Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

Their faces were filled with boundless horror and fear!

What kind of power is that?!

Summon the Frost Dragon! Freeze over twenty elite warriors in one strike!

This is a power that "adventurers" within their understanding could not possibly possess!

Pandra's face could no longer be described as "pale"; it was a deathly pale color, completely devoid of any color.

Her hand holding the bone spear trembled slightly.

If that attack had been aimed at her... she had no doubt that she would have become one of those ice sculptures herself!

Liu Nian slowly withdrew his finger, as if he had only done a trivial thing.

His gaze swept calmly over the remaining pale-faced, trembling spider-like elves, finally settling on Pendra's face, which was filled with fear.

A smile played at the corners of his lips.

"Now, do you understand what I'm saying?"

His voice wasn't loud, but it struck the hearts of every spider-like elf like a heavy hammer.

"I'm giving you one last chance to choose."

Liu Nian held up two fingers, his tone calm, yet carrying an undeniable air of final judgment:

"First, lay down your weapons and submit to me!"

He paused, his gaze suddenly sharpening like a knife, as if it could pierce the soul:

"Second, refuse. Then, do the same as them—"

He pointed to the ice sculptures.

"—To become an eternal ice sculpture, adorning this barren underground world."

"To live or to die."

"You choose for yourselves."

The vast majority of the spider-like elves were plunged into utter chaos and confusion.

They looked at each other with the same fear and confusion in their companion's eyes, their usual ferocity during hunts completely gone.

Faced with such an absolute disparity in power, even the thought of resistance is difficult to conceive.

Pendra's lips moved as if she wanted to say something, perhaps out of pride as captain or loyalty to the queen, making her unwilling to submit to a human who suddenly appeared and whose origins were unknown.

However, just as she was struggling internally and the spider-like spirits around her were deathly silent—

Arachne, who had been quietly floating behind Liu Nian as if he were just an observer, suddenly let out a soft laugh.

"Oh……"

The soft laugh sounded exceptionally clear and eerie in the deathly silence.

All the spider-elves, including the Pendra, couldn't help but turn their gaze to this tall woman who had been ignored by them.

Then, they witnessed a scene that sent chills down their spines.

Arachne's body suddenly began to swell and change!

Arcane radiance gushed from her body like a gushing spring, quickly becoming solid and dazzling!

Her figure elongated and deformed in the light, her human legs joined together and extended, transforming into a plump spider abdomen covered with mysterious rune shells; beside her slender arms, more illusory appendages shimmering with cold light appeared; her face became increasingly sacred and majestic in the light, her silver hair moved without wind, and deep within her eyes, the originally calm star spider web pattern now burst forth with a divine radiance that dared not be looked at directly!

In just two or three seconds, Arachne, a creature five meters tall with the upper body of a beautiful woman and the lower body of a terrifying giant spider, whose body was filled with arcane energy and whose back seemed to be connected to the void by an illusory spider web, descended here!

She no longer concealed her divine spark! Though faint, the pressure, belonging to a higher level of life and almost the rule itself, was even more direct and penetrating to the bone than Liu Nian's earth-shattering frost dragon breath, for these spider-like elves who lived in the dark regions and worshipped power and shadow!

This image is exactly the same as theirs!

But unlike others, Arachne's power is an absolute crushing force in terms of life form, a majesty akin to that of a "god"!

"Thump!"

It's unclear which spider-like elf was the first to succumb to the pressure, but its spider legs buckled and it collapsed to its knees.

Immediately afterwards, like dominoes falling, one after another, the spider-like elves put down their weapons, lowered their proud heads, and prostrated themselves in the direction of Arachne, their bodies trembling with extreme fear and inexplicable awe.

Even the most resolute Pendra had completely lost the courage to resist.

The bone spear in her hand clattered to the ground. She looked up at Arachne's figure, a figure that was both sacred and terrifying, feeling the majesty that made her soul want to kneel and submit. Her eyes were filled with incomprehensible shock and... a trace of bewildered curiosity.

Her voice was dry and trembling as she asked the question that was on the minds of all the spider-like elves:

"Who...who exactly are you?"

Liu Nian: Holy crap, this guy's status is much bigger than mine...

Arachne looked down at the spider-like spirits prostrate on the ground, her voice, imbued with divine majesty, like the tolling of an ancient bell, carrying a captivating tremor and allure:

Who I am... is not important.

"The important thing is—"

"Submit to my Lord... and I will bring you new life!"

Arachne's appearance was like the last straw, completely crushing the remaining will to resist of all the spider-like elves.

Their lack of faith, their yearning for power, and their instinctive awe of higher life forms were magnified infinitely at this moment.

Faith is what these spider-like spirits lack most and crave most now.

Pendra, in the most humble posture, pressed his forehead to the cold ground, his voice trembling with excitement and awe: "We...we submit to the great being, and to the Lord you serve! Please forgive our previous offenses and grant us the path to salvation!"

The more than two hundred spider-elf warriors behind her followed suit, completely giving up resistance and crawling on the ground.

The murderous aura that permeated the crystal forest was replaced by a strange atmosphere mixed with fear, anticipation, and confusion.

Liu Nian restrained his aura, and Arachne also slowly withdrew her outward divine radiance, reverting to a more approachable goddess form, but the faint pressure originating from the level of life still remained.

Through Pandra's hesitant narration, Liu Nian quickly learned about the current situation of this spider-elf tribe.

They call themselves the "Shadowmoon Remnants," originally a branch of a larger spider-elf kingdom that worshipped the "Shadow Spider Queen, Nimos."

Having failed in a brutal internal struggle, he was considered "unclean" and "loser," banished from the entire kingdom, and exiled here, where he built this barely surviving "city of exile" on the third level of the Underdark.

As Liu Nian listened, he couldn't help but think: It seems like a similar experience to that of a dwarf.

Along with being expelled, they were also stripped of their right to faith, and could no longer obtain power and protection from their original gods through prayer.

This led to their gradual decline in power, making it increasingly difficult for the new generation to grow, and the tribe struggled to survive under the pressure of other fierce forces on the third level.

Hunting the Jewel Monitor Lizard is their way of obtaining precious resources, and it is also an important trial for the young members of their tribe to prove themselves and complete their "rite of passage".

"Losing faith... is like losing roots." Pendra's tone was filled with bitterness and helplessness. "We have the skills to hunt, but we can hardly produce true strongmen, and we cannot protect all the spiderlings and egg sacs... Her Majesty the Queen is exhausted by this, but she is also helpless."

Arachne listened quietly, her starry eyes gleaming as she rapidly analyzed the information.

A thought struck Liu Nian, and a plan quickly took shape.

They need a new god, a new faith, and isn't there one right now?