Chen Jue took to his heels because the beast roars reaching his ears were drawing closer, and more and more strange beasts were gathering.
Although he had not seen what kinds they were, recalling this planet's unusual environment, Chen Jue reckoned that the strange beasts attracted by the mysterious fruit in his hand would certainly be no pushovers.
The [Mystic School Qi Observation Technique] had also given him a warning of danger, prompting him to instinctively make himself scarce.
Preferring to avoid unnecessary trouble, Chen Jue sprinted extremely fast. With the [Divine-Traveling Taibao] state bolstering him, he seemed to become a black streak hurtling through the forest.
He leaped across the river he had crossed on his way there. As he approached the giant ants' habitat, Chen Jue suddenly discovered that the black-and-red giant ants he had assumed were neutral had now formed layer upon layer of formations along his unavoidable route.
The palm-sized giant ants seemed to form a black-and-red torrent of armored shells, blocking Chen Jue's path into the invisible curtain of light.
When Chen Jue reached the front of their formation, a faint mental magnetic field fluctuation came from underground. It was the queen ant conveying her longing to Chen Jue, her desire for the mysterious fruit in his hand.
"Even these giant ants want this fruit?"
"Just how enticing is this thing?"
Chen Jue did not respond to the queen ant's mental magnetic field. Instead, after some thought, he tossed the snake gallbladder he felt was somewhat superfluous to the ant colony. He turned back and used [Wind-Listening Ears] to listen to the roars and running footsteps of the beasts behind him, then sprang up into the trees on either side. He began bounding through the forest via the treetops, avoiding the ants' blockade.
"Queen ant,