Dragon's Origin

Chapter 64: The Terrifying Thousand Severed Lands 4

Wang Sheng couldn't care less about the life or death of the people behind him. His eyes were fixed on the tree trunk he was clinging to, and he had already retreated to the second circle of burlap, rapidly smearing oil on it.

Bang! A loud noise not far away attracted Wang Sheng's attention. Turning towards the sound, Wang Sheng witnessed a terrifying scene.

A primeval python, too large and slow to outrun the army of man-eating ants, could only hide in a huge tree. The tree was several meters thick, enough to support the dozens of meters long body of the python.

However, the tree was now completely occupied by the man-eating ant army, the entire trunk turned blackish-red. The loud noise just now was the sound of the primeval python falling from the tree to the ground.

The multi-ton primeval python fell from a height of dozens of meters, crushing countless man-eating ants, but its body remained covered in blackish-red, accompanied by a continuous grinding and gnawing sound, making listeners feel itchy to the bone.

From over two hundred meters away, Wang Sheng could see clearly that the giant snake, nearly forty meters long, rolled frantically on the ground for more than a dozen circles, its body twitching dozens of times, and then it stopped moving.

Waves of blackish-red surged and wriggled, accompanied by the sound of tearing and gnawing, and the giant snake turned into bones before their eyes. The man-eating ant army did not even slow down, continuing to surge forward frantically.

What does it mean for ants to kill an elephant? The scene before him was a living example. In terms of strength, Wang Sheng believed that each ant could not contend with an ordinary person. At most, it would be an insignificant strength. But whether it was the Berserk Tiger or the Shadow Leopard, or the primeval python in front of him, the weakest of which were fourth level peak demon beasts, they could only flee when encountering the ant swarm.

If they couldn't escape, they would become a pile of bones like the giant snake before them. Perhaps the primeval python had killed no less than tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of man-eating ants, but so what? It had almost no impact on this tide-like ant swarm.

That scene left too deep an impression on Wang Sheng, as if it was engraved in his mind. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Wang Sheng's mind. Why did the Chiwen Yuan Soul have to open its mouth wide to swallow those giant rocks? Like the ant swarm, couldn't relying on numbers also create an unstoppable momentum?

Of course, it was just a flash of inspiration, and Wang Sheng didn't dare to think too much about it. The first circle of burlap had almost burned out, and the flames were gradually weakening. Wang Sheng ignited the second circle without hesitation.

A circle of burlap plus oil could only burn for less than three minutes. He didn't know if the remaining ones would be enough to withstand the overwhelming army of man-eating ants.

At this moment, Wang Sheng could only hear the sound of flowing water, nothing else. Wang Sheng believed that there could be no other living creatures capable of making a sound within at least a hundred meters of him. The man-eating ant army only brought death wherever it went, nothing else.

That rustling sound of flowing water was simply the most terrifying killing music, and the most efficient and comprehensive one. Now, Wang Sheng's greatest hope was that the oil and burlap strips he carried could withstand the marching of the man-eating ant army. As for the fate of those pursuing experts, Wang Sheng wouldn't even think about it.

Seeing that the second circle was about to burn out, Wang Sheng had retreated to the third circle and prepared, waiting for the second circle's fire to weaken before immediately igniting the third circle.

The waiting process was simply torment. No one knew how many of these terrifying man-eating ants there were, or how long they would last. Even Wang Sheng was just holding on.

The battle awareness little man was constantly warning him, and the Yuan Soul space was constantly vibrating, almost making Wang Sheng dizzy and lose his grip. Fortunately, he had prepared a safety rope in advance, and even if he occasionally lost his grip, he wouldn't fall.

After burning seven or eight circles in a row, and calculating that almost twenty minutes had passed, Wang Sheng finally saw the edge of the ant swarm. Seeing that he still had three circles of burlap left, Wang Sheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, knowing he could hold on until the end.

After igniting the next circle of burlap, Wang Sheng began to observe his surroundings.

After the passage of the man-eating ant swarm, almost nothing was left. Wang Sheng couldn't hear any sound other than the marching of the man-eating ants, but a cloud of blackish-gray smoke in the distance alerted Wang Sheng.

Clearly, he wasn't the only smart one; there were also experts among the pursuers. That blackish-gray smoke, which appeared to be a thousand meters away, was obviously a phenomenon produced by burning wet wood, suggesting that someone must have used a similar method to block the man-eating ant army.

Wang Sheng's guess was correct. At that place, there were currently more than twenty people gathered in a large circle with a radius of ten zhang, burning on the outer ring. At this moment, these people were frantically and fully cutting down the only slightly dry tree in the circle. As soon as some firewood was cut down, someone would quickly send it to the place where the fire was weakening.

Usually, they wouldn't even dare to cut meat with their swords and weapons, but at this moment, who cared whether they would be damaged or blunted? They were simply being used as woodcutting knives.

As for the work of cutting firewood, which only lowly servants would do, the usually aloof experts did not show any disgust, nor did they slack off. Everyone was afraid that they would cut too slowly, and the man-eating ant army would break through a gap and rush in to devour them completely.

There were also several experts patrolling the edge of the circle. Once they found one or two stray ants breaking through the fire circle, they would immediately stab them with their swords. Since it was a matter of everyone's life and death, no one dared to hold back at this time.

Those responsible for clearing the ants were the ones with the highest cultivation, including Tang Ao and the two fifth level experts from the Song and Shi families. The others were all fourth level. Under the protection of these few, the fire circle finally held on to the end with some close calls.

Tang Ao saw the edge of the ant swarm and also breathed a sigh of relief. He learned the trick of using fire circles from Wang Sheng, and he didn't expect it to really work, allowing everyone to hold on to the end.

As soon as the ant swarm appeared, everyone saw the crisis. Ignoring those guys who fled in all directions, at least Tang Ao and the other experts knew that they had to work together to overcome the difficulties at this time. So, each of them gathered more than a dozen companions and concentrated in one place. According to the fire attack method used by Wang Sheng that Tang Ao had seen, they finally saved their lives.

However, that was all. Of the hundred or so people, it was estimated that only these twenty or so were left. The others had disappeared without a trace, and no one knew where they had gone.

In fact, everyone was just not saying it, but who didn't know in their hearts? Where could those guys escape to? Under the encirclement of such a ferocious man-eating ant army, was there any other possibility other than being buried in the ants' bellies?