Alien Hotel.

Chapter 436 Crawling on the Spider Web

Six or seven crystal springs of varying sizes appeared in the wilderness, and then one after another, the "Great Sages" emerged from the gushing crystal clusters, each staring intently in Eileen's direction.

The little doll's hair immediately stood on end.

But just as Hu Li summoned a barrage of Fox Carrot missiles to strike the nearest enemy, a whooshing sound suddenly came from high above. Immediately afterward, a flash of light ripped through the sky, landing in a nearby crystal cluster fissure. Accompanying the flash was a familiar voice—

"Eat my Limitless Treasure Seal!"

A dazzling fireball burst forth from the crack, accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of crystal tearing apart, and crystal dust rose into the sky with the mushroom cloud!

Yu Sheng looked up and saw Yuan Hao Zhenren, who was floating in the sky with a large array of earth and wood building materials behind him, standing in the sky with white clothes fluttering. Next to him stood Xuan Che, who had just been rescued by him and escaped death. As for why he almost died just now, don't ask.

Master Yuanhao cupped his hands in greeting towards Yu Sheng, but before he could even speak, a bolt of lightning suddenly flashed from the rising mushroom cloud.

The next second, a powerful bolt of lightning cleaved the sky, stirring up wind and thunder, drawing out hundreds of lightning bolts from the clouds, which rushed towards Yuan Hao and Xuan Che like a storm. At the same time, a strong wind suddenly rose, blowing away the smoke and dust that filled the sky. After the mushroom cloud dissipated, the "Great Sage" who had just been hit by a brick from Yuan Hao was still standing in the crevice.

The crystal shell was riddled with wounds, but it was clearly still "alive." Its body was torn to pieces, but with the continuous replenishment of crystalline material, all its injuries were rapidly healing.

"This is troublesome," Master Yuanhao thought, realizing that the enemy below was different from the ants he had dealt with before. His expression turned serious, and the array composed of hundreds of magical treasures behind him rapidly spun and reorganized with the changes of the Five Elements and Four Symbols, instantly condensing a thick layer of spiritual energy into a shield. "Che'er! Hide behind your master!"

Seeing this scene, Xuan Che dared not run away—mainly because he had been half-killed by a brick earlier and could not escape now. He could only retreat quickly and hide behind his senior uncle's magic array. In the next instant, lightning bolts rained down like a storm, striking him and Yuan Hao with the power of heaven and earth!
At almost the same time, the other "Great Sages" also sprang into action, unleashing their fury upon all hostile targets on the battlefield.

Thunder, crystal clusters, storms, boulders crashing down like cannonballs, and monsters that seemed to have once been human but whose original forms were no longer recognizable, constantly emerging from the cracks in the earth.

Yu Sheng immediately opened the door and threw Zheng Zhi back to No. 66 Wutong Road.

After all, in such a chaotic battlefield, my nephew's small frame could easily be wiped out by anything—and Yuan Hao Zhenren is the kind of person who, once the fighting starts, can send bricks flying and even take down his teammates.

The two "Great Sages" were finally reduced to ashes under the firepower of Hu Li and Yuan Hao Zhenren, and the crystal rift beneath their feet was also completely destroyed. However, almost in the blink of an eye, new rifts appeared elsewhere, and the figures of the "Great Sages" reappeared in the gushing crystal clusters.

Moreover, whether it was just my imagination or not, with each regeneration, the appearance of those "Great Sages" was becoming increasingly chaotic and distorted, more and more like a monster made up of a pile of deformed lumps, and their attacks were becoming more frenzied and hysterical.

"Hu Li!" A sense of unease crept into Yu Sheng's heart, and he shouted loudly, "Can you use that move again? You mean that... what... what impact—"

Before he could finish speaking, Hu Li shook his head vigorously: "No, I need to rest for a long time after using that move!"

Yu Sheng frowned, and at the same time, the chaotic, low murmur in his mind intensified once more—

Not long after leaving Mo City, he began to hear this low, chaotic murmur, and he knew exactly what it was.

That was the sound emanating from the "star body" within its emerging "cocoon," a doomsday-like murmur emanating from the depths of this planet.

The celestial body has sensed the changes on the surface, sensed something disrupting its "cradle"—this powerful and chaotic dark angel is trying to destroy the discordant "voices" that move above it, because its ascension... is imminent.

His ascension process must be interrupted before the ascendant matures.

The crystal clusters swept past like a storm, as if tearing the sky apart, while lightning surged in the clouds and struck down towards the earth.

Eileen nestled in Yu Sheng's arms, her small body swaying with Hu Li's movements across the battlefield. She clung tightly to Yu Sheng's arm, sticking her head out and staring wide-eyed in a certain direction.

Another new "Great Sage" is emerging from the crack, its enormous, swollen, deformed crystallized body swaying in the wind and rain, looking particularly ferocious and ugly.

Anger, extreme anger, and... what else?
Resentment, bitterness, regret... and fear.

The doll slowly tilted her head. She felt as if the flow of time around her had suddenly slowed down. Even the silly fox's jumping and swaying became much smoother. In this slow flow of time, she stared intently at the frenzied crystal figure, and a strange...excitement gradually appeared in her scarlet eyes.

She saw it: within that crystal-formed shell, a tormented soul, devoured and bound, was struggling violently. Thin strands of black thread slowly seeped out from the soul, growing and spreading within its crystal cage, gradually seeping out of the crystal and floating invisibly in the air.

When did that thread become entangled around that soul?
When he was killed last time?
Time around them had slowed to almost stand still. Eileen's little mind couldn't quite understand what was happening, but she still subconsciously reached out to the tormented soul trapped in the crystal cage.

Then the black threads wrapped around that soul seemed to sense the call of the "mother nest" for its "offspring" and instantly became active. They wove an invisible net and slowly connected with the spider silk on Eileen's fingertips.

Eileen now understood why the "Great Sages" who had been resurrected from the crystal were staring intently at her.

"It's fear..."

She laughed happily, climbed out of Yu Sheng's arms, and on this battlefield where everything seemed almost still, she began to crawl forward along the spider silk, towards the hermitage's "Great Sage" who had been devoured by the Star-Evolving Entity. "It's fear!"

A hint of excitement crossed the doll's face, and her scarlet eyes slowly began to glow. She flew past the clusters of crystals, past the boulders that were flying everywhere, and past the crystal monsters that were emerging from the ground...

She leaped over Luna, who was soaring into the air to intercept the lightning with her fingertips.

The C-shaped buckle looks ridiculous when it's still.

Eileen lay prone on the spider silk, a vague thought popping into her head.

Then, she saw the "artificial saintess" body suddenly tremble. On this battlefield where everything was on the verge of stillness, Luna seemed to sense something. She slowly turned her head, as if searching for something in the air.

Eileen gasped softly for a moment, then quickly continued crawling forward.

"Climb, climb, climb! I'm the fastest... The C-shaped buckle is terrifying..."

She turned around again, only to see that Luna was still frozen in mid-air. It seemed that the scene of Luna slowly turning her head just now was just her imagination.

The little doll was puzzled for a moment, but her tiny mind quickly stopped thinking about it.

Because... sweet fear awaited her not far ahead.

She looked up and saw the crystal cage silently dissipate, leaving a soul huddled in the darkness, its body pierced by countless black threads.

The soul was initially very large, but in the next second it shrank to the size of a tiny insect.

Eileen tilted her head, looking at the tiny figure crawling at her feet.

She felt that it had been many, many years since she had looked at others from this bird's-eye view.

But a long, long time ago... I always seemed to be talking to those tiny figures from this perspective.

...What were those tiny figures again?

I don't remember the doll.

She reached out her finger and poked the soul.

"Hey."

The "Great Sage" felt his body plummeting, as if he were endlessly sinking into a nightmare from which he could never awaken, while immense pain and anger overwhelmed all his memories and senses, and suffering spread through his soul like poison.

Endless suffering and unreleased anger are torments greater than death.

When did all this begin? Was it when I first lost control in my hallucination? Was it when I opened my eyes and saw all the believers bowing and pledging allegiance around the crystal in the cave? Or was it from even earlier... from the moment that shameful betrayal began to brew invisibly?
He should have known that this betrayal was bound to happen sooner or later—no one could remain on the side of "humanity" after prolonged contact with the Dark Angel, and that creature who called herself "Yun Qingzi"... was untrustworthy from the very beginning.

However, a sliver of wishful thinking and a sense of urgency led him to make a grave mistake.

Now, the eternal and painful prison is the result of all this.

"Hey."

A voice that exploded from the depths of the soul suddenly pierced through the boundless chaos, jolting the "Great Sage" awake.

He opened his eyes in surprise.

Then, in a second, he unhesitatingly gouged out his own eyeballs—on a spiritual level.

An immense pain rose from his soul; he covered his eyes in the darkness and screamed hysterically, yet even so, he inevitably and irrevocably witnessed what he shouldn't have seen, and simultaneously grasped all the "knowledge" related to that scene—

A giant spider web called "The End" covers the world. Each line on the web is a woven destiny, and the nodes of the web are the gathering of all the "ominous signs" in the world. And the master of suffering and fear, who lies prostrate on the web, is quietly looking down on him.

(End of this chapter)