"This... is actually the legendary iron fire ant! And there are so many of them!" Xu Qingcheng said with a surprised look on the side of a hill somewhere on the edge of the desert.
Not long ago, the three of them witnessed a tragedy. Two demonic monks who were in the middle stage of alchemy formation ventured into the desert together. It started out smoothly. Unexpectedly, they suddenly encountered a swarm of tens of thousands of black flying ants. attack.
The result can be imagined. At this moment, the two people had no bones left.
As for stepping forward to help? What a joke, Mo Juren has never had such an idea, and it's not just him. Anyone who has no relatives or reasons would not do this.
This is the law of the world of immortality, which is cold and cruel. If you don't have that strength, don't come to Xutian Palace. Now that you are here, you must be prepared to die.
This iron fire ant is indeed unusual. The body scattered in the desert is almost indistinguishable from the nearby black sand. Even using spiritual sense to detect it, it is extremely difficult to identify its existence.
The ants are born with a special ability to gather energy, and the spiritual energy on their bodies fluctuates slightly. Therefore, the method of evading it in advance by opening up your spiritual consciousness will not work.
To Mo Juren, this ant colony really poses no threat. He had tried it before, but even the gold-eating insects at the moment couldn't chew his body, let alone the weaker iron fire ants?
Of course, this is based on the premise that the level of the Gold-Eating Insect is not high and the number is not large. If it evolves for a few more generations, or if the insect swarm is overwhelming and attacks him continuously for a long time, it will also be unable to withstand it.
The iron fire ants in front of him were far inferior, neither in terms of strength nor quantity could threaten him.
He also tried the earth escape technique. If he could pass through the ground, wouldn't he be able to avoid trouble? Unfortunately, it doesn't work at all. The temperature in the desert is extremely high, and it is even more terrifying under the ground. When using the earth escape technique, mana will be consumed rapidly.
No wonder, if it was really possible, other monks would have done it long ago, so why wait until he discovered it?
"Master, why don't you let me give my gold-eating insect a try?" But at this moment, Han Li suddenly volunteered. The gold-eating bugs have not been used much since they were cultivated. A batch of them were lost before they were effective against the extremely Yin old monster.
I have to say that it is still a bit regretful. At this moment, seeing the iron fire ant, a social spiritual insect similar to the gold-eating insect, I naturally want to try it out, which can be regarded as a contribution.
As for the number of gold-eating insects, there is no need to worry about this. He has more than one spirit beast bag of this insect on his waist, which is completely enough.
"Okay." This was a sure thing, so Mo Juren naturally wouldn't object and nodded to indicate to the other party to just go ahead and do it.
"Are you really lazy as a master?" Xu Qingcheng chuckled and teased, looking at Han Li who was striding forward into the black desert.
To her, the seemingly terrifying fire ants were not even a threat, and she had plenty of means to deal with them. However, since someone took the initiative to do it for her, she was happy and relaxed.
"Then you should take action. What are you talking about here?" Mo Juren snorted coldly, and then moved forward, leaving Xu Qingcheng alone standing there with a look of astonishment on his face, and then he became even more depressed. muttered,
"You're a stingy man, can't you even make a joke?"
As he said this, he followed up gloomily.
At this time, Han Li, who was gradually approaching the iron fire ant swarm, had already taken action. With a wave of his arms, several spirit beast bags flew directly into the air. His hands then pinched the magic formula, and the mouth of the bag also opened at the same time.
In an instant, countless gold-eating insects rushed out and turned into a cloud of gold and silver insects hovering in the air, brilliant and extraordinary.
"go"
With a low cry, the insect cloud headed straight towards the desert cover ahead.
Probably sensing the danger, before the cloud of insects could fly down, the black iron fire ant colony could no longer hold back and immediately rose into the air to meet the enemy.
The moment the two insect clouds came into contact, the black fire ants immediately launched an attack. Large dark flames spurted out from the ant colony and rolled towards the gold-eating insects.
This is the unique talent of the iron fire ant, and the black flames it sprays are extremely powerful. Obviously, out of instinct, the ants knew how scary the coming enemy was, so they took action first.
If it were any other spiritual insect, it would be unbearable to be swept by this weird flame, and there would be a high probability of heavy losses.
However, at this moment, the terror of the gold-eating insect was immediately highlighted. Facing the black flames that swept in, not only was it not injured, but it directly began to devour it, swallowing up all the flames almost in an instant, and then He even rushed into the ant colony like crazy.
For a moment, two swarms of insects of different colors were completely entangled, biting each other crazily and making bursts of piercing screams.
As time passed, a large number of insect corpses began to fall continuously, among which the black ones accounted for the majority, while the gold and silver ones were extremely rare.
It can be seen that the strength gap between the two sides is extremely obvious. At the moment of contact, the gold-eating insects have the upper hand and are likely to annihilate the opponent.
The Iron Fire Ant quickly realized something was wrong and wanted to escape when he saw that he was no match. Unfortunately, there was no way he could escape when faced with Han Li who was already prepared.
When it formed a black arrow and failed to break through the swarm of gold-eating insects, it was immediately blocked by a dazzling sword light, and its speed naturally slowed down.
With this delay, the best opportunity disappeared. The ant colony once again fell into the crazy siege of the gold-eating insect swarm. It only lasted for a moment before it was completely annihilated.
This battle could be described as a complete victory. All tens of thousands of iron fire ants died, while only a few hundred gold-eating insects were lost.
Han Li was naturally very satisfied. Looking at the black insect corpses everywhere, his heart suddenly moved. A low whistle sounded from his mouth, and the gold-eating insect swarms flew down quickly, swallowing up all the insect corpses.
"This gold-eating insect is really powerful. If it continues to grow, no one among the monks of the same level will be your opponent." Xu Qingcheng, who had witnessed the insect swarm battle just now, couldn't help but sigh as he walked closer.
She was not without envy in her heart. This insect was really too special. Not only was it powerful in talent, but it also had unlimited potential. It's a pity, but I can only think about it. She is not Wang Ying, so she cannot let the other party give it to her for free.
"Senior Xu is ridiculous. It's a fluke that this insect can be cultivated until now. I don't dare to hope for it in the future." Han Li shook his head slightly, with a look of helplessness on his face, as if he was helpless.
"Really?" Xu Qingcheng's bright eyes flashed slightly, obviously not believing it, but she continued,
"Not to mention now, even in ancient times, gold-eating insects were famous. It is naturally extremely difficult to cultivate such top-level spiritual insects. I don't know how you did it?"
"It's just a fluke." Han Li couldn't hear the other party's probing intention, but he just smiled shyly and didn't answer at all. Instead, he used a magic formula to collect all the gold-eating insects in the sky into the spirit beast bag.
Seeing that the other party avoided answering, Xu Qingcheng suddenly rolled his eyes at Mo Juren on the side, and cursed secretly in his heart, this boy and your bastard master are almost carved from the same mold, they are too cunning, and there is no tone at all. Not exposed.
A lot of time had been wasted, and the three of them did not delay any more and continued walking towards the depths of the desert.
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The Black Desert is not so scary in the first place, at least for most monks in the alchemy stage, they can still pass it smoothly.
Unfortunately, this time is an exception, because the emergence of iron fire ants has sharply increased their danger level. There is no serious problem for those who are strong in the Nascent Soul stage. At most, it only consumes some mana.
However, for the monks in the alchemy stage, it is simply like a nightmare. Without the protection of a strong person or carrying a powerful magic weapon, few people would be able to pass this level.
Mo Juren knew very well that the iron fire ants were deliberately released by Xing Gong in order to consume the power of good and evil. This is not because Xinggong can control Xutian Palace, but because it controls some special restrictions and can take advantage of them.
In fact, Ling Yuling had tried to dissuade him many times before this, telling him not to participate. She did not continue to dissuade him until she heard that Xu Qingcheng would also go together.
Mo Juren naturally understood the reason, but he didn't point it out.
It has to be said that although Star Palace's methods are bloody, they are extremely effective. There must be only a few monks in the pill-forming stage who choose to enter the inner hall and survive this time.
One day later, in mid-air somewhere in the Black Desert, a nine-story pagoda with a height of tens of feet was rotating rapidly. In the space below, tens of thousands of black fire ant colonies were surrounded by a transparent light curtain released from the bottom of the tower. Despite their crazy attacks, it was of no avail.
But at this moment, Xu Qingcheng's pair of slender white jade hands quickly changed, and she once again pinched the unknown magic formula. In an instant, a terrifying suction force suddenly emerged from the bottom of the tower, and all the insects were sucked in.
Immediately afterwards, the pagoda shrunk at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a height of half a foot and flew into its white jade palm.
"Every time you ask me to take action, you just watch the show. It's really too much." Xu Qingcheng complained to someone full of anger.
"Can you please work harder? As the backbone of our team, isn't it right for you to take action? What's more, how can such a little bug catch us, Palace Master Xu, and eliminate it with a wave of his hand?" Mo Juren chuckled, The words were full of compliments. However, he couldn't fool the other party at all.
"You are clearly using me as a coolie, and you are wearing a high hat."
Along the way, the three of them encountered countless attacks by iron fire ant swarms in just one day. The smaller ones ranged from two to three thousand to more than ten thousand, and the larger ones could reach as large as fifty or sixty thousand.
After all, Han Li's Gold-eating Insects had lost a lot when dealing with Ji Yin. If they continued to use them to deal with the endless iron fire ants, they would definitely be injured.
Therefore, he was directly stopped by Mo Juren and asked Xu Qingcheng to help instead. The latter doesn't matter, it's just a simple effort anyway, but when I think of someone who seems to have never made a move, I can't help but feel a little angry.
"How could it be possible? No matter how brave Mo is, he would not dare to let you, Palace Master Xu, work as a coolie. The means are really limited, and there is no better way to deal with this iron fire ant." Mo Juren explained with a smile, but unfortunately, But the other party didn't believe it at all.
"You don't tell the truth, so I won't be fooled."
Although he said so, Xu Qingcheng did not really intend to sit back and watch, but continued to move forward with the pagoda.
Mo Juren chuckled, but didn't take it to heart at all, and asked Han Li to follow closely.
According to estimates, this should be in the central area of the Black Desert, and it will take at least one day to reach the end. The test of the Ice and Fire Road is limited and must be within five days.
Three days have passed since we set out, so it’s only right to hurry up and hurry up.
However, just after walking for more than thirty miles, the three of them stopped again, all looking at the location of a certain hill not far away.
As far as the eye could see, another group of iron fire ants appeared, still numbering in the tens of thousands, and they were currently attacking a blue light group below.
The light group obviously couldn't hold it any longer, its surface flashed rapidly and it kept shaking. Inside, there is a figure struggling to support itself.
"It's her!" Mo Juren couldn't help but feel something in his heart, and he immediately guessed the identity of the other party. What a coincidence, they have changed so much, yet we still meet?
Subconsciously, he turned to look at Han Li and suddenly noticed that something was wrong with this kid's expression. I couldn't help but be startled, what's going on? Could it be possible that the two parties knew each other?
Shouldn't it? Because of his involvement, the two of them had never been to Kuixing Island that year. Is it impossible that they had seen this woman?
etc!
Mo Juren suddenly thought of something. Could it be that these two guys had met in the ghost mist? I didn't pay attention to it before, so this was the only possibility.
If this is true, is it a coincidence? Or a correction of fate?
"Master..." According to Han Li's character, if he encountered such a situation alone, he would not meddle in his own business when he was not sure whether he could protect himself, let alone a strange female cultivator whom he had only met once. .
However, the situation is different now. With two masters accompanying you, don't take it too easy along the way. Now that I see this woman, it doesn't hurt to take action once I can.
"Know?" Mo Juren asked directly.
"It's just a one-time relationship, disciple..." Han Li was about to explain, but suddenly he thought of something. That Yuan Yao is beautiful and charming, a perfect vixen alive. What if he behaved too much and made the master misunderstand him? manage? After all, the other party is not only the master, but also the father-in-law?
Fortunately, Mo Juren was extremely considerate and interrupted him in time. He nodded and said, "You and I, master and disciple, don't have to explain anything. Since we are your friends, let's save him."
"Then... Master, please wait for a moment." Han Li stopped adding any extraneous details and instead tapped the spirit beast bag and released the gold-eating worms again.
The result is self-evident. In just a moment, he achieved a complete victory and all the iron fire ants were devoured.
Without the threat, the person in front immediately removed the protective blue light, revealing a stunning woman with beautiful appearance and charming temperament.
He was wearing a thin tight-fitting shirt, revealing his graceful and graceful figure. In addition, after a fierce battle, his whole body was dripping with sweat, which revealed a fatal temptation.
Because she had consumed too much mana, the woman's face was now slightly pale, and there was an unconcealable fragility between her eyebrows, giving people a feeling of pity for her.
Mo Juren glanced at the other person and then looked away. Although this woman was extraordinary in appearance, she was not attractive to him who had already seen many beauties.
Not to mention anything else, Xu Qingcheng on the side was no worse than her opponent. He was still a Nascent Soul Stage monk and was much more charming.
Han Li, on the other hand, was stunned for a moment when he saw such a lively scene. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough and returned to normal color immediately.
Suddenly, he glanced sideways out of nowhere, and instantly met the master's eyes that were half-smiling but not smiling. Feeling guilty for no reason, he quickly dodged away.
