Chapter 375 (1/2)

Chapter 375

In front of Long Chen was a huge basin . It was thirty miles in diameter . Although he called it a basin, it could also be described as a well . The cliffs surrounding it were all extremely steep, looking like they had been cut open with a blade . The mountains were miles high .

These mountains surrounded it on all sides . If you were to look from above, it would look just like a circular well . There was only a narrow pa.s.sage that led into the basin .

This pa.s.sageway had been turned into a complete mess . The ground was crumbling and waves of earth had piled up . Furthermore, these marks were clearly fresh, proving an intense fight had occurred here not long ago .

Long Chen had told the three women to act in accordance to their plan and guard the entranceway . If someone were to run out from inside, it would be difficult for them to notice the ambush outside .

The pa.s.sageway was less than a dozen meters wide at any time, and it went on for a dozen miles . Long Chen carefully walked through it until he reached the basin . There, he was amazed to see that the basin was filled with lush trees soaring to the heavens . It was completely different from the environment outside .

Bang!

Suddenly, a m.u.f.fled sound came from the distance, and Long Chen stealthily took out Devil Decapitator, raising his concentration to its limit as he crept over in the direction of that sound .

After traveling several miles, Long Chen suddenly saw a certain figure, a very familiar figure . It was Yin Luo .

At this time, Yin Luo was crazily brandis.h.i.+ng his spear . In front of him were densely packed, fist-sized, golden insects .

His spear smashed into one of the golden insects, and shockingly, a metallic sound rang out .

Long Chen was surprised to see that despite Yin Luo’s strength being great enough to smash apart mountains, his spear was only able to send some of those insects flying away with each strike . He wasn’t able to smash them to death .

“Metal Devouring Insects…” Long Chen was shocked . Those fist-sized insects with translucent wings and a golden sh.e.l.l were called Metal Devouring Insects .

They were an extremely unique kind of Magical Beast . When they were fully mature, they would still be only the size of a fist . They didn’t have a crystal core, but they had been cla.s.sified as third rank Magical Beasts .

That was because a single matured Metal Devouring Insect could kill a third rank Magical Beast . The most terrifying thing about them was their teeth .

They relied on eating metallic ores to live . Not only were their bodies hard as metal, but they were also extremely tough . Outer force attacks were mostly unable to kill them .

The most terrifying thing was that Metal Devouring Insects were Magical Beasts that lived in groups . It was common for hundreds or even thousands of them to gather together and dominate a vein of ore . Only when that vein was exhausted would they move on together to find another vein .

Long Chen was a bit curious about why Yin Luo would fight with these Metal Devouring Insects . He looked into the distance . When he saw a certain sapling growing in front of a cave, his heart began to pound frantically, and he almost cried out .

“Qilin Fruit!”

Long Chen shouted inside . He had searched for the Qilin Fruit for so long, and now he managed to find it in the secret realm . If he could obtain the Qilin Fruit, he’d be able to refine the Alioth Pill, and thus condense the Alioth Star .

Long Chen took a deep breath and suppressed his intense emotions . He carefully examined the situation .

This Qilin Fruit Tree was three feet tall, and there were over ten oddly shaped fruits growing on it . Those fruits all had scale-like patterns on them .

The fruits were the size of a longan . Long Chen could clearly see that several of the Qilin Fruit’s scales had already turned golden, meaning they had ripened and could immediately be used to refine the Alioth Pill .

Long Chen wished he could instantly charge over and s.n.a.t.c.h the tree . But he suppressed that desire .

The Qilin Fruit Tree was on top of a cave . Countless Metal Devouring Insects were furiously flying out from there, attacking Yin Luo .

Long Chen instantly understood that Yin Luo had come for the Qilin Fruit Tree . But that tree was in the Metal Devouring Insects’ territory . They wouldn’t let Yin Luo approach, and so they were crazily attacking him .

Yin Luo was too afraid of damaging the Qilin Fruit Tree, and so he didn’t dare release his full strength attacks . He could only use his spear to continuously strike those insects .

Although they wouldn’t die from being struck by his spear, once they were knocked into the hard cliff behind them, they usually lost consciousness .

There were already hundreds of Metal Devouring Insects that were unconscious in front of the cliff .

Long Chen immediately understood what he was planning . Yin Luo was truly patient . He was actually using this extremely clumsy method to get rid of them . As time pa.s.sed, fewer Metal Devouring Insects flew out of the cave . Two hours later, they had all been knocked unconscious .

Yin Luo finally sighed . These Metal Devouring Insects were very powerful, and being bitten by one would be extremely painful, even for him .

To have to constantly focus and strike each Metal Devouring Insect one by one hard enough that they pa.s.sed out had been extremely tiring after all this time .

Even Yin Luo felt exhausted after doing this for hours . But when he looked at the Qilin Fruit Tree, he felt as if it had all been worth it .

The Qilin Fruit was also known as the Qiling Sacred Fruit . A matured Qilin Fruit could be used to refine the Qilin Luck Pill that was able to increase the quality of a person’s Spirit Root . That was something that had already disappeared from the outside world . There were only some recordings in some ancient texts .

Originally, Yin Luo had seen three Chosen enter this basin from a distance . Seeing three Chosen together had piqued his curiosity, and he had followed from behind .

From their words, he had learned that one of them had found a priceless treasure and had invited the other two to help him obtain it .

But one of them had used some unknown method to detect that there was someone following them, and he had turned to attack .