I've already reached the Nascent Soul stage, and you're saying I didn't time travel?

Chapter 75 Dramatic changes!

"Holy crap! What the hell is that thing?"

"Queen ants? How can there be so many queen ants?!"

"Is it really necessary to send out the queen ant just to deal with an intruder?"

"Something's not right. Shouldn't the queen ant be protected by the colony? Why is she coming out to fight the enemy?"

"Does anyone know if the characteristics of fire-stem ants are the same as those of ordinary ants? What if their queen is the strongest fighter in the colony?"

"Anyway, I definitely can't get a Guinness World Record for crossing an ant colony, but it's okay, I can still get a Guinness World Record for being chased by the queen ant."

"Hell is laughing at us, Qi Shen, run!"

"Don't worry, the ants don't crawl that fast."

"Holy shit, how the hell can it fly?!"

……

The queen ant can indeed fly.

Countless translucent, thin membrane wings suddenly unfurled from the queen ant's back, casting enormous shadows on the ground like a giant curtain.

Suddenly, with a violent flap of its wings, amidst a howling wind, the queen ant's enormous body, comparable to a heavy truck, slowly rose into the air and then flew off in various directions.

Many winged fire ants also took to the air, flying around the queen like a guard.

The ant colony below, like a tidal wave, also split into dozens of torrents under the guidance of the queen ant, rushing towards various places.

Even though the ant colony had already differentiated, the number of the differentiated ants was still extremely terrifying, with each branch probably numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Combined with the size of a single fire ant, which was comparable to a fist, they swept in all directions like an erupting magma, engulfing everything around them.

This is a disaster!

An absolute disaster!
Qi Xuan watched helplessly as several five- or six-meter-long gray-backed cave lizards suddenly crawled out of the ground. Before they could run away, they were swept away by the torrent of fire-sharp ants. In the blink of an eye, only a few skeletons remained, churning and submerging in the crimson waves.

"Fuck me!"

This scene made Qi Xuan's scalp tingle, and he quickly fled forward.

He could easily shake off a single fire ant, but when a swarm of fire ants came out, it was truly like a wave, one wave after another, pushing one wave after another, at an unbelievable speed.

As he fled, the once tranquil forest, seemingly devoid of any living creatures, suddenly exploded.

The pseudo-mole that looks like a dead tree, the needle-toothed insect that lives in the tree trunk, the blade-winged bird that lives in the treetop, and all sorts of other random things like animals and insects that crawl out of the ground.

In an instant, a grand escape unfolded throughout the forest.

"Am I the culprit?"

"No, what does this have to do with me!"

"I just wanted to get somewhere! How could I have provoked the fire ants to this extent?"

Qi Xuan felt inexplicably grief-stricken.

But soon he didn't have time to think about those miscellaneous things.

Because suddenly, a torrent of fire ants rushed in from the east.

"What the hell, is this a tactical encirclement?!"

Qi Xuan's scalp tingled, and he quickly ran towards the southwest.

Along the way, he would occasionally encounter fire ants that appeared from various places. In the end, even he himself didn't know which direction he was running in.

What's even more frustrating is that the Concealment Talisman's effect has expired, and much of the Blue Firefly's sap has been lost due to running and leaf scraping, so there's no time to replenish it.

So not only did the fire ants begin to attack him, but other creatures that fled with him would also bite him, claw at him, or flick his tail from time to time.

Those damn incompetent teammates!

Even facing certain death, they're still so aggressive?!

If you're so capable, why don't you go fight the fire ants?!

What kind of hero would come at me?!

Qi Xuan was extremely frustrated. Even though he had thrown most of those guys into the ant colony behind him, this delay made it impossible for him to distance himself from the ant colony.

"Roar!!!"

A muffled roar suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

A colossal beast, the size of a small mountain, suddenly came into view. Accompanied by a deep, angry roar, the thousands upon thousands of holes on its body suddenly glowed with a blinding red light.

"The Thousand Flame Beast?!"

Qi Xuan's expression changed drastically.

The next second, countless dark red pillars of fire, resembling magma, suddenly erupted from its body, sweeping in all directions.

"Boom!"

The dense forest was instantly ignited, with broad trees turning into pillars of bright fire. Leaves and branches crackled and fell incessantly, and countless beasts howled and struggled frantically.

The surging heatwave, the blazing flames, the stench of burning flesh mixed with the aroma of meat, and the screams of agony—it felt as if one had fallen into the Eightfold Fiery Hell in an instant.

Qi Xuan watched as the fire-avoiding talisman in his hand slowly turned to ashes, his heart still pounding.

Almost.

He was just a hair's breadth away from being turned into charred remains on the spot.

Qi Xuan looked around.

The good news is that the fire ants' offensive has been thwarted, and most of them are already cooked. It will take some time for the rest to get through.

The bad news was that his temples were throbbing, and his spiritual sense was faintly alerting him to a sense of crisis, but he couldn't pinpoint the source.

what happened?

Why is even my intuition not working anymore?
Where is the enemy?

Qi Xuan dared not be careless at all. While the Thousand Flame Beast was still charging up its energy and before the Fire Scythe Ants caught up, he quickly activated the Divine Speed ​​Talisman.

Using the power of the talisman, in an instant, his speed, which had been steadily decreasing, rose to its peak again, even faster than when he was at his prime.

In just a few breaths, he shook off the fire ant swarm and all the surrounding monsters, leaving them completely out of sight.

However, after completely shaking off the fire ant swarm, he found that the forest was still in chaos.

Monsters were running around everywhere.

Woolly rhinoceroses rampaged through the forest, yellow-bellied bird-eating spiders darted swiftly among the branches and leaves, and hook-tailed sand pythons plowed up large swaths of earth in the ground... These second- or even third-tier monsters were all top-tier predators. Even if they couldn't defeat the fire-sharp ant swarm, they could easily escape. But now, they were all fleeing for their lives as if they had encountered their natural enemies.

He even saw a group of golden-eyed pterosaurs that had once appeared in the foggy sea to the east, flapping their wings and soaring through the air, flying off to who knows where.

Suddenly, a pterosaur seemed to sense his gaze and swooped down from the sky with lightning speed, closing in on him in an instant.

"Fuck me!"

Qi Xuan only had time to shout a curse before burning a talisman in his palm. The next second, he vanished from his spot, leaving the golden-eyed winged dragon to disappear into thin air.

A thousand feet away, Qi Xuan suddenly appeared on a patch of bare rocks.

Even though he had escaped danger, he still felt a lingering fear, as if he could still see the golden-eyed pterosaur's gaping maw.

The Earth Escape Talisman was one of the four spiritual items he had drawn the day before yesterday, and it was also his most valuable trump card.

He hadn't used it when the Sawtooth Tyrannosaurus Rex was chasing him to the heavens and the earth, but now he was wasting it on the Golden-eyed Pteranodon.

"I will remember this grudge!"

Qi Xuan watched the raptors flying overhead and gritted his teeth inwardly.

Suddenly, the sense of crisis alerted by my intuition became extremely strong.

Even when I was almost captured by the Golden-Eyed Pterosaur just now, I had never felt such a terrifying sense of crisis.

what happened?

what is the problem? !
I've kept far away from other monsters, what danger could there be?!

Qi Xuan tensed up, frantically searching for the source of the crisis.

Then his gaze froze.

He finally understood why the monsters were running around everywhere.

And I finally understand where that pervasive sense of crisis comes from—

Of the four suns in the sky, those seemingly eternal suns, one of them suddenly and completely collapsed before his eyes.

P.S.: Volume 1 is finished, Volume 2 is coming next.
(End of this chapter)