Shu Chen's sword tip was about to touch the belly of the spider monster when Feng Wanqing abruptly pulled him back. He looked at her in confusion, only to see her face unusually solemn, her gaze fixed intently on the wound continuously gushing black liquid. The liquid did not drip onto the ground, but instead hovered eerily in midair, writhing like a living creature and exuding a chilling, sinister aura.
"Something's wrong!" Feng Wanqing said in a low voice. "This monster... it seems to be transforming!"
No sooner had her voice fallen than a fierce black light erupted from the spider monster's wound, enveloping Shu Chen and Feng Wanqing within it. As the black light dissipated, the dying spider monster vanished entirely, replaced by a churning mass of black mist that constantly twisted and shaped itself, letting out a hair-raising screech.
Chapter 146