A five-minute swim upstream from Atonement Cliff brought him to the Fire Ant Beast area. It stretched from the seafloor all the way to the surface of the Lava Sea, with a rock every dozen meters or so. If not for the Lava Sea surrounding him, one might have thought they had entered outer space.
Each rock held one or several Fire Ant Beasts. Their appearance was strange: they had ant-like bodies, but their mouthparts were like a pair of scythes. Their limbs were covered in bizarre red fur, their bodies were brawny, and their rear sections were especially large, like bombs.
Fire Ant Beast (Elite)
Level: Lower God, Tier 5
Health: 4500/4500
The most unusual thing about Fire Ant Beasts was that they had no wings, which prevented them from swimming through the Lava Sea. That was why there was so much lava in this area—it had all been created by the Fire Ant Beasts.
Lu Yang stopped eighty meters from the nearest rock, aimed both hands at a Fire Ant Beast that was feeding, and began chanting.
Divine Flame Skyburst
Four pure golden Little Fireballs shot from his hands simultaneously. In the blink of an eye, the Fire Ant Beast was struck four times in a row. It turned to look at Lu Yang, roared, and exerted force with all six legs at once.
Embers
Lu Yang instantly leaped thirty meters backward. At the very moment his fiery glow vanished, the Fire Ant Beast eighty meters away had already jumped over. Its scythe-like jaws snapped fiercely at the fading light.
Thirty meters away, Lu Yang stood unharmed as he watched the Fire Ant Beast, which had nowhere to brace itself. A wolfish grin spread across his face.
"Go on, jump again. There's nothing in the water for