Chapter 358 (1/2)

Chapter 358

Within the Forest of Darkness, the countless ancient trees soared high into the sky, completely blocking the sun . Huge vines were like dragons as they coiled all around . As Long Chen progressed deeper, the light within the forest became ever more gloomy .

A person would naturally feel uncomfortable with their vision sealed from the darkness . That kind of sensation provoked a natural fear .

As soon as he entered the forest, he felt as if he had entered the maw of a giant monster . Unknown dangers could pop up and devour his life at any moment .

Crunch .

An iron spear in Long Chen’s hand shot out . A spider that was around the size of a plate had stealthily appeared behind him and had just been about to attack him when Long Chen’s spear stabbed through it .

Suddenly, that black spider’s mouth opened and a white substance shot out at Long Chen . That white substance was a large net that quickly spread out .

Long Chen jumped in fright . Despite the fact that he had stabbed the spider through its vitals, it was still able to release such an attack .

He hastily dodged to the side . That net had reached a size of five feet, but it just missed Long Chen .

However, when the net flew by Long Chen, the air was filled with a disgusting stink, a stink that would make anyone nauseous .

“Even the spider web is poisonous!” Long Chen was slightly surprised . The creatures of the Forest of Darkness were truly too terrifying . All kinds of strange things continued to pop up, so many that it was impossible to defend against them all .

Just as he dodged the net, before he could even examine the spider, the spider suddenly exploded, and a dark liquid splashed out everywhere .

“s.h.i.+t!” Long Chen instinctively summoned out the blue flame of the Flame Salamander to cover his body .

That black liquid was instantly turned to vapor from the flame . But at the same time, an incomparably disgusting stench filled the air .

Long Chen immediately held his breath and rushed away . Several miles away, he wasn’t able to endure it any longer and began to vomit under a large tree .

“It was the Five-Flower Stink Spider… ugh . ” Long Chen continuously threw up, his stomach feeling like a churning sea .

The Five-Flower Stink Spider’s abdomen had two poison glands . One was used for releasing a poisonous liquid to capture prey .

But the other was used to secrete an incredibly disgusting stench . It was used to block opponents it had no chance of defeating . If a powerful Magical Beast wanted to eat it, it would release that stench . No Magical Beast would want to eat something so disgusting .

Long Chen was only able to recognize it because of this unendurable stench . Previously, he hadn’t paid much attention to the five-colored flower marks on its back .

“s.h.i.+t, I was too careless . s.h.i.+t, so unlucky- ugh!” Long Chen continued to puke . The Five-Flower Stink Spider was a special Magical Beast, and it was said to have been a rare existence even in ancient times .

It didn’t have a specific rank . It could even be said to be outside the cla.s.sification of Magical Beasts . However, its stench was too powerful, and there was no antidote .

Although it wouldn’t stink a person to death, it could make someone vomit over and over . Even a powerful cultivation base wasn’t able to stop that .

Long Chen puked for over two hours . He had even puked up his bile, and tears were streaming out of his eyes . He appeared unbearably miserable .

“Good things can’t be kept for oneself . They have to be shared with good friends . ” Long Chen clenched his teeth and returned to his original location where he had encountered the Five-Flower Stink Spider . Even now, Long Chen couldn’t help having tears stream down his face .

The stink in this area was just too dense . It wasn’t just smelly; it even provoked the eyes . Long Chen spread out his divine sense to search through the surrounding vegetation .

He saw many corpses of small insects that had all been suffocated to death by that stench .

Finally, he found the thing he was looking for . That was a black poison sac around the size of an egg .

The Five-Flower Stink Spider had two poison sacs . One would erupt along with its self-explosion . The other one was filled with its stinky fluid . That one was split into two layers .

The outer layer would explode, but the inner layer was much tougher and more supple . Normally, it wouldn’t easily be destroyed . And now, Long Chen did end up finding it intact .

As soon as he gathered that poison sac, Long Chen immediately fled . He then once more began to retch . Although he had nothing more to vomit up, he still couldn’t stop .

“This poison is way too abnormal . ” Only after a long time did Long Chen manage to suppress his urge to vomit . He arrived at a river and washed his pale face .

Long Chen suddenly frowned . “Huh?” He walked forward three hundred meters and arrived at a corpse . “This is already the fourth corpse…” He couldn’t help sighing . From this person’s robes, he could tell he was a core disciple of the Righteous path . His entire body was a dark purple, and he was swollen like a balloon, as if he had been about to self-detonate .

His divine sense swept over the corpse and didn’t find any injuries on his body . Once more sweeping his Spiritual Strength over the corpse, he noticed the color at his neck was quite a bit darker than the other parts of his body .

“If there was a puncture on his neck, it’d be hard to see after all this swelling . But it seems the most likely scenario is that he was bit by a mosquito-like creature… and from his posture, it seems he collapsed extremely naturally without any struggle . His face isn’t warped at all… so even when he was about to die, he didn’t sense any danger . The Forest of Darkness really is terrifying,” muttered Long Chen .

He had been in the Forest of Darkness for only five days now . Not only had he gathered various precious medicinal ingredients, but he had also run into all kinds of bizarre Magical Beasts . They had possessed a myriad of attacking methods . It was possible something as insignificant as a small caterpillar could take his life here .

This was the fourth corpse he had run into so far . Two had been Righteous disciples, while two had been Corrupt disciples . However, they hadn’t died from fighting, but to the indigenous inhabitants of the Forest of Darkness .

This person’s death was especially terrifying . He hadn’t sensed even the slightest bit of danger before dying .