The worker ants busily at work seemed to completely ignore the Lava Fire Ants passing by them, remaining focused on their tasks.
The two Lava Fire Ants under Chen Daolin's control did not disturb them either, quietly leaving.
After crawling through the passage for an unknown length of time, a crimson glow appeared in the distant darkness. A wave of heat washed over them, and the view suddenly opened up. An endless lake of magma lay before Chen Daolin. Enormous, sharp red stone pillars rose from the bubbling magma, densely packed and stretching out like a forest of stone pillars. Large numbers of Lava Fire Ants clung to many of these red pillars, pressing themselves against the faintly glowing, high-temperature stone with expressions of pleasure.
At the center of the magma lake floated a black island hundreds of kilometers in diameter. At the island's highest point stood a red oval castle, its surface dotted with black openings. Lava Fire Ants crawled in and out of some of them.
Rumble—
At the far edge of the magma lake, vast quantities of red magma poured down the rock walls like rivers and flowed into the lake. Above was a thick ceiling of stone. The Lava Insect Race had turned this place into its own paradise, a world unto itself.
"Looks like this is where the Lava Insect Nest is. I wonder if there are any Ancient Soul-Burning Flowers here."
The Lava Fire Ant concealing Chen Daolin watched silently for a while, while Biqi's detection equipment began scanning the surrounding environment.
"There are a total of Lava Fire Ants within twenty kilometers of the magma lake ahead."
"One demigod-level, seventeen legendary-level. All the rest are starry sky-level."
Chen Daolin could not help but marvel. As expected of the Lava Insect Nest, the headquarters