Chapter 2280 — The Teleportation Formation
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Construct a teleportation formation? You are not about to tell me that someone once built a teleportation formation here, are you? Right here in this ancient sect?" Wei Zhao was utterly astonished. He had never imagined that this mountain range of Ulonghot, already reduced to ashes, still concealed such an enormous secret!
"That is correct!" the Heaven-Rank Spider affirmed. "This formation was created by the founding patriarch of this sect. According to legend, it can be used three times. He himself used it once, and that man—the contracted master of the Great Fire Lion—used it once. Now... it should still be usable one more time!"
"Hiss..." Wei Zhao drew a sharp breath. Only three times? And he had actually been fortunate enough to discover this teleportation formation?
"Our spider clan was one of the spirit beast clans that aided the founding patriarch in creating the teleportation formation all those years ago," the Heaven-Rank Spider said. "In truth... I was the contracted spirit beast of this sect's founding patriarch..."
"Good heavens!" Wei Zhao felt his brain short-circuit. The Heaven-Rank Spider was actually the contracted spirit beast of this sect's founding patriarch? Then how long had it lived? And it was still at odds with the Fire Lion clan—the contracted spirit beast of the sect's later head?
"Strange, is it not?" the Heaven-Rank Spider said with a laugh. "This secret is known only to me and the Fire Lion clan. Even the later successors of this sect did not know of it..."
"And yet you are still enemies?" Wei Zhao did not quite understand. "In theory, are you not all of one house?"
"I explained earlier—only with competition can everyone's enthusiasm for cultivation be spurred on," the Heaven-Rank Spider said. "Never mind us; even among the disciples within a single sect, is there not competition? Even among the sons and brothers of one clan, does competition not likewise exist? Does that mean they are not of one house?"
"That... is indeed true." Wei Zhao thought of Yu Bing and Yu Shan, of Zhao Qibing and Zhao Qilei—it was indeed so.
"The bottom line between us is this: we may struggle against one another, but we must never take each other's lives," the Heaven-Rank Spider said. "Otherwise, though our spider clan is greater in number, if the Fire Lion clan wished to wipe us out entirely, it would not truly be too difficult! Apart from some trouble in dealing with me, dealing with the other spiders is easy! Even so, many of our spiders have still been wounded! Only, we have our tricks for treating such fire wounds, so we do not end up crippled by them."
"I see." Wei Zhao now understood the relationship between these two spirit beast races. "Then you knew about the annihilation of the sect on this mountain? You did not intervene? After all, you were the contracted spirit beasts of a former head—how could you simply sit by and watch this sect be reduced to ashes?"