Helicoverpa Rosa's scarlet lips had become the same dark colour as her clothes. She still gave off an awe-inspiring and noble bearing, but she no longer possessed the deep malice of the past. Her expression was calm and cold. Only when he looked into her pitch-black eyes would he be able to see a sense of bloodthirstiness and cruelty.
After meeting those eyes once, Li Qingshan knew that he could no longer rely on her making any tactical mistakes. She had already returned to being that natural predator, the calm weaver.
Strands of spider silk criss-crossed with one another, passing through the large cavern. Some were as thick as ropes, while others were so thin that they were difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.
At first glance, they seemed messy and disorderly, but on closer inspection, they were symmetrical and complementing one another, forming a three-dimensional spider. It possessed a geometric beauty.
At the same time, Helicoverpa Rosa also looked at Li Qingshan, examining the greatest prey she had ever encountered.
Just by standing there casually, he gave off a bearing that seemed like the endless mountains and surging seas. Without a doubt, he had become even more powerful than before, and he had done so at an unbelievable speed.
To daemons, time should have passed extremely easily, but he seemed to be making use of every minute and second to become stronger. Compared to his current strength, what shocked her even more was his rate of improvement.
If she could not capture him while he was still young, there would be a day when he broke free from the spider like a bird and took to the sky.
"You've finally come!"
Li Qingshan smiled. "Mother of my child, this is a nice disguise. I believe it'll be even more interesting when I rip it apart later."
"I've been waiting for you!" Helicoverpa Rosa smiled charmingly, like the legendary caterpillars, magnificent yet venomous.
"Aren't you worried that we'll tear this place apart when we fight later? The night roamers have spent a lot of effort to build this for you! "
Li Qingshan pointed at Spider City behind her. After Ye Liusu unified the night roamers, this arena that had been specially built to please Helicoverpa Rosa had become empty as well. It had become a dead city.
"That's just a boring toy. Do you still want to keep blabbering? North Moon! "
Helicoverpa Rosa had never attempted to understand the art and sculptures of night roamers. To her, there was no fundamental difference between a beautiful, majestic city like this and an empty cavern. It was just more like watching from above. The night roamers killed one another, and as long as she wanted, she could get the night roamers to build another one.
"I'm here, I want to do it again …"
Li Qingshan snickered viciously, but he suddenly stopped halfway through his joke. He remembered how Xiao An was hiding in the dark. Probably no one would treat Xiao An, who had turned into a skeleton, as a regular girl, yet he was thinking about how he could not curse in front of her.
However, Li Qingshan would not be so foolish as to throw himself into a trap. Helicoverpa Rosa had chosen this place to fight him, which was exactly what he wanted, because beneath his feet was the end of an underground river.
As it was too close to Spider City, he did not want to provoke Helicoverpa Rosa, which was why he had never refined it. However, he had come this time for a showdown with her, so he obviously had no qualms about this.
The waterfall suddenly stopped. The surging water constantly surged and roared behind Li Qingshan. The water level rapidly rose until it filled the entire cavern. The pressure from the extremely soft water completely exceeded the imaginations of regular people. The surroundings of the cavern cracked, but not a single droplet of water could pass over Li Qingshan's shoulder.
Li Qingshan crossed his arms. His tall and straight figure was like a dam blocking the river. Surging daemon qi permeated the river behind him, taming the river like a tamed beast.
A dignified expression appeared on Helicoverpa Rosa's face. She knew that she could not allow Li Qingshan to continue accumulating his strength.
The tower beneath her feet suddenly collapsed. She had already crossed thousands of feet and arrived in front of Li Qingshan. With a shake of her right hand, a black whip unfurled. Under the infusion of her strength and daemon qi, it suddenly came to life. Like a dancing black dragon, it whizzed towards Li Qingshan.
"She's actually using a weapon!"
Li Qingshan frowned. He did not dare to be careless.
The strongest aspect of a daemon was itself. With Helicoverpa Rosa's strength, the power of a casual claw or bite was far greater than the power of an ordinary artifact.
Yet, she had actually given up on her natural claws, teeth, and legs. That in itself indicated a certain problem. It seemed like the whip was woven from spider silk as well, which was very normal. Although daemons could use daemon qi to refine human spiritual and arcane artifacts, it was often not suitable for daemons in battle. It would instead affect their ability to unleash their strength.
Fiendish demons with higher intelligence would usually use their own materials to make suitable weapons. But for some reason, this whip was the same color as the clothes she was wearing, pitch-black. Logically speaking, a product woven from spider silk should be snow-white and transparent.
These thoughts flashed through his head. Li Qingshan drew his Dragon Seizing bident and spat out two streams of water. They coiled around the whip and wrapped around it. He was not hoping to defeat the enemy and achieve victory. He only hoped to buy some time.
Under the spirit turtle's warning, Li Qingshan dared not be careless about this battle at all. Little Ann was his powerful support, but she was more of a safety measure. Unless it was truly a matter of life and death, Li Qingshan would not let Little Ann take action.
As a result, he made up his mind as soon as he arrived in Spider City. He would adopt a defensive stance first. As long as he could refine the river behind him, he would be able to directly connect his system of water from Moon Court lake to here. As long as he succeeded, he would be undefeatable.
As soon as the two streams of water wrapped around the black whip, they were dyed pitch-black. The spiritual qi dispersed and receded.
Li Qingshan experienced a great sense of alarm. He instinctively unleashed the Spirit Turtle's Profound Shell and formed a semi-circular screen of light before him.
Boom! It was like a clap of thunder.
Basically the moment the Spirit Turtle's Profound Shell had been formed, Helicoverpa Rosa's whip struck it viciously.
A long crack immediately appeared on the screen of light before Li Qingshan.
Originally, he did not take it to heart. Although his comprehension of the Spirit Turtle Transformation had deepened, and the Spirit Turtle's Profound Shell had become even tougher, it was not something that could be shattered so easily. As long as he could keep her busy, he would be able to refine the river. With an endless supply of spiritual qi, he could even fight a battle of attrition against Helicoverpa Rosa.
However, the crack was clearly black, and it seemed to be alive. It constantly spread and seeped into the Spirit Turtle's Profound Shell like it was alive. In the blink of an eye, a crack had appeared, and it rapidly expanded.
"There's poison on the whip! What kind of poison is this? It can even corrode the Spirit Turtle's Profound Shell! "
Li Qingshan's face changed. As his strongest defensive ability, the Spirit Turtle's Profound Shell possessed the special characteristic of isolating everything. It had been breached by great powers in the past, but it had never been corroded by anything.
He had personally experienced the poison of Helicoverpa Rosa in the past, but it was definitely not as potent as this. Otherwise, as long as it grazed his skin, half of his body would be corroded away.
"Take a look! North Moon, this is my true strength. Do you really think you can defeat me? "
Helicoverpa Rosa shrieked behind him. The smile on her face twisted. That was the delight of revenge. She did not do anything special, but the whip twisted and stabbed into the crack in the Spirit Turtle's Profound Shell. This was no longer a regular whip, but an extension of her limbs.
Li Qingshan was not bold enough to let the whip touch him. He surged with daemon qi, and the Dragon Seizing pitchfork in the shape of a two-headed snake immediately sprang to life. The two snake heads opened their mouths and bit down viciously on the whip.
At the same time, he used his daemon qi to repair the Spirit Turtle's Profound Shell in an attempt to lock up the whip. After all, the arcane artifact had been tempered by cultivators over and over again. It was forged from extremely tough materials, so it was impossible for it to stop the whip for a while under the injection of his daemon qi.
However, the black poison spread mercilessly to the Dragon Seizing pitchfork. The two-headed snake that had been awe-inspiring a moment ago immediately became exhausted, losing the power of the Dragon Seizing. Meanwhile, Li Qingshan's daemon qi only managed to stop the spread of the poison slightly.
In a single clash, the Dragon Seizing pitchfork was destroyed.
Like a venomous dragon breaking free, the whip danced about in a dazzling manner. Black shadows enveloped Li Qingshan's surroundings, filled with the aura of death.
As long as the poison came in contact with even the slightest bit, he would have to pay an extremely horrific price.
Li Qingshan instead calmed down. He opened his mouth and spat out the Tiger Demon's Breath, which entangled with the whip. However, as soon as it collided with the whip, even the wind was dyed black.
Logically speaking, poison could only corrode physical objects, but Helicoverpa Rosa's bone-eating poison could even corrode daemon qi and spiritual qi.
Fortunately, Li Qingshan's breath was endless, which finally stopped the whip's attack slightly. As for Helicoverpa Rosa, she had yet to actually use it!
The Tiger Demon's Breath could block the whip at most, but the eight legs behind her were definitely coated in the same poison. How was he supposed to block it?
The battle had only just begun, but Li Qingshan understood why the spirit turtle's daemon core had given off such a great warning. He really was in danger of dying in this battle!
As a Daemon Commander, Helicoverpa Rosa also possessed three innate abilities. Li Qingshan had seen two of them in the past. One was her eyes that could see through all obstructions, making it convenient for her to hunt down prey. The other was turning completely silver, granting her a powerful defence.
However, there was one more that Li Qingshan had never seen before. It was also her only offensive ability, which was the "Bone-eating Poison".
Yes, during the last encounter, she had injected vicious poison into Li Qingshan's body countless times, but the effects were not ideal. However, that was just her instincts as a venomous spider. It could not be regarded as an innate ability at all.
That was because the innate ability was not the type that could be used immediately. Instead, it required tremendous amounts of daemon qi and effort to refine her own poison.
Who knew how many years it had already been since she had encountered an opponent that she could fight, so why would she specially use this innate ability and refine that terrifying "Bone-eating Poison" normally?
Without her only offensive ability, she was like a tiger without claws and teeth. Although she still possessed her physical strength, she could not even unleash half of its destructive power. She suffered an extremely humiliating defeat at Li Qingshan's hands.
Now, it's time for her to take revenge. You're welcome. Your support is my greatest motivation!
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