Volume 2: Imperial Ruins! Chapter 277: Beetle!
After a while, Xie Shi's expression suddenly moved, and after gently patting the spirit beast bag on his waist, the white and black suddenly fell on his shoulder, and after the beast glanced around lazily, his eyes were immediately closed, and he didn't seem to be willing to pay attention to Xie Shi's appearance at all, until Xie Shi smiled, took out a few pills and put them to his mouth, and after the latter swallowed it, he slowly opened his eyes, and his chubby body disappeared from Xie Shi's shoulder and fell to the ground, and then his limbs were gently kicked again, and then he disappeared, When it reappeared, it was already a hundred feet away.
Driven by Xie Shi's spiritual sense, this beast inspected all the miles within a radius of Xie Shi, and then returned lazily back to Xie Shi, jumped on his shoulder, and babbled in Xie Shi's ear for a while, and then it slipped around and fell back into the spirit beast bag on Xie Shi's waist.
Xie Shi frowned slightly, this beast actually didn't find anything unusual, that is to say, in this desert that has become black, there are probably no powerful forbidden formations, but this result is obviously incomprehensible to Xie Shi.
After walking for a few more miles, the hint of irritability in Xie Shi's heart became stronger and stronger, and he always felt that there was something around him, but even under the complete stimulation of Linglong's power, he still couldn't see anything unusual.
After some hesitation, Xie Shi gently patted another spirit beast bag on his waist, and in the roar, hundreds of flying ants immediately pounced, and under Xie Shi's thoughts, he immediately galloped forward, and after these flying ants flew out, Xie Shi's expression finally changed, and he clearly saw that the originally quiet flying ants, after just descending on this piece of heaven and earth for less than a few breaths, immediately became irritable and stood up, and after flying out less than a hundred feet, they immediately buzzed, not flying away, but gathered together on their own, and came out of the thoughts, I was a little scared!
Xie Shi nodded very concernedly, the spirit beast bag on his waist moved lightly again, and suddenly a dense black shadow appeared, this time, there were thousands of flying ants, and suddenly together with the previous flying ants, a sea of insects was formed, and at the same time, after the number increased dramatically, the previous nearly 100 sky-swallowing ants, the fear immediately disappeared, and turned into a ferocious, and they grinned one after another, opened the pincers fiercely, turned into dark clouds, and immediately rushed out, and then went straight to the front, a sandy place that seemed to have nothing unusual, Crash down!
And at the moment when the Sky Swallowing Ant was about to land on the ground, a buzzing sound that made people's scalps tingle suddenly sounded densely, and at the same time, it had become black sand, and with a bang, it exploded in an instant, and black flying insects the size of a fist rose into the sky like dark clouds, making the black sand and dust there sweep away like a wave, and suddenly formed a huge pit in the desert!
This pit is three zhang wide, more than half a zhang deep into the ground, it is obvious that these black flying insects have been lurking under the black sand before, until this Sky Swallowing Ant sensed the breath, and when it was about to pounce, it rushed out!
Xie Shi took a closer look, this flying insect and the Sky Swallowing Ant are both dressed in black armor, but the former's size is much smaller, its wings are attached to its black carapace, four pairs of long legs, like a pair of sharp sickles, and although this insect has no pliers, it has two rows of sharp teeth, and when it bites, it immediately makes a clicking sound, making people tremble!
At the same time, on the black shell of this insect, there is also a faint trace of blue light bursting out, it is this seemingly ordinary blue light that probes Xie Shi's divine sense and isolates it, if it is not for its exquisite power is extremely anti-heaven, he can still detect the breath of this insect, Xie Shi is afraid that he will not be able to find the existence of this insect at all.
Thinking that if I walked to that sandy area without knowing anything, these flying insects would instantly swarm and attack it, but I was afraid that in less than a breath, I would completely disappear and be completely devoured!
But obviously, the Sky Swallowing Ant, which is also a flying insect, has much higher sensitivity to this insect!
Xie Shi's eyes were slightly closed, and at a glance, he saw two kinds of hideous and terrifying flying insects, turning into two pitch-black insect clouds, with a "buzz" sound, the overwhelming impact came together, and suddenly, a large area of black light suddenly swept away, like two black winds, crackling and rolling together, and suddenly, the clicking and biting sound sounded instantly, and at the same time there was a piercing scream, but after a few breaths, a large number of black flying insect corpses fell down like raindrops.
Xie Shi's eyes shrank, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, these fallen flying insect corpses almost did not exist intact, but they were still distinguished by them, the corpses of the Sky Swallowing Ants were extremely rare, almost all of them were black beetles that had just appeared, only the size of a fist!
And after only a few tens of breaths, in the sky, there are only sky-swallowing ants with black and white textures left, and as for the black beetle, it has been completely wiped out! But in the next moment, something that surprised Xie Shi happened again, after annihilating all these beetles, the flying ants in the sky trembled, and actually landed down again, heading straight for the corpses of the beetles all over the ground, and unfurled the huge pincers one by one, like a beast that had been hungry for an unknown amount of time, devouring the corpses of these beetles desperately.
In the blink of an eye, the sandy area that was still messy just now was cleared!
After the Sky Devouring Ant Cloud flew up again, Xie Shi immediately felt that the aura of these flying ants was clearly a little stronger!
didn't leave immediately, Xie Shi gently moved his hand, and suddenly a flying ant buzzed and flew and landed on his arm, changing his previous fierce appearance, lying on his stomach with great enjoyment, moving and moving. Xie Shi found that the color of the carapace of the insect's whole body was already darker and brighter, and at the same time, the black and white patterns on its back were also more tangled and hideous, and along these white textures, these hard carapaces actually had a trace of cracks that were as fine as a few points.
"Huh? It seems that after these Sky Devouring Ants devoured the beetles, their strength really increased, and the power of the Shape Element Grass Seeds accumulated in their bodies was also stimulated, and I believe that soon after, these flying ants can molt again, and then advance again! ”
Nodding with satisfaction, as soon as his arm was raised, the insect flew out again and merged into the insect cloud, while Xie Shi raised his eyes and looked at the seemingly boundless desert here, and a faint smile immediately appeared on his face.
There is no night and day here, and Xie Shi's speed is not very fast, after perceiving that the Sky Swallowing Ants can obtain the energy to advance from the flesh and blood of the beetles that devoured this place, Xie Shi immediately released all the Sky Swallowing Ants on his body, and the number of huge flying ants exceeded seven thousand, which suddenly became a terrifying insect cloud, constantly moving forward, startling the beetles hidden under the black sand, and then directly killing them!
Soon, Xie Shi came to this so-called earth walking formation, more than ten hours had passed, and at this moment he was standing quietly on top of a sand dune, staring at the sky in front of him expressionlessly, his body motionless. In his sight, a large-scale battle of insect swarms was being staged frantically, with the number of Sky Swallowing Ants on one side reduced to less than 6,000, and on the other side, there were more than 30,000 black beetles.
The two insect clouds were now completely mixed together, and at a low altitude not far ahead, they were desperately biting each other. The insect corpses fell from the sky like raindrops, and densely spread a thin layer on the ground, which was really shocking!
A trace of gloomy color flashed inadvertently between Xie Shi's eyebrows, in just more than ten hours, he had encountered more than twenty beetle clouds, although these beetles were obviously not the opponents of the Sky Swallowing Ants, but under the gradual increase in their number, the Sky Swallowing Ants were still extremely depleted, and I believe that after the battle in front of them passed, their number would be sharply reduced to about six thousand.
This number doesn't seem to be much, but after realizing the powerful combat power of this insect, the loss of each one is a great wealth for Xie Shi!
And the road ahead still seems to be very long, so when he walks out completely, the number of Sky Swallowing Ants will definitely decrease sharply!
And he also noticed that as the number of black beetles devoured by the Sky Swallowing Ants increased, it seemed that it had gradually reached the level of saturation, and the speed of its devouring suddenly decreased a lot, and at the same time, the ferocity of this insect also dropped significantly!
All this made Xie Shi have to start the slightest other way to deal with these terrifying flying insects while moving forward!
And just after the end of this battle, Xie Shi suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, as if he remembered something, he did not let these Sky Swallowing Ants continue to devour the corpse of the black beetle, but with a wave of his sleeves, he put all these flying ants into the spirit beast bag on his waist, and at the same time slapped the spirit beast bag, a floater whose size was only the size of a fist, but its appearance was obviously several times more vicious than that of the Sky Swallowing Ant, immediately appeared in his hand, this mosquito was extremely ferocious, and after it appeared, he immediately desperately stretched out his long mouthparts and went straight to Xie Shi's arm. But Xie Shi naturally wouldn't let him get his wish, his fingertips flicked lightly, and suddenly a white sword qi shot out, and after slashing the back of this mosquito, suddenly this insect was not fierce, but showed a weak state, lying in his hand, motionless.
After Xie Shi smiled with satisfaction, his spirit immediately moved, and at the same time, he danced quickly with one hand, and smashed a magic duel into the body of this insect.
At this moment, he actually began to imprint the soul of these mosquitoes. Although he already knew at this moment that this method of subduing spirit worms was the most time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the imprint formed was extremely unstable, he had not obtained the blood-based branding method, so he could only collect it later and re-imprint it.
And for today's situation, the speed of this imprint is what he needs most. And after passing the brand of the Sky Devouring Ant, the speed at which he cast this spell was already very fast, and it could even be described as terrifying. After all, the acquisition of high-level spirit insects is extremely difficult, even those insect cultivators who have been famous for a long time are afraid that it will be difficult to cast so many branding spells in a short period of time.
With all his might, only more than ten hours have passed, Xie Shi has already imprinted more than 2,000 floaters, and after they were released one by one, they also circled and danced, and then pounced on the beetle corpses all over the ground, devouring them frantically, but what shocked Xie Shi was that the swallowing speed of this floater far exceeded that of the swallowing ants, often stretching out their mouthparts, and with a slight prick, the fist-sized beetle corpse immediately disappeared without a trace, and was completely inhaled into the body by this mosquito!
And after the number of floaters branded by Xie Shi had exceeded five thousand, Xie Shi did not continue to stay in place, but simply waved his hand and put all the large beetle corpses into the spirit beast bag where the floaters were located, and at the same time put away all the floaters, released the Sky Swallowing Ants again, and continued to move forward!