210: Chapter 210 Five Years in a Cage, the Spider King Opens His Eyes!

In the hidden cave at the end of the sinkhole, the scene was the exact opposite of the outside.

There were no sticky spider silks, no foul-smelling putrid fluids, and not even a trace of moisture.

Beneath the dry rock wall stood a table polished from a giant boulder, its corners shaved exceptionally flat.

Beside the table was an equally simple stone bed, covered with a few long-dried animal hides.

On the table, an old canteen issued by the Federation military was polished to a shine, and next to it lay a yellowed diary stitched from spider skin.

Scattered words were carved onto the stone walls of the cave.

Most were dates, tally marks recording the passage of time, with every single stroke deeply etched into the rock.

The further down they went, the more hurried and menacing the strokes became.

The last few scratches no longer resembled words, but looked more like something had clawed wildly at the stone.

In the very center of the cave, a giant cocoon shell, pitch-black all over and covered in eerie magic patterns on its surface, floated quietly in midair.

At the exact moment Su Ming forcibly tore apart the symbiotic spider web with brute force outside the sinkhole...

*Buzz!*

This black cocoon, which had been quiet for so long, suddenly erupted into a violent spasm!

The shadow patterns on the surface of the cocoon flickered wildly, flashing brighter and dimmer at an increasingly rapid and chaotic pace.

"Ugh..."

An extremely suppressed, hoarse groan came from inside the cocoon.

The voice contained overwhelming pain, yet it was forcibly suppressed deep in the throat by a steel-like will.

However, this pain lasted only for a brief moment.

The spasms of the giant cocoon stopped abruptly, returning to a dead silence once more.

But the moment this brief tranquility was re-established...

*Boom!*

A deafening blast echoed from the thick spider silk curtain at the cave entrance!

The figures of Shanxiao and Tiger Fiend appeared at the cave entrance, carrying a powerful pressure.

Tiger Fiend lashed out with a claw, the sharp wind of his strike tearing through the air, but it only created ripples upon clashing with that seemingly weak spider silk barrier.

"Hmm?"

It actually didn't break?!

His face darkened, a fierce light flaring in his icy-blue vertical pupils.

In the next second, a cold light gleamed on his tiger-striped beast claw, and Source Energy vibrated at an extremely high frequency.

"[Space Rend]!"

A Source Beast skill, boldly unleashed!

*Tear...*

The tough spider silk barrier tore open in response, and even the space around it trembled slightly.

The two of them strode into this human dwelling that felt completely out of place.

Tiger Fiend's gaze swept over the furnishings inside the cave. When he saw the reflective military canteen on the table, his face, covered in silver-white tiger stripes, was filled with astonishment and disdain.

"What the hell is this?! A false god injected with the God-Creation Potion, playing house in a place like this?!"

He truly could not comprehend how a being on the verge of transforming into a Rank 7 Beast King still retained such ridiculous human habits.

Shanxiao did not look at the surrounding furnishings at all.

From the moment he stepped into the cave, his eyes, burning with the fire of greed, were locked onto the pitch-black giant cocoon in midair.

The intelligence was correct!

This foolish sergeant had actually resisted here for five whole years, relying solely on his laughable human will!

What was breeding inside that cocoon was precisely his stepping stone to the pinnacle of power...

The "Perfect Spiritual Sequence" living specimen!

"Tsk, Spider King, oh Spider King."

Shanxiao cracked his neck, which was thicker than an ordinary person's thigh, his joints popping.

He tilted his head up, looking at the black cocoon in midair, his voice echoing in the cave:

"For these past five years, just to suppress the Magic Spiders here, you acted as a watchdog for those Federation natives, turning yourself into this half-human, half-ghost state. Was it worth it?"

The black cocoon showed no reaction.

It was lifeless, looking like an empty shell.

Shanxiao did not mind, continuing to speak to himself with the condescension and arrogance of a cat playing with a mouse:

"I know you can still hear me! I have always appreciated talent."

"As long as you give up resisting now, hand over the core control of the potion, and obediently submit to me, you will be the future third-in-command of my Myriad Beast Throne!"

"This is much better than your current state, dying as a nobody watchdog for the Federation, right?"

The black cocoon still showed no reaction.

"Refusing the carrot only to take the stick!"

Shanxiao sneered, his beastified arm suddenly swelling by a size, his muscles knotting like an iron tower.

Patience was something he had never possessed in abundance.

Persuading surrender was merely a ritual.

A ritual to declare that he was about to harvest his spoils of war!

*Boom...!*

The ground beneath Shanxiao's feet shattered with a bang, and his terrifying three-meter-tall body shot up into the air!

His beastified heavy fist, capable of shattering a small mountain and carrying hundreds of tons of terrifying pressure, generated a white sonic boom cloud in the air as it smashed ruthlessly toward the black cocoon in midair!

*Crack...!*

The sound of cracking echoed.

The corners of Shanxiao's mouth had just begun to curl upward.

In the next second, his pupils suddenly contracted.

His mountain-shattering punch came to a dead stop on the surface of the black cocoon, unable to advance even a fraction of an inch.

No, to be precise...

It was effortlessly caught by a slender hand covered in dark blue exoskeleton, which reached out from the cracked cocoon shell.

The five fingers closed, locking it tight.

Shanxiao's fist was squeezed in that palm, unable to move at all.

*Rip...!*

Before he could even react, the entire black cocoon exploded!

Amidst the black silk threads drifting through the air, a figure floating in midair slowly revealed itself.

He still maintained the slender physique of a human male, and one could even faintly discern his former military bearing.

But behind his back...

Eight translucent, dark-blue crystal energy spider legs had pierced through his flesh, growing out menacingly.

These spider legs waved slowly in the air, and the mere fluctuations of Source Energy they emitted caused a visible distortion in the surrounding space.

The most terrifying part was his face.

His originally gentle human face was now covered by half of a menacing, dark-blue chitinous mask. The mask was covered with eerie patterns, identical to the magic runes on the black cocoon.

And beneath the mask...

*Flash...!*

Two dark purple lights suddenly flared.

Those were not eyes any human should possess.

Nor were they the eyes of any known Source Beast.

They were two narrow, vertical pupils.

Within those pupils, there was no anger, no pain.

There was no emotion whatsoever.

There was only a pure, completely cold gaze.

As if looking at two bugs that had crawled into his territory.

This Rank 7 Shadow Spider King, forgotten by the Federation, coveted by the Tongyuan Society, and carrying the final fruit of the "deep sequence"...

At this very moment, completely awakened!

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