Yuntun’s body warped—thrashing, rolling—its eight chelicerae knotting together as it endured brutal pain.The golden radiance swelled brighter and brighter until it wrapped Yuntun into a cocoon of light; webs spiraled madly within the glow, then shattered to stardust under the force.Yun Luohe watched Yuntun, nerves taut; she’d be lying if she said she wasn’t worried, but she still believed Yuntun could do it.“Hold on, Baby Yuntun. You’ve got this,” she couldn’t help but whisper.The Spider Queen stood aside, impassive—until the final, critical moment, when her eyes finally narrowed, as if anticipating the result of this evolution.Gradually, Yuntun’s convulsions eased. The golden light thinned and drew back.When the glow fully faded, Yuntun collapsed to the ground, motionless.Its body remained wholly golden, the crown sigil on its brow etched even more sharply—but its eyes were shut, breath faint, its whole form haggard with weakness.At Yun Luohe’s voice, it forced its eyes open to glimpse her—then sank into deep sleep again.“How is it?” Yun Luohe rushed in, scooped Yuntun up, and checked it over with care.The Spider Queen dipped her chin. “The power of evolution is too strong. It has endured.”From her tone, she sounded satisfied.Yun Luohe let out a small breath.“However, it still needs time to recover. In a few days, it will be fine.”“Good.” Yun Luohe thought a moment, then stowed Yuntun into the pet satchel.The Spider Queen seemed displeased with that, frowning—yet she said nothing more. Remembering how Yuntun had just vowed to stay by Yun Luohe’s side, she could only sigh inwardly.Yun Luohe suddenly recalled the Golden-Shell Spider Egg she’d just obtained. “Your Majesty, one more question. How do I hatch a Golden-Shell Spider Egg?”The Queen’s phantom had grown faint, but she still answered: “Keep it in a clean, airy place, and nourish it with a Blood Crystal Core. With time, it will hatch naturally. But the temperament and abilities of the hatchling are not fixed; if it hatches, that little fellow of yours will know how to make use of it.”Yun Luohe turned the answer over in her mind.“For its sake, I’ll send you one more step. It will need rest for the next few days. Take good care of it.”With that, the Spider Queen’s figure # Nоvеlight # dissipated completely, and the cavern’s anomalies quieted.A moment later, Yun Luohe felt her body go light.The scene before her flipped; she blinked—and stood somewhere else.A treasure chest had come with her—reward for completing the sacrifice.It lay at her feet. Yun Luohe crouched and popped it open.[Spider Queen Cloak Blueprint Fragment ×1, Broodmother Ring Recipe ×1, Queen’s Amulet ×1, Spider House Blueprint ×1, Violet Mithril ×2][Broodmother Ring: Stores up to 500 worker spiders for instant deployment.][Materials: Violet Mithril ×5, Ruby ×1, Golden-Shell Fragment Powder ×10, Crystal ×15][Queen’s Amulet: A charm blessed by the Spider Queen; negates one lethal hit.][Spider House: A spider’s safehouse.][Materials: Golden Spider Silk ×100, Silver-Net Spider Silk ×100, Phosphorescent Moss ×50][Violet Mithril: A metal imbued with mysterious power.]The last chest she’d split with Yu Chenjin; this time she had it all to herself—pretty sweet.Another cloak fragment.Yun Luohe set it with the others and found she was just one short.She pinned her hopes on finding the last piece in the Treasure Cave.She looked around—an unfamiliar cavern.Ahead stretched a deep corridor; the walls were sheeted in webs. From the mouth she could see metallic gleams farther in—obvious sign the Treasure Cave held a lot of ore.The Spider Queen really had “escorted the Buddha to the west.” Yuntun’s blessing had let her port straight into the Treasure Cave without lifting a finger. Good thing she hadn’t minded the hassle of visiting the Broodmother’s Nest first—Yuntun gained an inheritance, and she came away loaded.Yun Luohe checked the time: just past one. Much earlier than she’d planned. Looked like she could spend the rest of the day inside this Treasure Cave and head back to the villa tomorrow morning.Webbing on the stone walls was thick—milky and sticky. It clung to hair and wouldn’t pull free, so Yun Luohe simply burned it off with fire.Many egg-sacs dropped, spilling a scatter of tiny black dots across the floor.She pushed on.As she burned away the blocking webs, the cave beyond glittered brighter with ore’s metallic luster.A crisp crack—layers flaked off the rock face, revealing sheets of Copper Ore underneath.Copper and Iron—she was short on both.She dug for nearly two hours, clearing one rock wall of Copper Ore and then another section of Iron Ore.Just as she was about to rest, her pick struck something abnormally hard.The clink wasn’t like ore at all.She quickly chiseled away the surrounding stone. As fragments pattered down, a pigeon-egg-sized ruby glowed in the wall.It burned like a living flame—stunning.Finally—a Ruby.Yun Luohe smiled.Upgrading the Reef needed 100 Rubies; this was her first.She tucked it away with care and went back to mining.With the steady work, her Mining skill leveled again.[Mining Skill Up — Lv.4][Reward: Advanced Furnace Blueprint ×1]Unlocked Ore Refining: −30% ore smelt time.Huh—there’s something else below the ruby.No—wasn’t beneath the ruby. It fell from above.Her digging had shaken things loose from the ceiling.Alert, Yun Luohe raised her lamp to the cave roof.A dense thatch of webs—packed with egg-sacs.So the webs she’d burned were only a portion; most of them were overhead.The key point: she hadn’t sensed danger here and had let it slide.Those eggs didn’t look special—but a prickle along her senses kept her from looking away. She opened [Scanning Eye] and swept the clusters.Soon she picked out a standout egg.It resembled the Golden-Shell egg from earlier—milky white, translucent, and hard.She took it down to inspect.As expected—uncommon.[Silver-White Spider Egg: Egg of a Silver-White Spider. Hatchable.]Yun Luohe stowed it—with the plan to hatch it alongside the Golden-Shell egg and see.Done with the ore tunnels, Yun Luohe stepped into a maze.The paths were a snarl.Glowing webs lit everything, so she didn’t need a light—but those webs were toxic. A brush sent nerves numb. Yun Luohe snipped a strand for study and found big uses for the stuff.A web-trap woven from it would be excellent for hunting.Turned into a net, it could stun fish on contact for easy scooping ashore.Good material meant: take a lot.Casually, Yun Luohe harvested a few hundred bundles and posted them to the Mutual Aid Association group for anyone to claim.The group now supported red envelopes—and the envelope format wasn’t limited to currency.The system set them to random claim—pure luck.That way, high-Luck players wouldn’t automatically grab more. Most players were happy with that design; the game already leaned on Luck—if even group envelopes favored high-Luck, those with low Luck wouldn’t even have that tiny spark of hope.She’d barely sent the silk-envelope when the group exploded.“Holy—Isn’t that high-grade material? How did the President drop hundreds at once—fat-fingered the quantity?”“Now I’m scared to click.”“Scared my ass. I can see you already clicked—and pulled a dozen! Ridiculous luck; there were only eighteen total in that batch.”“Sis Yun, where’d you go? How’d you get that much silk?”“Don’t tell me—Spider Island? But I remember Spider Island is a spring island!”Grinning at the scroll of messages, Yun Luohe thumbed a voice note: “Grab away, folks. It’s for sharing. You’ve all worked hard diving lately—consider it a reward.”The dive team had headed out at dawn—some had even spent the night on the seafloor. Everyone was hustling; yes, they kept a cut, but Yun Luohe’s returns were richer by far.Her voice message stoked the chat even hotter.“President mighty! Having you as our lead is bliss!”“I feel like we can make so much with this—silk launchers, fishing nets, high-grade binding ropes!”“With this silk, I can combine it with the materials we stockpiled earlier and build a brutal trapping kit.”Yun Luohe: “Spider silk’s great—but it’s poisonous. Wear protective gloves when you craft; avoid skin contact. For methods, swap ideas with each other. If you figure out a good build, share it here.”“Roger!”“On it!”…Replies stacked in neat rows—and a new round of brainstorms about silk uses kicked off.Mu Zitang pinged her in DM:“Sis Yun, did you go to Spider Island? What’s the status? Is it still spring over there…”But Yun Luohe had already shut the light screen and missed it.She kept exploring the maze, senses keyed to every twitch of sound.Deeper in, the layout got more complex, and the glowing silk grew thicker. She threaded the strands with care, when a fork appeared ahead: two passages, both sheeted in glowing webs—no obvious difference.She hesitated—then chose the left. After only a short walk, the temperature dipped, and a faint reek crept into the air. Yun Luohe slowed, wary.A tremor rippled underfoot—and countless tiny spiders boiled from cracks in the ground.Each was no bigger than a fingernail, bodies dark red, eyes gleaming a wicked crimson.They weren’t strong—but they were many, and their size made them annoying to handle.They swarmed, trying to climb her. Luckily, Yun Luohe’s gear left no skin exposed, and a protective mask covered her face.Even so, the little things gnawed at her clothing with relentless fury. If this kept up, her gear would be chewed to ruin.She swept them off with her weapon and stomped—but the numbers just didn’t end.Without Yuntun here, she had to solve it herself.She thought of the toxic glowing webs—maybe she could turn them to use.She’d given away hundreds, but kept plenty.Yun Luohe yanked some out and dusted the spiders.Sure enough, as soon as the Blood-Gnaw Spiders touched the glowing silk, they stuck—and the poison sent them spasming before paralysis set in. They dropped limp, unable to move.Good.Fight poison with poison—silk for spiders. Not bad.But tossing raw silk like that was wasteful; weaponizing it would work even better.Something to refine back at base.The passage narrowed tight; walls slicked with damp moss, the floor smeared with unknown fluids.Huge webs hung ahead, with husked spider corpses suspended inside—gnawed down to a single head.It turned the stomach.Yun Luohe frowned and pressed on.At last, the tunnel opened into a massive cavern.It was broad; the ceiling and walls were furred with thick webs; monster remains littered the floor.She didn’t need to step in to sense a lethal presence within.She grabbed a bite to top off her Stamina, watched her bars tick back to optimal, then tightened her grip on her weapon and entered.[Entered: Aberrant Blood Broodspider Lair][Quest Issued: Slay the Aberrant Blood Broodspider][Reward: Golden Chest ×1, Spider Rearing Guidebook ×1]A colossal spider crouched there—its abdomen set with a twisted human face frozen in agony.Its eyes burned with eerie red light; eight huge chelicerae sprawled along the ground. Behind it sat a giant golden chest, chained—no question, a top-tier chest.The Aberrant Blood Broodspider loosed a ghastly cry—half infant wail, half cat’s scream—pure horror.It saw Yun Luohe and went wild, attacking first—its maw gaped and vomited a gout of reeking pus-blood straight at her.Yun Luohe was ready and slipped aside—The blood hit the ground with a sizzling hiss, belching green vapor and eating a crater into the floor.Her heart tightened. Corrosive—highly toxic. A brush would be disastrous.She didn’t counter immediately. She wove through the lair, dodging strikes while opening [Scanning Eye] to hunt for a weak point.Enraged by the misses, it screeched and whipped its chelicerae—and from every corner, swarms of tiny spiders poured out, the same dark-red breed as outside but fiercer.They lunged—and exploded.Each blast sprayed red pus-blood—disgusting, terrifying, and hard to handle.Yun Luohe could only keep evading. Her armor degraded fast.She swapped in fresh pieces—only for them to break again and again.Her heart bled.What a loss—the gear wasn’t cheap. She could craft more, but at this rate she’d go through all her spares—and then her Defense would tank.The little spiders came in endless waves. Attacking as she fell back toward the edge of the cavern, she tried to open distance from the suicide swarm—Then flung glowing silk to snare them.It worked—but the Broodspider gave her no breathing room. Its body was a living brood-engine; more spiders kept hatching from behind it.And it kept spitting radiation pus-blood—one slip and she’d be tagged.Even knowing the Broodspider’s weak point was its eyes, she had no window to capitalize.She needed another way to crack this.—Yun Luohe retreated until the wall stopped her—back pressed to slick stone.The human face in the abdomen keened—the sound stabbed her eardrums; there was a sonic component for sure.Her thoughts raced.The suicide spiders pressed harder; her clothes hung in tatters.Dodge after dodge drained her Stamina.Then—she remembered something.She’d picked up a vial of Venom Essence back in the Broodmother’s Nest.It was extremely toxic—useful for crafting poisons or strengthening weapons. She’d handed it to Si Qi, and Si Qi had brewed her a few ampoules—highly corrosive. Smash one and a poisonous vapor spread across the ground with heavy killing power—but a protective respirator kept you safe.Perfect for now.Problem: after crafting, she’d never used them. They weren’t in her quick-slots; she’d stashed them in the golden sharkskin backpack—she’d have to dig for them.She had no choice but to split her focus.While dodging the suicide swarm and the Broodspider’s sprays—and trying to poke at it—she rummaged for the reinforced toxin.In that chaos, a jet of pus-blood splashed her leg.She’d just found the toxin and glanced away for a second—one beat too slow.Seeing her hit and dropping, the Broodspider spawned even more suiciders. Webs carpeted down from the ceiling—a vast death-net dropping to smother her.Yun Luohe’s breath went ragged. Her Stamina plummeted. The pain rang like a bell; she could barely keep a grip on her weapon.Her whole shoulder had gone numb; the flesh around the wound sloughed before her eyes. Agony sluiced through her; cold sweat poured off her brow.It hurt like hell!!!

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