Its chitin was thick and impenetrable to normal blades, the Yao slayer from his time in the afterlife world did little and just bounced off its armor. Li Yang was not in a good place, he refused to use his qi and alert everything in the forest to his or Ying Yue He's existence.

At least that was what was going to happen once they recognized him as someone who wasn't supposed to be here. There was no doubt an attack on sight command taught to these creatures and he wasn't one to figure out how much chomping it would take.

Every now and then, a flash of silky but thick thread blasted from the tip of the spider's abdomen and hit the thin air to where Li Yang once was. Without the shawl of enshroudment, all of these spiders would have trapped them in one go.

The sword would have gotten entangled if it stuck to the silk.

But without him using his strength and qi into his weapon, the results were meaningless. Li Yang tried to find a path to escape, but the spiders blocked the entirety of the way.

About a couple of feet behind him, Ying Yue He held a hand over her arm and winced.

It was her fault that they got caged in by all of the spiders in this portion of the forest, and whether she had a cloak or not, Ying Yue He could smell the iron of her blood.

The bleeding wasn't stopping at all with how razor sharp the thread was—and while she couldn't see where Li Yang himself was, only an approximate location, the sound of blades meeting one of the spider's armor, it was obviously a fruitless battle.

Then the shower of poison began.

Without any idea or clue as to where its prey was—several of the spiders encircling them started spitting out venom into the trees and ground, melting them off without any hesitation. She dodged every now and then, darting away from the already present venom.

Ying Yue He knew they couldn't be stalled this much.

One way or another, a decision would be made between the Liu Group and the Shen Society and with them in the territory of the Lius, it was insane for the Shens to come here without anything or anyone to back them up.

"Let's just go!"

The qi in Ying Yue He's body resumed at full blast. Her own movements were quick and smooth as she grabbed ahold of the cloak and leapt up to the trees. With one frontal kick covered with an earthen qi-like armor, the spider was thrown hundreds of feet back.historical

Ying Yue He took off her cloak for one moment to show Li Yang that she was alright, right before landed back onto the ground away from the spiders and ignored the stream of venom that melted and ate an entire tree away.

While she could have run immediately, Ying Yue He looked back to find her boss, cursing how the wardrobe's invisibility also applied on both of them so she couldn't exactly see him. But then she saw how the spider that Li Yang was fighting with was cut into half.

She wasn't surprised that the man had focused on sword qi if he had a talent for it.

Li Yang took his shawl off, sped towards her location, right past her, while she quickly latched onto the back of his robes. She gave him a small frown. "I recommend that we just use qi and run as fast as we can—we can't be slowed down by these bugs and other animals."

"They're classified under arachnida," Li Yang explained.

Ying Yue He pushed him forward and groaned. "Please don't give me animal facts right now, Mister Li. We don't have the time at all."

"Alright, my bad."

The two of them sped off to the north, irregardless of all the creatures that now chased after them. It would have been a stampede if all of them were land-borne and yet some of them took to the air.

"Protect your ears." Ying Yue He warned.

Her words were barely just in time for the first screeching of the bats that appeared and dove through the air. Ying Yue He and Li Yang separated at the first appearance of an enormous snake that awoke from its slumber.

Li Yang moved to the right, Ying Yue He to the left.

Daring the snake to pick a target, but by then, it was already too late. If it weren't for the addition of his qi and the boots, Li Yang was afraid that he wouldn't have matched Ying Yue He's speed.

It made no sense to pick her up earlier, the martial arts movement that he read on her profile made her fast. Before the two of them knew it, the two of them arrived at a large clearing. What he imagined to be towers fit for a magical-like academy were now throwing off large blasts of concentrated qi.

There were at least two individuals ducking and avoiding the blasts.

But somehow, even the towers were dwarfed by what appeared to be a gargantuan ship that lay on the sand. The small dot it was shown in the map from earlier was not enough to portray its actual size. More than that, his gaze focused on what appeared to be a shield of some kind.

He could already see the pink-haired cultivator, Mou Gu, dodging but never exactly getting nearer to the towers to cut them off. The second one managed to bypass the long-ranged artillery and finally passed into a range where the towers couldn't attack.

Several men flooded out of the towers to meet the lone cultivator head on.

It was overkill.

Hua Zhao looked up in time to see both Ying Yue He and Li Yang arrive. He dodged the first arrow that flew past him and then quickly cut off the second one and started backing away. "Oh—Mou Gu, retreat! We didn't have to find them, they're here!"

Mou Gu's gaze landed on them, and quickly ducked back into the ship's shields. "Get your asses over to the ship!"

"Oi, try to help take down these folks!"

It was far from the most impressive rescue, the Shen Society was dwarfed from two to twenty in this case, and many others had already recognized Ying Yue He, but they were going to take it.