Chapter 1363: Chapter 685: The Trapped Woman
The source of the smell came from the moss densely covering the stone door. Hidden deep within this sunless shadowy place, coupled with the unusually damp pit, Lin Beichen felt an overwhelming pressure bearing down on him.
He knew well that if this blow still couldn’t open the stone door, then, despite his unwillingness to see the person inside trapped to death, he would be helpless.
The spiders behind him were slowly closing in, seemingly deterred by the previous Celestial Thunder. Their pace had slowed considerably. But Lin Beichen understood that to these spiders, a living person was undoubtedly a sumptuous feast, and they would not easily give up this great dining opportunity.
So, he quickened his pace in silently reciting Daoist Techniques, his brow furrowed, concentrating intently.
Just then, a series of "clack-clack" sounds came from the stone door. Hearing this, an inexplicable motivation surged within Lin Beichen. This noise meant that his efforts were paying off, and given a little more time, he could successfully open the stone door!
The "clack-clack" grew louder, and Lin Beichen’s furrowed brow slowly unfurled. He focused entirely on the spell to open the stone door, each word and sound condensed with his blood, sweat, and hope.
A few breaths later, he suddenly opened his eyes wide and shouted, "Break!"
Accompanied by a deafening "boom," the noise of crackling and falling stones rang out incessantly.
Lin Beichen knew that the heavy stone door had finally been opened by him. He hurriedly shouted, "Are you still there? Hurry out, we can’t stay here any longer!"
To avoid the potential harm from the explosive opening of the stone door, Lin Beichen quickly darted to the side the moment it burst open.
At this moment, he peered anxiously into the stone door’s interior under the faint light, hoping to quickly find the trapped person.
He knew he must rescue the person from this dangerous pit before the spiders surrounded them.
However, just then, Lin Beichen froze. The stone door had blasted open a large hole, and a face suddenly poked out from within.
At first glance, the face resembled that of a woman, but as it slowly extended from the stone door, Lin Beichen immediately overturned his initial judgment.
It wasn’t a woman at all... no, it wasn’t even a human!
The face was not connected to a neck but was pressed onto a fleshy mass like a mask. The mass squirmed slowly, and Lin Beichen finally saw the true form of this human-voiced creature.
The blob seemed to be formed by the gathering of multiple human torsos, with indistinct human features visible on it. Besides the woman’s face he saw earlier, three or four other incomplete human faces appeared on the mass. On the outside of this mass grew limb-like organs, which, upon careful observation, were indeed human limbs. However, their number was astonishing, with a total of twelve arms and twelve legs.
The twelve legs rested on the ground like centipede feet, slowly moving toward Lin Beichen. The twelve arms waved and clawed incessantly in the air, as if trying to devour everything they could touch.
The blob, putting in a mighty effort, squeezed itself through the blasted hole of the stone door and charged directly at Lin Beichen immediately after coming out.
The faces that resembled masks all opened their large mouths, emitting shrill screams that echoed in the cavernous pit, sending chills down one’s spine.
Facing such a being that was neither human nor ghost, Lin Beichen couldn’t help but be momentarily stunned. But at this moment, what he felt more was helplessness and indignation.
He previously had the feeling of being played, and now it seemed he indeed was played—but not by a person, by this monster!
However, there’s no point now in dwelling on these thoughts.
Since the voice from inside the stone door wasn’t human, he saw no need to linger here any longer.
May all this, including this secret chamber and the Ghost Refining Technique, vanish forever into the annals of history!
Lin Beichen looked up, carefully confirming the position of the spider silk. He planned to climb the spider silk back to the top of the pit and then leave from the secret chamber above.
Yet, as he jumped onto the spider silk, he discovered something that left him utterly helpless.
It turned out that when he had killed the giant black spider earlier, the white light that pierced through the spider’s belly caused its pale green blood to splatter onto the spider silk.
That pale green blood seemed to possess extremely strong corrosive properties.
Although the spider silk’s capacity to bear weight was comparable to steel cables, it was, after all, biological in nature and could not withstand the highly corrosive giant spider blood.
The moment Lin Beichen stepped on the spider silk, he knew something was wrong. He understood that, let alone the blob catching up with him, even a slightly larger movement on his part might accelerate the spider silk’s breaking.
If he were to fall from the spider silk midway, death would be certain, whether he was smashed to death or eaten by spiders.
Such a result was entirely unacceptable to Lin Beichen. Therefore, he could only cautiously move forward along the spider silk, carefully avoiding large movements to prevent the spider silk from breaking. However, just as he focused completely on escaping, the blob’s scream reached him from behind.
The blob seemed to have realized Lin Beichen’s intention to leave. Stationed directly below him, it waved its twelve arms frantically, screeching without pause.
