In a corner of Chengdu, there lives a stonemason named Yuzi, who comes from a poor family but has a tough personality. One day, he was on his way home after finishing his work, and night had quietly fallen. Tired, he walked on the rugged mountain road, but accidentally stumbled and slipped off the steep cliff.
Luckily, his body was firmly caught by a large black cobweb, as if it had landed on a solid flat ground. He looked up and saw the abyss at his feet, and in his panic, he cried out for help, but the place was desolate and no one responded. Fear and despair were intertwined, and Yuzi could only cry helplessly.
At this moment, the cobwebs began to descend slowly, and finally stopped at the mouth of a huge cave. The cave was brightly lit, and a black-clothed Taoist priest with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks sat on a rock, with several servants standing next to him. Yuzi immediately asked where it was, and at the same time begged the Taoist priest to give him some food. The Taoist priest replied coldly, there was no food here, but then spit out a crystal clear bead from his mouth, the bead flew around Yuzi, and after a moment, his hunger pangs magically disappeared.
Yuzi was deeply attracted by the Taoist priest's magical abilities and thought that he must be an immortal. He knelt down and kowtowed, begging the Taoist priest to teach him witchcraft. But the Taoist priest ignored it and just closed his eyes and meditated. Yuzi was unwilling to give up this opportunity to cultivate immortals, and decided to stay in the cave and wait.
Soon, sleepiness hit, and Yuzi fell asleep in a daze. When he awoke, he was horrified by what he saw. He saw a huge black two-headed spider appear in front of him, the cobwebs covered the entire cave, and the ground was crawling with small spiders of various colors. It turned out that the Taoist priest was transformed by a spider spirit. Yuzi was scattered and fled from the cave with a crawl.
When he escaped from the cave, he was greeted by bright sunshine and the singing of birds. He looked back, and there was still the shadow of the cave, only a steep cliff. He made a secret note of the place and hurried away.
After this story spread, people talked about how Yuzi was bragging, how could there be such a big spider in the world. After a long time, Yuzi himself felt bored and stopped mentioning this matter.
One day a year later, Yuzi and his friends went out to run errands and ate and drank in an inn on the side of the road. Both were a little drunk and began to babble gibberish. There were also a few guests at the table next to him who got drunk and started bragging. One of them gestured drunkenly, saying that he had once killed a large snake as thick as a bucket on the mountain. The others laughed and thought he was bragging, but this man swore and spoke as if it were the truth.
Yuzi didn't care after hearing this, pursed his lips, and told loudly about his past adventures. The guests, shopkeepers and juniors in the inn all listened with relish. At this time, a Taoist priest had been listening silently beside him, with an expressionless face. When the guests were leaving, and Yuzi and his friends were about to leave, the Taoist priest caught up and asked if what he had just said was true.
Yuzi looked at him drunken and swore loudly that it was true. After hearing this, the Taoist priest smiled and said, "If this is the case, that spider has already become a sperm." If you can lead me to that place, I will be grateful. Then he took out a minot, and gave it to him. Yuzi saw a hint of greed flashing in Yinzi's eyes, and immediately agreed. The Taoist priest was very happy, gave him another ingot of silver as a deposit, and hired a carriage to go to his destination.
Seeing this, Yuzi's friend hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade him, thinking that the spider spirit had saved Yuzi and should not be ungrateful. And looking at this Taoist priest like a treacherous and sinister person, you should be careful. But at this time, Yuzi was already fascinated by the silver and insisted on taking the Taoist priest to that place.
The two got into the carriage and traveled day and night, and after two days finally came to the mountain, and after much difficulty, they finally found the cliff. But they couldn't find the cave, and Yuzi began to feel uneasy. But the Taoist priest saw the scene in front of him, but he was very excited, he walked under the cliff, and after a while, he sat cross-legged on the ground, chanted a word, shook the dust, and a huge cave appeared on the cliff. Yuzi clapped his hands excitedly when he saw this scene, this was the cave he had seen before.
The Taoist priest couldn't wait to enter the cave to explore, and Yuzi followed. They walked deep along the zigzag caves, seeing many bizarre sights and creatures along the way. Eventually, they came to a large hall**, where a huge black two-headed spider was lying quietly.
Seeing a flash of excitement in the spider's eyes, the Taoist priest stepped forward and observed it carefully for a while, then turned to Yuzi and said, "This spider has cultivated to the essence, and it has a spirit bead in its belly, and this spirit bead is of great benefit to my cultivation." With that, he took out a spell and threw it at the spider.
The spell turned into a golden light and shot straight at the spider, who was hit by the golden light, let out a scream, and then his body began to tremble. After a while, the spider's body became transparent, and a crystal clear spirit bead appeared on its abdomen. The Taoist priest stretched out his hand and took out the spirit bead, then thanked Yuzi and said, "Thanks to your help, I can get this spirit bead." After saying that, he put the spirit bead in his pocket and took out a large sum of silver as a thank you gift to Yuzi.
Yuzi got the money and left the place full of joy. The Taoist priest continued his spiritual journey with the spirit beads. As for the spider spirit, after losing the spirit bead, it became weak and eventually died. And Yuzi also lived a stable life after receiving that rich thank you gift, but he never forgot the spider spirit that once saved him, whenever he remembered it.