Shi Meng roared as he leaped forward, snatching a heavy tower shield and blocking in front of him.
A pale blue flame smashed against the tower shield, instantly turning the meticulously forged shield red-hot.
The tower shield, two feet thick, two meters tall, and a meter wide, violently trembled, with flames released by the Fiery Gold Ants' Flame Devouring Ants not only possessing extreme temperature but also strong impact force.
The surface of the shield began to quickly melt, and under the impact of the flames, large amounts of molten metal sprayed out in all directions, scalding the nearby soldiers of the Great Stone City who screamed in pain.
Many soldiers who were closer were sprayed in the face with molten metal, with their faces left pockmarked. Even the lizard archers wearing soft armor were splattered with metal juices and jumped around in pain.
Shi Meng roared, gripping the handle behind the tower shield tightly, which was also glowing red-hot.
His hands were like pig hooves placed on a hot plate, making a sizzling sound.
Fortunately, he activated his Giant Bloodline, making his body exceptionally sturdy, with his hands covered in a layer of gray-white rock-colored armor.
Even the high temperature that melted refined steel only caused Shi Meng's palms to crack and bleed, without inflicting any irreparable heavy injuries on him.
Wu Tie's internal heat surged, and the surging energy released by the Lava Grass melted and melted into golden light, merging into Wu Tie's brow in a short period of time. The black mist in front of him dissipated, and he regained some of his spirit.
Without considering refining foundational formulas to restore his mental power, Wu Tie leaped up and grabbed the steel spear from the weapon rack behind him, throwing it with all his strength towards the enormous Flame Devouring Ant.
The steel spear emitted a sharp, piercing sound, bringing forth a strong light and piercing the head of the Flame Devouring Ant.
The spearhead had already turned red-hot almost as soon as it touched the Flame Devouring Ant's shell. The spear tip softened at a speed visible to the naked eye. Accompanied by a muffled sound, the entire steel spear turned into splattering liquid on this Flame Devouring Ant's head.
"F***!" Wu Tie cursed.
"I can't hold it!" Shi Meng also roared, the tower shield in his hand completely melted by the flames sprayed by this Flame Devouring Ant. A column of fire rushed onto Shi Meng, causing him to scream in pain and continuously stumble backward.
Seeing Shi Meng's upper body rapidly changing color and countless blisters arising, the blisters burst open, and a mixture of bodily fluids and blood plasma spewed out. Before the blood had even landed on the ground, the pale blue flames had already evaporated it. Large patches of flesh and skin on Shi Meng's upper body turned pitch black, directly vaporized by the terrifying high temperature.
"Here we go!" Shi Meng angrily shouted, pointing at the city wall under the Flame Devouring Ant's feet. The rocks writhed and suddenly a deep gap cracked open.
The enormous Flame Devouring Ant suddenly fell into the deep crevice, and Shi Meng clenched his hands together, causing a loud rumbling sound as the city wall suddenly closed inward, trapping the Flame Devouring Ant tightly in the crack.
The Flame Devouring Ant's body was caught by the city wall, and only a fiendish head the size of a cow's head was left outside the city wall.
Wu Tie howled as he rushed forward, the pain in his brow stabbing him hard. His innate ability to Control the Universe was still powerless to use. He rushed up and held the head of the Flame Devouring Ant, which emitted high temperatures, with both hands.
His hands fiercely burned and the flesh under his elbows rapidly blackened and carbonized.
Intense pain surged, but Wu Tie had already become accustomed to this kind of fiery pain.
Hmm, this level of pain was almost the same as when Wu Tie absorbed two dragon horns for the first time in the ancient divine soldier camp. At that time, his whole body exuded high-temperature flames, nearly cooking his flesh completely.
"Die!" Wu Tie roared, fiercely twisting the head of the Flame Devouring Ant in his hands.
With a crunch sound, the Flame Devouring Ant's head was forcefully twisted off by Wu Tie's brute force. He fiercely pulled, directly tearing off the enormous Flame Devouring Ant's head.
A white egg lying on his chest flickered rapidly with a faint light. The body of this enormous, terrifying Flame Devouring Ant suddenly turned cold. Its blood essence, vitality, and even its soul were instantly absorbed, even the reddish-orange carapace began to fade.
"Hahaha, well done, brother!" Shi Meng, despite the burns on his hands, fiercely slapped Wu Tie on the shoulder and shouted, "From today onwards, you are the captain of the Great Stone City... hey, consider it, our Stone family's big sisters are all big-chested and big-hipped, and they can give birth to strong boys..."
Shi Meng's palm spurted out large amounts of blood, staining Wu Tie's shoulder red.
He laughed disdainfully, saying, "The babies they give birth to are as strong as calves."
Not far away, Tie Eighty-Eight smashed a Flame Devouring Ant down from the city wall with a single axe strike. He ignored the wounds torn open by the Flame Devouring Ant's forelimbs and shouted towards this side, "Impossible... Your father was born weighing eighty-eight jin... eighty-eight jin!"
Wu Tie's face twitched violently.
He looked at Shi Meng, who was laughing, and then at Tie Eighty-Eight, who was shouting seriously. Suddenly, he burst out laughing.
This damn bunch of guys, he liked them!
Hahaha, even in the face of these terrifying, damned Flame Devouring Ants, having them by his side was truly wonderful.
"Even if we have no clothes, we stand together..."
The White Tiger Armguard on Wu Tie's right hand trembled lightly, and a fierce killing intent surged out from the armguard, flowing through Wu Tie's body like a cold spring.
An unfamiliar song, Wu Tie could swear that he had never learned it before, whether it was Lao Tie or Gray Master, neither of them had taught him this nursery rhyme that resounded in his mind.
The rhythm was simple, and the lyrics were also simple.
But a strange killing intent lingered within, causing all the hair on Wu Tie's body to...
Oh, all the hair on his body had already been burned clean by the high temperature emitted by the Flame Devouring Ant from earlier, his long hair had been burnt clean as well, and now Wu Tie was completely naked, just like a peeled egg.
His pores suddenly closed, and countless goosebumps appeared all over his body.
Then, from each of the dense goosebumps, strands of icy cold air spewed out, and a strand of white light flickered faintly in Wu Tie's pupils.
Cold, ruthless, like countless sharp swords shuttling back and forth, it was filled with the merciless slaughter of a battlefield.
"It's great to have you all!" Wu Tie muttered to himself, suddenly entering a strange state.
At this moment, he could perfectly control every function of his body.
He had just swallowed the Lava Grass, and it was quickly being digested. Massive amounts of majestic and scorching energy passed through his body, constantly transforming into pure spiritual power and merging into the golden light cluster in his brow in the blink of an eye.
The dim golden light cluster rapidly lit up.
However, the two leaves of Lava Grass were obviously not enough to restore the golden light cluster to its original state.
Silently, Wu Tie took out the specially made metal box from his waist pouch and pushed all eight intact Lava Grass into his mouth, swallowing them all in one gulp.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye.
Everything happened so quickly.
With extraordinary intuition in battle and extreme sensitivity to combat, Shi Meng was startled by the horrifying killing intent exuded by Wu Tie's entire body, which was even scarier than that of a seasoned veteran who had survived countless battles.
In the moment when the killing intent surged from Wu Tie's body, Shi Meng even thought that suddenly, a king among killers had appeared by his side!
He suddenly turned his head, lowered it to look at Wu Tie, and then saw Wu Tie swallowing so many Lava Grass in one bite.
Shi Meng's face twisted into a ball, and he reached out his hand to stop Wu Tie's reckless actions.
A small brat at the Foundation Establishment stage, if he swallowed an intact Lava Grass, he would definitely die from bursting apart, but Wu Tie, he actually swallowed so many!
"F***!" Unable to stop him in time, Shi Meng covered his eyes, screaming in pain.
Wu Tie's entire body was in extreme pain, and large amounts of blood plasma sprayed out from all the pores on his body.
In that instant, it was as if a volcano had erupted inside his body.
Every bodily function was operating at its peak, and his immense spiritual power controlled his entire body, perfectly commanding every single cell.
Every cell, every nerve, every blood vessel, every muscle, bone, and even other parts of his body...
Within the human body, some nerves, muscles, and organs cannot be controlled by subjective thinking. For example, a normal person cannot control their heartbeat with their own thoughts!
However, at this moment, Wu Tie achieved it perfectly.
All of the body's physiological functions were placed under the control of the immense spiritual power.
When the power of the Lava Grass erupted, Wu Tie's body was subjected to a violent shock, almost shattering his body to pieces.
But then, as his spiritual power controlled his entire body, his bodily functions were strengthened tenfold or even a hundredfold, and in an instant, all the power of the medicine was perfectly accommodated, absorbed, and transformed by his body, turning into pure golden streams that rushed into his brow with a snap of his fingers.
His combat intuition was strengthened a hundredfold.
His combat instinct was strengthened a hundredfold.
The combat experience that he had gained after countless life and death tests suddenly descended upon him.
Wu Tie's ice-cold, unfeeling eyes scanned the entire battlefield. Countless knowledge imparted to him by Lao Tie tumbled in his mind.
His mental strength was rapidly depleting, and he frantically accessed the knowledge that Old Tie had passed on to him. White steam wisps constantly emerged from his bald head, and his brain matter was almost boiling.
"The Flame Devouring Ant's body contains high temperatures, and it feeds on metal... Its outer shell is almost entirely composed of metal."
"Low temperatures... are their natural enemies."
Wu Tie arrived at the Flame Devouring Ants' greatest weakness in a fraction of a second and obtained the best way to deal with them.
He looked up at the arrow towers and watchtowers on the city wall.
A group of senior mages from Great Stone City was doing their utmost to unleash fierce winds to counter the sea of fire outside the city. There were even a few scattered senior mages who were exerting all their strength to bring down wisps of ice crystals, desperately trying to lower the temperature on the city wall.
But these mages... were really weak.
"They're really weak..."
Three to five mages had tried their best to lower the temperature with ice crystals, but on the city wall, they disappeared in a flash. Even the snowflakes couldn't land on the city wall before they were completely evaporated by the high temperature emanating from the Flame Devouring Ants.
As more Flame Devouring Ants approached the city wall, the dense fog produced by these mages was even evaporated. The ice crystals that could descend became increasingly sparse.
Wu Tie muttered to himself, stretching out his hand. With an invisible force field slightly flicking, thumb-sized indigo blue ice crystals falling from the sky pierced through the fire sea created by the Flame Devouring Ants and landed lightly in his hand.
The ice crystal was absorbed into Wu Tie's palm.
His severely mutilated hands, which had nearly visible bones, were rapidly recovering due to the massive supply of power from the Lava Grass, and his wounds were healing at a rapid pace.
His hands were as fair as jade, with a faint radiance shimmering.
His incredibly strong combat intuition and combat awareness controlled his entire body. The golden light cluster in Wu Tie's brow violently fluctuated, with waves of intense spiritual waves rapidly oscillating. Gradually, the frequency of his spiritual waves rapidly approached a specific frequency.
"The power of frost... first, it is the power of water."
Wu Tie muttered softly, and a surging golden flame burned in his brow, and waves of powerful shockwaves spread out in all directions.
Even Shi Meng, who was standing next to Wu Tie and shouting in surprise, was knocked down by this sudden powerful shockwave, flung headfirst onto the city wall in a terribly embarrassed state.
Without waiting for Shi Meng to climb up, Wu Tie waved his hands forward.
The surging sound of rushing water followed, and countless fist-sized white water droplets rushed through the air with a piercing whistling sound.
Each droplet carried formidable force, with each fist-sized water droplet comparable to a hundred-pound boulder thrown by a catapult.
Countless water droplets swept across this side of the city wall, causing thousands of the Flame Devouring Ants that had charged onto the city wall to stagger and retreat. The impact between the water droplets and the high-temperature carapace produced a muffled collision sound, accompanied by the hissing sound of water evaporating due to high temperature.
Wu Tie's face remained expressionless as he looked at the disheveled Shi Meng and said in a deep voice, "Lava Grass, or any other similar elemental grass, the more the better."
Shi Meng was dumbfounded, and he quickly jumped off the city wall, sprinting towards the central storeroom of Great Stone City.
In just a dozen breaths, Shi Meng ran back carrying an enormous basket, which was filled with Lava Grass, as well as dozens of obviously more advanced elemental grasses.
Wu Tie grabbed a large handful of Lava Grass and stuffed it into his mouth expressionlessly.
The clouds grew denser, and pouring rain howled in fury. Fist-sized water columns instantly drove all the Flame Devouring Ants charging onto the city wall out.
"The extreme cold of water is ice."
Wu Tie's eyes turned completely tragic white, a white so cold and tragic, without a trace of emotion or temperature, only absolute rationality and coldness.
His ten fingers pointed forward, and his nails turned indigo blue.
The sky was suddenly devoid of droplets as, with a shrill whistle, dozens of ice tornadoes shot up, spewing icy cold air, and rushed into the chaotic swarm of Flame Devouring Ants on the ground.
Even standing by Wu Tie's side, who was shouting oddly, Shi Meng was rolled over by the sudden powerful impact and unsteadily fell headfirst onto the city wall, in an extremely embarrassed manner.
Before Shi Meng could even climb up, Wu Tie waved both his hands forward.
The sky suddenly cleared of clouds, and accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of water, dozens of ice spears the size of fists plummeted from the sky.
Each punch-sized ice spear contained a tremendous force, and every single ice spear thrown was equivalent to a hundred kilograms of boulder thrown by a trebuchet.
Countless ice spears swept across this side of the city wall, causing thousands of Flame Devouring Ants charging onto the city wall to be forcefully driven back. The ice spears collided with the high-temperature carapaces, constantly emitting muffled impact sounds, and the sound of high temperature evaporating the water into a hissing sound.
Wu Tie looked expressionlessly at Shi Meng, who had gotten up in a sorry state. He spoke with a deep voice, "Lava Grass, or any other similar elemental grass, the more the better."
Shi Meng was dumbfounded, and he jumped down from the city wall, running like mad toward the central storeroom of Great Stone City.
In just a dozen breaths, Shi Meng came running back carrying an enormous basket filled with Lava Grass, as well as dozens of elemental grasses that were obviously more advanced.
Wu Tie grabbed a large handful of Lava Grass and stuffed it into his mouth expressionlessly.
The clouds grew even thicker, and with pouring rain, fist-sized water columns rushed forth, completely driving all the Flame Devouring Ants that had charged onto the city wall away.
"The power of frost first comes from the power of water."
Wu Tie muttered softly, his eyes turning into a tragic white color, a white so pitiful, without any sentiment, temperature, only absolute rationality and coldness.
His ten fingers were pointed forward, and his fingernails turned indigo blue.
The numerous water droplets suddenly disappeared, and alongside the ear-piercing whistling sound, dozens of ice storms rose flatly from the ground, exhaling a frosty chill as they whistled and rushed into the chaotic swarm of Flame Devouring Ants.
(End of this chapter)