79: Chapter 79 You're Rich Too
"Fourth rank!"
Everyone's pupils constricted, and they instinctively summoned their Martial Soul.
Lin Mo reacted extremely quickly, instantly casting Furnace Shield on the six of them, a golden halo enveloping them like an eggshell.
Teacher An Nuolan cast an appreciative glance at Lin Mo.
This reaction speed was faster than many veteran instructors.
The Iron-Backed Spider King's size far exceeded that of its ordinary peers.
Dark red patterns flowed across its glossy carapace, and its eight hooked giant limbs stepped on the ground, each step causing the ground to tremble slightly, carrying a suffocating sense of oppression.
"Be careful! This Iron-Backed Spider King is different from ordinary spiders; it can spray poison!" Lin Mo warned in a deep voice.
Teacher An Nuolan, Su Xiaoxiao, and the others were secretly shocked.
This guy really is a top student.
The dark green venom dripping from the Spider King's mouthparts landed on the decaying leaves, sizzling and instantly corroding small pits while emitting pungent white smoke.
"Mengmeng, bind its legs and slow down its movements!"
Lin Mo immediately ordered Lu Mengmeng, while simultaneously channeling his Soul Power to its fullest, making the golden light on the shield's surface burn even more intensely.
The Spider King let out a hiss and lunged forward suddenly.
"Received!" Lu Mengmeng replied, and the Devil Vine around her erupted like dancing giant pythons, crazily wrapping around the Spider King's limbs.
But the strength of this fourth-rank exotic beast was beyond imagination. With a violent struggle, the vines were pulled taut instantly, and Lu Mengmeng was jerked, causing her to tremble.
"This monster's strength is too great!" she shouted through gritted teeth.
"Da Chun, hold it off!"
"Alright!" Niu Dachun didn't hesitate, swinging the Gilded Frying Pan as he rushed up to meet it.
But the Spider King slammed its two front claws down violently.
With a crisp "clang," Da Chun was sent flying backward like a ragdoll.
"Damn it, it really is a king-level exotic beast!"
Lin Mo cursed under his breath and quickly looked at Teacher An Nuolan, "Teacher An, find an opportunity to attack; everyone else, try your best to attack its eyes!"
Teacher An Nuolan nodded, her Fire Kirin Blade igniting with raging flames. Taking advantage of a sliding dash, she closed in and slashed fiercely at the Spider King's abdomen.
That was the relatively weaker part of its carapace.
But as the blade fell, it only left a shallow scorched mark on the carapace, not even breaking the skin.
Even a Soul Emperor couldn't break its defense? Everyone's hearts sank again.
"Great Sumeru Pot!" Niu Dachun roared as he leaped up, the Gilded Frying Pan striking the Spider King's head with the force of a thousand jun.
With a "bang," the Spider King was stunned, its head reeling.
"Bang, bang, bang!" Su Xiaoxiao's ice balls smashed onto the spider's legs one after another, instantly freezing them and slowing its movements for half a second.
Mu Liuli, who had already flown into the sky, released countless wind blades, slashing densely at the Spider King's compound eyes.
Although it didn't cause substantial damage, it successfully interfered with its vision.
"Devil Cage!" Lu Mengmeng channeled her Soul Power, causing the vines to wrap layer by layer, weaving a giant net over the Spider King.
Everyone performed their duties, and their coordination was even more tacit than when they were in the arena.
"Careful, it's about to spray poison!" Teacher An Nuolan noticed the Spider King's mouth bulging and knew it was about to spray poison.
"Very good, now is the time!" Lin Mo stared intently at the Spider King's bulging mouthparts and suddenly shouted.
He seized this fleeting opportunity. Channeling all his Soul Power into the Pill Furnace, the moment the Spider King opened its mouth, he threw the Pill Furnace out violently.
The furnace traced an arc in the air, landing precisely into the Spider King's mouth.
"Boom!" A violent explosion came from inside the Spider King.
It let out a deafening cry of pain, and green blood mixed with bits of flesh gushed out, splattering everywhere.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak..." It swung its giant limbs wildly, but due to the excruciating pain and obstructed vision, it missed repeatedly, instead digging large pits into the ground.
"Mengmeng, control it and create an opportunity for Teacher An!" Lin Mo struck while the iron was hot, his voice laced with a hint of urgency.
Finally, Teacher An Nuolan precisely slashed open a crack, and Lu Mengmeng's Devil Vine seized the opportunity to drill inside.
The Devil Vine thrashed about inside the Spider King, and the Spider King finally collapsed, unwilling to accept its fate!
Seeing that the Spider King was no longer moving and was dead as a doornail, everyone relaxed, reaching up to wipe cold sweat from their foreheads.
"Yeah, we took down a fourth-rank king beast!"
"Hehe, not bad, not bad!" Teacher An Nuolan also smiled in relief.
A fourth-rank king beast is difficult to deal with even for a fourth-rank squad.
Yet now, it was killed quite simply with the cooperation of five students.
"Phew, it's alright! It's mainly because we know its weaknesses."
Teacher An Nuolan came to the Spider King's corpse and then beckoned to everyone.
"Come over here, I'll teach you all how to harvest materials from exotic beasts; you'll all need this in the future."
"Oh, oh, oh..." The six of them hurriedly walked over.
Then, under Teacher An Nuolan's patient guidance, they successfully stripped all the valuable materials from the Iron-Backed Spider King.
"Wow, it's actually a fourth-rank strength-attribute soul crystal!"
Lu Mengmeng held a high-quality golden one in her hands.
"Hehe, good luck; you can consider this a small profit." Teacher An Nuolan's eyes also showed delight.
Fourth-rank attribute soul crystals are still quite valuable on the market.
"Alright, hurry up and continue gathering, then move on to the next location."
...
In the afternoon. In a humid rainforest. A giant python over ten meters long collapsed, unwilling to accept its fate.
"Phew, the fourth one... This thing is really hard to find!" Lin Mo and the other five sat by the giant python's corpse.
"Finding four in two hours is already quite good. The combat suits made from this type of python skin are high-end goods," Teacher An Nuolan explained.
"Because of this, many mercenaries like to come and hunt them, so their numbers have naturally decreased."
"Damn it, when it comes down to it, we're all just working for capital," Lin Mo said, very annoyed.
The Wisteria Roland they picked before was for capital to make high-end perfume, and now hunting for snake skin is again for those rich people to make high-end combat suits.
And the third task is mainly carrying foot-washing water for the rich.
The more he thought about it, the more stifled he felt.
"Lin Mo, listening to you, it feels like you're hating the rich. Don't forget, you're actually one of them," Teacher An Nuolan felt amused.
"I'm not, I don't, don't talk nonsense!" Lin Mo hurriedly denied it.
"How are you not? Don't forget that you received tens of millions in payment just for helping me and Teacher Shen awaken a Soul Skill."
"These tens of millions were all the savings Teacher Shen and I had accumulated over many years."
"Eh, listening to you say that, it seems like that is indeed the case..."
"It is indeed!" Everyone cast a look of disdain at him.
Lin Mo didn't know what to say. His savings had already been used to experiment with new pills, so he didn't actually have much left.
Teacher An Nuolan clapped her hands: "Alright, rest is over, let's start skinning. I see it's getting late, and we need to find a safe place to set up camp."
Everyone didn't say anything and immediately took out their knives to start skinning. After becoming more proficient, it didn't take the six of them long to peel one skin.
"Wait, is the drop rate of soul crystals from these snakes really this low?" Lin Mo complained after cutting open the python's head and finding no soul crystal.