60: Devour Aria?!

Thick, sulfur-smelling saliva dripped from his mouthparts, which were covered in sharp teeth, splashing onto the lava below and releasing large plumes of poisonous smoke.

Those were the eyes of a fierce beast, completely dominated by instinct, knowing only devouring and destruction!

"Roar—!!!"

A ear-shattering roar, carrying the insane will to destroy everything, fiercely impacted Aria!

Closely following the roar were three deathly shadows tearing through the air!

The three thickest, most grotesque spider legs, like pillars of a temple, carried a terrifying power capable of piercing mountains. They ignored the spatial distance and instantly stabbed in front of Aria!

The dark purple energy rapidly rotating at the tips of the spider legs cut through the air with an ear-piercing shriek!

The fatally sharp stinging sensation made every inch of her skin scream!

"Oh no!"

"Although he hasn't been assimilated by the Spider God, his consciousness has been corrupted!"

Aria's pretty face instantly turned as pale as paper, devoid of any color.

Space Talent—Activate!

Buzz!

Just a billionth of a second before the destructive spider leg tips were about to completely penetrate and crush her tiny body,

Aria's figure blurred and vanished eerily from her spot.

The next instant,

She appeared like a ghost on the top of the Abyssal Spider Emperor's huge head, on its carapace,

Her feet stood on the rough, cold, grooved chitin.

"Big Guy! Wake up! It's me!"

She shrieked with all her might, trying to pierce through that layer of scarlet madness.

Responding to her was an even more violent roar from the Abyssal Spider Emperor!

His incomparably colossal body suddenly shook!

On the thick carapace covering his entire body, countless sharp bone spurs, originally hidden and hundreds of meters long, erupted like detonated bombs!

They were densely packed, covering Su Chen's entire back and head!

Chi chi chi chi—!!!

The explosive roars of countless bone spurs tearing through the air merged into a deathly shriek!

It was like a hell of steel thorns erupting instantly! Covering every inch of space where Aria stood!

The aura of death was bone-chilling!

Aria's pupils constricted sharply, and her figure blurred and vanished again at the critical moment, narrowly reappearing on a giant rock far away that was about to fall into the lava.

Cold sweat instantly soaked her back.

Too fast!

Too strong!

This cramped volcanic chamber was simply the perfect hunting ground for this out-of-control monster!

Space was violently churned by its massive body and wild power, making every teleportation incredibly difficult and dangerous!

If this continued, she wouldn't last even three seconds!

Aria's gaze was fixed on the Spider Emperor's scarlet giant eyes, which were insane, chaotic, and utterly irrational.

Gritting her silver teeth,

"Anyway, I'm going to die..."

"I'll take a gamble, a gamble that this Big Guy will keep his promise!!"

The next moment,

"Urgh ah—!!!"

A soul-piercing shriek, so horrific it surpassed the limits of human endurance, erupted from her mouth!

It wasn't physical pain, but a wail of agony from the deepest part of her soul being forcibly torn apart!

Her slender upper body violently arched and twitched from this indescribable agony!

A bridge, formed purely from her soul's origin,

Instantly connected Su Chen and Aria.

Buzz—!

This connection, originating from the soul's source, was like pouring ice water into boiling oil!

The Abyssal Spider Emperor's massive body suddenly stiffened,

The chaotic vortex in his scarlet giant eyes seemed to be stimulated into even greater frenzy by this sudden "foreign object"!

Out of the most primitive instinct,

Su Chen immediately activated the infinite devouring system on Aria!

It was no longer the gentle extraction when carefully analyzing divine power before,

But plunder!

It was a whale's gulp!

It was annihilating devouring!

In an instant, an unimaginable suction force suddenly erupted from the soul connection,

Aria's flesh and energy were immediately drawn out in large quantities,

Pfft!

The ample flesh on her fair, tender arm was frantically siphoned away as if by an invisible pump,

Her skin clung tightly to the rapidly shriveling bones,

In a blink of an eye, it turned into a withered, emaciated arm, like a mummy weathered for a thousand years!

The terrifying suction force spread along her arm,

Frantically extending towards her torso and her head!

[Ding! host is devouring World-Ending Spider Queen Ailiya, gaining 850,000 evolution points.]

[Ding, you have evolved to Rank 8.]

[Ding, you have evolved to Rank 9...]

[Ding, consuming 850,000 evolution points, you have evolved to Rank 17.]

[Panel updated to:]

[Arm Span: 580 meters (increased by 300 meters)]

[Head Diameter: 58 meters (increased by 30 meters)]

[Weight: 40,640 tons (increased by 30,000 tons)]

[Realm: Rank 17 (0/140,000 evolution points)]

[Strength: 5800 (increased by 3000 points)]

[Agility: 5300 (increased by 3000 points)]

[Constitution: 9500 (increased by 4500 points)] (50% increase)

[Perception: 5800 (increased by 3000 points)]

[Ding, detected that World-Ending Spider Queen Ailiya possesses A-Rank Space Talent and A-Rank Space Skill. Gene fragments are being extracted... Optimizing host's gene chain...]

[Ding! Devouring and fusion successful!]

[Ding, host has successfully obtained A-Rank Talent—Space Control!]

[Ding, host has successfully obtained A+ Rank Skill—Vortex of Eternal Calamity: Myriad Realm Severance!]

[Skill: Vortex of Eternal Calamity: Myriad Realm Severance (A+ Rank)—Evolved from the fusion of the Kraken's tentacle manipulation and the World-Ending Spider Queen's spatial origin. Tentacles act as blades, space as sheaths. Objects struck by the slash will be directly cut and separated, ignoring physical defense. The stronger the object's constitution being cut, the greater the mental power consumed. (Tank? You call yourself a f*cking tank, huh?!)]

[Ding, due to the host devouring part of World-Ending Spider Queen Ailiya's soul consciousness, the host's resistance to consciousness pollution has been greatly strengthened.]

[Ding, host has exited the state of consciousness pollution.]

Su Chen's massive body suddenly stiffened,

His scarlet eyes slowly regained clarity,

"Ah~ So—Refreshing—!!!"

Su Chen, having regained consciousness,

Felt an unprecedented sense of comfort, like an electric current washing over every fiber of his muscles,

As if he had just been completely tempered and reborn in the furnace of life,

He couldn't help but let out a groan of extreme pleasure.

Strange,

Every time he fell into consciousness pollution before, it was terribly uncomfortable,

Why was it so comfortable this time?!

Suddenly,

A faint moan, almost drowned out by the sound of boiling lava, slowly sounded,

"B-Big Guy..."

The voice carried extreme weakness and trembling after her soul was torn.

Su Chen's huge head slowly lowered.

In an instant,

His pupils suddenly contracted,

"What—the f*ck!! What have I done?!"

He saw that,

Under the connection of the soul bridge, he was currently frantically devouring Aria,

And Aria,

Like a broken doll being ravaged by a fierce wind,

Her entire left arm and more than half of her body had already been devoured into a shriveled state, her aura as weak as a flickering candle in the wind.