167: Stardust Annihilation

However, Lin Ye's cultivation had already surged to the Nascent Soul Late Stage at this time, and was still climbing, so he had the power to fight.

Hearing this, Li Xiangyun hesitated slightly.

Just then, Wen Wan, who had been silent, came to his side and advised, "Let's go, trust him!"

"Okay." Li Xiangyun nodded, then began to inject a large amount of spiritual power into the nether soul guiding lamp.

"Buzz~"

Accompanied by a slight tremor, the originally ghastly green firelight turned a deep blue, spreading outwards fiercely, like a semi-circular wall of light, crashing towards the black mist surging all around.

Like hot oil meeting water, the black mist and the deep blue light wall made a piercing sound the moment they touched.

The originally thick, impenetrable black mist, under the scorching of the soul fire, melted like ice and snow, rapidly retreating and revealing a large illuminated area.

On the ground, some twisted bones and residual demon spider mucus were vaguely visible, emitting a nauseating odor.

"Go!" After confirming that the illuminated area was large enough to accommodate everyone, Li Xiangyun decisively led his people away.

After all, given the current situation, their continued presence would indeed serve no purpose and would easily become a burden.

The others looked at this scene with surprise, but did not say anything, instead closely following Li Xiangyun's footsteps.

A moment later, after confirming that Li Xiangyun had led his people away.

Lin Ye let out a sigh of relief, then a cold light entered his eyes as he looked at the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother, "You beast, quite arrogant, aren't you!?"

At this moment, the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother was not idle either; her twelve spider legs stepped silently on the ground, moving with eerie speed.

Despite her body being as vast as a small mountain, she could traverse several zhang in the blink of an eye, arriving in front of Lin Ye in an instant.

Against this, Lin Ye appeared unhurried, merely slowly enunciating, "Stardust... Annihilation!"

Then, a brilliant starlight erupted around him, transforming into billions of specks of light that rushed into the sky, actually condensing into a dazzling star map above his head.

In the star map, every star emitted an aura of destruction, as if they were the remnants of stars that had long burned out.

As Lin Ye rotated his wrist, the star map suddenly collapsed, and billions of starlight specks fell like meteors.

Along the trajectory of the starlight, even the ethereal dark-purple sky rippled; wherever it passed, whether it was black mist or disintegrating rock dust, everything was instantly swallowed and annihilated, leaving not a single trace.

This was no longer tearing, but complete obliteration, as if this space had never existed.

If Li Xiangyun were here, he would recognize this as the power of Space Dao Intent. It turned out that Lin Ye cultivated not only Star Dao Intent, but also Space Dao Intent.

And this was also why he wanted Li Xiangyun and the others to leave first, and why he was able to suppress the others.

After all, this was the Space Dao, where Time is revered and Space is king!

The Soul-Devouring Spider Mother's compound eyes suddenly contracted, and her massive body showed genuine fear for the first time.

She abruptly retreated backward, simultaneously spraying dozens of spider silks as thick as pythons, with even dark-green venom condensed on them, attempting to block the gray light.

However, those spider silks, capable of corroding the Physical Body of a Nascent Soul Cultivator, turned into green smoke the instant they touched the gray light, and the venom was directly annihilated without a trace.

The starlight penetrated layers of obstruction, accurately striking the black-armored abdomen of the Spider Mother.

There was no roar, only a teeth-grating "crunch."

The Soul-Devouring Spider Mother's carapace, which could withstand a full-force blow from a Nascent Soul Cultivator, was blasted with a fist-sized hole by the gray light. The flesh at the edges of the hole melted at a visible speed, revealing the wriggling internal organs.

"Hiss--!"

The Soul-Devouring Spider Mother let out a sharp, ear-piercing shriek, her massive body twisting violently, clearly severely wounded.

But this was not the end; as other starlights fell one after another, new holes continuously appeared on the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother's enormous body.

The intense pain made the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother's twelve segmented legs flail wildly, her hard fore-claws smashing the surrounding structures to pieces, yet she was utterly unable to stop the starlight's bombardment.

Her abdominal carapace was already riddled with holes, and dark-green, foul-smelling bodily fluids mixed with shattered internal organs gushed out from the cavities, corroding small pits in the rock when they dripped onto the ground.

The crystal facets on her compound eyes cracked with a spiderweb-like pattern, and one of her eyeballs was even pierced by the starlight emerging from within her body, turning into a murky pulp.

The mournful shrieks echoed through this space, carried far by the wind.

As if summoned, other Soul-Devouring Demon Spiders desperately surged towards Lin Ye, but were cut down by a mysterious force around his body, rendering them formless.

The agonizing screams continued to resound, and a moment later, when everything ended.

The originally terrifying Soul-Devouring Spider Mother had long lost her life, her massive body leaning crookedly on the ground, her eight segmented legs twitching weakly.

The black armor that once covered her entire body was riddled with holes, and dark-green bodily fluids soaked the ground beneath her, emitting a nauseating stench of decay.

Lin Ye, however, seemed not to notice, his expression calm as he rummaged through her head, retrieving a walnut-sized, pitch-black beast core, which he put into his pouch.

Then, he casually glanced around before turning and leaving.

As the light departed, darkness surged back like a tide, silently filling every inch of space, completely engulfing this battlefield that had just endured a fierce struggle.

Only the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother's massive and broken corpse maintained its final silhouette in the darkness, like a gradually cooling reef.

Dead silence spread in the darkness for several breaths.

Suddenly, an extremely faint "rustling" sound arose, as if something was crawling in the darkness.

The sound was initially soft, scattered in various places, but quickly converged into a chorus—the sound of countless tiny limbs scuttling across rocks, so dense it made one's scalp tingle.

Immediately after, "crunch, crunch" sounds of cracking came from the direction of the Spider Mother's corpse, accompanied by "gulping" sounds, as if countless tiny mouths were simultaneously gnawing on something.

The sounds grew louder and louder: the crisp crackling of carapaces, the sticky tearing of flesh, the tapping of dripping bodily fluids, all interwoven into a chilling symphony.

In the darkness, countless pea-sized, eerie green lights could vaguely be seen floating around the Spider Mother's corpse—those were the compound eyes of the Soul-Devouring Demon Spiders.

These demon spiders, originally nurtured by the Soul-Devouring Spider Mother, were now swarming over, using their sharp mouthparts to devour their former mother.

They disregarded the residual Star Dao Intent and Space Dao Intent, frantically tearing at the Spider Mother's carapace and flesh, even swallowing the still-undissipated fragments of black armor and putrid bodily fluids.

During this process, some unknown mutation even occurred.

The massive corpse shrank at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, yet the gnawing sounds in the darkness grew increasingly excited, as if a belated feast was unfolding greedily and eerily in the absolute darkness.

It was not until much later that the gnawing sounds gradually thinned out, but this was not the end; instead, a new struggle began.

This feast lasted for a long time, but eventually it subsided into silence.

Darkness still enveloped the area, as if nothing had happened. Only the dark brown stain on the ground still bore witness to everything that had occurred before.

And, the aura of some even darker creature, quietly germinating...