Chapter 316: Spider Queen Illyss
After a moment, upon receiving the order, the Catwoman Aina immediately came to meet Zhou Ming.
Perhaps she had no time to change her clothes; at this moment, she was wearing a black princess dress, revealing a somewhat cute appearance.
“My lord, was the journey smooth?”
Hearing Aina’s concern, before Zhou Ming could respond, she leaned in close and began to sniff around him.
“My lord, why do you have a woman’s scent on you? Could it be that a woman more beautiful than Aina has attracted you?”
Faced with Aina’s sudden abnormal behavior, Zhou Ming frowned slightly and carefully examined the changes in her.
With sufficient resource support, she had actually broken through from Mid-level Professional Rank to High-level Professional Rank in just three months.
Given the Catwoman bloodline, such a rapid increase in strength did not surprise Zhou Ming too much.
After all, for Catwomen, as long as there were enough resources, breaking through ranks within the Professional level could be done quickly.
The only thing that truly shocked Zhou Ming was the aura emanating from Aina—it actually carried a kind of alluring effect toward him.
It was like the pheromones released by a female cat in heat, capable of making male cats restless.
Fortunately, Zhou Ming had a firm will, and combined with the characteristics of the Heart-Observing Moon-Gazing Diagram Meditation Method, he detected the abnormality immediately.
“Aina, come with me to the laboratory.”
“Yes, my lord.”
When Aina followed Zhou Ming to the laboratory, she did not display the subtle fear she used to have. Instead, she obediently followed behind him like a well-behaved girl.
Sensing the changes in Aina, Zhou Ming’s expression grew serious once again.
An hour later, after conducting a full-body examination on Aina, Zhou Ming finally discovered the cause of her sudden abnormal changes.
Within the Shadow Cat Clan, only female Shadow Cats would undergo a bloodline leap when advancing to the Professional rank, transforming into Catwomen.
In other words, within the Catwoman group, there were only females—no males existed.
However, Zhou Ming himself had become an anomaly, having utilized the structural framework of the Catwoman bloodline during his own bloodline leap.
The resulting effect was that Aina, who possessed the Catwoman bloodline, had developed a kind of opposite-sex attraction toward Zhou Ming.
Previously, it had not been too obvious. But after this recent increase in her strength, the bloodline’s influence on her had become much stronger.
As for why Zhou Ming himself felt an impulse toward Aina, it was because her increased strength triggered his bloodline instinct, recognizing her as a suitable mating partner.
In simple terms, within a Catwoman population that originally had no opposite sex, Zhou Ming had suddenly appeared as an anomaly. As their strengths drew closer, a bloodline attraction naturally formed between them.
After understanding the reason, Zhou Ming’s face darkened. He had never expected that such a pure animalistic mating instinct would manifest between him and Aina.
Without hesitation, Zhou Ming directly used a sealing method to seal the bloodline aura within Aina’s body.
This not only blocked the seductive aura emitted by her bloodline but also prevented her from sensing the fluctuations of his own bloodline.
“Fortunately, I fused my own will into the Bloodline Will… otherwise…”
Thinking about being controlled by the reproductive instinct within his bloodline, Zhou Ming felt a lingering sense of fear.
Only now did he truly understand how severe the bloodline emotional disorders that Bloodline Warlocks experienced before advancing to Legend could be.
This was also the reason why, within the Spellcaster System of the Tamu World, Bloodline Warlocks found it so difficult to advance to Legend.
And it explained why races that relied on bloodlines were not a match for the Human Race of the Tamu World—the shackles of bloodline.
It could be said: success came from the bloodline, and failure also came from the bloodline.
“How do you feel now?”
“My lord, I feel much better now.”
Hearing Zhou Ming’s question, Aina’s cheeks flushed.
This was no longer due to the influence of her bloodline, but because she recalled how she had tried to seduce her lord earlier, making her feel embarrassed.
“That’s good.”
Seeing that Catwoman Aina had returned to normal, and that he no longer felt any alluring influence from her, Zhou Ming brought her back to the third floor of the stone tower.
“Aina, do you have detailed knowledge about the Subterranean Cave Spiderfolk?”
“My lord, I have heard some information about them within my clan.”
“Tell me everything you know.”
At this moment, Zhou Ming once again realized another advantage of Aina—her understanding of the Tamu World far surpassed his own.
“Yes.”
Upon receiving the order, Aina immediately relayed all the information she knew.
Moments later, Zhou Ming gained a general understanding of the Subterranean Cave Spiderfolk.
Within the Tamu World, there were countless races—some native to the world, others foreign races brought after worlds were devoured.
Among these races, there existed a powerful race that was naturally close to nature and possessed long lifespans—the Elf Race.
Upon reaching adulthood, they could possess Professional-rank strength, and with lifespans far exceeding other races of the same level, they also had a high probability of advancing to Transcendent rank.
Even the Giant Clan, which had established the Giant King Court, was inferior to the Elf Race.
Ten thousand years ago, a Legendary Elf was tempted by power. In the pursuit of advancing to an Epic Demigod, she fell into corruption and ultimately transformed into a spider woman.
Although she was regarded as a rebel by the Elf Race, she still successfully advanced to an Epic Demigod, forcing the Elf Race to expel her.
That being, known as the Spider Queen Illyss, walked a path of chaotic evil. As a result, very few races chose to worship her.
In the end, the Spider Queen relied on her own power to create the Subterranean Cave Spiderfolk.
Due to their inherent limitations, the Subterranean Cave Spiderfolk could only reach the Transcendent level. To break into Legend, they had to devote themselves entirely to the Spider Queen and follow a path of faith.
Under the influence of the Spider Queen, the Subterranean Cave Spiderfolk possessed extremely brutal and bloodthirsty personalities, surviving in the underground world of Tamu by plundering other races.
Even within their own kind, deadly conflicts and slaughter were common—far from what a normal race would exhibit.
“Aina, if Subterranean Cave Spiderfolk appear on Blue Star and I slaughter them, will it attract the attention of that Spider Queen?”
“My lord, you do not need to worry about such a situation.”
“The two worlds are isolated, and Blue Star is also a world watched by the Tamu World Will. That lady cannot descend upon Blue Star, nor can she perceive the prayers of her followers.”
“It is precisely because of this that no churches established by Epic Demigods have appeared on Blue Star. This also provides an opportunity for other Legends to advance to Demigods.”
“And even in the Tamu World, unless one massacres the Cave Spiderfolk on a large scale, that lady would not pay much attention.”
After understanding the situation, Zhou Ming finally felt at ease and signaled for Aina to leave.
Seeing this, Aina quickly ran off, her earlier actions too embarrassing for her to face calmly.
Zhou Ming did not pay much attention to her reaction. After she left, he ordered the Snake Guards to deliver tons of blank paper.
Using shadow power, he directly imprinted the knowledge he had obtained from the Blue Star Academy Library onto the sheets, turning them into books and placing them on the fifth floor of the stone tower.
The fifth floor of the stone tower gradually became Zhou Ming’s personal library.