Chapter 76: Let Me Recap It for You!

“Here, drink this.” With a flick of his fingers, Wang Chen produced a vial of potion.

“I just need a little rest, there’s no need to waste the potion,” Lin Lehan protested.

“Don’t be stubborn. Your lips are pale,” Wang Chen said, breaking the seal on the vial.

Lin Lehan took it, her face touched. “Hero, you’re so good to me.”

She drank the potion, smacking her lips. “Hey, it’s so sweet, and there’s a hint of fruit.”

“Of course, glucose is sweet,” Wang Chen replied with a smile.

“Huh?” Lin Lehan was dumbfounded. “I thought it was a real potion. All that gratitude for nothing.”

“You don’t consider glucose a potion?” Wang Chen said. “With me here, what need have you for any other medicine?”

He waved Forest’s Gale, and peaceful energy radiated from the staff’s tip.

“Praise of Life!”

A healing wave enveloped Lin Lehan, gradually restoring her condition.

“Hero, your profession is so unique. You can heal and fight,” Lin Lehan said, her big eyes full of curiosity.

“What’s so special? Aren’t there professions like this in the Western Territories?” Wang Chen replied, unconcerned.

“Still, yours must be rare, right? At least a rare-tier profession,” Lin Lehan speculated.

“Actually, it’s a hidden profession: Life Transmuter,” Wang Chen said solemnly. “This profession manipulates life at will, able to both attack and heal.”

“I simply steal the life force from those fierce beasts and transfer it to the injured, curing them,” he continued.

Lin Lehan, bewildered by his convincing explanation, asked, “So the life you used to heal me just now—was it stolen from the Sky Silkworm Spider?”

“No, the Sky Silkworm Spider was so battered, it had no vitality left. I borrowed from your future life force and brought it forward to now. Don’t you feel much better? That’s because a year of your lifespan is powering you,” Wang Chen said, struggling to contain his laughter.

“What? I’ve lost a year of my life?” Lin Lehan jumped up, her face anxious.

She grabbed Wang Chen’s arm and shook it. “Hero, how could you do that without asking me first!”

With a tearful face, she pleaded, “Wang Xiaotu, you have to take responsibility! How many supplements will it take to make up a year of life?”

“All right, all right—I was just teasing you,” Wang Chen said, not daring to tease her further, knowing she would believe him.

He took a spider egg from his storage space and placed it on the ground.

“Look, egg-guarding spider silk.”

“Wow!” Lin Lehan’s eyes lit up. “Thank you, hero! My transfer quest is secure now!”

She immediately went to hug the spider egg.

Wang Chen watched her blissful expression in silence. Only in such circumstances would a girl be so eager for an insect.

“Hero, did you encounter any danger in the spider lair? You seemed quite relaxed,” Lin Lehan asked, clutching the egg like a velociraptor with its prize.

Indeed, as she said, Wang Chen emerged from the lair and immediately fought the Sky Silkworm Spider, his condition seemingly excellent. This indicated his journey in the lair had been smooth.

“How should I put it?” Wang Chen mused. “There were quite a few pleasant surprises. Not only did I get the egg-guarding spider silk, but I also learned much about the diversity of fierce beasts.”

“How so?” Lin Lehan’s curiosity was piqued, her attention shifting from the egg to Wang Chen.

Though she often seemed scatterbrained, at heart she was eager to learn, naturally intrigued by Wang Chen’s ‘pleasant surprises.’

Seeing her interest, Wang Chen decided to recount his experiences in the spider lair while she rested.

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Wang Chen advanced through the narrow passage. Though he had cast protective spells on himself, he was confident there would be no traps.

Strangely, after walking nearly four or five hundred meters, he encountered no traps until he reached a rock cavern.

This cavern was much smaller than the one where food was stored.

Under the powerful headlamp, everything inside was clearly visible.

The reason he had come—the egg-guarding spider silk—was right before his eyes.

In the corner of the cavern, five or six spider eggs, each the size of a human child, lay piled together.

Nearby lay a heap of shredded cocoons and two animal skeletons.

Wang Chen didn’t rush to collect the eggs. He stood still. “This place is so small. If anything were to hide, it would have to be…”

He raised his head, and as the headlamp illuminated the upper wall, a Sky Silkworm Spider crouched there.

It had been lying in wait for Wang Chen, but once discovered, it began to hiss, its mouthparts quivering.

Its tail flicked, launching a web projectile at Wang Chen.

In such a cramped space, Wang Chen had nowhere to dodge, but he didn’t intend to. He let the web projectile burst against his barrier.

Then, he directed a water jet to clear the webs, checking the spider’s level.

A purple light flashed in his eyes, and the spider’s information appeared in his mind.

[Sky Silkworm Spider lv14]

[Skill One: Web Bind—shoots a web projectile; upon impact, the web expands and binds the target tightly.]

[Skill Two: Web Weaving—spins ordinary silk into a web; the silk’s adhesiveness is strong, serving as a trap or providing early warning via web vibrations.]

“So it’s only level fourteen. No wonder it’s much smaller than the one outside,” Wang Chen thought. “It doesn’t have a third skill—it’s a male. Seems my guess was right.”

“In that case, let’s finish this quickly.”

Wang Chen set the water jet before him to block incoming web projectiles, then freed Forest’s Gale to dance.

A heavy beam of light fell from the staff’s tip, burrowing into the ground beneath the male spider and erupting suddenly.

A massive stone hand broke through the earth, grabbing for the Sky Silkworm Spider.

The cavern was already tight; the stone hand struck from below, leaving the male spider no room to dodge. It was completely enveloped.

The five thick stone fingers didn’t even close; Wang Chen simply had them press the spider against the rock wall with full force.

The stone hand pressed down, pinning the spider with immense strength. It struggled desperately, limbs flailing, and web projectiles—whether fired intentionally or squeezed out under pressure—filled every gap between the fingers.

As the spider’s despairing cries faded, its life ended.

[Successfully killed Sky Silkworm Spider lv14, gained 280 experience points]

Wang Chen entered the cavern, glancing at the dead spider. “This is no different from finding a spider at home and squashing it.”

He left the stone hand in place, lest the bloody corpse fall, and went to the corner, collecting all the spider eggs into his storage space.

He then searched the surroundings carefully and found, above the rock wall, a tunnel under excavation—shallow, resembling a niche.

Seeing this, Wang Chen understood everything and turned to leave.

He walked straight through the passage, entered the food storage cavern, and then turned toward the exit, not even glancing at the tunnel.