"It's fine, just a bit exhausted!" Xing stood up and brushed off the dirt on her body. The advantage of being a long-range archer is that she doesn't have to engage in close combat, allowing her to maintain her elegance without getting covered in blood and dirt like the other three male members of the Star Moon Adventurer Party. As for the remaining three female mages, they were equally clean and only looked a bit tired.
"What are you planning to do next?" Bexia asked Xing.
"For now, let's hide here and wait. We don't know if the Shadow Wolves will leave, so it's better to wait until tomorrow morning before we go out!" Xing replied. She glanced at Lulu Meng and added, "I don't mean to underestimate you, but I don't think you could survive for half a day in this shadow graveyard."
"Really? It doesn't seem that dangerous here!" Bexia, being here for the first time and unaware of the situation, didn't realize the dangers. Despite having some knowledge beforehand, nothing dangerous seemed to be happening at the moment.
"This is just the first level of the shadow graveyard. It is said that the entire graveyard has five levels, and it gets more terrifying as you go deeper. The first level is practically harmless, with only occasional monsters from the lower levels coming up, but they are not powerful."
"If you don't believe me, you can try it yourself and see if it's true or not." Xing didn't say much after that, she cast a meaningful look at Bexia and Lulu Meng before sitting down with her sister on her back.
"Bexia, brother..." Lulu Meng held onto Bexia's neck, her face barely a fist's distance away from his, and hesitated after hearing Xing's words. "Bexia, brother, I can go alone! I feel like it will be dangerous down there."
"Knowing it's dangerous and still wanting to go alone? How can I rest assured? Moreover, Ophelia left to ensure your safe return. How can I leave now?"
"But..."
"There's no but. Since we are already here, I won't let you go alone..." Bexia's voice suddenly stopped as the ground started trembling. A massive crack spread from below, and in an instant, everyone found themselves falling into an empty space.
"Wow!" All the female mages of the Star Moon Adventurer Party exclaimed, with the exception of Xing who was relatively unharmed due to the rubble she used to cushion her fall. She also grabbed her sister to prevent her from falling directly.
"Boom!" A deafening sound echoed as the earth and rocks flew everywhere, shaking the entire shadow graveyard.
"Cough cough! Are you all alright?" Xing's voice came through, but it was evident that they were not in good shape. The fall was from a significant height, even with some force absorbed, it was still quite uncomfortable, especially because she was carrying her sister, otherwise it would have been manageable on her own.
"What bad luck! I never want to come to the shadow graveyard again!"
"Yeah, how could we encounter such unfortunate events?"
The energetic twin sisters, Fei Niao and Hua Niao, were unharmed. It seemed like they activated some magic items upon landing, protecting themselves.
As for the three male members of the Star Moon Adventurer Party, they were all fine as well. At most, Hesi looked a bit disheveled. His previously soft and smooth blonde hair became messy and dirty, making him look like he had just crawled out of the mud. Naturally, he was full of anger and dissatisfaction at the moment since he cared a lot about his appearance.
As for Bexia, he was definitely fine. When he was in mid-air, he activated the Thousand-Change Robe's ability and used his flying power. However, the power only lasted for a short time, plus it was dark, so no one noticed how he landed.
"Everyone, be careful. What just happened was definitely not normal!" Star adjusted her breath and looked down at the monster that was killed by the rocks, immediately speaking.
Sure enough, just as Star's words fell, a large group of crimson lights lit up, and giant spiders with a body length of over two meters crawled out from all around. The sound of their sharp fangs echoed, and the sound of their crawling made one's scalp numb.
"Why are these Cave Spiders here? Everyone, run!" Unlike the approach taken with the Shadow Wolf Pack, Star directly ordered everyone to retreat. Although she had never been to the Shadow Tomb, she knew some things through the accounts of others, such as the three types of monsters in the Shadow Tomb, Cave Spiders being one of them, and particularly disgusting. This was mainly because, like the Shadow Wolves, they liked to live in large groups.
However, Cave Spiders have a strong territorial sense and won't wander out of their territory, so as long as they run out of a certain range, they can avoid them in general.
But now, it was a bit unfriendly for them because they had fallen into the Cave Spiders' lair, not only were there many within, but also many Cave Spiders were crawling out from the surrounding caves.
"Hiss!" A voice caught everyone's attention, and they all looked up to see a huge spider web coming towards them. Everyone was startled.
"Thunderous Fury!"
The Flying Bird and Flower Bird sisters cast their magic together, and a large amount of lightning burst forth from their bodies, turning into a lightning torrent and rushing towards the giant net. After tearing it apart, it fell among the Cave Spiders, blowing away a large group of them.
"Run, it's the Spider Queen! We might have fallen into the Cave Spiders' nest." The people present couldn't yet see the huge black figure hanging on the wall as the Spider Queen. It was obvious that its body was twice as big as an ordinary spider, so how could it be ordinary?
"Damn it! How can we be so unlucky!" Hess felt extremely discontented, feeling like all the bad luck of his entire life had gathered today.
"Necromancer's Grand Summoning!"
Lulu's accumulated magic unleashed a huge dark-purple magic formation, and in an instant, a large number of skeletal warriors emerged from it, blocking the front of the Star Moon Adventure Party and the Cave Spider swarm, buying them some time.
"Kill your way out from here!" Star took the lead. At this point, she had already abandoned her elegant archer style and instead took out a short sword to deal with the Cave Spiders. Mingkong and Hess followed beside her, while Bluth was responsible for holding the rear.
"Quicksand Tomb!"
"Breath of the Wind Spirit!"
"Ice Shield!"
"Flame Sanctuary!"
After Lulu used the Necromancer's Grand Summoning, Bexia followed up by throwing a Quicksand Tomb behind him, while also quickly applying support and defensive magic to everyone. This surprised the Star Moon Adventure Party, but there was no time to pay attention to this. They could only charge forward even faster, leaving this place as quickly as possible.
No one knew how much time had passed, but both Bexia and the Star Moon Adventure Party members were already exhausted, yet there was still a constant stream of Cave Spiders chasing after them. Occasionally, extremely disgusting Cave Poison Spiders appeared, and at this point, more or less, everyone had already suffered some injuries.
