The King Kong Ant Swarm Is Here!! (Signed, Invest Quickly)

About 540 kilometers from Black Stone Mountain, where Xu Yang was.

This was a Great Rift Valley roughly five kilometers wide, its length stretching beyond sight. The Great Rift Valley stretched across the verdant land, its blackish-brown tones starkly out of place amid the surroundings. The valley was covered in blackish-brown rocks, exposed openly to the air. Eroded by wind and rain, they had become pitted and uneven, their surfaces covered in cracks.

The entire rift valley exuded an air of desolation. Occasionally, small animals could be seen darting between the rocks. These creatures were usually small, with dull-colored fur, cautiously searching for food and water to survive.

Some leaped between the rocks, while others slipped through narrow crevices, all of them extremely agile.

"Crack, crack, crack~~~"

A burst of falling rubble sounded, and an irregular hole more than a meter wide suddenly appeared in the black rock wall, which looked as though it had been hacked by blades and axes.

A massive King Kong Ant suddenly burrowed out of the blackish-brown rock wall. Its size was beyond imagination, nearly 1.8 meters long—almost as tall as an adult human. Its shell was as hard as steel and a deep black, as though it could absorb all the surrounding light. One look made it seem bottomless.

Its head was abnormally huge, taking up nearly a third of its entire body. A pair of sharp antennae stood tall, constantly probing the surroundings like two antennae. Its eyes were two beads glimmering with red light, like burning flames, especially conspicuous within the depths of the rift valley.

"Screech, screech, screech~~~"

A shrill, urgent scream came from between its wildly rubbing forelimbs.

The King Kong Ant's six limbs were thick and powerful, each leg covered in sharp serrations like natural sickles capable of easily cleaving solid rock. Its forelimbs in particular were bulging with muscle and astonishingly strong. Whenever it wielded them, it stirred up a gale, as though even the air could be torn apart.

Crackling sounds rang out as several more large holes appeared in the rock wall.

They leaped down, and a drop of dozens of meters was almost nothing to them.

Like a surging tide, nearly a thousand King Kong Ants lined up head to tail at the bottom of the valley. At last, two crimson ants crawled out of the cave. Unlike the Apprentice Level King Kong Ants, these two crimson ants had a pair of translucent, brilliant red wings on their backs, like two exquisite pieces of amber.

Their wings fluttered gently, producing a faint buzzing sound as they conveyed some kind of command to all the King Kong Ants.

Having received the command, the King Kong Ants no longer bored holes into the cliff wall on the Other side of the rift valley. Instead, they drove their legs into the rocky soil and climbed upward from below. They were going up to the surface!

The Azure-Eyed Baboon clan would never turn a blind eye to their invasion.

The aura of demons greatly intimidated the native inhabitants of the rift valley. Countless small animals and insects fled this stretch of the valley in panic.

There were quite a few demons on Navara Star, but they were far from common enough to be seen everywhere. The suppression of lower lifeforms by higher lifeforms came from deep within their bloodlines. No threats were needed; instinct alone drove lower lifeforms to flee.

The dense forest stretched on, covered in dead branches and fallen leaves.

The dusky yellow brought by the changing seasons had not spread to this hilly region. According To Xu Yang's judgment, it was Most Likely because of the man-eating vines in the forest!

The vines were Most Likely already extraordinary beings. That was why they could pursue prey like Living Things.

As for why he had managed to escape from an extraordinary being back then, Xu Yang did not know. With no one to explain it to him, he could only attribute it to fate.

Crunch!

A wolf paw crushed a fallen dead leaf, the sound carrying far through the silent woodland.

Rustle, rustle, rustle, rustle~~~~

Now an Apprentice Fourth Order, Xu Yang heard movements he could not hear before. They were very faint, like insects brushing against tree bark. At the same time, Xu Yang's nostrils flared softly, and a faint fragrance appeared in the air.

The scent was so faint that even Xu Yang, as he was now, would not have noticed it unless he was fully focused!

Are they here?

Strength brought confidence. This Time, Xu Yang did not panic.

He walked between dead leaves and puddles, his Steps light yet steady, carrying an indescribable ease and calm. BGM slowly began to play in his mind, and Every step landed on the beat of time. He was not the Slightest bit flustered by the increasingly tense atmosphere around him.

Finally.

"Smack!"

Several Black Shadows could no longer hold back. They shot out from the depths of the rotting leaves and humus, racing straight at Xu Yang.

They were several vines as thick as forearms, their surfaces covered in sharp Spikes and radiating a chilling killing intent. The vines twisted through the In the Air like enormous venomous snakes, launching a fierce attack at Xu Yang.

A sharp glint flashed through his Eyes. Xu Yang moved, disappearing from his Original Spot.

With a low growl.

Xu Yang pounced directly at the closest vine. His sharp wolf claws drew Streams of Cold Light through the air as they viciously tore at the vine's body. The vine was tough, but it was only Apprentice First Order. How could it withstand the claws of an Apprentice Fourth Order Green Wolf?

Splat!

The struck vine snapped into several sections, spraying streams of thick, greenish-yellow, foul-smelling fluid from the breaks.

Fuck, it reeks!

The tremendous physical improvement brought by Apprentice Fourth Order naturally made Xu Yang's sense of smell Far exceeds what it had once been. This foul fluid was Comparable to the strongest biochemical weapon, madly assaulting his nose and making him intensely nauseated. He had no desire to keep fighting at all.

Whoosh!

His body leaped, and after kicking off a nearby tree, Xu Yang shot dozens of meters away.

The plant was too disgusting. Xu Yang decided to stay far away from it.

If the vines could not even catch an ordinary wild wolf back then, how could they possibly catch Xu Yang now?

In less than five seconds, Xu Yang ran beyond the vines' sensing range.

Unable to find the enemy after being injured, the vines could only thrash about helplessly. Their immense force Stir up a gale through the forest, sweeping countless dead branches and fallen leaves into the air.

Under the impact of that force, the secret that had originally been Hiding beneath the humus and dead leaves gradually revealed itself.

At the center of the wildly thrashing vines, a huge network of Roots gradually emerged. A tangled root mass more than ten meters in diameter was half-embedded in the soil, with nearly a hundred vine tentacles as thick as forearms extending from it and spreading in all directions.

It already counted as a demon. Its muddled intelligence gave it an intellect roughly equivalent to that of a three-year-old child in addition to its instincts.

Whoosh!

At the edge of the hills, a green afterimage landed on the soft grass.

Xu Yang looked back at the hills behind him and Sighed. When he entered, he had barely been able to protect himself and had nearly died at the hands of the extraordinary vines. Yet in only a few short days, everything had changed. He now had the strength to protect himself!

It was all because of the system!

Looking at the crude interface before him, which emitted only a faint white glow, Xu Yang felt a sense of closeness for the first time.

Like family, in this world, alone as a wolf, it was the only thing that still accompanied him.

A trace of determination flashed in the Bottom of His Eyes.

Let's make a name for ourselves together!