The entire battle lasted less than five minutes.
A total of twenty-five venomous scorpions were crushed into pulp by Xiao Gu.
Su Ye waved his hand and continued forward.
As the saying goes, the higher you stand, the farther you see. Sitting on Chi Lie's back, Su Ye could easily see things far away.
Whenever he spotted a monster, he would order Chi Lie and Xiao Gu to approach it.
Then they would engage in battle.
Of course, Su Ye didn't stay idle either. He would jump off Chi Lie's back and join the fight to gain experience.
It was through this constant killing of monsters that Su Ye's level gradually increased.
Slaying wave after wave of monsters, Su Ye, Chi Lie, and Xiao Gu expanded their exploration range further and further.
The monsters they encountered, from the first-order Goblins, Gnomes, and second-order Venomous Scorpions, Toads, had evolved into higher-level creatures.
Su Ye rode Chi Lie, swiftly gliding through the air.
Suddenly, Xiao Gu, crawling on the ground, stopped and began rolling around within a patch of forest.
Noticing this, Su Ye frowned and immediately ordered Chi Lie to turn back.
As Su Ye and Chi Lie descended from the air, they were shocked by what they saw.
Xiao Gu was being swarmed by a dense mass of ants.
Almost the entire length of his ten-meter bone body was covered with fiery red ants.
Those creatures opened their mandibles and gnawed on Xiao Gu's bones, causing him to roar repeatedly.
Logically, Xiao Gu lacked flesh and blood, so these ants shouldn't cause much harm to him.
But that wasn't the case. When these ants bit their enemies, they released an acidic substance.
This acidic substance was corrosive, softening and eroding Xiao Gu's bones.
This was also why Xiao Gu was roaring relentlessly.
Because his health was steadily declining under the relentless onslaught of these ants.
Looking at the ants, they weren't large, with a body length of only about fifty centimeters.
They were completely fiery red, densely packed, numbering in the thousands, sending shivers down your spine.
“Quickly, save Xiao Gu,” Su Ye patted Chi Lie's head.
Then he leaped from Chi Lie's back, simultaneously throwing a detection skill towards the swarm of ants in front of him.
【Crimson Armored Fire Ant】
Tier: Four
Level: 5
Health: 5000
Attack: 750
Defense: 200
Speed: 140
Skills: Bite: Opens mandibles and bites the enemy, injecting acidic poison into them, causing a searing pain as if burned by flames.
Dig: Fire Ants are excellent burrowers. Their limbs can slide rapidly, digging tunnels beneath the ground.
Description: Crimson Armored Fire Ants are small in size, but they are social creatures. Once you encounter their colony, immediately flee. Because once they detect you, they will swarm you, devouring you to the bone. Remember, the saying “Many ants can kill an elephant”.
Seeing the Crimson Armored Fire Ant's attribute panel, Su Ye swallowed his saliva.
His skin felt a sense of tightness, goosebumps erupting.
He vaguely recalled a scene from his previous life.
An army of millions of ants swept across the land, gnawing every living creature into bone.
Only those who flew into the sky could survive.
Although these creatures were small, their collective action was enough to make you feel the threat of death.
He hadn't expected to find such a colony near his territory.
Su Ye started to feel fortunate that he discovered this.
Otherwise, once this Crimson Armored Fire Ant colony grew to millions, it would pose a significant threat to his territory.
With Chi Lie's help, Xiao Gu was quickly freed. The Crimson Armored Fire Ants on his body were shaken off and then stomped into meat patties.
Only then did Su Ye clearly see Xiao Gu's condition.
In just a few minutes of being gnawed, his 250,000 health points had dropped by a third. The once smooth, jade-like white bones were covered with countless small pits.
These were the pits eroded by the Crimson Armored Fire Ants' acidic venom.
And they were also the main source of Xiao Gu's injuries.
“Roar!”
Xiao Gu let out a furious roar, clearly hating the ants before him.
Su Ye looked at Chi Lie and gave him a nod.
Chi Lie understood and got into position, spewing a dragon breath towards the relentlessly attacking ants.
A stream of intensely hot flames erupted from Chi Lie's mouth, sweeping across, instantly incinerating all fire ants that came into contact with it.
They then exploded with a series of "poof, poof" sounds.
Their bodies burst open, releasing a surge of acidic substance.
This burning instantly stirred up a hornet's nest.
The ant nest hidden underground roared open with a loud boom.
Tens of thousands of Crimson Armored Fire Ants swarmed forward, sweeping towards them.
“Damn, there are so many!”
Su Ye cursed, his face turning pale.
He was well aware of the threat posed by the Crimson Armored Fire Ants.
One wouldn't be a problem, two wouldn't be a problem, even three you could handle. But what about ten times that number? A hundred times that number? Could you still handle it?
“Xiao Gu, retreat.” Su Ye commanded.
He also started to withdraw himself.
The Crimson Armored Fire Ants were quick, and their numbers were overwhelming. Within mere seconds, many had already reached Su Ye's feet.
Su Ye gripped the steel longsword in his hand and unleashed a Whirlwind Slash.
The sword energy roared, spreading outward.
Although the Crimson Armored Fire Ants were fourth-tier monsters, their attributes were extremely low, and their health points were only in the thousands.
Even Su Ye could easily kill them.
One by one, the fire ants were slain, releasing blue light points from their bodies, converging towards Su Ye.
Su Ye and Xiao Gu fought and retreated, but Chi Lie was different.
He spewed dragon breath, like a dragon god descended, burning all approaching fire ants to ashes.
The crackling sounds of explosions echoed continuously. In a short time, a small mountain of Crimson Armored Fire Ant corpses had piled up beside Chi Lie.
His level, after days of hard work, finally reached level three.
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