Deities: Rulers of Nature

After passing through the narrow tunnel, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

As Carlos and Kadia walked, a vast space deep within the dark cavern emerged—the ancestral home of the Snowdrop Spider-Men.

This enormous cave was not formed naturally, but was dug out by the Snow Spider People, and it is vast enough to accommodate a human city.

Looking up, one sees a dense network of white spiderwebs interwoven between the top and the supporting rock pillars, upon which lie many tightly wrapped cocoons—prey captured by the Snowy Spider-Man.

Other spiderwebs intertwined in an orderly fashion, forming staggered aerial passageways.

Tens of thousands of snow spiders live and thrive here, and their snow-white and agile figures can be seen moving through the spider webs at all times.

In the center of this space stands a colossal statue.

It was a deity statue that was half human and half spider. The lower half of the body was made up of eight sharp and ferocious spider legs, while the upper half was carved with a woman with a seductive figure and a cold and beautiful face.

This is the deity worshipped by the Snowy Spider-Man—the god of poison and spiders.

The Snowdrop Spider-Men are not a newly formed intelligent race, but rather a remnant of the old era. The Dark Cavern is a fragment of the former Dark Star God Realm that was destroyed.

The God of Poison and Spiders is a deity of medium power, whose divine duties include poison, spiders, and murder. These three divine duties endow the God of Poison and Spiders with extremely powerful combat abilities.

Although he possessed only moderate divine power, some powerful deities were quite wary of him.

Unfortunately, in the war of the gods that swept across the entire Void Realm in the Old Era, the God of Poison and Spider was the first to be besieged by a group of gods. Even though he achieved an extremely impressive feat, killing one god of medium power, three gods of weak power, and three gods of slight power, he was ultimately annihilated, his divine body destroyed, and his divine status shattered, and he completely perished in that catastrophe.

As one of the core members of the Poison God and Spider God's clan, the Snowy Spider-Man also participated in that war.

According to surviving historical records, the Snowy Spiders who participated in the war were like people caught in a meat grinder, with their people being killed every second.

This was a chaotic battle among hundreds of races, with layers upon layers of severed limbs and broken flesh piling up.

The Snowy Spider-Men's fighting power was only enough to cause a few ripples here. The strongest among them, a divine creature endowed with divinity by the god of spiders and poison, was crushed without even the ability to resist in the aftermath of the battle between multiple gods.

Legendary, Purple Gold, and Gold-rank extraordinary beings also perished one after another. Tragically, they eventually lost the ability to even utter their own voices.

At the moment when the god of poison and spiders fell completely, His Dark Star God Realm also suffered a devastating blow. His core essence was successively extracted by the defeated gods, and the entire god realm began to collapse.

Fortunately, one of the fragments of the divine realm inhabited by the Snowdrop Spider people was swept into the turbulent currents of the Void Realm and was eventually banished to the desolate edge of the Void Realm. As a result, they escaped the catastrophe and endured the transition between the old and new eras.

During the glorious era of the Old Age, the Snowdrop Spider race was a top-tier extraordinary race. They were born with a pure extraordinary power within them, and any member of the race could enter the extraordinary realm as long as they did not die young.

However, although the dark caverns where they now live are vast and teeming with a variety of species, the core resources that can nourish their bloodline are extremely scarce.

Having lost the protection of the gods and the presence of top experts, the bloodline of the Snowdrop Spidermen gradually degenerated. Over the long years, this once extraordinary race has been reduced to a middle-class race.

"Caroline, Caroline! Come and see what I brought back!" Carlos rushed into the Iron Beast breeding area like a whirlwind, even shaking the surrounding spider webs. Before he could even stand up straight, his voice exploded.

"Carlos, you're still so reckless. How can I feel at ease letting you become the Grand Mistress if you continue like this?" Caroline sighed helplessly as she walked out of the molten iron beast's nest, which had been set up to be a high-temperature environment.

Caroline gestured for silence with her fingers, which were clad in heat-resistant spider silk gloves, and then lowered her voice, saying, "Keep your voice down. The molten iron beasts are more irritable during their mating season. If you startle them, they'll cause trouble. You don't want to go in and calm them down, do you?"

"No problem, Kadia and I brought back a male Iron Beast." Carlos proudly held up the spider web and waved it in front of Caroline.

At this moment, the molten iron beast in the spider web had completely given up resisting, shrinking itself into a ball and not moving no matter how much it was stimulated, giving off a feeling of "I am just a stone".

"Don't let its docile appearance fool you, we absolutely cannot put it directly into the nest." Caroline rolled her eyes at Carlos and reached out to take the spider ball.

She looked down at the molten iron beast that was pretending to be dead and said, "No matter what, we have to isolate it for at least one period of time. Only after we have completely confirmed that there are no problems can we slowly let it come into contact with the mother molten iron beast."

"Alright, you two, stop worrying about the Iron Beast." Kadia interrupted them. "By the way, how's Kester doing? Hasn't he come out yet?"

Caroline shook her head: "I'm not sure, and I haven't bothered him recently."

In the Snowdrop Spider race, power and strength always lean towards women, making it a typical matriarchal society. Perhaps because their venomous deity and the spider god are female, the women of the Snowdrop Spider race also possess far greater talent than the men on the path to transcendence.

Caroline and her two companions are currently the core of power within the Snowdrop Spider-Man clan. Caroline is the current Grand Matriarch, possessing level 30 Bronze-rank strength. If it weren't for bloodline limitations, her strength would be far greater than that.

The rather lively Carlos is a candidate for the Grand Mistress, one of the twelve Mistresses, and possesses the strength of a level 25 Bronze rank.

Kadia, who has a relatively calm personality, is also one of the twelve matriarchs and possesses the strength of a level 24 bronze rank.

Carlos and Kadia are both young and have only recently become matriarchs, but their talents are evident to all the Snowdrop Spiders.

Normally, Snowy Spider-Man would prioritize providing resources to Carlos to help her grow quickly, but obviously, an unexpected event occurred that is neither good news nor good news for Snowy Spider-Man.

Kester, a male Spider-Man, who was not particularly gifted, miraculously experienced a bloodline reversion, which meant that the bloodline limitation that was so despairing for Caroline and others did not exist for Kester at all.

With the resources provided by the entire clan, Kester quickly progressed through the Bronze, Steel, and Silver ranks. This time, he was in seclusion to try and break through to the Gold rank.

For the Snowdrop Spider race, who are now barely surviving, Kester represents their hope of breaking free from the confines of the Dark Caverns and returning to their former glory.

Therefore, even Caroline, as the First Lady, shared some of her resources with Kester, not to mention Carlos and Cadia.