Several white-robed cultivators behind them watched the middle-aged man surnamed Dong abandon them, along with his own spirit bird, and flee alone. Despair washed over them. Before they even had time to feel anger or rage, frost-white blasts of energy swept down upon them. With the strongest among them, the middle-aged man surnamed Dong, gone, they were already exhausted; surrounded now by dozens of times their number in Frost-Devouring Demon Ants, how could they possibly hold on?
Under the assault of the frost-white energy, the white-robed cultivators each turned into human-shaped ice sculptures suspended in midair.
The middle-aged man surnamed Dong fled too quickly. Several powerful Frost-Devouring Demon Ants pursued him for a while before losing him, then angrily beat their wings and flew back.
The Frost-Devouring Demon Ants that had surrounded the area shrieked excitedly, extending their saw-like forelegs and hammering at the ice sculptures.
The white-robed cultivators frozen inside shattered along with the ice, their bodies breaking into dozens of pieces beneath the blows.
The incomparably fierce Frost-Devouring Demon Ants immediately scrambled to feast, dividing the shattered white-robed cultivators and ice crystals among themselves.
The few especially powerful Frost-Devouring Demon Ants relied on their robust bodies and strength to charge through the swarm, seizing the largest chunks of food.
There were more than a hundred Frost-Devouring Demon Ants of the seventh rank and above. A handful of human cultivators was not nearly enough for them to divide up. Within moments, everything had been snatched clean, and the still-unsatisfied ant swarm beat its wings and sped away.
Only after quite some time did Chi Yunsang, who had been hiding far away and scarcely daring to breathe, along with Lu Xiaotian and the others, finally let out a rare sigh of relief. When they saw the expressions on one another's