Song Minghui immediately activated the spirit-gathering fire gourd, aiming the mouth of the gourd at the depth of the entrance to the ant nest.
Streams of flames spurted out, surging into a large sea of fire, vast and powerful, spreading forward like a wave.
The nest is roasted by the high temperature of the flames, and even the temperature rises. At this time, the army ants can naturally feel the changes in their surroundings.
Their eyes all turned to the direction of the flames, and then they were covered by a large flame, making sounds of struggle, and instinctively evacuated backwards.
The queen ant also reacted quickly and immediately gathered the ants to form a defensive formation. They gathered together densely and moved like fiery red quicksand.
A dense swarm of army ants appeared in front of everyone. The number was so large that it would make one's scalp numb to see it. There were four to five million of them.
Once an ant nest of this level floods into Guangde County and attacks people, the consequences will be unimaginable.
"We'll try our best to attack with fire!"
Seeing so many marching ants really frightened everyone, and they couldn't help but want to retreat. Zhang Nianchuan frowned and decided to focus on fire attacks.
Sword after sword slashing, how long will it take to kill?
For such tiny army ants, and there are so many of them, flying swords are obviously not suitable.
Huchihuchi.
After hearing Zhang Nianchuan's words, Song Minghui naturally would not resist, and immediately increased the intensity of the envoy's spirit-gathering fire gourd, pouring out more intense flames and rushing towards the ant colony.
Faced with such flames, the scope is vast enough to cause casualties to tens of thousands of army ants.
The ant colony retreated quickly to avoid the flames, but at a slower pace.
When the army ants on the periphery of the ant colony were touched by the flames, they immediately seemed to be fueled by a fire. They were burned mercilessly, running around and struggling on the ground.
These ignited and burned army ants obviously couldn't survive and died soon.
Disturbed by the flames, the ant colony became more chaotic and retreated deeper into the cave like a school of fish.
The queen ant is in the center of the ant colony, heavily protected from any influence.
It is very calm and makes a buzzing sound, ordering the ant colony to maintain its formation, using the ant colonies outside the formation to resist the attack of the flames, thus protecting the ant colonies inside and even itself.
"There are too many ants in this colony, and they won't be able to be wiped out in a while. Everyone, please use some fire-based group attack spells. Don't hide them."
Zhang Nianchuan opened his mouth and took the brunt of the attack. He cast the fire spell 'Fire Fire Heavenly Heart Technique', condensing a huge flaming sword and sweeping towards the ant colony.
The remaining three people, Xu Yi, Lin Han and Chu Qin, were not willing to lag behind and took action one after another, casting fire attribute spells or other group attack spells.
Zhang Deming and other ten Zhang family monks, under Zhang Deming's command, surrounded and intercepted the ant colony to ensure that the cleanup could proceed smoothly.
Under the collective attack of everyone, the queen ant gradually became agitated when she saw that the ant colony was being cleaned up in large numbers. She frantically drove the ant colony towards the depths of the nest, hoping to avoid this group of human monks.
In its opinion, this group of human monks is very powerful and cannot be dealt with by the ant colony.
In particular, the red fire-breathing magic weapon is very powerful. Every time it is used, thousands of army ants will be eliminated.
The other monks either attacked swiftly or fiercely, or cooperated tacitly.
As the ant colony fled deeper into the nest, Zhang Deming and others pursued while blocking the surrounding routes. The ant colony was quickly cleared by 10% or 20%.
Of course, due to the large size and large number of ant colonies, it is obviously impossible to clear them all in a short time.
The entire cleaning process lasted for a day.
By the second morning, the ant colony had been almost wiped out, leaving only a small area active, with the number remaining at around 10,000.
This small number of army ants no longer poses much of a threat.
But the strength of this queen ant is not weak. It has reached the seventh level of Qi training. It is not something Zhang Deming can deal with. She has to rely on Zhang Nianchuan and others.
"This queen ant may be of some use to us. After it is swallowed, it will regularly produce some red copper. Red copper is a common material for refining second-level magic weapons and is useful to the sect."
Song Minghui said, still using the Gathering Spirits to Transform into Fire Gourd, disturbing the ant colony and constantly evading it.
After using this magical weapon for a day, she has become very familiar with it, and it does not consume much mana.
The other monks can rely on their numerical advantage to take turns attacking, resting, and recovering mana.
"If you don't get rid of the queen ant, sooner or later she will become a hidden queen."
Zhang Nianchuan responded, scanning the ant colony with his eyes, and immediately saw the queen hiding in the center of the ant colony.
The size of the queen ant is not eye-catching, only the size of two fingers. Her whole body is dark in color. Her sharp teeth are constantly opening and closing, making a buzzing sound. She is leading the ant colony to defend and attack.
Being constantly attacked by human monks, the queen ant will naturally feel angry and resist.
It is small in size and its combat power is indeed not weak, but it is very timid and does not dare to leave the range of the ant colony. Song Minghui's strength makes it feel threatened, so it can only be in a defensive state.
The queen ant is also good at manipulation and controls a large number of army ants to act as guards, escorting the queen to escape.
Unfortunately, the way out was blocked by Zhang family monks.
If it cannot go outwards, the result will be what it is now, being blocked at the deepest end of the ant nest, and it will become a turtle in a urn.
It is not difficult to capture the queen ant alive under such circumstances.
Just clean out those army ants first.
We have successfully eliminated more than 500,000 army ants. Now it will be very easy to eliminate the remaining 10,000 ants. It will not be a problem for anyone.
After just a moment of cleaning, the number of ant colonies was at its lowest, with only a dozen army ants still protecting the queen.
Lin Hanyu used the green bamboo sword to clear out the remaining dozen army ants one by one. When the green bamboo sword flew into the air and slashed directly at the queen, Song Minghui immediately took action to stop it.
"Wait a minute!"
Lin Han looked sideways, hesitantly, and asked, "Do you really want to bring this thing back to the sect for breeding?"
"Army ants are not easy to tame."
"It would be a pity to kill the monster. Let's take it back for a look first. Junior Sister Xuelian should be able to tame it."
Zhang Nianchuan also expressed his position at this time and said: "I think what Senior Sister Song said is reasonable. Let's keep this queen ant and bring it back to the sect first. It will be beneficial to the sect."
After saying this, Zhang Nianchuan looked at Zhang Deming and asked: "I wonder what Patriarch Zhang thinks of this matter, is he willing to let us take away this queen ant?"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Deming immediately nodded: "I have no objection to this matter, you can do whatever you want."