Chapter 21: Under the Dome
The underground world is nearly 5,000 zhang, and at the end of the mental perception range, something suddenly appeared that surprised He Yi very much!
Ants! Golden ants! Golden ants!
When he first appeared, there was only one that climbed up along the metal surface that he noticed at the end of his heart, but then, after the golden ant came up, one after another golden ants that were exactly like him appeared!
"One, two...... One hundred and fifty, one hundred fifty-five...... Three thousand...... Five thousand ......"
Seeing the appearance of the golden ants, He Yi temporarily stopped his plan to excavate. He counted the number of golden ants climbing up with all his heart, and when the number exceeded five thousand, he already had the idea of turning around and leaving the planet!
Everyone has heard the saying that ants bite and kill elephants! Incomparably fragile and insignificant ants, as long as there are enough of them, they can kill huge elephants with concerted efforts, and even break them down into a pair of white bones! But what he saw at this moment were at least thousands of golden ants one foot in size! Under the mental induction, the strength of these ants had already made him tremble!
Each of those ants has a golden-yellow shell and a smooth and hard surface. Their mouthparts, feet, and limbs also possess great strength, and it is estimated that they should be at least equivalent to the strength of an ascetic in the Gathering Period!
What kind of power will thousands of Gathering Spirits have for penance? If a demon king accidentally falls into this underground world, I'm afraid that his bones will be gone in less than a quarter of an hour, right?
He Yi's throat rolled up and down, silently put away the firewood knife, and secretly said that he was lucky.
Fortunately, he found it early, if he waited until he knew that there were such terrible ants, he was afraid that with his physical strength, he would be slowly tortured to death. And these thousands are only the number he saw, the worker ants in an ant nest usually don't all gather in one place to act, and there are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of them!
If there are really so many of them, even if you throw a big guy like the dragon whale into it, it is estimated that it will be quickly dismembered.
With a 100-foot thick metal surface, the ants should not pose a threat to him. And on the ground, if they really find out, it's a big deal to fly away, and they won't fly anyway.
He didn't know what the golden ants were trying to do, so he dispatched thousands of worker ants, and he didn't find anything that could be carried back for food. Also, so far, he has not found an entrance to the underground, where did these ants get in?
As he thought, the colony had crawled up the metal surface to the end of a hollow not too far from him. If it were for life underground, it would be considered a dome.
Soon after the first one arrived, dozens or hundreds of golden ants climbed to the top of the dome. The golden ants are all golden, and although there is no light underground, they are not much inferior to what they can see directly with their eyes.
Upon arrival, several golden ants moved their small tentacles, as if they were communicating with each other. After only a few breaths, they all bit down on the metal above the dome with their mouthparts that seemed to have infinite power!
The metal-like ant bites into the real metal! The mouthparts that are more powerful than the lobster tongs are not known how many times 0 bite, and they are completely unhindered, and they can easily tear off a piece!
Although it is not as good as the dark iron steel that has been carefully hammered and refined, it is also something as hard as brass!
"The underground dome I explored was probably excavated by these guys, right?"
Paying attention to the more than a thousand ants tearing off the metal and moving back one by one in an orderly manner, He Yi was first startled by his own thoughts, and then felt that this was almost certain, and there was no need to be surprised at all.
The strength of ants is beyond imagination. They can carry things dozens of times heavier than themselves, and if they don't carry them, they can even reach thousands of times if they just pull them! With such a huge strength, and a giant ant a foot in size, it seems that there is no difficulty in digging up the metal ground at all.
However, the range he had explored was at least thousands of miles away, and if the dome of the underworld was all dug out by golden ants, how terrifying were their numbers?
And most importantly, it's just ants! How many terrible things are there beneath the surface of this metal planet?
The strong desire to explore in his heart made him want to go into the ground to see what was going on, but the ants that easily bit the metal reminded him that after going down, there would be no bones left!
Rao is in the early stage of his knowledge, and he is cultivating the body of the supreme body refining method such as the "Taichu Chaos Sutra", once he is besieged by thousands or even tens of thousands of golden ants, there is only one way to die!
But it's not impossible to deal with ants.
They can't fly, as long as they keep a good distance and don't get approached, no matter how many of them there are, they will never be able to stop him. I just don't know if there are other species in the interior of a planet as terrible as ants. If he encounters a swarm of flying creatures like bees and mosquitoes that are as perverted as golden ants, he will be in real danger.
Go down and have a look? Or just leave?
If you go down, you may be able to see a new world that you have never seen before, but you may be in danger.
No, it's safe, but I missed an interesting story, and I'm going to continue to wander aimlessly in the universe.
"Go down and take a look!" He Yi gritted his teeth, and finally his curiosity gained the upper hand. He muttered to himself: "With my cultivation, it shouldn't be a problem to support it for more than ten seconds, there are seven steps to ascend the immortal technique, and it is enough to run." ”
The wood knife was drawn again, and he carefully observed the movements of the thousands of golden ants, as well as the movements of the other hollows. As soon as the ants retreated, they smashed open the ground and went down to see what was going on!
It was still morning in his position, but the temperature of the sun was quite high, the ground was very hot, and the metal surface reflected the light and heat, which made him a little uncomfortable.
In this environment, ordinary life on the surface of the earth simply cannot survive. I don't know what it's like underground, but I can raise so many bizarre big ants.
Time passed slowly, and the position of the sun kept changing, and soon it was past noon.
He Yi held the firewood knife and waited patiently, sixty-six years of dry sitting and a long time of cosmic wandering made him develop excellent patience, since he had made up his mind in his heart, he would wait for ten days and half a month, and there would be no problem.
In the blink of an eye, it was approaching dark, and a day on this planet had almost passed fifteen or sixteen hours. The group of golden ants tore the metal and transported it back, and soon dug the dome from more than 500 zhang above the surface to less than 300 zhang away, which was also terrifyingly fast!
Eventually, the golden ants never returned, and as they walked back one by one, the dome became silent.
It's time to get started!
He Yi, who had been accumulating strength for a long time, rose into the air, and the moves of the wind and fire sword and sail in his heart flowed by, and the scorching heat was swift and swift, and the sail-shaped knife qi like a wind in the ocean occupied his mind overwhelmingly.
The last style of the wind and fire sail - the sail of the sea of fire!
With a snap, he slashed at the ground!
It has been hundreds of years since he learned the knife technique of "Wind and Fire Knife Sail", and this is the first time he has used this strongest knife!
Whew~
As if a fire met a whistling sound like a gale, a fiery red knife qi detached from the chai knife, crossed the distance of three zhang in the blink of an eye, and turned into a sail-shaped sword qi that was as long as it was a substance!
He Yi's strength is no longer what it used to be, and the power exerted by the pure body of the ether at this moment is enough to break through mountains and rivers!
burst
The sword touches the ground!
First there was a dull sound, and then there was a violent tremor that shook the sky and the earth for miles!
The scorching and incomparably sharp sword qi was under the powerful cultivation of his early stage of Zhiwei, and it instantly rolled up a rolling wave of qi, and even He Yi himself was swept away.
With a snort, the metal surface was torn apart and melted, revealing a pit more than ninety feet deep!
This sea of fire sail does not disappear after a single collision, it combines the advantages of the first six styles of the wind and fire knife sail, not only has a strong scorching and explosive power, but also has a strong sustaining force and penetrating power, like a sail, can travel for a long time. If it weren't for the metal surface but the air, he would have traveled hundreds of miles with this knife. Although it is not as earth-shattering as the White Hero Slashing Immortal Exterminating Divine Sword, which can even tremble in the void, once it is cast, it cannot be underestimated!
The air wave slowly dissipated, and He Yi looked down to see that the entrance of the cave nearly a hundred zhang deep was black and faint, and the evening sun could not shine on the bottom at all. Although he couldn't see it, his mental strength was fully aware of the situation below.
With this sword, he not only tore open the surface of the earth, but also melted the surrounding metal, making it even harder as if it had been tempered by real fire.
Lowering his body, the temperature in the deep well he had just dug was like a raging fire, but it had no effect on him.
There is also a metal layer of less than 20 zhang!
Lilan slashed three times in a row, and the hot temperature melted the metal again, reducing the thickness to less than two zhang at once.
It's only two feet, even if it has been melted and quenched and become harder, but it can't stop him!
The power was carried under his feet, He Yi kicked suddenly, and with a bang, the thick metal cracked into several pieces and fell downward.
The last obstacle was removed, and his mental strength was no longer hindered in the slightest, and it spread for hundreds of miles in an instant, scanning a large area in the dark underground world.
However, in the perceptual range, except for the dome, there was only an empty piece, and other than that, not even the figure of the golden ant could be seen.
At a depth of 100 miles, it is not yet to the end!
He Yi was a little surprised, but not too surprised. He moved closer to the narrow pillar that the golden ant had climbed on to the depths, and slowly drifted underground.
Under the shroud of mental energy, the shape of the pillar where the golden ant walked before appeared in his mind.
The shape of this pillar is very irregular, and it seems that it is something that has been bitten by golden ants, but has not been bitten, and finally remains. The pillar is not large, the thickest part is only ten zhang, and the thin place is not even two zhang. It is so small that it obviously can't support the thick metal on the surface, and it is conceivable that there should be a more powerful fulcrum in the distance, which is probably just a passage.
He Yi explored the surrounding situation while falling, and did not dare to get too close to the pillar, but just tried his best to find it down, so as not to become a headless fly and lose his direction.
It was dark underground, and the light at the entrance didn't reach far at all, and there was no earth-fire lava to bring light.
After descending for more than ten miles, He Yi, who had not yet found any traces of ants, was suddenly startled by a roar.
It wasn't loud, but it was several. The source of the sound is from the bottom.
"Oh no! That's the sound of the pieces of metal that just fell to the ground!"