Memories dissipated, but the anger still filled Zhenjin's chest.
Zhenjin felt like he was about to burst from this emotion!
"Aaaaah!" He let out a terrifying roar.
"I can't die."
"How can I fall here?!"
"I still have to protect my fiancée, I must leave here alive, then take control of White Sand City, and ultimately revive the Hundred Needle Family!"
"My knightly path... my knightly path, how can it end here?"
The young man roared in his heart.
At this moment, it seemed as though the blood in his entire body was boiling.
His blood rushed rapidly, like a surging river turning into a waterfall, all crashing into his hands.
Mutation occurred at this moment!
The young man's hands swelled rapidly, becoming thick and large. His ten fingers extended continuously, the fingernails turning pitch black, transforming into iron-hard claws.
The claws were extremely sharp, like ten daggers!
Zhenjin tried to swing the claws, and with just a bit of effort, the web was easily torn apart!
The sharp claws turned bright red and scorching hot, like branding iron that had burned for a long time.
Without thinking, driven entirely by instinct, Zhenjin plunged his claws into the spider leader.
The eight-legged spider leader was already very close to Zhenjin, their faces only a palm's distance apart. When Zhenjin's claws mutated, they were still covered by webs.
When Zhenjin's claws struck, the eight-legged spider leader was caught completely off guard and couldn't dodge.
Pfft!
The blazing red claws, twelve inches long, deeply pierced into the spider leader's body.
Zhenjin shouted and pushed harder, almost burying his entire hand into the wound.
The spider leader, attacked as if struck by lightning, became stiff as stone.
A breath later, a large amount of spider blood and milky white brain matter flowed from the wound.
This Silver Level spider leader died on the spot!
With the leader dead, the remaining eight-legged spiders quickly fled.
The young man and the young woman immediately turned the tide to safety.
Zhenjin, in a daze, slowly withdrew his hands from the roasted spider leader's body.
More accurately, his claws.
Unbelievable!
His hands had completely transformed into those of a giant ape, with hands swelling several times in size and covered in thick black hair, making his forearms look extremely slender.
The ends of his ten fingers extended into long, sharp claws, radiating heat like iron bars just taken from a furnace.
"What... what is happening?!"
As Zhenjin was shocked, the mutation occurred again.
First, the blazing iron claws rapidly cooled and crumbled into charcoal-like ash, quickly dispersing and floating away.
Then, his hands quickly shrank back to their original human form.
The black fur completely fell off, revealing human flesh.
Suddenly, Zhenjin's body swayed violently.
Weakness, a difficult-to-describe weakness, filled his heart.
This wasn't just a lack of physical strength, nor just mental exhaustion; it felt as if a part of his body's foundation had been abruptly emptied.
The surrounding flames still burned, the bushes crackled.
The eight-legged spider, without support from claws, could only lie dead on the ground.
Everything felt like a dream.
"Lord, Zhenjin!" Zi Di's call seemed to come from afar, getting clearer and louder.
Under the urging of this voice, Zhenjin finally reacted.
"Hiss..." The youth took a sharp breath as he realized there were still two spider legs lodged into his back.
Clenching his teeth, he pulled out the legs, immediately bringing forth blood.
After haphazardly splashing potions on the wound, Zhenjin rushed to Zi Di's side.
Without a dagger, but the spider legs were even sharper.
Using the spider legs, Zhenjin cut through the webs and freed Zi Di.
"Lord, have you awakened your fighting energy?!" Zi Di asked with extreme joy.
Zhenjin's heart moved: "Just now Zi Di was lying on the ground, and I had my back to her, she didn't see the mutation of my hands."
"No. I used the tip of a spear to pierce through the web." Zhenjin didn't think much and subconsciously hid the secret.
The recent mutation was highly abnormal, and even in the youth's subconscious, he didn't want to mention it and worry his fiancée.
"That hateful Huang Zao escaped! We must find him and punish him severely!" Zi Di said fiercely.
If Huang Zao hadn't fled, the young man and woman wouldn't have fallen into such a dangerous situation.
Zhenjin nodded and was about to speak when a loud crash sounded; a large tree bathed in flames fell to the ground.
Sparks flew, the fire expanded once more.
"Let's leave here quickly." Zi Di wanted to bandage Zhenjin, but he stopped her.
The wound was deep, but it had stopped bleeding.
With his current life force, escaping the fire was more urgent.
"Wait, this is valuable, we can't leave it behind." Zi Di pointed at the eight-legged spider leader's body, the light in her eyes hotter than the fire itself.
Thus, the young man and woman dragged the eight-legged spider out of the fire.
As soon as they evacuated to a safe distance, they heard a humming sound.
Shortly after, an uncountable number of Fire Poison Bees flew into the blaze, their sheer number darkening the sky.
The Fire Poison Bee Swarm was so vast that it quickly suppressed the fire, gradually extinguishing it.
Zhenjin and Zi Di, heavily affected by the Fire Poison, dared not linger nearby and trekked several miles through the mountains before stopping to rest.
Luckily, they found an ideal hiding spot at the base of a cliff.
For the next three days, Zhenjin and Zi Di rested here.
Using what little fluid remained from the eight-legged spider, Zi Di concocted Breath Potions to simulate the scent of a Silver Level Magic Beast, greatly enhancing the safety of their hideout.
Zhenjin's miraculous life foundation showed again; the wounds on his back healed remarkably fast. With Zi Di's potions, the wounds were covered in new, tender skin.
Zhenjin once worried the spider legs carried corrosive poison, but they didn't.
During this time, Zi Di disassembled the eight-legged spider. Though resources were limited, she did her best to gather usable parts.
Using these materials, she created several bottles of Corrosive Potion and Strong Adhesive Potion.
These were basic potions, but since high-quality materials were used, their effects were promising.
To this, Zi Di lamented frequently over three days, "If conditions were slightly better, I could've concocted agility potions. It's such a shame these materials were used for small things."
Zhenjin smiled and comforted her, acknowledging the value of her so-called small things.
Previously, Zi Di utilized materials from Monkey-tailed Brown Bears and ore from the cave to make Flammable Potions and Fire Resistance Potions, which had played a crucial role.