, Wang Banxia's head was revealed, gasping for breath.
Feeling that the master was beside him, he suddenly cried out.
"Master, why did you come out just now? A monster with many legs came outside and almost ate me..."
A monster captured a person, put him in a place but didn't suck his essence and blood... Oops, the tiger has been lured away from the mountain, Master!!
Thinking of this doubt, Lu Liangsheng put Banxia to the ground, stretched out his hand, and the Yuelong Sword hanging on the bookshelf came out of the sheath with a "ah" sound and flew into the scholar's hand, and the sword body trembled excitedly.
"Haha, I can finally show off my skills. I'm dying of suffocation!"
Lu Liangsheng ignored Yue Long's chattering and rushed into the cave. The old man behind him, still wrapped in a cocoon, stretched his neck and shouted, "Master, let me out first!"
Hum hum hum~~
The old donkey trotted over, grunted, stretched out its long tongue and licked his face hard. Then, it sneezed, turned its bald tail away, and continued to eat grass with its head down.
At the same time, in the deep of the cave where Lu Liangsheng rushed into, a pale blue light lit up, and a black shadow descended from the cave wall swayed out.
The smooth bare feet approached the range of the fire and stopped. The woman, with her navel exposed, was wearing a purple gauze, with an enchanting figure. She smiled with red lips and lowered her eyes, looking at the toad carrying a gourd on the opposite side.
"Tsk tsk... It's been such a short time since we last met, why are you like this? It makes me sad to see you like this."
"Hmph... I like the way it is now, it has nothing to do with you."
The Toad Taoist narrowed his eyes, his oily eyes were dotted with red spots, and the pimples under his clothes were purple. He raised his hand to touch his back, and the purple gold gourd fell to the ground in his webbed feet and stood to one side.
"It looks like your legs are full again. I really missed that smell."
Hearing this, the purple-veiled woman's face froze. She stopped walking forward, remembered something, and stared at the toad cautiously, but after a moment, the corners of her lips curled up.
"After being injured, my eloquence has improved a lot. However, this time, I didn't come here to fight with you. I came here to see if you are dead or not."
"Have you seen enough?"
The Toad Taoist glanced at the dimly lit cave entrance in the distance, then slowly turned back and lowered his voice, "Who?"
"Mr. White Robe."
When the woman said this name, the toad was stunned for a moment. He stretched out his webbed feet, put the gourd on one side behind his back, pursed his lips, and asked:
"How does he know I'm here?"
"hehe… "
The silhouette outside the light and shadow covered his mouth and chuckled, and looked at the short Toad Taoist on the ground with a pair of seductive eyes: "He must have been to your cave, felt your remaining demonic energy, and knew that you were still alive... and... hehe..."
The woman paused and laughed in a playful and wanton manner.
"The scholar next to you seems to have killed the Holy Fire Master and offended the one in the Five Colors Manor. It's not easy for him to find you. The white-robed man said, don't follow that scholar, otherwise you will die without knowing how."
The Toad Taoist closed his eyes slightly and snorted coldly.
"Whoever dares to come, I will eat him."
He leaned over the gourd and was about to leave. He walked to the stone platform and looked down at the pitch-black bottom, which seemed like a bottomless pit. The corners of his mouth twitched and he quickly turned his head away.
"I heard what you said, you go now, or I will be greedy and break one of your legs to satisfy my craving."
Toad Taoist spoke slowly, looking at the equally dark stalactites on the cave ceiling while glancing at the height below with his peripheral vision.
… Damn it, why don’t you leave? I can’t get down.
Behind him, the firelight flickered, illuminating a range that was swaying. The woman who had stopped at the edge suddenly opened her long legs under her skirt, walked into the firelight, and approached the short figure.
"Why are you in such a hurry to get rid of me? It's just a leg. I'll give it to you."
Under the slit tulle skirt, a long white leg was suspended on the ground, with the arch of the foot straightened, the fingers slightly raised and stretched towards the Toad Taoist, and the red lips exuded charm.
"Does it look good? Let me give you a taste..."
In the light of the lantern, the dense fur on the outstretched long legs could be vaguely seen, and the long feet reflected on the ground suddenly became sharp and stabbed forward fiercely.
In an instant!
The Toad Taoist almost turned his face to the side at the same time, and swept his flippers backwards, "How dare you!"
The next moment, there was a light "clang!" sound in the air, and a black shadow passed through the space between the toad and the woman. The flame in the lantern on the ground was shaking, and the woman with long legs stretched out disappeared from the spot. She flew to the nearest cave wall, lay on it and raised her head. Her gauze skirt fluttered, and six white legs rushed out from under the skirt and spread out to both sides. She stabilized her body. She looked ahead and saw an ancient long sword standing in the air, humming.
"A beautiful woman with eight legs. Are you a crab monster?"
The woman gritted her teeth and yelled, "Spider spirit!"
Her pretty face flickered, her beautiful eyes and eyebrows instantly turned into compound eyes, her sharp mouthparts stretched out from her mouth and she hissed, her sight passed over the long sword in the air, and in her perception, she saw a human figure flying towards her. Before the other party could land firmly, her mouthparts opened wide, and a stream of green liquid quietly sprayed out.
"Liangsheng, be careful!"
The Toad Taoist was relatively close, so he could still see clearly in the dim light. However, Lu Liangsheng, who had rushed over, could hardly see the venom that was spraying silently. Upon hearing his master's words, he quickly waved his sleeves to resist. Suddenly, a divine light flashed from the small scabbard tied with a red rope around his waist, and a spherical golden light appeared around Lu Liangsheng.
The venom and the golden ball of light come into contact—
The demonic power dissipated instantly, and the venom lost its support and fell to the ground below, emitting a burst of white smoke and a foul smell.
"What kind of magic weapon is this!"
The woman was shocked and spread her six legs. She did not dare to fight for long and ran along the wall of the cave into the darkness. Lu Liangsheng, who was falling from the air, waved the sleeves of his robe and slashed at the monster crawling away from the cave wall with his sword!
"cut!"
The Yuelong Sword hanging high in the air flew over with a whoosh, making a roar as if tearing the air. The rapidly crawling woman looked back. The sword shadow rushed out of the range of the fire, and the inverted stalactites shattered and fell one by one.
The hairs all over her body stood up straight. She screamed in fear, gritted her teeth and slammed her head against a rock. At that moment, a roar of murderous intent pierced the air.
boom-
A cloud of black smoke exploded with a loud bang, and the splashed stone chips flew in all directions, hitting the nearby cave walls and rocks with a "clang clang" sound.
After a moment, the dense black smoke surged, and the Yuelong Sword pierced through something and flew back. The sword body shook, and a spider leg covered with purple hair fell in front of Lu Liangsheng and Toad Taoist.
Swaying left and right as if seeking credit, the voice of Pu Du Ci Hang rang out.
"Old Toad, this is a reward for you."
"roll!"
The Toad Taoist kicked the spider's leg with his webbed feet, making it move. He then hugged his webbed feet and turned his face away. Lu Liangsheng, who was standing by, stared at the remains of the monster, but unfortunately he was unable to do his best and let the monster run away. He bent down to pick up the leg, then put his master on his shoulder, jumped under the stone platform, and walked towards the cave entrance.
"Master, do you have a grudge against this monster?"
Arriving at the cave entrance, Taoist Toad got down from his disciple's shoulder and brushed off the dust on his short coat. When he heard the word "enemy", he glanced at the spider leg with disdain.
"When I was at the peak of my career as a teacher, I often broke her legs and ate them."
Lu Liangsheng nodded. Although he was curious about his master's past, he didn't ask too much since his master didn't say anything. He went over to release Wang Banxia from the spider silk, returned to the old donkey and took the reins. However, he also heard some conversations in the cave.
"Then who is the man in white robe?"
On the rope hanging from the bookshelf, Toad Taoist climbed up the small door and waved his flippers breathlessly.
"An old friend, I am a little tired as a teacher."
After saying this, he closed the small door and said no more.
Lu Liangsheng sighed. His master was unwilling to say more. There must be some hidden secret. However, this was the third time he had heard the name Wuse Manor.
'I wonder if the monk Fajing, who travels around, knows this.'
While thinking, I pulled the old donkey through the gaps between the trees and walked out of the forest. It was already dusk. The red setting sun covered the green mountains with a layer of rosy clouds. The wind blew, and the green leaves swayed and rose.
In the bookshelf where the donkey's buttocks were shaking, Toad Taoist was looking at the mountain scenery outside through the gap in the small door fence, and memories of the past emerged in his eyes.
That was a picture of a giant white wolf crouching on a hilltop in the desolate northwest, gazing up at the stars and the moon and howling.