[天命为凰]

Untitled Part 44

044- Specter

Pu! Green blood splashed everywhere.

Yang Zhou saw the spider's wriggling legs under the nest.

Gao Xiang hurried over and thrust his sword down.

The spider's leg gradually ceased its wriggling.

Once the two pulled up their swords and lifted the nest open, all they saw was a dead spider.

Yang Zhou felt a little silly. "You guys ..."

What just happened? Why does it feel like a dream? We were in a hard battle earlier, so how did the battle end so quickly?

Lu Mingshu said, "This is a mother spider."

Yang Zhou blinked. "So?"

"It's the season for laying eggs now."

"And?"

"The Tiger King Spider is protective of its eggs. Hence, if the spider eggs were to come to any harm, it would definitely be provoked to rush back."

"But what did you gather the spider thread for?"

"According to the habits and properties of a Tiger King Spider, it would definitely defend its nest well. In fact, it's best defensive measure would be its spider thread."

Yang Zhou slowly found her train of reasoning. "You gathered the spider thread in order to find its weak point?"

Lu Mingshu nodded. "After I observed it, I discovered that this spider thread was tough to break. Hence, I tried to burn it."

As a result, her reasoning had born fruit and the nest was marked by flames. The Tiger King Spider immediately rushed back to protect its eggs; she had taken its nest as a tool to trap it — for a nest built by the Tiger King Spider itself, it would naturally think its nest would be sturdy.

"What if it could not be burned?"

Lu Mingshu answered indifferently. "We could chop it if it didn't burn. We would just lack a shortcut in that case."

Cleverness in trivial matters was cleverness in trivial matters after all. Under most circumstances, strength was still needed. Cleverness in trivial matters could be utilized, but the sharpest one would still be the sword in your hands.

Yang Zhou was stunned by her words. He suddenly felt a sense of marvel, as if he were conversing with a teacher. But the one before his eyes was clearly a junior sister that had just reached the Inner Breath Realm, and was attending the spring hunt for the first time as a newbie.

While cleaning up the bloody scene, they took the useful parts of the Tiger King Spider away and buried the metallic smell of blood ... Once they were done, the team of three continued forward.

Afterwards, as Yang Zhou discovered, the commanding right of their small team gradually and unconsciously changed.

Between the three, the one with the most experience was undoubtedly him, yet Lu Mingshu would always find the simplest combat style. Moreover, according to his observations, Lu Mingshu was really strong too — strong in a very odd way.

For example, Gao Xiang's strength could be easily described. He could draw his sword swiftly and accurately, was adept with the sword maneuvers, had a fast reaction speed, and had an astonishing sense of physical energy about him.

As for Lu Mingshu? Her swordsmanship was indeed not bad, and it could be said that it was excellent in every way. Yet when she made a move, there would always be some subtle and ineffable shift of movement; he absolutely did not understand why she would make such a change at that time, but he discovered along the way that her every move would be optimized. Angle, force, and mystic force were not even a tiny bit wasted.