Inside a stone cave, they found Tayzzyronth hiding beneath a rock, along with the mangled corpse of a True Sting and fist-sized, tentacled insect eggs parasitizing its body.
Beneath those eggs, they could clearly see another pile of much smaller eggs.
But many of them had been drained of nutrients by those tentacles.
"Looks like what happened is obvious. Tayzzyronth's broodmother was hunted down just before she gave birth, and he was born in this cave."
Zhang Xiu raised Black Flame in his left hand to light the cave, then reached out with his right and caught Tayzzyronth.
"But how did you survive? This valley isn't exactly easy to get through."
Watching the future Aeon frantically beating his wings in his hand, desperate to escape, Zhang Xiu felt a strange sense of the uncanny.
Then a faint noise came from behind him. He glanced back and saw another large spider approaching them from the cave entrance.
"Brainless beasts are such a pain." Zhang Xiu was about to blast it apart with the wind from a punch when his ears twitched, catching the sound of beating wings.
The next instant, a dark blur sent the large spider flying.
They looked up and discovered that it was another adult True Sting.
Unlike the Swarm they had just encountered, this True Sting had tattered wings, and its entire carapace bore varying degrees of damage.
"Isn't this... a little ridiculous?" Zhang Xiu's mouth twitched.
The sight set Yaoshi's and March 7th's thoughts racing, a touch of emotion showing on their faces.
It was an utterly one-sided slaughter.
After knocking the spider into the air, the True Sting pounced straight onto it and bit through its neck in one snap.
Then it immediately flew to the cave, trying to venture deeper, only to be frightened