Chapter 615: The Powerful Poison God Ant

A ninth-rank Poison God Ant at the Great Sage realm can be exchanged for at least one hundred contribution points at the arena, equivalent to the purchasing power of one hundred Chaos Crystals.
In the Dojo's Legacy Library, around one hundred contribution points can be exchanged for a time secret technique at the Tenth Heaven realm.
However, Lu Chong's demand for time secret techniques, both in quantity and level, is naturally not something that can be satisfied with just a few hundred contribution points.
And if he could capture a queen ant, even if it was just a queen ant who had just entered the Great Sage Realm, he would have an income of at least tens of thousands of contribution points.
Moreover, he still needed a large number of contribution points to exchange for higher-level body refining and spirit refining elixirs, as well as the right to use the cave mansion's secret realm.
Therefore, Lu Chong set a high goal for himself on this trip.
"These are the Poison God Ants!" Lu Chong carefully observed the combat style and strength of the Poison God Ants.
To be precise, it was a swarm of Poison God Ants.
These exotic beasts always appear in groups.
On the battlefield before them, there were approximately more than three hundred Poison God Ants, each of them at the Great Sage realm.
The Dao Arena had clear regulations in this regard, prohibiting the hunting of Poison God Ants below the Great Sage realm, in order to prevent overexploitation.
These Saint-level Poison God Ants, with a body length of over ten feet, are covered in glossy, black exoskeletons, giving them a somewhat cute and silly appearance.
However, Lu Chong would never underestimate such exotic beasts.
The Poison God Ants not only possess the ability to destroy divine souls with their venom, but their physical bodies are also extremely formidable.
Not to mention their extremely tough exoskeletons, the explosive physical strength they can unleash is even more terrifying, capable of reaching thousands of times their own body weight.
Their six legs are like six sharp piercing spears, allowing them to better utilize their close combat advantage.
When fighting against the Poison God Ants, the best choice is to keep a distance and engage in ranged attacks.
However, when the Poison God Ants swarm together and utilize their rule-based space, they can harmoniously cooperate to trap their opponent in an increasingly smaller area, ultimately surrounding and killing them.
At this moment, on the battlefield below, two Dharma-body projections of the Ninth-Realm Great Sages have been divided and besieged by the Poison God Ants, and the situation is perilous.
Lu Chong has no intention of intervening to save them. He simply continues to observe quietly and silently withdraws his own Dharma-body projection from the battle.
The battle between the Great Sages quickly shifted to the high skies.
"So that's how it is, luring the snake out of its hole?"
It was only at this moment that Lu Chong noticed that the eleven Great Sages were feigning weakness to the enemy. They were fighting while retreating, intending to lure the ant swarm far away from the valley floor.
And above those high-altitude cloud layers, an unknown number of Great Sages had already emerged, ready for battle.
When the ant swarms were lured over, they finally revealed their presence, either by manipulating the laws of space and time or by using sealing-type supreme treasures to cut off the ant swarms' retreat.
Moreover, Lu Chong witnessed the legendary array masters of the Taoist temple in action, deploying grand formations to forcibly scatter the originally unified ant swarm.
In the Taoist temple, array masters are as rare as elixir masters because they both possess unique talents and advantages bestowed by heaven.
"To deal with these troublesome ant colonies, it really takes the cooperation of many people," Lu Chong realized in hindsight.
Because through the previous contact between his Dharma Projection and the ant colonies, Lu Chong also noticed their strength.
Even if he were to take action himself, it would be very difficult to deal with the hundreds of ants that cooperate seamlessly and naturally form a formation.
Moreover, if the ant colony cannot be lured away from the ground, they may escape into the mountains at any time when faced with danger.
By then, it will be more difficult and dangerous to try to capture them underground.
"No wonder many missions at the dojo require teams to complete. There are indeed benefits that solo action doesn't have," Lu Chong realized in hindsight.
Lu Chong seldom teamed up with others, but in situations like this temporary team formation, it wasn't something he couldn't consider.
However, now wasn't the time to talk about this. He was just thinking about whether he should go up and take a share of the spoils.
After getting what he wanted, would he be excluded and targeted by those hundreds of great sages?
"Wait a little longer, there might still be a chance to fish in troubled waters..."
According to his knowledge, behind large swarms of ants, there is usually a queen ant lurking. It all depends on whether one has the ability to lure her out and capture her.
Lu Chong suppressed the fighting spirit in his heart and continued to patiently observe and wait.
At this moment, on the battlefield high in the sky, the ant swarm had completely fallen into a disadvantageous position and was being surrounded and devoured by the hundreds of Great Sages.
It won't be long before this battle is probably over.
At this moment, Lu Chong, who had been hiding and waiting with bated breath, suddenly seemed to sense something and quietly looked towards that valley.
"Is this... the Queen Ant's appearance?!"
Before Lu Chong could confirm, he saw countless Poison God Ants suddenly flying out from the depths of the valley.
And in the center of the army of thousands of Poison God Ants, there was clearly a very unique Poison God Ant, like the moon surrounded by stars, being escorted.
Its body size is twice as large as other poisonous god ants, and it has a pair of semi-transparent wings on its back.
The queen ant personally led the army of poisonous god ants and instantly teleported to the periphery of the high-altitude battlefield, tightly counter-encircling those Great Sages.
Although they do not possess the special talent of a Formation Master to lockdown an area, they can still achieve a lockdown effect by relying on the law of space-time that strengthens through convergence, preventing the Great Sages within from escaping through teleportation.
"These Poison God Ants, or rather, the intelligence of this Ant Queen, must be quite high! She even knows the proverb about the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it," Lu Chong felt a sense of trepidation.
If he had chosen to rush into the battlefield just now, he would probably have been surrounded by the army personally led by the Ant Queen.
You should know that the thousands of Poison God Ants led by the Queen Ant are all at the Ninth Epoch Great Sage realm.
Once caught in the encirclement, Lu Chong himself didn't know if he could escape.
"No wonder it's said that the Queen Ant is difficult to capture. Without the simultaneous cover of several hundred or thousands of Ninth Epoch Great Sages, how could one seize the enemy general's head amidst the myriad troops!"
At this moment, Lu Chong was also drooling over the Ant Queen, but he knew that it would be very difficult for him to have a chance on his own.
Even in the current chaotic battle, there were always hundreds of peak Ninth Rank Great Sage Poison God Ants guarding the Ant Queen from all directions, making it hard to find an opportunity to strike.
Just when Lu Chong thought that this group of foreign great sages was about to meet a tragic end, another sudden change occurred on the battlefield.
A glowing spot suddenly appeared and then rapidly expanded, transforming into a dazzling sun, releasing thousands of light rays in all directions.
The beams of light were terrifyingly powerful, slicing through even the void and leaving countless tiny cracks wherever they passed.
Every Poison God Ant touched by the light was either killed or injured.
In an instant, even the space-time lockdown created by the ant swarm was completely disrupted.
The guard poison ants gathered around the queen were also scattered in an instant.
While Lu Chong was stunned, Cheng Wu's slightly excited voice suddenly came into his mind, "It's the Aurora Token! Quick, take this chance to capture the queen."
"As long as you can capture the ant queen, I can help you cultivate and refine elixirs free of charge," Cheng Wu said, his voice filled with the obsession of an elixir master.
For an elixir master, seeing top-quality elixir refining materials was even more exciting than breaking through to a new cultivation realm.