The spiritual calf must be raised in the altar water, Shi Feiyang asked Huo Wuhai about the Wen Spider.

That Wen Spider was born from a millennium-old scorpion mating with a Fire Spider, producing four hundred and ninety-one eggs in a single birth. Upon landing, they burrow into the soil, sinking an inch deeper with every clap of thunder, and after three hundred and sixty-five years deep underground, nurtured by the damp and hot airs of earth's poisons, only then can they take shape.

Once born, the young spiders consume each other. Eating a head makes one's own head larger, eating a leg makes one's own leg grow. By the time the last one remains, with each thunder, it ascends an inch until it emerges to the world.

When it has fully emerged, it possesses divine skills, able to grow large or small, and even nurtures an inner core in its belly into a fire spiritual pearl. With the passage of days and years, even immortals and Buddha find it difficult to control.

According to its normal life expectancy, the Wen Spider should not emerge until the year of the sword duel at Ci Yun Temple in the future; at present, it has not yet fully grown.

But Shi Feiyang had no intention of waiting for it to reach maturity. He had come ahead of time, ready to act when there were only three of them left after their mutual consumption.

He spent half a month in the cave, and Deng Bagu also arrived. By then, the Wen Spiders underground had eaten each other until only three remained.

Shi Feiyang then had the two assist him in action, with Huo Wuhai in the east and Deng Bagu in the west, both suspended in the sky, while Shi Feiyang stood atop a mountain ridge to the north.

Deng Bagu took the lead in deploying the Earth Penetrating Divine Needle, aiming downwards and striking, emitting a flash of bluish-white light which immediately created a hole as wide as a basin.

This magical treasure she refined with countless efforts was extraordinary, capable of piercing through anything, whether earth or stone, no matter how hard it was. Moreover, the depth and diameter of the hole it created could be controlled at will.

The Divine Needle steadily pierced through layers of the earth, cutting through the rock crust, reaching the lair of the Wen Spiders, where the earth's energy was stagnant, extremely damp and hot.

Three Wen Spiders lived inside, with over four hundred sibling brothers and sisters having all been consumed by them. Just as they were about to bite into each other, a bright light suddenly shone from above, and the damp, hot poison mist began to spill out, allowing them to see the sunlight outside.

The sunlight was highly alluring to them. Forgetting their struggles, they clambered over one another, racing to crawl outside.

Just as Deng Bagu retracted the Earth Penetrating Divine Needle, the three Wen Spiders crawled out.

These creatures were shaped like a toad, with a belly covered in short legs and no tail, two long pincers sprouting fore and aft, bristling with barbs gleaming green. With mouths like that of a scorpion, pointy mouth and head, and eyes emitting red light, they spewed out multicolored poison mists laced with flames as their mouths opened and closed.

Having consumed many of their own kind, their heads and backs were covered with the heads, claws, and pincers of their brethren, all deformed. They appeared small, yet each part moved; the claws crawled, the mouths opened and closed, the pincers snapped, creating a sight that made one's scalp tingle and sent chills down the spine.

Shi Feiyang, no stranger to disgusting creatures, felt nauseated at the sight of this thing.

The Wen Spiders joyfully absorbed the True Sun Fire as they emerged, exuberantly spewing poison fog. The colorful smoke instantly swelled like a tide in the valley.

Their calls, heard by anyone, seemed like a summons to oneself. Huo Wuhai heard it as a call for "Huo Wuhai," Deng Bagu heard it as "Deng Bagu," and Shi Feiyang heard his own name "Shi Feiyang."

Merely by responding verbally, one would immediately connect with its toxic aura and be targeted by its poison gas; fainting from the poison, it would then promptly lock onto the victim and devour them.

Though not fully grown yet, the creature already posed a considerable threat as it called out, and Shi Feiyang indeed heard it shouting his own name.

Shi Feiyang released a Flying Sword to test it, and the Three Yangs One Qi Sword flew above the Wen Spiders. The three hideous spiders opened their mouths to call out and spewed poison silk.

The web it spat was very fine, initially a liquid, solidifying into a multicolored spider web pattern as it met the wind. Once spread, it could cover a range of about an acre, filled with potent poison.

The Three Yangs One Qi Sword returned, ensnared in the poison web. With a point from Shi Feiyang's finger, sword light burst, shredding the poison web and transforming it into a cloud of multicolored smoke, quite beautiful under the sunlight.

Shi Feiyang frowned, clearly disappointed.

He had wanted to capture the Wen Spiders in hopes of using their silk to retrieve the treasure from the Yuan River.

After his ascension, Guang Chengzi sealed many magical treasures inside a Golden Ship on Kongtong Mountain. Later, the Green-Robed True Master Liu Laogen led a group of immortals to break the prohibition, dig up the mountain for treasure, attracting a horde of demons and all sorts of monsters to compete for it. After a chaotic battle, the Golden Ship flew away on its own, and the immortals only managed to claim some simple magical treasure pills.

After calculations, people concluded that the Golden Ship had fallen into the whirlpool of Yuan River, attracted and held by the Magnetic True Qi within, unable to resurface. With the pull of Magnetic True Qi, metallic objects would not work; retrieving the treasure became an incredibly tough task.

In the original story, Zheng Dianxian presided over using the silk of a Golden Spider to fish the Golden Ship up from below.

Shi Feiyang originally thought that being a notorious fierce spider in the Shushan World, and being a natural enemy of the Hundred Poison Golden Silkworm Gu, the Wen Spider's silk might also do the trick. But now it seemed not to be the case. Although the creature's poison was formidable, the toughness of its silk was far from sufficient to lift the Golden Ship.

He looked at the beauty python, "What formidable creatures would you bear if you were to mate with them?"

The beauty python was delighted upon hearing this. Being a Snake Demon, her sense of beauty was different from humans. The Wen Spider, bred from the perverse energies of heaven and earth, was powerful and viciously poisonous. Mating with it would not be a bad idea...

Shi Feiyang shook his head, "Forget it, forget it, you can't spin silk... huh, those that can spin silk, besides the Merfolk from across the seas, he's got another one!"

He released Bai Guanhong from the Jade Tripod.

For the past few days, Bai Guanhong had been taming the Hundred Poison Golden Silkworm Gu inside the tripod. These Gu insects were cultivated by the Green Robe Ancestor with his own Essence Blood, obeying only the Green Robe Ancestor and were connected with him through the heart. Although Bai Guanhong was their biological father, making them obey him was extremely difficult. After much effort, he had only seen a glimpse of success.

Shi Feiyang pointed at the Literary Spider beneath his crotch and asked, "Do you think the offspring produced by them and you could spin silk strong enough to lift a mountain peak?"

Bai Guanhong, being a Stone Silkworm who had spent such a long time on Bai Man Mountain and personally experienced the Green Robe Ancestor's Gu Refining techniques, paid special attention and intentionally stole the Ancestor's Gu Refining skills. He had even seen the Gu Refining secrets the Ancestor had traded for from the Dongxuan Immortal. He was truly an expert in Gu Refining.

As soon as he saw the Literary Spider, his eyebrows raised in joy: "Great! This will work!"

Seeing his delight, Shi Feiyang was pleased too and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If Bai Guanhong refused to mate with the Literary Spider, he wouldn't force him. He also felt a bit sorry for Bai Guanhong, to be paired with such an ugly creature...

"Don't worry, as long as you can successfully produce the right offspring capable of spinning silk, to help me lift a mountain peak, I'll make sure you're handsomely rewarded."

"Ah? Me, mate with them? That's impossible," Bai Guanhong turned his head, his face a bit dazed, and then he bitterly smiled, "True Master, you're unaware, this Literary Spider has no posterior orifices, no excrement or reproductive channels. They are born from the mating of scorpions and Fire Spiders, but they themselves cannot reproduce."

Shi Feiyang was stunned upon hearing this. He remembered the original story mentioned that Literary Spiders lacked posterior orifices and thought they only couldn't excrete, similar to the Pixiu that only consumed without expulsion. He hadn't considered that they lacked reproductive orifices as well.

"Then what are you looking so pleased about? Why the beaming smile?"

Bai Guanhong said excitedly, "The Dongxuan secret scroll says that the Literary Spider is one of the most potent poisons in the world and is suitable for refining Gu! It can also suppress all kinds of silkworms. Using it, I can subdue those Golden Silkworm Gu easily, doubling my efficiency, isn't that great?"

Shi Feiyang sighed, "It's good for you, but my problem remains unsolved."

Bai Guanhong said, "The best creature capable of spinning silk strong enough to lift a mountain is the Golden Spider; others will likely be of no use."

"I'm aware of the Golden Spider, but the two I know of already have owners. I've looked around the Southern Border Region for so long without catching even a glimpse of a Golden Spider."

Bai Guanhong suddenly smiled, "I know where the Golden Spider is! It's right there, in the cave where I first gained consciousness."

Shi Feiyang's spirit lifted upon hearing this and asked him to elaborate.

"I was also born in the mountains of the Southern Border, right in the Black Valley at the border between Guizhou and Guangxi. There was a female Golden Spider there, lustful by nature, wanting to copulate with me daily. But she treated me quite well; although I didn't agree, she didn't eat me and even helped kill many of my natural enemies. Later, when I formed my inner core and left the valley, I never returned."

Shi Feiyang took out the Yu Ding, collected the three Literary Spiders, and then, with Bai Guanhong leading the way, flew directly toward Black Valley.

Upon reaching Black Valley, where towering trees rose to the heavens and old pines were piled in jade layers, it was pitch-black inside, and even during broad daylight, sunlight couldn't penetrate.

Bai Guanhong went into the valley and quickly found an abandoned spider's nest, his face mournful, "Sister Golden Spider has been killed!"

Shi Feiyang examined the spider's silk in the nest, each thread as thick as a chicken egg and sparkling, which, despite the years, remained crystal clear and lustrous, the only thing was that the den was filled with dust, clearly abandoned for a long time. Moreover, there were grooves on the cave's stone walls, marks of being cut by Immortal Swords and burned and struck by lightning.

"This place indeed experienced a duel, and it was by a rather righteous Swordsman from the Mysterious Sect."

"Sister Golden Spider! Why did you have to die! There's not even a skeleton left, I can't even retrieve your body," Bai Guanhong knelt on the ground and wiped away tears.

"You're a Stone Silkworm wanting to retrieve a spider's body? Do you folks have a custom of retrieving companions' bodies? Saying you want to devour her carcass is more believable to me."

Bai Guanhong stood up, "I'm human now, I've been human for a long time. Human-worm, no, worm-human, afterwards, I underwent a transformation and became completely human. I've been living a human's life, eating, sleeping, dressing, observing etiquette..."

"Don't 'tempt' me..." Shi Feiyang interrupted him, "I divined just now and it seems your Sister Golden Spider isn't dead."

"Not dead? Then where is she now?"

"She was taken by someone, hmm, a woman, currently by the water, alongside a great river or lake..."

Shi Feiyang already knew who had taken the Golden Spider, not through divination but through guesswork. The Golden Spider probably belonged to Zheng Dianxian from the original story. Zheng Dianxian had indeed obtained the Golden Spider and moved to the banks of Yuan River, planning for thirty years and finally utilizing the forces of Snow Mountain and Emei sects to suspend the ship and retrieve the treasure.

After a long detour, they circled back to the beginning.

Han Fairy owned a four-thousand-year-old Great Golden Spider, while Zheng Dianxian had a one-thousand-year-old lesser Golden Spider. He had known this all along.

Tears filling his eyes, Bai Guanhong pleaded with him, "Could you please help rescue Sister Golden Spider? She's stubborn by nature. Seeing the lightning and sword slashes here, she was definitely kidnapped by force. After so many years, who knows what kind of torture and abuse she endured. Please save her from this misery. Aren't you looking for a creature that can spin silk strong enough to lift a mountain peak? She can definitely do it, and even if she can't, if you train her like me, to undergo transformation, she will surely succeed!"

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