Wreckage Number One continued to sink closer and closer to the 'heart' at the bottom of the lava. It was also the lowest level of the Vulcan Ant nest, the area where the ant queen resided.
Perhaps it was a coincidence, but the core area of the Vulcan Ant nest really did look like an enormous heart. Most of its structure was embedded into the ground. It was completely exposed to the lava and was approximately twenty meters tall. It was undulating due to the intense activity of the ground. It really was like the swelling and contracting of a living heart.
Moreover, there were six thick 'pipes' connected to the top. Dark red 'blood' was constantly pouring in and circulating. Although the color of this' blood 'was similar to the lava, it was not to the extent of being confused. This was because the luster of the active flow was hard to be completely concealed even by the layers of lava.
Luo Nan was still thinking about the lava attack that had smashed Wreckage Number One into pieces. The mental sensor network that pervaded the lava focused slightly under his command. It swept from the 'heart' to the inside and outside of the continuously sinking ant room structure:
"Liquid lava can achieve 'hammering'. This shows that it has a set of controls. But it doesn't seem like it can already carry out consciousness interference with the surrounding environment. There should be a medium …. Not only can the Vulcan Ant control a living body, it can even control lava. The operating mechanism here seems a bit familiar!"
Such a marvelous operating mode clearly did not appear in normal data. Luo Nan soon had an idea. "It's in the user's manual. It seems to have been mentioned in the material chapter …. Huh?"
The underground lava trembled once more.
At first Luo Nan believed that this was another vent of the Vulcan Ant's collective consciousness. But he soon confirmed that this unforeseen event was not led by the Vulcan Ant's consciousness, but it was inextricably linked to it.
Within the twisting vortex of the void of the abyss region and the inferno of lava, a structure of special significance was soaked in the residual energy that overflowed from both sides. It silently molded and grew. It had already taken shape. It broke through the already somewhat weak ground layer with a single tremor. It stuck close to the heart of the Vulcan Ant nest, withstood the boiling lava, and rose up.
It was a thick and short stone pillar. Even if it stuck its head out, it would only be a meter tall in the end. It was practically insignificant next to the enormous Vulcan Ant nest that occupied the entire mountain and several hundred meters of the ground layer. It was like a speck on a person's body. It could be ignored in a matter of seconds.
But just as the stone pillar was pulled out, the turbulent vortex that was twisting in the void, causing it to coil and accumulate sediment, suddenly came to a stop.
Luo Nan had yet to come to a conclusion as to what sort of stimulative changes occurred to the collective consciousness of the Fire God Ants in this instant. But from Luo Nan's perspective, Luo Nan felt that Mo Lun was at the helm. The floating power generating platform drifted up and down within the enormous waves that reached the heavens. Suddenly, an enormous anchor was fiercely stabbed into it.
The end of the anchor hit the bottom of the ocean. Although it was shaking violently and even bringing an even more intense blast to the floating platform, it was still deeply embedded into the soil and anchored to the hard seabed. This was not all. At this moment, on the platform, another heavy and sturdy pile fell, directly wedged into the depths of the turbulent vortex. One pile, two piles, three piles, four piles …
At the "heart" of the Vulcan Ant nest, the thick and short stone pillars were pulled up one by one, just like the "piles" that had fallen.
Some of the "piles" had just probed down when they were wrapped in lava by the berserk consciousness of the Fire God Ants, smashing them to pieces. But there were also some "piles" that were either deep or shallow fixed in place. Then they were pulled up, smashed, wedged in, and smashed again!
It was hard to say which one was more tenacious like this over and over again. But in any case, the floating platform never broke away from the storm vortex. Instead, it was fixed within this domain, forming a deadlock.
This was also the most terrifying phase of energy consumption.
No matter how marvelous Mo Lun's combat consciousness was, he was just a B-rank puppet. There was a limit to his own energy reserves. It was impossible for him to directly contend against the Fire God Ants, who occupied the terrain advantage.
Therefore, he could only rely on his master, Luo Nan's closed system.
This was, without a doubt, a collision between the two systems.
After the first wave, Luo Nan was already very strained.
In a certain sense, Luo Nan's soul strength reserves were already the best in the world. This was not only because of the enormous output of his closed system's large production line. It was also because he could ignore the carrying capacity of his fleshly body. He could use the form of the soul cloak to extend and store energy nearly limitlessly.
Luo Nan's current soul cloak could cover the entire world. In addition to the combined reserves of the boundless cloud world, Luo Nan's stamina was so long that he could practically suppress all the cultivators of the world … … Perhaps only the leaders of the Three Great Secret Orders could rely on their enormous numbers of believers to contend against him.
The only thing that could limit Luo Nan was the carrying capacity of his fleshly body. Though he possessed the boundless ocean, his body's capacity was limited in the end. Even if he were to be sucked dry in an instant, it would be nothing more than the storage capacity of a lake.
Not to mention the vibrations and impacts of doing so, just the transformation within was destined to lead to one fault after another. This was extremely dangerous in the tight deadlock process.
If the opponent was a genuine Extraordinary, Luo Nan's life would be pretty much handed over when the first fault appeared.
The collective consciousness of the Vulcan Ant was not this sharp. It was unable to sense Luo Nan's flaws. But even so, Luo Nan, who was in the simulator, was like a twisted towel under the frantic and irascible impact of the wrestling. The muscles, tendons, bones, and flesh of his entire body seemed to be about to be squeezed out of it.
If this situation were to continue, Luo Nan would have done his utmost to dig a peerless sinkhole for himself. He could absolutely contend for the top three spot on the list of the stupidest people in the fifty years of history of the inner world.
Fortunately, this enemy of his did not develop to a qualified and perfect degree, even though it had gathered millions of individuals into a group consciousness. Not only did it not discover the problem that Luo Nan exposed, it even poked an even bigger hole.
The group consciousness of the Vulcan Ant did not know how to properly utilize its own strength. It also did not understand that this kind of strength would inevitably harm others and itself once it exceeded a certain limit.
If it were Luo Nan, he would absolutely not forcefully break through this limit when the instantaneous consumption of soul strength exceeded the limits of what his body could bear under normal circumstances. He would exchange endless future troubles for temporary pleasure.
The Vulcan Ant did not have this kind of awareness. In its simple mind, using its innate talent to drive the enemy was obviously the most important option. But at this stage, when faced with Mo Lun, who was like a mist of nothingness, and Number 1, who had already turned into a pile of mechanical wreckage, the so-called drive ability was of no use. So it could only settle for the next best thing. It used its incomplete side ability to knock down the enemy.
It must be said that the upper limit of the Vulcan Ant's side ability was extremely high in the environment of the volcanic region. There would practically never be a situation where it was lacking in strength. Under these circumstances, its train of thought was even simpler … … If it did not knock down the enemy, then it would need to increase its strength once more until the enemy was smashed into smithereens.
With the foundation of reality, this kind of train of thought could not be wrong. But it did not consider one thing: Who would be the first to be destroyed in such a big fight in its own nest?
"In any case, it won't be me." Luo Nan grimaced in pain. He used the daoyin technique given to him by the gym bishop to relax his muscles and bones, to reduce the damage. At the same time, he was able to capture the turning point of this confrontation within this stalemate.
He did not need to wait for the Vulcan Ant to smash his nest into smithereens. He only needed to keep an eye on this one-track minded group consciousness. The instant the two instincts of killing the enemy and self-preservation intersected, creating an even deeper level of chaos.
The turning point arrived much faster than Luo Nan imagined. But it happened after all the ant chambers in the enormous cavity above the lava had completely collapsed.
The Vulcan Ants that fell into the lava were not immediately finished. But every ant chamber and every connecting pipe was the foundation of the Vulcan Ant colony. They were an important construction foundation and source of energy for the group consciousness.
When large areas of necrosis appeared endlessly and continued to spread, a blockage appeared in the originally complete energy cycle. In the end, hesitation and chaos appeared in this single strand of group consciousness.
It was at this moment that the true great enemy, who had crossed realms and hidden here from another time and space, revealed its fangs to the Vulcan Ant colony.
The instant of hesitation and chaos expanded into a destructive storm in the blink of an eye.
The Wraith Sign exploded from above the Polar Domain like a bomb filled with poison. It smashed into the structure of the group consciousness that the Vulcan Ant colony had formed with great difficulty.
Luo Nan knew better than the vast majority of people in this world just how strict the requirements of a structure were for a group consciousness that had a clear direction.
The group consciousness of the Vulcan Ant society was able to become neutral from the chaotic and illusory mental turbid flow with great difficulty. A small portion of it probed into the abyssal region and was able to integrate its power from a higher level. But because of the Wraith Sign's deadly bombardment, the structure collapsed and the foundation was corroded. This caused the edifice of group consciousness, which originally possessed a certain order, to collapse and fall apart in an instant.
It must be said that as long as there was a nest and a strict social structure of the Vulcan Ant, it was not difficult to reconstruct the group consciousness. Since the beginning of time, the Vulcan Ant colony in the volcanic area had been penetrated five times by powerful people from all walks of life. Each time, it was a great crisis that nearly overturned the entire colony. Even the queen ant was captured. The most recent time was six or seven years ago, and this didn't include the aftermath of the world-shaking battle with Priceless Gold. But within these short few years, the Vulcan Ant colony had developed to its current scale. They were still the number one or two hegemons of this volcanic area.
The tenacity of the Vulcan Ant colony was worthy of admiration. But the problem was that the Wraith Sign was the poison bomb that had instantly destroyed the core structure of the Vulcan Ant society.
This Darksider species was currently using its inconceivable talent to pour its "toxic spores" into the ruins of the core structure. The spores began to proliferate rapidly.
The Vulcan Ant began by controlling other living creatures. And this time, they had encountered a true expert in this field.
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