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Chapter 399 - 94: The Earl Returns (Happy 61, asking for monthly tickets!)

Chapter 399: Chapter 94: The Earl Returns (Happy 61, asking for monthly tickets!)

"Is the entrance here?"

Xu Shu stroked his chin and looked around. This was an ordinary hallway, not far from it were dust-covered flower pots and half-dead potted plants that stubbornly lived on. The diamond sand floor, once repaired, had already re-cracked, though it was still largely intact.

Besides the nearby window and the wooden door behind him, there was no other possible entrance.

And neither the window nor the door was obviously the entrance.

Xu Shu had been here twice before, and there was no place that immediately teleported anyone upon entry.

"You still dare to withhold information."

Xu Shu frowned, looked outside at Nie Qiba, who was bound within the boundary line like a Turtle Shell Binding with cobwebs, quite displeased. He manifested the Eight Spider Spears behind him, seemingly prepared to push her out of the boundary line and drag her back, thus provoking the Star Tower to attack—of course, this was a pretense.

Seeing this, Nie Qiba did freak out indeed, the last bit of slyness in her eyes, which she thought was subtle but was actually obvious to others, disappeared completely. She screamed in panic, "You need to chant! You need to chant the revered name of my lord to open the gates of the Divine Kingdom!"

So that was it... Xu Shu’s eyes shifted as he feigned putting away the Eight Spider Spears and then sneered coldly, "Do this again, and you bear the consequences."

"Yes, yes, I dare not do it again."

Nie Qiba quickly nodded, carefully watching Xu Shu’s expression, not daring to harbor any more small thoughts, and gritted her teeth, saying, "I’ll tell you, the revered name of my lord is—highest, eternal lord, I beseech you to hear my call..."

She spoke very slowly and clearly, meaning for Xu Shu to chant along with her.

However, just as she started, she saw the human opposite her chant faster and more clearly:

"You are the supreme authority of space, the great limitless Ouroboros, the Two-faced King of Ksitigarbha..."

No sooner had Xu Shu finished speaking, like a password mismatch on a lock, the wall in front of him suddenly began to fluctuate, revealing a dark hole.

Without a second word, his expression calm and gaze resolute, he walked straight into it and disappeared on the spot.

Leaving Nie Qiba, not far behind, with her eyes wide, incredulously watching everything and muttering to herself, "He actually, actually knows the revered name of my lord..."

She was shocked for a while, and upon seeing the "gate of Divine Kingdom" on the wall completely disappear, restored to a wall with no visible anomalies, she couldn’t help but get crafty thoughts again.

Looking at the cobwebs on her body, she felt fear and a bit of probing.

Eventually, about half an hour later, Nie Qiba, having not much wit to begin with, extended her fifty-centimeter-long tongue and began licking the cobwebs.

She kept secreting sticky mucus, smearing it all over the webs, hoping to dissolve them and thus free herself.

However, she found that the cobwebs were exceptionally tough and didn’t seem to dissolve simply through secreted fluids.

But when she pulled on them, she realized there was some give.

This filled Nie Qiba with immense joy; if she spent enough time, she could free herself!

Just then, as she was preparing to grind away the cobwebs with water-milling effort, she suddenly heard rustling noises behind her.

She hastily stopped her actions and looked back in confusion, only to discover a humanoid creature standing mere meters away.

He posed elegantly, his facial contours sharp as if carved with a knife, unusual patterns in his eyes.

"A spider alien species?"

Nie Qiba recognized at once that the figure before her was not human.

For, atop the other’s forehead was a circle of terrifyingly grotesque black compound eyes; all eight eyes were now fixed dead on her, staring at the sticky and tough cobwebs on her.

This made Nie Qiba feel as if she were being watched by some venomous snake, but separated by the barely noticeable boundary line, she couldn’t sense the other’s aura and thus wasn’t frightened.

Thinking about the obvious spider-like appearance of the creature, and recalling Xu Shu’s earlier transformation into a spider form, Nie Qiba immediately realized.

This was clearly an ally called in by that human!

"No wonder he was so confident entering my lord’s Divine Kingdom, not fearing my escape; it must be because he called a Death Soldier to watch over me!"

"Probably fearing any slight movement from me, this spider alien race individual would recklessly crash in, triggering the attention of that terrifying entity!"

"Hmph, I won’t be fooled!"

"Despicable race, as a divine attendant, yet forming alliances with humans, accursed traitors!"

"Once my lord breaks free and fully revives, you will not be spared!"

With this in mind, Nie Qiba naturally dared not struggle any further but coldly said, "Off with you, you think you can offend my lord?"

"Your lord? Haha, deceitful humans, so you’ve been dealing with such dark creatures... No, her hostility towards me is so high, it must be that the human took advantage of the aura of our Empress to subdue her." The newcomer squinted his eyes and took a deep breath in an extremely graceful posture, muttering to himself.

His face was filled with aristocratic aura, it was indeed Lance, the Alien Species Earl from the Black Widow clan!

He had been sensing the presence of the "Empress" periodically appearing and disappearing along the way.