"Are you going to sit in that floating black testicle all day," Gu Fan called across the shaking cavern, hands still hovering over the glowing red node, "Come out so that I can beat three hundred years of Spiritual energy out of your rotting soul?"
The sphere rippled in response.
The dark surface went liquid, thick as tar stirred from underneath. Each pulse of the hanging heart sent a wave across that skin, and the Emperor's leftover voice crawled out of the bedrock instead of the orb.
"Ignorant worm. Now you have done it. You have made this emperor angry."
"I will strip the flesh off your bones and take that vessel."
And suddenly out of nowhere like magic as eight armored scythe-legs punched through the ripple of the orb without cracking the core.
What followed them should not have fit through a hole that size.
In front of them appeared a spider bigger than the spider he remembered once watching in a movie.
