"This is the first group of flying ants we have encountered since we set out on the road." Han Li asked slowly, looking at the insect corpses on the ground.
"The seventh colony! Although the ant colonies encountered are a bit more frequent, they have not encountered more than ten thousand large ant colonies!" Yuan Yao, who was standing beside Han Li, replied obediently.
It was already half a day after the two of them set out on the road together. Hearing this woman's words, Han Li frowned, his face was a little gloomy, as if he had something on his mind.
He thought for a while, then stretched out his hand and waved at the gold-eating insect swarm that had wiped out the insect corpses on the ground. All the flying insects turned into bright clouds and flew back to the spirit beast bag floating in mid-air. Han Li put away the spirit beast bag without haste.
"What? Fellow Daoist looks a little unhappy? We have already passed through the middle of the most dangerous desert, and the rest should be much safer." Yuan Yao looked at Han Li's face and blinked her beautiful eyes, feeling a little displeased. asked the solution.
"Safe, do you really think so?" Han Li glanced at Yuan Yao and said with a sneer. "Is there any danger in the future?" Yuan Yao frowned inadvertently, and asked in disbelief.
"I don't know what dangers lie ahead, but one thing I can be sure of is that the ant colony I met earlier did not have a queen ant. Either there is only one queen ant in the entire desert, or we are lucky. I haven't encountered a few super ant colonies that contain queen ants so far. It's better to be careful on the journey ahead, and if you still have nothing to do after walking for half a day, you will be really safe." Han Li looked indifferent.
"Maybe you are overthinking! This kind of flying ants are so powerful, maybe there is no queen at all!" Yuan Yao's face turned pale at first, but after a while, she pretended to be okay and forced a smile.
"I hope so!" Han Li didn't argue any more. Although he knew very well in his heart that the Iron Fire Ant had a queen-level existence. And although the ant queen's individual strength is mediocre, it is said that her spiritual intelligence is frighteningly high, and she must be extremely difficult to deal with.
Affected by the previous words, the two of them did not say anything more after traveling for more than two hours.
But something even more strange happened. During the rest of the journey, I didn't even meet a single ant colony. This time, even Yuan Yao herself realized something was wrong, and a trace of uneasiness faintly appeared on her face.
However, when the two accidentally climbed up a high sand dune and looked forward, they were stunned!
"This is..." Yuan Yao looked horrified, her red lips moved a few times, but she didn't say anything. Although Han Li's face was a little calmer, there was also a lot of shock.
On the sand in front of the dune, there was a huge crystal pillar about twenty or thirty feet high.
This crystal pillar is extremely cold, and not only is it shining with a faint white light, but it also wraps an equally tall black giant inside. This giant is extremely ugly, with angry eyes, and a big bald head, motionless in the crystal pillar, it is really weird!
Han Li stared at it for a moment, then immediately swept his gaze over the nearby sandy ground. The ground is full of potholes, large or small holes, as if it has experienced a big war.
A strange light flickered in Han Li's eyes, and he turned his attention to the giant again. It's just that when he saw one of the giant's eyes this time, he couldn't help letting out a soft "Huh".
"What did Fellow Daoist Han discover?" Yuan Yao couldn't help asking when she finally came to her senses when she heard Han Li's voice.
Han Li smiled slightly, but instead of replying to the woman's inquiry, he half-closed his eyes and released his consciousness. After making sure that no one else was lurking nearby, he walked directly down the sand dune and strode towards the crystal pillar.
"Hmph!" Seeing Han Li's mysterious appearance, Yuan Yao sullenly showed some displeasure, but could only follow along. After all, once she was out of the range of Han Li's ice beads, she would have to consume mana to resist the high temperature by herself.
"Flying ants!" Yuan Yao said with red lips when she followed Han Li to the distance of only ten feet away from the crystal pillar.
With the current distance, she finally saw clearly the true face of the giant, which was actually formed by countless black flying ants! It is incredible to see the real ones from a distance. But these iron fire ants didn't move at all in the crystal, I don't know if they are alive or dead.
Han Li stopped at this moment, staring at the crystal pillar in front of him and pondering.
"Since the flying ant is dead, let's go! Don't waste time here." Yuan Yao said slowly after taking a few glances.
"How can you be sure they are dead? Maybe they are still alive at this time!" Han Li was a little puzzled.
"Alive, how is this possible?" Yuan Yao glanced at Han Li in surprise, then continued in disbelief.
"Wanfamen's famous ancient treasure Xuanhuang Mirror, don't you know? As long as the living beings illuminated by this treasure will be dissipated immediately, and this crystal prism will appear around them! After a few days, the body inside the crystal prism will also be transformed into Nothing."
"I've never heard of it!" Han Li replied honestly, making the woman's beautiful eyes widen and she became speechless.
"According to this, Wan Tianming should have killed these bugs." Han Li said thoughtfully after walking around the huge crystal pillar for a few times.
"It's him or who! What do you want to come up with? Except that these crystals will melt by themselves after a certain period of time, ordinary magic weapons can't destroy them. Otherwise, the Xuanhuang Mirror would not have such a big name." Yuan Yao Glancing at Han Li, as if guessing a bit of his thoughts, he said with a light smile.
After hearing this, Han Li looked at her calmly. Touching his waist with both hands, all the spirit beast bags were sacrificed, and a huge cloud of gold-eating insects suddenly appeared in midair.
"Go!" Han Li unceremoniously tapped the crystal pillar with his finger. Immediately, a cloud of gold and silver insects pressed down and covered the top of the crystal pillar in an instant, densely packed and impenetrable.
"Do you really want to attack these flying ant remains? Although your insects are powerful, it is impossible to bite this one..." Yuan Yao only spoke half of her words, and her voice stopped abruptly.
Because the giant wrapped in the white crystal pillar shortened quickly from top to bottom when she could see it with naked eyes, and in the blink of an eye, the giant's head completely disappeared.
Yuan Yao's small mouth was so wide open that she couldn't close it for a long time.
Under the woman's shocked gaze, the gold devourer devoured such a large crystal pillar, including the giant inside the crystal belt, leaving only an egg-sized crystal ball on the ground, shining mysteriously. black light.
When Han Li saw this thing, a smile appeared on his face, he walked over a few steps, and took it in his hand.
This thing is called "Crystal Refining", and it is a rare material that the iron fire ant queen vomits and stores in her abdomen after eating ore every day. Although there are very few monks who know about it, Han Li also read related rumors in a very old book, so he doesn't know if it is true or not! When I saw the Iron Fire Ant Queen as the eyeball of a giant, I suddenly thought of this matter, so I tried it temporarily, but I didn't expect to get such a refining crystal.
This is the best auxiliary material for strengthening the magic weapon, because as long as some of this material is mixed into any magic weapon, not only the power will increase a lot, but the sturdiness of the magic weapon body will immediately rise to an unimaginable level, and it is difficult to use it again. It was easily cut and destroyed by something.
I don't know if Wan Tianming didn't know about this thing at all, or if he forgot about it in a moment of negligence, he actually took advantage of him. Now, as long as you give him some time, after re-sacrificing the Qingzhu Fengyun Sword, the power of this set of magic weapons must be even higher.
Yuan Yao obviously didn't know what "Crystal Refining" was, but seeing the happy look on Han Li's face, she knew it must be a good thing. But she wisely didn't ask anything that shouldn't be asked.
The two of them hit the road without saying a word.
This is an extremely simple stone hall, with an area of fifty or sixty feet wide and a height of about seven or eight feet. Except for a teleportation array in the middle, there is a huge bluestone gate several feet high on each side.
At this time, the doors were closed tightly, sealing this place into a large prison-like existence. There are also a large number of various stone tables and benches in the stone hall, there are dozens of them.
On these stone benches, there were five or six monks with different expressions sitting sparsely. Patriarch Jiyin, the old man in Confucian shirts, and Wan Tianming were all present here, and the rest of the monks were all in the late stage of alchemy, and there was not a single weaker monk.
But at this moment, everyone's face was gloomy, and no one was interested in saying anything. The stone hall was full of extremely depressing atmosphere!
Patriarch Jiyin was even more terrifying, his face was completely ashen, staring at the teleportation array in the middle, his eyes were flickering fiercely!