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The cavern was jarringly wedged into the hillside, its shape irregular, and at its widest point, the mouth was at least thirteen meters across. From where the group stood, looking up at an angle, they saw that the cavern was not dark at all; on the contrary, light was spilling out from within.
Which meant there were even more glowspores inside.
Someone could not help blurting, “What is this place? And what’s that draped over the pit? A brocade?”
It did look as though the cave was covered by a single, enormous bolt of brocade, woven from gold, red, silver, and black silk threads. The patterning was highly abstract, but even by the light of the glowspores it shimmered with color, like the evening clouds at the edge of the sky.
Liu Tong said in a tight voice, “That’s not brocade. It’s a spiderweb, and there are spiders crawling on it.”
Only when one focused did it become clear that it was actually layer upon layer of webbing.
Whoever spun it clearly understood the art of light.
For the first time, He Lingchuan felt that spider silk could look even nobler than silkworm thread.
“Anyone can see that!” Skinny stared, rapt. “This should be the broodmother’s nest of the spider monster. It hasn’t been touched by fire.”
Spiders were indeed coming and going...
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