Dragon-Hunting Spider prefer heat and dislike cold, and naturally possess extremely high resistance to fire. Many adult Dragon-Hunting Spider prefer to sleep in the core of a planet.
Even for juvenile Dragon-Hunting Spider, the temperature of magma is like a human taking a hot bath—it poses no harm whatsoever.
Ignoring Mora, who had sunk into the lava pool, and Bradley, who was slowly crawling backward beside him, Gustavo's eight claws bent slightly, and then he leaped up, bringing with him a series of fiery red magma that landed on the stone slab and slowly solidified and cooled.
Having emerged from the lava pool, Gustavo finally revealed his full form. He was now three meters tall and five meters wide, with eight black spider legs covered in vicious barbs and bone spikes protruding from the joints. The ends of his spider legs were structured like foldable scythes with fine and sharp serrations at the edges. Once prey was caught, it would be instantly torn to pieces.
Unlike other spider creatures, the Dragon-Hunting Spider has extremely well-developed muscles, with each muscle fiber being exceptionally tough and strong, like alloy steel wire containing terrifying explosive power. This makes them not look thin and bony, but rather rugged, terrifying, and majestic.
Most of the Dragon-Hunting Spider's body is covered by an exoskeleton. This exoskeleton is not thick; on the contrary, it is extremely thin and very flexible. It will fold slightly with the rhythm of the muscles to adapt to changes in the flesh. However, its defensive power is much stronger than that of True Dragon's scales, giving the Dragon-Hunting Spider extremely strong flesh. Even the relatively soft spider abdomen has a defensive power that can leave enemies speechless.
In front of its body, most of the ferocious spider head was occupied by four pairs of eerie green eyes. In the dim cave, these eyes emitted streaks of pale green light, which was quite chilling.
The lower half of the spider's head contains the mouthparts used by the Dragon-Hunting Spider for feeding and biting. The structure is far more complex than that of ordinary spiders. Sharp teeth that resemble daggers are scattered throughout the mouth, and two pairs of scimitar-like chelicerae can easily cut through high-strength alloy steel when opened and closed.
From the body structure of the Dragon-Hunting Spider, one can roughly deduce the habits and fighting style of this species. It is more like a wolf spider, adept at close combat to kill its prey, and not an expert in using poison.
Folding his eight blade-like legs together and relying on the soft muscle pads at his joints, Gustavo crawled quickly across the ground, making almost no sound.
Bradley watched his brother crawl away and muttered, "Why are they going to eat again?"
During this time, Gustavo grew faster and faster, and ate more and more, almost three or four times the combined food intake of him and his sister Mora.
Perhaps only such an enormous amount of food intake can explain why Gustavo was able to grow so rapidly.
The cave was very large; otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to accommodate a behemoth like the Spider Mom. Gustavo crawled slowly, arriving at a huge depression.
This is the 'food bowl' of the three Gustavo siblings. The Spider Mom would regularly put some defenseless prey into it, but recently, as her second son's appetite has increased significantly, the time she puts in the prey has been brought forward time and time again.
Of course, this was no big deal for the Spider Mom; a single hunt of hers was enough to feed her three children for several years.
At the bottom of the pit, half of the prey remained. It was a Three-Horned White Rhinoceros, a monster species, with a life rank of Tier Five. In its previous life, it reigned supreme over the waters it ruled, but now it could only become food for Gustavo.
Climbing to the bottom of the pit, Gustavo extended his two pairs of spider legs, his blade-like feet springing out. With a dazzling flash of light, the remaining half of the Three-Horned White Rhinoceros's body was cut into evenly sized pieces of meat, which Gustavo quickly swallowed as he lowered his body. After a brief chew, he put the meat into his stomach.
The effect of the Star Swallowing Technique on Gustavo far surpassed that on Lancelot and Logo, primarily due to the vast differences in their races.
The Dragon-Hunting Spider's digestive ability is already extremely powerful; even steel swallowed into its belly will be broken down and absorbed in a short time. After cultivating the Star Swallowing Technique, it has been super-amplified.
As soon as the Three-Horned White Rhinoceros meat entered the stomach, it was rapidly broken down by the powerful stomach acid. Then, the furnace-like stomach began to churn, and strands of nutrients were extracted and transported to every tiny corner of the body through the intricate blood vessels.
Gustavo ate very quickly; in just five minutes, the Three-Horned White Rhinoceros meat was completely devoured. This was meat weighing over a thousand kilograms, and it came from Fifth-Tier Transcendent creature, so the energy and nutrients it contained were terrifying.
Feeling the nutrients flowing into his body, Gustavo dared not slack off and quickly jumped out of the stone pit to begin exercising.
Dragon-Hunting Spider are Epic creatures. From birth, Inherited Memory are automatically instilled into their minds. These are the racial treasures accumulated by their ancestors over generations, containing all sorts of knowledge.
However, because the Inherited Memory are too vast, forcing one to absorb them all would overwhelm the brain. Only some key memories, such as language, racial customs, and survival tips, will remain, while other memories will lie dormant deep within the consciousness, like undercurrents in the ocean.
When the Dragon-Hunting Spider needs certain knowledge, its Inherited Memory will automatically surface, but a special medium is required to trigger them.
For example, when Gustavo encounters a strange monster and wants to learn about it, the Inherited Memory will trigger the corresponding mechanism, and relevant information will emerge.
Logo and Lancelot are both human, and their past life experiences can be seamlessly connected.
But Gustavo is a completely different kind of creature, and human training methods cannot be copied directly. This is where the Inherited Memory comes in handy.
Furthermore, if Gustavo were to actually use the Body Tempering methods from his previous life to cultivate, Spider Mom would inevitably become suspicious, adding a lot of trouble.
Therefore, Gustavo ultimately chose to find training methods within the Inherited Memory. When this idea arose and he expressed strong emotional signals, the Inherited Memory were indeed triggered.
Various training methods suitable for the Dragon-Hunting Spider were laid out before him as if they were free, making Gustavo exclaim that having Inherited Memory was truly awesome.