Close to a quarter of an hour later, with Lou Yan as the centre, the corpses of the Fire Ants piled up into small hills.
The Elemental Energy of many people were almost all exhausted, but their surrounding area was still densely packed with crimson ants, like tides.
Lou Mu Yan kept manoeuvring through the Fire Ant Colony with calm eyes, thinking that it should be around time.
Sure enough, a harsh, piercing cry suddenly reverberated in the air, carrying the whine and pressure of an Advanced-Phase Tier 6 Demonic Beast, which was many times stronger than the Tier 5 Demonic Beast’s cry from before.
[SCREECH SCREECH!!] The surrounding Fire Ants heard the high-pitched voice filled with despair and immediately stopped attacking Lou Mu Yan. Their sharp fangs ground together and created a sound that made one’s hair stand on end.
The leading Tier 5 Fire Ant’s eyes grew bloodshot and in order to respond, also raised its head and shrieked a few times.
Afterwards, the high-level Fire Ants quickly lowered their heads and burrowed into the red soil one by one while the low-level Fire Ants also scattered and followed without hesitation.
Their Queen had let out a desolate scream, and the cry for help grew louder and louder each time. All the Fire Ants were anxious and wanted to rush to the Queen’s nest, so they ignored Lou Mu Yan and the rest completely.
The colony of ants came quickly and left quickly as well. In only a few breaths, they had all burrowed into the ground and disappeared.
Some pupils who had no idea what was happening were still brandishing their swords as they watched their opponents disappear, dumbfounded, “What’s—What’s going on? Why did they all run away?”
“The Elders have successfully found the Queen Fire Ant who controls the Fire Ant Colony. They’re going back to rescue it.” The originally ugly expression of the middle-aged man who was acquainted with Lan Si grew slightly better. They finally withstood it.
Hearing his words, many people couldn’t help but feel relieved. They slumped to the ground and panted, resting. Although they were all elite pupils of the Ten Distinguished Clans and had encountered many dangers during their Trial, but this was the first time they’ve experienced something like what happened today.
“Pupils of the Ten Distinguished Clans, do a quick headcount and report to me a list of the deaths.” The middle-aged man’s eyes swept over the corpses that had been chewed on until only bone was left and sighed. This time, the loss was a bit severe.
After his words fell, many people revealed looks of lingering fear in their eyes. When they discovered that there were a lot of missing companions, they felt a sorrow they had never felt before. Those that lost their brothers or sisters even couldn’t help but weep silently.
At this time, Lou Mu Yan was also sitting on the ground, pouring a bottle of pills into her mouth, quickly recovering her Elemental Energy, allowing herself to maintain her peak state at all times.
Seeing that the battle was over yet she was still pouring pills into her mouth as if she didn’t want money, Xiao Zi Ang couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his lips, saying: “Lou Mu Yan, the battle’s already over, why are you still eating pills? Can you not be so prodigal?”
Lou Mu Yan looked askance at him with a rare trace of fatigue in her voice, “Naturally to be prepared for a battle at any time.”
After entering here, there definitely would be countless dangers awaiting them. Although that Tier 6 Queen Fire Ant was killed by the Sword Monarch Elders of the Ten Distinguished Clans, but the oppressive aura of a Tier 7 Transformation Stage Demonic Beast had still not yet disappeared. No matter when, she couldn’t let her guard down.
“Those Fire Ants won’t come back again will they?” Xiao Zi Ang gasped. If that situation happened again, he really had no energy to fight anymore. Even if he kept replenishing his Elemental Energy, his physical strength could no longer keep up. He’d definitely die of exhaustion.
Lou Mu Yan furrowed her brows and said speechlessly: “Are there no other Demonic Beasts besides the Fire Ants here? Can you not ask such idiotic questions in the future?”
Xian Zi Ang smacked his lips, leaned in beside Lou Mu Yan and said with a smile: “How many more pills do you still have on you? How about taking out a few more pills and let us replenish our Elemental Energy too.”
Although he was a Grade 1 Alchemist, but his pill rate was too low. There were at most only one or two pills in each batch, and he couldn’t even guarantee that he wouldn’t waste a batch either.
The Grade 2 Elemental Energy Enhancing Pill they took earlier were all bestowed by the Clan. He couldn’t possibly refine it himself, let alone be as luxurious as Lou Mu Yan.
Lou Mu Yan had always been generous to the people she acknowledged. She casually took out more than a dozen bottles of Spiritual Energy Replenishing Pills and threw them to Xiao Zi Ang and the others, as well as a few bottles to the Ling Clan and Ye Clan.
Xiao Zi Ang opened the lid of the bottle and counted them—there were five pills altogether. His eyelids twitched uncontrollably. Why was it that the pills that were exceptionally precious in their hands were so worthless in her hands? Comparing oneself to another could definitely infuriate oneself to death.
He carefully poured one out and put it in his mouth, then meditated to recover Elemental Energy, not acting so prodigal like he did during the battle earlier. Such a luxurious act certainly was refreshing, but in retrospect, his flesh still hurt badly.
The conversation and actions of the two naturally attracted the attention of the others. They couldn’t help but hold their forehead at Lou Mu Yan’s behaviour of casually tossing out pills.
Did this woman actually know the value of pills? Could she not be this prodigal? Even if she wanted to be prodigal, at least give them some too!
Standing not far away, Shi Feng kept staring at the white porcelain bottle in Lou Mu Yan’s hand. His eyes grew darker and amidst the voices of jealousy and envy of the other Clan’s pupils, he walked in front of her and said bluntly without any expression: “Lou Mu Yan, can you show me the pills in your hand?”
When he was fighting earlier, he smelt the pill fragrance and felt that it was extraordinary. Not to mention he hadn’t seen this sort of pill that replenished Elemental Energy so quickly, unless they were Grade 3 or Grade 4 pills. But when he accidentally saw the quality of the pill, it seemed to appear a lot like a Grade 2 pill, so he couldn’t stop the desire for exploration in his heart and walked up to ask.
Lou Mu Yan remembered that in addition to the Ye Clan and the Ling Clan earlier, Shi Feng was the first to lead the pupils of his Clan forward to help in the battle, and didn’t handle it like the Xue Clan and the Xin Clan, so she nodded with a smile, took out a bottle of pills and handed it over: “I’ll gift it to you!”
“…” Xiao Zi Ang looked at Lou Mu Yan speechlessly. This prodigal lady, could she not be this generous?
Shi Feng also revealed slight surprise on his face, but apart from his enthusiasm for pills, he didn’t like to ask until the roots of things regarding anything else. So he nodded, thanked her, took the pill, and walked right back to his original place.
He opened the lid of the bottle and poured out a rotund and smooth white pill, pinched it between two fingers and sniffed it. His brows were tightly knitted, then he put it in his mouth. Immediately, his eyes that usually didn’t display much emotion revealed an indescribable shock.
Looking at his expression, everyone knew that this pill was extraordinary, and they all cast their gazes to Lou Mu Yan.
“Young Lord, Eldest Lord Shi could even obtain a bottle, we also went up to help fight just now, how about you also try?” A young man beside Mu Yi squinted and urged.
Mu Yi chuckled, and a meaningful arc rose on his handsome face, “Sure!” After saying that, he walked straight to Lou Mu Yan.
Lou Mu Yan raised her head and looked at Mu Yi who walked over. She also knew what he wanted to do, so she directly took out a bottle of Spiritual Energy Replenishing Pills and handed it to him, “I’ll also gift you guys a bottle too.”
Mu Yi took the white porcelain bottle with a thoughtful look, and said with a smile: “Lou Mu Yan, you’re very interesting, thanks!”
Lou Mu Yan was too lazy to guess what he meant by ‘interesting’. But when she glanced at the surroundings to check for any unusual activities, she discovered that the decision makers of the various Distinguished Clans were all waiting to act. She took out six more bottles and stuffed it to Xiao Zi Ang, saying: “Go give these six bottles of pills to the other Clans aside from the Xue Clan and Xin Clan.”
“Have you gone crazy?” Xiao Zi Ang hugged the porcelain bottle like a hen guarding her chicks, his eyes opened wide.
Lou Mu Yan looked askance at his stupid appearance, displeased, and said in an impatient voice: “Don’t be so short-sighted. With just this bit of pills and you can’t find North, South, East, West anymore? Go quickly.”
Xiao Xi Ang feared that she would scheme against him, so he stood up and reluctantly went to deliver the pills. Except, when he just finished the delivery and sat back down in his original position, he heard an angry voice sound. “Lou Mu Yan, are you looking down on our Xin Clan?”