I Became the Alchemy Master by Picking Up Trash-Chapter 195 - 193: Xi Yuan Tournament (Part 19)

On a large screen in the city’s square, a video was being shown of a Guar Lizard being dismembered by Red Fierce Ants, and considering the audience’s tolerance, the backstage administrator thoughtfully censored the footage.

Despite this, the crimson and gruesome green seeping through the thick pixels still made people’s skin crawl.

Host: "Strange, the Guar Lizard is already a high-tier peak Star Beast, why does it have no power to resist against the mere mid-tier Flying Fierce Ant?"

Lin Zhian: "As far as I know, Guar Lizards are a type of Star Beast with very low combat effectiveness and lack intelligence. If it weren’t for their hard and stinky meat that most Star Beasts dislike, they’d probably have been extinct by now."

"That’s right. In the earlier beast-ant battle, besides using Earth Elemental Power to reinforce defense, the Guar Lizard didn’t even think of performing Elemental Attacks. Meanwhile, the Red Fierce Ant Clan is itself a highly socialized group. The combat power of a single Red Fierce Ant might be negligible, but the collective strength of the ant colony cannot be measured by Star Beast standards. The acid attack from the Flying Fierce Ant is very powerful, and with the strength of the entire ant colony as backup, even though the Guar Lizard seemed to have an absolute advantage in rank, it’s no match for the Flying Fierce Ants."

In this explanation of the competition, Zou Huali seemed as if he was cheating; no matter if it was desert plants or Star Beasts, he had conducted detailed research and analysis, making people convinced with his well-founded analyses.

The host shifted the camera to another angle, with a worried expression.

"With the Flying Fierce Ants being so formidable, Team Tianyi’s situation is dangerous."

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Chu Yunyi controlled the Wind Rolling Dust Formation, constantly evading the pursuit of the Flying Fierce Ants. This Stone Forest was like a huge basket, barely exceeding the maximum height that the Wind Rolling Dust Formation could reach. This meant for Team Tianyi to escape, they either have to kill this group of road-blocking Flying Fierce Ants or land and head towards a ground exit.

The ground had just undergone a great battle, corpses of Red Fierce Ants were everywhere. The small Red Fierce Ants responsible for miscellaneous tasks within the ant colony were coming in and out of the holes, dragging the corpses of their comrades and the Guar Lizard’s remains into the nest for storage, to serve as food for the newborn Red Fierce Ants.

At this point, the main force of the Ant Clan hadn’t retreated. Billions of Big Red Fierce Ants, under the command of over a hundred General Fierce Ants, were lying in place waiting for orders. The enemies hadn’t been completely annihilated, and the crisis for the colony was not over.

The antennas of the General Fierce Ants stood in the air, quivering quickly as they were analyzing based on the battle results, subsequently deploying their next strategy.

If Team Tianyi lands, they would surely face both ground and aerial assault. Although Team Tianyi’s combat strength and experience are far superior to the Guar Lizard, the Ant Clan has an overwhelming advantage in numbers of Star Beasts.

If Team Tianyi gets surrounded by Red Fierce Ants, unless Chu Yunyi’s spiritual power experiences a surge now and unleashes the super Sky Wind Annihilation Array to slaughter large beast tides, they’ll end up exhausted of Primordial Spirit and become ant food.

Jiang Yuesheng wildly jabbed with his spear, and a dozen Fire Thorns precisely struck the Flying Fierce Ants. Two of the smaller Flying Fierce Ants, who dodged a bit too slowly, had their wings ignited and instantly became fireballs, crashing down from the air. Meanwhile, the other Flying Fierce Ants vibrated their wings to dodge as the fireballs approached.

Jiang Yuesheng frowned, as these Flying Fierce Ants, although not high in rank, were very perceptive to Elemental Power fluctuations and evaded Elemental Attacks as swiftly as Wind Attribute Star Beasts, making them very difficult to combat.

"Yunyi, the Flying Fierce Ants are increasing. We can’t stay in the air any longer!" The Flying Fierce Ants were forming an encirclement, and their acid attacks were becoming harder to avoid.

Frequent directional changes in flight inflicted great harm on Chu Yunyi’s Spirit Sea, causing severe headaches and blurred vision. Chu Yunyi had long wanted to land, but finding an ideal landing point wasn’t that easy.

"Everyone, search for a landing spot, preferably higher ground with fewer holes and some cover on the sides."

Chu Yunyi led everyone around the Stone Forest Area once more, and An Qing finally made a discovery.

"Found it, over there!"

Following An Qing’s pointed direction, Chu Yunyi saw the location clearly.

The tip of the Stone Peak had eroded a piece due to wind and sand, conveniently forming a triangular cave.

The cave was quite deep, more than enough to accommodate the four of them, and the huge sand dunes on either side of the Stone Peak provided ample cover against the Flying Fierce Ants, which meant they only needed to defend the front.

Chu Yunyi was overjoyed, and the Wind Rolling Dust Formation roared towards the Stone Peak, and in the blink of an eye, the four had safely entered the cave.

Seeing their opponents flee into a shelter, the antennas of the Flying Fierce Ants quivered, and the General Fierce Ants received the signal, quickly issuing commands to the Big Red Fierce Ants.

All the waiting Big Red Fierce Ants stepped forward, as if a tide, to encircle the Stone Peak where the four hid.

As the talisman array was wrapped up, Chu Yunyi didn’t have time to rest, instead seizing the moment to prepare a battle deployment.

"An Qing, make some fortifications, reinforce the place! Yuesheng, don’t waste Primordial Spirit on common Red Fierce Ants, focus your attacks on those with big heads and small bodies, those are the brains giving orders!"

"Understood!" An Qing generated Primordial Spirit around her, and the thick metal walls, as if alive, crept and grew along the sunken stone wall.

Only after sealing half of the cave entrance did An Qing stop, joining Jiang Yuesheng in launching Elemental Attacks at the ant colony below.

The General Fierce Ants, second only to the Queen Fierce Ant in hierarchy, had the tiniest physique of the entire colony.

This Stone Peak was over forty meters tall, and the weapons of Jiang Yuesheng and An Qing were not suitable for long-range attacks, making it very difficult for them to eliminate the General Fierce Ants crawling under the legs of Big Red Fierce Ants.

Repeatedly failing, Jiang Yuesheng, in frustration, even conceived an outrageous thought—that if the sharp-tongued Cui Tianxiao was here, his Thunder Arrows never missed, potentially altering the battlefield.

Chu Yunyi’s Wind Blade played a crucial role; regardless of where the General Fierce Ants hid within the colony, as long as the eye can see it, Elemental Power would instinctively follow the will, accurately slicing off the General Fierce Ants’ heads. In just twenty minutes, more than fifty General Fierce Ants met their end under the Wind Blades.

Team Tianyi’s tactic of specifically targeting the General Fierce Ants incited their rage, and the surviving General Fierce Ants, trembling with antennae, sent commands, causing all the Big Red Fierce Ants to crawl toward the Stone Peak where the four are hiding like mad. The airborne units also were summoned to strengthen the attack.

The Red Fierce Ants had a clear division of battle tasks, and Team Tianyi wasn’t lacking either.

An Qing used a massive Gold Attribute attack technique to deal with the aerial units, while Jiang Yuesheng roasted the climbing Big Red Fierce Ants with flames. Chu Yunyi continued targeting enemy leaders, filling in positions for teammates as needed. Although Lin Caier was as weak as a fighter, she could still provide Healing Techniques support to injured comrades.

Thus, the Red Fierce Ants used their sea of ants tactics, battling on equal terms with the entirely Heavenly Armor-ranked human team.

"Whoosh—!"

The Wind Blade vanished, taking the life of the last General Fierce Ant, allowing Chu Yunyi to finally breathe a sigh of relief.

No matter how strong the fighting force, without an excellent general to command, failure is inevitable. Now, they just had to wait for the Red Fierce Ant colony to fall into leaderless confusion.

Strangely, the Red Fierce Ants did not scatter in chaos as Chu Yunyi expected. After a brief period of confusion, the largest Red Fierce Ant suddenly curled up, convulsing violently.

Instead of offering sympathy and help, surrounding Red Fierce Ants swarmed up, biting into the Big Red Fierce Ant’s shell and tearing it apart.

Soon, the Big Red Fierce Ant was stripped of its legs by its companions, leaving only its head, thorax, and abdomen, squirming in place.

Feeling nauseous, Chu Yunyi was about to look away when he was horrified to discover that the back of the legless Red Fierce Ant had split open, and something inside was struggling to break free from the ant shell’s constraints, striving to crawl out.

A few seconds later, a General Fierce Ant with an oversized head but very tiny body emerged from the remains of the Big Red Fierce Ant.

The newborn General Fierce Ant was of even higher rank than the departed ones. Its antennae quivered, and the Red Fierce Ant colony immediately found a backbone, and under its command, continued their assault on the Stone Peak.

This kind of transformation occurred at least two hundred times throughout the Red Fierce Ant colony. In the blink of an eye, the number of General Fierce Ants doubled compared to before Chu Yunyi’s extermination.