Song Wen had no time to weigh his options.
A blood-red tentacle emerged from his back and scooped up the gravely wounded Phantom Wing Butterfly from the ground.
He had barely flown a dozen yards when the ground a short distance ahead churned, and the ant queen burrowed out.
"Human, I painstakingly raised that fourth-tier Phantom Wing Butterfly, yet you grievously wounded it, and now you dare try to take it away! You truly have no idea how to live or die! I will feed your flesh to my larvae and seal your soul inside the corpse of a dead Gold-Eating Ant, tormenting you for all eternity."
As the ant queen's roar ended, the frenzied Gold-Eating Ants were already upon Song Wen.
The first to arrive were four ant kings, each launching an attack at him.
One spat venom.
One spewed poisonous mist.
One swung its enormous mandibles, snapping at Song Wen.
One charged like an enraged bull, using its indestructible body as a hammer to ram him.
Faced with lethal attacks from four different directions, Song Wen made no attempt to defend himself.
He abruptly plunged toward the ant queen on the ground.
To capture the bandits, first capture their king!
His body suddenly swelled, transforming into a thirty-foot giant corpse.
At the same time, a tentacle emerged from his chest. Like an enormous spear, it stabbed toward the ant queen with the speed of wind and lightning.
The four ant kings immediately panicked.
The two closest to the ant queen hurriedly lunged at the tentacle.
The two behind Song Wen continued directing their poisonous mist and venom at him.
Bang!
An ant king slammed into the tentacle, stopping it.
Another arrived and clamped its mandibles around the tentacle, severing it.
At that moment, the poisonous mist and venom