Overlord: Insect Eater

Chapter 9
After wandering around the ant nest roughly, Tian Chong also had a preliminary and detailed understanding of this group of black ghost ants.

The number of black ghost ants in this ant nest should exceed [-], and there are quite a few of them collecting food and hunting spirit beasts outside. Calculated like this, the entire black ghost ant colony should have nearly [-]. black ghost ants.

No wonder there is a dead land for nearly a hundred miles, and it should have been eaten up by this group of black ghost ants.

As for the crater where the Nine Nether Birds are located, it is regarded as a forbidden area for all the spirit beasts in the entire Black Nether Abyss, directly separating the group of Black Nether Ants from the outside world.

"Go and see how strong the ant queen is..."

There will be a powerful queen in every ant nest. It can be said that all soldier ants, worker ants, etc. are the offspring of the queen.

Usually, the strength of this queen ant will be a level higher than that of ordinary soldier ants. Based on this calculation, the queen of this group of black ghost ants should be a high-level spirit beast. In this way, it will be more difficult for the ants to subdue the ant colony. .

After passing through the maze-like passage, the soldier ants controlled by the celestial worm finally found the queen's place in a huge underground space in the deepest part of the mountain.

Different from the ants seen in the previous life of Tian Chong, the queen of this black ghost ant does not have wings, and looks not so much like an ant, but as a huge water slug, two-thirds of the body is a huge insect belly If you look carefully, you can even see the shape of densely packed ant eggs in the abdomen.

Seeing this scene, the worms outside couldn't help grinning, some didn't expect the ant queen to look like this.

In terms of its level alone, it is indeed the level of a high-level spirit beast, but it doesn't look like it has too much fighting power, or it is simply a reproductive machine!
"This situation is not bad for me..."

According to the experience of the ants inheriting the original body, the insect swarm in this situation is the easiest to mutate or strengthen, because it only needs to provide enough conditions for the queen ant, and then it can breed corresponding different offspring. It is much simpler than the method of directly improving the entire population such as the spirit devouring bee.

"In that case, I should move..."

Withdrawing his consciousness, Tian Chong let the soldier ants continue to serve as his spies in the ant nest, while he himself began to look for a suitable place to subdue this group of black ghost ants.

Like the amount of ant colony in front of me, naturally I can no longer operate like the soldier ants I just subdued, let alone the consumption I can't bear, even with this amount, I guess I can't subdue it in a few months.

In the face of such a large swarm, the spirit worms naturally have their own methods.

The soul-absorbing array, which is also a secret technique inherited from the spirit insect race, is specially used to deal with the insect swarm. The effect is very good. The only disadvantage is that it needs a wide place and must be arranged in advance.

The materials that Tian Chong asked Mu Feng to prepare for the position at the beginning included the things needed to set up the dementing formation, so now he only needs to find a suitable position, and then set up the formation.

This kind of place is not difficult to find. After a while, Tian Chong found a huge depression on the west side of the ant nest, and then released hundreds of spirit-eating bees to guard the surroundings, and he himself began to get busy around the depression.

An hour later, the already sweating Heavenly Insect finally arranged everything, and the spiritual power in his body was also exhausted.

After spending half a day recovering, Tian Chong took out a bottle of spirit insect liquid that he had prepared, and threw it directly into the center of the depression.

The porcelain bottle containing the spirit insect liquid hit a hard rock and shattered immediately. The black spirit liquid spilled all over the ground, and then a special smell floated into the ant nest along the air vent.

The next moment, the originally quiet ant nest started to riot. Countless black ghost ants rushed out of the ant nest frantically, and then followed the scent's guidance to the depression.

Heavenly Insect was not surprised at this scene, because he knew very well how attractive his Spiritual Insect Liquid was to these wild Spiritual Insects.

When thousands of black ghost ants had gathered densely in the depression, Tian Chong showed a smile on his face, and the handprints of his hands changed rapidly, and he shouted angrily in his heart: "Spiritual Formation, get up!"

Following his movements, nine spiritual beams of light instantly rose around the depression, and then around these beams of light, a huge spiritual mask quickly formed, covering the entire depression.

At the moment when the formation was encircled, those black ghost ants in the depression that had been mad because of the spirit insect liquid instantly fell into a sluggish state. At this time, they were just like the soldier ants back then, and their consciousness was directly disturbed by the formation. Can't control my body.

Seeing this, Tian Chong breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't dare to be negligent. You must know that there are still black ghost ants continuing to rush over outside the depression, but they are now blocked by the big formation, and they are anxious linger.

He had to subdue all the black ghost ants in the formation before it was destroyed by the group of violent black ghost ants, and then let a batch come in. He didn't have much time during this period.

Taking a deep breath, Tian Chong concentrated his mind, and quickly slid his hands in the air. Following his movements, streaks of spiritual light quickly condensed, and following the trajectory of his hands, a complex large-scale shape was condensed in the air. Spirit power runes...

The moment the spiritual power rune took shape, it immediately flew over the group of suppressed black ghost ants in the formation, and then exploded, turning into spiritual power spots one by one, sinking into the bodies of these black ghost ants.

A spiritual power rune mark appeared on all the black ghost ants that were touched by the light spots of spiritual power. The shape was exactly the same as the spiritual power rune constructed by the worm just now.

"Okay, change the batch!"

Tian Chong sighed inwardly, and then released another spirit sac to collect the group of black ghost ants, then opened the large formation, let the group of black ghost ants outside come in again, and so on...

Almost a bottle of spirit insect liquid can attract three or four waves of black ghost ants, and then it will be completely evaporated, and then the sky insect will take out another bottle and smash it, and continue to lure those black ghost ants over.

The cost of a bottle of spirit insect liquid is about [-] spirit stones, and this is only the cost of materials.At the beginning, Mu Feng sent a total of ten copies, and the Heavenly Insect successfully concocted nine bottles. Just for this group of black ants, five bottles were wasted...

To be honest, Tianchong's heart still hurts. After all, he is poor and white now, and these things are obtained by himself through working.

As for the rune just cast by Heavenly Insect, it is the insect-controlling magic talisman of the insect master's conventional method of controlling insects. It is just that after the insect-controlling magic talisman of the spirit insect clan is improved, it can subdue the spirit insects on a large scale like before. Something that can only be accessed by those who have truly completed the inheritance of insect masters.

Compared with the previous blood talisman, this talisman is obviously more convenient and fast, and consumes less, but it can't share the consciousness or telepathy between the worm master and the spirit worm like the blood talisman, so the two are also different. There are advantages and disadvantages, you just need to choose different means when facing different goals.

Because of the special nature of the ant queen, the subjugation was safe and sound, and everything went smoothly.It's just that even though he had prepared in advance, he was still exhausted by subduing so many black ghost ants in a short period of time.

Seeing that the sky was gradually getting dark, Tian Chong was also preparing to rest outside the ant nest for the night.

Anyway, this place belongs to the sphere of influence of the black ghost ants, and usually even high-level spirit beasts dare not approach it, so there is no need to worry about safety issues.

It's just that when Heavenly Insect was surprised, the soldier ants controlled by him with the blood talisman actually brought him a lot of good things from the ant nest...

A spirit sword at the level of a high-grade spiritual weapon, and some knives, guns, swords and halberds, but most of them are just low-grade spiritual weapons.

These were left by the humans who broke into the Black Nether Abyss back then. As for the humans themselves, they have already become the food of this group of Black Nether Ants.

As for some ordinary weapons and armor, because they are not spiritual weapons, and have been eroded by the fire energy of the mutated black ghost ant, they have now become a pile of broken copper and rotten iron. I won't want it.

According to the market price, the price of a high-grade spirit weapon is more than a million spirit stones, and a low-grade spirit weapon also needs tens of thousands of spirit stones, so these spirit weapons alone are enough to make the worm pay back.

A simple calculation is equivalent to having prostituted a group of black ants for nothing...

Thinking about it this way, Tian Chong's mood immediately improved!
After a night of rest, Tianchong felt that yesterday's exhaustion had completely disappeared, and his whole body was full of vitality again. Next, he needed to go deep into the core of the Black Nether Abyss and search for the traces of Jinyuan Tianworm.

According to the information recorded in the scroll in my memory, the Golden Origin Silkworm is most likely hiding somewhere in the Black Nether Abyss, but this thing is very cunning, it will hide its whereabouts when its strength is insufficient Very good, only after it turns into a cicada will it really run out to do its best.

"Although the core area of ​​the Black Nether Abyss is not large, the terrain is more complicated. There are even passages leading to the depths of the ground in many places, and these places often hide powerful high-level spirit beasts, even heavenly beasts. So you have to be careful with your actions.”

Before departure, Tian Chong kept reminding himself in his heart.

However, if there is a colony of black ghost ants to explore the way, and cooperate with the flying spirit-eating bees to search the carpet one by one, the chances of finding clues should be greatly improved.

Moreover, when encountering ordinary high-level spirit beasts, the Black Underworld Ant Colony alone can deal with them, and can further ensure the safety of the Heavenly Worm itself.

Going forward in this way, Tian Chong encountered many high-level spirit beasts. After being devoured by the black ghost ants, he left him some minions, scales and other materials, and of course there were even more precious spirit beast spirits. ...

Ordinary low-level and mid-level spirit beast spirits are not worth much, and few people would choose to refine them, but the spirit beast spirit of high-level spirit beasts is different. In a remote place like the Northern Spiritual Realm, a high-level spirit beast Essence is the object that everyone is chasing.

For example, in the Beiling Academy where Mu Chen is now, the souls refined by the instructors in the courtyard are just ordinary high-level spirit beast souls, and even the rankings are not in the hundreds...

For example, the Thunder Moon Wolf Spirit obtained by Tian Chong is ranked 180th in the Myriad Beasts List. If it is placed in the outside world, it may be snapped up by people.

Of course, if it is not too short of money, Tian Chong will not sell these high-level spirit beast spirits, because he still needs these spirits to mix special spiritual liquids with different attributes to strengthen spirit insects and even promote spiritual power. Insect evolution and mutation, etc.

This exploration can be regarded as a way for the celestial worms to collect materials for themselves, so that when the golden source worms can't find it, they won't return empty-handed.

In this way, the time lasted for a month, but apart from having more materials in hand, Tian Chong did not find any useful news.

He has searched the entire core area of ​​Heimingyuan three times, not to mention digging three feet, but he has dug more than three feet, but he still found nothing.

Tian Chong himself already doubted whether the information in his memory was wrong. Could it be that the location recorded in the scroll is not the North Spirit Realm and the Black Nether Abyss?
It's a pity that when the original body was burned to death, everything on his body was burned at the same time, and the scroll placed in the Qiankun bracelet did not survive, so it is impossible to look at it now.

But if he just gave up like this, Tian Chong would not be reconciled, it was the six-winged golden cicada, the ancient fierce insect that could compete with the holy heaven supreme in ancient times!

Just when Tian Chong was about to search for the last time, Tian Chong, who was walking in an underground passage that he thought was the most impossible, suddenly and keenly heard a small rustling sound coming from the stone wall...

"Huh?!" Tian Chong was startled suddenly, and then listened carefully, but he didn't hear any movement again, as if everything just now was his own auditory hallucination.

However, Tianchong doesn't believe that he is an auditory hallucination. The so-called details determine success or failure. Maybe the previous few searches he made were because the details were not good enough, which made him ignore some important information.

After thinking about it, Tian Chong bit the tip of his tongue and spit out a mouthful of blood essence. Then, the spiritual power of his hands quickly condensed, and he used the blood essence to construct a special blood talisman. After that, he fell behind the stone wall in an instant...

Perception is one of the means that every insect master needs to master to search for spirit insects. After all, spirit insects are different from spirit beasts. Some special spirit insects have powerful concealment capabilities, which cannot be found with the naked eye alone.

And because the spirit insects are born with a special affinity for spirit insects, they can rely on their blood essence to enhance this perception to a very terrifying level, but usually the heavenly insects would not use this method, after all, it hurts to bite the tip of the tongue , and consume blood essence...

Sure enough, after using the special perception technique, Tian Chong immediately discovered the truth behind the stone wall. According to his perception, hundreds of meters behind the stone wall, there were a large number of spirit insect reactions, which seemed to be a hidden monster hidden deep underground. nest of insects.

Although it is not directly related to the information about the golden source silkworm, such a mysterious insect nest, the spirit insects inside must be extraordinary. This is also rare good news for a spirit insect master.

(End of this chapter)