A Mortal's Story of Cultivation into Immortality

The hurricane stopped instantly, revealing the yellow-faced man inside.

His body stood sluggishly on the spot, with no ice shield or green shield left. There was a fist-sized transparent hole in the heart of his chest, and the area around the injury was black and scorched, as if it had been burned by something. .

The man looked down at his chest and couldn't help but touch it with his hand. There was a look of surprise on his face, as if he didn't believe it.

But at this moment, the jet-black spear made a "squeak" sound and turned into a swarm of black flying ants again. It swarmed up to the man unceremoniously, threw him to the ground, and instantly covered him. whole body.

The man only screamed a few times on the ground, and then there was no sound at all.

After a while, the swarm of flying ants suddenly took to the air, returned to its original place and landed, becoming the same as those grains of sand again.

The place where the man fell was empty, completely devoured by the ants.

This scene was clearly seen from beginning to end by Han Li, who was standing far away on the top of the mountain.

Although he was shocked, Han Li looked a little strange.

"Iron fire ants! You must be right. I never expected to see such spiritual insects here." Han Li said to himself in a low voice that only he could hear.

When these flying ants first appeared, Han Li had not yet recognized the origin of these black flying insects.

But he recognized these "iron fire ants" when they were not afraid of the yellow-faced monk's flying knife attack and finally formed into a spear.

After all, there are quite a few flying ant-like spiritual insects in the world of immortality, and their appearances are almost the same. Most people who are not monks who specialize in deworming can't tell the difference between them.

But in fact, the abilities and terrifying levels of different flying ant-type spiritual insects are really very different.

Even a monk in the Qi Refining Stage can easily wipe out the weak flying ant swarm with ordinary magic weapons.

Even the monks at the Dan-formation stage would frown and retreat three feet away from the more powerful flying ants.

And this kind of spiritual insect, which is ranked thirty-seventh on the strange insect list, is one of the most powerful flying ants.

Except for the legendary "Celestial Crystal Ant" which ranks ninth, this type of iron fire ant is probably the most terrifying.

Because these kinds of flying ants are not only invulnerable, but also not afraid of most magic attacks.

In addition to mid-level and above water-attribute and ice-attribute spells and individual spells with other attributes, they can cause damage to them. They have almost the same perverted defense capabilities as gold-eating insects. And in terms of resisting direct attacks from magic weapons, it is better than gold-eating insects.

Of course, they don't have the abnormal ability of gold-eating insects to devour spiritual power, but they also have the terrifying ability to spit out black flames and transform into groups.

With these abilities, the iron fire ant colony is, to a certain extent, a fire-attributed magic weapon that can change its shape at will.

With their terrifying aggression, ordinary defensive magic weapons and defensive spells cannot stop their full blow. The tragic death of the yellow-faced man was not so unjust!

Although iron fire ants do not belong to the extinct category of spiritual insects like gold-eating insects, they are extremely rare in the world of immortality.

And even if someone occasionally sees it, it is only a colony of hundreds or thousands of ants at most.

This is because the environment in which fire ants live is extremely harsh.

Not only does it need a hot lava zone, but there also needs to be a large amount of copper and iron ores nearby to survive. If they are left in this environment, the iron fire ants will quickly weaken. It won't take long for its special abilities to completely degrade and become no different from ordinary flying ants.

If it were just this, there would still be many monks who wanted to control these flying ants. Creating a similar environment or directly finding a similar environment to domesticate and breed insects is nothing compared to the attractive ability of iron fire ants.

However, there is a fatal limitation of this kind of flying ants, so the monks who are interested in them can only return in despair.

Fire ants, whether wild or domesticated, cannot recognize their master at all.

As long as someone wants to control them through various master recognition rituals, the iron fire ants will explode one by one, with no exception.

This made all the monks’ dreams come true!

As for the specific reasons, there are many people saying this. Some people say that this is because this kind of flying ant has a strong personality and does not want to be driven by others. Others say that this is related to the physique of iron fire ants, etc...

Of course, this information about iron fire ants is rarely known in either the Tiannan region or the Chaotic Star Sea.

Because in the past thousand years, few people have encountered iron fire ants, and the size of the ant colonies has become smaller and smaller. It can be regarded as a nearly extinct spiritual insect!

At this time, Han Li was looking at the black desert, thinking about the information about the iron fire ants in his mind, and he was in a daze on the spot.

It seems that iron fire ants are a natural trap in the black desert.

Although I don't know how many flying ant colonies there are in the desert, but judging from the fact that the yellow-faced monk encountered a group just a few hundred feet into the desert, there will definitely be no shortage of ant colonies in the entire black desert.

Perhaps very large ant colonies of tens of thousands may also exist.

Thinking of this, even Han Li felt a chill coming from his back.

He hurriedly scanned several storage bags on his body with his spiritual consciousness.

There are more than a dozen intermediate-level ice and water-attribute talismans, which should be able to deal with two or three swarms of iron fire ants the size just now.

But using these talismans to cross the entire desert is completely wishful thinking!

However, when Han Li's eyes fell on several spirit beast bags containing gold-eating insects, he couldn't help but feel something in his heart.

I wonder if using gold-eating insects to deal with iron fire ants is miraculous?

After all, gold-eating insects rank above "iron fire ants", and there are many of them.

Judging from the color of the shells of these iron fire ants, they have not evolved to the legendary "black gold" stage. It should be in the same semi-mature stage as his gold-eating bug.

In this way, you can give it a try with the gold-eating bug.

As soon as this idea came into Han Li's mind, it grew uncontrollably.

He barely restrained his mind, thought about it again for a while, and felt that there was no problem, so he decided to try it with the iron fire ant colony just now.

Even if the Gold-Eating Insects couldn't deal with them, he still had those mid-level talismans and could exit the desert unharmed.

After Han Li's face turned cold, he rushed down from the top of the mountain and headed straight for the Black Desert.

After a while, Han Li stood at the edge of the desert and stopped.

He looked at the black sand on the ground and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Suddenly he bent down, grabbed a handful of black sand from the ground, put it under his eyelids and looked at it carefully.

After a moment, Han Li snorted coldly, and suddenly a yellow light flashed, and he pressed his fingers together vigorously, and then slowly released them.

As a result, most of the gravel in the palm was flattened, and only a few were crushed.

"What a black desert, it turns out to be some mineral particles containing black iron." Han Li said slowly to himself with a hint of self-mockery in the corner of his mouth.

"However, it is possible to spread iron ore particles into such a vast desert-like terrain. The owner of Xutian Palace back then was really an incredible generosity." After thinking about it, Han Li felt a little emotional.

When he threw away the things in his hands and stood up again, he suddenly frowned. Then he patted Lingxi on his waist, and a white light mask appeared on his body.

Just now, because he was avoiding the yellow-faced monk, he had to turn off the fire-proofing effect of the jade pendant, and relied on his cultivation to survive until now.

Now that he was approaching the black desert, the heat wave that hit his face made him dizzy in a short time. This shocked Han Li and he hurriedly used the Lingxi equipment again.

This is not the time to save mana.

Han Li didn't hesitate anymore, looked at the place where the iron fire ants were, and walked over carefully.

Walking around in this black desert is really an uncomfortable ordeal. The sand is extremely hot under your feet and the air around you seems to be burning. Even with the use of the Lingxi Combination and the Fire-Proofing Clothes at the same time, Han Li still felt like he was suffocating. It seemed to be three points hotter than the lava path he passed yesterday.

After only walking a distance of more than thirty feet, Han Li sighed, reached into his storage bag, and found a warm bead in his hand.

He poured some spiritual power into it without hesitation. A white light flashed, and a cold air emanated from the bead.

Han Li suddenly felt a chill in his surroundings, and his spirits lifted. He immediately quickened his pace.

Using Lingxi Bei and Ice Beads at the same time greatly increased his mana consumption, and he had to pass through this desert as soon as possible.

When Han Li was still fifty or sixty feet away from the "Iron Fire Ant" swarm, he stopped. Take a closer look there.

After a while, Han Li shook his head lightly.

It is extremely difficult to distinguish the immobile swarm of "iron fire ants" from the nearby black sand. Even if he used his spiritual sense to detect the past, it was still difficult to discern their existence. The spiritual energy on the ants' bodies fluctuates slightly, as if they were born with extremely advanced breath-containing techniques.

It seems that the method of using the spiritual consciousness to avoid the ant colony from a distance is not feasible, so the only way to try it is to use the gold-eating insect.