Spider's dying gamble had turned the entire situation around.
Now, within time itself, the two Central Dispatch Centers, one real and one false, reflected each other like mirrors. Amid their violent flickering, even Ji Jue could no longer tell which was real and which was fake.
They were converging without limit, drawing ever closer to each other.
The progress that had been lacking was finally complete, and Spider at last sensed the shackle entwined around its very essence, the fetter that had bound it from the moment it was born!
Right there, within the core of the Sky Rail!
After spending endless, endless ages, it had found the path into the Seal of Shadow Sun.
"Right here!"
Spider burst out laughing and, without a second thought, exploded!
After countless afterimages burned away, its own cocoon finally appeared—a cocoon covered in cracks! Fissures studded its surface like stars, leaving anyone who saw its wretched state wondering how it had not shattered already.
But then, one eye after another opened behind the cocoon!
Even the remaining bugs of Intrinsic, despite having fled who knew how far, began to wail and scream before vanishing into smoke, drained utterly dry.
They became additional cracks on the cocoon, and more eyes behind those cracks!
As Spider cast aside its last straw, a calamity unprecedented in the Shadow Sun's Evil descended.
Countless bugs that had borrowed from Spider were drained in an instant and absorbed into its body. The cracks and eyes on it multiplied until the sight made one's scalp crawl, until the cocoon of a mere bug could no longer contain them!
Then a crack appeared that pierced straight through the cocoon, followed by a second, a third, a fourth... Behind those torn-open eyes, a feeler slowly extended...
"What is it doing?"
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