Chapter 2287 — Why They Vanished, Part One
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In the same way, after Wei Zhao wrote a message on the ground for the Great Fire Lion, he left with Sun Jingyan and the Heavenly Thunder Pig...
As for the truth behind the disappearance of the Fire Lion Clan and the Spider Clan, the story must be traced back to the night Wei Zhao lodged in the Spider Clan's nest...
A silk bridge was at last completed in the early hours of the morning. The Heaven-Rank Spider was just about to lead its clansmen back to rest when the unexpected struck!
"Roar—" An angry bellow rang out, and three fiery red shapes came hurtling over!
It was the Great Fire Lion, bringing the Little Fire Lion and the Mother Fire Lion to attack the Spider Clan!
The three shapes moved with incredible speed. Before the Spider Clan could even react, they had already leaped onto the silk bridge the spiders had built, forcing the spiders—who had been about to withdraw—straight back to the other side of the mountain ravine!
Though the Spider Clan had built that silk bridge, destroying it was no work of a single moment. They could not breathe fire to burn it down as the Great Fire Lion could, nor could they stop the Great Fire Lion and its family from setting foot on the bridge; all they could do was fall back and flee without pause!
"Roar!" The Great Fire Lion let out a furious bellow, and the Little Fire Lion and Mother Fire Lion beside it roared in fury as well!
Once the Great Fire Lion had come down off the silk bridge, it had no more scruples. It simply loosed a breath of flame, and in an instant those spiders too slow to flee were all scorched, a great swath of them—several spiders—burned on the spot!
It was not enough to kill them, but for these spiders to recover their vitality, a great deal of rare natural treasures would be spent!
The Heaven-Rank Spider's expression was very grim. What it dreaded most had come to pass—who would have thought the Great Fire Lion would choose this moment to attack? And three fire lions at once, no less!
What struck it as even stranger was that the strength of the Little Fire Lion and the Mother Fire Lion had both risen to the peak of the late Mystic Rank!
Thus the Little Fire Lion and Mother Fire Lion, who had once had almost no fighting power, could not breathe flame but could now rouse fire-attribute true qi. That scorching true qi, struck out with their claws, was fatal to the Spider Clan as well!
Today, when the Heaven-Rank Spider saw the natural treasure the little spider had plucked at the cliff's edge, it knew things would be troublesome! For that natural treasure was one useful to the Fire Lion Clan, just as the treasure the little spider had picked was one useful to the Spider Clan.
And the fire-attribute treasure at the cliff's edge was in fact of little use to the Spider Clan. The little spider, out on its first solo expedition, had not known these common rules and had plucked a treasure belonging to the Fire Lion Clan—which violated the tacit understanding between the two spirit-beast clans!
The two spirit-beast clans, though forever clashing over natural treasures, contested only those useful to both. As for treasures useful to only one of the clans, both sides tacitly chose to ignore them!
After all, what was the point of plucking something of no use to one's own clan? If you plucked theirs and they plucked yours, both sides would end up wounded—what kind of madness was that? So for a thousand years this had become an unwritten law among the two spirit-beast clans of the Ulonghot Mountains.
The little spider had known none of this. It had touched a fire-attribute treasure of the Fire Lion Clan. At the time, because Wei Zhao was present and the little spider had only just been found, the Heaven-Rank Spider had said little, hoping the treasure had been at the cliff's edge and that the Fire Lion Clan had best not noticed.