Cale couldn’t help but mock, “Souls? Don’t be ridiculous. There are no ghosts in this world.”
“Ignorance is not your fault, but speaking out of ignorance is,” Leo retorted coldly.
“You…” Cale didn’t expect a newcomer to confront him in front of so many people, and his face darkened.
Juliet looked at Leo in surprise for a moment before pondering and saying, “Leo is probably right. The signs of the deaths of these four people do seem like they lost their souls.”
“Juliet, do humans really have three souls and seven spirits?” Chad asked curiously.
“Yes, not only humans but animals also have souls. But I don’t know much about them. My grandfather once told me that the White Miao Clan who are skilled in witchcraft can extract the soul from a living person,” Juliet nodded.
Juliet’s words affirmed Leo’s statement, making Cale’s face ugly.
“If all the people in Village 2 died because their souls were extracted instead of being killed by Black Poison King?” Thunder Dragon was somewhat surprised.
The baby-sized red spider crawled onto Juliet’s shoulder again and made several strange calls.
Juliet turned her head and glanced at the spider on her shoulder, then said, “The Black Poison King should have been to this village before. My little spider can sense the aura he left behind.”
Thunder Dragon nodded. “Let’s continue exploring.”
As they ventured deeper into the village, they came across more and more dead bodies.
From the way the bodies were lying on the ground, it was evident that their souls had been extracted while they were fleeing.
After passing through the village, Juliet looked ahead and said, “The aura of the Black Poison King hasn’t disappeared.”
“Let’s keep going in this direction. About two kilometers ahead, we’ll reach Village Number Three. If we’re lucky, we might catch the Black Poison King today!” Thunder Dragon said in a deep voice.
Following Juliet’s guidance, the group of seven headed towards Village Number Three.
After about ten minutes, they arrived at Village Number Three.
Similar to Village Number Two, there were four young men at the entrance of the village, armed with machetes. The difference was that these four men were alive.
They were dressed in red ethnic clothing, with bows and arrows on their backs. Laughter and conversations could be heard from the village.
“You must be the explorers from the tropical rainforest, right?” one of the young men asked in somewhat broken Chinese.
They were guarding the village entrance not to keep strangers out but to prevent wild animals from entering.
The seven of them exchanged glances and nodded.
It seemed that this village hadn’t been attacked by the Black Poison King.
“Come in and have a drink in our village.” The young man warmly invited them.
The ethnic people were known for their hospitality, and it was customary to offer drinks to guests. Since they had encountered them today, it was only natural to invite them in.
With the villagers being so welcoming, the seven couldn’t refuse. They entered the village, adapting to the local customs.
“Besides us, have there been any other visitors here recently?” Thunder Dragon asked the young man who greeted them.
“No, but about two months ago, three people came here for an expedition and entered our village,” the young man replied with a smile.
Living between various ethnic villages on the outskirts of the tropical rainforest, there was not much interaction, so the villagers were unaware of what had happened in the past few days.
After finishing their drinks, the seven didn’t linger and left the village.
Guided by Juliet, they continued their journey deeper into the rainforest.
After walking for more than ten minutes, human presence became scarce, and venomous snakes and insects became more abundant.
“Hiss…!”
On the trunk of a lush green vine plant, a snake with a completely green body appeared.
The snake suddenly raised its head and shot towards Leo like an arrow.
Leo casually waved his hand, and a blade of energy shot out, immediately separating the snake’s head from its body.
This was already the third aggressive poisonous creature Leo had eliminated.
Thunder Dragon, Fire Rose, Barrow, Cale, and the others had also been attacked several times.
“Juliet, there are so many venomous creatures here. Do you think the Black Poison King would come to a place like this?” Thunder Dragon looked at Juliet and asked.
“My spider’s senses won’t be wrong,” Juliet said with certainty. “Venomous creatures pose a lethal threat to ordinary people, but for Witchcraft Masters like us, the more venomous creatures there are, the more worth it is to go there, as all kinds of toxins can be used to feed poisonous worms.”
Juliet’s words were easy to understand because she herself was a Witchcraft Master.
Along the way, except for Juliet, everyone else had been attacked by poisonous creatures.
Clearly, the rainforest creatures feared Juliet.
As they went deeper, they encountered more and more bizarre and powerful poisonous creatures that they had never seen before, some of which showed signs of mutation.
Not far ahead, there was a small black tree with large leaves. A completely red frog was quietly perched on one of the leaves, its small eyes fixed on the group of people, showing signs of potential attack.
Leo noticed the red frog and was about to attack when Juliet stopped him, saying, “Leo, don’t attack it. Let my little spider have it.”
Leo turned his head to look at the small spider on Juliet’s shoulder, feeling a bit puzzled. The spider was much smaller than the frog, and logically, frogs eat spiders…
While Leo was pondering this, he saw the small spider on Juliet’s shoulder jump onto the black leaf where the frog was.
The red frog, seeing a spider much smaller than itself daring to step onto its territory, immediately took two steps forward and extended its long red tongue, attempting to catch the spider.
The red spider didn’t move and spat out a large amount of white silk from its mouth.
Within a few breaths, the silk wrapped around the red frog.
The silk must have contained a potent toxin because the red frog, while being wrapped in the silk, didn’t struggle or resist at all.
After the red frog was bound by the silk, the spider jumped over and, in the time it took to smoke half a cigarette, completely devoured the red frog.
It was hard to imagine how the red spider, which was two or three times smaller than the red frog, managed to eat it.
Not only that, after devouring the red frog, the size of the red spider didn’t change at all. It hopped back onto Juliet’s shoulder.
This scene shocked not only Leo but also the others.
In fact, witchcraft creatures have an astonishing appetite and can consume many poisonous substances. They also have long lifespans. A powerful witchcraft can be passed down through seven or eight generations of witchcraft Masters, surviving for hundreds or even thousands of years.
If the witchcraft creatures raised by witchcraft Masters didn’t have any special abilities, they would be underestimating the witchcraft of the Miao region.
Witchcraft originated from ancient times and is mysterious and unfathomable.
For Juliet’s spider, eating a red arrow poison frog that was two or three times its size was like a human snacking on a treat.
During their continued journey, whenever they encountered lethal small poisons or highly toxic insects, the spider would take care of them.