Pale golden light passed through the gaps between the trees and fell into the ancient forest.
The darkness that shrouded the forest quickly faded.
The evil spirits and rioting monsters that raged last night fell silent as the darkness receded.
Those evil spirits also retreated to the deepest part of the forest like a tide.
They seemed tired and no longer violent, and the whole forest returned to deathly silence again.
In a cave somewhere in the forest.
A ray of light shone through the winding cave.
It was impartial and just shined on Zheng Zhi's face.
Zheng Zhi woke up leisurely.
In fact, he did not enter deep sleep.
After all, in this tense state, it is obviously a bit of a luxury to have a peaceful sleep.
Moreover, even if there is no danger outside, he does not need to be alert. The air is full of rancid smell. How can any normal person fall asleep?
As the light falls, the situation inside the cave can be seen clearly.
The corpses of monsters and beasts were everywhere, and the entire cave was filled with internal organs, flesh, blood, and intestines. These things occupied nearly half of the cave.
In addition, there are a dozen tall mounds of earth, about six or seven meters tall.
"What is this?"
Out of curiosity, Zheng Zhi walked to the mound.
The pile of soil in front of him looked like a small hill.
However, he was hesitant whether to touch this thing or not.
Reason told him that he should turn around and leave at this moment. This place was not a good place at first sight.
In the end, Zheng Zhi suppressed his curiosity and carefully looked towards the entrance of the cave and retreated.
"Xixi..."
However, before Zheng Zhi could take a few steps, a small head suddenly popped out of the silent mound.
Something the size of a fist crawled out.
It is dressed in shiny black armor, with a pair of compound eyes, two slender tentacles on its head, an oval body, and two nodules at the base of its abdomen.
As if it had discovered Zheng Zhi, it crawled out and made a strange neighing cry at Zheng Zhi.
His eyes were fierce, threatening and provocative.
"Ant?"
Zheng Zhi raised his eyebrows.
This little guy looks just like the ants you usually see.
It's just that compared to normal ants, it's more than a circle bigger and looks more fierce.
Zheng Zhi took one look at it and trampled it to death with one kick.
The little ant was immediately crushed and exploded into a ball of green flesh.
However, it was Zheng Zhi's move that ignited the powder keg.
The entire cave suddenly shook violently.
"what happened?"
Zheng Zhi's expression changed.
At this moment, the mounds of soil not far in front of him suddenly cracked.
Cracks spread from bottom to top, becoming as complicated as a spider web in the blink of an eye.
"boom!"
A mound exploded.
Zheng Zhi soon saw the scene where his scalp was numb.
I saw that at the moment the mound exploded, countless black giant ants flew out from it like a downpour.
The number is astonishingly large and innumerable.
"This is... a giant man-eating ant?"
Zheng Zhi's expression changed instantly.
He hadn't recognized the one just now, but now a group came down, and he immediately remembered it.
Because in Zhaixinglou's "Hundred Beasts", only a group of them are recorded, not a single one.
In fact, strictly speaking, it is not even a monster.
Because this man-eating giant ant, individually speaking, is not stronger than the Zang realm among the three realms of body forging.
Moreover, they don't even have demon essence.
The Book of One Hundred Beasts records: "Man-eating giant ants are monster beasts that live in groups and live in dark underground caves. There are three types of ants: worker ants, soldier ants, and female ants."
"The realms corresponding to the three types of ant species are the blood realm, the bone realm, and the visceral realm among the three realms of body training."
And in this devil's forest, they are also a special case.
Because even in the depths of the forest where there are as many monsters as dogs in the Kongyou Realm, they can move around unimpeded and no one dares to mess with them.
It perfectly explains what "there is strength in numbers".
"Damn it, you got into trouble."
Zheng Zhi felt something bad and turned around and ran away.
Behind him, those densely packed giant ants were chasing him. The key was that they were very fast.
Needless to say, these guys are the originators of this pile of smelly meat in the cave.
Their individual strength is indeed not strong.
But if individuals are not strong, they are better in numbers!
That amount was as big as a river. Not to mention Zheng Zhi, even a powerful spirit-pregnant person, a spirit-pregnant realm monster, would probably be eaten up to the point where not even the dregs were left.
Hundreds of giant man-eating ants caught up with Zheng Zhi and crawled from his feet to his body.
Even some female ants with wings flew up and hovered around Zheng Zhi.
Zheng Zhi did not dare to be careless, Jiuyou's true intention was released.
The dense cold air froze all the man-eating giant ants coiled around him to death.
The mysterious energy coiled around and formed a cold wind, killing most of the female ants flying in the air.
However, just when Zheng Zhi's pressure dropped suddenly, something unexpected happened.
"Boom boom boom..."
Explosions came one after another, and mounds of earth exploded one after another.
Countless man-eating giant ants came like a tide.
Layer after layer, they stacked up into a huge wave, which seemed to beat Zheng Zhi into bones.
Zheng Zhi saw a giant ant floating in the air behind the countless ant colonies.
This is also a man-eating giant ant.
But this ant is different from ordinary giant ants.
It was huge, as big as a shield, and the armor on its body emitted a dazzling light.
On its back, there are six wings, all of which are golden.
A touch of demonic power is released, reaching the realm of the True Mysterious Realm.
"Queen Ant?"
Zheng Zhi recognized the giant hanging ant at a glance.
The man-eating giant ant is not very intelligent, but it has a queen.
The queen ant is the think tank of the entire ant colony and is extremely intelligent.
The strength of a single giant man-eating ant cannot exceed the body forging stage, but this queen is an exception.
Not only can it transcend the physical training realm, it can also continue to practice.
"How about taking it away?"
The moment he saw the queen ant, Zheng Zhi's first thought was not to run away, but to use it for his own use.
If he could capture this queen ant, he would be in charge of an army of ants.
However, now he has lost the chance to escape.
The moment the queen ant appeared, she ordered the flying female ants to block the exit.
It's not easy to get out.
This kind of difficulty is similar to breaking through the siege and catching the queen ant alone.
At this time, the "huge waves" formed by countless man-eating giant ants had already arrived.
"Youkai!"
Without any hesitation, Zheng Zhi took out the Youkai.
Instead of retreating, he advanced directly towards the army of man-eating ants.
Jiuyou Xuanqi circulated to the extreme, and he punched out.
The huge ant wave was directly blasted open.
Countless man-eating ants crawled onto Zheng Zhi's body. There were so many that they formed an "ant armor" on his body surface.
"Kacha!"
However, as he breathed, there were already cracks all over the Nether Armor.
Zheng Zhi's face darkened, he knew that there was not much time left for him.
Once the Nether Armor is broken, his physical body will never be able to withstand the bite.
Once caught in the ant swarm, it will turn into a white skeleton in an instant.
As soon as he thought of this, his pace quickened.
"Whoosh!"
The sole of his foot stepped on a monster skull, and he jumped up nimbly, heading straight towards the queen ant.
The queen ant kept giving orders, and the antennae on her head trembled slightly, emitting strange sound waves that could only be heard by the ant colony.
Zheng Zhi's behavior surprised him.
A trace of panic flashed through those ant eyes, showing his high intelligence.
However, the queen ant did not sit still and wait for death.
The tentacles on their heads trembled, and countless female ants in the sky gathered frantically towards the queen.
They stand in front of the queen, but the queen, who is under protection, is quietly retreating.