After three shrill, grief-laden screams, the lives, deaths, honor, and disgrace of Sasan and the other two rested in Xielisi's hands. They obediently knelt prostrate at Xielisi's feet, trembling too hard to utter a single careless word. Within their souls, bizarre spider-shaped soul brands continuously released countless threads of light, tightly binding their souls and probing every flicker within them.
At the distant edge of the great swamp, murderous intent soared into the sky above a tiny Black Spirit Native village. Several thousand Black Spirit Natives lay sprawled across the ground, their bodies frozen stiff. Thick ice covered every corner of the village, while countless sharp ice blades had been densely driven into the earth. The powerful Black Spirit warriors were riddled with icy-blue wounds, yet not a single drop of blood flowed from wounds sealed by the bitter cold.
Lin Lele waved her staff and floated arrogantly several meters above the ground. Gazing out toward the Spider Great Swamp, she snorted impatiently. "This filthy, stinking hellhole crawling with bugs—the gods of the Black Spirit Continent actually hide away here?"
Lin Bule lowered his head to study a map made from Magic Beast hide, then slowly nodded. "This is the Spider Great Swamp. Among the Black Spirit Continent's most important gods, the Spider Enchantress Xielisi is hidden here. The environment is indeed terrible, but for poisonous spiders and insects, this place is paradise."
As he spoke, Lin Bule lifted his foot in disgust and viciously crushed a palm-sized ice-blue spider beneath it. Thick sheets of ice covered the area—this was the frozen world created by Lin Lele's frost magic. The other poisonous insects had all frozen to death, but one species of frost spider that loved cold and darkness had become exceptionally active.
These spiders were not powerful, merely ordinary