Dragon Ball, simultaneously traversing countless worlds

Bick was startled and quickly turned around, shooting heat rays into his eyes.

The crimson heat-seeing line struck the crystal bead, but failed to even break its chitinous shell, its unique body deflecting the attack away.

Piccolo misjudged the strength of the Crystal Web Spider; this powerful monster had a combat power of at least around one hundred.

Piccolo's mind raced as he considered what spells he could use to defeat his opponent.

Although Luo Yan taught him many spells, Bick only learned the water-making spell and the clone spell in a short time.

Two spells that aren't particularly lethal, if used well, can still help you escape danger.

Facing the oncoming Crystal Web Spider, Piccolo instantly cast a Water Spell, splashing water all over the Crystal Web Spider's face.

Caught off guard by the sudden water flow, the crystal spider panicked, stopped its attack, and violently shook its body.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Crystal Web Spider wasn't paying attention to him, Piccolo quickly split into three and escaped in three different directions.

By the time the Crystal Spider realized that the liquid on its body was not venom but just ordinary water, Piccolo had already escaped more than a hundred meters away.

Enraged, the Crystal Web Spider rubbed its sharp fangs together, making a crackling sound.

Then the Crystal Web Spider raised its abdomen and launched a web the size of a soccer ball at one of Piccolo's clones.

The white net spread out in the air into a large net, easily trapping Piccolo's clone. The net solidified into a steel wire within seconds of contact with the air.

Piccolo's clone pulled hard on the spider web, but for a moment it was unable to break free.

The Crystal Spider used the same method, continuously launching webs, and in the blink of an eye, it captured Piccolo's main body and his other clone.

"Damn it, I can't get rid of these spider webs!" Bick struggled desperately.

The Crystal Web Spider killed the first captured clone, but after realizing it wasn't the main body, it moved on to its next target.

The two clones were killed one after the other by the chelicerae of the Crystal Web Spider, exposing Piccolo's true form to the Crystal Web Spider.

Faced with the Crystal Web Spider so close at hand, Piccolo roared in despair, unleashing his power and spewing out a blast of energy.

The method of using this energy blast is a memory inherited from the Great Demon King; Piccolo only learned to use it a few days ago.

The energy wave burst through the gaps in the spider web and hit the Crystal Web Spider from two meters away.

A deafening explosion rang out, smoke billowed into the sky, and the earth trembled.

However, when the smoke cleared, the Crystal Web Spider's body only became slightly duller, and it was completely unharmed.

Just as the crystal spider triumphantly approached its prey in its web, it froze.

The spider web was intact, but the prey was nowhere to be found.

Piccolo's ki blast neither harmed the Crystal Web Spider nor tore its web. Instead, the shockwave caused the ground beneath his feet to collapse, and he fell into the tunnel the spiders had dug underground.

The entire planet's underground has been hollowed out by spiders, so it's not surprising that Piccolo was able to blast open the ground and fall into the spiders' underground lair.

The Crystal Web Spider was furious that its prey had escaped, its fangs grinding together with a crackling sound, but it dared not enter the underground world.

While the Crystal Web Spider is indeed powerful on the surface, the spider monsters living in the underground world are the strongest among the bio-spider species.

The Shadow Spider, Bone-Eating Poison Spider, Dragon-Catching Spider, Abyss Demon Spider, and Lava Fire Spider of the Underworld are all beyond its ability to defeat.

The average combat strength of spiders in the underground world is fifty, with powerful individuals exceeding one or two hundred.

The outnumbered and powerless Crystal Web Spider, upon entering the underground world, is nothing more than a delivery boy.

Although there are some prey that the Crystal Web Spider is reluctant to give up, it has no choice but to do so.

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On the other hand, Piccolo's energy blast created a way out for him, but it also severely injured him.

Being too close to the blast radius of the energy wave explosion, Piccolo himself was charred black, and his internal organs and bones suffered severe damage.

Bick fell from the surface into a tunnel more than 30 meters underground, suffering severe bruises all over his body. He struggled to stay upright, only managing to glance around before losing consciousness.

In the moment when Bick lost consciousness, he saw a person with a monocle and a monkey tail approaching him.

Chapter 73 Darles

The warm firelight illuminated the underground world, where countless spider monsters lurked in the darkness, baring their fangs and claws, threatening the two humanoid creatures standing before the campfire.

A shadow spider, resembling an alien, with a dark color and a hard, metallic shell, stealthily approached the campfire.

Lying by the campfire was a green child, Piccolo, who was unconscious. The other conscious one was a Saiyan with a tail and a face like an adult version of Goku—Turles.

Darles poked at the coals in the campfire. There wasn't a single plant on this damned planet, and he had searched for a long time to collect these fossil fuels.

The burning coals emitted a ghostly blue flame, which Darles used to roast a spider leg.

The spider legs were roasted until cooked through, emitting a strong aroma. The charred outer shell bounced gently, revealing the delicate, white flesh inside, as smooth as cod.

Darles took a big bite of the spider leg meat, chewing it as he mumbled, "I've been eating these damn things' meat for over ten years. No matter how delicious it is, I'm tired of it. But I've finally got my chance to leave this planet. Once this green-faced brat wakes up, I'll take his spaceship and leave this hellhole."

In the year 740 of the Age of A, Darles was sent to this planet to clean up the bio-spiders.

Just then, Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta, saving him from certain death.

Afterwards, Frieza's forces investigated the survival of the remaining Saiyans. Turles' spaceship was accidentally destroyed by the Spider Monster, and the remote communication module of the combat power detector was damaged. A series of coincidences allowed him to avoid being killed.

Although he escaped Frieza's forces' attack on the Saiyans twice, he was trapped and died on this planet.

Darles currently has a combat strength of over a thousand, which is considered top-tier on Spider Star. In addition, he also knows the technique of creating an artificial moon and can transform into a giant ape at any time, so he is practically invincible and no spider can defeat him.

Those spider monsters of the underworld were bloodthirsty and insane, but after more than ten years, they were all taught a lesson by Darles and made to submit.

At least for now, the spider monsters in the underworld don't dare to attack Darles.

However, while they dared not attack Darles, the spider monsters did dare to ambush the unconscious Piccolo.

The shadow spider cautiously approached Darles's range, then swiftly darted toward Piccolo, intending to snatch him away.

Darles smiled disdainfully. Although his combat power detector could no longer conduct interstellar communication, it could still detect combat power.

After spotting the Shadow Spider's movements through the lens, Darles extended a finger, emitted a beam of light, and blasted the Shadow Spider into pieces.

"You inferior creatures, get out of here!" Darles suddenly roared.

The impact, as if it were tangible, swept in all directions, and the leaping flames suddenly surged to two meters before gradually receding.

The spiders hiding in the shadows stirred restlessly, wary of Darles' strength, and retreated swiftly like a tide.

Darles's burst of energy startled Piccolo, who awoke from his unconsciousness and immediately spotted Darles.

“Saiyan!” Piccolo exclaimed in a low voice.

When Raditz captured Piccolo Daimaō, he also introduced himself, so Piccolo learned from his genetic memories that those aliens with monkey tails were called Saiyans.

"Hehe, kid, you know the name of us Saiyans! That makes things much easier."

Darles walked up to Piccolo, stepped on him, leaned down and grinned wickedly, "Kid, hand over your spaceship to me, and I'll take you away from this hellhole."

"Give the spaceship to you? I refuse!"

Piccolo despises Saiyans. Even if the spaceship were still intact, he wouldn't help the Saiyans.

"Kid, you need to understand, after you fell, it was me who protected you, otherwise you would have been eaten by these hungry creatures long ago." Darles waved the spider leg in his hand and pointed to the rustling shadows around him.

The spiders retreated, but not too far, still watching the two from the shadows.

"Listen, this underground world is full of terrifying spiders. With your strength, you wouldn't survive even a second here."

The Namekians have extraordinary hearing. Piccolo listened intently and immediately discovered more than a thousand spider monsters lurking around them.

Darles smiled and tossed the spider leg in his hand. The next second, a black phantom flashed by and snatched the food away in an instant.

That terrifying speed meant that even with Piccolo's dynamic vision, he could only see a blurry shadow.

After the shadowy figure snatched the food, other spiders emerged from the shadows to snatch it away. Amidst the frantic struggle, terrifying roars and breathtaking energy fluctuations could be heard from time to time.

Before long, the battle subsided, but the stench of the spider fluids around them became even stronger.

“See? These spiders aren’t as easy to talk to as I am. If you don’t want to hand over the spaceship to me, I’ll feed you to the spiders,” Darles threatened.

Piccolo's face turned even greener. With his current strength, he simply couldn't fight against so many spiders.

But it's impossible to get Piccolo to submit to Darles.

Piccolo inherited some of the Great Demon King's memories, and he has a very arrogant personality. The more you threaten him, the less he will comply.

"You might as well kill me. Even if you kill me, you still won't get my spaceship."

Darles frowned, a sinister expression flashing across his face.

"It seems you won't give in unless I torture you thoroughly."

"Fine, I'll see just how strong your will really is."

Darles grabbed Bick and carried him deeper into the underground world.

After walking for several hours, Darles finally brought Bick to their destination.

This is an abandoned man-made structure. According to Darles's earlier explorations, this place should be a laboratory built by the civilization of this planet before its destruction.

The abandoned laboratory has long been occupied by a gigantic shadow spider, and the discarded instruments and experimental tables are covered with spider webs and slime.

But what's even more chilling is the densely packed, crammed spider eggs on the laboratory floor.

The yellowish-white spider eggs, about the size of a Yibao mineral water bottle, were long and thin like rice grains, arranged like lotus seeds.

Through the transparent eggshell, you can also see the gestation and growth of the baby spider inside.

Every now and then, newly hatched shadow spiders emerge from their eggs and crawl all over the ground.

Although they are called small spiders, these newly hatched spiders are already the size of a fist, and each one has a hard body like a lump of iron.

Hungry spiderlings, as soon as they hatch, fight each other, feeding on the flesh and blood of their brethren to grow stronger.

Upon seeing Darles appear, the little spiders swarmed forward, intending to devour Darles and Piccolo completely.

Compared to the frenzy of the smaller spiders, the colossal Shadow Spider Queen fled the moment she saw Darles.

Darles didn't care about the mother spider's escape; he came here today to have these little spiders torment Bick.

An adult Shadow Spider can kill Piccolo with a single bite, so it doesn't have the effect of torture. However, these newly hatched spiders are not venomous and have weak attack power, making them the best execution tools.

Darles gave Bick a final warning: "I'm giving you one last chance. Tell me the location of your ship and hand it over to me, or I'll let you experience the pain of being devoured by thousands of spiders."

Bick's expression was resolute: "Even if you kill me, I won't tell you the location of the spaceship."