Creating a paradise in an ant nest

Chapter 93 Speculations about the Secret Realm of Space

On the ground of the ant nest.

Liu He kept a close eye on the battle situation inside the spirit artifact cave. When he saw Fu Shuai swallow a spirit pill, he thought to himself, "This is bad."

"He's at the ninth level of Qi Refining, and he embezzled so many spirit stones with Pang Qing. How could he possibly only have a simple skill like a high-grade spirit sword?"

There are countless elixirs, talismans, other treasures, and means of saving one's life.

It's too difficult to exhaust his spiritual energy and kill him.

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Liu He was helpless. He had originally planned to exhaust Fu Shuai's spiritual energy by relying on the huge number of ant soldiers, but after seeing that Fu Shuai had taken the elixir, he realized that if this continued, the losses of the ant colony would be extremely heavy.

In a short period of time, more than two thousand ant soldiers had fallen, but Commander Fu seemed to have not been greatly exhausted and was far from reaching his limit.

If he had even more powerful means of survival, Liu He couldn't imagine how many ants would have died.

He felt heartbroken; he felt pained for every single ant that died, let alone seeing ants fall in droves.

"What can I do?"

He pondered what methods he could use to deal with Master Fu, who had shrunk a billion times and was smaller than an ant in the spirit artifact cave.

His strongest fighting techniques are the Stone Manipulation Technique and Obsidian Beads.

However, since Fu Shuai was inside the Spirit Artifact Cave, Liu He dared neither venture into the ant nest to fight it head-on, nor release it.

Even with his Qi Refining Level 5 cultivation level and the mid-grade spiritual artifact Obsidian Bead, he would probably be instantly killed by Fu Shuai, who was at Qi Refining Level 9, much like the giant ant.

"Both the Eight Desolations and the Nine Netherworlds are in their growth stage. The Nine Netherworlds' strength is barely at the mid-stage of Qi Refining, and it poses no threat to Commander Fu."

"Does the only option be for the ant colony to send out countless ants to wear him down with their own lives?"

"Unless he breaks out of the spirit artifact cave and flies out of the ant nest, I can try to crush him with the obsidian bead."

That was a last resort; once he flew out of the anthill, he might fly beyond the boundaries of the anthill's spatial boundaries.

Liu He had not anticipated the situation of trapping a cultivator whose cultivation level was far higher than his in an ant nest. When the time came, he had no contingency plan and could only scramble to come up with a solution on the spot. Just then, he saw Fu Shuai, who had taken a elixir and recovered his spiritual energy, rushing towards the entrance of the spirit artifact cave.

The Spirit Artifact Cave.

Whether it's the ceiling, the floor, or the four walls, they are all made of thick and hard Ling iron, with added Lingyin zinc.

It was originally a second-tier low-grade flying sword, which was melted down and reforged into a spiritual artifact cave.

Even if Fu Shuai were in reality, at the ninth level of Qi Refining, he wouldn't be able to damage the material of a second-tier spiritual weapon, let alone in an ant nest.

Unable to break through the wall, he could only exit through the cave entrance.

The two entrances to the Spirit Artifact Cave are very small, located on the ground, only a little over a person's height, large enough for a worker ant to crawl in.

As for the spirit stones in the spirit artifact cave, they were placed there after one of the walls of the cave was opened. When Liu He designed the square box spirit artifact, he designed a side cover that could be opened.

"Golden Light Talisman!"

"Rush!"

Looking down at the swarms of giant ants crawling all over the ground, with both entrances to the hole completely blocked, Fu Shuai knew it wouldn't be easy to fight his way out.

He took out a golden light talisman from his storage bag and cast it, causing a dazzling golden light to surge around him. This protective golden light could shield him from being harmed by the giant ants.

He then wielded the sandalwood sword to fight the enemy, with others following closely behind.

He killed a large number of giant ants that desperately tried to stop him, and finally made it to the entrance of the spirit artifact cave. But as soon as he rushed out, he was dumbfounded.

"Liu He! Where did you teleport me?!"

Outside the cave entrance, it was dark and shrouded in darkness!

Fu Shuai, with his ninth-level Qi Refining cultivation, could see even in the dark, but to see more clearly, he cast an "Illumination Spell," illuminating the area outside the spirit artifact cave as bright as day.

The light dispelled the darkness, and he could see more clearly, which only increased his fear.

The tunnel, stretching as far as the eye could see, was crawling with countless giant ants.

Compared to the giant ants in the spirit artifact cave just now, the scene before him was a true mountain and sea of ​​ants!

"How could such a bizarre place exist in this world?"

Fu Shuai could hardly imagine where he was; he had never even heard of such a place.

Faced with the swarming giant ants, he had no time to think and kept killing one giant ant after another.

He soon realized that the area outside the cave was even more dangerous.

Inside the cave, he could fly and had room to dodge and maneuver.

Outside the cave, the narrow tunnel was crawling with giant ants, and he was surrounded by giant ants from all directions, losing his advantage of flying.

"Click~"

He was attacked several times by the giant ant's mandibles, and the golden light protecting him finally shattered with a crack.

Only when fighting the giant ant in close combat can its true power be revealed. Its enormous size and massive mandibles could easily bite Fu Shuai in half at the waist.

"No, we have to return it!"

Fu Shuai dared not go any further, otherwise he would surely be overwhelmed by countless giant ants. Fortunately, he hadn't gone far from the cave before he flashed back inside.

"King Yama Vine!"

Upon entering the cave, he unleashed his strongest technique: the second-tier spiritual plant, the Yama Vine.

Suddenly, a large number of brownish-yellow vines appeared out of thin air, spreading out for dozens of feet in the blink of an eye, weaving hundreds and thousands into a giant net.

The vines are about an inch thick, like thick hemp ropes, and their surface is covered with tiny thorns.

Commander Fu used the Yama Vine to block the two entrances to the cave.

A large number of giant ants were blocked by the Yama Vine.

They tried to bite through the Yama Vine, but found that the seemingly fragile, earthy brown vine, which resembled a withered vine, was more resilient than spirit iron, and even the giant ants' jaws could not tear it apart.

They cannot bite through the Yama Vine, but Fu Shuai can easily strangle a giant ant by controlling the Yama Vine.

"And while you're at it, clean up the corpses of these ant-beasts."

The Yama Vine moved as nimbly as a snake, and under Fu Shuai's control, it wrapped around, carried, and threw the corpses of ants in the cave out of the cave.

Then, the Yama Vine transformed into two airtight nets, completely sealing off the two entrances to the Spirit Artifact Cave.

"Now it's peaceful."

After experiencing initial panic, Fu Shuai has calmed down and is now carefully considering his situation.

"This is a strange space, with spirit stones and ants magnified countless times. It seems to be deep underground, with a network of dark and intricate underground tunnels outside."

"It's like some kind of unique, secret space."

Fu Shuai had heard of the so-called "secret realm of space," which is a space that is attached to this world but also exists independently.

There are all sorts of secret realms, some of which are filled with abundant spiritual energy, where one day of cultivation is equivalent to a hundred days in the outside world.

Some secret realms are the residences of reclusive cultivation families, while others are fraught with danger and guarded by powerful demonic beasts.

"I know that the Lingrui Immortal Sect controls a secret spatial realm."

If one could completely control a secret spatial realm, it would be equivalent to possessing countless spiritual resources.

"If this is a secret realm, then—does Liu He have mastered the method to enter a spatial secret realm?"

Fu Shuai made wild guesses.

His understanding of spatial secret realms was extremely limited. His cultivation level of the ninth level of Qi Refining was too low, and his knowledge was shallow. He had only heard snippets about spatial secret realms from others.

The rest are all his imagination and speculation.

But it was this very imagination that brought his guesses closer to the truth.

"Liu He!"

Fu Shuai suddenly looked up at the dome of the empty cave and shouted loudly, "Liu He, if this is a secret spatial realm, you can't do anything to me anyway, so why don't we cooperate?"

"With such a secret realm, why should we fight to the death? Why not explore its resources and treasures, and together we can build our foundations, perhaps even reaching the Golden Core stage."

He was tricking Liu He into showing himself.

Knowing he couldn't get out, he decided to trick Liu He into showing up and then kill him.

If he controlled a secret spatial realm, would he be willing to share it with others? Impossible, absolutely impossible.