Exploring the Ant Nest

Chapter 42 Exploring the Ant Nest (Please add to your favorites and read on!)

The moment their hands met.

With a loud "boom".

The entire tree stump was blasted to pieces, with wood chips and sparks flying everywhere, and the remaining roots bursting into flames.

Alphonse: "."

What's going on?

The power was greater than expected.

However, the Xuan Tian Wu Jin Palm is extremely yang and does not generate fire energy, unlike the Divine Flame Palm of the Diancang School.

Sure enough, the Mysterious Black Gold Palm underwent a strange change!

Thinking back to each time I practiced my skills, I felt the intense heat being absorbed into my body.

Alphonse suddenly had a thought: Could it be magical elements from another world?

Can one cultivate internal energy while simultaneously absorbing magical elements?

That's too bizarre!

If that's the case, then the cool energy absorbed during the cultivation of the second level of the mental technique is water element?

But why didn't it show up?

Is the Xuan Tian Wu Jin Palm unsuitable for attaching to water elements?

Alphonse could think of no other explanation.

In short, the power of the Xuan Tian Wu Jin Palm has been enhanced.

But what kind of palm technique do I have now? Dual cultivation of magic and martial arts? Something doesn't seem right!

Mia and Tessie rushed out of the castle one after the other.

The loud noise that shattered the tree stump startled them.

"You did this?" Mia frowned, surprised. "Is this fire magic? Aren't you supposed to have no magical talent?"

"It's not magic," Alphonse replied dismissively. "You know that magical bard Edson."

"Alright!" Mia interrupted impatiently. "He taught you that again, didn't he?"

"Mmm." Alphonse was too lazy to explain in detail to Mia; it would be too much trouble to explain clearly.

Taixi had cultivated the Blood Fiend Demon Art, but he understood some things in his heart.

Is this Alphonse's true energy? It can even create the effects of fire magic. It really is a kind of witchcraft!

After having a meal and everything was ready, Alphonse and Mia, dressed in leather armor, followed Tessi up the mountain.

Surprisingly, Mia wasn't angry. Her eyes lit up when she heard there were mineral veins on the mountain.

Mia originally didn't want to take Alphonse on the adventure, but after seeing the burning effect caused by Alphonse's skills, Mia felt that he could also help in dealing with the Gold-Eating Ants.

The leather armor was borrowed by Mia from the military camp for Alphonse. She had originally wanted Alphonse to wear the armor left behind by the old baron. But Tessie said that wearing armor would be inconvenient for movement and would make noise, which would easily attract a large number of gold-eating ants to attack.

Therefore, only leather armor can be used.

Taisi also put one on, while Mia already had one and didn't need to borrow one.

We traversed dense jungles and climbed over rocky outcrops.

Finally, in a remote mountain hollow, they found a cave entrance completely hidden by vines.

The entrance to the cave is a bit low, but it is quite wide.

Taixi was able to walk in smoothly, and there was still quite a distance between him and the top of the cave.

The tall Mia and Alphonse had to bend slightly to enter.

Mia drew her longsword and walked at the front, Tessie held the torch in the middle, and Alphonse took the position at the back.

Subconsciously, they still felt that Alphonse was someone who needed protection.

Little did they know that Alphonse was already stronger than Tessie.

The passageway inside the cave winds its way down, dark and deep, as if one has entered an unknown world.

The air was still a bit humid.

By the dim firelight, one could see that the stone walls on both sides were covered with gray-green lichen.

I don't know how long it took.

A cramped environment can easily make people feel depressed and frustrated, but one can only endure it.

rustling

A soft sound came from deep within the cave.

"They're here!" Tessie whispered a warning.

"Mm." Mia nodded, gripped her longsword tightly, and continued forward.

Before long, four bright red lights appeared deep in the dark cave.

They run side by side, one above the other.

Mia's longsword glowed with a sky-blue light as she slashed out.

In an instant, two crescent-shaped battle aura slashes were unleashed.

In this confined space, close-quarters combat is indeed difficult, so attacking from a distance is undoubtedly a good solution.

With a loud thud as the object crashed to the ground, the four beams of light separated.

As they drew closer, the torchlight revealed the shapes of the two creatures crawling through the darkness.

As Tess said, ants that are even larger than humans.

The enormous ant's body is covered by a hard exoskeleton, which is dark and shiny, radiating a metallic luster.

Its fiery red compound eyes still gleamed in the darkness, and its powerful jaws were as sharp as scissors. With such large mouthparts, it must have had a powerful bite force.

Insects, when magnified many times, appear extremely ferocious and terrifying.

The gold-devouring ants in front of us are a perfect example.

However, it had already been cleaved into four large pieces by Mia's battle aura slash, and slime was spilled all over the ground.

"These are just ordinary worker ants; soldier ants are much larger." Tessie stepped onto the body of the gold-eating ant, while Mia had already passed through first.

"My lord, be careful not to step in their slime," Tessie muttered. "Gold-eating ants are edible, but you need to remove their heads, legs, and stomachs filled with strong acid. Roasting their internal tissues makes them quite sour and delicious, though a little bitter."

Okay! His occupational hazard has kicked in again!

No one is probably as good at cooking monsters as he is.

Alphonse knew that ordinary ants were edible and had the effect of dispelling wind and dampness, but he wasn't so sure about catching one this big.

Looking at the corpses of the gold-eating ants before him, Alphonse had a different thought.

The Innate Formless Divine Skill also includes methods for manipulating the energy of the dead.

Mastering the third level of the mental technique, the balance of Yin and Yang, will strengthen the meridians, allowing one to unleash the unique skill of the Innate Formless Finger Sword that once dominated the martial world. Mastering the fourth level, opening the Ren and Du meridians and the gate between life and death, will allow one to fuse true energy with death energy to condense an extremely evil and fierce sword light, known as the Body-Breaking Formless Sword Qi.

However, to unleash the Body-Breaking Formless Sword Qi, one needs to infuse the entire body with sufficient necromantic energy. The person will transform, becoming red-eyed and white-haired, and will also have a name: Crimson Fire Eyes and Ice Silk Snow Hair.

While one's cultivation level is not high enough to withstand the infusion of necromantic energy, it is possible to accumulate and absorb necromantic energy in advance.

I had never seen a corpse before.

The aura of death is particularly strong on newly deceased corpses, but much weaker in cemeteries.

Alphonse stepped on the carapace of the gold-devouring ant and used the method of absorbing necromantic energy, drawing it in from the air with his palm.

Instantly, two jet-black streams of energy rose up and disappeared into his palm.

It was extremely cold and chilly.

It travels up the meridians like lightning, straight into the Niwan Palace.

Having learned from past lives, I knew that my hands would inevitably feel a bit stiff from the cold when I first absorbed the aura of the dead, but I got used to it and took it for granted.

However, the situation that occurred this time was beyond Alphonse's expectations.

The normally eerie and lifeless necromantic energy was unusually active.

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