I, the Invincible Genius, Only Want to Live a Low-Key Life - Chapter 16

Time was passing quickly.

In the blink of an eye, another half month had passed.

Lin Feng had found quite a few rare treasures of heaven and earth in the Nine Nether Secret Realm, yet there was still no sign of the Bianhua Flower.

The place with the most promise was still the deep pool where he had encountered the Divine Medicine Valley and the black-robed man, but unfortunately, what the Ice Python was guarding there was not the Bianhua Flower.

Although only a third of the allotted time had passed and there were still two months until the secret realm opened, the inability to find the Bianhua Flower made him inevitably somewhat irritable and restless.

Evening.

Lin Feng was tired, and also hungry.

He found a slightly more spacious spot by the river and made a fire.

He cut a large piece of meat from the Ice Python’s corpse in his Cosmic Bag and started roasting it.

The Ice Python was the tastiest exotic beast Lin Feng had eaten since entering the Nine Nether Secret Realm, and it was also extremely nutritious.

The meat was tender and delicious; as it roasted over the fire, oil sizzled from it, and with a dash of secret seasoning, the aroma was simply irresistible.

Unfortunately, no matter how tasty the food, it couldn’t dispel Lin Feng’s gloomy mood.

If he found the Bianhua Flower with time to spare, he figured he would try to eat every exotic beast he encountered in the Nine Nether Secret Realm.

The meat of exotic beasts was far tastier than that of ordinary wild animals, and of course, their strength was on a completely different level as well.

After eating and drinking his fill, Lin Feng leaned against a large tree to rest.

The countless sounds of insects all around and the occasional distant roar of some unknown wild beast did not affect him in the least.

Over this past half month, Lin Feng was truly exhausted. In order to find the Bianhua Flower, he had hardly rested at all, and the psychological burden was wearing on him-even the strongest body would feel fatigued.

Just as he closed his eyes to recuperate,

the dense forest around him began to tremble slightly, but the noise was masked by the insects’ chirping. Not long after, a Human-faced Demon Spider the size of a washbasin, with a face resembling a human’s, was drawn out of the forest by the smell of roasting meat, staring at Lin Feng, who was leaning against the tree.

This was a Human-faced Demon Spider, its whole body pitch black, a social creature, highly venomous, nocturnal, and fond of hunting in the darkness.

After standing there for a while and finding that Lin Feng didn’t move, the Human-faced Demon Spider launched its attack, pushing off powerfully with its hind legs and springing toward Lin Feng.

But before it could even get close, it was slashed in half by a wave of sword energy, green blood splattering everywhere-this stirred up a hornet’s nest.

Countless Human-faced Demon Spiders leapt from the forest, each as large as a washbasin.

Yet their fate was the same as the first; all were sliced in half, their bodies piling up like a small hill, green blood pooling and flowing into the river nearby, instantly poisoning a great number of fish and shrimp, showing just how potent their venom was.

Only when no more Human-faced Demon Spiders appeared from the woods did Lin Feng slowly stand up, leaping lightly onto a branch.

Despite the chaos all around, not a speck of dust touched him.

Standing on the branch, Lin Feng fixed his gaze on a certain part of the dense forest, and with a gentle swipe of his finger, a wave of sword energy swept forth.

“Screee!!!”

A miserable shriek came from the dense forest.

A gigantic Human-faced Demon Spider revealed itself, at least several dozen times larger than the previous ones, as big as a small car.

At this moment, one of its legs had already been severed, and a large amount of green blood was pouring from the wound, instantly melting the vegetation on the ground.

Two bowl-sized, crimson eyes locked tightly on Lin Feng, its fangs more than ten centimeters long.

Man and giant insect faced off in a standoff.

This was the first time Lin Feng had seen such a huge spider-type exotic beast, and he was genuinely interested.

After about half a minute, the Human-faced Demon Spider suddenly launched its attack, spitting several webs at Lin Feng before swiftly turning to flee.

Easily dodging, Lin Feng followed at an unhurried pace. This Human-faced Demon Spider was clearly different from the previous ones-it had already developed a trace of intelligence. He wanted to follow and see where its lair was.

More than ten minutes later,

the Human-faced Demon Spider arrived at the entrance of an underground cave and jumped in without hesitation.

After drawing near, Lin Feng observed that the cave entrance was very large, with a diameter of several hundred meters. Below was likely the nest of the Human-faced Demon Spiders.

He stepped forward, walking on air without falling, and then proceeded step by step to the center of the cave entrance, his body slowly beginning to descend.
During this process, Lin Feng did not rely on any external force; he accomplished everything on his own. This indicated that he had at least reached the fifth realm of cultivation-the Sky Soaring Realm.

Even in Li Province, the Sky Soaring Realm was considered to be among the ranks of the strong.

Within the Divine Sky Sword Sect, an ordinary Elder was at the level of the Sky Soaring Realm.

In other words, based solely on the cultivation Lin Feng had displayed so far, he was already on par with an ordinary Elder of the Divine Sky Sword Sect.

After descending more than a hundred meters, he finally reached the bottom of the cave. It was pitch black inside, so dark that one could not see their own hand in front of their face.

However, for a high-level cultivator like Lin Feng, night vision was already a basic skill, so he could clearly see the surroundings.

Beneath his feet lay piles of white bones, layer upon layer.

It was obvious that many animals had met their end at the mouths of the Human-faced Demon Spiders.

Lin Feng even spotted quite a few human skulls among them.

He looked around.

The surrounding rock walls were riddled with countless small holes, ranging in diameter from several dozen centimeters to a few meters. There was even one that reached thirty or forty meters across.

“Screech, screech, screech… screech, screech, screech…”

A piercing scraping sound echoed.

Pairs upon pairs of crimson eyes appeared at the entrances of the surrounding caves.

If an ordinary person were in such an environment, they would probably have fainted from fright long ago. Lin Feng, on the other hand, remained perfectly calm, showing not the slightest hint of panic.

He wasn’t pretending-he truly didn’t take the Human-faced Demon Spiders seriously.

If he wished, he could wipe out all these disgusting creatures with a single move.

“Screech…”

A suddenly louder sound rang out.

Following the noise, he saw an enormous Human-faced Demon Spider crawling out of the largest cave, as big as a three-story building.

Faced with the densely packed Human-faced Demon Spiders and the gigantic demon spider beast, Lin Feng remained as composed as ever.

“Screech!!!”

The demon spider beast let out a sharp scream.

The surrounding Human-faced Demon Spiders seemed to receive an order and all leapt from their holes, pouncing toward Lin Feng.

Standing in the center, Lin Feng moved with a thought.

Countless sword auras appeared out of thin air. In just a few seconds, all the Human-faced Demon Spiders were slaughtered, their corpses falling to the ground and completely covering the bones beneath.

This was the terrifying aspect of high-level sword cultivators-their offensive and destructive power was unmatched among all cultivators.

However, sword cultivators also had a weakness: their defense was low. If one could withstand a sword cultivator’s attacks, there was a chance to counterattack.

Perhaps sensing the strength of the human before it, the demon spider beast quickly retreated into the cave.

Lin Feng immediately followed.

After walking several hundred meters, he saw many cocoon-like objects hanging from the cave ceiling, some large, some small, presumably food wrapped in spider silk by the demon spider beast.

He continued deeper for another hundred meters.

At last, he reached the spacious deepest part of the cave.

However, after looking around, Lin Feng did not see any sign of the demon spider beast.

He had clearly watched it enter-how could it have vanished into thin air?

Such a huge spider, could it really just disappear?

He hadn’t encountered any forks in the path along the way!

Lin Feng felt frustrated, certain that he had missed something.

But he had no intention of searching further.

It was too much of a waste of time.

He still had important matters to attend to.

If it ran, so be it!

It was just a demon spider beast.

For others, its Inner Core and Poison Sac were highly valuable, fetching a good price or exchangeable for cultivation resources. But for Lin Feng, it wasn’t worth spending much time on.

Just as he was about to turn and leave,

a huge, semi-circular boulder deep in the cave caught Lin Feng’s attention.

There seemed to be signs that it had been moved.

Upon closer inspection,

the round boulder had indeed been shifted from the side.

Lin Feng guessed that the demon spider beast had moved it to block his escape route.

With a flick of his finger, a sword aura shot out from his fingertip, slicing the giant rock into countless small pieces.

Another cave appeared before him, and the sound of flowing water could be heard from within.

Could this be a passage connected to an underground river?