In the alliance, the more they attack me, the stronger I become!

Isn't this... Gwen?

Gwen, the doll sewn by the Ruined Queen Isolde during her lifetime?

"There's a breath of life, but it's not a living thing... The breath is strong yet thin, like a seed that's full of vitality but hasn't yet broken through the soil... I should have thought it was you earlier!"

Cheng Xiao's face suddenly showed joy.

Yes, this is definitely Gwen...but she has not yet come to life and turned from a doll into a real person.

In the development of the original timeline, her awakening was also very unexpected, and even the time point was very vague... The only thing that can be confirmed is that she suddenly woke up after sensing the strong breath of black fog.

If you calculate the time, it's probably been in the past few years. If it follows the original timeline, she might need some time - maybe several years, but now...

The Haunting Night is about to arrive early, and the breath of death on that day will definitely wake up this cute little doll.

She will transform from Doll Gwen to Ling Luo Doll Gwen.

And she is one of the few kind-hearted people in the entire Runeterra - the kind of good girl who will step forward to help an old lady crossing the road when she sees her.

If we bring her back to Bilgewater, and when the black fog arrives on the Harrowing Night, she will definitely help us because she hates the black fog.

more importantly……

Gwen's strength is really good.

If she could kill him once, he would gain some good power.

"Good good..."

Cheng Xiao was overjoyed. She quickly wiped the dust off the doll and then carefully put it close to her body.

Then he continued digging next to where he found the doll.

Gwen's life comes from a fragment of Isolde's soul, but her power does not come from Isolde... but from Isolde's "relics".

A pair of scissors, a ball of thread and a sewing needle.

Thousands of years ago, they were just ordinary tools in Isolder's hands, but after the terrible "Curse of Ruin", those things gained the magical power of the Blessed Isles.

Those three things are very important to Gwen. Only by obtaining them can Gwen become a complete "Spiritual Doll".

Cheng Xiao searched carefully and finally found the items in the mess.

The beach was littered with debris from millennia past, but only the scissors, sewing needles, and balls of thread gave off a faint scent of magic—a shimmering mist.

"OK, all collected..."

Cheng Xiao carefully took all the "three major items" and waited for Gwen to wake up so that she could hand them over to her all at once. Before Gwen awakened the true power of these things, they looked like glowing scissors and needles and thread.

Not to mention the powerful magical power, even the size is so small that it is no different from ordinary scissors, which is completely different from the human-sized scissors that Gwen holds in her hands later.

"It's done, let's continue shopping."

After doing all this, Cheng Xiao continued to wander around the Shadow Isle with anticipation, hoping to get lucky and come across Leblanc's "trading scene".

But of course, he couldn't wander around without restraint - the ordinary undead on the island posed no threat to him, so he didn't need to worry much, but there was still one extremely special existence that he needed to be wary of.

[Soul Chain Warden Thresh]

The monster who took pleasure in torturing other people's souls was the main reason why he was wary of the Shadow Isles.

The strength of that thing was not very strong, but it was not weak either. The most troublesome thing was its ability to directly attack the souls of living people, and it itself was close to immortal, so it was very troublesome to fight it.

Cheng Xiao was confident that he could easily crush him, but he was not completely sure that he could "solo-kill without taking any damage" - Thresh was too resistant to attacks, and it was a bit difficult to avoid being touched by him in a long fight.

And if you accidentally fail... even if you have an immortal body, your soul may be permanently imprisoned in that "lantern" by Thresh.

That's it.

He doesn't have the "holy stone weapon" to attack the undead.

So even though Cheng Xiao knew that there was a fairly powerful "hero" on the island, he did not go looking for him to get killed, and even tried to avoid him as much as possible.

If he really sensed Thresh's presence, he would leave the Shadow Isles immediately.

He won't do anything where the reward is totally disproportionate to the risk.

Cheng Xiao wandered around in the thick fog with the Gwen doll, always on guard against the extremely powerful aura of death.

But he overlooked another existence...

The existence of "small animals".

A black spider the size of a fingernail crawled out from the ruins, its six eyes staring at the living person who trespassed into Shadow Island.

It followed the human around for a moment, then went back into the hole.

Then another spider dozens of miles away witnessed everything.

The monster spider, which was larger than a human, let out a shrill laugh.

"The sacrifice... is about to fall into the spider web..."

Chapter 124 3v3 God, Despicable Throat

Cheng Xiao suddenly realized that she might have stepped into a place where living people should not set foot.

Walking from the ruins on the beach, he felt more and more ghostly auras along the way. Those crazy undead spirits kept harassing him, trying to suck his life.

Although he was not afraid of ordinary undead, he was still annoyed by them. He thought about crossing the river and leaving, but there was not even a swamp nearby.

He could only turn around and walk in another direction.

He then found himself in a strange jungle.

Endless trees... each one was incredibly tall, yet all withered and withered, without even a single leaf. The trees looked dead, yet their roots were clearly still alive... a state of neither life nor death.

The trunks were thick and crooked—twisted, even—like sickly, snarling figures. Countless evil spirits clung to the trees, watching with vile, sinister eyes any creature passing through the woods, waiting for the right opportunity to attack.

Cheng Xiao reacted quickly.

This place... is called [Twisted Jungle].

This was once the source of the fountain of life.

It was here that the nature spirit named Maokai was born. He once sensed an endless energy radiating from deep beneath the soft and fertile soil. He stretched his thick roots downward and found a magical spring at the deepest point that nourished life, and drank from it.

This powerful elixir gave rise to hundreds of saplings, which he planted across the archipelago.

Soon, the land was covered with lush forests, towering vellum pines, and intertwined trees, all bathed in a wondrous magical power.

Magnificent, towering trees blanket the jungle in green with their vast canopies and thick roots. Nature's spirits are drawn to the abundant vegetation, and this lush, fertile land has become a paradise for animals.

But everything was ruined later.

The Curse of Ruin... The foolish and conceited human king released the Curse of Ruin in order to resurrect his dead queen.

All living things on the entire island disappeared in an instant, and this dense jungle became what it is today - the spirits of nature are gone, and the evil spirits attached to the tree trunks have made those originally beautiful trees all twisted and terrifying, like a group of vengeful ghosts with bared fangs and claws.

This place became known as the "Twisted Jungle" by explorers of later generations.

Maokai... the twisted dryad... He's become a bit brutal after being affected by the Curse of Ruin, but at heart he's still a good dryad fighting against the Black Mist and the evil spirits. If we meet him, I guess he won't be a big deal...

Cheng Xiao thought so and prepared to meet the tree man later.

But what he didn't expect was that he first encountered a...

cobweb?

Cheng Xiao immediately thought of a terrifying woman and a... man-eating spider.

When he lifted his foot, he found that the sole of his boot was covered with white spider silk, which was as sticky as paste or glue.

Fortunately, these spider silks are just ordinary small spider silks, and they won’t get stuck and you won’t be stuck with them.

After just a moment's thought, Cheng Xiao turned around and walked away, trying to get out of this twisted and terrifying dead woods from another direction.

What he didn't notice was that he seemed to have been guided subconsciously in one direction - the Twisted Jungle was interconnected, but the number of evil spirits in the east was slightly smaller, and the environment was more spacious and commanding.

His ability to sense danger controlled his subconscious mind, and his subconscious mind made his body go that way.

His brain played tricks on him.

Let him step by step into the trap carefully prepared by people with bad intentions.

By the time Cheng Xiao reacted, he had already seen a terrifying net in front of him that was big enough to catch people.

He turned around immediately, and the road behind him was already covered with spider webs.

He looked down at his feet again, only to find countless palm-sized spiders crawling out of the ground and crawling up along his ankles.

"It's really endless..."

Cheng Xiao placed his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, ready to draw out the Doran's Blade and smash all the evil spirits, spiders, and spider webs around him.

But when he moved his hand, he found that... his sword handle and wrist had been wrapped in spider silk.

But it's not a big problem.

This insignificant bit of spider silk only made him angrier and failed to restrain his actions.

"You like pestering, don't you?"

Cheng Xiao exerted force suddenly, and the veins on his arms bulged. The brute force that was strong enough to shatter huge rocks was not something that the spider silk could withstand, and it was torn and shattered in an instant.

With another swing of the sword, the high-temperature energy contained in the sword's aura instantly obliterated all the spiders on the ground. The raging fire, imbued with divine aura, also ignited the surrounding dead trees, and the evil spirits clinging to the trunks and branches immediately let out heart-wrenching howls.

The light of the flames dispelled the mist and illuminated the island shrouded in darkness.

The Shadow Isles welcomed the long-awaited light.

But just as Cheng Xiao was about to continue swinging his sword to cut and burn the big net in front of him, a nimble figure suddenly flashed through the jungle behind him.

The next moment, a white mass flew over.

Cheng Xiao couldn't dodge in time and was hit by the thing instantly - there was no pain that he had prepared for, nor any discomfort like dizziness, but instead he felt a little...

warm?

Warm and soft... It was like a comfortable blanket was suddenly put on me.

Cheng Xiao's vision instantly went dark—he was covered. He began to struggle, but found that the thing on his body was very tough and difficult to pull off.

Even if he wanted to chop with his sword, his hands were tied and he couldn't move.

In this state, the only way to escape is to rely on the power of another demigod... the power of thunder.

Cheng Xiao took a deep breath, and another violent energy in his body instantly boiled over.

Nourishes...

Boom——!

The thunder from the sky pierced through the dense dark clouds and struck directly at the mortal bound by the spider silk.

In an instant, the high-temperature lightning burned the spider silk to ashes, and the raging electric current lingered around Cheng Xiao, forming a "lightning armor" that could withstand damage.

Cheng Xiao quickly looked back and caught a glimpse of a pair of eyes glowing with scarlet light in the dark jungle.

It was the first time he met the other person, but he was very familiar with the other person's name, abilities and other information.

[Spider Queen Elise].

She came from an ancient family of the Noxian Empire. She was originally a beautiful woman, but was accidentally bitten by the "Spider God" deep underground in Shadow Island during a secret operation, and then she mutated.

Several terrifying spider legs grew on her smooth white back, and her soft and beautiful eyes became always fierce. The curse of the Shadow Isles made her suffer so much that she could only kill foolish mortals and offer them to the Spider God to relieve her pain.

She transformed from an elegant and noble lady into a brutal and bloodthirsty monster.

But... in a sense, she also became more beautiful.

She understood the power of beauty at a young age, and used it to sway the judgment of the weak. After becoming a follower of the Spider God, she became even more obsessed with this beauty and danger, often using it to bring her deity captivated suitors.

If she only took the trouble to conceal the deformed spider legs behind her, she would look like a more beautiful and delicate woman than before.

The black claws on her palms were decorated into a pair of beautiful gloves, and her sharp soles were disguised as a pair of elegant high heels. When she was not in spider form, she looked so beautiful.

Just like the noble lady who charms the prince in any fairy tale.

And now, she pretended to be weak and charming.

"gentlemen……"

Iris's several spider legs were hidden in the shadows behind her. She knelt on the ground with red eyes, looking as if she was frightened by an evil spirit.

Apparently, after discovering that her spider web couldn't trap the other person, she resorted to another method - the method of charm.