A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 192

Chapter 188 The Queen Ant, Crystal Refining

“Husband, I wonder what my sister is like…”

“You’re too considerate of her. You know how many life-saving items she carries: the Royal Scale Armor, the Azure Nether Needle Talisman, the Frost Pearl, the Gold-Devouring Spirit Sword, the Gold-Devouring Battle Armor, the Azure Fire Thunder, and various other secret treasures. Not only are the dangers here harmless to her, but she could even put up a fight against a Nascent Soul cultivator.”

The Azure Nether Needle Talisman is a Nascent Soul cultivator’s talisman, far exceeding the power of ordinary magic weapons by several times.

Its attack power is undeniable.

The Royal Scale Armor can withstand the vengeful blow of a level nine noble bird, its defensive capabilities are beyond doubt.

The Gold-Devouring Spirit Sword can fight in groups; it can easily carve a bloody path through a swarm of Ironfire Ants, and against Nascent Soul cultivators, it can also deliver a head-on blow to Nascent Soul elders lacking flying needle magic weapons or ghostly sound divine soul techniques.

More than twenty Azure Fire Thunders are comparable to more than twenty bursts of Yuan Yang Fire spewed out by a Nascent Soul cultivator.

If something goes wrong here, it’s definitely because a Nascent Soul cultivator is relentlessly pursuing Yanli. If

that happens, besides the Barbarian Beard, Qingyi, and Jiyin who went to the Xuanjing Path, the three from the righteous path and the two from the Star Palace are the most suspicious.

At that time, he will not let the five of them get away with it.

“Besides, only the first day of the five days has passed. With your senior sister’s efficiency, it will take at least three days to reach the Black Desert. No matter how anxious you are, you can’t possibly search through all the roads one by one, can you?”

“I understand, husband. Let’s continue deeper.”

Afterwards,

the Gold-Eating Insect swarm swept through.

Without exception, all the Iron Fire Ants they encountered were killed and eaten without exception.

This place was simply a buffet for the Gold-Eating Insects to feast on.

“Strange…”

“What’s wrong, husband?”

“The most dangerous phase of the Black Desert should theoretically be the very middle section, right?”

“Yes.”

“But along our journey, have we encountered any super swarms of flying ants with hundreds of thousands of ants?”

“No.”

Yuan Yao shook her head.

Let alone super swarms of hundreds of thousands of flying ants, they hadn’t even seen a large swarm of fifty thousand fire ants. The largest swarm they encountered was only a medium-to-large group of over thirty thousand fire ants.

“Not only that, but have we encountered any queen ants along the way?”

“Queen ants?”

“Yes, logically speaking, with such a large number of fire ants in this black desert, there must be queen ants among them. But so far, we’ve eliminated thirty or forty flying ant colonies, killing no less than half a million fire ants, yet not a single queen has appeared. Could it be that we’ve just been lucky and perfectly missed the areas where queen ants reside?”

“Then what is it?”

“Queen ants are highly intelligent; they mostly don’t operate in the front and middle sections of the black desert, but rather in the latter half. These small and medium-sized ant colonies deployed in the front and middle sections are merely to deplete our cultivators’ mana. The real battle is yet to come.”

Just as Han Li had said.

Dozens of miles away from them,

a swarm of hundreds of thousands of fire ants stood ready, awaiting the arrival of the challengers.

Just as the two stepped into this area, several tornadoes rose from the ground.

“Wind? How could there be such a tornado in this black desert? No! That’s… a swarm of insects?”

Yuan Yao, standing beside Han Li, felt a chill run down her spine, a coldness rising from the soles of her feet.

“So many Ironfire Ants…”

Ten thousand, one hundred thousand, over a million…

the sheer number was terrifying.

The formation of tens of thousands of Gold-Eating Insects was like a rock before a tidal wave in front of this swarm of Ironfire Ants.

The swarm surged forward like a crashing wave.

“Husband!”

Yuan Yao was terrified and wanted to pull Han Li away from the onslaught.

Han Li waved his hand and gave her a reassuring smile:

“It’s alright.”

The next moment, a howling wind surrounded him, and hundreds of wind blades, each dozens of feet long, formed a super storm that enveloped the two of them and the Gold-Eating Insect swarm within its eye. This was the second move of the Crescent Moon, Storm Shield.

“Binding.”

The thousand-foot-high storm began to compress.

The wind blades, each dozens of feet long, condensed into smaller wind blades only a few feet long.

Although the wind blades were dozens of times smaller, their power had increased from only being able to kill Foundation Establishment cultivators and threaten Core Formation cultivators to easily killing Core Formation cultivators and threatening Nascent Soul cultivators. This was the third form of the Crescent Moon Formation: the Wind Blade Array.

Although the Iron Fire Ants were impervious to blades and spears, they couldn’t ignore attacks of this intensity.

Therefore,

when the insect cloud storm formed by the Iron Fire Ant swarm clashed with the real Wind Blade Array, countless fragments fell to the ground, instantly creating a pile of blood and flesh several feet high.

“Playing with storms in front of me? Heh.”

Han Li smiled coolly.

In the blink of an eye, the three storms composed of hundreds of thousands of Iron Fire Ants were easily quelled. In a head-on

collision, he only lost a little mana, while the Iron Fire Ant swarm lost hundreds of thousands of combatants.

Just as he was about to press on, the many tornadoes formed by the Iron Fire Ants began to recede, like the ebb and flow of the tide.

Seeing this, Han Li was not about to give up!

He immediately released his divine sense with all his might! With invisible divine power, they manipulated the power of the storm: Divine Consciousness Takes Form!

Instantly, they intercepted tens of thousands more Ironfire Ants.

However, the storm formed from divine consciousness couldn’t effectively kill individual Ironfire Ants, so the Wind Blade Array met it head-on.

The divine consciousness storm tossed countless Ironfire Ants, who were swept up and disoriented, into the Wind Blade Array.

Where the two merged, countless fragments of black insect bodies rained down like a storm.

“Go!”

The Gold-Eating Insect swarm seized the opportunity to pounce.

Of course,

they weren’t there to relentlessly pursue the retreating Ironfire Ants, but rather to quickly collect the spoils.

Wherever the Gold-Eating Insects flew, the Ironfire Ants on the ground vanished completely.

They were all devoured.

This scene seemed to enrage the being behind the Ironfire Ant swarm, and countless Ironfire Ants began to converge. Soon, a gigantic one-eyed giant, twenty or thirty feet tall, with armored body, and incredibly ugly, appeared.

This giant was entirely formed from the Ironfire Ants.

The black armor on its body gleamed with a cold metallic luster, adorned with streaks of black flame.

In its two large hands, it held a giant axe and a massive hammer.

“Boom…” With a single

stride of twenty zhang, its foot slammed into the ground, causing the earth to tremble.

Han Li’s eyes lit up when he saw the cyclops’s single eye.

“The Ironfire Ant Queen?”

Found you!

It turned out that the cyclops’ eye was the queen of this super Ironfire Ant colony.

The queen ant was not only incredibly strong but could also command the ant colony, transforming into various forms to fight. This giant alone gave Han Li an aura surpassing that of an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.

“Excellent, the refining crystals are secured.”

Refining crystals were one of the “hardest substances” in this world, produced by the queen ant from consuming various minerals. Similar to diamonds in his previous life.

With the queen ant captured, there was no fear of a lack of refining crystals in the future.

And he could completely recreate the Ironfire Ants’ living environment, just like the Ice Soul Fairy had done.

Extremely high temperatures, abundant and plentiful ores…

We can even use Rainbow Grass to spawn more.

Then, the Great Evolution Divine Lord’s Primordial Empress Puppet can be strengthened with even better materials.

The more crystals refined, the higher the Primordial Empress Puppet’s defense will undoubtedly be, potentially providing greater assistance in the subsequent Kunwu Mountain dungeon and even the ascension process.

Of course,

the best and easiest way is undoubtedly to obtain control of that part of the Void Heaven Palace’s restrictions from the Star Palace.

Directly using this part of the Void Heaven Palace to raise insects is the quickest and most efficient method.

There’s no place more suitable for the Iron Fire Ant colony to survive and reproduce than the Black Desert of Lava Road.

I remember, in the initial version of Mortal Realm, the old version, the Heavenly Crystal Ant was the Iron Fire Ant Queen.

If everyone can’t accept that, I’ll adjust it to Iron Fire Ant Queen later; it won’t affect the overall picture.

(End of Chapter)