The Growth of a God

Chapter 827 - 9: The Mysterious Creature’s Love

"..."

Letting out a barely noticeable sigh, Fu Yu still failed to win against the Spider Woman in the end.

"Let’s go look for some Spiritual Jellyfish first!"

"They feed on Spirituality, and usually appear in places where Spirituality is most densely concentrated."

For ordinary creatures, finding the areas with the densest Spirituality might be a bit difficult.

But for Fu Yu, a Ferryman, and the Spider Woman, who had once been of the Netherworld Race, this was just basic operation.

Whoosh!

He gently exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, and a ghostly wind swept out in all directions.

With the help of this ghostly wind, Fu Yu and the Spider Woman quickly shuttled through the sea of clouds, heading toward the place where Spiritual power was most concentrated.

In the process, Fu Yu felt as if he had gone back to the moment he first met the Spider Woman.

Back then, Fu Yu had only just recently become a Ferryman.

Although he had witnessed how deeply ghosts clung to life, he hadn’t yet developed any particularly vivid sense of it.

At that time, Fu Yu simply treated "Ferryman" as a job.

Just like the duties and work other Skeletons carried out in schools, in factories, in the wilderness, and in all kinds of different worlds.

In the gaps between escorting and ferrying souls, Fu Yu had even entertained the thought that "maybe just going for reincarnation like this isn’t so bad."

Driven by that thought, Fu Yu very seriously did something that the vast majority of Skeletons would never do—solemnly planning and dividing up his own inheritance.

Until one time, during a ferrying job, Fu Yu was dragged into the Nine Hells of the Netherworld by an Evil Ghost that refused to reincarnate.

The Nine Hells of the Netherworld was the Netherworld’s transit station in the Mountain and Sea Realm; its tributaries connected directly to the Wangchuan River, a forbidden zone to Life.

Even a special existence like Fu Yu, who hovered between life and death, could absolutely not remain long in the Wangchuan River.

Seeing this, Fu Yu, who had never had much will to survive anyway, simply gave up struggling and let that Evil Ghost drag him to the very depths of the Nine Hells of the Netherworld.

And then, the Spider Woman, who had been hiding within the Nine Hells of the Netherworld, avoiding the sunlight, was startled awake.

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"Say, from the first time we met until now, how long has it been?"

Hearing this sudden question from Fu Yu, the Spider Woman, who had been warily scanning their surroundings, tilted her head, and her six arms unconsciously began to calculate.

"It seems like... more than six hundred years?"

Not very good at arithmetic, the Spider Woman pondered for a moment, then asked back in a slightly questioning tone.

"Yeah. In the blink of an eye, over six hundred years have passed."

Lightly raising his head, Fu Yu gazed up at the Spider Woman’s massive chin as he spoke.

"I still can’t forget how happy we were the first time we went fishing at the Wangchuan River."

The Spider Woman instinctively blinked once, followed Fu Yu’s topic and recalled that experience, then calmly refuted:

"I don’t like fishing, and there are no fish in the Wangchuan River."

"I just liked those ’baits’ you brought. They really did taste pretty good."

What the Spider Woman said was true. Although her former body had been of the Netherworld Race, she had indeed inherited quite a lot of spider traits.

For example, she liked eating bugs—especially those Spirituality bugs Fu Yu specially prepared; to the Spider Woman, they were simply the most delicious snacks.

"..."

Fu Yu stared rather speechlessly at the Spider Woman’s chin.

He opened his mouth several times, yet couldn’t manage to say a single word.

Faced with this female partner who was immune to romantic atmosphere, Fu Yu was completely at a loss.

"And I remember you said we were going fishing, but after a while you just fell asleep yourself..."

"Clearly you’re a Skeleton, yet you keep such a strict daily routine and sleep schedule. You really are a strange one."

The Spider Woman’s voice was still calm, but there was a faint trace of laughter and teasing hidden in her words.

Her being immune to romantic atmosphere didn’t mean she couldn’t understand what Fu Yu was trying to say.

"If we’re talking strange, you’re obviously the stranger one!"

"You sleep an entire winter at a time. Even real spiders don’t hibernate that long!"

As the conversation warmed up, the back-and-forth between Fu Yu and the Spider Woman grew more and more peculiar.

After more than six hundred years together, Fu Yu and the Spider Woman had long since gotten used to each other’s existence and accepted each other’s various bizarre quirks.

"I usually sleep too, it’s just that the way and frequency I do it is different from normal creatures."

The Spider Woman smoothly rebutted Fu Yu’s "slander", then stretched out a pair of arms to ruffle his hair.

"And didn’t you say you’d let me handle your hairstyle from now on?"

"I only took a break for a few days, and you’ve gone and grown this weird hairstyle again."

Silk wrapped around his hair, quickly cocooning the hairstyle Fu Yu had carefully styled for himself.

This was exactly where the Spider Woman’s strange possessiveness showed. She seemed especially bothered by Fu Yu showing a handsome, dashing side in front of others.

This directly led to Fu Yu’s reputation among colleagues and friends growing stranger and stranger.

Fortunately, Fu Yu didn’t care. After all, there weren’t many normal types among those who could become Ferrymen.

They thought Fu Yu was weird; Fu Yu thought they were weird too!

"This isn’t some weird hairstyle..."

He sighed, somewhat helpless, and actively manipulated his own Flesh and Blood Armor to shift, fixing the hair that had been bound up by spider silk.

"I just figured this might be a bit more practical..."

"At the very least, it’ll be more convenient if a fight breaks out later."

Without realizing it, Fu Yu and the Spider Woman had already arrived at the nearest Spirituality gathering point.

It was a special place hidden within the sea of clouds.

Abundant Spirituality had dyed the surrounding clouds into seven-colored hues.

And within this multicolored cloud glow, one after another giant, seemingly harmless jellyfish drifted lazily, their tentacles occasionally probing deep into the Void.

Every time a cloud-jelly pulled its tentacles back, you could hear faint, indistinct wails.

Those wails came from the souls captured by the cloud-jellies, from the living beings of worlds that overlapped with Jingxu Heaven.

"Same as before?"

Her six slender arms slowly spread open, and at this moment the Spider Woman assumed a hunting posture, just like a real spider.

"Same as before. End the fight as quickly as possible without killing them."

A grating clatter rang out from within his body, and Fu Yu’s figure rapidly transformed as well.

In the span of only a few breaths, Fu Yu’s body became more robust, and his ten fingers turned into pitch-black gun barrels.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

The next second, formless Spiritual Pills shot out from the barrels at the tips of Fu Yu’s ten fingers.

At the same time, the Spider Woman spat out web after massive web, swiftly capturing and reeling in those jellyfish that had been stunned.

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