Chapter 22: The Terrible Ant Colony

"Oh no! That's the sound of the pieces of metal that just fell to the ground!"

He Yi chuckled in his heart, and a bad feeling suddenly filled his entire chest.

The metal hit the ground with a roar, and then the sound came back for him to hear, and it took nearly a quarter of an hour to hear it!

This underground world is terrifying!

Of course, that's not the most important thing! The most important thing is that if the deep underground is better near the nests of certain creatures, such as the golden ant, then this roar will immediately anger the aborigines!

In the interior of a planet full of metal, he can dig out an underground world that is probably thousands of miles deep, and the life here is definitely not an ordinary species! If there are more than ten or twenty demon kings, he can't even perform the seven-step immortal ascending technique, so he can only fight hard!

"It's too careless!" He Yi secretly sighed.

Accidentally dropping a few pieces of metal, although he had a vague idea of the depth underneath, could also have terrible consequences. This place was strange and unpredictable, and he didn't dare to explore blindly, so after thinking about it for a while, he moved and flew towards the shimmering hole that he had come down from before.

Without absolute strength, it is certainly not wrong to be cautious.

As if to confirm his suspicions, less than a few breaths after he had just returned to the entrance, there was a sudden loud humming sound from below. The sound was not a vibration, but a sound like a mosquito vibrating its wings. However, the level of noise of this buzzing noise cannot be caused by three or five mosquitoes! He Yi heard it roughly, and he felt a pang of annoyance in his heart, as if he was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of bees and mosquitoes.

This is still through the buzzing sound that comes from a distance of hundreds or thousands of miles, if you are really in it, I am afraid that just those noises can make people's qi and blood flow abnormal, explode and die!

Although they were at least hundreds of miles away, He Yi could already vaguely guess what a terrifying group of lifeforms were living underneath. Wandering through the universe, he not only became better at patience, but also learned to be cautious. Although he was still very curious at this time, he was ready to use Dao Technique to slip away at any time.

After waiting for a while, the sound below gradually subdued, and it seemed that the population that had been attacked by the metal block did not find the source of the attack, so it was quiet again.

He Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, restrained his breath, and slowly leaned down again.

Following the previous pillar, he descended slowly, and before he knew it, he had descended fifty miles deep. The mental strength spread out for hundreds of miles, and a thick metal pillar stretched horizontally was found at the end. The shape of the pillar is still very irregular, but the whole appearance is very large, like a huge beam in the air.

He continued to descend, and when he reached a depth of one hundred and fifty miles from the ground, he had found several pillars that stretched in all directions, and the one that went straight down became thicker and thicker, reaching a hundred feet. It's just that until now, the ends of the heart have still not found any traces of life.

He couldn't help but speculate in his mind that the pillars could be understood as passages like spider webs, and the nest was in the depths, and the middle part of the space was like the walls of the house, so the "residents" below would not stay in these places on weekdays.

I can't see my fingers around. The more it drops, the higher the temperature. Although there is no trace of earth fire, it is normal for it to get hot when you go deep into the interior of the planet.

Two hundred miles, three hundred miles, four hundred miles......

The constant darkness and the increasing temperature made He Yi feel a little uncomfortable and a little depressed. Just when he descended to a depth of four hundred and eighty miles, and was almost about to give up returning, he suddenly found a golden ant in the place where he swept his heart!

A hundred feet later, dozens of golden ants appeared within his perception range.

Has it finally arrived?

In perception, the swarm of ants walked back and forth, looking like patrolling guards, patrolling their posts. The group of golden ants was larger than the one that had just carried the metal, a foot and a half long, and their breath and six legs were stronger.

Before today, He Yi had never seen an ant that had become a sperm. He didn't know if the big golden ants were spirits, but judging from their simple behavior, they didn't seem to be much different from ordinary ants in terms of intelligence.

Of course, it is undeniable that these ants are very powerful! In this underground world, which is almost as hot as mortal fire, they can not only survive safely, but also build nests in the depths, and their heat resistance is even stronger than that of ordinary primordial infant demons! And in terms of strength, they are almost no less than the ascetics of the Kongming Period. Under the unique population base of the population, tens of millions of Kongming ascetic-level ants joined forces to besiege it, and even the Vientiane Demon King had to run as far as he could!

Fortunately, God has given them strength, but has deprived them of wisdom.

The perception of the golden ants was almost equal to nothing, and He Yi's mental strength swept over them and landed from them fifteen hundred zhang away, and the ants were unaware of it. The so-called patrol is purely a decoration.

Poor perception, no intelligence. Under these two weaknesses, the threat of ants to him was reduced to the lowest point at once.

In order to be on the safe side, He Yi did not approach directly to the bottom, but flew to a place less than three hundred zhang away from the ants first, and could induce the flow of qi and blood, revealing the powerful aura of the Zhiwei monk. However, under his move, the golden ants only paused temporarily, explored around with their tentacles, and continued to circle back and forth after noticing that it was fruitless.

This time made him feel at ease.

Five hundred li, six hundred li, seven hundred li......

He Yi fell silently, and the temperature around him was already higher than that of ordinary flames, almost comparable to the fire alchemy technique performed by the Yuanying Monk.

The ant's nest was obviously at the bottom, and as he explored, he saw more and more golden ants within his mental range, and there were four or five kinds of ants, including ordinary porter ants, strong soldier ants, and even larger males, flying ants with thin wings.

Under his keen perception, the few ants that flew up to patrol did not affect him in any way, and easily dived into the depths of the underground world.

It was quite interesting for a human to travel through the territory of countless giant ants, and the sense of superiority that crushed the entire race in intelligence and perception also made him laugh secretly.

Evading the detection of a group of flying ants, when he fell to a depth of more than 800 miles, he suddenly stopped.

In the end!

Scanning down for hundreds of miles, what I felt was finally no longer a hollow or horizontal metal pillar, but an ant nest, an endless giant ant nest!

Although he had seen the size and strength of the golden ant, he couldn't help but be startled when he saw the nest.

Within the scope of his mental strength, all below were large hollow nests with a strange structure!

The whole body of the ant nest is made of inch thick metal, there are countless passages and caves, although the overall structure is messy and complex, not as beautiful as the beehive, but those caves and passages also have their own belongings, can be divided into many large parts, even if the nest is extremely huge, the whole does not look bloated.

The mental strength penetrated in, and countless golden ants were busy in the nest, and the number made He Yi, who had already been mentally prepared, also feel numb in his scalp and shiver in an instant.

Fortunately, despite his disgust, he was not disgusted by the dense stuff.

Finally soothing the goosebumps all over his body, he searched horizontally, unscrupulously enveloping the giant ant nest below, looking at this strange structure that had never been heard of before.

Flying hundreds of miles, he saw millions of golden ants, not to mention a million, but the ant nest seemed to never end, always the messy and complicated strange appearance.

At this time, he also understood that the worker ants he saw before were actually carrying the metal back to provide food for the various other members of the nest! They don't need sunlight and water, they can grow as long as they eat metal, and after eating the metal, they will spit out some soft metal clumps, which are the materials used to cast the nest before they harden!

He didn't need sunlight or water, just a race that ate metal! It was the first time he had seen such a strange life form.

If it weren't for the fact that he was an immortal cultivator himself, detached from the ordinary, he could hardly believe that there would be such a strange species in the world.

You know, this planet is almost all made of metal, and if these ants keep developing, it is entirely possible that they will eat the entire planet! At that time, if their bodies are strong enough, they can continue to expand to other planets and devour them one after another!

No, it can't be! If it were really that powerful, it would have been all over the universe a long time ago! Although their physical strength is very high, it is obvious that they cannot walk freely in the starry sky of the universe, and it is very far from one planet to another, and if they need food, I am afraid that most of them will starve to death on the way. Otherwise, wouldn't such a population be unrivaled in the universe?

Flying at a height of fifty miles above the ant nest, He Yi had already flown thousands of miles away, and the ant nest under his feet was still boundless.

He had long forgotten how many golden ants there were, in short, hundreds of millions were definitely there. He saw no less than ten of them alone.

Depending on their size, perhaps in a few tens or hundreds of years, the surface shell of this metal planet will be eaten.

After seeing many ants, his mind was also a dense golden figure, and a feeling of nausea reminded him that he should leave.

This trip was an eye-opener for him, but in fact it was not very rewarding. The ants were industrious, and although they built huge nests, they did not produce any shocking treasures. And even if there were, he didn't dare to grab it, surrounded by endless ants in that huge nest.

He had forgotten where the entrance was when he came, but it didn't matter, there were seven steps to ascend the immortal technique, just shuttle out.

The Void Avenue came to mind, and he stepped out in two steps, already stepping on a magical node.

"Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang"

As he took the third step, a voice like a heartbeat suddenly came.

He Yi slowed down, and under his mental scanning, he saw a pale golden ant's tail belly the size of three zhang in the distance. To be precise, it should be an ant queen whose head and chest are less than two feet in size, and whose abdomen is three feet in size!

Such a large size is second to none among the hundreds of millions of ants he has seen. The huge ant's belly trembled and shuddered, producing a giant golden egg the size of half a zhang, which was sent to the cave by the rest of the ants.

"One zhang big is the queen ant, so this three zhang big is not the queen of the ants? The eggs it lays are half a zhang big, and the ones that give birth to them are other little queens!"

Strange thoughts flashed through his mind, and his perception habitually glanced at the giant queen.

Just as his mind swept over, the giant queen suddenly moved!

It's been discovered!

He Yi was taken aback, and his slowed pace just took the fourth step, moving tens of thousands of feet away!

As soon as he walked on his front foot, a majestic and terrifying spiritual shock roared by, shaking the void to tremble!

The tide spread by the spiritual impact swept tens of thousands of feet, and He Yi, who had moved away, was still affected, his head was dizzy, and he almost fell out of the Void Avenue.

Buzz Buzz -

That spiritual impact was like a fuse, and the entire boundless huge ant nest was instantly detonated!

As soon as He Yi's knees were raised, at least hundreds of thousands of golden ants with wings had already appeared in the range of mental perception, flying towards him with a fierce momentum!

The patrol flying ants he had encountered before were not fast, which made him think that they were nothing more than that, but at this time of pursuit, the speed of that group of flying ants actually exceeded the speed of the flight of the ordinary Yuan Infant Monk Edgeworth, and they quickly approached!

But fortunately, the distance of more than thirty miles was enough for him to use his Dao technique to escape.

As soon as he fell, the Void Avenue enveloped him.

Buzz Buzz -

The terrifying chaotic sound made He Yi, who was already disgusted by the huge number of ants, suddenly feel his stomach churning, and he was extremely uncomfortable. The countless flying ants galloped towards him, but they couldn't catch up with him.

With one step, the Void Fluctuation enveloped him, instantly taking him away from tens of thousands of miles, away from the surface of the planet.

Floating in the starry sky of the universe, the sparkling stars are magnificent and moving. But He Yi's whole mind at the moment was the golden ant figure, and the trembling buzzing sound.

After retching in the void for a while, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking back, the planet, thousands of miles away, seemed to be shaking slightly. If he had taken a few breaths late, he would have been buried in the anthill and would have died without a body.

Unexpectedly, in the ant colony with extremely low perception and intelligence, there would be a giant queen ant who was many times more powerful than his spiritual power! If it wasn't for the timely fourth step, I was afraid that the spiritual impact would have directly killed his soul!

He Yi was afraid.

I have to say that the discovery of that giant queen ant in the end was too unexpected. Intuitively, he felt that that thing was at least an immortal-level existence!

Fortunately, he only heard the thud after performing the Dao technique first, otherwise, even if he had a hundred lives, it would be difficult to get out of the ant nest.

Wiping his sweat, He Yi looked at the metal planet fearfully, stepped on the seven-step immortal technique, and escaped from the terrifying place.

The scene changed, moving thousands of miles, and he was soon in another part of the starry sky.

Suddenly, an itchy sensation came from his back, causing him to freeze suddenly.