A vast Red Bamboo Forest stretched out before them, with fallen leaves several feet thick covering the ground.
A loud explosion came from deep within the forest. Large amounts of red bamboo were swept into the sky, then transformed into countless wood shavings.
Deep within the bamboo forest, Wang Yingjie, Wang Qingfeng, Dong Xueli, and Liu Hongxue stood in an open area. Their faces were slightly pale. Not far away lay seven enormous Red Spiders, their bodies torn into pieces and completely lifeless.
They had encountered a swarm of over a million Dragon-Devouring Ants and stayed behind to cover the retreat. The Dragon-Devouring Ants had scattered to pursue the Wang Family members, resulting in the deaths of more than a dozen clansmen. Wang Shiming had also been killed.
Dong Xueli and Liu Hongxue had used their Life-Saving Treasures and fought their way out of the encirclement at the cost of a Seventh Order Puppet Beast. They had also become separated from the clansmen.
"We finally dealt with them. It's all thanks to Yingjie mastering the Qianyang Illusion Eye. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had such an easy time killing them."
Dong Xueli let out a relieved breath and said with a smile.
"Ancestor Xueli, you flatter me. The Qianyang Illusion Eye only caused them to fall into an illusion temporarily. Without the treasures refined by Ancestor Qingfeng, it would still have been difficult to kill these Demon Insects."
Wang Yingjie spoke modestly.
"Let's rest for a while, then continue forward. Hopefully, we'll find something good."
Wang Qingfeng said solemnly.
After becoming separated from the clansmen, they had found only a dozen or so stalks of Qianyang Grass. The oldest had grown for no more than thirty thousand years, so their gains had been meager.
They stored away the corpses of the