Chapter 6: The Queen Ant

Three or four hundred people entered the purple bamboo forest, and after a while, they all disappeared into the purple bamboo forest. Although there are a lot of people, the purple bamboo forest is too big, and hundreds of people are like fish entering the sea, and they disappear without a trace in a moment.

Xiao Ling went all the way alone, because this was a trial, and he had to be able to find a small number of white bamboos, so everyone acted separately, moving forward at the fastest speed, and looking for the scarce white bamboos in the process.

In the depths of the bamboo forest, a young figure was acting cautiously in the forest, it was a little girl surnamed Yu, and suddenly a white bamboo appeared in front of her. It is said to have appeared suddenly, because there was no white bamboo here a moment ago, and when I first looked at it, there was only a purple and blackened bamboo. The little girl ran to the white bamboo excitedly, picked up the machete and looked at the root of the white bamboo.

"Bang!" the sound of gold and iron slamming came, and the sharp and heavy machete slashed at the root of the white bamboo, leaving only a shallow slash mark, but the little girl was not surprised, and continued to wave the knife to see. Because it was only a quarter of an hour, the white bamboo would turn purple when it was outdated, so the little girl kept cutting it down vigorously.

In another place, a handsome boy of thirteen or fourteen years old was also doing the same thing, cutting white bamboo hard.

Dozens of people have discovered white bamboo in a day, but less than half of them can be cut down in a quarter of an hour.

At this time, Xiao Ling was shuttling through the labyrinthine purple bamboo forest, and at the same time, the information left by Chen Li appeared in his mind, and the information clearly remembered about Zizhu.

Purple bamboo is a rare refining material, but only white bamboo can be used. When the purple bamboo grows after a hundred years, it will turn black and suddenly turn white at a certain moment, and when the purple bamboo turns white, it must be cut down within a quarter of an hour, otherwise it will return to its original condition. And ordinary purple bamboo, if cut down, is ordinary bamboo, basically useless. Moreover, the cutting of white bamboo can only be cut with the most stupid manpower, and when any magic weapon cuts down white bamboo, white bamboo will instantly turn into ashes. In fact, the information given by Chen Li also said that there is another use of white bamboo, but few people know about this use, that is, the leaves of white bamboo can be integrated into the body in a special way, so that the strength of the human body is increased, and it is a rare holy object of refining the body, and there is this secret technique in the information. But now Xiao Ling doesn't have the time to think about this, so he will find Bai Zhu first.

A day has passed, Xiao Ling still hasn't seen Baizhu, but Xiao Ling is not in a hurry, it shouldn't be difficult to find Baizhu in January, but it's still more troublesome to get out of the purple bamboo forest. The entire purple bamboo forest is like a huge labyrinth formed naturally, and it is difficult to make out the direction in the forest. Xiao Ling has often run to the mountains and forests since he was a child, and he still knows a little bit about identifying the direction, otherwise, I am afraid that he will not want to go out of the mountains and forests for a year after being trapped in the purple bamboo forest.

At night, Xiao Ling stopped in a dense place of purple bamboo in the purple bamboo forest, bent the nearby purple bamboo, tied dozens of purple bamboos with ropes, and lay down on them to rest. There is no danger in the purple bamboo forest during the day, but the purple fire ants come out at night, this kind of purple fire ants only move on the ground and will not climb on the purple bamboo, but the purple fire ants are still very dangerous. Purple fire ants are a low-level insect beast, and there is no threat to a single one, but this kind of purple fire ant is a social insect, and each population will have hundreds to millions of them, but there will be no huge ant colony in this purple bamboo forest, at most it will look like thousands, but for these young men and women who have not cultivated, thousands of purple fire ants are enough to kill. Therefore, if you are unlucky, if you encounter an ant colony, it will be more than lucky. These are all mentioned in the information left by Chen Li to Xiao Ling, fortunately, this part of the information has been absorbed by Xiao Ling, otherwise there may be some trouble in this purple bamboo forest. I don't know if there is a high-level queen here!

In the middle of the night, Xiao Ling was awakened by a terrible cry from a distance, and there were about a few people listening to the screams, and it seemed that they were besieged by an ant colony. Listening to the screams, the ant colony is still not small. The best way to encounter an ant colony is to climb onto the purple bamboo, but the purple bamboo is too thin to bear too much weight, so Xiao Ling will tie dozens of purple bamboos together, so that he can avoid the attack of the purple fire ants!

Soon, the screams disappeared in the purple bamboo forest with a long tail note, and the trialists should have died listening to the sound. Xiao Ling sighed in his heart, it seemed that the path of cultivation would not be smooth, and if he did not have strong perseverance and superhuman wisdom, he would sooner or later be wiped out among the many cultivators.

Xiao Ling forced himself to continue to rest, or where would he get the energy to find Bai Zhu tomorrow.

As soon as a touch of fish belly white appeared in the sky, Xiao Ling jumped down from the purple bamboo, untied the rope and put it away, identified the next direction, and continued to walk forward.

On the way, Xiao Ling kept adjusting his direction and constantly looking for Baizhu, but his luck was really bad and he never found Baizhu. One day, Xiao Ling went to look for Bai Zhu, but he didn't even see the shadow of Bai Zhu. When the sunset appeared, Xiao Ling found a dense place of purple bamboo, bent dozens of purple bamboos, tied them together, and continued to rest.

As night fell, the entire purple bamboo forest was unusually silent after last night's incident. But in the middle of the night, several more terrible screams were heard. But this time Xiao Ling didn't care too much, the path of cultivation is like this, there will be danger at all times, and no one knows when Lu Dao will lose his life.

The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Xiao Ling jumped into the small purple bamboo, packed his bags, and continued to move forward.

For three consecutive days, Xiao Ling didn't see a single white bamboo, and he couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

In the middle of the night on the third day, Xiao Ling, who was sleeping, heard a "snort" sound on the ground, opened his eyes, and saw countless ants crawling on the ground by the moonlight, and the speed was very fast. The ants are half an inch in size, and they look black in the moonlight, which is not very clear. But the strange thing is that these ants actually gathered around the purple bamboo where Xiao Ling was sleeping, holding their heads high, and making a "snort" sound at Xiao Ling.

Although Xiao Ling knew that these were purple fire ants and would not climb up, seeing so many ants still made Xiao Ling feel afraid. However, Xiao Ling was still very strange, how could the purple fire ants be interested in Xiao Ling, who was sleeping on the purple bamboo. There were also purple fire ants two nights ago, but they walked away without stopping at Xiao Ling, and it was a little strange to arrive today.

Xiao Ling pressed the fear in his heart and looked around carefully. Not to mention, it really made him see something. Behind the colony, there was a giant ant about the size of a foot, with a pair of wings on its back, which looked like the queen ant.

Xiao Ling couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw this queen ant, purple fire ant queens are rare, and generally only when the ant colony reaches hundreds of thousands can a queen ant be produced. Moreover, the average queen ant is three or four inches in size, this queen ant is actually a few feet in size, if it can be subdued, it can basically go on a rampage in this purple bamboo forest, such a big queen ant is not an opponent for ordinary cultivators. According to Chen's departure information, the queen ant is already equivalent to a monk in the Dan realm.

However, it is not easy to catch this queen ant, not to mention a young man with no magic power like Xiao Ling, even an ordinary Qi Gathering Period cultivator is not an opponent. Xiao Ling took out a green fruit from his bag, which Xiao Ling found on a small mountain. This fruit is called Qingyuan fruit, which is the favorite of purple fire ants, especially after the queen ant eats it, it will have great benefits for breakthroughs. No wonder these purple fire ants surrounded Xiao Ling, it turned out that this queen ant smelled the smell of Qingyuan fruit.

Xiao Ling took out a knife and dug a small hole in the Qingyuan Fruit, and stuffed several other small red fruits the size of beans into it. This small red fruit is also obtained on the way, called the soul luring bead, these beasts and insects love to eat, not because of how much effect, but after eating, the beasts and insects are like humans drinking wine, and they will hallucinate. There are many monks who love to grow this kind of fruit to feed their spirit animals or spirit insects. Xiao Ling found a small cloth bag full of it in a mountain recess, and prepared to feed the beasts when he encountered danger on the road, but he didn't expect it to be used, but now he uses it.

Xiao Ling threw the Qingyuan Fruit stuffed with soul luring beads to the ant colony, the ant colony immediately separated, and the queen slowly crawled in front of the Qingyuan Fruit, gently touched the Qingyuan Fruit with two half-foot-long tentacles, and then opened her mouth and quickly swallowed the Qingyuan Fruit into her stomach. After Xiao Ling saw the queen ant swallowing the Qingyuan fruit, he took out a small cloth bag from his bag and sprinkled the small red fruit inside at the ant colony. In just a few quarters of an hour, a small bag of red fruit was devoured by the ant colony.

One by one, the purple fire ants fell down as if drunk, and the queen ant was still barely crawling, but it was also staggering. When he saw it, he fell.

Xiao Ling looked around and confirmed that there were indeed no other purple fire ant queens, jumped off the purple bamboo and walked to the ant queens. Looking at the queen ant in front of him, Xiao Ling's forehead couldn't help but sweat, if he could subdue this queen ant, it would be of great help to him in the future. But I just don't know if the method given by Lu Daochen is useful.

After Xiao Ling thought for a while, he took out a knife and slashed it on his thumb, and immediately blood flowed out, and Xiao Ling dripped the blood on the queen's forehead. He used a knife to make a small cut on the back of the queen's head, dripping blood into the small mouth. Seeing that a drop of blood was submerged into the small mouth, Xiao Ling had no intention of stopping, and made another cut on the tip of his index finger, and there was blood flowing out of his fingertips, Xiao Ling used the blood on his fingertips to draw several runes on the back of the queen ant, and these runes were also drawn according to the information given by Chen Li. Xiao Ling didn't know the specific meaning of Lu Dao.

About a quarter of an hour later, there was a small shadow floating out of the queen's body, the shadow was extremely small, only half an inch smaller, it looked very much like the queen ant, Xiao Ling grabbed this small shadow, and with the other hand, the blood on the index finger dripped on the shadow, the shadow let out a low cry, and after a while, the shadow was divided into two shadows, one large and one small. Xiao Ling pasted a smaller shadow to his forehead, and immediately the shadow sank into Xiao Ling's forehead. The next moment, the larger shadow was submerged into the queen's body again.

When the shadow submerged into Xiao Ling's forehead, Xiao Ling's mind appeared like a queen ant, and he established a connection with the queen ant in the dark, and Xiao Ling felt that he could now control the queen ant.

Xiao Ling was secretly surprised, the method given by Chen Li was really easy to use. This is a blood spell that is only useful for demon beasts or demon insects. Once a demon beast or demon insect falls into a deep sleep, mortals who do not need mana can cast a blood spell to control it. However, under normal circumstances, mortals can't make demon beasts or demon insects fall into a deep sleep. If Xiao Ling hadn't happened to collect the Qingyuan Fruit and the Soul Temptation Bead on the road, Xiao Ling could only stare dryly.

Xiao Ling watched the queen ant crawl motionless on the ground, and then climbed onto the purple bamboo again and fell asleep.

As soon as the sky was bright, Xiao Ling opened his eyes, stretched his waist, and jumped off the tree. Looking at the queen ant in front of him, he stretched out his hand and patted it, and the queen ant slowly opened her eyes and looked at Xiao Ling. The image of the queen ant appeared in Xiao Ling's consciousness, and Xiao Ling gave an instruction to the image, telling the queen ant to fly, and the queen ant did correctly. Xiao Ling knew that he had successfully controlled the queen ant. Looking at the purple fire ants all over the ground in front of him, Xiao Ling couldn't help frowning, and could only wait for these purple fire ants to wake up.

Half an hour later, the ant colony gradually came to its senses, but under the control of the ant queen, the ant colony appeared very docile and did not attack Xiao Ling.

Xiao Ling saw that the ant colony had all woken up, so he let the ant queen lead the way and walked forward. So one person and one ant, followed by a huge ant colony to the depths of the purple bamboo forest.

Half a day later, in front of a purple-black purple bamboo, the queen ant stopped. The queen ant made a "snort" sound at Xiao Ling, and through the induction of his mind, Xiao Ling knew that this piece of purple bamboo would soon turn white. So Xiao Ling and the queen ant colony stayed here, waiting for the purple bamboo to turn white.

Seeing that the sky was slowly getting dark, half a day passed in waiting. However, Xiao Ling was not in a hurry, according to the information from the queen ant, these purple bamboos would turn white in the next few days.

Night fell quickly, Xiao Ling lay on the ground, with this queen ant here, there was no need to sleep on Zizhu anymore.

After a sweet sleep, it was already bright when Xiao Ling woke up. At this time, the queen ant screamed at Xiao Ling. Xiao Ling saw that there was a purple-black purple bamboo in front of him that was turning white, Xiao Ling was overjoyed, picked up the machete, ran over, and slashed at the root of the white bamboo.

The sound of "boring" gold and iron came out, Xiao Ling's arm was numb, looking at a small white mark at the root of the white bamboo, Xiao Ling was a little dazed, obviously underestimating the hardness of the white bamboo.