Chapter 384 - Escape (1/2)

Ants of Gold get more and more restless.

Reddish and creepy moonlight from the blood moon comes through branches of the towering trees and falls in this dangerous dense forest. Lin Luoran’s face is illuminated by the moonlight and it looks unusually pale.

Lin Luoran will never discourage herself before she meets her opponents. She just feels a little weird. Ants of Gold are restless so she looks around. However, she finds no trace of monsters with her eyesight.

High-rank monsters have always been troublesome. What she is facing are also good at hiding. This is really not good news for Lin Luoran.

She frowns slightly and knows that it is time to give up the ant army. However, what lies ahead is still unknown so now she cannot act rashly.

The ant army messes up just when Lin Luoran is in a dilemma.

Ants of Gold behind suddenly stop avoiding the stinky mushroom and rush into the five-meter radius zone together. Lin Luoran sets up a magical s.h.i.+eld immediately but it is a little late. Even though she responds quick, her body is splashed by some formic acid. The pain in her wrist is sharp. She lowers her head and finds a few holes caused by the formic acid. Red slough occurs at the wound site in her white wrist like jade.

In the past six months, she has suffered numerous injuries. If cultivators’ metabolism is not different from that of ordinary people, Lin Luoran’s body will be covered with all kinds of scars. It’s said that prolonged illness makes a patient become a doctor. Lin Luoran is very experienced in wound treatment now. Formic acid is troublesome. She is decisive and covers her fingertips with the Gold Wakan to dig out the slough.

The most difficult thing to overcome is not physical pain but psychological feeling when it comes to self-harm. Lin Luoran makes it quick and ruthless. She digs it out and splashes the spring water from s.p.a.ce over her wrist to wash away the formic acid thoroughly. As the last step, Lin Luoran crushes the Circulation Bolus and applies it to the wound.

The medicine brings a cold comfort to the wound and her pain gradually eases. Lin Luoran does it quickly while she keeps alert to her surroundings.

The magical s.h.i.+eld is covered by lots of ants of Gold. These ants suddenly bursting out are not for attacking her. Looking through the magical s.h.i.+eld, Lin Luoran finally glimpses what the high-rank monster hiding behind the ant army looks like.

That thing is about the size of an ordinary ox with a long tail. Covered with ants of Gold, it can’t be seen clearly. Lin Luoran thinks it must be a high-rank monster covered with scales as its armor so that even ants of Gold can do nothing about it.

Ants of Gold grab the monster’s scales tightly. However, it suddenly shakes violently and many ants on its body drop down. Lin Luoran finally sees some black-purple color covered by golden-yellow ants.

This is a monster covered with black and purple scales. After it shakes off ants of Gold, it takes the opportunity. This monster raises its two-or-three-meter long tail high and then slashes it down. Many ants of gold are killed by a blow! Lin Luoran is vigilant. When the long tail slashes down, the whole ground is shaking. No wonder ants of Gold can’t stand it.

This scaled monster slashes dozens of times and it kills all ants of Gold around itself. Ants’ bodies are piled up on the ground, like a pile of harvested wheat… Lin Luoran finally sees the whole monster.

This monster’s body is as big as an ox with short and powerful limbs. It has sharp mouth and it is covered with black-purple hard scales. There are scales even on its eyelids. It is literally “armed to the teeth”.

It opens its mouth and rolls in many corpses of ants of Gold. The monster chews deliciously with a loud sound.

The appearance of this monster reminds Lin Luoran of pangolins of the outside world. This thing is certainly not a pangolin but a high-rank monster with thick skin and no fear of being sieged by ants of Gold. Before showing some other abilities, it has smashed these ants only by its mighty physical strength.

Staying in place is definitely not a good choice for Lin Luoran.

She is not in danger when trapped in the middle of the ant army. The real danger is the monster like a pangolin feeding on ants of Gold. What’s worse, there is another unknown monster not yet to launch attacks but tightly locking its eyes on Lin Luoran.

Where can she run off to?

Lin Luoran makes the decision immediately. To the rear!

For the first time, she summons a flying sword in this monster forest. Pa.s.sing by the black-purple pangolin, it subconsciously slashes her with its tail but Lin Luoran avoids it flexibly. The pangolin hesitates for a while. Eventually, it doesn’t choose to catch up. It looks down and enjoys its ants of Gold cuisine.

Lin Luoran breaks into a cold sweat and directs the flying sword through the dense forest of ancient trees.

She is right! The black-purple pangolin monster comes for those ants of Gold and she is not its main target!

However, Lin Luoran feels worried about the monster chasing after her. It is obviously not interested in ants of Gold.

That thing seems to be locking her and it decides to put her in its belly. It will not give up until she becomes its dinner tonight.

Lin Luoran’s flying speed is severely affected by the dense trees in the forest. She almost gets caught by the ubiquitous vines and branches for several times. Lin Luoran feels so gloomy. It is a vast sky over ancient trees which is the best place for flying on a sword.

But she knows it cannot work.

The un.o.bstructed sky belongs to flying monsters like pterosaurs.

If Lin Luoran dares to cross the mountain in the air, she will be surrounded by various flying monsters and becomes their delicious food. Flying in the air on a sword is simply like telling those hungry monsters that there is a snack in the sky. Come on, everybody!

Lin Luoran has been flying in the opposite direction far away from the mountain she dreams of. She is tall but can still gain an extra advantage compared with most of the gigantic monsters in terms of size. Lin Luoran escapes for a while in the dense forest. She can clearly feel the blazing eyes locking her behind are a little far away.

She seems to gain some distance between them.