Chapter 49: Xia Nian's Clothes

  "Practicing Qi period eight layers?" Xia Niang raised her beautiful eyes, took a glance at Fang Yan who had bumped into her with a full chest. She was about to get angry, but reminded herself that he hadn't been able to avoid her. For a moment, she suspected if he did it on purpose, but after scanning his aura, she found out that he was just a small cultivator of the eighth layer of Practicing Qi period. The words that were at the tip of her tongue were swallowed back.

  "Miss, sorry about that, I really didn't mean to bump into you." Feeling the soft and plump chest in front of him, Fang Yan was a bit at a loss. Just now he had heard the other person's reminder and intentionally tried to avoid her, but his subconscious action of sidestepping still resulted in them colliding with each other.

  "How did you end up here, don't you know it's dangerous?" Xia Nianchu looked at Fang Yan's eyes, which were pure and unadulterated, without any impurities, and showed no signs of being flustered when seeing herself, and suddenly asked with a curious expression.

  "I came here to pick herbs!" Fang Yan said helplessly, shrugging his shoulders. It's not dangerous, how can you practice?!

  "Humming..."

  Wings flapped at high frequency, emitting a buzzing sound. The mist above Eagle's Mouth Creek suddenly opened like a curtain. With the buzzing sound, even the roar of the waterfall was suppressed. A swarm of fist-sized, golden-yellow flying ants flashed their wings and rushed down from above Eagle's Mouth Creek.

  "Ah! I'm done for, thanks to you, flesh-eating flying ants!" The buzzing grew louder and louder. Xia Nian's face suddenly changed color as she let out a startled cry, pushed Fang Yan away, and shot forward like an arrow.

  "Man-eating flying ants."

  He saw a strange glow in the eyes of the flames, he had heard that the most ferocious thing in Eagle's Mouth Gorge was not the powerful demon beasts on the mountain, nor the packs of wolves circling in the forest, but these man-eating flying ants. Without another word, he turned around and ran away.

  Just now, he felt that Xia Mengxi's cultivation was stronger than his by more than a single star, giving him an unfathomable feeling, just like when he last saw Mo Chengzhu of the Life-Extinguishing Realm. Staying behind would only be seeking death, so he followed and ran away.

  However, his speed was still a bit slow, and he was soon caught up by those man-eating flying ants.

  As big as a fist, the whole body is golden yellow, with four fangs, flying at high speed can hear the sound of grinding teeth, extremely terrifying and ferocious, covering the sky and densely packed, like two clusters of golden clouds moving quickly in the high air.

  Man-eating flying ants, incredibly fast, their weapon is those four sharp teeth, known to be able to tear apart all kinds of divine weapons and magic tools. Even sixth or seventh level demonic beasts from the Innate Realm would retreat in fear upon seeing them. Once trapped among them, even a seventh-level demonic beast would fall.

  "Ding! Congratulations, host, you have successfully killed the enemy and obtained 5 points of merit value." Fang Yan's Blood Blade lightly trembled, and a sword aura shot out, instantly killing a flying ant that was biting at him. The cold system prompt sounded in his mind.

  "Worth five points of merit, equivalent to a second-level demon beast in the fifth stage of Qi Refining." Fang Yan hummed softly, his sword drawing speed getting faster and faster. Just now, in the brief moment he was distracted, dozens of man-eating flying ants appeared before him.

  "Ding! Congratulations, host, on successfully killing the enemy and earning 5 merit points."

  "Ding! Congratulations, host, you have successfully killed an enemy and obtained 15 experience points."

  ……

  "Ding! Congratulations, host's Earth-level sword technique Phantom Sword Manual proficiency +10."

  Fang Yan swiftly drew his sword, the speed of which was incredibly precise and accurate, deeply understanding the three words "fast, accurate, and ruthless". Without using true energy, relying on the extreme sharpness of the top-grade spiritual sword Blood Slasher, he could easily pierce through the defenses of these man-eating flying ants, continuously killing them. The cold system prompt sound kept echoing in Fang Yan's mind.

  "Huh, why hasn't that kid caught up yet? Could it be that he was eaten by those man-eating flying ants?" Xia Nianxiang stopped on a sturdy branch, seeing that Fang Yan hadn't followed, and couldn't help but exclaim.

  "This! This guy is simply reckless, facing this terrifying man-eating flying ant, the eighth level of Qi Refining period actually dares to resist. Doesn't he fear death? Or doesn't he know the ferocity of these man-eating flying ants? These are just ordinary ones, if they were elite man-eating flying ants, even a strong master at the Mortal Realm would fall.

  The powerful perception allowed Xia Meiniang to discover Fang Yan killing the man-eating flying ant, and on her stunningly beautiful face appeared an expression of utter disbelief."

  In just a few short breaths, Fang Yan had killed nearly a hundred man-eating flying ants and accumulated 500 merit points. It was also in these brief moments that he found himself surrounded. The flying ants around him numbered over a thousand, covering every inch of space. Even his back was covered with numerous flying ants, their four razor-sharp teeth tearing through any true energy defenses, ripping apart the flesh on his back with huge bites.

  "Ah!"

  A heart-wrenching scream suddenly erupted, Fang Yan stirred up the true energy inside his body, wanting to shake off the man-eating flying ants on his back. What he didn't expect was that these man-eating flying ants were like bone-attached maggots, deeply rooted on his back, and couldn't be shaken off no matter how hard he tried.

  "Damn it, ignoring the true energy attack." Fang Yan stirred up the true energy in his body and threw out a Mountain-Crushing Fist. The powerful Mountain-Crushing Fist did not cause too much damage to these man-eating flying ants, but only blasted them away, and then flew back from afar to join the attacking ranks.

  Fang Yan furrowed his brow, these man-eating flying ants were immune to true energy attacks and could only be killed by sword techniques using a physical blade. A single sword infused with true energy could at most kill five of them, wanting to cut out a bloody path was undoubtedly harder than ascending to heaven.

  "Alas... who made me, Xia Nianyu, so kind-hearted? I'll save you this once!" A miserable cry came from afar, and Xia Nianyu seemed to have seen Fang Yan being devoured by the man-eating flying ants. She sighed softly, then flew towards a large golden cloud in the distance.

  Only to see Xia Nian's slender hand waved, a purple silk ribbon flew out, the ribbon shook and knocked down the surrounding biting flying ants. Then the ribbon wrapped around Fang Yan and took him out of the encirclement.

  "Hey, don't move, I'll take you away from here." Fang Yan was suddenly attacked and tried to break free from Xia Meiling's silk ribbon, but Xia Meiling felt a huge resistance when she lifted Fang Yan into the air and immediately warned him.

  "Your aura is flying, you are a strong pre-heavenly boundary." Seeing Xia Mengxiao able to fly in mid-air, Fang Yan's eyes revealed a strange light, this young woman who seemed to be around the same age as him was actually a strong pre-heavenly boundary.

  "Little one, I told you not to move, why are you still moving?" Fang Yan's constant twisting of his body greatly reduced Xia Mingyu's speed, and soon she was also surrounded by the swarm of flying ants, rushing towards Fang Yan with a scolding tone.

  "Girl, it's not me who wants to move, but these biting flying ants on my back are eating my flesh and blood, it's unbearable." Fang Yan struggled, being tied up, he was like a fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of others. At this moment, his legs were covered with three or four fist-sized biting flying ants, and he had to use force to shake them off.

  "Don't move, just hold on for a bit and I'll get you out of here." The purple ribbon was stained with scarlet blood, she could imagine Fang Yan's intense pain at this moment, and spoke softly.

  "Let me down, I'll deal with these man-eating flying ants first. If not, I won't be able to escape with you." Fang Yan furrowed his brow. A large amount of flesh and blood was being devoured by the man-eating flying ants, and his Xianjie repair system couldn't keep up with the speed of repair.