Chapter 2011 - 2004: Racial Extermination
In the survival base closest to the mysterious mountain where the Demon Ant Nest is located, a group of martial artists stood at the entrance watching the mountain tremble slightly. Ever since they established the survival base here, they had never encountered such a phenomenon.
"What’s going on up there in the mountain?"
"Is it some Warcraft in the mountain experiencing a riot?"
"No, these explosion sounds seem to come from underground, like from inside the Demon Ant Nest."
"I heard that recently something strange has been happening inside the Demon Ant Nest, many teams going there have mysteriously disappeared, and it looks like it’s not looking good for them."
"Yes, our survival base just sent a team of over ten thousand people, and we don’t know what’s happening to them now."
Lumes and others left from this survival base, not expecting the entire survival base only had Lumes remaining; if Zhang Menglong hadn’t shown up in time, not even this last survivor would have been left.
"Send someone to check it out," said a martial artist with evident prestige and authority in the base; he was the creator of this survival base, a martial artist who had survived here for tens of thousands of years, his strength far surpassing Ying Zheng, nearly reaching the peak of the ten-thousand-fold Dao Realm.
Upon his command, a team of martial artists immediately headed towards the Demon Ant Nest. It’s important to know that the number of martial artists going to the Demon Ant Nest this time was substantial. For the entire survival base, these people were very important. If anything happened to them, the base’s power would significantly diminish.
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On the first layer of the Demon Ant Nest, the high temperature covering the underground space finally began to dissipate. With a sweep of white flames, the temperature instantly dropped, and Zhang Menglong’s dozens of clones gradually faded. In Zhang Menglong’s vision, there were no Blood Demon Ants left.
Although the number of Blood Demon Ants in the first layer far exceeded these tens of millions, those Blood Demon Ants weren’t without intelligence. Zhang Menglong killed ten thousand with one move, which indeed instilled some awe in them, but it was far from enough to induce fear.
But this time, Zhang Menglong’s dozens of clones directly exterminated tens of millions of Blood Demon Ants; such prowess was enough to terrify the Blood Demon Ants.
The surviving Blood Demon Ants accompanied those farther away and fled towards the depths of the cave.
"In this eerie place, I really need to be mindful of my energy consumption!" Zhang Menglong was also panting slightly.
His strength was indeed terrifying, and his energy reserves were vast, but such powerful attacks still require a considerable amount of energy consumption. This barrage almost depleted half of his energy, and even Zhang Menglong needed some time to rest.
He directly swallowed an elixir, concocted using herbs purchased with Supreme Coins, its effects akin to those in the real world. If he relied on potion bottles to recover, with his energy reserves, it would take quite some time, severely decreasing his hunting speed!
The value of this single elixir was almost equal to 50,000 Supreme Coins, equivalent to the price of 100 blue bottles!
After a few breaths, Zhang Menglong’s energy had mostly recovered, and it was time to inventory his gains.
[Dean, this wave gained over 12 billion Supreme Coins, a total of 21 million Supreme Crystals, 27 million life potion bottles, 28.4 million energy potion bottles, over 15 million bottles of ant royal jelly, and other items...]
Zhang Menglong was too lazy to listen to these quantities, but he knew this wave probably made him the richest person in this world. It’s likely that most races, even exhausting their entire race’s financial resources, couldn’t compare to his wealth!
"Crack!" Zhang Menglong crushed the bottles of ant royal jelly with his power, crazily devouring the energy. As Zhang Menglong’s strength advanced, his energy demand became increasingly terrifying, consuming nearly ten thousand bottles of ant royal jelly from Dao Realm First-grade to Third Grade, and these more than 15 million bottles of ant royal jelly just barely got him to Dao Realm Fifth Grade Peak.
Zhang Menglong continued deeper into the Blood Demon Ant’s nest; the Blood Demon Ants seemed to consciously evade him, and Zhang Menglong couldn’t even locate a single Blood Demon Ant in his vision. However, at the end of the cave, he found a vortex-shaped passage; it appeared bottomless, seemingly leading to a deeper part of the Demon Ant Nest.
"Is this the passage to the second layer?" Zhang Menglong hesitated for a moment, then jumped into the passage.
After falling almost 200 kilometers or so, Zhang Menglong’s feet finally touched the ground, and with a "snap," Zhang Menglong’s foot seemed to step on something, immediately causing a rustling sound around him.
A moment later, Zhang Menglong was surrounded by a group of Blood Demon Ants. If the previous Blood Demon Ants were like small cars or calves, now these were almost bus-like in size. They no longer exhibited black but had turned silvery-white.
Earlier, Lumes had told Zhang Menglong that black Blood Demon Ants were the lowest level within the Blood Demon Ant race, while these silvery-white ones were considered elites within the Blood Demon Ants. With the gift of strength, their pure destructive capability had reached the threshold of King Level Warcraft!
Faced with this sudden intruder, these elite Blood Demon Ants immediately demonstrated a highly combative stance.
The number of Blood Demon Ants kept increasing, though not comparing to the first layer, as the difficulty of elite creation was far higher than that of ordinary Blood Demon Ants. Still, the number of elite Blood Demon Ants immediately surrounding Zhang Menglong surpassed ten thousand!
Had it been earlier, Zhang Menglong might have struggled against these Blood Demon Ants, but with his strength now enhanced to Dao Realm Fifth Grade Peak, these Blood Demon Ants posed little threat to him.
The Blood Demon Ants attacked Zhang Menglong all at once; Zhang Menglong’s hands held a giant sword emitting a red glow, a supreme weapon just blasted from the Blood Demon Ants!
He began to spin rapidly, wielding the massive sword. Any Blood Demon Ant caught by the sweep inevitably had a part of its body shattered, akin to being flung into a meat grinder and violently cast out.
"These things’ power is indeed terrifying!" Zhang Menglong could practically feel the raw strength of these elite Blood Demon Ants; purely in power, they were not much weaker than Ying Zheng, and their bodily fortitude was very close to King Level Warcraft.
Such Blood Demon Ants, if there were ten, could even bring a strong figure like Ying Zheng into crisis.
Zhang Menglong wielded his sword until his arms became somewhat sore, but all the Blood Demon Ants attacking him had turned into dropped loot scattered across the ground.
The items dropped by these elite Blood Demon Ants weren’t very different from those dropped by ordinary Blood Demon Ants; for the average martial artist, elite Blood Demon Ants’ drop rates are naturally higher, but for Zhang Menglong, who possessed an otherworldly ability in Management Studies, there wasn’t much difference,
"Too slow," Zhang Menglong stowed the great sword away, and seemingly other elite Blood Demon Ants also sensed the battle here, flocking in from all directions.
"Not bad," Zhang Menglong smiled, "since they’ve all come, why not just conduct a thorough cleanup here in the Demon Ant Nest? I have never embarked on a species extinction initiative before!"