Yun Luohe smashed the glass vial filled with Enhanced Poison against the ground.Black smoke spread fast. The nearby small venom spiders hadn’t even touched the smoke before they went rigid on the spot, then slowly died.Seeing this, Yun Luohe finally got a breath. She gritted her teeth, injected herself with an Antidote, then drank a rapid Stamina-increase potion. If those dead spiders hadn’t still been attacking her, she could have eaten something to restore HP.But right now, this was all she could do.And Antidote only slows the spread of toxin; it can’t cure it. The wound would worsen. If she wanted to live, she had to take down this Aberrant-Blood Brood Spider as fast as possible—otherwise she could only wait to die.With the spiderlings all dead, the Aberrant-Blood Brood Spider went berserk.It attacked again. This time it didn’t spit pus-blood, but a clotted jet of liquid that shed black mist as it sprayed.It had also read Yun Luohe’s condition: bad. It meant to finish her to remove any future problem.This brood-spider was ten times stronger than the Gold-Shell Spider she’d met in the Broodmother’s Nest before, and its intelligence wasn’t ordinary.Probably because the Spider Queen wasn’t that bloodthirsty. The Broodmother’s Nest was just a place where many egg clutches hatched, whereas this here was likely the most dangerous place on all of Spider Island.Add radiation on top of that, and this brood-spider’s venom had grown even stronger.Its abdomen’s twisted human face had turned green, which also pointed to radiation. Maybe some of the carcasses it had eaten were irradiated.No time to dwell on it. Right now the only thing that mattered was finding a way to kill it.The black liquid split midair into countless hair-thin poison needles that shot toward her.The amulet the Spider Queen had gifted her was a critical life-saving measure—she wouldn’t use it unless absolutely necessary.But now she had no choice.At the last split second, the amulet in her hand flared with dazzling gold light. A translucent protective dome snapped into place around her.Poison needles slammed the shield with a harsh sizzle. Yun Luohe felt the barrier shudder violently, as if it would shatter the next second.She knew this was her only chance to counterattack. She had to kill it before the amulet failed.Using the shield’s remaining uptime, Yun Luohe drew a deep breath, forced down the pain, tightened her grip on her weapon, and charged the Aberrant-Blood Brood Spider.At five meters out, she sprang, driving her dagger straight for the spider’s right eye. But the brood-spider reacted fast—one chelicera scythed across and swatted her from the air, slamming her to the ground.Yun Luohe hit hard, coughed /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ blood, and the barrier shattered completely at that instant. The brood-spider let out a victory screech, ready to deliver the final blow. Just then, Yun Luohe suddenly remembered the phosphorescent moss she’d found earlier in the maze. The moss not only glowed in darkness; it was extremely adhesive.She yanked out another vial of Enhanced Poison and smashed it on the human face on the brood-spider’s abdomen.A scream of agony ripped through the cavern.She seized the opening and rushed in again, driving the Thunder Vortex Trident into its human face. Thick green fluid geysered out.Her body was close to collapse. The injuries were severe, and her Stamina was dropping fast. But she knew she couldn’t stop. Jaw clenched, she tore the Thunder Vortex Trident free and stabbed through the brood-spider’s head again.With a final roar, the massive body of the Aberrant-Blood Brood Spider crashed down.[Congratulations to the player for completing the quest. Rewards: Golden Chest ×1, Spider Breeding Compendium ×1]At the sound, Yun Luohe’s expression eased. Her body tilted—and she blacked out.—A few hours later.Yun Luohe opened her eyes weakly. It was already a little past five in the morning.The Conch Communicator she carried had been glowing the whole time.Mu Zitang, not getting a reply, had been worried something happened to her and kept voice-calling.But Yun Luohe had been unconscious and had no idea.Even now she had breath but no strength, unable to get words out.If she hadn’t taken Antidote in advance to slow the toxin’s spread, she figured she’d already be dead of poisoning.Good thing her physique was strong—the foundation solid—so she was still holding on.She had no idea how many hours she’d slept.Yun Luohe opened the light screen to check.When she’d closed the screen, the last interface was the Association group chat, so when it opened she saw members discussing spider silk.It was the middle of the night, and lots of people still hadn’t gone to bed.“I used spider silk with a few other materials to make a simple game trap. Works pretty well!”Someone posted a picture of the trap: a wild boar bound solid by spider-silk rigging, unable to move.“Awesome! How did you make it?”Method.“It’s actually simple. I braided the spider silk first, then used special herbs to mix a stickiness enhancer and coated it. As soon as a monster touches it, it gets locked down tight—and it also saps strength.”Yun Luohe switched to her friends’ messages.She skimmed a stack of them and hurried to reply.Cheng Xuening had sent even more than Mu Zitang.She’d gone to Ancient Tree Isle today and had a lot happen. At first she… later, with no reply from Yun Luohe, Cheng Xuening got increasingly worried and called several times with no answer.She’d asked that Yun Luohe reply the moment she saw the messages.Realizing she’d been out of contact and made her friends worry, Yun Luohe didn’t dare delay and quickly wrote them back.Neither had slept. They answered immediately.“Yun, you finally replied. Are you okay? I called you a bunch on the communicator.”Yun Luohe: “I’m alright now. Ran into a problem just now.”“Good you’re okay. I was worried sick.”If you asked who in the game worried most about Yun Luohe, Mu Zitang definitely ranked near the top.Cheng Xuening, meanwhile, called straight in.The communicator kept flashing, and Yun Luohe picked up quickly.Cheng Xuening first checked on Yun Luohe’s status, then asked what she was doing now and whether she needed Cheng to come over.Learning that Yun Luohe was out of danger, she finally exhaled and told her what she’d experienced on Ancient Tree Isle.Cheng Xuening’s day had been hair-raising and thrilling.And the haul was excellent.Not only had her pet Tree Monkey leveled up and learned new skills, her own strength had jumped.She’d also gotten quite a few Mutant Vine seeds.Yun Luohe had mentioned before that she needed Mutant Vine, so as soon as Cheng Xuening got some, she contacted Yun Luohe to tell her.—Putting away the communicator, Yun Luohe ate something to recover Stamina. Once she’d rested enough, it was time to leave.But first she had to pick up the drops scattered on the ground.Killing the Aberrant-Blood Brood Spider had dropped a lot.[Rubies ×3, Spider-Breeding Crystal ×1, Crimson-Blood Spider Eggs ×100, Blood Crystal Core ×1][Spider-Breeding Crystal: Used to rear spiderlings, command spider swarms, and issue orders.][Crimson-Blood Spider Eggs: Crimson-Blood Spiders have highly toxic blood and are an extremely obedient spider strain.]She’d gotten a Blood Crystal Core on Bat Island before—very useful. It can trigger Trait awakening and can also be used to nourish and incubate spider eggs.Aside from those, the most important thing was the Golden Chest.A High-Grade Key was required to open it.She’d gotten one earlier in the Secret Realm.Now she had two Golden Chests.One way or another, she had to open one and see.But a High-Grade Key requires Blue Sapphire Fragments to synthesize.Yun Luohe planned to go back and keep grinding Blue Crystal Ore, hurry and gather the fragments, and make a key.—Two days flew by.When she wasn’t diving to explore, Yun Luohe was on the Reef doing dailies. Now she had even more to do: keep a constant eye on Yuntun’s condition, incubate spider eggs, and use the Spider Island haul to make various apparatus.Busy as a spinning top, she didn’t stop moving.Last night, she finally gathered enough Blue Sapphire Fragments to synthesize a High-Grade Key and opened one Golden Chest.The two Golden Chests came from different places, so after a short struggle she opened the one from Spider Island first.She was in a hurry to get the full Spider Queen Cloak blueprint, after all.Sure enough, when it opened, the final blueprint fragment was indeed inside.As she’d hoped, Yun Luohe now had the complete blueprint, but it had to be made on an Advanced Sewing Machine. So last night she’d pulled an all-nighter to collect the machine’s materials and blueprint and built the Advanced Sewing Machine first.When she woke, the Advanced Sewing Machine was ready. Now she could finally craft the Spider Queen Cloak.Besides that, the chest held plenty of high-grade goods.[Queen’s Diadem Blueprint ×1, Violet Mithril ×2, Broodraising Gloves ×1, Diamond Spider Silk ×30, Amber Spider Eggs ×30, Rubies ×5, Earth Crystals ×10, Crystals ×10][Queen’s Diadem: When worn, permanently control up to 50 worker spiders. Each day, automatically mark 3 resource points, including mine tunnels and herb sites.][Materials: Violet Mithril ×1, Ruby ×1, Gold-Shell Fragments ×1, Diamond Spider Silk ×10][Broodraising Gloves: When worn, allows contact with spider eggs and accelerates worker-spider reproduction; permits handling toxic spider silk and harvesting poisonous herbs.][Diamond Spider Silk: A high-grade spider silk that blades can’t cut and fire can’t burn. Used to make advanced armor or traps.][Amber Spider Eggs: High-grade worker-spider eggs. Can hatch worker spiders of different trades.][Rubies: Rare material. Upgrades the Reef to increase Reef defense; collect 100 to upgrade the defense system with a chance of special effects; when socketed in weapons, has a chance to grant Flame enchantment.][Earth Crystals: Rare material. Grind to make Styptic Powder, or use to reinforce buildings.]For the past two days, Yun Luohe had been focused on incubating and rearing those Amber Spider Eggs.What she’d gotten on Spider Island would be hugely useful for developing the Reef. As long as these eggs hatched, she’d never lack hands to help with work again.She studied the Spider Breeding Compendium carefully. It recorded a wealth of information on raising worker spiders.In fact, the compendium was a training manual for the five major worker-spider classes:It covered taming methods, daily work, management points, and incubation protocols.They were: Gemstone Miner Spider, Horticulture Nanny Spider, Scavenger Corrosive Spider, Crimson-Blood Combat Spider, and Shield-Armor Patrol Spider.Each served different functions and could learn exclusive skills. Whatever task the master assigned, they would carry it out diligently.

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