Kari rode atop the sand vulture, his mood soaring high.
A few hours earlier, when that black mountain appeared near the oasis, the Blood Scorpion Tribe’s warriors became panicked and knelt to pray for the ferocious spirit god’s protection. Even the spirit summoner priests hurriedly ordered the slaves to clean up all bloodstains, prohibiting the slaughter of livestock and the whipping of prisoners. He had not taken it seriously. What death mountain? Was it that terrifying?
As the tenth prince’s personal guard from the beastly Jores family, Kari had seen plenty of ferocious magical beasts. He merely thought these ignorant natives in the oasis were utterly lacking in experience. Then, with such an arrogant demeanour, he followed the tribal warriors on flying eagles to inspect the black mountain’s condition, only to unexpectedly spot Ye Chui and the others trapped inside.
When he realised that even Ye Chui was helpless against the overwhelming black ant assault, he finally understood the black mountain’s terror and felt profound delight in it.
Ha, no matter how formidable Ye Chui was, what did it matter? Now was he not about to be corroded into white bones by the black ant swarm? The one to obtain the final victory in the Crown Battlefield would ultimately be only the tenth prince!
He joyfully rode the sand vulture back to the oasis.
This oasis was one of the strongholds occupied by the Blood Scorpion Tribe.
In the secret realm, oases were not particularly rare or inaccessible; countless oases were scattered everywhere. But only those with water sources could serve as breeding grounds. This place’s oasis was utterly different from the oases in Kari’s impressions. Outside, the existence of a water source was the prerequisite for forming an oasis, but here it was not so. An oasis might exist, yet no water source could be found within it.
In the centre of this oasis was a small lake, not particularly large. But the wondrous aspect of the secret realm was that even a small lake would never dry up. Crude huts smeared with mud and sand beast dung dotted around that small lake. The tribal sand people were all sturdy men, interspersed with some robust and ugly women. In the Blood Scorpion Tribe, strength was revered; those without strength, even the children of priests or tribal chiefs, could only fall to the status of slaves.
Approximately five thousand Blood Scorpion warriors were guarding here.
After jumping down from the sand beast, Kari’s face still bore an irrepressible look of delight. He could not help but say, “He is doomed. Ye Chui is doomed this time. He will die by the tenth prince’s hand!”
“The Ye Chui you speak of seems nothing special after all.” An elderly man with a somewhat hunched figure, leaning on a crutch, walked over. That crutch had a string of skull bones dangling from it. Once, Kari could not resist asking him where those skulls came from. The old man, with a阴 cold smile, said they were the skulls of his wives and sons, truly barbaric natives!
This old man was a spirit summoner priest, holding extremely high prestige in the Blood Scorpion Tribe. His name was Guka.
“They stirred up a lot of trouble outside. Many people were helpless against them. For a time, the entire Star Empire was hunting them down, yet they still appeared nonchalantly in the imperial capital. That Ye Chui, he even summoned a terrifying heroic spirit. Our Jores family’s top talent of the new generation, the snake-haired Yuren, was beaten to death by him with just two punches.” Kari seemed somewhat indignant at the native priest’s tone, so he said this. In his words, it seemed as if Ye Chui represented the power of the outside world.
Guka smiled faintly and said in that strange accent, “But now he is still going to die in the secret realm. Why did he not summon the terrifying heroic spirit you mentioned? I am rather curious to know whether his heroic spirit is more formidable or if the secret realm’s black mountain is stronger.”
“It is said, it is said that his heroic spirit cannot be summoned at any time…” Kari said somewhat dejectedly.
Guka let out a strange laugh, which seemed mocking. This made Kari somewhat angry, but he quickly calmed down. After all, no matter what, Ye Chui was now dealt with. Hmph, that flamboyant all-element magic mentor who was so arrogant outside actually died so pathetically here, devoured by myriad ants. What a joke if word got out.
Seeing that Kari had fallen silent, Guka turned his gaze towards the black mountain faintly visible in the distance and said mockingly, “The tenth prince once mentioned this person, but we did not even need to act, and he died under the death mountain. It truly disappoints me. I originally wanted to have a proper contest with him!”
Almost as soon as these words were spoken, a Blood Scorpion warrior suddenly cried out in alarm, “Priest sir, this is bad. That… that black mountain is now moving towards us!”
“What? That is impossible. The black mountain never approaches oases. How could it come here without reason? This cannot be!” Guka’s face changed drastically. He hurriedly jumped onto a raised earth mound and peered into the distance. The black mountain ant nest would roam about in the secret realm, like sharks in the deep sea. Although they would attack nearby creatures, as long as one stayed at a distance and there was no blood to attract them, they usually would not proactively attack those far away.
The black mountain had no reason to approach here.
Guka’s face instantly became exceedingly grim…
At this moment, behind the black mountain, countless undead were piled together. Their numbers were simply endless, constantly pushing the black mountain towards the oasis. The melody of the Necromantic Prelude continued to resound. Ye Chui and his group were enveloped within by the undead. The undead were unafraid of the ants’ gnawing, which could ensure Ye Chui and the others’ safety. Occasionally, some ants broke through the undead’s defence and burrowed in, only to be directly smashed into meat paste by the Blue Knight and Guni.
Under the undead’s push, the black mountain rapidly advanced towards the oasis. However, just as that oasis came into clear view, a sand dune blocked the black mountain’s path. No matter how hard the undead pushed, they could not move the black mountain an inch further. The front portion of the black mountain had already sunk deeply into the sand dune.
“Guild master, what do we do?” Green hurriedly asked.
“You all fall back a bit.” Ye Chui decisively commanded the undead to surround them and retreat some distance. He looked up at the tall and bizarre ant nest black mountain, a strange smile curling at the corner of his mouth. The phantom of a large cannon emerged on his body, and following that, “boom, boom, boom” the cannon fire roared continuously.
After the golden kelp special training before entering the secret realm, now Ye Chui only needed less than 1% of his magic power to fire one cannon. Accompanied by the successive cannon barrages, the black mountain constantly crumbled, flames splashing everywhere. Whenever a section of the black mountain’s structure collapsed, swarms of ants would immediately spray out like black juice. And within the black mountain, Ye Chui soon spotted an extraordinarily huge, fully the size of an adult man, black-brown ant!
Its form was utterly ferocious, yet its abdomen appeared immensely swollen. Even Ye Chui could see that, with its struggling and writhing, piles of white ant eggs tilted down from the abdomen. Without a doubt, that was the ant queen.
Ye Chui hurriedly pointed at that wriggling enormous ant and said to the Blue Knight guarding Jacob’s side, “Can you send it to the oasis?”
Konstantine glanced at it and frowned, “Distance is no issue, but I need you to help me extract that thing from the ant nest first!”
“Let me!” Dany replied. She then waved her hand, and terrifying tentacles extended from near the ant nest, entwining the ant queen and hoisting the struggling ant queen high up.
This action made the entire ant swarm nearly go completely berserk, surging towards the ant queen like a tidal wave.
Black ants were magical beasts with simple intellect, and whether from their will or instinct, they knew that the most important thing in the group was the ant queen!
The swarming ants layered upon layers, climbing onto Dany’s tentacle vines, attempting to rescue their queen.
It was at this precise moment that the Blue Knight moved.
He leaped into the air, jumping to the ant queen’s side. The long spear in his hand traced a blue phantom in the air, thrusting forward.
Twisting Spear!
After entering the swordsman realm, one could comprehend some rule-based applications. The Blue Knight’s twisting spear was actually a spatial sword aura application. His spear could fold space. In the next moment, the ant queen, which had been held high in mid-air, vanished into thin air and reappeared in the sky above the oasis, over a hundred metres away.
The ant queen let out a sharp shriek from its mouth, and the ant swarms originally writhing around Ye Chui and the others thus began surging en masse towards the direction where the ant queen had flown.
The endless ant sea, like a rising tidal wave, swept towards the Blood Scorpion Tribe’s camp oasis!
The Blood Scorpion Tribe’s warriors were all murderous and cruel sand people, but at this moment, their hearts and galls shattered. Some instinctively wanted to flee, but the swarming ant sea would not spare any living being. Guka and the other two spirit summoner priests roared loudly, ordering the agitated tribal warriors to prepare defences. At the same time, illusory spirit bodies emerged on their bodies, ready to confront the sudden black ant swarm, but all was in vain.
The fierce tribal warriors instantly turned into white bones. Screams and roars intertwined endlessly, and what terrified them even more was the undead army that followed closely on the heels of the ant sea.
Ye Chui fully urged the Necromantic Prelude, leading those undead to charge into the oasis.
Undead, black ants, and tribal warriors clashed in a melee.
The black ants treated any living thing as their enemy but could not harm the undead, while the undead fully attacked the Blood Scorpion Tribe’s warriors. The Blood Scorpion Tribe instantly fell into irredeemable doom.
One spirit summoner priest controlled a necrospirit to resist the ant swarms around him. He saw a tribal warrior whose body was nearly half gnawed into white bones, shrieking as it charged towards him. He hurriedly directed the necrospirit to sweep it aside. He noticed the ant queen’s location and immediately dashed forward, preparing to deal with the ant queen first. That way, the ant swarm would lose control and no longer possess this kind of collective assault power.
At that moment, his foot suddenly tripped over something. It was a skeleton. Upon looking down, he recognised from the tattered armour that it was Kari’s corpse. The spirit summoner priest kicked Kari’s corpse aside and shouted loudly, urging his necrospirit to its maximum power as he charged towards the ant queen. Then… in an instant, he was enveloped by the endless ant sea.
He struggled within it for only a moment before thoroughly turning into stark white bones.
Ye Chui and his group had now also entered the Blood Scorpion Tribe under the escort of a horde of undead.
Ye Chui did not know that the tenth prince was not here. He wanted to personally deal with the tenth prince, even preparing to face that ferocious spirit god. But after arriving here with his companions, Ye Chui realised this place was not the Blood Scorpion Tribe’s main camp. Although countless Blood Scorpion Tribe warriors were stationed here, it was evident there was no figure like a tribal chief among them. Those in leadership positions were the remaining two spirit summoner priests.
The spirit summoner priest Guka soon walked up to Ye Chui with a face full of阴 coldness.
“You destroyed this place. You destroyed everything here!” He shrieked loudly in a distorted voice, then shouted a string of unintelligible words, like curses in his native tongue.
Ye Chui looked at him coldly, preparing to act.
An illusory spirit body had already emerged on Guka’s body. He had just been clamouring to experience the power of an all-element magic mentor; now he got his wish!
“All-element magic mentor, I will make you pay a bloody price for your actions. I claim your skull!” He shouted loudly, advancing step by step.
Ye Chui was fully on guard.
Then…
With a clang, a green light flashed behind Guka’s head. A brick smashed down from mid-air. His body staggered, the necrospirit on him dissipated, and he toppled headfirst to the ground.
Ye Chui turned his head to look at Green not far away.
Green retracted the brick and gave Ye Chui a thumbs up.
Ye Chui: “…”
Occasionally, he also wanted to have a proper, serious fight with someone, okay?
