Chapter 745: Chapter 742: The Power of Holy Ants_1
When they saw this scene, everyone’s eyes showed surprised expressions. No one knew what had happened.
Yang Chen didn’t know either, but with this happening, he didn’t choose to leave Beishan Main City anymore, but instead closed himself off in Beishan Main City to better understand the situation.
As expected, this explosion not only attracted the attention of North Mountain County, but also the surrounding Sun Star Region and Luo Yun County. In the past two days, high-level officials from both regions had visited Beishan Main City one after another, asking about the explosion.
Beishan Main City didn’t know either, and all three sides looked at each other without knowing what had happened.
However, there was no denying that the sound of this explosion must have caused a sensation in more than one area.
As time changed, on the tenth day after the explosion, the Purple Qi suddenly underwent a slight change, becoming more expansive and with an even more astonishing range.
Twenty days later, the Purple Qi gradually dissipated…
Thirty days later, the Purple Qi completely disappeared, but the sensation it caused grew even more.
Yang Chen was in Beishan Main City, so he knew very well that during this time, officials of the Sun Star Region, Luo Yun County, and many other nearby main city forces had come to Beishan Main City to inquire and negotiate. After all, such an astonishing explosion rarely occurred. If one were to say that nothing major had happened, nobody would believe it.
Yang Chen was also puzzled, but he had no clue about these matters. So, even though he was curious, he had to suppress his curiosity for the time being.
He was now distracted by another matter — the Holy Ants.
These Holy Ants were a breed of ant he had obtained from the Black Dragon Sect, possessing a particularly strong ability to reproduce and evolve into Sacred Spirit Ants. Once evolved into Sacred Spirit Ants, the strength of the Holy Ants would undergo a qualitative change. Unfortunately, however, these Holy Ants were very difficult to cultivate!
Firstly, there were too many of them, making controlling them with his soul complicated; secondly, the strength of these Holy Ants was not particularly strong, so a large number of them were required.
Therefore, Yang Chen had been feeding these Holy Ants with various materials for the past two years, and he didn’t know how much effort he had put into it. He had no choice but to rob those mountain bandits because if he didn’t, he wouldn’t have the time to!
Fortunately, his hard work paid off, and he finally managed to cultivate these Holy Ants.
“Young Master, I now have full control over these Holy Ants. And the ant race they reproduce can be used by me as soon as they are born. When these Holy Ants work together, their strength should not be underestimated,” Yun Lu said happily, having spent a lot of effort on the Holy Ants.
Yang Chen nodded: “Senior Yun Lu, what kind of power do you estimate these Holy Ants have?”
“It’s hard to say right now, but against a first-level master of the True Martial Realm, there should be no problem!” Yun Lu replied.
“Oh?” Yang Chen was neither satisfied nor disappointed with the result.
He didn’t know how many materials he had spent on these Holy Ants in two years. With the original strength of the Holy Ants and the cultivation he had provided, fighting against a first-level practitioner of the True Martial Realm would naturally not be difficult.
With this in mind, Yang Chen asked, “So are you saying that you cannot determine the actual strength of the opponent a Holy Ant can fight against, Senior Yun Lu?”
“We would have to test it to know for sure. The strength of each Holy Ant is different, so it’s difficult to determine the overall strength,” Yun Lu couldn’t quite discern it either.
Yang Chen rubbed his eyebrows, “That’s easy, let’s go to the Tiandu Divine Country and test them on some stubborn demonic beasts!”
Yang Chen left several elders of the Fishpeople Tribe to stay here. After all, this was Beishan Main City, not the Yuanshan Sect. Although the people of Beishan Main City respected him and wouldn’t dare to intrude without permission, he still had to be cautious.
With that, Yang Chen directly activated the Teleportation Artifact and headed straight to the Tiandu Divine Country.
Later, Yang Chen asked Yu Ban to find a stubborn, unyielding demonic beast that was unlikely to submit to him and locked onto it.
This was a first-level demonic beast of the True Martial Realm, a Yellow-spotted Tiger. It was huge, three meters long, and eyed Yang Chen intently, growling in beast language. However, it didn’t seem to have any intentions of engaging in deep communication with Yang Chen. After roaring a few times, it lunged directly at him.
“Elder Yu Ban said that you are stubborn and unwilling to submit to humans, and I am not interested in fighting against you, Yellow-spotted Tiger!” Yang Chen waved his hand.
“Let me be your opponent.” Yun Lu exclaimed excitedly within the Eight Extremities Flowing River Space.
Following her voice, thousands of golden ants appeared and swarmed the area.
There must be at least tens of thousands of ants, if not hundreds of thousands!
“So many!” Yang Chen was greatly shocked.
He hadn’t paid much attention to Yun Lu’s cultivation of the Holy Ants. Most of the time, Yun Lu just asked for materials, and he provided them immediately.
As for the ants themselves, he was too lazy to inquire and didn’t think too much about it.
However, he never expected that the number of Holy Ants, which had been few in number two years ago, would now be in the tens of thousands. He wasn’t even sure if the number “ten thousand” could describe all of the Holy Ants.
“Young Master, what’s so surprising about this? Holy Ants belong to the ant race, and what the ant race is best at is reproduction. Two years might not be enough time for humans to reproduce much, but it’s different for Holy Ants. They can easily reproduce in the millions. With my personal cultivation, the number of Holy Ants is naturally as numerous as cow hairs,” Yun Lu said, not surprised at all.
Yang Chen was completely shocked: “What, you mean the lowest number of these ants is in the millions? So, the ants you’ve summoned now are just a small fraction of the total?”
“Yes, Young Master. There are so many Holy Ants that if the Eight Extremities Flowing River Space weren’t big enough, I would have been tormented to death. But don’t assume that a large number of Holy Ants means that they’re powerful. The majority of Holy Ants are actually quite weak, and they rely solely on their numbers when fighting against enemies. Moreover, it’s very difficult for millions of Holy Ants to evolve into Sacred Spirit Ants. We’ll need to cultivate even more Holy Ants!” Yun Lu explained.
This made Yang Chen blink, “So out of these millions of Holy Ants, not a single one has the potential to evolve into a Sacred Spirit Ant right now?”
Yun Lu replied, “There are only three potential ones, and I have only sent one, which is currently one of the kings among the Holy Ants!”
Yang Chen had a general understanding of the Holy Ants’ situation. Now, as he watched the large number of Holy Ants competing against the Yellow-spotted Tiger, his heart was stirred by the waves of astonishment.
Because in the confrontation between the Yellow-spotted Tiger and these Holy Ants, the tiger was instantly overwhelmed, flailing and biting randomly, with no power to fight back!