Chapter 113: Mysterious Cave

  After an unknown period of time, Hu Gao woke up and felt a severe headache and nausea.

  Clouds abundant! Rainstorm coming!

  Hu Gao's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and he jumped up, his eyes still closed, but already gripping the Shadowless Sword, entering combat mode.

  He remembered being swallowed by Huoyun Chan, what about Yunfeng and Han Chong?

  As his eyes gradually adapted, Hu Gao vaguely saw that the Fire Cloud Toad was crouching not far away, its tongue stretched out and rolled up, and it swallowed an object into its mouth.

  Huo Gao woke up to find that Huoyun Chan had swallowed the creature in his mouth, let out a cry, shrunk his body and jumped into Huo Gao's sleeve.

  "Huoyun brother, what exactly happened?" Hu Gao asked hastily, previously he really thought Huoyun Cuo was going to eat him, now he's a bit confused.

  He was answered with a loud croak.

  Helplessly, Hu Gao looked around and soon found Yun Feng and Han Chong lying beside him, seemingly unharmed.

  Looking into the distance, it can be seen that this is a huge cave. The walls of the cave have things that shine, making it not look dark inside.

  All around were giant mushrooms, with grayish-black caps that had red cracks on them, as if they were flowing with magma.

  Not far away, where Huoyun Chan had just crouched, a group of demonic beasts were running.

  "Vartz Fakk!"

  What Hu Gao saw was a team of one-meter-sized Li Zhu ants running in front of him. Did the Huo Yun Chan just eat this monster, why didn't it finish collecting and ran away!

  Hú Gāo hastily jumped forward, covering the two people lying on the ground. However, he was frustrated to find that the dozen or so ants didn't pay attention to him and instead walked towards the nearby mushrooms.

  What's going on here?

  Hú Gāo was indignant, previously Huǒ Yún Chán had swallowed himself, and now these demons actually ignored him, what on earth had happened?

  Clueless Hu Gao could only gaze at those distant anthills.

  Lizhu ants are a type of fire-attribute demon beast that appear here, and Hu Gao doesn't think it's anything strange. According to the "Demon Beast Compendium" given to him by the Ninth Elder, Lizhu ants always move in groups, with strengths ranging from first-tier initial stage to second-tier peak, and sometimes even above fourth-tier. Therefore, when encountering Lizhu ants, no matter what kind of strong practitioner or demon beast, they will not take the initiative to provoke them.

  Leafcutter ants have a very large characteristic, that is, they are extremely good at building, they generally build nests in one place and no longer migrate, generations settle down, only to go far and wide to find building materials.

  According to legend, Yao, one of the Four Great Gods, once collaborated with a group of ants to build a palace.

  Hú Gāo found it very strange that these ants did not attack him.

  These ants put those red mushrooms upside down, cut them into pieces, form small teams to carry away, and treat the empty space as air.

  What on earth happened?

  Hú Gāo watched as a line of ants marched in front of him, followed by another, and another, with no fewer than a hundred ants in total.

  At this time, Hu Gao heard a noise and turned his head to see that Han Chong and Yun Feng had woken up one after another.

  "What's going on, Hu Gao?" Yun Feng asked.

  "Didn't Huoyun Chan swallow us up?" Han Chong asked.

  Hu Gaoluo raised his hand, indicating that Huoyun Chan was in his sleeve, and said: "It seems we are on the other side of the smelting pool."

  "Have we arrived?" Han Chong hastily looked around and also discovered that this place was different.

  "You're saying that Huoyun Chan swallowed us in order to bring us here?" Yunfeng asked.

  "These ants won't attack us, I think it's like when we just met the fire cloud toad, as long as we don't disturb them, nothing will happen, let's go in and take a look," said Hu Gao.

  "Whatever, I can take out a whole group of these first-order ants by myself anyway, and I'm not afraid of them." Han Chong nodded.

  "It's fine this way." Yun Feng patted the dust off his clothes, and just thinking about being swallowed by Huo Yun Chan into that sticky big mouth made him feel uncomfortable all over.

  The three of them carefully moved forward, and the leafcutting ants still didn't pay attention to them. Hu Gao even walked up to one of the leafcutting ants, which simply waved its antennae at him and continued to carry a mushroom with all its might.

  Yun Feng and Han Chong also drew closer to observe it carefully. After all, this legendary creature related to Emperor Yao was not commonly seen.

  "Shall we catch two and take them back for others to see?" Han Chong said with a smile.

  "We should catch a few more and take them back home, let them repair houses and experience the feeling of being driven by others like they did in the past." Hu Gao also laughed.

  "Why not bring the queen ant along?" Yunfeng also chimed in.

  "Alright, from now on we're the new Three Gods!" Hu raised an eyebrow, looking like he was about to take action.

  This mushroom-filled cave is quite large, and the three of them followed Li Zhuang's lead, walking and laughing as they went.

  But soon they couldn't laugh anymore, as three three-meter-tall giant ants were walking towards them, no longer just one level.

  Three giant ants appeared with a blocking intention, Hu Gao drew out his Shadowless Sword and stood guard.

  "Woah, what's going on here?! Are these three ants looking for a fight with us?" Hu Gao thought back to the time he was severely beaten by a giant mutated bee in the Misty Forest and couldn't help but sneer.

  "A martial contest?" Yun Feng asked in puzzlement.

  "I think they're here to whet their swords." Han Chong shook the Tiger-Slaying Gun, as if he was about to charge out and intercept them on horseback.

  Three ants marched straight towards them without attacking, waving their antennae and making a hissing sound in their mouths.

  "What's going on?" Han Chong asked.

  Hú Gāo gave him a glance and said, "They say you look delicious. Can we exchange you for treasure?"

  "I'm poking your nose! Your skin is even tenderer, maybe the ants will take a liking to you." Han Chong retorted.

  Yun Feng couldn't help but laugh and said, "Let's go, they're inviting us."

  "Wo Zifa! When did you, White Robed Swordsman, learn to understand demonic beast language?" Hu Gao teased him.

  "Can't you just understand it as we said?" Yunfeng said irritably.

  "You win! Our White-Robed Swordsman is still joking!" said Hu Gao.

  Three people followed three ants walking forward.

  The builder ant did not invite them home but instead led them to a fork in the road, indicating that they should go from the other side.

  This passageway was full of dust and dirt, without a speck of the golden ground that the ants had laid out.

  "Boss, where have we arrived?"

  Suddenly, Xiao Wu's voice came from his mind, and Hu Gao was overjoyed. He didn't expect Xiao Wu to finish her cultivation ahead of time. Her abilities would be a great help in their exploration of this place.

  "Xiao Wu, you've finished your training so quickly?"

  "No, Big Brother, where are we? I felt a very strong dragon aura that startled me out of my cultivation." Xiao Wu's voice was somewhat dazed.

  "Dragon Might? I didn't feel anything!" Hu Gao was surprised, "We are inside the Blazing Fire Peak, to be exact, under the Blazing Fire Peak."

  "That dragon might, it's in the direction ahead, boss. I can feel it, and it's different from my own dragon might. It seems to be the same as that crimson crystal that Old Man Feng Fan took out. This aura woke me up from my cultivation." Little Five said, "Boss, let's go take a look! I have a good feeling about this aura!"

  "You mean there might be a large amount of crimson crystals ahead?" Hu Gao speculated.

  "I think so," said Little Five. "The old man said that the fire crystal was found on Huo Zhi Peak, and I think he meant this place."

  Hu Gao shook his head and said, "No, I think it's too dangerous for us to go. If there is such a treasure, it must be guarded by powerful demon beasts."

  "What's up, Hu Gao?" Yun Feng asked as he saw Hu Gao stop in his tracks.

  "There may be a large amount of red crystals ahead." said Hu Gaodao.

  "Want to go take a look?" Han Chong suggested.

  "Alright!" Hu Gao thought for a moment, anyway they had already arrived here, to die in the morning and be born in the evening, in life, dare to take how much risk, can have how much gain!

  Three people walked cautiously along the path, encountering many gray-haired mice along the way.

  "I hate mice!" Han Chong scrunched up his face and kicked a mouse away from him.

  "I also hate it, it's filthy." Yun Feng's white clothes were covered in a lot of dust, and there were even two streaks of marks left by a mouse's tail.

  "You don't know that I've always loved eating rat meat the most in my life, it's tender and delicious, and also very chewy." Hu Gao said with a bad tone.

  "You're both perverts!" they shouted in unison.

  These gray mice didn't know what was going on either, as if there was something attractive about the three people that made them pounce on their bodies.

  "Are those ants supposed to feed our mice?" Han Chong said.

  "It's possible." Hu Gao said, he was certain that the Fire Cloud Toad had just eaten ants. Those who were far away from the anthill did not attack them, it turned out they wanted to take revenge on them like this.

  "Wait, boss, there's a Yuan formation ahead." said Xiao Wu.

  "What about Yuan Zhen? The one in the Misty Region?" Hu Gao asked.

  "Yes." Xiao Wu focused his perception on a piece of land in front of him, "Boss, let me sense it first and see what kind of yuan array this is."

  Hu Gao hinted at Yun Feng and Han Chong to stop, soon Xiao Wu had an answer.

  "Boss, this is also a transmission array, but it needs yuan power to activate. Want to try?"

  Hu Gao told Yün Fēng and Hán Chōng about the situation and asked for their opinions.

  "Let's give it a try, this formation must be the way to the treasure land. These mice won't use it, that's why they're squeezed here." Han Chong nodded first, he thought no matter what danger was ahead, it was better than killing mice here.

  "That's good too, maybe there's a treasure guarded by the Fire Mouse King inside." Yun Feng said.

  "Poke your nose!" Han Chong was teased and scolded, "Yun Baiyi, don't let me know you're afraid of anything, or else I'll raise a nest."

  "I'm afraid of mice!" Yunfeng said.

  "I want to poke you!"

  "Han Chong, why don't you just raise a cat?" Hu Gao felt that the emotions between the two had deepened quite a bit, and smiled as he told them to stop fooling around. He activated the Yuan Array, sending the three of them away.