Chapter 225: Ten Evil Bloodlines

In the central area of ​​the Eastern Wasteland, in a valley and stone forest with sparse vegetation, the essence of heaven and earth is more than 30% thinner than elsewhere.

In the Central Region, where the essence of heaven and earth is extremely rich, the valley and stone forest seem a bit desolate, and seem somewhat out of tune with the vitality of the surrounding mountains.

The mysterious queen ant mentioned by Old Peng Wang and other demon kings in the Central Region, her nest is under this remote stone forest.

Standing in the huge ant nest, Li Zhi seemed to have come to a vast underground cave world.

There are so many caves, and no one knows where they lead to.

A large number of ants are constantly shuttling back and forth in the cave. If you have trypophobia, you will probably tremble all over when you see this scene.

From the most common small ants that are only a few millimeters long to large ants that are more than ten feet long, they can all be seen in the ant nest.

It seems like this place is a kingdom of ants. There are white, black, golden, blue and all kinds of colors of ants.

Even some ants seemed to have mutated, their appearance had changed, and their legs were as sharp as blades.

What made Li Zhi feel strange was that even though the big ants had transformed into ferocious insects, their intelligence was still confused and they did not have the wisdom that ordinary transformed monsters should have. It was as if after their strength became stronger, their intelligence was not awakened accordingly, and their wisdom was still similar to that of ordinary ants.

Almost all ants rely on instinct to move around in their nests.

Li Zhi discovered that ordinary ants carried ordinary food into the ant nest, while ants at the spiritual insect level carried items rich in the essence of heaven and earth into the depths of the ant nest.

Even some ants with special bloodlines can liquefy the essence of heaven and earth into drops and carry the spiritual liquid directly into their nests.

After seeing what the spirit ants were carrying, Li Zhi understood why the essence of heaven and earth within hundreds of miles of the stone forest in the valley was so thin.

Li Zhi was a little surprised that he could not find the queen ant after walking through the ant nest that seemed to have no end and passing countless crossroads.

Moreover, there seems to be a kind of energy in the ant nest that can interfere with and devour spiritual consciousness. Once the spiritual consciousness leaves the body, it will disappear quickly.

This is true even for Li Zhi's spiritual consciousness, which has been tempered through thousands of trials.

Moreover, the Sky Eye was ineffective here and could not see through the earth, preventing him from seeing the entire picture of the ant nest.

You can only rely on your naked eyes to observe the surrounding environment to find the whereabouts of the queen ant.

Fortunately, the cultivation level was not suppressed inside the ant nest, so Li Zhi was not reduced to the point where he could only walk on two legs.

The deeper you go into the ant nest, the more it feels like you've entered a maze with no exit, as if you'll never be able to walk through all the caves.

The desire to learn from the mysterious queen ant was also extinguished during this endless search.

At one point, Li Zhi wondered if he had come to the wrong place.

But Li Zhi also believed that the demon kings would not lie to him, and that there was indeed a powerful and mysterious queen ant here.

Not only had the old golden-winged Peng King fought with the Queen Ant before, but several other demon kings in the Central Region had also fought with the Queen Ant, and all of them felt despair at the Queen Ant's terrifying power.

Although more than three hundred years have passed since the queen ant last appeared.

But they were sure that the queen ant had not moved and was still living in the deepest part of the ant nest.

And seeing that there are so many species of ants here, there must be a powerful king, otherwise they cannot coexist peacefully.

Although there are no restrictions along the way, the countless forks in the road are more terrifying than the restrictions.

Once discovered by the ants in the nest and besieged, you will probably never be able to get out.

Along the way, Li Zhi strictly followed the precautions of concealing his breath and figure, so that his whereabouts were not discovered by those weak-minded ants.

Although the ant nest is underground, it is not completely dark. From time to time, a section of the cave wall emitting milky white light will appear inside the cave.

It seems that the entire nest is associated with a huge jade mine.

Li Zhi tested the solidity of the cave and found it was much stronger than ordinary rock caves.

After searching in the nest for five days, Li Zhi still couldn't find the whereabouts of the queen ant.

Helpless, he had to find another way.

Attach your spiritual consciousness to the ants that are carrying the spiritual liquid, and follow them to find the whereabouts of the queen ant.

Three days later, he finally made a surprising discovery.

At the deepest part of an ordinary cave in the ant nest, Li Zhi discovered two tightly closed stone doors.

And through his observation, it seemed that the spiritual energy in the entire ant nest was gathering behind the stone gate.

Seeing that the stone door in the cave was tightly closed, as if it had not been opened for hundreds of years, Li Zhi offered a set of formation flags and sealed the cave directly.

Avoid being disturbed by other ants in the nest.

Then Li Zhi carefully opened the stone door.

Although there were restrictions on the stone gate, they were just ordinary restrictions and were useless in Li Zhi's eyes.

After unlocking the restriction on the stone door, Li Zhi temporarily summoned the Immortal Phoenix Seal to protect his body, and then he officially pushed open the stone door.

Behind the stone gate was not the queen ant's cave that Li Zhi expected, but an entrance to a small world of sages.

Li Zhi felt a strong bloody energy in the small world, as if there was a vast sea of ​​blood inside.

There was also a huge murderous aura emanating from the cave, which seemed to be able to directly destroy the soul of a powerful person.

Li Zhi did not enter the entrance directly, but instead sacrificed a gourd magic weapon to absorb all the murderous aura that enveloped the entrance.

Afterwards, after making sure there was no danger, he carefully entered the entrance of the mysterious little world.

After entering the small world, what comes into view is not a small world of sages with beautiful mountains, rivers, and colorful flowers, but an ancient cave world with no grass.

Directly entered a mysterious cave.

An aura that seemed to come from the ancient fairyland floated from the cave. The ancient cave seemed to have been submerged in a sea of ​​blood, and a heart-pounding aura still remained.

Although the fierce murderous aura has long disappeared from the dark red stone walls of the cave, some special aura still remains, as if indicating how intense the murderous intent was in this place back then.

Li Zhi walked in the ancient cave, looking at the traces of ancient battles remaining on the cave walls. In some places, vague and mysterious carvings could be vaguely seen, as if they were not from this era.

After walking for hundreds of miles in the ancient cave, he found neither amazing creation nor mysterious death place.

Li Zhi couldn't help but think in his heart: "This place doesn't look like the place where the queen ant lives. It looks more like an ancient cave left by an ancient ant king."

But the next surprising discovery directly negated his idea.

He saw a stone carving of a humanoid ant on an ancient stone in the cave.

Even after thousands of years of baptism, the patterns on the stone carvings are still clearly visible.

"The Sky-Horned Ant, there is actually a picture of the Sky-Horned Ant, one of the Ten Evils, here. Unbelievable, really incredible."

Although there was no trace of Taoism left on the engraving, Li Zhi was shocked.

This place is actually related to the Ten Evils. It is definitely not an ordinary treasure land.

Li Zhi became more cautious.

That mysterious queen ant seemed to be much more powerful than he had imagined.

If the mysterious queen ant really got what the giant horn ants left behind, her real achievement would probably be immeasurable.

Fortunately, Li Zhi did not sense any other life fluctuations in the ancient cave.

It seems that the queen ant is not at home.

Finally, Li Zhi arrived at the deepest part of the ancient cave. After passing through a long and narrow tunnel, he entered a huge cave hall.

Inside the cave hall, he saw a huge golden ant that looked like a small hill.

However, there was no trace of life force in the golden ant anymore.

It seems that he has been dead for a long time.

Moreover, Li Zhi faintly felt an aura from it that belonged to a saint.

However, the aura of the saint was too weak, unlike the holy body left behind by a true saint after death.

At the same time, a layer of golden light emanated from the golden ant, covering most of the cave hall.

There was no special arrangement inside the cave hall. Apart from the corpse of the big golden ant, there was only a huge mysterious blood pool shining with golden light.

Moreover, the blood in the pool seemed to be flowing from the giant golden ant.

"How did it die? Could it be that this big golden ant is actually the queen ant that Old Peng King mentioned?"

Li Zhi did not touch the golden light film, but stopped at a distance to observe.

After observing for a while, Li Zhi suddenly opened his eyes of life and death and looked inside the mysterious blood pool.

A golden divine egg, sparkling with mysterious avenue runes, sank quietly to the bottom of the pool, slowly devouring the life essence in the blood pool.

Inside the divine egg, there is an extremely strong life fluctuation, as if it is nurturing a divine ant with extremely extraordinary bloodline.

Upon seeing this, Li Zhi pondered it for a while and then left the cave hall.

Then he wandered around the other branch caves.

Several locations were discovered where magical herbs once grew.

Apart from that, there is nothing else.

However, inside some branch caves, some rock walls seemed to have been peeled off by someone, and the time of peeling would definitely not exceed 500 years. Li Zhi, who had no gains, returned to the cave hall where the golden ant, which was as big as a hill, had passed away.

Then, he used the divine picture to protect himself, and then used his divine power to slightly test the golden light curtain.

"when!"

After the divine power came into contact with the golden light curtain, a sound of metal collision was immediately heard.

At the same time, a powerful recoil force that could only be released by a king's divine weapon emanated from the light curtain.

If one is not fully prepared, even the most powerful person could be killed by the recoil force.

Fortunately, Li Zhi was careful enough and made full preparations in advance.

At the same time, Li Zhi also discovered the source of the divine power, which seemed to come from inside the head of the big ant.

Then, Li Zhi immediately used the corpse-touching technique he learned from Duan De, and directly took out a small golden tripod as heavy as a mountain from the golden ant's fairyland secret realm.

The small tripod is only the size of a fist, but it seems to weigh more than 10 million pounds.

It was because Li Zhi's body was extremely strong that he did not let the small tripod slip away from his hand the moment he grabbed it.

As Li Zhi used his magical powers to take out the golden small tripod from the golden ant's fairy platform, the light curtain covering most of the cave hall also disappeared.

It seems that its existence is entirely due to the small golden tripod.

At the same time, the body of the golden ant seemed to have lost its support and began to weather rapidly.

In just a few breaths, it turned into a pile of ashes flickering with dark golden light.

Li Zhi didn't even have time to take things out from other secret realms.

The essence within the golden ant's body was completely lost.

After using the "Soldier" secret method to temporarily control the small tripod, Li Zhi put it away.

Then, Li Zhi looked towards the mysterious blood pool. He could feel the surging life force and a mysterious power that seemed to collapse the heavens from the blood pool.

"The essence and blood of the sky-horned ant? It shouldn't be. Could it be the essence and blood of the giant golden ant?" Li Zhi didn't have a definite answer in his mind.

Then he carefully summoned a ball of blood from the blood pool for research and found that the blood had essentially reached the level of holy blood.

However, most of the essence had already dissipated, as if it had been absorbed by the divine egg in the blood pool.

Could it be that this giant golden ant was a terrifying demon at the semi-saint level when he was alive?
The so-called semi-saint is one whose physical body has become a saint, but whose soul and the great Dao have not yet reached the level of a saint.

But they were tainted by a Holy Son, which made them extraordinary.

The blood pool only contained the essence of life, but no murderous intent, as if the murderous intent had been eliminated by the giant golden ant before it died.

After observing for a while, Li Zhi fished out the golden divine egg at the bottom of the pool.

After the golden divine egg was caught in Li Zhi's hand, it immediately exuded a sense of fear, and then the life fluctuations quickly subsided, as if it was frightened to death.

Li Zhi was slightly stunned when he saw this, but he soon figured out the clue that the little life nurtured in the divine egg was actually pretending to be dead.

Then Li Zhi said to the divine egg: "Little guy, don't be afraid. I won't hurt you."

The life nurtured in the divine egg has already developed intelligence. Although it has not yet reached full maturity and is born, its intelligence seems to be higher than that of all the ants outside.

Seeing that the divine egg had no reaction, Li Zhi thought about it and sealed it with the divine source block, allowing it to continue growing with the help of the life essence in the divine source.

Afterwards, Li Zhi placed it in a sacred place within the Hundred Herbs Map.

After doing all this, Li Zhi began to study the golden blood pool in front of him.

Half a day later, Li Zhi jumped directly into the blood pool and began to absorb the essence in the blood pool to strengthen his body.

Sure enough, the blood pool contains a mysterious energy that is very helpful for physical cultivation.

After absorbing all the essence in the blood pool, Li Zhi's body was greatly strengthened.

"Could it be that the big golden ant has awakened the bloodline of the Sky-Horned Ant?"

Coming out of the blood pool, feeling the tremendous changes in his body, Li Zhi couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Otherwise it would be inexplicable that just by bathing in the blood of a semi-saint, his body, which was comparable to that of a great god king, became 50% stronger.

Then, Li Zhi quietly left the ant nest and sealed the stone door again.

He also released the evil spirit that he had collected in the magic gourd and blocked the entrance to the ancient cave world.

After leaving the queen ant's territory, Li Zhi did not go far, but directly chose a sacred mountain and opened up a temporary cave.

He wanted to stop and study the small golden tripod.

Something seemed to be sealed inside that small golden tripod.

After Li Zhi used the secret of the word "bing" to unlock the seal on the golden tripod, he discovered that it was a semi-saint-level life-saving magic weapon that surpassed the king's magic weapon.

It seems to be the magical weapon refined by the golden giant ant.

And many things were sealed inside the small tripod.

There are not only elixirs, pure sources, and divine sources for cultivation, but also two small medicinal kings with a medicinal age of about 50,000 years and a real medicinal king with a medicinal age of more than 100,000 years.

In addition, there are ancient scriptures for the demon race to practice, and some practice notes.

Among them, there is a cultivation scripture that seems to be created by the golden giant ant. It focuses on purifying blood, digging out the inheritance hidden in the deepest part of the blood, and finally transforming into a sky ant.

What surprised Li Zhi the most were the fourteen stone walls with mysterious carvings.

After Li Zhi pieced the stone walls together for contemplation, he was surprised to find that they were actually explaining the magic of the Sky-Horned Ant.

However, it is extremely incomplete and probably less than one thousandth of the ten evil magics back then.

It seems that the volume of demon cultivation scriptures suitable for ants to practice was evolved by the golden ants based on the incomplete magic techniques of the sky-horned ants on these stone walls.

Then, Li Zhi began to read the contents of those cultivation notes.

Soon he saw a letter left by the big golden ant for a child.

"Little Jinzi, when you see this letter, I will have already left you. Don't be sad or upset. I was born because of the Tao and I will die because of the Tao. I have no regrets. It is my lifelong regret that I cannot break through the shackles of heaven and earth and become a demon saint... You must work hard to practice, strive to be the best, and fulfill my wish. Recreate the supreme glory of my God Ant Clan."

After reading the letter, Li Zhi finally understood the whole story.

That big golden ant is the mysterious queen ant.

Four hundred years ago, her cultivation had reached the realm of a great king, and then she spent a hundred years and found that no matter how hard she tried, her bloodline could not continue to evolve. Then, she chose to forcibly transcend the tribulation and become a saint. Under the terrifying tribulation, although her body persisted and turned into a saintly body, her soul suffered a fatal wound.

In the end, relying on the powerful power of her blood, she did not perish on the spot. Instead, she dragged her seriously injured body back to the ant nest and laid a divine egg.

Afterwards, the queen ant transformed all her life essence and semi-saint origin into the pool of blood that Li Zhi saw, and used it to nurture the divine egg.

The reason why the queen ant was able to evolve from an ordinary little ant all the way to a peerless demon king at the great king level.

It is inextricably linked to the mysterious ancient cave world that she accidentally discovered deep in the ant nest.

Back then, she discovered a pool of blood in the small world. There was a basin of mysterious blood left in the pool. After absorbing and refining the mysterious blood, a trace of the Sky-Horned Ant's bloodline was born in her body.

From then on, she made rapid progress, and even the calamity of the path of death could not stop her.

Unfortunately, fate played a trick on her. She clearly still had another two to three thousand years to live, but she was eager for quick success and chose to force her way through the tribulation of becoming a saint.

Ultimately she ended up in failure, but the power of her bloodline after her physical body had transformed was so powerful that she did not die in the thunderbolt. After returning to the ant nest, she laid a divine egg and persisted for another seven years before finally passing away.

After reading the life story of the queen ant in the notebook, Li Zhi was surprised at her fate.

Unfortunately, between the lines, Li Zhi discovered that although the queen ant had evolved from an ordinary little ant into a great demon king, and even reached the semi-saint level before her death, her wisdom seemed very ordinary, far inferior to that of other demon kings, let alone humans.

However, relying on the incomplete magic of the sky-horned ant and a basin of divine blood, the queen ant actually grew into a demon king at the semi-saint level in just two thousand years, which shows the power of her ancestral blood after her revival.

If three hundred years ago, she had not chosen to force her way through the Saint Tribulation, but had continued to accumulate spiritual power, by the time the world had revived, she would probably have successfully grown into a Demon Saint, right?

After resealing all the things left by the queen ant in the heavy golden tripod, Li Zhi took out the golden divine egg that he had sealed with the divine source from the Hundred Herbs Map.

"Little guy, although absorbing the divine essence can allow you to continue to grow, it will not open your wisdom. If you don't want to end up like your mother, I will send you to a mysterious place to continue your growth. I wonder if you are willing to be my apprentice?"

On a whim, Li Zhi suddenly felt that the divine ant bred in this golden divine egg had a master-disciple relationship with him.

"Yes, I do. Master, Master."

The creature inside the golden divine egg immediately sent out a joyful thought, as if it was very satisfied with Li Zhi's proposal.

It was as if its mother had once explained this to it.

After receiving the little guy's response, Li Zhi smiled and said, "From now on, you are my eldest disciple."

Afterwards, Li Zhi sent the golden divine egg into the divine coffin of life and placed it under the human-shaped elixir of immortality to continue nurturing.

The special aura emitted by the humanoid elixir will subtly transform her qualifications, awaken her wisdom, and allow her to no longer lack the wisdom of cultivation like her mother due to the congenital defects of her race.

The divine ant that possesses a trace of the blood of the Ten Evils will have absolutely powerful talents once it truly matures.

Li Zhi was looking forward to seeing how big of a surprise she would bring him when she was born.

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(End of this chapter)