Chapter Twenty-Eight: Red Ants
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Finally, the next afternoon, Liu Yue waited for what she wanted to know.
Sitting in front of Liu Yue was a middle-aged man, and the two of them were separated by a protective shield at the request of the man, and there was a man's voice in it.
“…… Red ants are blood-red all over, the whole body is burning with flames, and each adult red ant is about the size of a thumb, which is a specialty and treasure of our island in the middle of the lake. The surrounding large and small sects led by the Wuji Sect will also have many Qi refining disciples every year to catch red ants as an experience, all because of the huge value of red ants. ”
Swallowing his saliva, Dahan continued: "This red ant is a strange thing in our Huxin City, Huxin City is surrounded by water on all sides, and the natives of Huxin City basically have water spirits, and red ants are authentic fire-based spirit beasts." ”
"Red ants live in the depths of Xianbang Lake, and no one knows where they are in Xianbang Lake, because every year people who find red ants can't tell where they are. The cultivation of red ants is not high, it is a second-order spirit beast, but it is cunning by nature, and it is extremely difficult to catch. What's more, because red ants are naturally good at formations, and the formations are strange, there are many changes, and it is extremely difficult to break. Even a formation master may not be able to crack the array set up by the red ants. However, what makes everyone flock to it is the mucus sac under the belly of the red ant. ”
"As everyone knows, the red ant is not only a master of the array, it will also break the formation, it will break the formation because of the mucus sac under its abdomen, legend, there has been a great power to catch hundreds of thousands of red ants before, take out their mucus sac, and ask a refining master to spend ten years to take countless rare materials to refine into a spiritual treasure." What is a spiritual treasure, that is, the storage zài on top of the magic weapon, that is, the treasure that may produce the spirit of the instrument. In the current Vast Continent, Lingbao has become a legend.
"This spiritual treasure is called the Broken Illusion Bell. A qiē formation illusion manifested its original form in front of it. That great power also relied on this magic weapon to move forward, and finally turned into a god and ascended to the immortal. ”
After a pause, he said: "Now, of course, everyone can't refine such a spiritual treasure, and no one can refine such a treasure now." However, taking a mucus sac and setting it on one's own ritual vessel is of little use to high-ranking monks, but for low-level monks, it has a significant effect. When encountering a formation that is not of a high grade, the mucus sac can sense and warn in advance. This is also extremely rare. The big man stroked the beard on his face and said with a look of affection.
"Since red ants can break the formation, why not catch a red ant alive, let it recognize the Lord, and let it break the formation for us. Why kill them and take their mucus sacs, isn't that killing chickens and taking eggs? Liu Yue was puzzled.
"The master doesn't know, this red ant is strange here. This red ant cannot confess the Lord. ”
"Oh?! This is strange, the world is so big, I haven't heard of a spirit beast that can't recognize the Lord. ”
“…… In fact, it can't be said that this red ant generally can't recognize the owner. We all know that they can only be confessed before they are born. The monk can only find the queen ant and use his mana to feed a drop of sperm blood into the queen's mouth, and the sperm blood will invade the place where the young eggs are stored in the queen's body, so as to force the young ants who are still young eggs to recognize their owners. Once the young eggs are separated from the mother's body, there will be no possibility of recognizing the owner. The queen ant, on the other hand, will lose its array power when she is pregnant with young eggs, and will die of exhaustion after giving birth to young eggs. There is no power to protect yourself. Therefore, the queen ant will be hidden by the red ants in layers, and it is extremely difficult to find it at all. At least, so far, no one has found it. ”
"Red ants spend most of the year hiding in their burrows, except when the queen comes out to feed before laying eggs or wintering. According to the experience of previous people, there is still more than a month when red ants come out to forage. Every year at that time, a large number of monks come to look for red ants, and most of them cannot find the red ants at all. However, even if they can find the residence of the red ants, they will either return in vain or die in a different place. Only a single digit of red ants were obtained, and half of them were old crippled red ants with ruptured mucus sacs, which were useless at all. Even so, they are secretive about where the red ants are. There are even people who have found red ants who say that the place is a completely different direction. There are even people who don't know how they found the red ants in a daze, and there are also people who get the red ants in a daze. ”
"Therefore, the value of the red ant mucus sac is very high, rare and precious, which can be described as a treasure."
Liu Yuexin said: I see, no wonder many people want to get it, this thing is extremely useful for low-level monks. High-ranking monks don't need it very much. It is believed that the mucus sac of the red ants of the second-order spirit beast that can stump them is not able to stump them. Low-level monks have poor means, and it is very easy to die, if there is such an alarm, there is also a number in mind when encountering the formation, so it is better to avoid it. It's also a life saver.
The monk paused for a moment, glanced at Liu Yue, and asked cautiously, "Master, I don't know if what I said can be regarded as a miracle?" ”
Liu Yue smiled and said, "It's not a strange thing about you. But red ants are a strange thing. It's worth the cost of the 500 spirit stones you asked me to refine a mid-level magic weapon. ”
When the big man heard this, he thanked him happily and left.
Liu Yue took the stall, politely rejected the other people who were looking for her refining, and returned to the cave. Dotted his stuff again. This red ant, she also wants to see it.
I remembered the conversation between the two monks on the day they bought the wine, and they set out in three days to say that it was tomorrow. Liu Yue felt that it was best for her to go and explore the traces of red ants tomorrow.
Early the next morning, after Liu Yue retreated from the rented cave mansion, she galloped towards the outside of the city in the middle of the lake. She didn't know where the red ants were, but she didn't know how deep they were in the depths of Xianbang Lake.
When I got to the outside of the city, I thought about it, I still bought a bamboo raft, and I chose the south of the city in the middle of the lake, and there was a reason for choosing this direction. According to ancient records, the Vermilion Bird before the trip and then the Xuanwu, the left green dragon and the right white tiger. The front is south, then the north, the left east and the right west. And the vermilion bird belongs to the fire, and the main seat is south. Red ants are also fire, and Liu Yue naturally went south.
Driving all the way on the bamboo raft, there are many fishermen fishing around the island in the middle of the lake, most of them are mortals, and few monks fish in person. There are also many mortal women washing clothes by the lake, a scene of harmony and peace.
Liu Yue watched with relish, this was the first time she really came into contact with the way of life of ancient mortals, her short mortal life in ancient times had been helping Liu Dashu take care of the blacksmith shop, and because of the illness of her predecessor, her mother had not allowed her to do housework and go out, so she never knew what the real ancient life was like. It's strange and interesting to see this now.
The deeper it goes, the more uninhabited it is, the farther and farther away the city in the middle of the lake, and slowly turns into a small black dot. In the end, even the little black dot was no longer visible. Liu Yue only felt that she couldn't see anything around her except the vast lake. There really isn't even a floating island. How did I get to the city in the middle of the lake at that time, it seems that the city is still at the very edge of this Xianbang Lake.
I really can't imagine why red ants, a fire-based creature, live on the lake.
In this way, due to the mana, the bamboo raft kept moving south quickly and steadily, until it was dark, and did not find the location of the red ants. Liu Yue couldn't help but wonder if she was going in the wrong direction, or if she was deceived by what the two monks said.
But there was no way, seeing that it was not early, and it was approaching late at night, Liu Yue could only set the bamboo raft on the lake and sit up by herself.
The light of the full moon shone on the bamboo raft, adding a touch of warmth to this quiet night.
Suddenly, there was a rapid birdsong in the sky, and Liu Yue felt something in her heart and opened her eyes suddenly. Looking up, the moon is in the middle of the day, and it is the right time. The moon is round and mellow, and it is the peak of the moon at the fifteenth hour.
At this moment, the moonlight suddenly gathered, slowly converging in the distance. Liu Yue stared into the distance and found that a small island slowly appeared out of thin air at the place where the moonlight condensed.
Liu Yue's heart was excited, and she had a strong premonition that the red ant eight achievements were on this island. I was bumped into by my own shit luck.