Free Web NovelChapter 1858: Chapter 1858: A Narrow Escape
The shadow transformed into a sharp arrow and shot directly at the exposed Flying King Ant Commander, who also sensed it and quickly ordered the surrounding Flying King Ants to intercept it.
But the Shadow Cultivation is part of the Shadow Dao, which is just a small path among the Three Thousand Great Dao, with very few cultivators, but few does not mean weak.
The Shadow Dao, hiding one’s body and blending into the darkness, wherever there is darkness, wherever there is light and shadow, there is a shadow.
Shadow, omnipresent.
"Shadow Escape."
The shadow appeared like a meteor in front of the swarm of Flying King Ants, directly transforming into a dark shadow, seemingly vanishing into the air.
The Flying King Ants above spit out ant acid, covering like raindrops, yet hitting nothing but air.
Before these Flying King Ants could capture the shadow’s whereabouts again, a glint of cold light appeared among them.
"Shadow Kill."
The shadow suddenly emerged, the dagger in hand flashing with a cold gleam, instantly severing the wings of a Flying King Ant, and the next instant, the figure flickered, appearing elsewhere.
The shadow was like fragmented sunlight under a summer tree, flickering with the breeze, bringing a whirlwind of slaughter among the swarm of flying ants.
Group battles are the favorite battlefield of the shadow; the more enemies, the greater the space for the shadow to operate.
The Flying King Ant Commander sensed the crisis, vibrating its wings to escape, but the shadow had already set its sights on it, previously hiding in a large group of Flying King Ants, and with these Flying King Ants learning, always attacking from high in the air, making it hard for the shadow to perform.
Now, targeted by the shadow, there was no chance left for survival.
The Flying King Ant Commander moved, but the shadow, cutting a path, appeared below it, hiding the shadow within itself.
The Flying King Ant Commander’s attack instantly missed, followed by the shadow’s backstab, instantly severing its vulnerable wing area, and losing its wings, the Flying King Ant Commander was both enraged and ashamed.
As a Commander, its strength was equivalent to the Golden Core Early Stage, with certain Spiritual Wisdom; with its wings severed, the Commander knew it couldn’t escape, and decisively chose to self-destruct its internal Molten Ant Acid.
The shadow sensed something amiss, but everything happened too fast, instantly a dazzling firework appeared in the sky.
The Flying King Ant Commander self-destructed.
The surrounding Flying King Ants suffered, instantly falling like rain.
"Shadow."
Lei Ba looked at the sky where the Flying King Ants were falling, along with the rain-like ant acid, too late for grief.
With the Commander’s death, the scattered swarm of Flying King Ants didn’t become chaotic, but instead attacked the trusted aide even more frantically.
Lei Ba and others were clearly unaware of the Ant Race, within which if a Commander died, the army under it would die too, it’s an iron rule.
Layer by layer, if an Ant Race General died, then their army also had no reason to exist.
Similarly, if the Ant Queen of the Ant Race died, the entire Ant Race would be wiped out, as the Ant Race itself is created by the Ant Queen.
Catching the bandit should focus on capturing the king first, but the consequences are severe.
At least the main perpetrator would be relentlessly hunted by the Ant Race army until death, and before achieving this goal, the Ant Race army wouldn’t fall into disarray, only losing command, becoming even more frenzied.
With the death of the Flying King Ant Commander, the swarm ceased hovering in the air but chose a suicidal attack strategy.
Wave after wave of Flying King Ants dived down.
"Damn."
If the trusted aides were strong, they would naturally be pleased to face the desperate Flying King Ants hand to hand, rather than being gradually drained by them.
But the problem was the scattered trusted aides had no power to stop the frenzied attack of the Flying King Ants.
Screams echoed from not far away in an instant.
In this so-called hellish Molten Lava Land, even Perfect Foundation Establishment wasn’t much, these Flying King Ants had fragile bodies, but the Molten Ant Acid inside could not be fully resisted even by Golden Core, let alone Foundation Establishment.
After killing a few Flying King Ants, more would pounce.
"Gather around me."
Lei Ba, with Thunder Light bursting forth, swept away a group of Flying King Ants with a punch, but the ones attacking from all directions were entering through every gap, Lei Ba couldn’t handle all sides alone.
Causalities quickly appeared around.
"The array can’t hold on."
Ouyang Qiuhai was also pale, having held on for so long, the array finally reached its limit, after all, maintaining the array consumes energy, and the Flying King Ants initiated a self-destruction attack, sequentially causing the protective shield created by the array to crack, on the verge of collapse.
This battle.
Even if they could eliminate this wave of Flying King Ants, they’d bear a heavy toll.
And just at this moment.
Sikong Yu arrived, a Golden Core Middle Stage expert, Sikong Yu’s strength was second only to Li Feng, and possessing the Vermilion Bird Bloodline, Sikong Yu in the Molten Lava Land was like a fish in water.
Upon arrival, wielding a long tassel, a sweep of spear light pierced the air like sparks, the individual Flying King Ants weren’t strong, and faced with overwhelming force, were nearly instantly wiped out.
Sikong Yu charged, wiping out hundreds of ants in an instant, wings flapping behind, moving to another gathering of Flying King Ants.
The plunging situation was turned around in an instant.
Sikong Yu swept the airborne swarm, allowing those below like Lei Ba to destroy many, scattering the Flying King Ants completely.
When the last Flying King Ant was slaughtered, those alive collapsed directly to the ground, looking at the chaos around, and with over ten comrades gone, a sense of survival after disaster welled up.
Ouyang Qiuhai caught a breath and looked at the descending Sikong Yu: "Sister Yu, weren’t you captured by Bi Fang? How did you escape?"
Sikong Yu glanced around, not seeing Li Feng: "Where’s Li Feng?"
Ouyang Qiuhai bit her lip, saying: "He charged into the ant swarm alone, while telling us to escape first; we don’t know what happened to him now."
Sikong Yu was silent for a moment: "He won’t die that easily."
Ouyang Qiuhai gave a wry smile.
"Sister Yu, I’m not sure about Li Feng, but what should we do now? Didn’t you see how terrifying that overwhelming swarm was, are we still going to look for the Vermilion Bird?"
Ouyang Qiuhai felt like backing down a bit, thinking the adventure would be exciting, but after experiencing it, found it was too much.
Sikong Yu said: "Molten Lava Volcano is not far, besides, going back now might not be safe."
"What do you guys think?" Sikong Yu turned to Lei Ba and the others, she certainly wanted to continue searching for the Vermilion Bird, despite leaving Bi Fang before, she didn’t want to give up halfway.
"We need to go to Molten Lava Volcano to wait for the Camp Master."
Lei Ba said.
Li Feng went against the Ant Race army alone for their safety, though they didn’t know his fate, they couldn’t just turn back and seek survival in ignominy.
Moreover, they don’t believe the Camp Master would die.
