Chapter 87: VII Arakne
"Wow, it's a good thing, and you can't feel any weight on it. Excellence tried it to fit well, and he couldn't help but admire her care when he found that the huge dragon scales with a diameter of a ruler had shrunk Athena to the size of an elm penny, and there was a piece under her head to protect her throat.
"Bufan, what are your plans for the future?" asked Athena.
Zhuo Zhuo coaxed his daughter aside to play, and did not hide it, and said directly: "I want to travel with Hercules, and the Bodhisattva said that there are some flavors of the elixir that I need his help to get it." I urgently need to improve my realm now, otherwise I won't be able to cultivate many of the exercises in my sea of consciousness. ”
"Well, I'm relieved that you take care of each other together. Athena nodded
"Sister, can't you do anything about Callisto?" Excellence was sad thinking about Callisto's bloated body, and couldn't help but ask about it again.
Athena shook her head and said in a low voice: "Hera's curse technique is extremely powerful, not only I can't solve it, but the other gods except the three Zeus brothers can't solve it, and Poseidon and Hades are definitely not willing to risk offending the queen of heaven to help you, so there is really no way for the time being." ”
Excellence was helpless, and thought about reciting the Tao Te Ching to Athena, and then asked her to pass on her experience to Callisto.
"I'll tell you the truth, don't listen to it, this thing is useless to her. Athena said in a deep voice, "This kind of advanced exercise, without basic cultivation, even I can't figure it out, and she must not be able to do it." ”
"I know, it's better than nothing!" said Excellence.
"By the way, you go to Thessaly and look for a man named Arachne," Athena said.
"What's the matter?"
"You'll know then. Athena didn't say much.
Excellence comforted Callisto and told her to learn from Athena, and then said goodbye to the two of them and walked towards the South Rim Mountain.
With Thetis with him, he soon came to the Thessalian region in central Greece, where he saw that the mountains were vertical and horizontal, and the radius of hundreds of miles was full of high mountains and deep valleys. Excellence's face was bitter, this place is so big, where can I find any Arakne!
However, looking at the high mountains and deep forests, they should be able to find a lot of good things, so the three of them wandered around the mountains for the next few days, looking for the inexplicable Arakne, while collecting the materials needed for alchemy.
Xiao Zhuoyan couldn't stay idle, and finally showed his body, flying around the surrounding mountains, but because of the repeated advice of excellence, he didn't dare to fly high.
On this day, the two were walking, but they saw Xiao Zhuoyan flying quickly, and grabbed another prey under his claws.
Zhuo Yan flew to the two of them and landed, trampled the prey under his feet, and said excitedly: "Mom and Dad, look at what good things I caught." ”
When he looked closely, he saw that the thing was nearly two meters long, about the same as a large lizard, but the skin on his body was red and there were colorful spots on it.
"It's... Flame Hunter?" Thetis hesitated.
"Giggles, mom is so good, you can see it at a glance. ”
Zhuo Yan praised it, lowered her head and pecked a few times, the flame lizard made the pain of her pecking unbearable, and a large handful of red flames instantly appeared all over her body. It's a pity that the flame is Zhuo Yan's specialty, and she sucked it into her body without any left, and then pecked a few times in a row, and the flame lizard couldn't survive.
Excellence has been looking for an opportunity to collect souls in the past few days, but unfortunately he has not met a suitable one, so he quickly took out a formation flag and instantly summoned the ignorant soul of the lizard hunting into the flag.
Although the soul was stupid, it was still very unhappy to be trapped, and it roared in the flag, but it didn't take long for it to be slowly refined by excellence. "If only I could get the soul of an intelligent life, this lizard hunting is stupid and has no power. ”
"What are you doing here?" Theseis was startled when she saw Zhuo Yan open her mouth to devour the flame lizard. "I eat it when it's almost baked, and now I still eat raw food after living with us for so long. ”
"Ah, why are you so troublesome!" Zhuo Yan said reluctantly and sprayed a few mouthfuls of fire on the lizard, then bit it and swallowed it into his stomach, giggling: "Mom, this thing is useful to me, I can directly absorb the fire element in its body." ”
Thetis couldn't laugh a little, her daughter eats meat, her father is soul-staggering, these two masters!
By the seventh day, the central mountains basically made them turn around, and in the morning the three of them decided to look for the last day today, and if they found it, they would return south and go to Mycenae to find Hercules.
After turning around all morning, but unfortunately there was nothing to be found this time, Zhuo Zhuoyi sat on a big rock by the stream and was about to speak, when he suddenly found that there seemed to be a colorful light flashing in the valley in front of him, and he instantly bounced up from the ground, beckoned to Titis and Zhuo Yan: "Follow me, there is a baby!"
The three of them rushed into the valley one after the other, and Excellence didn't know if it was really feeling or something, and kept running towards the depths of the valley in front of him.
Later, Thetis also felt a strange smell: the sun was warm, the air was fresh, but the heartbeat could be heard quietly, animals were rarely seen, and there was a peculiar fragrance in the air.
After turning a few corners in a row, I found that this place is simply a kingdom of plants, surrounded by dense trees, wide underground vines, growing very vigorously, and the air temperature is obviously much higher than outside.
Just wanted to remind Zhuo Zhuo and let him be careful, but he suddenly stopped, pointed to the front with his eyebrows fluttering, suppressed the excitement in his heart and whispered: "See, baby, dragon fruit, it is said that eating it can prolong life and soar in the day!"
Theses looked up and saw a huge ash tree rising from the corner of the valley in front of her, standing like a spear, its tops reaching into the sky, a cut above the surrounding hills.
Next to the ash tree there was a large climbing plant, which Thetiss had never seen before, and saw its stems wrapped around the ash tree, and climbed half of the tree, and it bore a red fruit at a height of more than ten meters. The fruit is the size of a bowl, emitting colorful light, indescribably tempting, probably the dragon fruit that Excellence said.
Thetis seemed to have a feeling of uneasiness, and reminded, "Be careful, I have a sense of foreboding. ”
Excellence made an OK posture and said with a smile: "Such a baby must have a protector, let's just drive the protector away or kill it, I'll test it first." ”
As he spoke, he picked up a fist-sized stone from the ground beside him and slammed it towards the dragon fruit. The stone was instantly swept down by a white light just as it was about to hit the dragon fruit, and then a huge spider crawled out from behind the ash tree, screaming and rushing towards the place where the two had come from.
The spider's eight feet were abnormally thick, with white hair on them, but the upper body was in the form of a woman, I saw that her hair was unkempt, her eyes were cold and shining with blue light, and she was wrapped in a cyan silk robe, which was similar to the spider spirit in "Journey to the West".
"Spider Spirit!" Excellence almost didn't scream at the sight, this was the first time he had seen a half-human, half-beast creature, but it was much more terrifying than the basilisk some time ago.
"Be careful. Thetis admonished, Excellence nodded, secretly communicated with Vushkat for a while, looked at the rushing spider spirit and smiled, and said loudly: "This eldest sister has always been good, but the traveler is tired and wants to ask for a bowl of water to drink." ”
The spider spirit's face was twisted, its eyes were wide open, and it yelled, 'You are looking for death,' and two huge front paws quickly struck at Excellence.
Excellence dodged in a leap, knowing that it was useless to say more, and with a turn of the gun in his hand, he instantly sacrificed the purple gold gourd, and saw that the huge spider was instantly received into the gourd.
"Dad is so amazing, what kind of treasure is this?" Zhuo Yan saw that Dad put away a big spider monster at once, his envious eyes were straight, and he stretched out his hand to play with it, and finally saw that Zhuo Zhuo's face was dark, and finally he didn't say anything.
Zhuo Zhuo said coldly to the spider monster in the gourd: "I have two questions for you now, you have to answer obediently, maybe I will let you go, otherwise you will wait for death!"
The spider spirit didn't have a scared look on its face, just stared at Excellence.
"Do you know where a man from Arakne is, and we have something to look for her?"
The spider was shocked, smiled miserably, and said sadly: "She died a long time ago, there is no such person as Arachne in this world." ”
Excellence's heart moved when he heard this, Nima, could it be that Arachne was also punished by the gods and turned from a human into a spider?
Thetis looked at the spider spirit at this time and said, "Arakne, I know that you are Arakne, otherwise Athena would not have let us come to you." I remember that you were killed by the gods after competing with her, how did you become like this?"
As soon as Aracne heard Athena's expression, he instantly became excited, looked at the two and said, "You guys...... Are you really sent by the Goddess of Wisdom to free me?"
Thetis nodded and said, "We are indeed instructed by Athena, although I don't know what your liberation means, but as long as we can do it, we will definitely help you." ”
Excellence was confused, and the spider spirit Araknye didn't shy away from it at this time, so he told the cause and effect of the matter.
It turned out that when she was still a human being, she was a textile girl in Lydia, and as her skills became more and more exquisite, her heart began to swell, and she even boasted: "Let Athena, the goddess of textiles, compare with me, if I lose, I will be punished as I want." ”
This smug sentence became the beginning of her tragedy.
When Athena found out, she turned into an old woman to persuade her to put away her pride, but she actually laughed at the old woman and insisted on competing with Athena. Athena's heart was on fire, so she directly showed her real body and tried it with her, and the gods also came to join in the fun, and they all stood in the air to watch the game between the two.
Athena, who appeared first, weaved a scene on her fabric of herself competing with Poseidon for the dominance of the city of Athens, and in the center of the pattern was another circle, and the four corners of the circle were scenes of some gods angry that arrogant mortals dared to compete with them, which was used to warn her opponent and persuade her to give up the game in time.
It's a pity that at this time, Arachne has completely failed to listen to the persuasion, as the saying goes, 'Heaven wants to destroy people, must first make them crazy', she saw that the gods were clamoring for Athena, her heart was furious, in order to vent the anger in her heart, but the weaving was a celestial scandal.
She embroidered many of Zeus's love histories, such as turning into a bull to kidnap Europa, turning into an eagle chasing Asteria, and turning into a golden rain to deceive Danae...... In short, what she embroidered is a picture of the Heavenly Living Spring Palace, the gods.
When the gods saw that you, a mortal, dared to play with the gods, they immediately wanted to send her to the underworld to suffer the never-ending punishment, but Athena stopped the gods with a wave of her hand and turned her into what she is now, saving her life and subjecting her to the never-ending punishment.