854: A hidden danger lurks deep within, devouring everything...

Tyrannical, greedy, cold, cruel...

As his right hand passed through the spatial passage opened by the Dimension Butterfly and gradually approached the Heavenly Dao Spider, which was no bigger than a palm, Yang Dian felt as if he were approaching a collective of countless hyper-masculine consciousnesses.

Before even getting close, just taking a few glances from afar felt like being on the receiving end of a massive slap to the face.

"So ferocious, why didn't you kill me last time?"

In his thoughts, Yang Dian's gaze once again met with the compound eyes of the Heavenly Dao Spider.

Then, deep within the Heavenly Dao Spider's compound eyes, which were filled with tyranny, he seemed to catch a trace of emotion that was completely out of place with its hyper-masculine consciousness.

"Despair?"

With his finger stopping an inch from the Heavenly Dao Spider, after clearly seeing that deeply hidden trace of despair, an indescribable and ineffable sense of suffocation washed over Yang Dian's entire body.

'No, this isn't right!'

'I cannot attack it.'

'Once I attack it, I don't need to kill it; merely knocking it out of the core position of the spiderweb will cause a great terror to descend.'

Yang Dian didn't know why he had suddenly developed such a thought.

But he decided to trust his intuition.

After all, his intuition had helped him more times than he could count.

Even if it was just a one-in-a-million chance, he didn't want to take the risk.

In his thoughts, Yang Dian redirected his right hand, which was reaching for the Heavenly Dao Spider, toward the Dimension Butterfly, grabbed it, and pulled his hand back.

"comrade." Scar, who had also sensed the massive change here, tilted his head to look at Yang Dian and the Heavenly Dao Spider that was almost overlapping with him:

"Why didn't you take it down?"

"I can feel the deep malice it is emitting toward us."

"It is an enemy."

Yang Dian glanced at the Heavenly Dao Spider, which Scar had classified into the enemy camp.

Deep within its compound eyes, that deeply hidden trace of despair had already vanished.

Only the purest tyranny remained in the spider's eyes.

"It is an enemy, that's true."

"But I feel that if I take action against it, it might trigger something bad."

"For example, summoning an even more terrifying enemy that even I cannot handle."

"After considering everything, I have decided to delay taking action against it."

Scar nodded, his electronic eyes showing a look of agreement:

"Your reasoning makes sense."

"Knowing that danger might arise, we should make full preparations in advance."

"For example, having the civilians and soldiers evacuate the Thousand Star Battlefield in advance."

"Also, waste is shameful."

"Before evacuating the Thousand Star Battlefield, we should collect as many resources as possible within it to avoid wasting them."

Yang Dian also showed a look of agreement toward Scar:

"comrade Scar."

Scar instantly straightened his body:

"I am here."

Yang Dian continued:

"I need to guard this place to prevent the Heavenly Dao Spider from suddenly attacking, and to be on guard against potential enemies that might be hiding behind it."

"Therefore, I will leave it to you to protect the army as they accumulate combat experience, notify the civilians who have joined the Thousand Star Battlefield to evacuate, and inform all intelligent life forms to collect resources, big and small, in the Thousand Star Battlefield as quickly as possible."

Scar straightened his body, raised his right hand, and saluted Yang Dian:

"I guarantee the mission will be completed."

After speaking, a blazing golden light erupted from his chest, and the golden light spread, rendering his entire obsidian-like body golden.

Clearly, having received the mission, he had entered full-power combat mode.

Watching Scar turn into a golden streak and disappear from his field of vision, Yang Dian then looked toward Silver Spirit and the other person.

Both of them shook their heads in unison:

"We don't know, we don't know anything."

"Yes, yes, yes, we don't know if there is some great crisis hidden behind the Heavenly Dao; after all, we can't even resist the Heavenly Dao."

Yang Dian nodded, considering what they said reasonable, and then turned his attention to himself.

'Attacking the Heavenly Dao Spider now might be dangerous, but increasing my own strength is never wrong.'

Thinking of this, the power of devouring manifested once again from between Yang Dian's brows.

Thousands of kilometers away, an asteroid with a diameter of over eight hundred kilometers suddenly blurred, and then began to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As the planet shrank, gray-black haze rose from it, crossing thousands of kilometers in the blink of an eye and merging into the power of devouring in front of Yang Dian's brows.

He was devouring everything...