Chapter 42: The Hive
The cloud beast carried Xiaoxue and flew all the way to the volcano where Li Xiaobai was. Now that there are so many evil cultivators in the Sand Sea Secret Realm, it is really not a good time for retreat. In fact, the island in the middle of the lake was not far from the volcano where Li Xiaobai was, and the cloud beast could feel that Li Xiaobai's retreat was almost over, so he went to the volcano with Xiaoxue to find him.
Out of the island in the middle of the lake, it was quite calm at first. But suddenly there was a buzzing sound in the sky. A large area of sword light flew towards them, and it turned out to be a large black mist chasing dozens of monks, flying towards this side. Looking at those monks, they looked panicked, and they were very embarrassed. It wasn't until I got closer that I saw clearly that the black fog chasing them turned out to be a dense crowd of countless flying ants. These small but amazingly defensive, and flying demon insects turned out to be the legendary ironclad flying ants.
The Ironclad Flying Ant is a carnivorous demon ant with few natural predators. Its perverted defense, the average monk, is difficult to kill a group of ironclad flying ants. Often, if a swarm of ironclad flying ants is not killed, the monk will be eaten alive.
The cloud beast opened its huge mouth, and a large number of flying ants were swallowed into its mouth, and trapped it with boundary power, and slowly refined it with boundary fire. When the monks saw that the flying ants had been removed, their tense hearts suddenly relaxed. Qi Qi thanked Xiaoxue. Xiaoxue inquired about the origin of these flying ants. Only then did I know that since I entered the secret realm, all kinds of demonic insects and monsters suddenly appeared out of nowhere and attacked them. Now many monks are hurrying to the highest mountain to find the teleporter. They were afraid of encountering powerful demon beasts, so they organized nearly a hundred people to go together. Unexpectedly, they encountered flying ants on the road, and now there are only a few dozen of them left. The rest of the monks had all been turned into lunches for the flying ants.
Xiaoxue pointed them out the direction of the portal and told them to hurry there. In fact, the direction of this portal platform is still what the little turtle said, and this is just the right time to show these monks the way.
After the cloud beast swallowed the flying ant into its mouth, the voice of the white tiger came to its head. The white tiger said: "Don't bother, send those flying ants to the Hundred Grass Garden." There is a free pyrotechnic here, which can be used, and there is no need to waste effort to refine flying ants with boundary fire. ”
It turned out that the cloud beast sent the fire Jiao into the Baicao Garden to be guarded by the white tiger. Who knew that Huojiao was now directly become, the little brother of the White Tiger, who was in a mess, and wanted to help the White Tiger resist. Hearing the white tiger's transmission, the cloud beast didn't ask any questions, and sent all the iron-armored flying ants into the Hundred Grass Garden. As a result, there has been one more fireman in Baicao Garden.
Cloud Beast and Xiaoxue continued to go, the volcano where Li Xiaobai was. All the demon insects encountered on the road were sent to the Baicao Garden by the cloud beasts, and under the supervision of the white tiger, the only fireworker in the Baicao Garden began to burn the fire day and night.
When they reached the crater, the cloud beast and the light snow stopped. And Li Xiaobai had already opened his eyes when the cloud beast arrived at the crater. At this time, at the bottom of the volcano, the five fire lotuses gradually broke away and slowly floated towards him. After all the five fire lotuses were separated, the branches of the fire lotus also turned to ashes one after another. But at this time, where the fire lotus branches disappeared, suddenly began to roll, and a giant egg actually floated up.
Li Xiaobai was very curious and held this giant egg in his hand. I could clearly feel the heartbeat coming from the dome. Alive, there is a living life in it.
The Burning Sky Sword flew upwards and exited the crater, and the Cloud Beast and Xiaoxue had been waiting for a long time. After making contact with the cloud beast, Li Xiaobai knew everything that had happened to the cloud beast and Xiaoxue in the past few days. For the giant egg in his hand, Li Xiaobai felt that it was better to send it to Baicao Garden. Now the Hundred Herb Garden is no longer the Hundred Herb Garden of the past, since absorbing the boundary power of the Four Elephant Realm, the Hundred Herb Garden has been constantly expanding, and it has long been much more than the Sand Sea Secret Realm.
Li Xiaobai and Xiaoxue took the giant egg and entered the Baicao Garden. The first thing I saw was a realm force cage, and a fire Jiao under the cage was spitting flames into the cage. Li Xiaobai came to the white tiger and showed it the giant egg. After taking a closer look, the white tiger told Li Xiaobai that this was the golden crow's egg. This time, Li Xiaobai was stunned. The golden crow is the sun god bird, but I didn't expect it to be its egg.
The white tiger glanced at Li Xiaobai with disdain and said, "It just so happens that you have a Fusang tree here, and it's better to have this golden crow egg." In the future, there will be a real sun in this herb garden."
After handing over the golden crow egg to the white tiger, Li Xiaobai came, and Huo Jiao came to him. Said to him: "When I am, how about the mount." ”
Huo Jiao smiled stupidly, long lost the arrogance he had at the beginning. Nodding his head and saying, "Okay, as long as you don't let me leave here, you can say anything."
Li Xiaobai looked at the white tiger with a confused expression.
The white tiger said disdainfully: "I told him that as long as it stays in the Baicao Garden, I will make him a real dragon." ”
Huojiao, nodding frequently, like pounding garlic.
Li Xiaobai smiled faintly, and left the Baicao Garden with Xiaoxue.
Out of the Baicao Garden, Li Xiaobai and Xiaoxue rushed to the island in the middle of the lake. All the demon insects encountered on the road were devoured by the cloud beasts, and then thrown into the Hundred Grass Garden. and also encountered more powerful demon beasts, but they were all easily solved by Li Xiaobai.
Suddenly, when Li Xiaobai and the others passed through a canyon, they were stopped by three monsters that built the pinnacle of the foundation. The three monsters that appeared here were two demon wolves at the peak of foundation building, and a bison at the peak of foundation building.
The two demon wolves have a fire attribute and a wind attribute, while the bison has an earth attribute. Three demon beasts surrounded Li Xiaobai and the three of them. The first to attack was the bison, which had a terrifying defensive force and a layer of earth-attribute armor on its body. Like a meteorite, he frantically crashed towards Li Xiaobai.
Li Xiaobai and Xiaoxue held hands, the ice and fire dragon had appeared, and a divine dragon swung its tail to knock the rushing bison to the ground. The dragon snorted, and the Tianxuan ice gas erupted, freezing the bison that had been knocked to the ground into an ice sculpture. Turning his head, the dragon's eyes turned red, and he looked at the two demon wolves, one mouth. Terrifying flames erupted, burning the two demon wolves into bald dogs. Tianxuan Ice Qi erupted and froze the two demon wolves into ice sculptures.
These are already Li Xiaobai's five frozen demon beasts. Ever since he came into contact with the evil monks, Li Xiaobai has discovered that the demon beasts that have appeared recently have one thing in common. The common denominator is that they are unconscious and bloodthirsty.
These guys don't look like self-conscious monsters and more like puppets. So he plans to catch some demon beasts and study what causes this phenomenon.
After defeating the three demon beasts, they flew towards the canyon. The canyon was foggy, and when he was about to reach the center of the canyon, Li Xiaobai suddenly found a fortress-like building. Specifically, it should be an oval-shaped boulder.
"What is this?"
Li Xiaobai was surprised, but they didn't act rashly and carefully observed from a distance. Gradually, I discovered some special places, that is, every once in a while, there will be demon beasts and demon insects, which will enter the eggs, and then after a while, they will come out again. And under the insect eggs, there were two Netherworld cult cultivators in black robes, each holding a token in their hands. Every time a demon insect or monster enters or exits, the token will glow once.
After observing clearly, Li Xiaobai decided to kill the two Nether Sect cultivators first. They are cultivating in the dark, so this time they plan to make a sneak attack.
Li Xiaobai and Xiaoxue held hands again, and the huge ice and fire dragon appeared, and the Heavenly Xuan Ice Qi sprayed at the two Netherworld Sect monks under the insect eggs, instantly freezing the two into ice sculptures. The cloud beast opened its mouth and sent Li Xiaobai Xiaoxue and two evil cultivators into the Hundred Herb Garden.
Li Xiaobai held two tokens and studied them in his hands. By the way, I asked the white tiger if I knew this thing. The white tiger sniffed with his nose and looked at the two evil cultivators. said lightly: "How can there be a smell of dementor blood crystals, is it a worm nest." ”
Bai Hu inquired about the origin of these two tokens and the process of Li Xiaobai's discovery. Tell him with certainty that these two tokens are the keys to opening and closing the hive. The hive, on the other hand, is a very cruel prison that enslaves monsters or humans.
The evil modifier of these two Nether Cults is that they are the nest slaves who guard the hive. And the average nest slave will definitely not be a normal person, most of them are hellish creatures or people who have been refined into hellish creatures. The core of the hive is the Soul Dementor Blood Crystal. Only infernal creatures can grow with the Dementor Blood Crystal, and will not die with the death of the body.
And the way to destroy the hive is to remove the Dementor Blood Crystal. The creatures in the hive are unconscious because their souls are ingested by the dementor blood crystal, and then eroded by the blood qi to become unconscious puppets. If the monster has not been eroded by the hive for a long time or has special circumstances, it is possible to regain consciousness after leaving the hive, otherwise it can only be used as a soulless puppet.
The white tiger asked Li Xiaobai to get the insect nest into the Baicao Garden. Because in addition to the most important core soul dementor blood crystal, the worm nest itself is a very precious space magic weapon.
After Li Xiaobai and Xiaoxue came out of the Baicao Garden, they came to the insect nest. Using the method taught to him by the White Tiger, he injected spiritual power into a spirit card, and the token kept flashing with a little blood. After a while, a buzzing sound sounded in the distance, and a large number of demon insects flew into the hive, and after a while, some demon beasts also entered the hive one after another. It wasn't until all the light spots on the token disappeared that Li Xiaobai stopped outputting spiritual power.
The cloud beast unleashes its boundal force and envelops the hive. It was devoured with a single mouth and sent into the Hundred Herb Garden. Next, Li Xiaobai continued to hurry, until he arrived at the small island in the middle of the lake, and he had already sent three insect nests in Baicao Garden.
At this time, the island in the middle of the lake is in addition to the five small blessings and Yuanzang, and the magic sky. The four friends of Yunshan also came, and there were a few more demon beasts behind Wu Xiaofu.
It turned out that after entering the secret realm, the first few days were fine. At most, it was a conflict with the original demon beasts in the secret realm. But a few days later, a large number of demon beasts in the secret realm suddenly appeared, not in the secret realm. And it's huge, powerful, and very bloodthirsty. All the monks and demon beasts that you encounter will attack indiscriminately.
The demon beast that has a good relationship with Wu Xiaofu was also brought to the island in the middle of the lake by Wu Xiaofu. And the monks who entered the secret realm this time all flew towards the teleportation platform, and some of the monks had already been teleported out. But most of them were still blocked out of the portal, because there were now a large number of Nether Cult cultivators and demon beasts gathered on the portal. And at this moment, the peak disciples of the three major sects are leading the righteous path monks to fight against the evil path and snatch the teleportation platform.
communicated with Wu Xiaofu, and they were willing to help Li Xiaobai. So everyone decided to go first, and the portal helped the righteous monk leave. And Li Xiaobai's promise to them is to take them out of here.
On the way to the teleporter, I encountered countless demon insects, moths, flying ants, and demon mosquitoes. The cloud beast is like a vacuum cleaner, leaving no one behind wherever it passes. Because of this, he saved a lot of monks who were chased and killed by demon insects.