"This is the first group of flying ants we have encountered since we set off on the road." Bai Ran asked slowly, looking at the insect corpses on the ground.
"This is the seventh ant colony! Although we encounter ant colonies more frequently, we have never encountered large ant colonies of more than ten thousand!" Yuan Yao, who was standing next to Bai Ran, replied obediently.
It was already half a day after the two of them set out on the road together.
After listening to this woman's words, Bai Ran frowned and his face became a little gloomy, as if he had something on his mind.
He thought for a while, stretched out his hand and waved to the swarm of gold-eating insects that had wiped away all the insect corpses on the ground. All the flying insects turned into bright clouds and flew back to the spirit beast bag floating in mid-air.
Bai Ran put away the spirit beast bag calmly.
"What? Fellow Taoist looks a little unhappy. We have already passed through the most dangerous middle section of the desert. It should be much safer behind." Yuan Yao looked at Bai Ran's face and blinked her beautiful eyes, feeling a little unhappy.
Xie asked.
"Safety, do you really think so?" Bai Ran glanced at Yuan Yao and said with a sneer.
"Is there any danger behind it?" Yuan Yao frowned inadvertently and asked in disbelief.
"I don't know what dangers there are behind. But one thing I can be sure of is that there is no queen in the ant colony we encountered. Either there is only one queen in the entire desert, or we are lucky.
We haven't encountered several super ant colonies containing queens yet. It's better to be careful on the journey ahead. If you still have nothing to do after walking for half a day, you will be really safe." Bai Ran looked calm.
"Maybe you are too worried! These flying ants are so powerful, maybe there is no queen at all!" Yuan Yao's face turned pale at first, but after a moment, she pretended to be fine and said with a smile.
"I hope so!" Bai Ran didn't argue anymore. Although he knew very well that the iron fire ants had a queen-level existence. And although the queen's individual strength was average, it was said that her intelligence was frighteningly high.
Yes, it must be extremely difficult to deal with.
Affected by these previous words, the two of them didn't say anything more during the next two hours or so of traveling.
But an even stranger thing happened. During the rest of the journey, we didn’t even encounter a single ant colony.
At this time, even Yuan Yao realized that something was wrong, and there was a hint of uneasiness on his face.
However, when the two of them accidentally climbed up a high sand dune and looked ahead, they were stunned!
"This is..." Yuan Yao had a look of horror on her face, her red lips moved a few times, but she didn't say anything.
Although Bai Ran's face was a bit calmer, he still had a lot of shock.
On the sand in front of the dune, a huge crystal pillar about twenty or thirty feet high appeared alone.
This crystal pillar is extremely cold, not only flashing with a faint white light, but also wrapped in an equally tall black giant. This giant is extremely ugly, with angry eyes, and a big, smooth bald head, which is in the crystal pillar.
It didn't move at all. It was really weird!
Bai Ran stared at it for a moment, then immediately glanced at the nearby sand.
The ground is full of pits and holes, large and small. It looks like it has been through a war.
A strange light flashed in Bai Ran's eyes, and he turned his attention to the giant again.
Only this time when he saw one of the giant's eyes, he couldn't help but let out a soft "Eh".
"What did Fellow Daoist Bai find?" Yuan Yao finally came to her senses after hearing Bai Ran's voice and couldn't help but ask.
Bai Ran smiled slightly and did not reply to the woman's question. Instead, he half-closed his eyes and let out his consciousness.
After making sure that no one else was lurking nearby, he walked directly down the sand dune and strode towards the crystal pillar.
"Huh!" Seeing Bai Ran pretending to be mysterious, Yuan Yao sulked and showed a bit of displeasure, but he could only follow.
After all, once out of the range of Bai Ran's ice beads, she would have to expend mana to resist the high temperature.
"Flying ants!"
When Bai Ran came to a distance of only ten feet away from the crystal pillar, Yuan Yao opened her red lips and said in astonishment.
From the current distance, she finally saw clearly the true appearance of the giant. It was actually made of countless black flying ants!
Looking at them from a distance is enough to make them look fake and real. It is really incredible that they are motionless. I don’t know whether they are alive or dead.
Bai Ran stopped at this moment, looked at the crystal pillar in front of him and pondered.
"Since this flying ant is dead, let's go! Don't waste time here." Yuan Yao looked at it for a few times and said slowly.
"How are you sure they are dead? Maybe they are still alive!" Bai Ran was a little confused.
"Alive, how is this possible?"
Yuan Yao glanced at Bai Ran in surprise, and continued in disbelief.
"Don't you know about Wanfamen's famous ancient treasure Xuanhuang Mirror? As long as the creature illuminated by this treasure will immediately be stunned, and such crystal prisms will appear all over the body! In a few days, the body in the crystal pillar will also turn into a
Nothing."
"I've never heard of it!" Bai Ran replied honestly. The woman's beautiful eyes widened and she became speechless.
"According to this, Wan Tianming should have killed these bugs." Bai Ran said thoughtfully after circling the huge crystal pillar a few times.
"It's not him or who it is! What are you trying to do? Except that these crystals will melt away on their own within a certain period of time, ordinary magic weapons cannot destroy them. Otherwise, Xuanhuang Mirror would not have such a big name." Yuan Yao
Glancing at Bai Ran, she seemed to have guessed a bit of his thoughts. She said with a chuckle.
After hearing this, Bai Ran looked at her calmly. He touched his waist with both hands, and all the spirit beast bags were sacrificed. A huge cloud of gold-eating insects suddenly appeared in the air.
"go"
Bai Ran unceremoniously touched the crystal pillar with his finger, and immediately the golden and silver cloud of insects pressed down, and instantly covered the top of the crystal pillar, densely packed and impermeable to wind and rain.
"Do you really want to attack the remains of these flying ants? Although your insects are powerful, they can't bite this one..." Yuan Yao only said half of what he said, and his voice suddenly stopped.
Because the giant wrapped in white crystal pillars quickly shortened from top to bottom as she could see with her naked eyes. In the blink of an eye, the giant's head completely disappeared.
Yuan Yao's little mouth was so swollen that she couldn't close it for a long time.
In the woman's shocked eyes, the gold-eating insect devoured such a large crystal pillar and even the giant inside the crystal belt, leaving only an egg-sized crystal ball-shaped object on the ground, glowing with mystery.
of black light.
When Bai Ran saw this thing, a smile appeared on his face, he walked over in a few steps and picked it up in his hand.
This thing is called "Refined Crystal", and it is a rare material that the iron fire ant queen will regurgitate in her abdomen after eating ore every day.
Although there are only a few monks who know about it, Bai Ran also read the relevant rumors in a very old book and doesn't know whether it is true or false!
When I saw the Iron Fire Ant Queen who existed as the eyeball of a giant, I suddenly remembered this matter and decided to give it a try.
I didn't expect to actually get such a crystal.
This is the best auxiliary material to strengthen the magic weapon.
Because as long as some of this material is mixed into any magic weapon, not only will its power increase a lot, but the solidity of the magic weapon itself will immediately rise to an unimaginable level, making it difficult to be easily cut off or destroyed by anything.
I don’t know if Wan Tianming didn’t know about this thing at all, or he forgot about it due to negligence, which actually took advantage of him.
Now as long as he is given some time to refining the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword, the power of this magic weapon will surely be even higher.
Yuan Yao obviously didn't know what "refined crystal" was. But looking at the joy on Bai Ran's face, he knew it must be a good thing.
But she was sensible enough not to ask anything she shouldn't have asked.
The two of them started on the road without saying a word. The area was five to sixty feet wide and about seven or eight battles high. In addition to a teleportation array in the middle, there were huge bluestone gates several feet high on each side.
At this time, all the doors were closed tightly, sealing the place into a large prison cell.
In the stone hall, there are also a large number of stone tables and benches of various types, no one of which is the same, there are dozens of them.
On these stone benches, five or six monks with different expressions were sitting sparsely.
Patriarch Ji Yin, the old man in Confucian robes, and Wan Tianming were all present. The other monks were all in the late stages of pill formation, and there was not a single weak monk.
But at this moment, everyone's face was gloomy, and no one was interested in saying anything.
The stone palace is filled with an extremely depressing atmosphere!
The Jiyin Patriarch was even more horribly gloomy, his face was completely livid, and he stared at the teleportation array in the middle, with a fierce light flashing in his eyes!