"What the hell is that monster?!"
Zi Chen covered his mouth and nose, feeling both terror and disgust.
"B... Black Goat?"
Long Bingheng was hit by the strong stench of decaying vegetation and immediately bent over, retching violently...
"Hmm..."
Li Wang, on the contrary, wore a subtle expression on his face, his nostrils flaring slightly as he took deep breaths...
Before the demon spider's eyes, relevant information surfaced.
[Target]: Dark Young (Demonic-Evil Body)
[Vitality]: 420
[Body Length]: 25m
[Status]: Unstable
The demon spider executed a blink-step leap, hiding behind the Dark Young while forcibly enduring the overwhelmingly foul stench.
This was its first time summoning a Dark Young. Perhaps because it had sacrificed a vast amount of spiritual energy, and the dark orb had absorbed all the Gu insect corpses, this Dark Young's size and Vitality were far greater than the one Li Jiayu had summoned.
"Baaa!!!"
The tree-like monster let out a bizarre, sheep-like roar that echoed throughout the entire barrier—evil, chaotic, and terrifying.
Whoosh, whoosh. In the next instant, over a dozen slimy tentacle whips swept fiercely toward the vast black mist.
"Little goat, don't let me down..." Bai Jie murmured silently in his heart.
Hiss, crackle.
Powerful shockwaves stirred up fierce winds. Where the whips passed, the dust was instantly blasted into the air.
The Dark Young's tentacles intertwined with the black mist. The former melted away like candles in an instant, but under Bai Jie's psychic perception, he could barely detect that the nanomechanical insects that had consumed the Dark Young's tentacle tissue lost control and fell to the ground.
The sky-filling black mist was drawn to the Dark Young, instantly swarming and hovering above it!
"Baaa!!"
The Dark Young roared toward the sky above. Its vanished tentacles regrew, but the black mist descended like a mountain bearing down from above!
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
Over a dozen tentacles whipped upward at the black mist in a frenzy. The sounds of heavy impacts and air explosions rang out endlessly.
It was like two world-destroying monsters locked in battle. As tentacles and black mist rapidly fused together, pitch-black sludge splattered and sprayed in all directions, and fine black debris rained down like a drizzle.
Each tentacle's annihilation was accompanied by the failure of a massive number of nanomechanical insects. Then the tentacles regrew, whipped out, melted... cycling over and over.
Black against black, colliding, one above and one below, intertwining, destroying each other...
"Baaa!!"
At the same time, as the Dark Young's roars grew louder and louder, an indescribable terror seeped deeper and deeper into everyone's hearts, as if a demon were whispering maddening words into their minds.
Every human present showed expressions of indescribable strangeness.
"A monster, an absolute monster! It can actually withstand the Heaven's Punisher's erosion!" Gui Yu muttered to himself, even his usually calm voice betraying a hint of trembling.
...
On the demon spider's side,
Although the Dark Young was helping it deal with the Heaven's Punisher, Xing Tian was no pushover either.
The silver mecha giant directly abandoned its shield, gripping its great axe with both hands as it strode forward in great bounds, circling behind the Dark Young and closing in on the demon spider.
The mechanical patterns on the great axe suddenly brightened, radiating a brilliant glow.
Xing Tian's target was very clear. It seemed to know that the spider's "Lightning Net Barrier" could block rockets and missiles, so it opted directly for close-quarters combat, intending to crush the spider underfoot.
Crackle, crackle...
Ten lightning lances shot forth with a thunderous roar. But Xing Tian showed no sign of slowing. The giant axe in its hands swung with ferocious momentum, its power far surpassing before, carrying the force to cleave mountains in a single decisive strike.
Boom, crack, boom!
In an instant, the wild pillars of light and the mountain-toppling axe force collided head-on.
The next moment, a scene that made Bai Jie's eyes widen in disbelief unfolded. The lightning, radiating destructive energy, seemed to turn gentle the instant it touched the giant axe, sinking into the axe's patterns and vanishing!
"What!"
Bai Jie was utterly shocked. If even lightning couldn't do anything to it, then the only thing left was the Ten Thousand Binding Threads. Last time against Xing Tian, it was precisely by relying on the Ten Thousand Binding Threads web that it managed to restrain the opponent momentarily, giving itself time to escape.
And now, unexpectedly, history was about to repeat itself.
Bai Jie was confident that with the current level of Ten Thousand Binding Threads, even if Xing Tian had the giant axe, it could do nothing against the webbing. Moreover, the Heaven's Punisher was entangled with the Dark Young, so even if Xing Tian fired Nanite Warheads to break free, it would need time.
Hiss, hiss, hiss.
The demon spider's form flickered, shifting and leaping as it fired three spider webs in succession. The webs gradually expanded, netting toward Xing Tian, now less than fifty meters away.
Sure enough, facing the oncoming webs, Xing Tian couldn't brake in time and was trapped. Even though it struggled to swing its axe, it couldn't cut through the fine, dense webbing.
But just as the demon spider was about to retreat, another unexpected turn occurred!
"Baaa!"
The Dark Young let out a piercing shriek. Its towering-tree-like body was already more than half destroyed, and correspondingly, the dense swarm of nanomechanical insects had been reduced by roughly forty percent.
The Dark Young no longer had tentacle whips. Only a few massive hooves supported its broken body, teetering on the verge of collapse...
Seeing Xing Tian bound, the nanite swarm instantly split into two streams of black mist, like twin dragons lunging to devour Bai Jie and Xing Tian respectively.
Facing such a dense, rapidly closing swarm, Bai Jie dared not be careless. The "Lightning Net Barrier" instantly deployed, intercepting the dragon's assault. Meanwhile, the Ten Thousand Binding Threads on Xing Tian were being worn away at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Crackle, crackle...
Buzz, buzz...
More and more nanomechanical insects threw themselves onto the lightning net, like moths charging fearlessly into the flame, causing the net to tremble with increasing frequency, like wailing winds and weeping rain, like grieving birds and bellowing beasts.
Bai Jie's heart turned ice-cold. He knew he was now trapped in a desperate situation...
Spiritual energy was nearly exhausted. The Dark Young was about to be annihilated. Xing Tian was about to break free. The nanite swarm was as fierce as a dragon...
What could he do?
If he didn't leave soon, he might truly fall here...
'Darkest Hour' could no longer be used. 'Demon Web Blood Sacrifice' would be easily destroyed by the Heaven's Punisher.
'Bewitching Threads,' 'Lightning Control,' 'Calamity Rain Mist,' 'Death Blight'...
One escape method after another floated through his mind, only to be quickly dismissed.
At this point, he still had one trump card unused—"Eternal Night's Descent."
The reason he had been unwilling to use "Eternal Night's Descent" before was the concern that neither Xing Tian nor the nanite swarm were biological targets, so the skill might not work.
And once he chose to activate this skill, if the area of effect needed to include two targets this large, his spiritual energy would surely drain completely!
When that happened, even if the demon spider escaped the rear mountain, it probably wouldn't get far.