Volume 6 The Career Descends, and the Three Clears Rise to the Supreme Section 14 An ant suddenly breaks in
If the operation is not accurate, the activation of the array word Xuantong means that the hidden "magic effect" is all in play, and the spiritual consumption is therefore extremely large, but for Hu Shandiao, who has an additional 350,000 zhang of spirituality, the consumption is bearable, not to mention, he still has 3 million zhang of silver mist spiritual reserves.
The soul value of 200 miles represents the value and the range that can be perceived, one mile is 600 meters, and the range perception of 200 miles needs to consume 200 soul thoughts for a duration of twenty breaths. When the perception is released, if there is no appropriate Xuantong effect, such as identification, exploration, identification, etc., the information obtained is extremely simple, while with the Xuantong effect, detailed information can be obtained, provided that the knowledge reserve is sufficient.
The nest of red ants is not built underground but on the ground, it is a 10 zhang high mud and wood mixed castle, the appearance of the word "out", there is a dazzling "ruby" at the top, however, it is not a real gem but a red ant queen, it is at the top of its castle looking down on everything.
Countless red ants come and go in and out of the castle, and a large number of red ants are not eligible to enter the castle, they move in tens of thousands of squares in all directions, but the distance is not more than 100 miles away from the castle.
Hu Shandiao speculated that the upper limit of the Red Ant Queen's perception was 100 li, so it could be speculated that its spiritual value reached 100,000 zhang, but the human monk's Ten Directions Perfection spiritual value was only 60,000 zhang, and the Red Ant Queen must also have the bonus of additional things. In other words, the ant castle is a mysterious weapon, all red ants are soldiers, and the queen ant is the commander, and it can use the mysterious weapon to obtain attribute bonuses.
Hu Shandiao wrapped the "Sanqing Mantra" Yuanjing Tablet with his soul thoughts, and then consumed the spirituality to perform the "Linzi Xuantong", and "teleported" the Sanqing Mantra Yuanjing Tablet to the top of the castle where the queen ant was. He used a straight line perception, and the soul consumption was much lower, but the Yuan Jing Tablet did not fall as Hu Shandiao wished, but was blocked by a force, which also confirmed Hu Shandiao's guess that the ant castle was a mysterious weapon.
If the commander does not let go of the Occult Protection, unless the enemy is forcefully attacked, all attacks or flying debris will be blocked by the Occult Protection. If it is in the void, only the Void Ember is an exception, which also makes the legion of the Xuanlu Expedition to the Void need to constantly clear the Void, and it is difficult for the life weapon to block the infiltration of the Void Ember.
Bang, a beam of light came out of the ant castle and hit the Three Qing Mantra Yuan Jing Monument, and the Yuan Jing Tablet shattered into powder.
Hu Shandiao found that the red ants who went out would carry the items they searched to the antburg, and the entrance and exit of the antburg were guarded by a group of more majestic red ants, and this group of red ants, temporarily called "fort guards", would inspect items. Garbage is thrown back and useful items are piled up at the mouth of the antfort and carried by another colony of red ants inside the fort.
The blank Yuan Crystal Tablet was quickly obtained by a group of red ants, and rushed to the mouth of the fortress like a treasure to hand over to the red ants of the fort, but it was not sent to the queen ant, obviously, there was a warehouse in the fortress. The previous perception plus the "Array Character Xuantong" has already revealed that the area occupied by the red ants is the place where the "Square Tower" is suitable for construction, which contains "Spirit Land, Soul Land, Spirit Land and Yuan Land".
If the red ants can't be destroyed, the square tower can't be built, and it is inevitable that the Golden Legion will die here. Ordinary red ants are the size of a fist, and the red ants with high status are even larger, and the number is dozens or hundreds of times that of the Golden Army.
Person: Level 2, transformation, invisibility.
The premise of transformation is still "knowledge", in order to become a stone, you need to obtain information about the stone, in the same way, to become a red ant, you need to collect its characteristics, at least its physical characteristics, such as body shape, antennae length, eye color, etc.
It is not impossible to deform without collecting these data based on what you see with your eyes, but this is very "fake", and there must be a special way of distinguishing between red ants. Therefore, in order to become an unrecognized red ant, Hu Shandiao needs to catch a red ant alive for "collection", which is easy to do.
The red ants obviously have a natural fear of the merit tower, and they will bypass or avoid it a mile away, Hu Shandiao narrowed the radiation range of the merit tower, and found an opportunity to lock on to the outermost edge of the team and pull it to his side, and it was successful to catch a red ant alive. The difficulty of collecting specimens naturally depends on the "goal", and it is also difficult to collect information from a monk of the Ten Directions.
However, it is quite easy to collect an ordinary red ant that is only relatively large, and the spirit forcibly breaks into the brain of the red ant, and the soul thoughts follow in, and the red structure of the red ant's brain appears on the surface of Hu Shandiao's "Soul Thoughts Half Moon". Continue to consume soul thoughts and "outline" the red composition of the red ant's brain, and the relevant information will continue to be extracted.
The red structure of the red ant's brain is no different from that of the ants of Xuanlu, but its tentacles are extremely unique, similar to crab claws, which can not only explore, communicate, but also fight. Physically, it is similar to an ant called "Flying Stone Ant" in Xuanlu, which mainly inhabits the southwest of Xuanlu's "Kunbu Continent", and its food is "stones", and when attacking, it spits "flying stones".
Thanks to the profound blessing of the knowledge base, Hu Shandiao's transformation into red ants was extremely smooth, but he didn't dare to go directly to the ant castle at first, but first mixed with a group of red ants. The antennae of the red ant similar to the crab claw make a sound of different lengths and heights after the impact, Hu Shandiao has built the brain of the red ant, and at first it is not very understandable to "hear", and slowly it is familiar.
Ordinary red ants are all single-word communication, such as, go, rush, return.
Chengwei red ants obviously have a higher status, but they still belong to the ordinary category, but the brain red structure is more complex than that of ordinary red ants, which makes them slightly more intelligent, know how to distinguish between good and bad things, and have a lot of words when communicating. But it seems that this evolution is biased, at least in terms of "recognizing people", the Chengwei red ants are very poor, so that the "deformed" Chengwei red ants of Hushan carving are not recognized.
Entering from the gate of the castle in a grand manner, it seemed crowded to Hu Shandiao, but the red ants came and went in an orderly manner, and because of this, Hu Shandiao seemed a little "reckless", and he destroyed the formation. The one with a higher status than the Chengwei red ant is called the "elite red ant" by Hu Shandiao, and the elite red ant is larger than the Chengwei red ant, and it has been out of the ordinary category, and they are all level 1 to level 3 Tongshi.
Carrying materials is obviously not heavy work, because the elite red ants do this, and Hu Shandiao still uses the merit tower as a cover, and pulls an elite red ant to his side after narrowing a certain distance. Compared with ordinary red ants or city guard red ants, elite red ants are more difficult to kill, mainly to keep the whole corpse, if the corpse is badly damaged, information collection will also be missing.
Fortunately, under the cover of the Meritorious Tower, Hu Shandiao's blatant killing of "ants" at the bottom of the castle did not attract a beating, and he was successfully upgraded to an "elite red ant". Taking out a palm-sized Yuanjing stone engraved with "Sanqing Mantra" from the shoulder bag, Hu Shan carved it to move with the elite red ant transport team, and the soul thought had already "painted" the perceived surrounding environment into a map in the Xuanfu.
Hu Shandiao soon saw the "leader red ants" with a higher status than the elite red ants, the leader red ants were much smaller in size but increased in length, and the appearance was very much like a "centipede" with so many feet. Swarms of ordinary red ants, dense city guard red ants, and then elite red ants whose number has plummeted by a thousand ants, you can also know that the higher the status of red ants, the rarer the number.
The leader red ant guards a hole in units of ten, and the elite red ant turns around and leaves after transporting the materials to the hole, Hu Shandiao naturally will not go back, familiar taste, old recipe, he slaughtered the leader of the 10th level Tongshi red ant. But this time it was obviously not so easy to get by, and when Hu Shandiao walked towards the warehouse with the "Three Clear Mantras" Yuan Jingshi on his back, a leader red ant shouted.
"Ant Seven, Six, One, Six, what are you going to do?"
Hu Shandiao was stunned, numb, there is still a number? He tried to eavesdrop on the memories of the red ants, but the red ants have no words, and they can communicate with each other because they are all born to the same mother. Hu Shandiao sketched a complete red ant brain on his soul moon, so he was able to communicate, but when he eavesdropped on the red ant's memory, what he got was a bunch of garbled characters.
Therefore, it was difficult for Hu Shandiao to say "Sanqing supreme, listen to Kyushu" in the inherent way of red ants, so in desperation, he had to pull the red ants, the leader of the shouting, into the range of the merit pagoda, and then use the spirit to impact his brain and cause his brain to die. Brain death can keep the body of the red ant active for a period of time, which is actually a means of the Kyushu zombie path, and it is also suitable to use here.
If the Soldier Character Mystery is upgraded to level 3, the new mana is a puppet, and it is even more effective to use this spell in this environment. Hu Shandiao felt that this idea of coming out early was good, so he consumed spiritual energy on the spot to refine the "Soldier Character Xuantong", whether he improved the "Fang level" or the Xuantong level or the magic level, it was very simple, and it was enough to have spirituality.
The reason why he has not been able to raise the level of Xuantong for a long time is because it is unnecessary, nine Xuantong and eighteen magic effects, Hu Shandiao feels that it is enough to deal with it, plus he positions himself as the "mastermind behind the scenes", so he does not have much enthusiasm for "upgrading". But it is clear that he has a misunderstanding of his position, and so far he has been on the front line.
Since you want to upgrade all of them, you have to upgrade them all by one level, and a Xuantong needs to consume 10,000 zhang of spirit to upgrade from level 2 to level 3, for a total of 90,000 zhang of spirit.
Pro: Level 3, Teleport, Escape, Shuttle.
Soldiers: Level 3, refiners, traps, puppets.
Fighting: Level 3, spells, combat skills, and formation techniques.
Player: Level 3, Transfiguration, Invisibility, Illusion.
Both: Level 3, prophecy, calculation, good luck and evil.
Array: Level 3, Exploration, Identification, Ignition.
Column: Level 3, Heroism, Coercion, Bullying.
Front: Level 3, clone, splitter, incarnation.
Row: Level 3, Flaws, Loopholes, Dismissals.
Hu Shandiao frowned, another reason why he didn't like to improve Xuantong was that once he obtained a new magic effect, he would have to spend time sorting it out, that is, familiarizing himself. The coordination between the magic effects is the combat experience that the monk should have, and understanding the spirituality of each magic effect and the "synergy" effect produced is also the daily life of the monk.
For a person who is obsessed with "planning", Hu Shandiao is very uncomfortable, and he wants to go to the silver mist to study the "rendezvous" of "magic effect". "Combined effect" is the fusion of two or more magic effects, and the specific operation is to use "soul thoughts" as a container, and then consume spirit to activate all the magic effects that are to be used.
The on-the-spot "synergy" will inevitably give the enemy too much time to attack, and a qualified monk will retreat to master the "synergy" and practice familiarity, Hu Shandiao is obviously not a "qualified" monk. He has not survived until now by his own strength, either by relying on the silver mist to hide for his life, or by relying on his subordinates to serve his life, or by relying on the thighs of Liao Longji and Jiang Chaoxian to shelter.
If someone knows that Hu Shandiao has so many hole cards against the sky, but he is not angry to be the mastermind behind the scenes, and he is also looking for subordinates to block the knife and find a backer to shelter, it is estimated that the person who knows is either crazy or hateful.
"What do you want to do so much", Hu Shandiao eliminated these distracting thoughts, and pointed at the brain-dead leader red ant, the spirit and soul thoughts rushed into it, and the puppet magic effect immediately took effect, and the leader red ant opened his lifeless eyes.
If it has the magic effect of "flaw or loophole or recognition", you can see that there is a "red and white" entwined line between the Hushan eagle and the puppet red ant. This line is the "soul bridge" formed by the Spiritual Blazing Sun and the Soul Half-Moon, and it is also the one that must exist to control the puppet, once it is cut off, the puppet is out of control.
Soul Moon trembled slightly, and a message was entered, and the puppet red ant sent out a signal of "Ant 7616, you hurry up and get busy", and the other eight leader red ants did not move. Hu Shandiao upgraded the level of Xuantong and then turned the brain-dead red ant into a puppet, the time is very short, almost the puppet red ant shouted before his death, and everything was completed.
Carrying the Sanqing Mantra Yuan Crystal Stone, Hu Shandiao entered the warehouse, as he thought, the warehouse is also a screening party, and the screening is the materials transported in.
Rotten flesh and dried fruits and the like can't even enter the fortress, so the warehouse does not have any peculiar smell, on the contrary, there is a very strong "fragrance" in the warehouse, and the flowers and fruits that make people want to take a bite are placed on a piece of turquoise stones, the fragrance is not only fruity, but also one of the sources of fragrance.
If it weren't for the fact that in addition to the hundreds of ringleader red ants in the warehouse, there were also two kinds of red ants with different strengths and different physiques, Hu Shandiao would have to kill at this time to seize resources. Red is a must-have trait for red ants, and if an ant is black or green, it must be a heresy, but if it only changes the color of its antennae, it is an evolution and a status symbol.
The red ants with green antennae are more majestic, the number is only two, but the strength is up to three sides, the volume of the red ants with black tentacles is smaller than the "leader red ants", Hu Shandiao named them "leader red ants", the number of the head red ants is five, one level.
"Ant Seven-Six-One-Six, what's the matter with you?" The leader on the left, Red Ant, asked.
Hu Shandiao suddenly wondered, why does everyone know him? Could it be that the "leader red ant" in his own form is a "famous ant", and he sensed that the leader of the red ant did not have much emotional fluctuations, and Hu Shandiao knew that it did not suspect it, but just asked one by one.
Hu Shandiao used his crab-like tentacles to move the "Three Qing Mantra" Yuan Jing Stone on his back, and what made him happy was that he finally met an ant that "knew the goods", no, not one but several. The leader of the red ants is obviously not a good status, but the leader and the leader are not only high-status and knowledgeable, they do not know the "words", but it is clear that they know that these are "words".
"Ant Seven, Six, One, Six, Where did you get that?"
Hu Shandiao's tentacles danced wildly, playing a good role as an "illiterate" red ant, and the leader red ant obviously knew what kind of urine these subordinates were, so he didn't ask again. The leader of the red ants took a fruit that was only the size of a finger from the warehouse and had a great loss of freshness and rewarded Hu Shandiao, who did not plan to go any further, and withdrew from the warehouse with the fruit.
The next development is naturally unknown, until someone becomes a Sanqing disciple, Hu Shandiao only half speculated and half knew the truth after eavesdropping on his memory. The leader of the red ants obviously did not linger for a moment and went to the top of the castle, but there was also a "big leader" red ant in its position that was "above ten thousand ants and below one ant".
The number of big boss red ants is naturally even more scarce, and in the castle hall, which is only one floor away from the red ant queen, there are eleven big boss red ants, and the leader red ants who entered with the Sanqing spell Yuan Crystal on their backs were driven out after leaving the Yuan Crystal. Then, the large but slender queen ant appeared in the castle hall, and a human head emerged from the queen's body.
This head is the same as the skull of the Red Rabbit, which shows that the Red Ant Queen is not the real queen ant, it is actually a "mysterious weapon", a single mysterious weapon like the Red Rabbit. But the queen ant's skull is obviously abnormal, the red rabbit has no self-consciousness, so it is impossible to "read" and not speak, but the queen's skull is literate and can read, and it will be tricked as soon as it reads.
Hu Shandiao was glad that he had raised the nine-character mantra Xuantong to level 3 at one time, and the third magic effect "incarnation" of the previous mantra Xuantong did not allow him to "incarnate outside the body", but left an "incarnation" on top of the silver mist. This made up for Hu Shandiao's inability to stay on the silver mist all the time, thus missing some key defects, and therefore, when the Queen Ant's Skull Mansion became a Sanqing foreign worshipper, Hu Shandiao received a "hint" from the "incarnation".
To Hu Shandiao's surprise, the Red Ant Skull Mansion knew that the "Three Clear Mantras" were traps, but they did not take precautions, or did not adopt a normal way to deal with them - elimination, but continued to chant. There is a big difference between reading and chanting, reading is only the "Three Clear Mantras", chanting is a sacrifice, and the sacrifice is divided into "sacrifice, prayer, and reward".
Sacrifices, chanting the mantras, offering sacrifices.
Pray, make a vow, ask for help, and after getting a response, fulfill the vow.
Reward, ask for a reward.
Sacrifice is a way for the worshippers to increase their piety, and if the Sanqing does not give back, this sacrificial ritual will not be rewarded.
Praying, the same as trading, the initiates make a promise that as long as Sanqing fulfills the wishes of the initiates, the initiates will fulfill their promises.
The reward is generally the "sacrifice" after the Sanqing sends down the holy oracle and the worshippers complete the task of the Sanqing.
What makes Hu Shandiao strange about the Queen Ant's Skull Mansion is that it has been "sacrificing", so that the level of the initiates has increased by leaps and bounds, and in a very short period of time, the Queen's Skull Mansion has been promoted from a pseudo-believer to a high-level believer.
The level of the believers is reflected in the position of the "Sanqing Palace", only the devout believers are eligible to enter the hall, the senior believers have stood at the threshold outside the hall, and the pseudo-believers are near the courtyard gate. There are no fanatical disciples yet, and Hu Shandiao guesses that this kind of top-level disciple should appear in the nine-character mantra pillar.
The three palaces and the two rituals are all on the same level, and the nine-character mantra pillar and the pagoda of merit hang above them, which is obviously higher in status.