Divine Brilliance

All of a sudden, broken shells of ants and a blue colored liquid spilled down from around the spell altar.

Ant Zhenren didn’t care at all, chanting out incantations in his mouth. He casually pointed and hundreds of soldier ants rose up into the air. At the sides of their bodies, a pair of wind wings spread out as they flew into the air. Their flying ability was no weaker than those flying ants.

Along with the basic crystal ants that the four-winged flying ants grabbed up to throw down, even that lightning winged flood dragon was unable to fully protect the altar. Tens of crystal ants were missed out of and breached into the sword formation.

Zong Shou had been quietly waiting, only now did he open his eyes, grabbing the paper of the wooden table and heavily smacking it down.

In the next instance, the 2 long banners with lightning and fire wrote on them glowed out.

Numerous lightning and fire light exploded out from around the spell altar, merging with the lightning around of the lightning winged flood dragon, instantly wrapping up thousands of feet around. It caused the nearby area to be covered in fire and lightning.

The buzzing sound in the area instantly quietened down. Even some grade 5 soldier ants weren’t able to avoid in time and were either burnt to bits by the lightning glow or were burnt into ashes by the flames, turning into small scattered pieces and falling downwards.

When Ant Zhenren saw that he laughed out, “Interesting! Only I don’t know how long you will be able to last for!”

The moment the voice landed, the tens of thousands of crystal ants started to become uneasy, actually starting to bite and swallow one another. It became a total mess.

Zong Yuan couldn’t help but feel surprised, what was this Ant Zhenren doing? It was impossible to say that this person had lost control of the demon fire crystal ants.

Tens of breaths later he saw some of the demon fire crystal ants who had swallowed the blood and meat of their fellow ants suddenly swell. Not only did their body size become larger, their aura even instantly increased. In just tens of breaths, tens of soldier ants formed up. They similarly had wind wings on their backs and flew high in the air. The overall number of soldier ants also recovered to a full 400.

Then Ant Zhenren chanted out incantations and formed hand seals, his body retreating out ten thousand feet, his lips filled with disdain.

“Golden armor copper skin!”

“Intense sharpness…”

“Extreme image technique!”

In just a moment the flying ants and soldier ants who were surrounding the altar were covered in a layer of gold light,

Be it the menacing-looking mouth weapons or the armors, they all seemed to have gotten much sturdier. Compared to Zong Shou’s 49 flying leaf knives, when they clashed they were often able to gain the upper hand.

The speed of their bodies also increased by several times, pretty much reaching the peak of the grade 6 realm.

Continuously charging forwards and backward, causing the sword formation surrounding the altar to be in a mess. They relied solely on Zong Yuan’s purple lightning sword to remain fine, numerous soldier ants got close to the spell altar.

In a blink of an eye, Ant Zhenren had cast several spells. Each spell added could increase the combat strength of the soldier ants by a little.

Zong Shou’s heart sank and thought to himself that this was going to be problematic. If it was a head-on battle, he alone was enough to suppress this Ant Zhenren.

However, this person was experienced⁠—using his strengths to make up for his weaknesses. He used support techniques to strengthen the ant swarm to increase their combat strengths. Often one spell cast would be able to benefit close to a thousand crystal ants.

He even retreated tens of thousands of feet away, obviously unwilling to engage with him head-on.

The combat strength of the lightning winged flood dragon beside him was far from just this. It didn’t even use a tenth of its lightning power because the silver-colored soldier ants and six-winged flying ants were thousands of feet outside and still not making a move, waiting for their chance to strike. Hence this lightning flood dragon was unable to display its skills, a large part of its energy was taken up by the guards of the ant empress.

It was why he hated these types of bursts of soldiers. In the past, he had played several strategy games with his friends in the virtual environment and there were ten over times when he was surrounded and murdered by an ocean of enemies.

Sighing to himself, Zong Shou didn’t hesitate to toss out several talismans which floated above the candle.

He also chanted out incantations, drawing tens of talismans above the thousand-year peach wood sword.

“Swallow blood”, “Quiet energy”, “Ice fire”, “luck blessing”, “Destroy illusions”, “Sharpen metal”…

A few breaths later he opened his eyes suddenly. Within it, there seemed to be several true talismans which shone continuously.

Following which he casually tossed out the peach wood sword from his hand. It reached 300 feet away before the gold light exploded. One wooden sword seemed to have transformed into a top gold weapon. Fire and water energy circling it as just one sword killed one soldier ant.

Then, the peach wood sword pierced through it, it caused that soldier ant to turn into an empty shell, swallowing all of its blood and meat into the sword body.

Following which the energy of the peach wood sword exploded out. Everywhere it passed, it did so with unstoppable sharpness.

All the soldier ants and flying ants, no matter their grade, they were all killed with one sword. The speed was also extremely quick, each time it swallowed up the blood and meat it would turn a portion of it into essence energy to explode and push the sword body forwards.

He didn’t cultivate the wind true spiritual talismans, although the strength of his spells couldn’t be compared to that Ant Zhenren, at this moment using the power of lightning, the speed effect was numerous times better than that of the soldier ants.

After Spinning and charging all about, in just a moment numerous pieces of blood and body scattered down in the thousand feet of space.

Then the entire spell altar once again sped up, directly knocking towards where Ant Zhenren was at.

If this person was willing to block then it was okay. If he didn’t dare to, then this spell altar would be able to directly charge into the cloud ocean.

What he was betting was that Ant Zhenren definitely wouldn’t watch on as he escaped from the cloud ocean.

As expected, when Ant Zhenren saw that, his pupils constricted, his expression changing slightly. However, he didn’t personally stop it. Instead, he retreated once more, waving his sleeves. Below him, thousands more demon fire crystal ants started to swallow one another.

Just as Zong Shou’s spell altar charged for roughly ten miles of land, a giant crystal ant the size of a small mountain had formed.

Its aura crazily climbed till it reached the peak of grade 6. In terms of the majesty of its aura, it was hundred times exceeding that of the six-winged flying ants! Its strength was slightly weaker and hadn’t reached grade 7.

A furious roar, within ten thousand feet around, a vast demon fire suddenly burnt up, spreading across the entire sky and charging towards the heavens.

They weren’t slow either. The spell altar changed directions several times but it was still stopped by it, in the end, it was forced to retreat due to the sky full of demon fire.

Zong Shou couldn’t help but suck in a deep cold breath. This Ant Zhenren’s control of the ant swarm was strong to such a level!

Luckily before this, he had already prepared the killing move of the hundred-mile quiet scent. If not he would only be filled with despair now.

He waved his sleeves once more and several talismans flew out, a spiritual light scattering all over and landed on Zong Yuan’s body. Little gold who wrapped around his left hand also left his body and started to wrap around the purple lightning spear.

Zong Yuan understood, not needing to wait for Zong Shou to give him any instructions as he stood up, spear attack sweeping the heavens. Like a meteor, as he landed right for were those giant soldier ants were at.

First threads of lightning flashed, following which the lightning glow transformed into a giant lightning dragon, wrapping around his body and the spear body.

Crazily flashing!

When the lightning glow gathered up to the maximum, Zong Yuan’s body shone brightly. He was unstoppable as he killed the tens of soldier ants who tried to block him as he charged in front of those giant crystal ants. Where the spear tip pointed to, those shells all exploded out. Balls of blood and meat exploded, everywhere that Zong Yuan’s spear attack passed, it forcefully opened up these giant crystal ants and pierced a giant hole in them.

However just at that moment, numerous demon fire crystal ants also crazily surged over.

Zong Yuan didn’t dare to stay anymore, once again jumping up once more. The spear shadow flashing as he killed several soldier ants successively. Just barely making his way back to the spell altar.

At this moment after the giant crystal ants let out a furious roar, they seemed to have gone crazy as they charged about in pain.

That Ant Zhenren didn’t seem to care at all as he laughed coldly, “So what now? I have endless amounts of these children. I want to see how long you can last for…”

When his words landed, that giant-sized crystal ant had already calmed down, swallowing and eating hundreds of crystal ants around it. In just a few breaths of time once could see blood and meat boiling and flipping around that giant hole as it was being frenziedly filled up. Then, its armor also seemed to be healing bit by bit.

However, at this moment the peach wood sword also dove down suddenly, slashing it from the air and directly started swallowing and absorbing energy. The enormous blood-red sword body couldn’t take it anymore, directly turning it into essence energy and exploding out.

Each explosion was like grade 5 and even grade 6 beasts exploring their bodies⁠—extremely fierce and intense.

The giant-sized crystal ant once again entered a chaotic state, but then it had no more strength and laid right on the ground. The shell around it was filled with numerous holes. In just a short moment there were no more signs of breathing from it anymore.

When the peach wood sword pierced out, the golden glow on the sword body became thicker and thicker, and its attacks became stronger and stronger. When the sword swept across, 10 soldier ants died on the spot. All of its blood and meat was absorbed by the sword body.

Seeing the situation, Ant Zhenren’s expression changed slightly, looking fearfully at the thousand-year peach wood sword.

Who knows what kind of demonic spell did Zong Shou use to cause this normal looking thousand-year peach wood sword to have energy as boundless as a spiritual weapon above grade 8.

The soldier ants he controlled couldn’t stop it at all. A giant-sized crystal ant consumed close to 3 thousand of his demon fire crystal ants. If this continued, the tens of thousands of crystal ants here would sooner or later be killed one by one by that sword.

In the past when he fought others, he never personally attacked. He always used the ant swarm to waste the enemy’s energy until they died.

At this moment he finally understood how helpless such a feeling was…