Chapter 462 – Iron Fire Ants

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

　　Its figure stagnant stood in place, ice shield and green shield is gone, the heart of the chest is more than a fist-sized transparent hole, the wound around the black and scorched a piece, as if by what has been scorched the same.

　　The man looked down at the chest, with a hand can not help but touch a hand, a face of surprise, seems to be some do not believe the appearance.

　　But at this time, the black spear “la” sound, once again turned into a black pressure flying ants swarm, nonchalantly to the man wildly surging up, will be pounced on the ground, and instantly covered with his whole body. The man only screamed miserably on the ground for a few times before his voice was completely silent.

　　After a few moments, the swarm of flying ants suddenly rose up in the air, returned to the original place and fell down, becoming the same as those grains of sand again. The place where the man fell was empty, devoured by the swarm of ants.

　　This scene, from the beginning to the end, was seen clearly by Han Li, who was standing far away from the mountaintop. While his heart was shocked, Han Li’s expression became somewhat odd.

　　”Iron Fire Ants! That should be right. I really didn’t expect to see this kind of spirit insect here.” Han Li said to himself in a voice so low that only he could hear it.

　　When this kind of flying ant first appeared, Han Li had yet to recognize the origins of these black flying insects. However, when they defied the yellow-faced cultivator’s flying dagger magic treasure attack and finally condensed into a spear, he recognized these “Iron Fire Ants”. After all, flying ants are not rare in the Immortal Cultivation World, and their appearance is almost similar. Most people would not be able to tell the difference between them if they were not cultivators who specialized in insect repellent techniques.

　　However, in reality, the abilities and frighteningness of different flying ant-type spirit insects were really worlds apart. Weak flying ant swarms could be easily swept away even by a Qi Refining Stage cultivator with an ordinary magic weapon. For powerful flying ants, even a JieDan stage cultivator would have to frown and retreat three feet.

　　This kind of spirit insect, which is listed in the thirty-seventh place in the list of strange insects, is one of the most powerful kinds of flying ants. In addition to the legendary “sky crystal ants” ranked in the ninth place, probably this kind of iron fire ants is the most terrible. Because these kinds of flying ants are not only invulnerable to swords and spears, but also not afraid of most spell attacks, except for water-attribute and ice-attribute medium-rank spells and other attributes of the individual spells, can cause them to kill, they almost have the same perverted defense as the gold-devouring insects, and in the resistance to direct attacks on the magic treasure, more than the gold-devouring insects one level.

　　Of course, they don’t have the perverted ability of devouring spiritual power of Gold Devouring Insects, but accordingly, they also have the terrifying ability to spit out black inflammation fire and can be combined and transformed in groups.

　　With these abilities of the iron fire ant swarm, in a way, is a fire attribute treasure that can change shape at will, with their terrible aggressiveness, ordinary defense treasure and defense spells, simply can not block their full force, yellow-faced man died a tragic death is not how wrong!

　　Iron fire ants, although not like the gold-devouring insects, belongs to the category of extinct spirit insects, but in the Immortal Cultivation World is also very rare to see people. And even if someone sees them occasionally, it’s only a colony of hundreds or thousands at most.

　　This is because the iron fire ants live in an extremely harsh environment, not only need a hot lava zone, but also a large number of copper and iron ore nearby to survive. If they left this kind of environment, the Iron Fire Ants would weaken rapidly, and it wouldn’t take long for their special ability to degrade cleanly, becoming not much different from ordinary flying ants.

　　If this is the only point, there are still a lot of cultivators who want to drive this kind of flying ants, create similar environment or directly find similar environment for taming and breeding insects, compared to the attractive ability of iron fire ants is nothing. However, one of the fatal limitations of such flying ants made the cultivators who hit on their ideas only return home defeated.

　　Whether it is the wild or the day after the domesticated iron fire ants simply can not recognize the master, as long as someone wants to use a variety of recognition ceremony to control them, iron fire ants will one by one have to self-detonation up, without exception, which makes all the monks dreams come to naught!

　　As for the specific reason, it is a variety of clouds. Some say that this is this kind of flying ants character fierce, do not want to be driven by the reason. Others say that it has something to do with the physique of the Iron Fire Ants, etc…….

　　Of course, this information about Iron Fire Ants is rarely known, whether in the Tiannan region or in the Chaotic Star Sea. Because in the last thousand years or so, very few people have run into Iron Fire Ants, and the size of the colony is also getting smaller and smaller, counting it as a kind of near-extinct spirit insect!

　　At this time, Han Li looked at the black desert, thinking about the information of the Iron Fire Ant in his head, and was somewhat dumbfounded in place.

　　It seems that the Iron Fire Ants are the Black Desert’s natural traps, although it is unknown how many flying ant swarms like the one just now exist in the desert, but from the yellow-faced cultivator’s encounter with a swarm of them just a few hundred feet into the desert, the ant swarms in the entire Black Desert will definitely not be small. Perhaps tens of thousands of mega ant swarms might also exist.

　　Thinking of this, even Han Li felt a chill rise up behind his back as he hurriedly swept the few storage bags on his body with his divine sense. There were a dozen or so middle-ranked ice and water attribute talismans, which should be able to deal with two or three swarms of iron fire ants on the scale of just now.

　　But using these talismans to cross the entire desert was completely delusional!

　　However, when Han Li’s gaze landed on the several spirit beast pouches containing the Gold Devouring Insects, his heart couldn’t help but stir. I wondered if using the Gold Devouring Insects to deal with the Iron Fire Ants would have a miraculous effect?

　　After all, the Gold Devouring Insects were ranked above the Iron Fire Ants, and there were many of them. Looking at the color of these Iron Fire Ants’ shells, they hadn’t evolved to the legendary “black gold” stage, so they should be in the same semi-mature period as his Gold Devouring Insects. In this way, it is entirely possible to use the Gold Devouring Insect to try.

　　As soon as this idea arose in Han Li’s heart, it rose uncontrollably.

　　He barely held his mind down, and after rethinking it for a while, he felt that there was no problem, so he resolved to use the Iron Fire Ant swarm from earlier to give it a try. Even if the Gold Devouring Insects couldn’t deal with them, he still had those middle-ranked talismans, so he could still protect himself and exit the desert again.

　　So after Han Li’s face turned cold, he raced 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 in his tracks. He looked at the black sand particles on the ground, but his eyes narrowed slightly, and suddenly bent down, he grabbed a handful of black sand particles from the ground, and placed them under his eyelids to gaze up.

　　A moment later, Han Li coldly grunted, suddenly a flash of yellow light, five fingers make a strong close, and then slowly loosened. As a result, most of the gravel in the palm of his hand flattened out, and there weren’t even a few that were crushed.

　　”What black desert, it turns out to be some mineral grains containing black iron.” The corners of Han Li’s mouth secretly contained a hint of self-deprecation as he slowly muttered to himself.

　　”However, to actually be able to spread iron ore grains into such a vast desert-like terrain, the owner of the Void Sky Hall back then was truly an extraordinary masterstroke.” After Han Li thought about it, he became somewhat emotional again.

　　When he threw the things in his hands, the person stood up again but his brows suddenly frowned, then gently slapped towards the Spiritual Rhinoceros Pei at his waist, and the white light shield appeared on his body.

　　Just now because of avoiding that yellow-faced cultivator, he had to close the jade pendant’s fire-preventing effect, relying on his cultivation to hold out so far. Now only close to this black desert, the heat wave that came to his face made him dizzy in a short period of time, which made Han Li’s heart startled, and hurriedly reused the spirit rhinoceros pendant. At this time, this was not the time to conserve mana.

　　Without further hesitation, Han Li looked at the place where the iron fire ants were swarming and carefully walked over.

　　Walking in this black desert was truly an unbearable ordeal, with the incomparably hot sand under his feet, and what seemed like burning air all around him. Even with the simultaneous use of the Spiritual Rhinoceros Pei and the Fire Resistant Treasure Clothes, it still gave Han Li a feeling of suffocation, as if it was three times hotter than the section of lava path that he had passed through yesterday.

　　After walking a distance of only thirty feet or so, Han Li sighed and reached into his storage pouch, and a warm bead appeared in his hand. Without hesitation, he injected some spiritual energy into it, and with a flash of white light, a cold aura emanated from within the bead.

　　Han Li immediately felt a great rise in coolness in his surroundings, and his spirit couldn’t help but be invigorated as he immediately quickened his pace.

　　Simultaneously using the Spiritual Rhinoceros Pei and Cold Ice Bead, this made his mana consumption rise, must pass through this desert as soon as possible.

　　When Han Li was still fifty to sixty feet away from the “Iron Fire Ants” group, he stopped and took a careful look.

　　After a long time, Han Li lightly shook his head.

　　It was extremely difficult to distinguish between the lurking “Iron Fire Ant” swarm and the black sand grains nearby, and even after he used his divine sense to detect them, it was still not easy to recognize their presence. The aura fluctuations on the swarms were faint and indistinct, as if they had been born with extremely skillful astringent techniques.

　　It seemed that the method of using his Divine Sense to avoid the ant colony from afar would not work, so he could only use the Gold Devouring Insects to give it a try.