Volume 1: The Beginning Chapter 10: Joy and Sorrow
The sky was white, Luo Tian got up early and entered meditation and absorption, and when everyone got up, Luo Tian had already completed the collection of aura.
After tidying up a little and eating something, everyone began to hit the road, heading towards the black giant ant nest.
Although there was some boredom along the way, but it was not boring, Luo Tian jumped up and down along the way, happy like a savage, as if he had endless energy all over his body, or chasing hungry wolves, or hunting elk, or going up trees, or learning from Cheng Wei.
I have to say that Cheng Wei, the black fat man, is indeed rough and thick-skinned, and a punch hit him like hitting a boulder, he was unmoved, but Luo Tian complained bitterly and fell.
Along the way, everyone was talking and laughing, chatting about some interesting anecdotes that happened in Dongque, Luo Tian was looking for opportunities, and he kept asking, just thinking about learning more about this world, and everyone was not surprised, and they all patiently explained to him one by one.
On the way, they also met some scattered foreign scholars one after another, but they didn't pay much attention to Luo Tian and his party, and after a casual glance, they all headed towards the northeast of the Dawn Realm.
Seeing this, Cheng Xiong turned his head and said to everyone: "It seems that it is really a treasure of heaven and earth, so many Yuan scholars have gathered together, but it has not been more than ten years. ”
Luo Tian walked aside, turned his eyes after listening, a touch of cunning crossed his face, and asked, "Big brother is interested, go over to explore, maybe you will meet good things." ”
Cheng Wei on the side heard this, and laughed: "I knew you would have such a question, look at your unpromising appearance." ”
Luo Tian glanced at it and shouted: "What's wrong with me, can't it be that the second brother doesn't have any thoughts about those treasures?" Luo Tianyue said, a trace of complacency appeared on his face, and now he was only thinking about how to be able to come to this realm, and completely forgot his original intention.
A trace of displeasure flashed on Cheng Xiong's face, his expression was a little worried, and he said seriously: "Indeed, who doesn't want the treasure of heaven and earth, but when you want something, you also have to see if you have the ability, now my second brother and I are either injured or disabled, you and Kong Xiu are still just Yuanshi, why should you go to share a piece of the pie with many Yuanshi, I am afraid that in the end, the treasure will not fall, and you will lose your own life first." ”
Hearing this, Luo Tian stopped talking, but he was also indignant in his heart.
Everyone walked for most of the day, and it was almost dusk at this time, Cheng Xiong suddenly stopped his pace and looked ahead.
At this time, a large swamp appeared in front of him, with intertwined branches and leaves, and the forest was full of shadows, which looked very dangerous.
"Alright, as long as you pass through this swamp again, you will not be far from the nest of the black macro ants, and you will rest here tonight, and then we will go tomorrow. After Cheng Xiong finished speaking, he took the lead in putting down his bags and sat aside, and everyone also rested on the side when they saw this.
After a night of silence, Luo Tian still started to cultivate before dawn, only to see Luo Tian standing alone on the side, beating a mossy boulder fiercely, as if he was crazy, his eyes were full of fierceness.
The bloodstains on his hands were completely ignored, and he just beat them desperately, and his face was extremely ugly.
On the side, Kong Xiu stood next to Luo Tian for some time, and kept shouting, "Luo Tian, Luo Tian, are you okay?" ”
Luo Tian didn't hear it at all, he still pounded the boulder fiercely, Kong Xiu looked anxious, and hurriedly pulled the crazy Luo Tian back, Luo Tian turned around sharply, and viciously resisted Kong Xiu, his eyes were bloodshot, like a fierce beast, grinning his teeth.
Kong Xiu hurriedly reassured: "Luo Tian, wake up, learn to control your emotions, and breathe slowly." ”
Luo Tian slowly closed his eyes, repeating the word control in his mouth, and after a while, he calmed down and slowly opened his eyes, with some clarity in his eyes.
Kong Xiu hurriedly pulled Luo Tian aside and comforted: "You are too anxious, you must know that it is easy to be enchanted like this." ”
Luo Tian recalled himself just now, completely changed as a person, but he didn't know why this was so, and hurriedly asked Kong Xiu: "Scholar, why am I like this?"
Kong Xiu sighed and said slowly: "It's not an external force that causes this, it's completely you, it's because you put too much pressure on yourself and have too high expectations for yourself, so you can do this, remember, you must learn to control yourself, otherwise you will be no different from the beast of this dawn." ”
After listening, Luo Tiancai understood, but he couldn't figure out why he became a metabody, and a little pressure would make him have such a big change, and he couldn't figure it out.
After everyone cleaned up for a while, they started to go on the road again, Cheng Xiong looked at Luo Tian's face a little puzzled, but he couldn't say what was wrong, after all, he didn't know what happened in the morning, and Kong Xiu didn't tell him about it.
Everyone slowly waded through the Black Swamp, and although there were some bumps along the way, it did not cause much trouble to everyone.
Out of the black swamp, continue to walk a few miles in the north direction of the dawn realm, and what catches your eye is the giant trees in the sky, covering the sky and the sun, looking gloomy and mysterious.
Luo Tian looked at it carefully, and was shocked in his heart, only to see these giant trees, one by one old trees with coiled roots, particularly lush stems and leaves, and the roots of each arm thick were wrapped around the trunk, like a tree dragon hovering on it.
Follow Cheng Xiong into the forest, turn left and right, the road is very tortuous, and the sunlight can hardly penetrate it, like a maze.
Luo Tian thought to himself, if he came here alone, he was afraid that he would not be able to turn out even if he died, there was no road or direction here, and it was all thanks to Cheng Xiong's memory that everyone walked out.
Just as Luo Tian was thinking, Cheng Xiong and his party suddenly stopped, looked into the distance and said, "Here, this is the Black Macro Ant Nest." ”
Hearing this, Luo Tian hurriedly trotted over, and when he looked closer, he found that there were five giant trees scattered in front of him, forming a 'Hui' shape.
It is said that it is a giant tree, but it is much thicker than what I just saw, and I am afraid that it will take seven or eight people to embrace it.
As you look up along the winding roots, there will be a tree net every other section, like a large umbrella with four corners open, which is very spectacular.
The tree web connects the nearby giant tree to the darker one in the middle, and is staggered up and down.
"Big brother, what are we looking for this time?" Luo Tian asked.
Cheng Xiong looked into the distance and said with a look of hope: "This mission is to find the black queen ant and obtain the queen's nest. ”
After hearing this, Luo Tian looked suspicious: "What are you doing with the belly nest?"
Cheng Xiong said with a smile: "You don't know this, everything in this world has its effect, some can make pills, some can be refined, and some can be used as medicinal materials to heal patients, and this black macro ant queen's nest is used as medicinal materials, we are also entrusted by others, and the details will be told to you later." ”
After listening, Luo Tian also suddenly realized, he didn't expect that this world was still thought of by himself, and all kinds of things did have their own wonderful uses.
Seeing that everyone hesitated for a long time and refused to act, they must be looking for the exact location of the Black Macro Ant Queen.
At this time, there are five giant trees, and the queen ant can only hide in one of them, which is indeed a problem.
Just thinking about it, I saw that on the side of the giant tree in the northwest corner, more than a dozen black macro ants slowly climbed out, standing on the ground and looking at it, I could only see that it was larger, the size of an ordinary person's fist, and its whole body was pitch black, presumably the name of this black macro ant came from this.
Luo Tian was not in a hurry, and everyone did not take action.
After waiting for a long time, Luo Tian glanced around the five giant trees, and suddenly fixed his eyes on the northeast side, only to see a black macro ant quietly poking its head out, swaying from side to side as if it was observing the surroundings, and this black macro ant was also quite different from what Fang had just seen.
It is larger than a child's head, and its legs are unusually well developed, like the two spines of a praying mantis. Luo Tian was overjoyed in his heart, isn't this the soldier ant who always guards the queen's side?
Thinking about it, Luo Tian didn't care about everyone, picked up a big knife alone, and climbed towards the giant tree in the northeast corner.
Seeing this, Cheng Xiong immediately exclaimed: "Luo Tian is back, don't be reckless." ”
Hearing this, Luo Tian looked back and smiled, with a confident and proud face. I thought in my heart, look at everyone, today I am going to be a hero this time, and I am worried that I have no place to vent the spiritual power in my body, so I just took this group of black macro ants to open the knife.
Luo Tian followed the roots of the winding tree, and after a while, he climbed to the waist of the tree, and before he could step forward, dozens of black macro ants crawled out from the side.
When you get closer, you can clearly see that these black macro ant soldiers are no different from other ants, but they are surprisingly large, the three parts of the head, chest and abdomen are all dark, and the forefeet are also very strong, with dense spikes and barbs.
Dozens of black macro ants rushed towards Luo Tian's direction, their mouths were still squeaking, looking at their mouthparts, they were also particularly developed, I was afraid that ordinary hard objects would inevitably be cut off and ground by them, Luo Tian couldn't help but be shocked when he looked closely, and there was a black liquid in his mouth, and the liquid dripped on the trunk of the tree, and it was corroded into a black hole.
Although he was a little panicked, but he didn't admit it, Luo Tian picked up the big knife in his hand, jumped up, stood on the tree web, looked at the dense black macro ant, and when the knife fell, he divided the black macro ant in front of him into two and took it away easily.
Seeing that he was so fragile, the corners of Luo Tian's mouth raised slightly, and he said with a contemptuous sarcasm: "Ants are ants, just slightly larger ants." ”
After that, the big knife in his hand kept flying, slashing left and right, and in a little tea, dozens of black macro ants were overtaken.
At this time, Luo Tian was also tired and sweating, looked at the people below, and shouted excitedly: "Big brother come up, they are very vegetable." Hearing this, everyone laughed and hurriedly followed.
Luo Tian took the lead in entering the hole in the trunk, but it was quiet when he entered it, it turned out that the trunk was hollow, and along the walls on both sides of the trunk, there were many smooth steps growing up and down, just like a huge Ganoderma lucidum, growing on both sides.
Luo Tian suddenly felt novel, and jumped left and right to have fun, and Cheng Xiong and the three of them followed closely behind, and they also slowly went down.
It took everyone half an hour to reach the bottom, but it was much lower than the original height of the tree trunk, and I am afraid that it would stretch deep into the ground.
When everyone came to the bottom, they didn't see the black giant ant queen they hoped for, only a pool of green viscous liquid mixed with some white ant eggs.
After hesitating for a long time, Cheng Xiong on the side looked at the more gloomy his face became, and shouted anxiously: "It's not good, we were fooled, this is the queen's old nest, it will change its position every once in a while, it seems that this black macro ant is very deceitful, we have all been deceived by them, hurry up and leave here." ”
When everyone heard this, they all suddenly realized, and hurriedly crawled upward, Luo Tian was also shocked, he never thought that Heihong Ant was so cunning, and he actually carefully set up a situation to lead himself to be fooled, blaming himself for being stupid, and actually fell into the way, but it was Cheng Xiong who suffered them.
Everyone was crawling, only to hear a commotion above, everyone looked, at this time there were countless black macro ants piled up on both sides of the top, squeaking, as if mocking.
Luo Tian was already angry in his heart, and when he saw that this scene was even more uncontrollable, he cursed in his mouth, and accelerated his pace with a big knife and climbed upward.
I saw that the dense black macro ants didn't come down, but just stood in two rows, their mouths sizzling, and they spit out black liquid.
"Luo Tian be careful. Just as Luo Tian was crawling with all his might, a cloud of black liquid was dripping towards the top of Luo Tian's head, and Cheng Xiong on the side saw this, hurriedly drank and pulled Luo Tian aside, but he didn't have time to dodge, and stuck a little black liquid, just listening to a loud sound, Cheng Xiong's right arm was burned out of a black hole.
Seeing this, Cheng Xiong endured the severe pain, emitting a faint red light, covering the wound, so that it did not continue to spread.
Seeing this, Luo Tian's eyes widened, this black liquid had also been seen at the beginning, but he didn't think about it, he didn't expect the power to be so powerful, if he just dropped himself, and he didn't have the yuan power, wouldn't it be dead, the more he thought about it, the more terrifying he felt, and he couldn't help but mess up his mind, like a piece of wood, motionless.
"Luo Tian, Luo Tian, you are sober and sober. Cheng Xiong shook Luo Tian vigorously, shouting in his mouth, but Luo Tian was unmoved, still like a log.
Seeing this, Cheng Xiong really had no move, and shouted: "Kong Xiu, protect Luo Tian and wake him up." Kong Xiu hurriedly caught up and shouted desperately with Luo Tian, but there was no effect.
In this way, I saw the two brothers Cheng Xiong and Cheng Wei exuding their yuan power to protect their bodies and open the way above. Kong Xiu carried the soulless Luo Tian and moved up a little bit.
Looking up, the number of this black macro ant has increased instead of decreasing, and it seems that it is determined to strangle everyone here.
Looking at the two of them, they are both slashing and killing the black macro ants on the one hand, and using Yuan Force to resist the venom on the other. However, this venom is like a torrential downpour, it is really difficult to protect it, and the two of them have more or less added many scars to their bodies.
I saw Cheng Wei swing his hammer, and several black macro ants screamed miserably, fell to the bottom, and stole a little free, Cheng Xiong shouted: "Big brother, my yuan power is about to run out, and there is a dense patch on it, it seems that we are really going to die here today." ”
When Cheng Xiong heard this, he didn't speak, glanced at Kong Xiu and Luo Tian below, picked up his spear, and continued to kill the general.
Kong Xiu, who was taking care of Luo Tian below, was also not happy, a drop of venom dripped on his arm, and a black hole was rapidly corroded, but without the protection of Yuan Li, he could only let the black hole gradually spread.
Kong Xiu looked anxious, and he couldn't care about much, he just wanted to wake up Luo Tian, who was in a drowsy, and in a hurry, he slapped it, and there was a crisp sound of "pop", and Luo Tian's eyes showed a little light.
Seeing that it was useful, just as he was about to slap it again, he heard a burst of exclamations from above, "Kong Xiu beware", but Cheng Xiong roared out when he was busy.
As soon as the words fell, a large piece of venom was sprinkled and sprinkled towards Kong Xiu and the others, Luo Tian's eyes gradually became clear, and before he could make any movements, he only felt that his body was picked up with both hands and thrown to the side.
When Luo Tian saw it clearly, the picture that stayed in his eyes was Kong Xiu's slightly relieved smile, and he seemed to be muttering something in his mouth.
"Scholar!"
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