Ning Beichen waited in place for a moment. Finally, he took a step and entered the bloodstained passage.
He did indeed sense danger within, but it wasn't a life-threatening kind of danger.
This meant that as long as he was careful, he might be able to deal with the perils inside.
Ning Beichen didn't rush, but walked step by step towards the passage, primarily aiming for stability and holding his weapon in hand beforehand.
After passing through this long, extremely dark, and bloody passage, Ning Beichen arrived at a place that almost made him want to vomit.
At the end of the passage was a blood pool the size of a basketball court, littered with countless skeletons. Some floated outside the pool, while others were submerged in the bloody water.
Ning Beichen had been to many places, but none could compare to the disgusting nature of this one.
Moreover, by examining the skeletons submerged in the blood pool, Ning Beichen judged that they must have been human in life. He just didn't know from what era, as only incomplete remains were left in the pool, with no clothing or other items surviving.
Soon, Ning Beichen felt he was being watched by something, giving him a sense of danger, and this thing was within the blood pool.
Ning Beichen cautiously retreated. He hadn't found any trace of Linglong here, so he was reluctant to get into any trouble with whatever was inside.
Anything that could make a Grandmaster like him feel danger was definitely not to be trifled with.
However, Ning Beichen was perhaps being too optimistic. He didn't want to provoke the thing in the blood pool, but the thing in the blood pool had already set its sights on him, and was intensely eager to drain his blood.
So, just as Ning Beichen prepared to retreat, the thing in the blood pool moved.
A blurry blood shadow shot out from the pool and lunged at Ning Beichen.
Without a word, Ning Beichen directly swung his blade at the blood shadow.
With a bang!
Ning Beichen felt his blade strike the blood shadow, but it didn't kill it in one blow as he had expected.
After being struck, the blood shadow immediately retreated back into the blood pool. However, it didn't give up, and waited for another opportunity to attack.
This time, Ning Beichen didn't retreat further but swung his blade backward.
With a crunch.
Ning Beichen felt like he had hit something, and then unhesitatingly followed up with another attack.
Blade light exploded in the passage like a kaleidoscope.
A sharp, piercing cry sounded.
Ning Beichen saw a large blood-red spider being cut down by him in the passage.
"This was the thing that ambushed me from behind?"
Ning Beichen looked at the large blood-red spider, his eyelids twitching.
Fortunately, he was a Grandmaster with a highly sensitive perception of danger. If his cultivation had been lower, he would likely have been killed by this large spider.
"What kind of place is this?"
Ning Beichen felt a chill. This place didn't seem like the world he knew. The world he knew definitely wouldn't have such a large spider.
Just then, Ning Beichen sensed danger again, and it was also coming from behind him.
Ning Beichen immediately turned and slashed backward with his blade.
But this time, Ning Beichen's arm holding the blade vibrated, and he stumbled back several steps.
A blood-red spider, larger than a bull, appeared eerily behind him. His previous strike had been blocked by this spider.
"How is this possible!"
Ning Beichen's expression was one of extreme shock. This blade was something he had seized from someone in Shen Zongting. It wasn't a treasure of the world, but it was certainly not a cheap imitation found on the market.
At that moment, a tremendous pressure struck him. Seeing the bull-sized spider, it swung its two forelegs towards him.
These forelegs were as sharp as knives, even sharper than knives. The mere aura they emitted made Ning Beichen feel flustered.
Ning Beichen hastily swung his blade, using a move called 'Drawing the Blade to Cut Through Water' against the blood-red spider's foreleg.
A flash of blade light streaked across.
However, Ning Beichen's blade was blocked by the blood-red spider's foreleg, while the other foreleg thrust towards Ning Beichen from above.
Ning Beichen quickly let go of his blade and retreated with a flash, dodging the attack of the blood-red spider's foreleg.
With a bang.
The blood-red spider's foreleg struck the ground, instantly creating a hole. Ning Beichen's expression changed drastically.
He knew how hard this floor was. With his Grandmaster cultivation, he could only leave shallow marks on these floors and walls.
At this moment, Ning Beichen heard a crack. The treasured blade from Shen Zongting had shattered into pieces on the ground.
The blood-red spider, its eight legs moving faster than a car, charged towards Ning Beichen with hurricane-like force.
Just as Ning Beichen was about to turn and escape back down the passage, he saw another large blood-red spider appear on the other side of the passage.
Now Ning Beichen was trapped between two spiders, one in front and one behind, leaving him with nowhere to escape.
Ning Beichen hardened his resolve and drew his longsword. He refused to believe that he, a Grandmaster, could be killed by two spiders.
This sword was the Angel Sword, also taken from Shen Zongting. It contained divine power, allowing him to summon the power of an angel.
The Angel Sword released a radiant light, and a six-winged angel emerged from the sword's glow before charging towards one of the blood-red spiders.
Ning Beichen had initially thought that this six-winged angel would at least injure or kill the blood-red spider.
However, he discovered that the six-winged angel was swallowed whole by the blood-red spider in one bite. The Angel Sword had not dealt even the slightest damage to the blood-red spider. On the contrary, it seemed to be providing nourishment to the spider.
Seeing this, even Ning Beichen began to feel a bit panicked. What in the world was this blood-red spider, that it could be so powerful?
At that moment, a dark shadow lunged at Ning Beichen. It was the blood-red spider's knife-like foreleg.
Ning Beichen hastily swung the Angel Sword in his hand to chop at the foreleg.
With a snap.
The Angel Sword struck something like steel, emitting a deafening sound. The immense recoil force sent Ning Beichen flying, and his Angel Sword also broke into two pieces.
"It's over!"
Ning Beichen's face turned grim. He felt that he might die here today.
And in a rather tragic manner. Perhaps soon, his flesh would be devoured by the blood-red spiders, and his bones would become part of the blood pool.
At this moment, Ning Beichen fearfully remembered the skeletons he had seen in the blood pool. Could they all have been eaten by spiders?
"What should I do?"
The Grandmaster Ning Beichen, at this moment, desperately wanted to escape.
In the world, even if he couldn't defeat his master, he was still at the pinnacle of martial power. Now, he couldn't even defeat two spiders.
This was a mockery!
A mockery of Ning Beichen, the newly minted Grandmaster!