Chapter 163: Four Elephant Horcruxes: Spider Monster and Parasitic Snake
Xuanwu is the son of the god Qiansu and one of the four divine beasts. Mochizuki knew that his body was a combination of turtle and snake, but he really couldn't connect him with the spider monster he was about to deal with. The green gate to the northeast was similarly densely carved with incomprehensible cuneiform characters and symbols, and was automatically opened when he reached the door.
The side hall is of the same structure as the other three, and is almost a hemispherical in shape, except that it is made of black rock from the floor to the walls to the ceiling, making it look like a huge cave. Because the light here was so dim, Mochizuki had to light a large demon fire and throw it into the air to roam the entire cave to illuminate the situation and the enemy's position.
When the demon fire rose to the height of the vault, he finally found the monster he needed to deal with. He'd seen a lot of huge spider monsters before, but this one could definitely be called the eldest of them all. It was entrenched in the cobwebs that covered the entire vault, staring at him with a pair of scarlet eyes, each of which reflected his appearance. The cobwebs around it were still clinging to its unfinished food, and unsurprisingly the corpses of some goblins.
One of the little demons was still alive, struggling desperately as if trying to escape from the cobweb, which was obviously so viscous that it couldn't come down from it no matter how much he tossed it. At this time, a large hole suddenly opened in the spider's back and a large brown snake came out of it, this snake should be parasitic on this spider monster, it probed in front of the little demon and looked at it for a while, and then hissed and bit down on it, the little demon bitten by it twitched a few times and stopped moving, and the snake retracted back into the spider's body.
"It's still a merge monster!" Mochizuki muttered to herself.
He seemed to understand why the spider monster was called Little Xuanwu, because it was also one with the snake, but in any case it was an imposter in his eyes, so there was nothing to be afraid of. He was still staring directly at the spider monster, and with his experience, jumping into the air to fight it was very likely to get stuck in its webs, so it was best to be able to draw it to the ground.
But the spider monster stared at him for a while, and then began to leisurely taste the little demon who had just been poisoned by the big snake, and from time to time there was a chirping sound in his mouth, mixed with the crisp sound of a bone being bitten. Watching this scene, Mochizuki couldn't help but get goosebumps, he didn't know if the spider monster wanted to replenish his strength before fighting him, or if he was waiting for him to take the initiative to attack it.
There was only less than an hour left for him, and he didn't know how long it would take for the monster called Love Silk to finish his meal. He controlled the demon fire sent out earlier to the cobweb, and according to his experience, the cobweb would soon ignite, and the spider monster would have to come down at that time, but the demon fire stopped in the cobweb for a long time and did not burn a small hole in it.
He gritted his teeth and flew into the air, trying to cut through its webs with the Moonshadow Knife so that it had to reach the ground. He swung the Moon Shadow Knife and slashed at the web, but the web was much stronger than he had imagined, and it didn't break when it went down, and the knife in his hand was still firmly glued to the web.
This is also the reason why the demon fire can't burn it, he pulled it hard a few times and still didn't pull the knife off the cobweb, but the spider monster really noticed him later, it threw aside the half-eaten demon corpse, and quickly crawled in his direction.
It was moving so fast on the web that Mochizuki could be hurt by it or the snake that was parasitic on its body at any moment, and he swung his body back and forth on the web, and just as the spider monster was about to spit silk at him, he swung in front of it and kicked it with both feet, and finally pulled the knife off the web with this force.
The spider monster paused for a few seconds as he kicked it, then turned its scarlet eyes around looking for Mochizuki's position, and when it saw him soaring in midair, it spat out spider silk in his direction. After learning how strong and viscous its web was, Mochizuki knew that it wasn't a joke to get entangled in its silk, so he dodged left and right to avoid the silk it kept spitting out, and approached it to seize the opportunity to stab it.
As soon as it reached it, the poisonous snake ran out of its back again, and began to twist its body from side to side to confront the knife in Mochizuki's hand. The scales on this large serpent's body were like bronze armor, and they were very hard, and when it came into contact with the Moon Shadow Knife, it collided with sparks. The snake itself is like a sword in the hand of a spider monster, except that it is not only intelligent but also able to move freely.
Mochizuki not only had to dodge the spider silk spit out by the spider monster, but also to prevent being bitten by a large snake, which consumed a lot of physical strength for a while. He had to go back to the ground to adjust, and think about what to do with the spider monster and the parasitic snake.
The spider monster was still very calm and stuck to its territory, obviously it was more advantageous to fight on the web, but Mochizuki couldn't let it continue to occupy the terrain with absolute advantage, and the first thing he had to do was to find a way to get it off the web.
He took a closer look at the spider monster and used his infrequently used brain to think that the spider could move on the spider's web by relying on the tufts of sticky hairs on its legs, perhaps more effectively than attacking its body.
The spider's first pair of feet are also called chelicera, and the sharp chelicera at the top have toxins, so it's better to avoid this first pair of feet, all he has to do is find a way to go around the back of the spider monster and attack its last pair of legs, this guy is too huge to turn around and inevitably have some hardship, so this strategy should not be too difficult to achieve.
Gathering the strength in his body, Mochizuki flew towards the spider monster again, but he suddenly changed direction in the air and came behind it. He slashed one of the spider monster's legs with a single round of the two Moon Shadow knives in his hand, and then he turned around and swung the knife at its other leg. By this time the serpent's head had already rushed in front of him, and when it opened its mouth, it came at him, and he hurried to block it with the knife in his left hand, and then cut off one of the spider monster's third pair of feet with the knife in his right hand.
The spider monster, which had lost its three legs, could no longer withstand its heavy body with the tufts of hair that caught in the web, and finally fell from the web, only to spit out a stream of silk in mid-air and try to use the silk to get back into the web again. Mochizuki immediately swung his knife at the spider silk, and although he didn't cut it directly, the force he exerted on the spider silk merged with the power formed by the spider monster's swing, causing it to spin in the air, and finally the spider silk finally broke off, and it fell to the ground with a thud.
"I finally got you down!" Mochizuki sighed with relief as he looked at the spider monster facing up to the sky.
But what he didn't expect happened, the spider monster's back slowly rose from the ground, it turned out that the big snake on its back relied on its own strength to push it up, and the big snake then used another force, and the spider monster turned over. Not only that, but the big snake spewed out streams of liquid towards the joints of the spider's feet that had been cut off by Mochizuki earlier, and those legs quickly grew out again.
"Good fellow, this snake is not only your weapon, crutch but also your doctor, in human terms, it is multi-functional!" Mochizuki shook her head and said.
He had just seen a glimmer of light before it was shattered again. The spider monster was more difficult to deal with than he expected, and he couldn't ignore the parasitic snake, which seemed to have to be eliminated first if he wanted to defeat the spider monster. Mochizuki remembered that snakes were weak at seven inches, and snakes usually didn't have very good eyesight, and if they could break away from the spider monster, it might be easier to take them down by taking advantage of the snake's difficulty in changing direction quickly while traveling.
The spider monster had just fallen hard, so it was still a little dazed, and Mochizuki jumped on its back and stood firm after dodging several attacks from the parasitic snake. The spider monster began to get up quickly as soon as he saw that he was standing on his back, and Mochizuki found a sense of balance in front and back and left and right while facing off against the great snake, in addition to being careful of its bloody mouth and fangs that spewed venom from time to time, but also to be small and not to be entangled in it.
He swung the Moon Shadow Knife in his left hand towards the snake's head, and the snake turned backwards to dodge, and then pressed its body down towards his abdomen and bit it, he hurriedly hit the Moon Shadow Knife in his right hand, and it was stuck horizontally in the snake's mouth. The snake suddenly spewed venom from its fangs, and although Mochizuki's body avoided its venom, the hand holding the knife was splashed some.
The skin touched by the venom first began to develop blisters, which burst into several festering wounds, and the toxin used this method to enter his capillaries. Soon his hands began to become weak, and it became more and more difficult to resist the serpent in front of him.
"I think you're a gang up to bully people!"
As he spoke, he retracted the knife with the strength of the big snake, and took advantage of the fact that the big snake couldn't change direction in time because of the momentum, and turned around and crossed the two knives to support its body. His luck was good, and this time he found the weakness of the big snake, that is, the seven inches of the snake's body.
The Moon Shadow Knife left two scars on the serpent's seven inches, and the milky white liquid flowed out of its body, and it also touched the knife and his arm a little. Strange things happened, the place that had been festering from the snake's venom was healed by the milky white liquid, and the feeling of powerlessness was relieved, and the new flesh was slightly red and a little itchy.
Mochizuki remembered that the spider's foot had been cut off by himself just now, and it also relied on a certain substance secreted by the poisonous snake from its mouth to regrow, which showed that this snake was both highly poisonous and had healing powers. Such a monster could never have been formed naturally, and it was very likely that Qingyun had deliberately created it to deal with them using the Qilie Array System. He couldn't help but worry about the other three, wondering if the monster they were facing and the parasitic snake were more difficult to deal with than the spider monster.
The wound of the parasitic snake was indeed healed quickly by the fluid it secreted itself, but Mochizuki had already found its weakness, and next time he would just cut it off from the snake's body seven inches in one go. He was about to attack the snake again, but it retracted into the hole in the spider's back and came out.
"Hey, you shrunken turtle!" Mochizuki cursed.
The spider monster under its feet seemed to be tired of running, and it spat out the spider silk from its mouth in the direction of the cobwebs on the ceiling, trying to return to the web. Mochizuki followed, severing it again with the same method as it swirled into mid-air with its silk, and the spider monster was once again lifted to the ground, only this time it didn't face up to the sky.
Just now, when the spider monster was hanging in the air, Mochizuki noticed a bulge in its abdomen that was constantly glowing green, and he guessed that it was most likely the Four Elephant Stone. The impact was so strong that the monster had to stop in place for a few more seconds, and Mochizuki had already thought of a good way to get the Four Elephant Stones.