A Mortal's Story of Cultivation into Immortality

"This is the first swarm of flying ants we have encountered since we set off on the road." Han Li asked slowly, looking at the insect corpses on the ground.

"This is the seventh swarm! Although we encounter ant colonies more frequently, we have never encountered large ant colonies with more than 10,000 ants at last!" Yuan Yao, who was standing next to Han Li, replied obediently.

It was already half a day after the two of them hit the road together.

After hearing the woman's words, Han Li frowned, his face gloomy, as if he had something on his mind.

He thought for a moment, then reached out 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.

Han Li 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 later." Yuan Yao looked at Han Li's face, blinked her beautiful eyes, and felt a little unhappy. Qie asked.

"Safety, do you really think so?" Han Li glanced at Yuan Yao and said with a sneer.

"Is there any danger behind?" 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." Han Li 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!" Han Li didn't argue anymore. Although he knew very well in his heart that the iron fire ants had a queen-level existence. And although the queen ant's personal strength is average, it is said that her intelligence is frighteningly high. If we meet him, it will definitely be extremely difficult.

Affected by these previous words, the two of them didn't say anything more during the next two hours or so of traveling.

But something even stranger happened. Not a single ant colony was encountered during the rest of the journey.

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 shocked!

"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 Han Li's face was a little 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 was extremely cold, not only flashing with a faint white light, but also wrapped in an equally tall black giant. This giant was extremely ugly, with angry eyes and a big, smooth bald head, motionless in the crystal pillar. It’s so weird!

Han Li stared for a moment, then immediately glanced at the nearby sand.

The ground was full of pits and holes, large and small, as if it had been through a great war.

A strange light flashed in Han Li'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 Han find?" Yuan Yao finally came to her senses after hearing Han Li's voice and couldn't help but ask.

Han Li smiled slightly and did not reply to the woman's inquiry. 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.

"Hmph!" Seeing Han Li pretending to be mysterious, Yuan Yao sulked and showed a bit of displeasure, but she could only follow him.

After all, once she was out of the range of Han Li's ice beads, she would have to expend mana to resist the high temperature.

"Flying ants!"

When Han Li came to a distance of only ten feet away from the crystal pillar, Yuan Yao opened her red lips and said in shock.

With the current distance, she finally saw the giant's true face clearly. It is actually made up of countless black flying ants!

It’s incredible how fake it can be when you look at it from a distance!

However, these iron fire ants remained motionless in the crystal pillars, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead.

Han Li stopped at this time, 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!" Han Li was a little confused.

"Alive, how is this possible?"

Yuan Yao glanced at Han Li in surprise, and continued in disbelief.

"Don't you know about Wanfa Sect's famous ancient treasure 'Xuanhuang Mirror'? As long as the living beings illuminated by this treasure will immediately be stunned, and such crystal prisms will appear around them! After a few days, the body in the crystal pillars will also Turned into nothing.”

"Never heard of it!" Han Li replied honestly. This woman's beautiful eyes widened and she became speechless.

"According to this, Wan Tianming should have killed these bugs." Han Li said thoughtfully after circling the huge crystal pillar a few times.

"It's not him or who it is! What are you planning? 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 Han Li, she seemed to have guessed a bit of his thoughts and said with a chuckle.

After hearing this, Han Li looked at her calmly. With both hands touching his waist, all the spirit beast bags were sacrificed, and a huge cloud of gold-eating insects suddenly appeared in mid-air.

"go"

Han Li unceremoniously touched the crystal pillar with his finger. Immediately, the golden and silver cloud of insects pressed down and instantly covered the top of the crystal pillar, densely packed and impervious 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 when she could see it with the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, the giant's head disappeared completely.

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 in the crystal belt, leaving only an egg-sized crystal ball-shaped object on the ground, glowing with mystery. black light.

When Han Li 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". 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, Han Li also read the relevant rumors in a very old book and doesn't know whether it is true or false!

When he saw the Iron Fire Ant Queen who existed as a giant's eyeball, he 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, and 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 doesn't know what "crystal refining" is. But looking at the joy on Han Li's face, he knew that this must be something good.

But she was sensible enough not to ask anything she shouldn't have asked.

The two of them went straight on the road without saying a word.

…

This is an extremely simple stone palace, with an area of ​​50 to 60 feet and a height of about 7 to 8 feet. In addition to a teleportation array in the middle, there are 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.

There are also a large number of stone tables and benches of various types and shapes in the stone hall, dozens of them.

On these stone benches, five or six monks with different expressions were sitting sparsely.

Patriarch Jiyin, 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!