Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 109 Alien Monster
"I'll go check out the situation. Don't act rashly. Wait until I come back." Until the group of silver-armored ants went away, Apu's voice was heard, and his figure flashed and disappeared like a ghost.

After a while, he returned to the crowd and said, "That group of silver-armored ants has already chased off the island and won't be back anytime soon. Fellow Daoist Song, you can send the next one in."

Without further ado, Song Xian made a decisive move: "Senior Brother Xu Ning, go ahead! Be careful."

"Okay." Xu Ning responded and then went towards the cave.

With the precedent of Zhong Yang, Song Xian was no longer so worried. As the saying goes, the beginning is always the hardest part. As long as the first step is not wrong, it means that the whole plan is reliable, and the only thing left is the execution.

If there is a problem with the overall plan, it will be a big deal.

Sure enough, after a while, Xu Ning rushed out of the cave, flew into the air, and headed towards the southeast. Behind him, a group of silver insects also buzzed out and chased him away.

When Xu Ning and the silver-armored ants disappeared from sight, Apu followed them again. After coming back, he confirmed that the silver-armored ants had been attracted away. Song Xian then sent Zhang Ningyuan into the inner room.

When Zhong Yang, Xu Ning, Zhang Ningyuan and Zhang Yi completed their tasks as planned, it was Lin Zixiang's turn to enter the inner room.

Just as the three were looking forward to it, George Lam lived up to everyone's expectations. He was seen rushing out of the cave, followed by a group of silver-armored ants, about seven or eight in number.

The difference is that this group of silver-armored ants are larger, each one is about six or seven inches in size, with two long antennae on their heads, which makes them look quite ferocious. The buzzing sound they emit is also more shrill and loud. At first glance, there is a clear difference between them and the group of silver-armored ants that were chasing Zhong Yang and others.

Not only in appearance and sound, but also in flying speed, even if George Lam used the flying talisman and ran at full speed, he still couldn't create a big gap with the silver-armored ants chasing him.

The second-grade, inferior flying talisman, in addition to being able to form a spiritual shield around the cultivator to help him fly, is also extremely fast, even faster than a first-grade, superior flying magic weapon.

But when facing these silver-armored ants, he was unable to shake them off and was constantly being chased by them like maggots on the tarsal bones.

"This is the queen ant's elite guard. I'll go and take a look." Apu's eyes were bright.

Since the elite guards of the Silver-Armored Ants have chased them out, it means that there are only a few Silver-Armored Ants left inside.

Soon, Apu returned, his cold demeanor finally showing a slight change, and he seemed eager to try. "Alright, the elite silver-armored ant guards have gone far away, so we can enter the cave now. I guess there shouldn't be many silver-armored ants inside, only one queen ant and no more than ten silver-armored ant guards at most."

Song Xian frowned and said, "Will we be chased by the Queen Ant if we go in this time? Those elite silver-armored ants are so fast, and the Queen Ant has a higher level of cultivation, so she must be even faster. Isn't this very dangerous for Senior Brother Wenyuan?"

"Don't worry, the queen ant is only responsible for reproduction and cannot move. It's a characteristic of ant colonies that when an ant becomes queen, it will break its wings and limbs to reproduce, relying on its guards for food and safety. Only if it can break through the Foundation Establishment Realm will it regrow its wings and limbs."

"In that case, Senior Brother Wenyuan, please go in and take a look! Be very careful."

"Okay." Zhong Wenyuan responded and walked towards the cave.

The light in the dark cave was dim. The further you went in, the darker it became. Soon the light disappeared completely, and you could hardly see your hand in front of you. Even with the eyesight of a monk, it was difficult to see the road ahead.

He took out the candle he had prepared long ago and lit it. In an instant, the light illuminated the dark cave corridor, which was very narrow and cramped.

Its width and height are only enough for one person to pass through, and there are mountain walls and rocks on both sides. If you are blocked from the front and back by silver-armored ants in such a place, it will be a dead end. There is nowhere to run and no room to move.

Thinking of this, he became nervous and quickened his pace, heading forward.

Soon, he saw an intersection that was divided into two passages on the left and right. He had already memorized the terrain here, so without any hesitation, he walked towards the left passage.

After turning three left passages in a row, he came to a three-way fork. He turned right, walked straight through two other roads, and turned right again.

When he reached the end, he saw a long corridor turning left. Zhong Wenyuan stopped, took two deep breaths, and calmed his nervousness.

According to Apu's topographic atlas, the silver-armored ant nest is behind this corridor.

He was nervous and confused. The cave was so narrow and quiet, and the echo was so loud that he could even hear the rapid echo of footsteps. Logically, the silver-armored ants should have heard the noise and come out to drive them away, but they were nowhere to be seen.

There is only one possibility, that is, all the silver-armored ants inside have been lured away, and only one queen ant is left in the nest.

Zhong Wenyuan was running at full speed, his mind racing. After passing through the corridor, his vision suddenly became clear.

A vast hall came into view, with a pile of red, bean-like objects piled up in the corners.

Isn't this the Silver-Armored Ant's nest? Why aren't there any Silver-Armored Ants? Even if all the other Silver-Armored Ants are chased out, the Queen Ant should be here. Did I take the wrong path?

Zhong Wenyuan was shocked and doubtful, and walked towards the hall. When he passed a thick beam, he suddenly felt something in his heart. He turned around and saw a majestic silver insect lying behind the beam, facing him.

The silver-armored ant was enormous, about one or two feet across. Unlike other silver-armored ants, it lacked wings or limbs, but its abdomen was enormous. Its antennae were long and thick, revealing two sharp mouthparts. Its eyes were wide, giving it a ferocious look. The two faced each other, only three feet apart, and time seemed to stand still.

The queen ant was originally behind the beam and in his blind spot, so he didn't see it when he walked in just now.

At this moment, the man and the ant looked at each other. Zhong Wenyuan's pupils suddenly shrank, he was scared out of his wits, his face turned pale, he screamed, turned around and ran away.

His mind was in a mess and he had no time to think about anything else. He only wanted to get away from here. It was not until he ran through several passages and saw no more silver-armored ants chasing him that he came to his senses and calmed down a little.

After calming down, he thought more and more that something was wrong, so he stopped.

The silver-armored ant was undoubtedly the queen ant that Apu mentioned, but the situation seemed a little different from what Apu said.

At that time, he suddenly saw the queen ant and was so frightened that he had no time to think, but now when he thinks about it carefully, there seems to be something wrong with the queen ant.

He walked into the hall, but he didn't notice the queen ant because her body was hidden behind the beams and pillars, which was in his blind spot and was completely blocked.

Secondly, the queen ant didn't make any sound, so he didn't notice it.

The biggest problem was that he was unable to detect the existence of the queen ant in advance through his spiritual sense scan.

After he entered the cave, his spiritual sense had been spreading all around. With his current level of cultivation, if he exerted his full strength, his spiritual sense could detect any movement within twenty feet, but he did not find the queen ant. This was too strange.

The spiritual sense cannot detect in advance, so there are only two possibilities. One is that the other party deliberately concealed his own breath. Some special items in the cultivation world can indeed conceal the fluctuations of his own breath so that they cannot be detected by the spiritual sense of others, but the silver-armored ants obviously do not have this ability.

Apart from that, the other party is already dead and has become a dead object.

Dead things have no breath, so spiritual sense naturally cannot detect it. Combined with the scene when he met the queen ant, although the two of them looked at each other, the queen ant did not move. Even he was scared and screamed, but the queen ant did not utter a word.

From this, it can be basically inferred that the queen ant is dead, and only an empty shell remains.

The more he thought about it, the more reasonable his inference seemed. After some hesitation, he turned around and headed towards the silver-armored ant's nest again. Soon, he arrived at the spacious hall again.

This time he was mentally prepared. He kept a certain distance from the beam and walked over slowly.

The fat queen ant still maintained her original posture without moving. Zhong Wenyuan met her eyes and slowly walked up to her.

This time he was sure that the queen ant was dead. Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly, the queen ant's fat abdomen moved slightly, and then a slight chirping sound was heard.

Zhong Wenyuan was so frightened that he almost jumped up and staggered back a few steps, but he soon discovered something unusual.

These are not movements or sounds made by the queen ant, but something hidden in her abdomen.

Zhong Wenyuan took out a scarlet broadsword in his hand, pointed it forward, and a red light shot towards the queen ant's body.

There was only a sound of metal clashing with stone. The queen ant's body was not injured by the blow, but under the impact of the force, her body fell backwards.

When he fell, his abdomen was exposed. There was a big hole in his round abdomen, and the inside was covered in blood and flesh.

At this time, another slight chirping sound came from the abdomen. Zhong Wenyuan looked carefully and saw only a golden insect crawling out from the bloody abdomen.

The insect was about the size of a fly, golden all over, with two small golden wings, two short golden antennae on its head, and two sharp golden mouthparts on its mouth. There was still flesh and blood on the corners of its mouth, and it looked extremely ferocious.

What is this thing? Zhong Wenyuan frowned. Judging from its appearance, it seemed to be a silver-armored ant, but it was different from other silver-armored ants. Other silver-armored ants had silver bodies, but this ant was golden yellow.

Judging from its appearance, it was obviously born not long ago. It must have been hiding in the queen ant's belly and eating her flesh and blood. Could it be a different species of silver-armored ant?

In the cultivation world, monsters of the same species that are completely different from their original species are called alien species. Alien monsters are extremely rare, and most of them are gifted with extraordinary talents.

This golden bug looks like a silver-armored ant, and it crawled out from the queen ant's belly, but its whole body is golden. It's hard to say whether it's not a different species of silver-armored ant.

Judging from the situation, could it be that the queen ant was killed by a different species of silver-armored ant?

Thinking of this, Zhong Wenyuan felt a little chilly.

(End of this chapter)