Shi Feiyang resided in Bitter Bamboo Temple, diligently cultivating in the serene bamboo forest hermitage. It wasn't just him; his fellow disciples were also working assiduously, watching as their supply of Five Elements Essence neared depletion.

Just when Lin Han reported in, mentioning that he wished to send his parents and relatives to Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, Shi Feiyang agreed and wrote a list for him to bring the corresponding people and items.

Lin Han sent his family out to sea via Antarctica, crossing the Aurora Fire on the day of the Winter Solstice to settle his family in the everlasting city. He then went to the Cabinet to obtain the Heavenly Official Jin Xunu's nod and the Earth Official Yuan Hua's seal, thus releasing the goods including a large amount of Five Elements Essence Qi and numerous Immortal Grass Spiritual Medicine.

In addition to goods, Shi Feiyang asked him to bring Shi Sheng along with two others, Long Meng and Wu Longzi, from Little Antarctica to Central Earth.

Long Meng had previously cultivated into a tall Daoist figure with purple hair and a purple beard, and Wu Longzi had achieved the appearance of a white-robed scholar. Upon arriving, Wu Longzi took a fancy to the beautiful python and, with a playful grin, began to flirt with her.

The beautiful python bared its teeth in warning at him, but he was unconcerned. When the python sprayed poison mist, he inhaled it all into his stomach and even licked his lips, praising its deliciousness.

The beautiful python ran to Shi Feiyang to complain, and while Shi Feiyang was questioning Shi Sheng about his studies, he warned Wu Longzi, "She's also a new subordinate of mine, just not very good at speaking yet. You're not allowed to bully her. If you truly like her, then you must try to win her heart with your courtship skills. Should she really be unwilling to reciprocate your feelings, then that's that. You may find a demon to mate with outside, but do not incite conflict within our own ranks. If you violate my rules, you should be able to imagine how I will deal with you."

Wu Longzi, of course, knew about Dragon Emperor's Technique Divine Power and quickly nodded, promising not to bully his 'sister.'

The Golden Spider, originally thinking herself formidable with a thousand years of Dao cultivation, suddenly encountered two Great Demons with over nine thousand years of cultivation each. The Ganoderma Immortal was also near ten thousand years old but was, after all, a fragile plant essence. Long Meng's imposing aura genuinely won hearts over at first sight...

She had once heard that the Little Antarctic Bright Realm housed the Myriad Cold Centipede, which could be either male or female, with profound cultivation. She had hoped to find it someday to become companions, but after following Shi Feiyang, she learned that it had already lost its physical body and been refined into a Divine Demon, which she regretted. Upon seeing Long Meng, her heart was instantly captivated.

Once fixated on following Bai Guanhong, she now left her fresh-faced brother aside, spreading her eight legs and preferring to circle around Long Meng.

Long Meng's past experiences with the Cold Centipede left deep scars in his heart, making him thereafter shun the company of females. He dedicated himself solely to cultivation, ignoring all of the Golden Spider's overtures and solicitations and focusing quietly on his Daoist practice.

After repeated rejections, the Golden Spider inevitably felt dejected and returned to Bai Guanhong to confide her woes. Bai Guanhong, engrossed in monitoring the growth of the young Gu insects and refining the Gu Food, listened with one ear out the other.

Shi Feiyang gathered so many helpers because he intended to commence the first treasure retrieval.

The reason it was called the first attempt was because he did not plan, nor was it possible, to retrieve all of the treasures in one go.

He was aware that both the forces of good and evil had hundreds of eyes watching this area. The moment he hauled up the Golden Ship, there would undoubtedly be others swooping in to snatch it. Even if they couldn't seize it, they would prevent him from claiming it, and they might even puncture the earth's crust and kill the Golden Spider, causing the Golden Ship to descend eternally, eventually sucked into the Earth Core's magma, ensuring no one could claim it.

Shi Feiyang planned a tentative first retrieval to assess the situation. If it was possible to take the treasure, he would; otherwise, he would return the ship to the water hole for a future attempt.

After more than five years of meticulous nurturing, the Golden Spider had grown rapidly, with its Dao cultivation and mana increasing manifold. Its Lifebound Embryo was already taking shape.

Shi Feiyang had Long Meng bring three thousand pounds of fresh flesh, "seafood" from Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, for the Golden Spider to feast upon until full. He also prepared a thousand pounds of spider food as a reserve.

Then, he led the group to the Yuan River, directly above the water hole hiding the Golden Ship, and poured out Five-Colored Divine Sand from a large gourd.

Originally, he had gathered the fragments of the Heavenly Stars to forge the Five-Colored Divine Sand for constructing mountains, rivers, and the city walls of the everlasting city, among other uses. There remained quite a lot, which he had now piled into several small mounds. Long Meng was instructed to bring these over and create a Five-Colored Stone Bridge, suspended between the two banks of the Yuan River.

The bridge, multihued and sparkling, took an arched form across the thousand-yards-wide river and glistened like a rainbow under the Sun's light. Below was a cliff several dozen yards high, followed by the surging river waters.

Shi Feiyang stationed the Golden Spider on the bridge, placed Lin Han and Shi Sheng as her guards, had Huo Wuhai stand on the cloud to watch the sky, Deng Bagu plunged into the river to guard the riverbed, and the remaining people were on standby to move around at any moment. Should any enemy approach, they were to drive them away immediately, and if they did not comply, they were to be executed on sight.

With the preparations complete, Shi Feiyang surveyed the surroundings, noting that there were indeed onlookers amongst the nearby mountains and forests, ready for action, with some even rushing towards the site from thousands of miles away.

He signaled the Golden Spider to begin spinning her silk. The spider first enlarged herself to the size of a house, opened her mouth, and spat out arm-thick threads, rapidly extending and dangling from the bridge down to the rolling river below.

The thread reached the water's depths, found the Golden Ship within the water hole, and automatically wrapped and entangled it, forming a large net to ensnare the vessel.

The Golden Spider gestured to Shi Feiyang that she was ready. Upon receiving his affirmation, she put strength into her eight legs and began the forceful retraction of the silk!

The ship itself was immensely heavy and even more difficult to budge due to the Magnetic True Qi's attraction. At the Golden Spider's first strenuous attempt, the Golden Ship remained utterly immovable. After a deep breath, a second exertion caused the ship to tremor slightly.

She had anticipated the ship's weight but underestimated its immense heaviness. With a roar from her throat, she marshaled all her strength, inching the Golden Ship away.

The process was very slow, and everyone waited anxiously.

It took as long as it does to eat a meal before the ship was finally pulled out of the whirlpool and reached the surface of the riverbed.

This ship and the magnetic force from underground responded to each other; the farther the distance, the stronger the magnetic force. The force of attraction increased so much that once out of the whirlpool, the weight of the ship doubled. The Golden Spider's eight legs went soft, and she almost collapsed on the ground. She quickly exerted herself again, harnessing all of her strength, as if she were drawing milk, only to prevent the Golden Ship from falling back into the whirlpool, but lifting it further was extremely difficult.

Shi Feiyang had anticipated this and immediately had Long Meng and Wu Longzi come to the rescue.

With a roar, Long Meng flew into the air, revealing his Ancient Poison Dragon form that spanned a hundred yards, and dove into the river water, all the way to the bottom, using his dragon claws to support the Golden Ship.

Wu Longzi also revealed his true form with many arms, flying down, hooking his sharp feet onto the river's rocks, then using his many hands to hold up the Golden Ship.

As soon as these two nine-thousand-year-old Great Demons took action, they immediately stopped the downward force of the Golden Ship.

However, a dazzling golden radiance suddenly burst from the pagoda's topmost golden basin on the Golden Ship, sweeping out in all directions, turning the entire stretch of river water into gold in an instant.

"Not good!" Shi Feiyang realized that this light was designed to cleanse demons. If Long Meng and Wu Longzi were truly hit by the golden light, they would immediately lose their Dao Level. If they were engulfed in it, they would be left with little energy even if they managed to survive.

He immediately swung the Nine Heavens Yuan Yang Ruler, releasing ten thousand feet of purple energy, which blocked most of the golden light. While calling out for the two demons to come back quickly, he also used the Pure Yang Golden Flower to rescue them.

Long Meng and Wu Longzi could also sense that a great disaster was upon them. In a panic, they let go, with Wu Longzi bouncing back to shore, only reaching a few hundred yards high before falling back down. Long Meng swam upstream against the current, only breaking through the water's surface a hundred miles away. Both transformed back into human forms on the bridge, all still shaken: "This divine light is too powerful!"

Once they left, all the force exerted on the Golden Ship was again borne by the Golden Spider alone. The ship suddenly plunged downward, nearly falling back into the whirlpool, thanks to her exerting a great deal of effort to stabilize it.

Shi Feiyang sighed. He originally wanted the two Great Demons to come over and perhaps lift the Golden Ship directly onto the bank. Since that was not possible, he had to resort to the next best thing: "If you can't get close to the Golden Ship, then help pull from this bridge."

Long Meng and Wu Longzi helped by grabbing onto the spider silk and pulling upward. In this way, they could also exert force, but the higher the Golden Ship rose, the heavier it became, increasing exponentially until the two demons also began to struggle.

The golden light from below grew ever brighter, and the river water flowed like molten gold.

Shi Feiyang looked around and knew that if he didn't go down, these people wouldn't rush up; so, after instructing his disciples, he flew straight down the Rainbow Bridge, heading directly for the Golden Ship.

At that moment, the Golden Ship had already emerged from the water, and Shi Feiyang entered the ship to begin breaking the first layer of prohibition.

Just then, the people lying in ambush around finally took action!

From the south came a green Fire Cloud, within which a lean figure lurked, bird claws and emerald eyes, wearing a Green Robe. It was the Green Robe Ancestor who had been defeated by Shi Feiyang and Ni Fangxian through strategy!

After not being seen for five or six years, the Green Robe Ancestor had re-crafted the Mysterious Yin Pearl. Over the years, he had increased his power by sucking human blood, and after devouring the hearts of several past adversaries, he'd seized their Primordial Spirits to craft a few powerful Magical Treasures, always thinking of taking revenge on Shi Feiyang.

The moment he appeared, he raised his hand, releasing tens of thousands of green flames, each the size of a basin. Hidden within them were numerous Poison Insects and Evil Gu, descending like snowflakes.

Simultaneously, from the west arrived a yellow cloud, with many monks inside, led by one whose monk robe was embroidered with a ferocious Black Dragon. It was the Sect Hierarch of the Western Demon Cult, Poison Dragon Venerable, who came with his disciples and sect members, arriving at the same time as the Green Robe Ancestor.

In the past, Shi Feiyang had killed Yideng Monk, destroyed the Rotary Temple, and annihilated all his followers. As the Sect Hierarch of the Western Demon Cult, Poison Dragon Venerable had not dared to seek revenge for his sect, which had caused many in the sect to hold grudges and even confront him directly, demanding that he take action.

Poison Dragon Venerable had bided his time and now seized this opportunity, leading all his disciples to eliminate Shi Feiyang and avenge Yideng, waving the might of the Holy Sect!

As soon as he arrived overhead, he took out a large gourd, releasing his most powerful Five Poison Soul Chasing Red Cloud Sand. It poured down like a bursting star river, with red dust rolling and Poison Smoke filling the sky.

His treasure contained Poison Sand; within the sand was the smoke, the Evil Smoke, and within the smoke were the ghosts. Mixed with countless grieving spirits and fierce ghosts, it cascaded down from the heavens.

Shortly after them, a red cloud approached from the east, with only one person inside – a boy about twelve or thirteen years old in red shorts and short pants, barefoot, with a broad nose and mouth, and big eyes that looked adorably ugly. He wore two strings of paper money and a skull prayer bead around his neck.

With arms longer than his body, he held a Demon Fire Golden Banner in one and a Five Old Hammer made of five skulls together in the other. He was the Sect Hierarch of the Eastern Demon Cult, the Five Ghosts Heavenly King Shang Heyang!

As soon as he drew near, he shook the Demon Fire Golden Banner in his left hand, immediately spewing out ten thousand strands of Demonic Flame.

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