The hurricane stopped instantly, revealing the yellow-faced man inside.
His body was standing there sluggishly, the ice shield and green shield were gone, and there was a fist-sized transparent hole in the heart of his chest, and the area around the wound was black and burnt, as if it had been scorched by something. .
The man looked down at his chest and couldn't help touching it with his hands, with a look of surprise on his face, as if he still didn't believe it.
But at this moment, with a "la" sound, the jet-black spear turned into a mass of flying ants again, unceremoniously rushing towards the man, threw it to the ground, and instantly covered his whole body . After the man screamed a few times on the ground, there was no sound at all.
After a while, the flying ant colony suddenly flew into the air, returned to the original place and landed, becoming no different from those grains of sand again. The place where the man fell was empty, completely devoured by the ants.
This scene was clearly seen by Han Li who was standing far away on the top of the mountain from beginning to end. While being shocked in his heart, Han Li's expression became a little strange.
"Iron Fire Ant! It should be right. I never expected to see this kind of spirit insect here." Han Li said to himself in a low voice that only he could hear.
When the flying ants first appeared, Han Li hadn't recognized the origin of these black flying insects. But when they were not afraid of the yellow-faced monk's flying knife attack and finally condensed into a spear, he recognized these "iron fire ants". After all, there are quite a few flying ant-like spirit insects in the world of cultivating immortals, and their shapes are almost the same. Most people who are not monks who specialize in deworming can't tell the difference.
But in fact, the abilities and terrifying degrees of different flying ant-type spirit insects are really very different. The weak point of the flying ant colony, even a monk in the Qi refining stage can easily wipe it out with ordinary magic tools. The more powerful flying ants, the monks in the alchemy stage would frown and back away three feet when they saw them.
And this kind of spirit insect, which is listed at No. 37 on the list of strange insects, is one of the most powerful flying ants. Apart from the legendary "Sky Crystal Ant" which ranks ninth, this iron fire ant is probably the most terrifying. Because these flying ants are not only invulnerable, but also immune to most magical attacks. Except for middle-level spells of water and ice attributes and some spells of other attributes that can kill them, they are almost as powerful as gold-eating insects. Abnormal defensive power, and in terms of resisting the direct attack of the magic weapon, it is better than the gold-eating bug.
Of course, they don't have the perverted ability of gold-eating insects to devour spiritual power, but they also have the terrifying ability to spit out black flames and transform into groups.
With these abilities, the iron fire ant colony is, to a certain extent, a magic weapon of fire attribute that can change its shape at will. With their terrifying aggressiveness, ordinary defensive magic weapons and defensive spells cannot stop their full power at all. With one blow, the tragic death of the yellow-faced man is not considered wronged!
Although iron fire ants do not belong to the extinct category of spirit insects like gold devouring insects, they are extremely rare in the world of cultivating immortals. And even if someone occasionally sees it, it is at most a colony of hundreds or thousands of ants.
This is because the iron fire ants live in an extremely harsh environment, not only needing hot lava fields, but also a large amount of copper and iron ores nearby to survive. If they leave this environment, the iron fire ants will quickly weaken, and their special abilities will degenerate in a short time, becoming not much different from ordinary flying ants.
If it is only this point, there are still many monks who want to drive this flying ants. Creating a similar environment or directly looking for a similar environment to domesticate and raise insects is nothing compared to the attractive ability of iron fire ants What. However, a fatal limitation of this type of flying ants made the monks who had their ideas come back disappointed.
Iron fire ants, whether wild or domesticated, can't recognize their master at all. As long as someone tries to control them with various master recognition rituals, the iron fire ants will explode one by one without exception. The dreams of the monks have come to nothing!
As for the specific reasons, there are many opinions. Some people say that this is because the flying ants have a strong personality and do not want to be driven by others. Others said that it has something to do with the iron fire ant's physique and so on...
Of course, no matter whether it is in the Tiannan area or in the Chaotic Star Sea, few people know about the iron fire ants. Because in the past thousand years, few people have encountered iron fire ants, and the size of the ant colony is getting smaller and smaller, it can be regarded as a nearly extinct spirit insect!
At this moment, Han Li was looking at the black desert, thinking about the information about the Iron Fire Ant in his mind, and he was a little dazed in a daze.
It seems that the iron fire ants are a natural trap of the black desert. Although I don't know how many flying ant colonies there are in the desert like just now, but from the fact that the yellow-faced monk just entered the desert a few hundred feet away and encountered a group, the whole black Ant colonies in the desert will definitely not be missing. Maybe tens of thousands of super large ant colonies may also exist.
Thinking of this, even Han Li felt a chill coming from his back, and he hastily scanned the storage bags on his body with his divine sense. There are more than a dozen middle-level ice and water attribute talismans, which should be able to deal with two or three groups of iron fire ants of the same size as before.
But using these talismans to cross the entire desert is completely wishful thinking!
However, when Han Li's gaze landed on several spirit beast bags containing gold devouring insects, he couldn't help but feel agitated. I don't know if using gold-eating insects to deal with iron fire ants will have a miraculous effect
After all, the ranking of gold-eating ants is higher than that of "iron fire ants", and there are many of them. Judging by the shell color of these iron fire ants, they have not yet evolved to the legendary "black gold" stage, and should be in the same semi-mature stage as his gold-eating ants. In this way, it is completely possible to use the Gold Devourer to try.
As soon as this idea was born in Han Li's heart, it rose irresistibly.
He forced himself to hold back his mind, thought about it for a while, and felt that there was no problem, so he decided to try it with the iron fire ant colony just now. Even if the gold devourers couldn't deal with them, he still had those middle-level talismans, and he could retreat out of the desert without any hindrance.
So Han Li's face turned cold, and he rushed down from the top of the mountain, heading straight for the black desert.
After a while, Han Li stood at the edge of the desert and stopped. He looked at the black sand grains on the ground, but his eyes narrowed slightly, and suddenly bent down, he grabbed a handful of black sand grains from the ground, put them under his eyelids, and began to look carefully.
After a while, Han Li snorted coldly, suddenly a yellow light flashed, and he closed his five fingers vigorously, and then slowly released them. As a result, most of the gravel in the palm of his hand flattened, but few of them were crushed.
"What black desert, it turned out to be some ore grains containing black iron." Han Li said to himself slowly with a hint of self-mockery in the corner of his mouth.
"However, the owner of the Xutian Temple was really a big hand in being able to spread the iron ore grains into such a vast desert-like terrain." After thinking about it for a while, Han Li felt a little emotional again.
When he threw away the things in his hands, he frowned suddenly when he stood up again, and then patted the Lingxi pendant on his waist lightly, and a white mask appeared on his body.
Just now, because he was avoiding the yellow-faced monk, he had no choice but to turn off the jade pendant's fire-preventing effect, and he has survived by relying on his cultivation. Now that he was only approaching the black desert, the oncoming heat wave made him dizzy in a short period of time, which shocked Han Li, and hurriedly used the Lingxi pendant again. At this time, it is not the time to save mana.
Han Li didn't hesitate any longer, looked at the place where the iron fire ants were colonized, and walked over carefully.
Walking in this black desert is really an extremely uncomfortable torment. The scorching sand under the feet is surrounded by burning air. Even with the simultaneous use of the Consonance Pendant and the Fire-Prohibiting Treasure Cloak, Han Li still felt as if he was about to suffocate, as if it was hotter than the lava path he passed yesterday.
After only walking a distance of more than thirty feet, Han Li sighed, reached out his hand to touch the storage bag, and a warm bead appeared on his hand. He injected some spiritual power into it without hesitation, a white light flashed, and a chill radiated from the bead.
Han Li suddenly felt the coolness around him rise, he couldn't help but lift up his spirits, and immediately quickened his pace.
Using the Consonance Pendant and the Frost Orb at the same time greatly increased his mana consumption, so he had to pass through the desert as soon as possible.
When Han Li was still fifty or sixty feet away from the place where the "Iron Fire Ants" swarmed, he stopped in his tracks and took a careful look there.
After a while, Han Li shook his head lightly.
It was extremely difficult to distinguish between the lurking "iron fire ants" colony and the nearby black sand grains. Even if he detected the past with his spiritual sense, it was still difficult to discern their existence. The spiritual energy fluctuations in the ant colony were faintly visible, as if they were born with a very clever breath restraining technique.
It seems that the method of avoiding the ant colony with a wide open mind is not feasible, so I can only try with the gold-eating insect.