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In the dense green forest, the mist is thick.

Xiao Fan's white clothes fluttered, and he flew slowly over the dense forest. The power of his divine sense covered everything in a radius of more than ten miles.No abnormalities have been found for the time being. It seems that the overwhelming army of mantises a few days ago disappeared instantly.

It took Xiao Fan a few days to comprehend the insect repelling technique left by Tao Qianqiu and the way of using the insect king's bowl. After getting a basic understanding of these, he left Taohuazhai and went to the nearby dense forest to look for traces of praying mantises.

He was the only one, not even Ji Qingsha followed.

Right now, no one can be sure how many stages the two iron-backed saber ants that escaped from the Worm King Cave have evolved to.Although the possibility of the third level is very small, even if there is only the second level, once it reaches the peak state, except for Xiao Fan, almost no one else has the power to protect themselves.

With the characteristics of running like the wind and advancing and retreating like lightning, the Iron-backed Saber Mantis is basically no match for human monks with similar cultivation levels.

Xiao Fan can't let Ji Qingsha take this risk with him.

Hei Lin fell asleep in the ring of spirit beasts.

This is also Xiao Fan's attempt to see what the effect of the spirit beast ring is.Unexpectedly, Hei Lin loved the spirit beast ring very much, and fell asleep comfortably as soon as he entered it.It seems that this specially designed spirit beast ring is really in line with the spirit beast's wishes.

After flying tens of miles to the northeast, Xiao Fan raised his eyebrows slightly.

Finally noticed the trace of the praying mantis.

Not far from the lower right, there is an obvious mantis breath, among which are the breath of dozens of blue-gray giant mantises.The aura of these blue-gray giant mantises is obviously different from that of ordinary mantises, and Xiao Fan is already quite familiar with them.

In addition to a large number of ordinary praying mantises and dozens of blue-gray giant mantises, Xiao Fan also sensed two unusual fluctuations of spiritual power from there.Purely from the perspective of spiritual power fluctuations.It is roughly equivalent to the appearance in the middle and late stages of foundation establishment.

Xiao Fan's heart trembled.

Undoubtedly, these two different spiritual power fluctuations.It was emanating from the two iron-backed knife beetles.Only in the middle and late stage of foundation establishment, then it has not yet evolved to the third-order spirit insect.if not.I'm afraid even Xiao Fan himself would have to back off.At least there is no certainty that they can capture two Tier [-] Ironback Praying Mantises alive.

Xiao Fan's eyes were green, and he looked down to the right.

A cave was densely packed with praying mantises. Going inside, there were dozens of giant praying mantises, which were obviously larger than ordinary praying mantises. Further inside, there were two super huge insects.Xiao Fan's celestial clairvoyance is still in its infancy, and he can only vaguely see some shadows.I couldn't see the appearance of the giant praying mantis clearly, but in terms of its length alone, it was over two feet.

These two praying mantises are even larger than Hei Lin's body, and naturally, they are slimmer than Hei Lin's body.

Hei Lin is a plump and round girl!

Xiao Fan didn't disturb the insects, and flew over the dense forest lightly.Although the wind escape technique learned from Silver Wing Lei Peng is just a little superficial, it is not something these savage bugs can easily detect.

It flew another seven or eight miles to the northeast.Only then did Xiao Fan slowly press the escape light, looked at the surrounding terrain, and nodded in satisfaction.

It is a steep cliff with towering peaks on one side.A slightly sunken stone nest is formed on the mountain wall, and the area is not small.Xiao Fan raised his hand, and several array flags and array disks flew out.Quickly sank into the void and disappeared without a trace.After a burst of spatial fluctuations distorted.The shape of this cliff changed drastically and became a valley.Clouds and mist linger around, making it hard to see clearly.

After a few days of research, Xiao Fan has basically mastered the formation method of the Peach Blossom Magic Array, and now it is really handy to use it.Seen from the outside, this phantom formation is almost invisible, and only people like Xiao Fan who have good formation skills can detect it.But if you want to break through the formation, unless the opponent also has a space treasure similar to the "Qiankun Ding" and Hei Lin's special skills to help you have some confidence, otherwise you can only use brute force to crack it.

After setting up the phantom formation, Xiao Fan calmly took out the worm king bowl from the storage bracelet, placed it in the center of the phantom formation, took out a scarlet elixir with a strong fishy smell, and gently put it into the bowl .

But after a while, an extremely strong fishy smell rose up.

Xiao Fan frowned slightly, as if he couldn't accept the stench.

This elixir was also found in Tao Qianqiu's storage bracelet. It has a miraculous effect on luring praying mantises, especially the iron-backed saber mantis. come here.

Xiao Fan took out the "Thousand Illusion Mask" and put it on, in an instant, he transformed into a pale middle-aged man, and his aura was also concealed, as if there was nothing there.Coupled with being hidden in the phantom formation, Xiao Fan believed that no matter how keen the senses of the two iron-backed saber mantises were, it would be difficult to detect his existence.

As for whether the Peach Blossom Illusion Array can trap the two iron-backed saber beetles, Xiao Fan is not very sure.Logically speaking, it is absolutely impossible for the iron-backed saber mantis to decipher such a complex phantom formation, but the fact that these two worms were able to slip away from the Worm King Cave is really hard to figure out.

Thinking of this, Xiao Fan raised his sleeves, and two golden talismans flew out, hiding in the mist next to the worm king's bowl.

These are two talismans carefully refined by Xiao Fan.

The success rate of fixed body charms is extremely low, Xiao Fan only made a few after such a long time.To kill Sarutobi Ichang, one card was used.Now releasing two cards in one go, Master Xiao really paid a lot of money.

Of course, if it is possible to capture the two iron-backed saber mantises alive, it would be very cost-effective to consume a few more, not to mention the two Immobilization Talismans.

Not long after Xiao Fan had just finished all this, two iron-gray escaping lights flew towards him like lightning, the escaping speed was so fast that even Xiao Fan was amazed.The green light in his eyes was shining, and he had already seen the two praying mantises clearly.

I saw these two praying mantises, more than two feet long, covered in iron gray, with red eyes, and two high-raised forelimbs, which were very different, not like the jointed limbs of insects, but like two large black handles. The machete shone with a metallic luster.

This insect is known as the "Iron-backed Saber Beetle". The forelimbs that resemble these two machetes should be one of its most important characteristics.

But what Xiao Fan admired most now was the escape speed of these two praying mantises.Although it is only a second-order spirit insect, which is only equivalent to a monk in the middle and late stage of foundation establishment, its escape speed is so fast that even Xiao Fan may not be able to catch up.If it evolves to a third-order spirit insect, wouldn't it be comparable to the escape speed of a Nascent Soul cultivator?I just don't know if I can maintain this speed after flying away for a long time.

It is estimated that it is unlikely, otherwise, this kind of strange insect would be too heaven-defying.

The eyes of the two iron-backed saber beetles flashed fiercely, and they arrived in front of the phantom formation in a blink of an eye. They made two "chi chi" sounds, and plunged into the mist without stopping.

Xiao Fan let out a sigh of relief.

It seems that although these two iron-backed saber ants are extremely fierce, their spiritual intelligence is indeed relatively low. For Xiao Fan, this is a good thing.As long as these two praying mantises are successfully captured, it shouldn't be too difficult to recognize the master by dripping blood.

The two iron-backed saber beetles plunged into the phantom array, and immediately lost their way. "Zhizhi" screamed and waved the two big knives furiously, slashing at the transformed mountain wall viciously. He just wanted to rush to the center of the phantom array where the insect king's alms bowl was located.

The Peach Blossom Illusion Array is certainly wonderful, but the iron-gray wind blades cut out from the forelimbs of the two praying mantises are truly unparalleled in sharpness. They quickly split through the first layer of restriction and rushed into the second layer of restriction.

Xiao Fan, who was hiding in the phantom formation, suddenly realized this scene.

The power of the Peach Blossom Phantom Formation was greatly reduced when there was no one in charge. These two iron-backed saber beetles evolved to second-order spirit insects, and they were able to break through the formation with brute force.But now that the Peach Blossom Illusion Formation is hosted by Xiao Fan himself, such a method of breaking the formation is actually impossible to be effective.As soon as the first layer of restriction was broken, Xiao Fan raised his hand, and the restriction immediately healed as before.As long as the formation flag and disk are not damaged, even if the two praying mantis exhaust all their strength, it is impossible to protrude out of the phantom formation.

Seeing the situation clearly, Xiao Fan was determined, it seems that he might not necessarily use those two immobilizing charms, as long as he relied on the power of the phantom array, he could firmly trap the two giant worms in it, exhausting their vitality. Vigorous strength will come naturally at that time.

A moment later, the two iron-backed mantises broke through the second layer of restriction and entered the third layer of restriction, not far from the center of the phantom array where the worm king's bowl was located.

Xiao Fan smiled slightly, raised his hand, and the phantom formation changed, taking advantage of the bug's negligence, it immediately separated the two iron-backed mantises.The two worms were stunned for a moment, then became more furious, their forelimbs danced wildly, and their wind blades were like knives, fiercely attacking the restriction in front of them.

With a flash of a figure, Xiao Fan suddenly appeared in the phantom array, facing one of the larger praying mantises, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

According to common sense, the larger mantises are all females, while the male mantises are smaller.In nature, after mating, the female praying mantis will even kill the male mantis and swallow her "husband-in-law" as a delicacy in order to obtain enough nutrition to reproduce.

Suddenly there was another person beside him, and the angry female praying mantis froze for a moment, turned her head and neck around, and stared fiercely at Xiao Fan.Even though the praying mantis has compound eyes, Xiao Fan still saw an extremely strong fierce hostility in its eyes.

Obviously, this praying mantis regards any non-kind that appears around it as an enemy.

Xiao Fan raised his hand, and an Ice Soul Throwing Knife emerged, intending to try the abilities of this strange insect, which is highly respected by the lord of the Spirit Insect Sect.

"Shh-"

Before Xiao Fan had time to drive the flying knife, a gray shadow flashed in front of his eyes, and the iron-backed praying mantis, which was still a few feet away, suddenly came in front of him, and a gust of wind flashed past.

Xiao Fan was taken aback, moved his feet, and instantly dodged to the side.

Even so, it was still half a beat too late, and there was a "chi" sound of the silk being split, and a long cut was made in his snow-white Tang suit, revealing the emerald green silkworm soft armor inside.

The sharp blade of the Ironback Mantis drew a deep mark on the soft armor. (To be continued..)