Chapter 486 Encounter
Winter is gone, spring is here, everything is revived.
The snow is melting, and green is returning to the earth.
A deep green wilderness.
If you look down from the sky, you can see black lines clearly.
This is a transport team composed of countless worker ants.
They follow the orders from the mother nest, and continuously transport white spirit fruits and other rest resources to supply His Majesty Yuan Yi who lives next to the anthill to enjoy.
As time goes by.
The spiritual will of heaven and earth is visible to the naked eye.
It is becoming more and more substantial.
At this moment, he has long abandoned the eating mode of chewing and swallowing. .
The increasingly hideous and huge body is lying on the ground, like a huge blue-black stone.
And at the front of the stone is his grinning mouth.
It is like a cold and dark hole, leading to the dark abyss of horror.
Worker ants came from afar, carrying spiritual fruits that were almost equal to their own weight. Without stopping, they went directly into the deep cave entrance, and then disappeared without a trace, forever disappearing in the world.
From a distance, it looked like black lines gathered into a river, and finally flowed into the dark vortex.
In the anthill in the distance, the new flying ant mistress was firing on all cylinders, constantly producing and nurturing offspring, which barely offset the consumption of worker ants.
But the white spiritual fruit was not endless after all.
Not long after the beginning of spring, it was almost cleared out, leaving only a little stock as a backup.
Wei Tao finally closed his mouth that had been wide open, and looked up at the starry sky for the first time in many days.
At this moment, in his eyes, the whole world had become a little different.
In front of him were not only lush vegetation, vibrant birdsong and flowers, but also blood rain from the sky, the earth torn apart, volcanic eruptions, and a series of terrifying scenes like the end of the world.
The two were real and virtual, and the real and the virtual were intertwined.
In addition, there were more serious hallucinations and auditory hallucinations, which began to interfere with his distraction.
He could not even tell which part was virtual and which part was real, and what kind of connection there was between the two.
Wei Tao closed his eyes, and slowly opened them after a moment, and a looming figure appeared in front of him.
This was a woman.
A woman whose figure, appearance, and age could not be seen, was shrouded in silver light.
Although she was just an illusory shadow, she seemed more real than those flying ants.
Especially the kind of high-up, but also implied a sense of decline and death, which always made him immersed in it, tasting and sighing again and again.
Silently, the status bar appeared dark and empty.
In the interface of the technique, the progress of the Three Talents Killing Way has been improved again, reaching the height of breaking the limit of the 55th stage.
Although this method has long been separated from the original path, with Wei Tao's vision and experience along the way of practice, he can still roughly infer the current level of strength.
In terms of lethality, it should have reached the level of a genuine earthly immortal.
Even if it faces the castrated celestial being of Biluotian, it can fight to the death.
The only thing that is not reassuring is the defensive strength of this body.
Although it is unique and superior to these native insects.
But compared with the original body of the Five Spirits, Henglian Hun Dun, it is simply too bad to look at.
It is a typical glass cannon.
"I am getting closer and closer to that silver figure and the moon beast. According to the current trend, as long as I can accumulate more cultivation resources, I should be able to gather more spiritual power and push the killing method to a higher level.
If that time really comes, I can really go to the place where the gods are annihilated to see what happened in the distant past and try to find clues and information that are useful for my own cultivation."
Wei Tao thought silently, and the tentacles on his head, as thick as logs, trembled slightly, silently transmitting a message.
Not long after, the buzzing sound of flapping wings sounded from far to near, and soon came close.
"Feiying pays respect to His Majesty."
A flying ant wearing silver armor and carrying a long sword knelt on the ground, not daring to look up at the blue-black stone hill standing still in front of him.
Wei Tao looked down and asked slowly, "Has your mistress received the order of the Mother Goddess recently?"
"To reply to Your Majesty, it has been a long time since the mistress received that kind of vague spiritual fluctuation."
"It didn't receive it. Did it break off relations with us?"
"I originally wanted to find out what the so-called Mother Goddess is through this connection, but it unilaterally blocked the way of communication."
Wei Tao fell into silent thinking and did not speak for a long time.
Feiying did not move, waiting for further orders.
Until the darkness dissipated and the sky was slightly bright.
He opened his eyes, "After absorbing my power and flesh, has the mother nest been strengthened?"
"Your Majesty, the anthill renovation project you named has been completed and is waiting for your Majesty to personally inspect it."
"It's okay as long as they are not dead."
"It's just a trivial matter, do I need to go there to inspect it?"
Wei Tao slowly moved his body, and the ground trembled slightly.
He turned his eyes and looked at the anthill in the distance, "From today on, all female flying ants will enter the mother nest and start to give birth to offspring with all their strength."
Fei Ying couldn't help but raise his head, with a puzzled look on his face, "Your Majesty, such a sacred thing as giving birth has always been done by the mistress of this tribe alone..."
"You have too little experience. You don't understand the principle that there is strength in numbers, and you don't understand what it means to mobilize, organize, and rely on the masses."
Wei Tao took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, "Just as I said, all the female flying ants with reproductive capacity, not one less, must enter the anthill to become mothers.
In addition, whoever breeds the most worker ants and soldier ants can also receive my personal blessing and be given the title and treatment of a heroic mother."
Fei Ying was stunned, and her mind was even a little confused for a while.
She opened her mouth, "But, but Your Majesty..."
"But what?"
"What I mean is that the mother nest of our tribe may not be able to accommodate too many female flying ants to give birth."
"Hasn't the ant hill transformation project been completed?"
"Could it be that the mother nest that has developed a trace of independent consciousness wants to go on strike and disobey the development plan I have set?"
Wei Tao's eyes flashed, and the temperature around him dropped sharply in an instant, and even the air seemed to stagnate.
"Go back and tell the mistress to do what I just said. If there is a problem with the mother nest, I will go and communicate with it in person."
"Also, there is another question."
Fei Ying was sweating profusely, and she was almost unable to stabilize her body.
She tried to calm her breathing, "Your Majesty, our tribe has limited resources now, and I am afraid that we cannot support more people to be born."
"You are already the smartest flying ant I have ever seen, but you are still so stupid. Your brain is like a straight-forward one, and it is difficult for you to even think in a roundabout way."
Wei Tao slowly closed his eyes, and the figure shrouded in silver light appeared faintly in front of him.
"If there is not enough territory, expand it. If there is no food, go out and rob it. This is called using your own sword to fight for land for your people.
You are all hardworking insects. You must not be infected with the lazy habit of eating up all the resources. All resources must be obtained by your own hands. Do you understand?"
"Understand, I understand!"
Fei Ying shuddered, "I will pass on the will of His Majesty and ask the mistress to strictly follow it."
Wei Tao nodded, and his voice softened. "Qixing, and Qingrong in a farther place, I dreamed of them last night. I think these two tribes are a little disrespectful to our flying ants and need to teach them a lesson."
"As for the Lingdie tribe in the south."
"Forget it, as long as they don't come to provoke us, don't bother them. Give my smart and inquisitive student a stable living environment."
Prepare for war, and build troops.
After a winter of silence, the flying ant tribe suddenly began to grow explosively.
A large number of fertile females entered the mother nest, and when they came out, they were followed by dense larvae.
Unlike the previous flying ants, these larvae are not only larger and more ferocious, but also have two more sharp sickle-like limbs, which are naturally more lethal than before.
Then the war broke out.
Countless soldier ants wielding double sickles crossed the border and began to strangle all foreign races they saw.
There were also a large number of worker ants following behind, collecting the bodies of the two tribes of Qixing Qingrong, even including the bodies of their own warriors, and transporting them back and forth to the sacred ant hill behind.
Relying on the huge number, enhanced lethality, and the advantages brought by the surprise attack, the flying ant tribe had a great advantage on the battlefield even if they attacked from both sides, and quickly pushed the front line towards the main city of Qixing Qingrong until they encountered the main forces of the two tribes with their elite troops.
Next, a more tragic battle suddenly began.
In the end, whether the mode of all people being soldiers prevailed or the elite of the upper nobles were stronger, it was time to truly test the quality.
But as the blue-black giant sickle rose into the air, all problems disappeared in an instant.
The elites of the Seven Stars and Green Velvet tribes were wiped out.
Then the main city was destroyed and the mother nest changed hands.
The various resources accumulated by the two tribes for who knows how many years were quickly packed and sorted by the hardworking worker ants and taken away along the newly opened transportation route to meet Wei Tao's increasingly difficult cultivation needs.
Time passed little by little.
The post-war reconstruction work was soon completed.
Then the three tribes became one and entered a period of explosive development at the same time.
In this process, with the accumulation of a huge amount of cultivation resources, Wei Tao's perception of the spiritual will of heaven and earth became more and more profound, and the cultivation progress of the Three Talents Killing Dao climbed up again.
Reached the height of the seventy-stage limit.
Now he is doing his best, and when he swings his sickle, almost everything is killed and everything is silent, even the sky and the earth will change color.
The lethality is more than twice as strong as before.
The consequence of this is that the boundary between reality and illusion becomes more and more blurred.
Many times, he even can't figure out whether he is a participant in the fusion of different insect races, or a bystander of the doomsday many years ago.
"It's time to go to the Land of God's Silence and explore the connection between reality and illusion."
"But before that, we must first recruit the guardian insects entrenched near the Land of Silence. We can't let them become obstacles to my exploration, but become pioneers and helpers to help me open the way."
As soon as Wei Tao thought of this, the three tribes of flying ants, seven stars and green velvet followed suit.
Countless warriors began to gather, forming a murderous battle formation, and began to move towards the place called the Forest of God's Fall.
Along the way, one tribe after another was forced to join in, and the size of the coalition snowballed until it finally formed a terrifying insect tide that swept the earth.
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At midnight.
A dark cloud floated across the sky.
It moved against the wind, contrary to common sense, and moved quickly under the dark night.
Not long after.
The black cloud slowly lowered its altitude.
Until it landed in the center of the calm lake, suddenly splashing waves.
Wei Tao moved his body freely in the water, washing away the dust that had flown along the way.
After taking a bath, he boarded the island in the middle of the lake and began to enjoy the delicious food that had been prepared here in advance.
Suddenly, he stopped swallowing and chewing.
Slowly raised his head and looked at the end of the sky in the distance.
Time passed bit by bit.
Wei Tao kept a fixed posture without blinking.
The light in his eyes became brighter and brighter, illuminating a large area of the lake.
In the center of his pupil, a faint light circle appeared quietly in the deep clouds at the horizon, and it became clearer and clearer very slowly.
"That direction is where the Forest of God's Fall is."
"Could it be that the Guardians discovered our arrival and reacted on guard?"
"If that's the case, we can only say that the so-called Guardians are too slow and have not established a proper intelligence network outside. They must wait until we are nearby before they start to react."
Wei Tao swallowed the food in his mouth and squinted his eyes to sense it carefully.
There was an inexplicable doubt in his heart. He always felt that the light circle seemed a little wrong, and it gave him a strange sense of familiarity.
But what was wrong and what was familiar, because the distance was too far now, even he couldn't clearly distinguish.
Suddenly, a spiritual fluctuation appeared in the void.
It rushed from the direction of the Forest of God's Fall, breaking through the high-altitude clouds, and soon it was above the lake.
This is a slender and graceful figure.
The two pairs of wings behind her flapped rapidly, reflecting a hazy and dreamy light under the moonlight.
She flew to the small island in the middle of the lake and continued to move forward.
A shadow appeared in front of her without any sign.
It completely blocked her way.
"Why are you flying so high?"
"Why don't you come down to chat?"
Suddenly a deep voice sounded, and it came from the shadow.
She braked suddenly and stopped suddenly, with a look of surprise on her face.
"I am the messenger of the Guardian Clan. What race are you from? I have never seen such a huge body."
"I am a sword mantis, and I am preparing to go to the Forest of God's Fall."
"I have seen more than one sword mantis, but it is a bit beyond my expectation that one can grow into your appearance."
"Good teeth mean good appetite. If you eat more, you will naturally develop well."
Wei Tao blinked his eyes and carefully observed the slender figure not far away. "But these are all trivial matters. You said you are a messenger of the Guardian Clan. Now you come out in the middle of the night. Are you going to deliver a letter?"
She was silent for a moment, and then said, "You should not know that the void demon that appeared decades ago is about to descend between heaven and earth again. I came out from the Guardian Land at this moment to notify the various upper clans and let them send elites to support."
The void demon, is it the walker of the Eye of the Void?
No wonder I felt something wrong and familiar just now. If it was the Eye of the Void, it seems that there would be a reasonable explanation.
Wei Tao looked at the halo in the sky and thought about something.
After a few breaths, he swung his two sickles, and a large group of sparks exploded in the darkness.
"Isn't this a coincidence? The elites of each tribe have gathered and are now stationed behind this lake. We can send troops now and enter the long-awaited God's Guardian Land."
"Already assembled, can we send troops now?"
The messenger was stunned and asked subconsciously, "We haven't even sent out the news yet, and the upper tribes have already predicted it?"
"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible."
"The world is big, and the sky and the earth are also vast. In short, don't look at life with your narrow and cramped thinking."
Wei Tao pointed back, "If you don't believe it, I can show you the army that has been assembled and is ready for battle."
As he spoke, he raised his head and suddenly let out a low roar.
The sound stirred the void and broke the silence of the midnight.
In an instant, a strong wind blew up, and in the endless dense forest behind the lake, a dense roar of wings suddenly sounded.
There were also sharp and urgent commands that were transmitted to the ears of the Guardian Clan messenger at the same time.
"This, this, has it really been assembled?!"
She was stunned and muttered to herself, almost unable to believe her ears and eyes.
At this moment, Wei Tao turned his attention away from her and looked up at the higher and farther night sky.
Outside the halo, he found a strange thing, which seemed to be passing through the void and appeared silently between heaven and earth.
That thing looked very strange.
It was like the spirit boat that had been in the star ring.
And it was not an ordinary spirit boat for transportation, but a more dangerous combat spirit boat.
Deep in the dark night, a shuttle-shaped creation hung motionless in the air.
It is completely ink-colored, with intricate patterns engraved on its surface, and there is a slowly rotating vertical pupil at the front, giving people an inexplicable and weird feeling.
"Activate the concealment circle. According to the intelligence we have, those weird bug people have keen senses. It's best not to let them discover our existence too early."
Inside the shuttle-shaped "spirit boat", a deep and hoarse middle-aged man's voice sounded, clearly echoing in everyone's ears.
After a moment, a female voice replied, "The concealment circle has been activated."
"Next, activate the attack protection array."
"The offensive and defensive array has been activated."
The middle-aged man nodded and slowly exhaled a breath, "Check your equipment and be ready to deal with unexpected situations at any time."
After taking a few breaths, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and began to issue the next order, "Next, let's find a place to hide and wait until the surrounding area is confirmed to be safe before starting further reconnaissance and exploration."
A young woman next to him carefully reminded, "Elder, the leader is still waiting for our information."
"It's nothing to make the leader wait a little longer. I think he will understand our difficulties."
"But if we act recklessly because we are eager to complete the task, who can bear the responsibility if something goes wrong?"
The middle-aged man turned to take a look and said in a solemn tone, "Do you know why the organization did not just send Void Walkers to come as usual for this big war, but instead gathered strength and even brought Void Battleships and elite Taoist soldiers?
It is because when the organization first discovered this place, under the siege of those insect men who were not afraid of death, a large number of elite forces were lost, and the strong ones among them were not even as good as the leader. "
After a pause, he continued, "You have just joined the Eye of the Void as a newcomer and want to express yourself there. I completely understand and support this, but now is not the time.
Now that you have been assigned to my subordinates, I must be responsible for your wealth and life. It is also for my own safety. I cannot fall into danger due to negligence. "
"Do you understand it?"
"My subordinate understands."
The middle-aged man sighed, "Whether you really understand or pretend to understand, because of the friendship we have had with each other for so many days, I, as an elder, will make an exception and say one more thing.
You must remember that for a Void Walker, various opportunities are important, but they are not as important as one's own life.
After all, if you miss an opportunity, you can still look for it again, but if you lose your life because of a mistake, you will never have the chance to start over again. "
He spoke slowly, but remained silent without any warning.
Um! ?
what is that! ?
The middle-aged man was suddenly stunned.
His eyes were focused, staring at the dark night ahead.
A hideous and terrifying shadow was reflected in the rapidly shrinking pupils.
What the hell is this! ?
The information provided by the organization never mentioned such a huge and ferocious insect!
It was too late for him to think of anything.
Driven by an extremely strong desire to survive, he quickly delivered the orders with a trembling voice.
"Retreat at full speed, get out of here!"