Douluo Continent, Huo Yuhao who returned from Sekiro

Chapter 411 Murderous Intent Beneath Beauty (Daily Written Version)

Under the sunlight, the large drops of honeydew refracted brilliant colors, attracting many small insects that wanted a share. Although these insects were called "small," they were actually no bigger than an adult's palm.

The next moment, the fallen leaves beneath the large drop of honeydew trembled, and palm-sized giant ants emerged from the leaves, beginning to strangle the tiny insects that dared to come and share the spoils with their sharp pincers.

Soon, dozens of palm-sized giant ants emerged and began slaughtering the small insects. Meanwhile, a giant giant ant, about a foot long, slowly crawled out from the fallen leaves and waved its enormous mandibles.

As if given a command, these smaller ants began to quickly crush the insects with their mouthparts and carry them on their backs. The other ants that did not get any insect corpses rushed to the large drop of honeydew and began to suck the honeydew.

Just then, the Lightwing Butterfly, which had been motionless until now, finally moved silently. It gently flapped its thin, cicada-wing-like wings and hovered above the honeydew. Under the direct sunlight, its pair of wings emitted a dazzling light, looking incredibly beautiful.

But Wang Dong soon realized something was wrong.

The wings of the Lightwing Butterfly appear like two fine convex lenses when illuminated by light.

The Lightwing Spirit Butterfly slowly hovered in mid-air. The soul power fluctuations flowing on its wings further amplified the sunlight that had been gathered, turning it into two bright white dots that precisely focused on the Thousand-Pound Ant below the Honeydew, the two points merging into one.

In the blink of an eye, the skull of one of the Thousand-Pound Ants was charred black by the focused light, emitting a burnt smell.

The attack of the Lightwing Spirit Butterfly could only be described as silent. The giant Thousand-Pound Ant, which was more than a foot long, did not notice anything amiss. The Lightwing Spirit Butterfly simply hovered silently in the air, bringing death to all the Thousand-Pound Ants. At this moment, the Lightwing Spirit Butterfly was not like a beautiful work of art, but simply a messenger of death.

When the giant ant, which was over a foot long, finally realized something was wrong, only a dozen or so of the dozens of ants on the field remained. Sensing that the giant ant had realized something was amiss, the Lightwing Butterfly immediately changed its strategy.

Its body hovered in the air, and the speed of the Lightwing Spirit Butterfly increased dramatically. It swept over the Thousand-Pound Ants that had not yet been charred. The next moment, the Thousand-Pound Ants that had been swept over suddenly began to crawl in circles as if they had been pulled out of their limbs.

Huo Yuhao's mental detection clearly showed that this was not a cramp. It was just that the Lightwing Spirit Butterfly directly used the focused light from its wings to burn off half of the relatively fragile legs of these Thousand-Pound Ants, so that the Thousand-Pound Ants with only one leg left could only crawl in circles as if they had a cramp.

Huo Yuhao couldn't help but gasp; this Lightwing Spirit Butterfly was indeed not to be underestimated.

It should be noted that, apart from the initial Thousand-Pound Ant, which was only the size of a human finger and was a scout in the Thousand-Pound Ant Nest with only a few decades of cultivation, the Thousand-Pound Ants that came up later all had at least five hundred years of cultivation, and several of them were even thousands of years old.

The Thousand-Pound Ant is similar to the Diamond Mammoth in that it is not fast, but its defense and attack power are extremely strong. However, the Lightwing Spirit Butterfly can easily burn through the Thousand-Pound Ant's tough carapace and its not-so-fragile legs with the help of light, which shows its power.

Just as Huo Yuhao was pondering, the giant thousand-pound ant leader, which was over a foot long, was already riddled with holes from being burned, and it tried to escape in a sorry state.

It should be noted that a thousand-pound ant that is more than a foot long has already reached nearly ten thousand years in terms of age and cultivation. In a typical thousand-pound ant nest, apart from the queen, the limit of the thousand-pound ants is about this level.

For her own safety, the queen ant usually does not allow the appearance of a 10,000-year-old ant. However, this 10,000-year-old ant was completely powerless against the seemingly beautiful Lightwing Spirit Butterfly.

"hiss----"

In the end, before the Thousand-Pound Ant could dig its way into the ground, it was mercilessly burned through by the Lightwing Butterfly's rays. Only then did the Lightwing Butterfly leisurely land on the ground, extend its curled mouthparts, and pierce into the corpses of the Thousand-Pound Ants to begin its feeding.

Wang Dong felt a chill run down his spine. No wonder Huo Yuhao said that the Lightwing Spirit Butterfly was not vegetarian, but rather a cooked one. It turned out that this guy's way of eating was so unique.

Just as Wang Dong was about to seize this opportunity to hunt down his opponent, Huo Yuhao stopped him once again.

"Don't worry, my spirit rings seem to have arrived as well."

Upon hearing this, Wang Dong slowly put down the paralyzing ray gun in his hand and, following Huo Yuhao's senses, also discovered the soul beast that Huo Yuhao had mentioned.

It was also a massive ant, but its body was covered with a dark golden carapace, and its six thick, powerful legs emitted a faint, dark golden glow. On its head, it also had six eyes—two large and four small—emitting a ghostly green light.

Generally speaking, a Thousand-Pound Ant with ten years of cultivation is about three inches long, and it only has a pair of saber teeth at its mouth that can bite through hard objects. A Thousand-Pound Ant with a hundred years of cultivation will not exceed six inches in length.

It takes a thousand years of cultivation for an ant to grow to a foot long. This is already a very rare Thousand-Pound Ant. If a Thousand-Pound Ant could cultivate for ten thousand years, its body length would probably only reach about two feet, and it would take thirty thousand years of cultivation to possibly exceed one meter.

The Thousand-Pound Ant in front of Huo Yuhao was nearly a meter long, which meant that its cultivation period was probably between 29,000 and 30,000 years.

Generally speaking, a Thousand-Pound Ant that can cultivate for more than ten thousand years is already qualified to be called the Thousand-Pound Ant King. As for the Thousand-Pound Ant in front of Huo Yuhao, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it the Thousand-Pound Ant Emperor.

As for how to call a 100,000-year-old or even older ant?

It's unclear; humans have never encountered ants of this age before.

Generally speaking, a 30,000-year-old Thousand-Pound Ant is already a top-tier power-type soul beast that is extremely rare. Countless power-type soul masters dream of catching one, and it is normal for their power to increase dramatically after absorbing its power.

Unlike the previous Thousand-Pound Ants, this Thousand-Pound Ant King, or rather, the Thousand-Pound Ant Queen, has two pairs of wings on its back, which makes it unafraid of the Light-Winged Spirit Butterfly that can fly.

Buzzing, the King Ant flapped its wings and slowly took flight, finding a suitable tree to launch an ambush before gently landing.

Including its forelegs, all six legs of this mighty ant queen were raised, while only its belly remained prostrate on the ground. It lay there quietly, motionless.

(End of this chapter)