"So this is where the fight starts?" Lu Xiaotian watched, at a loss for words. He had seen plenty of Nascent Soul Cultivators, but never one so eccentric. While Lu Xiaotian was still distracted, Xiang Kuang swept out a hand. A five-colored Flood Dragon-Headed Staff rapidly swelled to several hundred zhang tall, like a pillar propping up the heavens, and slammed toward the head of the Mangxiao Household. The five-colored staff swept through the air as if it would split the void itself. Wherever it passed, the air cracked and boomed.
Seeing the astonishing momentum of the five-colored Flood Dragon-Headed Staff, the Mangxiao Household Head's expression turned grave. He opened his mouth wide, and six fierce-looking red ants flew out. Each had a character resembling "king" on its forehead, a face like a tiger's, and a body like an ant's. Their cries were like tiger roars. Golden flames billowed wherever they went, and demonic aura soared into the sky.
"Golden-Flame Tiger-Head Ants!" Lu Xiaotian's expression changed at the sight of the tiger-headed demon ants burning with golden flames all around them. The spirit flames on tiger-headed ants came in four colors: black, red, silver, and gold. They were the ants' innate demonic flames, and a direct measure of their strength. The four colors corresponded to four major ranks of demonic beasts. Golden flames meant they had reached the level of Nascent Soul demon creatures.
When their flames reached three chi, they were in the Great Demon realm. Of the six tiger-headed ants before him, four had flames reaching two chi, making them equivalent to Eleventh Tier demon beasts, with strength second only to Great Demons. The other two had flames just over one chi, but short of two, putting them in the late Tenth Tier.
"Golden-Flame Tiger-Head Ants. Looks like