I Fleeced an Evil God

Pushing aside his chaotic thoughts, Su Ziyu condensed a pair of Spirit Scissors, preparing to perform surgery here.

To keep Ruan Xiaoqi from struggling during the operation, Su Ziyu formed another dark spell.

"Dark Wisdom: Touch of Hell!"

Swish, swish, swish!

Within the dark prison, pale, mottled arms stretched out one after another, tightly gripping Ruan Xiaoqi's ankles. More white arms appeared around her, wrapping themselves around the girl's body.

Su Ziyu controlled the Spirit Scissors and swiftly brought them down. Snipping sounds rang out without pause as the black substance on her Mental Body fell away bit by bit. When it hit the ground, it turned into black worms and tried to escape, only to be immediately pinned down by the pale hands of Touch of Hell.

A minute later, Ruan Xiaoqi's Mental Body gradually became clear and transparent. The intensity of her twisted, unwilling struggles slowly weakened. As the last trace of contamination was shaved away, the girl's hazy, vacant eyes finally returned to normal.

A trace of human vitality returned to her large eyes, though she still looked somewhat dazed.

Su Ziyu suddenly remembered that Ruan Xiaoqi had another nickname: Daimei.

It was the name everyone had given her before she went mad.

Ruan Xiaoqi always gave people the impression that she was slow-witted and not particularly smart. However, after spending time with her, Su Ziyu realized that she was not unintelligent. She simply instinctively did not want to respond to things that did not interest her.

Simply put, many things around her were not worth spending extra energy dealing with.

But Su Ziyu was an exception.

Ruan Xiaoqi's legs gave out, and she fell to her knees. Looking at her vacant eyes, Su Ziyu activated the All-Seeing True Eye once more.

He desperately wanted to know what kind of past this girl had hidden away!

She was clearly such a powerful Beyonder, so why had she been contaminated and turned into a mental patient?

A faint golden glow lit up in Su Ziyu's eyes, while his pupils formed into pentagrams, reflecting Ruan Xiaoqi's figure. Then, fragmented scenes appeared before him one after another.

Inside a dim little house, spiders of every color could be seen everywhere. Some clung to the walls, others crawled across the floor. They were densely packed, crawling in all directions, each one brilliantly colored. Some did not even seem like creatures native to Blue Star.

There was another old woman's back. Hunched over, she stood before a table, chanting something unknown. Most striking of all was a girl tied to a wooden stake, with those spiders crawling all over her body. The old woman's lips trembled as an invisible wind made the spiritual candle on the table flicker. Her movements became increasingly bizarre, and her body lowered to the ground like a spider. Age spots burst apart one by one, and then eyes squeezed out from beneath them...

Every one of them was filled with malice. Those insect-like compound eyes actually turned toward the direction from which Su Ziyu was observing!

At that moment, the scene shattered with a boom. Su Ziyu sensed a trace of danger, but his consciousness had no time to withdraw.

The scene suddenly **, and Su Ziyu found himself standing in a boundless space. In the distance stood a figure like an ancient divine mountain.

Slowly...

The heavy black mist dispersed, revealing the full form of that enormous creature. It was shockingly an upside-down spider!

Black mist coiled around it. On its vaguely visible, horrifying face grew a round, fur-rimmed eye. Its black body was roughly the size of a crouching human, yet it bore long, multi-jointed legs. Its enormous ruby-like compound eyes opened a narrow slit, brimming with malice and indescribable terror...

The Spider God!

The instant Su Ziyu saw that great existence, his pupils contracted sharply. He instinctively touched his face and found that no mutation had occurred.

Gradually, Su Ziyu's furrowed brows relaxed as he began to understand the situation.

Ruan Xiaoqi... had most likely been cursed by the Spider God!

Or rather, she had received a gift!

That old woman had conducted all sorts of bizarre dark magic rituals in order to attract the Spider God's gaze.

That great existence, Atlach-Nacha, was said to be an evil god living in the Dreamlands, endlessly weaving a spiderweb that could lead into the real world!

Of course, Su Ziyu had learned all this from some ancient texts...

So... Ruan Xiaoqi had actually just been an ordinary person? Or perhaps her physique was unusual? She had accepted that being's gift and gained Spider-Type abilities, but had also been contaminated because of it?

To prevent anyone from peering into Ruan Xiaoqi's secrets, the old woman had also tampered with her, placing a curse—or rather, a seal—upon her. Anyone who tried to spy on Ruan Xiaoqi's secrets would see the... reflection of that great existence!

What exactly had that old woman been trying to accomplish...?

At that thought, Su Ziyu suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. He immediately pulled his thoughts back. A true evil god was still standing before him!

Though it was only a reflection... he had already faintly sensed that his spirituality was becoming unstable, and his Mental Body was beginning to show signs of contamination.

Suppressing his discomfort, Su Ziyu stretched out his hand toward the towering, mountain-like blurry reflection and shouted with all his strength:

"Extract Material!"

At that moment, the scene before him collapsed with a boom and was forcibly drawn away by the system's power. Su Ziyu, meanwhile, obtained that tiny ball of light.

Beyond the eternal starry sky, within the Dreamlands, that great existence dwelling upon an enormous spiderweb caused the surrounding space to collapse and compress with every breath. Countless compound eyes slowly opened and closed as it muttered in an ancient, oppressive voice:

"Who... has stolen my authority!"

Su Ziyu felt his consciousness return to his body and instantly woke up. Ruan Xiaoqi's mental state had also clearly improved considerably.

It seemed that the curse the old woman had left on Ruan Xiaoqi had also added to her burden. After Su Ziyu used the All-Seeing True Eye to peer into her past, he had borrowed the system's power to destroy that curse as well.

Looking at Ruan Xiaoqi's blank expression, Su Ziyu did not rush to wake her. Instead, he summoned the Dread Demon Eye.

Under Su Ziyu's command, the Dread Demon Eye used Mental Hypnosis on Ruan Xiaoqi!

This was an idea Su Ziyu had devised by playing along with the situation. He used the lingering curse power left within Ruan Xiaoqi's body together with Mental Hypnosis to further reinforce her cognition.

The specific content was that Su Ziyu was her master, and Ruan Xiaoqi was to remain forever loyal to Su Ziyu.

It was not that Su Ziyu did not trust Ruan Xiaoqi. This was simply his usual way of doing things. In a world where true gods existed, only keeping a low profile and remaining cautious would allow one to survive until the end.

After the dark purple light on the Dread Demon Eye faded, Ruan Xiaoqi's facial muscles twitched slightly**, and her unfocused eyes finally gained a point of focus.

She stared blankly at Su Ziyu and murmured:

"Master..."

A smile spread across Su Ziyu's face. It seemed the hypnosis had worked very well...

Ruan Xiaoqi had been imprisoned here since childhood. She had always been cold by nature and indifferent toward people and things alike. Even after the mental contamination was removed, she remained the same.

Ruan Xiaoqi's nose twitched slightly. She seemed to have caught the scent of blood, adding a trace of savagery to her adorable face.

The smile on Su Ziyu's face deepened. It seemed Ruan Xiaoqi truly was not an ordinary person. Even after the mental contamination had been removed, she still retained her former nature.

And that was precisely what Su Ziyu valued. He had no desire to tame a wolf into a sheep.

Wouldn't that be a huge loss?

Su Ziyu was very satisfied with Ruan Xiaoqi's current state.

"Let's go."

Ruan Xiaoqi did not take Su Ziyu's hand. Instead, she crawled onto the wall and followed behind him like a real spider.

Su Ziyu looked back at her and nodded in satisfaction.

What he wanted was not a decorative vase, but a powerful helper. Ruan Xiaoqi fit the role perfectly. Especially since she was so beautiful, she was pleasing to the eye as well.

After all, strength was only a temporary matter, but beauty lasted a lifetime.