Nowhere to Escape

"Break the protective formation? Easier said than done! Though every generation of Gold-Eating Ant queens possessed intelligence equal to that of the Human Race, none ever encountered any texts on formations. We know nothing of human formations, so how could we break the Orchid Realm's protective formation?"

"As for a Teleportation Array leading to other parts of the Divine Blood Hall, there is one here. But I do not know how to activate it, so naturally, I cannot open it."

The ant queen's voice was filled with bitterness.

It was the helplessness of possessing immense power with nowhere to wield it.

Breaking the Orchid Realm's protective formation was difficult—as difficult as ascending to heaven!

Yet the incantation for activating the Teleportation Array was simple, so simple that Nascent Soul Cultivators like Song Wen could perform it themselves after watching Gou Jun do it just once.

But for the ant queen, who knew nothing of Teleportation Arrays or formation incantations, it was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

"Where is the Teleportation Array?" Song Wen asked.

"Travel ten li to your left, and you will see a passage ten feet high. The Teleportation Array is at its end," the ant queen said.

The four exchanged glances at her words.

Did this ant queen have so little experience of the world that she knew nothing of the treachery of the human heart?

She actually answered every question and granted every request?

"Humans, I have given you everything you wanted. Shouldn't you hand over the Bronze Key Coffin you promised me now?" the ant queen's voice sounded again.

"We must see the Teleportation Array ourselves and confirm that it is undamaged before we can give you the Bronze Key Coffin," Mo Yexue replied.

She was guarding against the possibility that the ant queen