"Don't tell me you think they're cute?"
Ye Fei knew Feng An wasn't beside him, but that didn't stop him from complaining.
He thought the snake was cute because of the circumstances back then. Feng An's true form really was beautiful, though of course, the threat of death at the time had been genuinely terrifying too.
But that sort of terror was something completely different from facing these ants.
"Phoenix Tree, don't learn from that guy and just sit back and watch. This is our home. Don't you think these things need a baptism of fire?"
After complaining about Feng An, Ye Fei drew his bowstring and searched for the Half-Demon players, calling on the Phoenix Tree to get to work while he was at it.
From earlier until now, the Phoenix Tree hadn't produced a single flame. Clearly, Feng An had been a bad influence.
It was one thing for that guy to watch the show, but the Phoenix Tree belonged to their household. With so many densely packed, utterly disgusting creatures outside their own home, was it really going to keep watching?
"..."
Two little flames flew in front of Ye Fei and bounced twice, their meaning unclear. Then they flew to the treetop and began burning directly above the array.
At first, a few clumps of flame fell into the mass of ants, setting one or two alight, and then stopped.
The ants were frightened by the fire, but when they realized only a few of them had been burned, the others lost their fear and continued biting at the array's protective wall, which they couldn't damage at all.
Yet after those few ants caught fire, their shells were turned into fuel too.
One after another, the ants burned. By the time the fire began spreading among