Creating a paradise in an ant nest

Chapter 92 Nine-layered ants, five-layered great power?

"Where is this?"

Fu Shuai, who was instantly transported into the ant nest, was unaware of what was happening. He looked around in astonishment and found himself inexplicably in a mysterious and unpredictable place.

This is a nearly enclosed, isolated space.

The dome is about ten zhang high and about fifteen zhang in circumference.

"That's—a spirit stone?"

Fu Shuai stared wide-eyed in disbelief at the spirit stone that stood more than two zhang tall and emitted a bright light.

Ordinary spirit stones are only half an inch in size, crystal clear, and emit an extremely faint light.

In the complete darkness beneath the anthill, the spirit stones serve as a source of light.

"What a fragrant scent of spiritual fruit! It smells like a purple apple spiritual fruit?"

He then saw two large pieces of fruit scattered nearby, about the same size as him, with bite marks on them.

"Why does that rock emit a medicinal fragrance? The fragrance of Wu Ling Dan?"

There was an irregularly shaped rock that emitted a rich, elixir-like fragrance.

Besides these strange scenes, Fu Shuai also saw tables, chairs, beds, and cabinets made of spirit wood.

These spirit wood tables, chairs, and beds were of normal size, but strangely, they were very simple, as if they were made haphazardly from spirit wood.

"What kind of illusion is this?"

Fu Shuai thought he was under an illusion, otherwise why would he see such a strange scene?

"Liu He is only at the fifth level of Qi Refining, how could he possibly master such advanced illusion techniques?"

Illusion magic is something only cultivators who are proficient in the Dao of the Soul can master.

For Fu Shuai to experience such a realistic illusion, he must be at least a Foundation Establishment cultivator, not a Qi Refining cultivator.

No matter how Fu tried, the "illusion" just wouldn't dissipate.

"Who exactly is he?!"

Fu Shuai grew increasingly terrified. He had only intended to bluff Liu He and extort some spirit stones, but he never expected to provoke an unimaginably terrifying powerhouse.

"If it's not an illusion, then it must be a powerful being who has mastered the Dao of Space?"

Whether it's a master of illusion or a master of spatial manipulation, they are beings he cannot contend with.

Why would such a powerful being disguise himself as an outer disciple of the Qian Yuan Holy Sect?

Is it reincarnation to start anew, escaping enemies, or a demonic cultivator possessing another's body?

The so-called "reincarnation and cultivation" is a cultivation story or anecdote that Commander Fu has heard, and its existence is uncertain.

At least a Golden Core cultivator certainly doesn't have that ability.

"Senior, great senior~~"

Fu Shuai bowed respectfully to his surroundings in a state of fear and unease.

"I was blind and did not recognize your greatness. I have offended you, senior. Please spare my life."

He doesn't want to die here.

The scene before him was so bizarre that he forgot about the idea of ​​"breaking out".

Just then, a rustling sound came from all around.

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw that a large number of "monsters" had poured into the strange cave.

Those monsters were the size of lions and tigers, but they did not look like ordinary mythical beasts; instead, they were ants!

"Ants? How can they be so huge?"

Fu Shuai couldn't imagine how those tiny ants could be so big.

It was like the spirit stones and fruit fragments in this cave, magnified countless times.

The ants, filled with murderous intent, swarmed in and attacked Fu Shuai.

"Um?"

Fu Shuai sensed the ants' hostility, soared into the air, and hovered several feet above the ground.

Even though he can fly, the ants will not give up.

In the enclosed space of the Spirit Artifact Cave, the ants can fill it up!

More and more ants swarmed into the cave, piling up layer upon layer, their only target Fu Shuai in the air.

"Oh no!"

Although Fu Shuai was terrified, he instinctively had to survive in the face of the threat.

If he doesn't fight back, he'll be overwhelmed by these giant ants.

"kill!"

With a wave of his hand, the sandalwood sword flew out of his storage bag.

The top-grade sandalwood sword was extremely fast, piercing through a giant ant in the blink of an eye.

"bass!"

The sandalwood sword cleanly and swiftly killed him.

"this one?"

Fu Shuai's counterattack made him realize that the giant ants in front of him were not scary; they were just large in size and posed no threat to him.

The hard exoskeleton of an ant is no different from paper in front of a superior-grade spiritual sword.

He wielded his sandalwood sword, which flew through the air, killing several giant ants in a flash.

"He's definitely not some kind of superhuman—"

After his initial panic, Coach Fu gradually regained his composure.

If he were a powerful being above the Golden Core stage, he could probably kill him with a single thought, so why bother using these giant ants?

He guessed that Liu He had used some special means to bring him to this space.

"Liu He! Where are you?"

"If you've got the guts, come out here and let's fight face to face!"

He suddenly shouted in all directions, and the echoes reverberated throughout the spirit artifact cave.

It was clearly impossible for Liu He to respond to him, let alone appear.

in reality.

Liu He used the spiritual artifact to see Fu Shuai's rampage.

"It's even more powerful than I expected."

He felt sorry for his ants.

His ants were not, after all, true mythical ants.

As for the strength of the ants in the ant nest, according to Liu He's estimate, they are around the second to third level of Qi Refining, definitely not reaching the mid-stage of Qi Refining.

Because when Liu He was at the fourth level of Qi Refining, he used the Stone Manipulation Technique to control the mid-grade spiritual artifact "Obsidian Bead". He estimated that he could easily kill a giant ant in an ant nest by manipulating the Obsidian Bead.

However, when he was at the third level of Qi Refining, he needed to consume a lot of spiritual energy to control ordinary stones using the Stone Manipulation Technique to defeat the giant ant. The giant ant's exoskeleton was thick and hard, and it was difficult to break through its defenses without consuming enough spiritual energy.

Ants, with their large size and hard exoskeleton, possess strength slightly weaker than those at the third level of Qi Refining within their nests.

The difference between the third and ninth levels of Qi Refining is like heaven and earth, with a difference in strength of a thousand times or even ten thousand times.

Fu Shuai, at the ninth level of Qi Refining, effortlessly killed ants with his flying sword.

Therefore, this battle will be about how many Qi Refining Level 2 or 3 soldiers Fu Shuai, who is at the ninth level of Qi Refining, can kill.

Ten, twenty, thirty—

One hundred, two hundred, three hundred—

As time went by, countless ant soldiers perished.

Inside the Spirit Artifact Cave, the sheer number of dead ant soldiers created layers upon layers that blocked the arrival of new ant soldiers.

They cleared away the corpses of their ant soldier comrades and carried them out of the magical artifact cave, then continued their fearless charge back in.

They would not hesitate to exhaust their enemies, even at the cost of their own lives.

Inside the Spirit Artifact Cave.

Fu Shuai's expression gradually became serious.

"What the hell is this place?!"

"How many of these damn ant-beasts are there?"

He went from being completely at ease at the beginning to now using his sandalwood sword only to cut off the giant ant's most vulnerable neck and behead it in order to conserve spiritual energy.

He didn't want to waste a single bit of spiritual energy.

However, he already consumed spiritual energy just by hovering in the air, and constantly using his flying sword to kill the giant ants further depleted his spiritual energy.

More than a thousand giant ants had died under his sandalwood sword, their corpses piled up on the ground below.

But another group of giant ants cleared away the corpse, climbed up again, and piled it up, attempting to attack him who was suspended in the air.

"Even the sandalwood sword has become dull from cutting!"

He had never sensed so clearly how a high-grade spiritual weapon flying sword could go from sharp to dull.

Having refined the sandalwood sword for so many years, he had never experienced such an intense battle, with killing happening almost every second.

Hundreds more giant ants were killed, and he keenly noticed that the sandalwood sword had become dull. Although the degree of dullness was extremely slight, it did increase the consumption of spiritual energy.

The cost of killing a giant ant increases by a tiny bit, but this becomes increasingly noticeable as the sheer number of ants accumulates.

"We have to break through!"

He suddenly realized that rather than sitting and waiting to die and exhausting his spiritual energy, he should break out and escape.

"Break it!"

Instead of forcing his way through the two entrances where the giant ants were swarming in, he tried to break through the strange cave.

The sandalwood sword, under his control, rammed into the wall with all its might.

"Clang! Buzz~~"

The solid wall remained undamaged, emitting a slight humming and vibrating sound, and the sandalwood sword was violently deflected.

"What the hell?"

Fu Shuai flew through the air and approached the cave wall for a closer look. He saw that the gray-iron wall was interspersed with specks of silver, which looked like the material of some kind of magical artifact.

His full-force strike with the Purple Sandalwood Sword failed to leave a single mark on the wall; instead, the sword itself suffered only minor wear and tear.

"Spirit iron? Such a large cave, with walls, ceiling, and even the floor made of such thick spirit iron?"

He dared not estimate how many spirit stones it would take to build such a vast cave dwelling made of spirit iron.

Furthermore, the silver specks mixed in resembled some high-level material used to forge magical artifacts, rather than just ordinary spirit iron.

He couldn't escape by breaking through the wall, so he could only try to get out through those two openings.

In the entire vast cave, there were only two openings at the bottom that could accommodate him to leave, and the giant ants were swarming in through these two openings.

As for what's outside once you break out?

Fu Shuai was unaware that there might be even more giant ants, posing an even more serious threat.

Fortunately, the giant ant cannot fly, so as long as it breaks through, it has a chance to escape.

"Adjust your mindset; you may have to go through an even more brutal battle."

He took out a bottle of pills to restore his spiritual energy from his storage bag and swallowed them.