Chapter 571: Moving Forbidden Zone: Black Crystal Army Ants

Now he had a clear idea; after stopping the operation of the teleportation token, he probed that area with the spiritual artifact flying sword again, but this time it was broken in two again!

Thus, he could be one hundred percent sure that the Great Void Teleportation Token could restrain spatial rifts!

At the very least, it could fix the spatial rift and prevent it from causing harm to the person inside the light shield, which made him incredibly happy! With this thing, his safety in the secret realm could finally be truly guaranteed! However, knowing that time was precious and not daring to delay here for too long, he collected the corpses of the two Shock-Spirit Cicadas and the spiritual artifact fragments from the ground.

He then replenished the shield formation scouting ahead with two more Shock-Spirit Cicadas, and then he continued on his way! After flying forward for about another twenty miles, he finally reached the foot of the mountain; this place also looked bare, with only very sparse, scattered vegetation.

However, at this moment, Lin Zhangqing saw two Foundation Establishment cultivators flying over slowly from a few hundred zhang away, but one of them was injured! Since they had just entered, they certainly hadn't gained anything, so Lin Zhangqing couldn't be bothered to pay attention to them.

He prepared to continue flying into the mountain, but just because he didn't want to cause trouble didn't mean others would let him go!

The two of them saw that he was alone, and after exchanging a glance, they immediately accelerated and surrounded him.

Seeing this situation, Lin Zhangqing simply stopped moving!

He prepared to see what they wanted to do; unexpectedly, the two of them were quite straightforward and simply didn't say a word.

Then, each manipulating two spiritual artifact flying swords, they kept their distance and launched a pincer attack on Lin Zhangqing.

Since that was the case, what they wanted to do was already very obvious!

Lin Zhangqing naturally wouldn't indulge them; with a thought, twenty-four purple rays of light flew out from the Spirit Beast Bracelet.

They automatically split into two batches and pounced toward the two cultivators.

When the two saw so many things flying toward them, they immediately activated their defensive spiritual artifacts, started moving at high speed, and turned their flying swords.

They wanted to intercept the Purple Crystal Scorpions, but unfortunately, they knew nothing about the Purple Crystal Scorpions, let alone how terrifying these little guys were! In just a short while, after two shrill screams, both of them fell from mid-air.

Lin Zhangqing had the Purple Crystal Scorpions deliver the finishing blow to confirm they were dead, and only then did he go over and collect the items on their bodies.

He focused his inspection on the cultivator who had been injured from the start; sure enough, after careful sensing,

the wound on his body was very smooth, and he could also sense a trace of weak spatial power on it.

This proved once again that there were quite a few spatial rifts in this secret realm.

It was estimated that among the five hundred cultivators who entered, quite a few would fall victim to this, and how many would be able to survive and get out was an unknown! Moreover, Lin Zhangqing only just realized that he had been in here for one or two hours, but he hadn't seen any demonic beasts.

This was an extremely abnormal situation; in his understanding, no matter how harsh the environment, there should be some demonic beasts that could survive.

Now that he hadn't seen a single demonic beast, it proved that there might be some other danger in this secret realm that he didn't know about! So Lin Zhangqing became vigilant again; he didn't want to leave his life here.

He used a fireball spell to clean up the two corpses and the traces on the ground, and then he continued on his way!

Because of the spatial rifts, he could only accommodate the speed of the First-Tier Shock-Spirit Cicadas, so Lin Zhangqing's traveling speed was not fast. Several hours passed like this, and he hadn't found any clues related to the Wood Tooth Crystal!

However, he did encounter three or four batches of cultivators, some alone, and some in groups of two or three.

Fortunately, none of them had any intention of making a move, so everyone was temporarily safe and sound.

By this time, the sky had completely darkened, and Lin Zhangqing did not continue searching, but instead found a relatively hidden place to camp!

Worried about danger at night, he specifically set up two Second-Tier formations: a Spirit-Gathering Array and a Defense Array, with Purple Crystal Scorpions hidden outside to protect him!

Facing an unfamiliar and dangerous environment, one could never be too cautious.

After all, there were quite a few cultivators around, as well as the unknown danger he had been worrying about.

From the fact that he had encountered five or six batches of cultivators in just one day, he could infer that this secret realm space shouldn't be very large!

It might only be a few hundred miles in radius, and at most, it wouldn't exceed a thousand miles; otherwise, he wouldn't have encountered so many cultivators.

However, finding the Wood Tooth Crystal, which was hidden in some corner within this thousand-mile range, was really not a simple matter!

And Lin Zhangqing had spent the whole day in fear and trepidation.

Although he had the Shock-Spirit Cicadas helping him scout the path ahead, he was still afraid that a spatial rift would suddenly appear beside him and cut him in two!

So he prepared to rest well tonight after completing his cultivation of the Thunder True Scripture.

Unfortunately, heaven did not follow human wishes; when he wanted to rest, he simply couldn't! Shortly after midnight, Lin Zhangqing received feedback from the Purple Crystal Scorpions, meaning that a large number of demonic beasts were approaching from the northwest.

This gave Lin Zhangqing a fright; although the Second-Tier Purple Crystal Scorpions couldn't express very clear meanings when communicating with him,

since they had sent a message saying there were a lot of demonic beasts, they definitely wouldn't be mistaken!

Lin Zhangqing immediately probed with his divine sense, but the scene he imagined didn't appear; there wasn't a single demonic beast outside!

But there was something even more terrifying than demonic beasts: a black torrent covering a very large area was advancing on the ground.

Lin Zhangqing scanned with his divine sense and discovered that this torrent was actually composed of black ants the size of two fingers! The number was simply immeasurable, making Lin Zhangqing's hair stand on end.

However, he immediately summoned all the Purple Crystal Scorpions outside and sent them back into the Spirit Beast Bracelet.

The number of these ants was simply too large; no matter how powerful the Purple Crystal Scorpions were, they couldn't deal with them! Moreover, Lin Zhangqing had already recognized what these black ants were; they were the "moving forbidden zones" of the cultivation world, and also very famous scourges.

The famous Black Crystal Army Ants were dark-attribute creatures, but they could gnaw on anything that contained spiritual energy! Moreover, they had sharp teeth and could gnaw on things one or two grades higher than themselves; coupled with their massive numbers, their gnawing speed was quite astonishing.

It could be said that wherever the army ants passed, not a blade of grass would remain; they might even gnaw away a layer of topsoil! (End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 572 =====