Chapter 497 Gold-eating Ants

"It seems to be the case." Chen Feng nodded. Although he had never mined such metal mines, Chen Feng still had some understanding. For example, the ore he had obtained before had some ordinary stones and impurities on it. Not to mention these metal mines, even the spiritual stone mines were the same.

Chen Feng said as he walked forward a few steps again, and then picked up another fist-sized stone. Sure enough, this stone was much heavier than the previous one. Chen Feng knew that the content of black iron in it was much more than the previous one.

"This is iron essence grass, a kind of medicinal herb that grows near metal mines. It can be used when refining magic weapons." Chen Feng stretched out his hand and pulled up a medicinal herb with a metallic color on the mountain. This medicinal herb seemed to be made of metal and was heavy in his hand, but Chen Feng could feel the rich essence of iron from this iron essence grass.

"It seems that cultivators who practice gold magic can also practice with this medicinal herb." Chen Feng said as his palm emitted a suction force, and soon the iron essence in the iron essence grass was absorbed cleanly, and the iron essence grass also shriveled down.

"Only iron grass?" As Chen Feng continued to move forward, iron grass flew up from the hard ground. What surprised Chen Feng was that although there were many medicinal herbs on the hill, there was only one kind of iron grass.

"What's so strange? This is a black iron mine. What else can grow if not iron grass? Why are you so slow? Watch me." The tower couldn't help it and started to move. A huge vortex suddenly appeared in front of Chen Feng. The vortex emitted a strong suction force. Wherever it passed, whether it was iron grass or black iron ore, it all fell into the vortex. The medicinal field in the Changsheng Tower was expanding rapidly, and there was also a small hill of black iron ore.

Bang!

Chen Feng waved his hand, and a huge sword aura flashed by. A large trench more than 20 feet long and several feet deep was split on the hard mountain. Stones flew everywhere, iron chips splashed, and even harder black iron was exposed in the trench.

"It's really hard. If I use this sword to cut down an ordinary earth mountain, I can cut down a mountaintop. But now it doesn't have much effect. Forget it, let Ta handle it." Looking at the situation in front of him, Chen Feng stopped doing it. It was clearly a waste of effort.

"There is black iron ore here. There must be monsters in such a good place, right?" Chen Feng came to the top of the mountain in one breath and checked the situation around him.

"But if I get so much black iron this time, I will have materials to refine some metal puppets in the future. Yes, if I refine some black iron puppets, I can use them as guards in the future, and they can also play a role at critical moments." Chen Feng suddenly thought of this matter.

Although the puppet refining technique is not very advanced, and the puppets refined are only physical attacks, but Chen Feng knows that if this kind of thing is used well, it can play a good role. For example, if a black iron puppet approaches a cultivator who is not good at close combat, then a punch may be able to solve the opponent.

"I will swallow 90% of the black iron here and leave 10% for you." Ta said.

"No problem." Chen Feng smiled.

At this moment, Chen Feng's figure suddenly shook, disappeared from the original place, and appeared ten meters away. A black ant bigger than a palm appeared where Chen Feng had just stood, and a piece of hard ore on the ground had been neatly broken into two halves.

"Gold-eating ant!"

Chen Feng was a little surprised. He had seen this kind of thing before in the Demon Soul Valley, but the color was a little different, and the body shape was exactly the same.

Then Chen Feng returned to normal. This kind of thing specializes in swallowing some metals. Since there is black iron ore here, it is normal for gold-eating ants to appear. This kind of creature in front of him is actually not a monster. The strength of a single one is not strong, but when this kind of creature appears in groups, it is a disaster, and this is originally a social creature.

Whoosh!

This gold-eating ant did not attack Chen Feng. The body bounced and turned into a black light. It rushed towards Chen Feng's neck again, and the sharp foot clamped the black light, trying to directly twist Chen Feng's neck off.

Chen Feng caught the gold-eating ant in his hand with a wave of his hand: "This little thing still wants to attack me."

After being caught in Chen Feng's hand, the gold-eating ant still bit Chen Feng's finger fiercely. Chen Feng did not dodge and deliberately let the other party bite on his finger.

A drop of blood flowed down Chen Feng's finger. Chen Feng was a little surprised. On the one hand, his physical body was strong, and on the other hand, he was wearing a ninth-grade treasure-level protective armor. It stands to reason that it is impossible for ordinary Tianren realm cultivators to break Chen Feng's defense. However, the gold-eating ant in front of him could actually bite a wound on his finger. This had to surprise Chen Feng. This gold-eating ant was much more powerful than the one he saw in the Demon Soul Valley.

Chen Feng exerted force in his hand, but felt that the gold-eating ant was like a black iron, extremely hard, but in the end it was squeezed into a ball by Chen Feng, and it couldn't die anymore.

"This is simply a ball of metal." Looking at the shapeless gold-eating ant in his hand, Chen Feng felt that it was no different from a piece of steel, but of course it was much harder than ordinary steel.

"Gold-eating ants usually eat metal, and their bodies are much harder than ordinary metals. Although the black iron in front of us is hard, it may not be as hard as this gold-eating ant." Ta said.

"Gold-eating ants are social creatures. There won't be only one here, right?" Chen Feng guessed in his heart.

Just when this thought flashed through Chen Feng's mind, the hard ground in front of Chen Feng suddenly swelled up, just like a small mound suddenly swelled up, but Chen Feng knew that it was not a small mound in front of him, because it was all hard black iron ore.

Bang!

The hard ground exploded, and the gold-eating ants with bared fangs and claws gushed out from the ground like a fountain. As soon as they came out, they used group tactics and attacked Chen Feng in a black mass.

Just when Chen Feng wanted to retreat and dodge, the ground around him suddenly exploded in three places, and countless gold-eating ants quickly surrounded Chen Feng.

"So many gold-eating ants must have entered the ant nest, but why didn't I notice it at the beginning?" Although Chen Feng felt a little strange in his heart, he still did not forget to resist the attacks from all around.

The Zhoutian domain unfolded, and the gold-eating ants that pounced on Chen Feng flew backwards one after another, and some were smashed into pieces or squeezed into balls of metal by Chen Feng's Zhoutian power.

However, the subsequent performance of these gold-eating ants made Chen Feng open his eyes wide. He saw that these gold-eating ants continued to pounce on Chen Feng after being knocked away, but they bit at the domain power that Chen Feng launched.

"These gold-eating ants are hidden in the black iron ore and integrated with the surrounding metals. It is indeed not easy to find them." Ta said.

"Don't gold-eating ants only devour metals? How can they even devour my Zhoutian power?" Chen Feng asked again.

"Who said that gold-eating ants can only devour metals? The origin of the name of gold-eating ants is that they can even devour metals, let alone other things. Some powerful gold-eating ants can devour most of the substances in the world, of course, including spiritual energy and mana." Ta explained.

"If there are enough gold-eating ants, wouldn't they be able to devour the entire world?" Chen Feng said in surprise.

"Theoretically, it is possible, and such a thing has indeed happened."

"It really happened." Chen Feng was even more surprised. He quickly grabbed two gold-eating ants with both hands and squeezed them hard, as if two pieces of metal were deformed.

The power of these gold-eating ants was beyond Chen Feng's imagination. Chen Feng clearly felt that the Zhoutian power he emitted was constantly weakening. Soon, several gold-eating ants broke through the Zhoutian field and bit Chen Feng.

"Zhoutian Fire!"

Chen Feng sneered, and the Zhoutian power was completely transformed into the Zhoutian Fire Power. At the same time, the Fire Bagua Sword also flew out, constantly cutting and killing around Chen Feng.

Fire overcomes gold.

This time the power came out, and all the gold-eating ants close to Chen Feng melted under the high temperature of the fire power, or were cut into pieces by the Fire Bagua Sword.

In one breath, dozens of gold-eating ants were killed by Chen Feng, but more gold-eating ant nests exploded. These gold-eating ants seemed to be fearless of death. They continued to move forward in groups. When one died, two came. More and more gold-eating ants surrounded Chen Feng, and Chen Feng was completely trapped in the sea of ​​gold-eating ants.

Chen Feng understood that this kind of social creature was the least afraid of death, just like a pack of wolves. They knew that the enemy was difficult to provoke, but they were still not afraid of death. They attacked in waves, even if they died a thousand times, they would tear the enemy into pieces.

"It's a pity to have so many murderous gold-eating ants." Chen Feng said, directly using the power of the Longevity Tower to open a huge passage. Under the strong suction force, these gold-eating ants were collected into the Longevity Tower one after another, and Chen Feng separated a space on the first floor of the Longevity Tower, gathered these gold-eating ants in one place, and then took out some metal ores and threw them into the ant colony as food for these gold-eating ants.

"Why, do you still want to keep these little things? Why do you throw everything into my body?" The tower was a little dissatisfied.

"I wonder if we can cultivate one or two gold-eating ants of the demon king level?" Chen Feng said with a smile.

In fact, Chen Feng was just joking. The most direct reason for collecting these gold-eating ants into the Longevity Tower was to save trouble. This time, there were at least 8,000 cultivators who came into the secret realm. Chen Feng naturally had to collect the good things quickly to avoid more trouble.

Chen Feng controlled the passage and kept walking back and forth, specifically walking to the place where there were many gold-eating ant nests. A full 10,000 gold-eating ants entered the Longevity Tower. At this time, these gold-eating ants were finally terrified and began to flee one by one. Once the atmosphere of fear spread, these gold-eating ants soon fled cleanly, and no one dared to approach Chen Feng anymore.