Chapter 1223: An Army of Iron-backed Sword Mantis
If the battle of the Spirit Devouring Worm was just a false alarm, after they arrived at their destination after going through a lot of hardships, they finally saw what the real fierce worm was.
It was already a year and two months later, and a group of several people finally arrived in the deepest part of the Great Gobi.
Before entering the Dongping Wasteland, despite the fact that time was very short, they still tried their best to search for any map they could find, even if it was only some "old antiques" that were incomplete or left over from many years ago.
But there is no map that shows their current environment.
It is enough to prove that before this, no one had ever entered such a deep place as the Dongping Wasteland, or rather, although some people were lucky enough to get here, they never walked out alive with their discoveries.
If it weren't for the Tianmiao Fairy trapped here, Xiao Fan wouldn't have come.
In fact, deep down in Xiao Fan's heart, he is still very grateful to Ouyang Mingyue. If Ouyang Mingyue hadn't decided to go to the Dongping Wasteland with him, it would have been really a question of whether he would be able to get here with his own strength.
The Heavenly Fairy is ahead.
This is already their destination.
However, Xiao Fan did not feel relaxed because of this, and his mood became heavier and heavier.
Because for more than a year, the Tianmiao Fairy has never moved the place, and has always stayed not far ahead, motionless. In this case, it can only be that the Tianmiao Fairy has fallen into a deep stupor, and there is no longer the slightest breath leaking. If Xiao Fan hadn't refined her natal bead, hadn't obtained her natal Tianyin True Yuan, and wouldn't have been able to sense her save.
What exactly is the reason. Make the Heavenly Fairy such a great monk in the later stage who is full of opportunities and infinite means. Are you forced to do this?
At least one thing is for sure, her opponent this time. That's not a small deal!
It is unknown whether this place is the deepest part of the Dongping Wasteland, but the forbidden power of the East Pole magneto-optical has become stronger and stronger, and even flying at low altitude has become extremely difficult, and the speed of centipedes has slowed down a lot.
Not long ago, Xiao Fan and the others finally put the exhausted centipede into the spirit beast ring, leaning on their two legs. Step by step.
They can't squeeze the last bit of strength of the centipedes, and when they return, they will have to rely on these strange insects to travel. If you really die of exhaustion here, the time to go back will at least double. Provided, of course, that they can return safely.
In this most desolate place in the Seven Nights Realm, poisonous insects are rampant, and no one dares to guarantee that they will be absolutely safe and sound.
A few days later, Xiao Fan and the others climbed a barren mountain.
A huge Gobi Basin appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Yellow sand is flying. Abnormal dryness.
Xiao Fan's eyes were shining with green, and the heavenly eyes were extremely lucky, and through the reckless yellow sand, he finally vaguely saw the situation in the center of the basin.
A huge castle made of loess stands there. It's full of antiquity.
However, Xiao Fan certainly understood that this was not a real castle, nor was it a castle ruins. Rather, it is one tall mound after another, erected abruptly on the ground. Xiao Fan's eyes lit up. There was a sense of déjà vu.
On Earth, termite nests in the African savannah. It's similar to this mound.
It's just that the mound here is obviously much larger than the termite nest on the earth.
There is no doubt that this is also a worm nest, but it is not known what kind of strange insects live there. It's just that, dozens of miles away, Xiao Fan can still feel a bad breath coming out of those mounds, which shows that the insects living here are definitely not "good people".
What especially gave Xiao Fan a headache was that these mounds were densely packed, standing one after another, and it was completely impossible to count how many there were.
He sensed the breath of the Heavenly Fairy, right in the depths of these mounds.
In other words, the Tianmiao Fairy is now in the poisonous insect nest.
But I don't know if she was sent here directly by the space channel, or in other places in the Dongping Wasteland, in order to meet them, rushed to the west, but was accidentally trapped. In either case, it is really difficult to "fish" her out of the poisonous insect nest.
Ouyang Mingyue's face was also quite grim.
Xiao Fan has cultivated the Heavenly Eye Vision, and Ouyang Mingyue has cultivated like Ouyang Mingyue, and the situation in the center of this basin can be seen clearly.
Finally, Xiao Fan withdrew his gaze from a distance and landed on the face of the earth puppet.
Ying Lingze snorted lightly and said, "You want to use the Earth Escape Technique?" ”
This kind of old ghost who has lived for hundreds of thousands of years, as long as others blink their eyebrows, he can guess what the other party is thinking in their hearts.
"Well, we have to find out what is real and false first."
Xiao Fan bowed slightly.
Letting the earth puppets approach those mounds with the earth escape technique and carefully investigate the reality is of course a necessary pre-battle preparation. Just the three of them, breaking in so blindly, the danger factor is too high. The prohibition of magneto-optical at the East Pole here is so strong that even flying at low altitude is extremely laborious, and other reconnaissance methods are afraid that they will not be used at all.
The Earth Doll is not a living creature, and the possibility of the poisonous insects discovering it should be minimized.
In general, poisonous insects are more sensitive to living animals.
It is often flesh and blood that becomes food for poisonous insects.
Ying Lingze said: "Since this is the case, then I'll go for it myself." Otherwise, relying on a remnant soul, nothing can be detected. ”
Xiao Fan owed a slight owe.
That's what he meant. However, if Ying Lingze resolutely refused to take the risk, Xiao Fan couldn't force him.
Ying Lingze snorted again, and was about to cast the Earth Escape Technique, but Ouyang Mingyue suddenly said, "Wait a minute......"
The bright and beautiful face showed a puzzled look.
The basin, which was originally quiet, suddenly sounded a slight muffled thunder, and a stream of sand and dust flew up in the distance, gradually sweeping towards this side. In the dust, a black line could be faintly seen.
Xiao Fan's face had already changed slightly, obviously he knew what the faint black line was.
It wasn't that the power of his divine sense and the power of his Heavenly Eyes were stronger than Ouyang Mingyue's, but because the iron-backed sword mantis, which had been quietly staying in the spirit beast ring, suddenly became extremely excited. Xiao Fan could vaguely sense through the soul imprint left in the body of the iron-backed sword mantis that this time the iron-backed sword mantis was not the excitement of detecting food, but the excitement of encountering the same kind.
This is the reason why Xiao Fan was really surprised.
Similar!
If the faint black line in the dust was really the same kind of iron-backed sword mantis, what an amazing and spectacular thing it would be.
No one knew the power of the Ironback Sword Mantis better than Xiao Fan, although his two Ironback Sword Mantis were still only third-order cultivation, but in a small area of hand-to-hand combat, even Xiao Fan did not dare to be careless. Even if you have dragon scale armor to protect yourself, it's not much better.
Judging from the characteristics of the iron-backed sword mantis, which is like the wind and retreats like electricity, no matter how strong the armor is, it will not have much effect.
Just a little bit of unprotected armor is enough to become a fatal omission.
No matter how delicate and dense the armor is, it is impossible to wrap the key parts of the eyes, nose, mouth, tongue, and neck and chin tightly. Through these weak links, the Ironback Mantis can easily make the last drop of blood from enemies hiding in armor.
Just two iron-backed knife mantises made Xiao Fan dare not be careless, Xiao Fan never thought that one day, he would encounter such a group of iron-backed knife mantis that could not be seen at a glance.
The next moment, Xiao Fan knew that his hunch was right.
Running the Heavenly Eye Eye to the extreme, he could already vaguely see that the one rushing to the forefront was indeed a large sword mantis with an iron-gray back.
This is really, a swarm of tens of thousands of iron-backed knife mantis!
Iron-backed sword mantis!
Millions!
These two words were connected together, and even Xiao Zhenren, who had always been calm and calm, and Taishan collapsed silently in front of him, also felt a chill on his back, and cold sweat was oozing out endlessly.
This was by no means something that the three of them could defend against.
Judging from the speed at which the iron-backed sword mantis swarm moved, even if they retreated at full speed at this moment, it would be too late.
Poisonous insects take this as their home, and they are much more adaptable to the ban on East Pole magneto-optics than they are outsiders, and after so many years, it is believed that these poisonous insects have already evolved the talent to adapt to the ban on East Pole magneto-optics. Here, spread out your two feet, and you will definitely not be able to outrun the iron-backed knife mantis.
Xiao Fan didn't hesitate any longer, the sleeves of his robe flicked, and more than a dozen array flags flew out, instantly forming a peach blossom illusion array, completely covering the figures of the three of them.
Although the iron-backed sword mantis is extremely ferocious, it is not an expert in cracking the phantom array.
Back then, Xiao Fan captured these iron-backed sword mantises with the power of the phantom array.
Many years have passed, Xiao Fan is in the way of formation, and I don't know how many times more proficient than back then, I believe that these sword mantis should not find them. Provided, of course, that these sword mantis are not coming at them. Otherwise, even if the phantom array is magical, it is very likely that these iron-backed sword mantis will be hit by mistake and break in.
Immediately after, Xiao Fan and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the target of the iron-backed knife mantis does not seem to be them.
As the sandstorm approached, Xiao Fan and the others, who were obscured by the phantom array, could see that one after another teams of iron-backed sword mantises, lined up in a very neat queue, emerged from the dust, and pressed towards the tall mounds in the center of the basin with great momentum.
It's all second-order iron-backed sword mantises.
Crowds, densely packed, countless.
Xiao Fan never dreamed that one day, he would see so many, tens of thousands of iron-backed sword mantis above the second order.
Among the thousands of iron-gray second-order sword mantises, an even more powerful and ferocious aura emerged from time to time, and there was no doubt that it was a sword mantis that had evolved to the third order. In other places, such a third-order sword mantis can even be called the king of insects.
The aura of a few of the third-order sword mantis was even a few points stronger than the two in Xiao Fan's spirit beast ring.
With such a ridiculously powerful Zerg army, I don't know what kind of enemy we have to deal with? (To be continued......)