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Yun Yang had only advanced a few hundred feet when he suddenly heard the rustling of the bushes beside him. With a slap of his palm, the bushes buzzed with activity immediately.
As the wind from his palm swept past, loud noises reverberated in the air.
Yun Yang looked towards the source of the sound and saw a large silver-white snake that was as thick as a water bucket scampering away in a panic.
Then, there was movement on his left. A spider the size of a millstone flew out from between two trees with a swoosh.
Rustling sounds could be heard beneath his feet.
Golden ants that were at least the size of his feet covered the ground that was at least a few hundred feet in circumference. There were at least tens of thousands of them. As they flew in all directions, it was like a receding yellow tide …
Yun Yang was speechless.
F * ck, there are too many of them! Isn't it just average?
I only wanted to take a look, why are there so many of them?
Moreover, these were all mystical beasts. There were no ordinary wild beasts or insects at all …
Following Yun Yang's advance, he startled countless mystical beasts of all sizes along the way. Yun Yang saw that there were no less than hundreds of thousands of them!
There were those that flew in the sky, those that ran on the ground, and those that crawled in the soil.
There was everything that one could think of, nothing was too strange.
About three hundred miles in, the surroundings grew darker. The sky could no longer be seen when Yun Yang lifted his head.
Just as Yun Yang was about to launch another palm strike to check out his surroundings, he saw a new sign. With a strange rumble from the ground, the thick layer of withered leaves surged up as large, silver-white ants leaped out of the ground.
The corners of Yun Yang's lips twitched.
Were these still ants?
This was clearly a rabbit, okay?!
Each of these ants was slightly bigger than an average rabbit. Compared to the Whiteys' original size, five Whiteys added together might not even be as big as one of these ants!
As soon as the ants came out, they began to emit a strange hissing sound. As the sound spread, the ground within a radius of several hundred feet began to churn. The ground was like the waves of the sea, rolling endlessly.
After a while, more and more silvery-white ants came out. Just like before, they kept spreading out, and more and more ants appeared. In the end, the ground was covered with silvery-white ants, boundless and borderless, with no end in sight.
The most terrible thing was that after these ants drilled out from the ground, they didn't move again. They just stood quietly on the withered leaves, their cold eyes looking left and right, their two almost two feet long antennae swaying back and forth …
The hundreds of beasts at the front even raised their front antennae, and their hind legs were obviously accumulating power.
Impressively, he had already assumed an offensive stance and was ready to strike at any time!
Yun Yang was dumbstruck. "Are they … going to fight?"
Isn't this ant a little too ferocious?
Yun Yang grew more cautious, hiding his presence as much as he could. Only then did he manage to shake off this bunch of ants that looked like battle maniacs and continued to move forward.
Individually, these ants were only second level mystical beasts, no matter how big they were. With Yun Yang's current cultivation base, he could kill hundreds of them effortlessly with a wave of his hand. However, according to Yun Yang's judgment, although these giants were not of a high level and were only mystical beasts at the periphery of the forest, there was a high chance that they were the overlords of this area.
There was no other reason for this – their numbers were just too many, like an ocean!
Thousands and tens of thousands of them were mere fractions to the ants, insignificant!
Based on the movement just now, at least hundreds of thousands of ants had appeared. The total number of ants that had gathered here could very well be more than ten million! Perhaps even more!
Faced with such a large number of species, even ninth level mystical beasts or higher leveled mystical beasts would not simply come and provoke them!
It was just like how an ant was insignificant in front of an elephant, but a colony of ants that exceeded a certain scale could devour an elephant!
In many cases, quantitative change was enough to influence qualitative change!
However, this extremely large number of giant ants was only the overlord of this land. In other words … they were the gatekeepers of this forest!
From this point onward, Yun Yang could no longer find any traces of humans who had entered the place as he continued forward.
Those ants were basically the most solid fortress that blocked all traces of humans here. No one could take a single step forward!
From Yun Yang's perspective, there should not be many in the Bound of Universe who had the ability to break through the blockade of these ants and reach the forest safely. It would have to be at least two levels higher than Yun Yang's current level to have any hope!
Along the way, Yun Yang could see ghastly white skeletons everywhere he went. There was also a faint demonic air lingering in the air. These were, of course, the remains of demonic beasts. This was not surprising. Too many demons had perished here in the past, and there was no lack of highly skilled ones among them. It was normal for their remains to have remnants of demonic air. However, what caught Yun Yang's attention was something else – some trees that looked old and as thick as seven to eight people hugging each other had all been broken without exception!
Yun Yang had not paid much attention at first, but along the way, he had seen many such trees within a radius of several hundred feet. Some of them had been broken while the others were still intact. Some of them had not even been damaged after walking for dozens of miles. The difference was obvious.
Looking at the withered trees that had long lost their vitality after being broken, Yun Yang frowned and pondered. He could not figure it out for a long time. It was only when he realized that the broken trees were covered in bite marks that he understood!
Demonic beasts might follow their instincts to pluck the young leaves for food, but they would rarely target the trees themselves. Since these trees were in a similar state, then these broken trees must have been deliberately broken by the mystical beasts!
Even if he had figured this out, the mystery was still unsolved. In fact, the clouds of doubt were even thicker. What was the reason for the mystical beasts to do this?
Yun Yang pulled out his saber and dug out the roots of one of the trees that had not completely withered. After careful examination, he realized that the tree was already decayed and could not be saved. However, there was still a faint demonic air lingering in its roots.
"So these trees … have the chance to become demons because they have been around for a long time."
Yun Yang's gaze was cautious. "This means that when the mystical beasts patrol the forest, they have to get rid of these trees as soon as they see them …"
For some reason, Yun Yang suddenly felt sympathy for the mystical beasts in this forest.
The forest was originally the mystical beasts' paradise. With more trees, the mystical beasts could be better concealed and formed a natural barrier and cultivation ground for the mystical beasts. On the one hand, the mystical beasts here needed the lush trees to maintain their reproduction, but on the other hand, they were afraid that the trees would grow too lush and become a threat to themselves …
It was truly a dilemma, a difficult balance to strike …
After some time, the mystical beasts on the periphery were left far behind. Yun Yang could vaguely feel that he was about to reach the center of this dense forest.
Unexpectedly, there was not a single mystical beast in this area. It was eerily quiet!
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