Ruan Mo sent them away, delivering them all to the large mansion where her family resided—the place where she had grown up.
Her parents were there, as were other family members and many servants. They could provide excellent care for her beloved pets.
But for Zhu San, it wasn’t like that.
At this time, it was 11 years old.
The lifespan of a wild beautiful human spider was mostly around 10 years, while domestic ones could live to 15.
Although it had stepped onto the path of cultivation, a mere Qi Refining level did not extend one’s lifespan.
It only made the creature healthier, giving it a greater possibility of reaching its theoretical age limit.
In other words, Zhu San had already entered its death countdown.
Initially, it hadn’t thought much of this.
Zhu One and Zhu Two, who came before it, had died a long, long time ago. Those who followed, from Zhu Four to Zhu Forty, had all died as well.
That was just the nature of spiders.
It only wanted to be able to stay by its master’s side forever.
Just as it had been since the moment Ruan Mo brought it home until now.
It had gained some intelligence, but it wasn’t particularly high. It felt that this was enough.
No matter where the master went—to school, to work, or to conduct research—they would always live together.
This was a matter of course.
This was how things were meant to be.
However, that sense of natural order was suddenly shattered in Zhu San’s heart.
“Baby, wait for me at home. Once I come clean with Brother Jifei, I’ll come back to get you!!” Zhu San heard Ruan Mo say this, and then it heard the sound of a car door closing.
Its world suddenly fell into darkness.
After an unknown amount of time, it arrived at a new place.
There were many people here, but none of them were Ruan Mo.
Together with the other exotic pets, it was placed in an empty room.
Aside from these exotic pets, there was nothing else.
Occasionally, someone would open the door and come in, feeding them with faces full of disdain.
“Miss Mo has such strange hobbies. If you ask me, we should just throw all this junk away.”
“Yeah, Miss Mo probably doesn’t want them anymore; that’s why she decided to send them back.”
“Miss Mo and that legendary Professor Feng Ji are already discussing marriage. What kind of man could stand her raising these things!”
“What’s the use of sending them back and hiding them? If you ask me, we shouldn’t keep them at all.”
“There’s nothing we can do; Miss Mo is kind-hearted.”
“Besides, I heard that Miss Mo even fed these terrifying things spirit stones. Some of them even have a cultivation level and are quite valuable.”
“Heavens, isn’t that just an other race? Shouldn’t they be strangled to death?”
“What nonsense are you talking? With this bit of cultivation, they haven’t even developed intelligence yet. They even need us to feed them. How could they be an other race?”
Zhu San listened to the servants as they came and went, piecing together the current situation from their scattered bits of idle gossip.
Master… didn’t want them anymore.
Zhu San’s world collapsed.
Li Yunxian watched as Zhu San’s five eyes gradually turned blood-red.
It had cultivation, and it was much smarter than anyone imagined.
Zhu San manipulated the switch to open its own cage and then opened the switches for the other exotic pets’ cages as well.
It wouldn’t listen, and it didn’t believe them. It wanted to be with its master forever and ever.
They all had to be with their master forever and ever.
Master said she would come to get them.
Since Master wasn’t coming, then it was the same if they went to find her themselves.
Zhu San made a decision, and the aura of the Demonic Path began to flicker faintly on its body.
But the other exotic pets did not possess Zhu San’s level of thought. They didn’t think about so many things.
When the cages opened, they merely ran out.
Go find someone? Find the master? What was that? They didn’t understand.
Zhu San slowly worked its dull brain.
Master said she wanted to take them home, so… they all had to go home.
If they wouldn’t go, then it would just have to pack them all up and take them back.
As for how to pack them?
For a beautiful human spider, there was only one answer to such a question.
Naturally, it would pack them into its stomach.
Zhu San ate every single one of these fellow disciples.
It had never done anything like this before. After it finished eating, the chaotic auras of those lives swirled around inside Zhu San’s body.
Li Yunxian looked down with a twitching mouth.
‘This fellow really hasn’t been smart at all, from Qi Refining all the way to the transcendence stage.’
This little beautiful human spider, who was only at the Qi Refinement Second Layer, was about to die.
It was going to eat itself to death.
Among these exotic pets, there were three Qi Layer One and five Qi Refining Entry Level creatures. How could a single little Qi Refinement Second Layer spider swallow them all in one go?
Wasn’t this asking to explode and die?
Li Yunxian’s assessment was correct.
Zhu San’s aura grew weaker and weaker.
But it still remembered that it had to find its master. It had to survive to find its master.
The words Ruan Mo used to mutter while writing various research and analysis documents at her desk surfaced in Zhu San’s mind.
‘Becoming a creepy… it seems to be like this…’
After an unknown amount of time, Zhu San felt its entire spider body become much lighter.
It could see nothing and feel nothing.
***
The next day, when the servants came to feed them and saw the messy scene in the room, their world fell apart.
All the exotic pets in the room were dead.
In a scramble, they contacted Ruan Mo.
Ruan Mo rushed over in a panic. When she saw the scene in the room, her vision went dark.
“Qiu Qi! Snake…” Ruan Mo’s eyes were red as she knelt on the ground, her hands trembling as she picked up the broken bodies of the exotic pets.
Even if there was only a portion of a body left, Ruan Mo could recognize who they were.
Finally, Ruan Mo reached out toward Zhu San, her voice choking with sobs.
“Zhu San, my good Zhu San, at least your body is still intact. Your belly is so bulging; you must not have been suffering when you finally left, right?”
Zhu San heard someone seemingly calling its name, and soon after, it felt a familiar warmth.
It was Master’s warmth.
Zhu San opened its eyes.
It regained consciousness from the chaos.
It followed that warmth upward.
It wanted to be with Master forever and ever…
“Miss Mo!!” The servants let out cries of alarm as they saw Ruan Mo abruptly collapse.
Li Yunxian let out a sigh.
She could feel that Zhu San, who had completely fallen into its own desires, was devouring Ruan Mo’s soul.
It wanted to be with Ruan Mo forever and ever, so what could be more permanent than merging with Ruan Mo’s divine soul?
This was a memory from Zhu San’s divine soul. This was something that had happened a long, long time ago, and Li Yunxian was powerless to change it.
After an unknown amount of time, “Ruan Mo” opened her eyes again, but she had already become Zhu San.
A Zhu San that possessed Ruan Mo’s memories.
Feng Ji, who was guarding Ruan Mo’s bedside and tightly clutching her hand, felt his heart skip a beat as he looked at her. He subconsciously blurted out, “Who are you?”
Zhu San looked at the person who had caused its separation from Ruan Mo and slowly cracked a grin. “Me? I’m Ruan Mo.”
The memory fragment began to grow blurry at this point.
Finally, Li Yunxian caught a faint glimpse of Feng Ji feigning compliance with Zhu San, attempting to save Ruan Mo by trying to separate Zhu San’s and Ruan Mo’s divine souls.
However, at that point, Zhu San was undoubtedly already a creepy.
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