A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu Transmigrates into a Book, the Dao Ancestor of Rein

Chapter 188 The Queen Ant, Crystal Refining

"My husband, I wonder what about my sister...?"

"You're too considerate of her. You know how many life-saving items she carries: the Imperial Scale Armor, the Azure Nether Needle Talisman, the Frost Pearl, the Gold-Devouring Spirit Sword, the Gold-Devouring Battle Armor, the Azure Fire Thunder, and various other secret treasures. Not to mention that the dangers here can't harm her, she could even put up a fight against a Nascent Soul cultivator."

The Azure Needle Talisman Treasure is a talisman treasure for Nascent Soul cultivators, possessing power several times greater than ordinary magic treasures.

Its offensive power is undeniable.

The Royal Scale Armor, capable of withstanding the vengeful blow of a level nine Noble Bird, undoubtedly possesses formidable defensive capabilities.

The Devouring Gold Spirit Sword can be used in group battles. It can fight its way through a swarm of Ironfire Ants and also deliver a head-on blow to Nascent Soul stage monsters who lack flying needle magic weapons or ghostly sound divine soul techniques.

More than twenty azure fire thunderbolts, comparable to more than twenty bursts of primordial yang fire spewed out by a Nascent Soul cultivator.

If something unexpected happens, it's definitely because a Nascent Soul cultivator is relentlessly pursuing Yanli.

If such a thing were to happen, besides the barbarian bearded man, Qingyi, and Jiyin who went to Xuanjingdao, the three from the righteous path and the two from Xinggong would be the most suspicious.

When the time comes, he will make sure the five of them have a good time, no matter what.

"Besides, only the first day of the five-day period has passed. Given your senior sister's efficiency, it will take at least three days to reach the Black Desert. No matter how anxious you are, you can't possibly search for it one by one from all the roads, can you?"

"I understand, my husband. Let's continue our exploration."

Subsequently.

The swarm of gold-devouring insects swept through the area.

Without exception, all the fire ant colonies they encountered were either killed or eaten without exception.

This place is like a buffet for the Gold-Eating Insects, where they can feast to their hearts' content.

"strangeness…"

"What's wrong, husband?"

"The most dangerous phase of the Black Desert should theoretically be the middle section of the desert, right?"

"correct."

"But along our journey, have we ever encountered a super swarm of flying ants, with hundreds of thousands of them gathering together?"

"No."

Yuan Yao shook her head.

Let alone a super swarm of hundreds of thousands of flying ants, I didn't even see a large swarm of fifty thousand fire ants. The largest ant swarm I encountered was only a medium-to-large colony of over thirty thousand fire ants.

"Not only that, but did we encounter a queen ant along the way?"

"Queen Ant?"

"Well, logically speaking, with such a large number of fire ants in this black desert, there must be queen-level ants among them. But so far, we've eliminated thirty or forty flying ant colonies, killing no less than half a million fire ants, yet not a single queen has appeared. Could it be that we've just been lucky and perfectly missed the areas where those queens are located?"

"What is the question?"

"The queen ant is highly intelligent and mostly operates in the latter half of the Black Desert, not the front and middle sections. The small and medium-sized ant colonies deployed in the front and middle sections are merely there to deplete our cultivators' magical power. The real battle is yet to come."

Just as Han Li said.

It was just a few dozen miles away from the two of them.

A swarm of hundreds of thousands of fire ants are standing ready, awaiting the arrival of the challengers.

Just as the two stepped into this area, several tornadoes rose from the ground.

"Wind? How could there be such a tornado in this black desert? No! That's... a swarm of insects?"

Yuan Yao, who was standing next to Han Li, felt a chill run down her spine, and a cold sensation shot up from the soles of her feet.

"Wow, so many fire ants..."

Ten thousand, one hundred thousand, over a million...

The sheer number of them is staggering.

The formation of tens of thousands of gold-devouring insects was like a stone before a tidal wave in front of this group of fire ants.

The ant swarmed in like crashing waves.

"Husband!"

Yuan Yao was terrified and wanted to pull Han Li away to avoid the brunt of the attack.

Han Li waved his hand and returned a reassuring smile:

"fine."

The next moment, a howling wind arose around him, and hundreds of wind blades, each dozens of feet long, formed a super storm that enveloped the two of them and the swarm of gold-devouring insects within its eye. This was the second move of the Crescent Moon technique, Storm Shield.

"bundle."

The towering storm began to compress.

The wind blades, each tens of feet long, condensed into smaller ones only a few feet long. Although the wind blades were dozens of times smaller, their power increased from only being able to kill Foundation Establishment cultivators and threaten Core Formation cultivators to easily killing Core Formation cultivators and threatening Nascent Soul cultivators. This was the third form of the Crescent Moon Array: the Wind Blade Formation.

Although the fire ants are impervious to swords and spears, they are not immune to attacks of this intensity.

therefore.

When the insect cloud storm formed by the Ironfire Ant swarm clashed with the real Wind Blade Formation, countless fragments fell to the ground, instantly creating a pile of blood and flesh over ten feet high.

"Playing the storm in front of me? Ha."

Han Li gave a cool smile.

In the blink of an eye, the three storms composed of tens of thousands of fire ants were so easily quelled.

In a head-on clash, he only lost a little magic power, while the Ironfire Ant swarm lost tens of thousands of combatants.

Just as he was about to press on, the many tornadoes formed by the fire ants began to recede, like the ebb and flow of the tide.

Seeing this, Han Li refused.
He immediately unleashed his full divine sense! Using the invisible power of his divine sense, he stirred the power of the heavens and earth's storm: Divine Sense Takes Form!

In an instant, tens of thousands of fire ants were intercepted.

However, the storm formed from divine consciousness could not inflict significant damage on individual iron fire ants, so the wind blade formation met it head-on.

The storm of divine sense tossed countless iron fire ants, which had been swept up and were now disoriented, into the wind blade array.

At the point where the two merged, countless fragments of black insect bodies immediately rained down.

"go."

The gold-devouring insects seized the opportunity to pounce.

of course.

The purpose was not to seize the opportunity of the retreating fire ant swarm to launch a relentless attack, but to quickly collect the spoils of war.

Where the gold-devouring insects flew, the fire ants on the ground disappeared completely.

They were all swallowed up.

This scene seemed to enrage the being behind the fire ant swarm, and countless fire ants began to gather. Soon, a gigantic one-eyed giant, twenty or thirty feet tall, with armor covering its body and extremely ugly, appeared.

This giant was formed entirely from the iron fire ants.

The black armor on his body gleamed with a cold metallic luster, and was adorned with jet-black flames.

In his large hands, he held a giant axe and a large hammer, one on each side.

"boom…"

With each step, he covered twenty zhang (approximately 13 meters), his feet touching the ground, and the earth shook instantly.

Han Li's eyes lit up when he saw the Cyclops's single eye.

"The Queen Fire Ant?"

Got you!

It turns out that the cyclops' eyeball was actually the queen ant of this super fire ant colony.

The queen ant is not only incredibly powerful, but she can also command the ant colony and transform into various forms to fight. This single giant alone gave Han Li an aura surpassing that of an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.

"Very good, the crystal refining is settled."

Crystallization is one of the hardest substances in this world, produced by the queen ant devouring various minerals. It is similar to diamonds in my previous life.

Once the queen ant is caught, there's no need to worry about a continuous supply of crystals in the future.

As for the environment in which the Fire Ants live, he could easily create it artificially, just like the Ice Soul Fairy did.

Extremely high temperature, large quantity of various ores...

We can use the Rainbow Grass to encourage the birth of a few more.

At that time, the Yuanhou puppet of the Great Evolution God Lord can be strengthened with better materials.

The more Refined Crystals a puppet has, the higher its defense will undoubtedly be, which may provide greater assistance in subsequent Kunwu Mountain dungeons and even the ascension process.

Of course.

The best and easiest way is undoubtedly to obtain control of that part of the restrictions of the Void Heaven Palace from the Star Palace.

Using this part of the Void Heaven Palace directly to raise insects is the quickest and most efficient method.

There is no place more suitable for the survival and reproduction of fire ants than the black desert of Lava Road.

　I remember that in the first edition of Mortal's Journey to Immortality, the old version, the Crystal Ant was the Queen of the Iron Fire Ants.

　　If people can't accept this, I'll adjust it to a Fire Ant Queen later; it won't affect the overall design.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)