World-Ending Demon Emperor-Chapter 56 - 53 Against Heaven’s Fiend Shadow Spider Queen

56: Chapter 53: Against Heaven’s Fiend, Shadow Spider Queen

56 -53: Against Heaven’s Fiend, Shadow Spider Queen

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The canyon passage was narrow, only about two meters wide, but it was very long, stretching for several hundred meters.

Lanling, carrying Ye Jingyu, kept running backward, not knowing why he felt colder and colder.

Moreover, although it was clearly daytime, it kept getting darker and darker, as if even the sunlight couldn’t reach this place.

Not just that, the corpses on the ground became more and more numerous, each with a pained expression.

At the end of the canyon passage was a deep cave entrance.

Inside the cave mouth, it was deep and dark, as if a demon had opened its great maw.

At the same time, that powerful, fearless Barbarian Tribe Leader suddenly stopped in his tracks, his gaze revealing a hint of fear.

And the Barbarian Warriors behind him were quivering with fear, looking toward the end of the passage as if it were the entrance to hell itself.

At that moment, the Barbarian Tribe Leader hesitated.

According to the Chieftain’s orders, he was to bring this pretty boy back to the tribe.

However, the cave entrance ahead was likely the lair of that most terrifying creature of legend, the one where even mighty Dragon Warriors had perished.

It wasn’t just warriors from the Human Kingdom or Barbarian Warriors who had died here by the hundreds, including many experts.

Moreover, even those who were killed completely clean failed to catch a glimpse of what the monster looked like.

It was too eerie, too powerful.

After taking a deep breath, the Barbarian Tribe Leader decided to halt their advance.

The Chieftain might be terrifying, but the eerie and powerful monster before them seemed even more so.

He ordered a retreat from the canyon, to surround the area and ensure the target did not escape.

Then, he immediately turned his troops to leave.

But at that moment, suddenly a shrill screech.

Lanling felt a force trap him, then jerked violently, and in an instant, he and Ye Jingyu disappeared into the cave.

The Barbarian Tribe Leader was even more frightened and immediately tried to flee.

But it was already too late.

Suddenly, the entire canyon turned instantly into night, and then all the Barbarian Warriors realized they couldn’t move at all, as if completely frozen in place.

“Since you’ve come, don’t be in such a rush to leave,” suddenly, a seductive and eerie voice drifted through the air.

Then, the Barbarian Tribe Leader and the other Barbarians involuntarily began to walk into the cave, walking straight into the trap.

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When Lanling woke up again, he was already in a huge cave.

His entire body was wrapped in a terrifying web, completely immobilized, and the whole cave was filled with dense spider webs.

Lanling immediately understood whose lair this was, the Shadow Spider Queen.

This creature was the most powerful, most horrifying, and most mysterious monster rumored around, with the Rage Wave Kingdom promising thousands of Gold Coins for its head.

Numerous mercenary teams, including the Quasi-Dragon Warriors, had perished at her hands.

In short, everyone who saw the Shadow Spider Queen died!

Soon, Lanling spotted Ye Jingyu; she, too, was completely wrapped in web, hanging from the cave ceiling.

It wasn’t just Ye Jingyu; there were easily a hundred other people, all becoming the prey of the Shadow Spider Queen, and these were just the ones still alive.

The ground was littered with heaps of remains, too many to count.

This place might not be hell, but it was certainly like hell.

“Welcome, welcome to my cavern,” the same seductive and eerie voice echoed through the air.

Then, a massive shadow dropped from the depths of the cave, and Lanling finally saw the true face of the Shadow Spider Queen.

It was indeed menacing and bizarre.

An immensely large spider body, yet with a face similar to a woman’s, and not just any face but one stunningly beautiful and seductive.

If it were just that, it might have been tolerable, but the key was that on the seductive woman’s face was the mouth of a spider, with two pointed fangs that sent shivers down one’s spine.

This combination of extreme beauty and extreme ugliness was utterly hair-raising.

Just before, as Lanling was dragged into the cave, he clearly felt as if he were paralyzed, completely unable to move.

This was a classic attack of spiritual power, locking directly onto your thoughts and nerves, thereby completely controlling your body.

Therefore, just now, the powerful Barbarian Tribe Leader could not control himself and obediently walked into the cave, right into the trap.

So, it was clear that the Shadow Spider Queen was a psychic creature.

Controlling dozens or hundreds of people simultaneously with her mind, her spiritual power must be incredibly high, beyond imagination, and the one thing Lanling was in desperate need of right now was spiritual power.

Just now at the canyon’s narrow pass, he had killed another twenty-five barbarians, his strength breaking through once again, now reaching two hundred fifty jin.

However, the distance his spiritual power could lock onto was still only sixty-five meters, while his goal was a hundred and fifty meters, which was very far off.

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“The time for joyful entertainment has come again,” the Shadow Spider Queen said with a delicate laugh, “Same old rules.

I most enjoy testing the wisdom of you humans.

If you can answer my riddle, you can live for another day.

If not, I’m sorry, but you’ll become my lunch, hahaha…”

Her laughter was utterly bone-chilling.

“Who shall we start with?” The Shadow Spider Queen asked with a smile, then crawled over to a pretty woman and said, “You look so sweet and adorable.

Let’s start with you.”

Despite the distance of over ten meters, Lanling could clearly feel the girl trembling all over.

“You humans are so learnèd, creating writing, and producing books,” the Shadow Spider Queen said with a tsk, “I learned quite a bit while devouring your brains.

So today’s challenge is a word puzzle.”

At once, everyone strained their ears not wanting to miss a single word, as their own lives hung in the balance.

“No stroke above, no stroke below, guess the character,” the Shadow Spider Queen posed the riddle, then said to the delicate-looking girl, “Tell me the answer.

I’ll count down to ten, and if you can’t say the answer, you will become my lunch.”

The Shadow Spider Queen originally was a psychic creature without intelligence, whose favorite activity was feeding on human brains.

Since her birth, she had consumed the brains of at least several thousand people.

With every brain consumed, she gained some of the deceased’s memories, and so she gradually learned much about human civilization.

Thus, her favorite game was born; she enjoyed defeating humans in knowledge and intelligence.

It gave her an unparalleled sense of achievement, proving she was smarter than humans.

“Ten, nine, eight, seven…” the Shadow Spider Queen still counted down.

This kind of riddle might not be solvable in a short time under normal circumstances, let alone in such a terrifying and tense environment.

The chance of the girl figuring it out was practically nil.

Instantly, she grew more nervous, so much that she eventually wet herself, the liquid trickling down her legs onto the ground.

“Three, two, one, time’s up,” the Shadow Spider Queen said with a sigh, “As a human, how can you be less intelligent than a spider like me?”

With that, she extended her needle-sharp fangs and plunged them into the girl’s head, voraciously devouring her brain.

The sound was grotesque, clearly audible as she sucked out the girl’s brain matter.

The Shadow Spider Queen ate nothing else but the brains of humans.

Lanling could vividly hear many people in the audience, upon witnessing this scene, wetting themselves in fear.

And Lanling was utterly horrified at the spectacle.

He watched as the girl’s delicate face was twisted into a misshapen mass, her once rosy cheeks collapsing inward grotesquely, like some ghastly specter.

After feeding, the Shadow Spider Queen let out a sound of utter satisfaction, then lazily said, “I’m still not full.

What to do?

The usual rules apply, either feed me with your intelligence or your brain matter.”

Then, she moved on to the next person.

“Oh, a robust man, such a spirit!

Even I, a female spider, am quite moved,” the Shadow Spider Queen said, “Come on, it’s your turn to answer, no stroke above, no stroke below, what character is it?”

The sturdy samurai, once freed from his bonds, immediately hurled curses and spat directly at the Shadow Spider Queen.

The Shadow Spider Queen spat out a ball of webbing to catch the saliva, then said, “It seems you can’t answer.

I won’t count down this time.”

Her fangs then plunged viciously into the samurai’s head, greedily devouring his brain matter.

The sturdy samurai trembled violently, cursing nonstop until his brain was completely drained and he died.

His originally heroic square face was now just a layer of skin stretched over bone.

“Ugh…” the Shadow Spider Queen seemed to belch contentedly, then said, “Actually, I’m still not full.

I need to eat one more, but whom shall I choose?”

Her gaze swept over the hundreds of prey before her, landing finally on Lanling, making hairs on his back stand on end.

Suddenly, the immense body of the Shadow Spider Queen darted in front of Lanling, eyeing his handsome face, and she said with an audible smack of her lips, “Oh, you’re way too dashing.

My little heart is fluttering.”

Her voice was seductive, but the breath from her mouth was unspeakably foul and nauseating.

“No stroke above, no stroke below, what is the character?” the Shadow Spider Queen cooed, “I’m starting the countdown.”

Of course, the answer was something Lanling had known all along. freeweɓnovel.cøm

The Shadow Spider Queen had only consumed others’ fragmented memories; how could she be that clever?

However, he wouldn’t reveal it immediately as doing so would enrage the creature before him and jeopardize his life.

“Eight, seven, six, five, four…”

The Shadow Spider Queen’s greatest delight was savoring the thrill before toying with her prey.

Whether they wet themselves in fear or screamed in madness, it signified the despair of these once-high-and-mighty humans.

“Three, two…” the Shadow Spider Queen went into the final countdown.

“It’s ‘bu,’ a vertical line with a dot – ‘bu,'” Lanling quickly spoke out loud, giving the answer.

No stroke above, no stroke below, it was indeed ‘bu.’