Chapter 68: Ant Eaters
The inside of the cave was not dim, on the contrary, after entering the cave, they found that there were passages extending in all directions, and the passages were of strange shapes, which were obviously not deliberately excavated.
The only thing that is the same is that the tops of these passages in all directions emit a green halo, which is no longer the moss that had fallen before, in fact, when they descended a kilometer or so, the moss disappeared. In its place is this stone that emits light. That's right, it's stones. An unknown stone.
According to the Four Elders, these glowing green stones are, in a sense, the root of the green sea of life. They have a very strong devouring ability, being able to absorb life energy and then precipitate. So, in a sense, these stones are the sediments of life energy. It took an unknown number of years of evolution before it settled down at the bottom of this green sea of life.
This stone is called a life crystal. There is another reason why the Shuhai people don't dare to come down easily, because their own cultivation is all based on absorbing life energy, once they get here, the surrounding life crystals will quickly devour the life energy on their bodies, causing their own cultivation to decline, and even their lives are in danger.
And whether it is the holy power of Fahua or the Yuan power of Lan Ge, they are not cultivated by life energy, so naturally there is no such problem. This is also an important reason why the Shuhai Clan wants to seek foreign aid.
"Let's go!" With the coordinates preserved, Fahua and Lan Ge didn't need to deliberately look for anything at all, the two of them valued a cave with a wide entrance and walked inside.
The four elders had told them before that they must not venture in, otherwise if they encounter a large number of such creatures, their lives will be in danger immediately. But how did he know that there was no Shuangzhu, unless Fahua and Lan Ge encountered an existence that could kill them in an instant, otherwise, this danger really didn't exist.
With the strength of the two of them, as long as the two of them are together, with the connection of the Peerless Beads, they are enough to have the combat power of the eighth order, and in the case of defense, even the tenth-order powerhouses may not be able to kill them in seconds.
Entering the passage, the light was noticeably stronger, as the life crystals above his head became more numerous and thicker.
"You say, if we knock a few pieces down and take them out, this thing should be worth a lot of money, right?" Lan Ge said with his eyes shining.
"Well, go back and knock." Instead of objecting, Fahua immediately agreed.
Lan Ge said speechlessly: "You really knocked!" It is worthy of being a money junkie. "For Fahua's wealth fans, since he saw the House of Hope, the word wealth fans has become a compliment.
Fahua said: "The Shuhai Clan didn't say that it couldn't be knocked. This life crystal should contain a very rich life energy, and it should be useful in the future. ”
Lan Ge shrugged his shoulders, "Let's go back and talk about it." We're here on a mission. Wait! Suddenly, he grabbed Fahua, and his eyes instantly became sharp.
Lan Ge's spiritual power was very strong, especially after entering the seventh order, this ascension became even more obvious. As soon as he pulled the fahua, the two of them hid in the hollow on one side of the cave wall, but their eyes looked into the depths of the cave.
Under their gaze, a strange creature was climbing on the top of the cave, it was a creature that looked a bit like an ant, similar in appearance, except that it had a pair of front claws that resembled crab clips, and a pair of large mouthparts that resembled centipedes.
It had barbs on its front paws, and it was able to grasp the life crystals as it crawled on the roof of the cave, and its mouthparts were constantly gnawing on the life crystals.
Its tail is oval, not a spike at the end, and the entire tail is a crystal-like turquoise color, with a faint glow inside.
Undoubtedly, they have found the main master, and the existence in front of them that looks about a meter long and looks like an ant is the one that the Shuhai clan is afraid of!
The Shuhai clan calls them Swallowing Ants, also known as Life Swallowing Ants! No one knows where they came to be or what kind of history they have. When the Shuhai Clan discovered them, they were already an extremely large race. And this race thrives by devouring life crystals.
In the early days, because this underground world was a forbidden area for the Shuhai Clan, the Shuhai Clan didn't care too much. But as time passed, they gradually discovered that the speed at which this life devourer ant clan multiplied was too fast. At first, they were only found in an underground crack, but in just a hundred years, such crevices began to become more and more numerous, and their footprints were found in more and more places.
Before, what Green Shadow said about Fahua and Lan Ge was true. And this situation has appeared in more than a hundred places in the green sea of life.
The reason why the earth qi is thin is because the life crystal in that place is eaten by the devouring ants, and the earth qi below surges, which will rush out of the ground.
After careful investigation and calculation, the elders of the Shuhai Clan were shocked to find that if this Life Devourer Clan was allowed to continue to devour like this, then, at most, for a thousand years, I am afraid that the entire Sea of Life would sink, and this Ocean of Life would no longer exist. And the Shuhai Clan is naturally in danger of extinction, and it will even affect the continuation of the entire Falanxing, a Divine Lan Domain, as the Fourth Elder said!
After discovering that the situation was serious, the Shuhai clan immediately launched the clearance of the Swallowing Ants, but the underground world was the forbidden area of the Shuhai Clan, and after paying a lot of people's costs, they finally killed some of the Swallowing Ants, but this kind of consumption was unbearable for the Shuhai Clan.
In that underground world, they can't even exert one-tenth of their strength, and when they encounter powerful ants, they will only become their food. In the absence of any way, the Shuhai Clan began to ask for help.
At the beginning, the objects of asking for help were mainly the monster clan and the spirit clan in the demon domain, and they were strong and capable.
However, the Green Sea of Life, a world full of natural treasures, has long been coveted by the Demon Domain, and the Demon Domain is willing to help, but the conditions proposed are naturally extremely harsh. After a few cooperations, it was true that there was a certain suppression of the Ant Swallowers, but the appetite of the Demon Domain was so great that the Shuhai Clan was a little unbearable. What made them even more indignant was that the Demon Domain deliberately controlled the suppression of the Ant Eater, so that the Ant Eater would always be a threat to the Shuhai Clan, so as to normalize this cooperation, so as to obtain more materials unique to the Green Sea of Life from the Shuhai Clan.
The Shuhai clan was angry and had no choice but to find another way, so they found humans.
Although the human race does not have a particularly strong existence, it can be said that it is the weakest race among the seven seas and six regions, and being weak means that the power to speak is reduced, and the Shuhai clan itself is extremely powerful. This has allowed the Shuhai to dominate the situation of cooperation with humans, and humans are very eager to get their friendship as long as they are given a certain amount of reward.
Although it is unlikely that humans will clear the swallowants in the core area, they still have a certain ability to control the number of swallowers in the periphery. After a certain number of cooperation, the Shukai clan established a friendship with humans, and to put it bluntly, it was actually because humans themselves were weak and easy to talk.
For humans, it is equally important to obtain the friendship of the Shuhai Clan, even if the Shuhai Clan is not as powerful as the Youkai Clan and the Spirit Clan, as long as it is in the area of the Green Sea of Life, even the Demon and Spirit Clans dare not easily enter it.
The Green Sea of Life is located in the center of the Three Domains of the Human Race, and in a sense, the Shuhai Clan's willingness to be the supporting force of the Three Domains of the Human Race is very beneficial to the entire human race.
Therefore, the three domains of the human race carried the demon domain on their backs, and with the help of the Shuhai clan to conceal it, it really became an important force for the Shuhai clan to fight against the ant swallowers.
"Only one!" Lan Ge said affirmatively.
"Try it!" Hokko replied in his heart.
Lan Ge smiled, bent down, picked up a stone from the ground, and threw it at the swallowing ant in the distance as soon as he raised his hand.
Ants are aggressive by nature but have low intelligence, and only particularly powerful ants have high intelligence. Because the Shuhai Clan itself cannot penetrate into it, until now, the Shuhai Clan has not fully understood the population structure of the Swallowing Ants. Even the original demon domain powerhouse did not go deep into its interior.
According to the Shuhai Clan's estimates, the total number of devouring ants may have already exceeded one million, and it is currently the biggest threat to the Shuhai Clan. And these swallowing ants do not go to the ground, and the Shuhai people have nothing to do.
"Smack!" The stone hits the head of the Swallower with unmistaken accuracy. Suddenly, the swallowing ant suddenly raised its head, and made a strange sound of "hee-hee" in its mouth, suddenly accelerated, and rushed straight to their side, its mouthparts opened and closed, and it was dark and dark.
It crawled fast, a bunch of barbs from the front claws enough for it to hang on the cave wall, and soon approached the vicinity of Fahua and Lan Ge.
Fahua took the initiative to greet him, and the God-given Codex was opened, and the condensed golden wisdom shield stood in front of him.
The swallowing ant rushed forward, and a pair of front claws went straight to Fahua and collided. Fahua had the heart to try the attack power of this swallowing ant, but he didn't dodge, and directly met it with his wisdom shield.
"Bang!" Coming vigorously, Fahua resisted the impact with lunges, and the swallowing ant was knocked over by the wisdom shield and fell to the ground, but it immediately pounced again, looking like it was not dying.
When it collided again, Fahua's body was slightly on one side, and the wisdom shield in his hand met the front claw from the side, swallowing the ant and slipping, and the power was not fully released, but its mouthparts were turned around, and it was a mouthful on the wisdom shield.
To Fahua and Lan Ge's surprise, in just one bite, the thick Zhi Shield was actually bitten open with a gap, and there were obvious traces of pale green liquid at the gap, and the recovery was slow.