As soon as he entered the other end of the restricted area, Zhao Di took out two mid-grade defensive spirit artifacts, one in front and one behind, to protect himself. At the same time, he also cast some mixed yuan energy to wrap himself in it, forming another layer of defense.

  He didn't know how long this passage was, and his divine sense could only feel dozens of feet away at this time, which made him very uncomfortable.

  He walked at a normal pace for about half an hour before the passageway finally showed some changes.

  A thousand-meter-sized underground cave appeared in front of him, and under the illumination of the moonstone, Zhao Di saw that there were many sparkling flying insects flying back and forth at the top of the cave tens of meters high.

  "Golden Winged Fire Ant!"

  When one of the shining insects flew in front of Zhao Di, he immediately recognized its origin.

  The Golden Winged Fire Ant, although only a first-class high-ranking insect demon beast, can launch a cluster of golden flames to attack its enemies, with strength equivalent to that of a Qi Refining stage cultivator above the 10th level, but is known for its large numbers and tendency to appear in swarms.

  In the Starry Sea, these Golden Winged Fire Ants are quite common, with each emergence numbering in the tens of thousands, often causing enormous harm. Unless they are a Cultivator at the Dan-Forming Stage or above, ordinary Cultivators who encounter them will be left with a splitting headache, and there are even some who lose their lives to these ants.

  At this moment in the cave, Zhao roughly estimated that there were no less than a thousand or more.

  Thousands of golden-winged fire ants, each ant only needs to protrude a mouthful of golden flames, can gather into a sea of golden flames.

  However, this golden-winged fire ant is not a particularly ferocious insect beast, and if it does not provoke it, it will not be attacked by the group.

  After all, after the golden-winged fire ant spits out the golden flame, it needs to recuperate for several years before it can slightly recover, but it will never fully recover.

  And in its lifetime, this golden-winged fire ant can only spit flames three times, after which it will die.

  But the reproductive capacity of ant-like monsters is extremely strong, and often a batch dies while another batch hatches.

  The golden-winged fire ants in this cave, it is unknown whether they were the original owner of the cave who intentionally left behind a species that hatched over many years, or if they drilled into this place from elsewhere and formed unintentionally.

  No matter what, Zhao didn't want to disturb them.

  But unfortunately, Zhao Di found that on the opposite side of the cave, there was only one passage, and a group of golden-winged fire ants were swirling around it.

  He waited patiently for two hours, but these fire ants still had no intention of leaving the entrance of the passage.

  It seems that in order to enter that passage, it is inevitable to disturb the fire ants. The current plan cannot be avoided, and we must go to war!

  If we're going to fight, let's have a quick battle and take them by surprise. Let's destroy half of them first, otherwise when these fire ants gather their golden flames to attack, it will be extremely difficult to defend against.

  Then Zhao's sleeve robe lightly shook, more than a dozen puppets holding bows stood by his side, and both of his hands also tightly grasped the Blazing Heaven Blade.

  "Die!" Zhao Di shouted loudly, raising the Heaven-Scorching Blade and slashing down fiercely. A ten-zhang-long solitary horned fire dragon burst out from the blade, carrying a wave of heat that swept towards the most densely populated area of the Golden Winged Fire Ants.

  At the same time, many puppets also pulled the bowstrings, and a dense attack was launched at the fire ants.

  Hundreds of golden-winged fire ants, before they could instinctively spit out golden flames, were rolled into the fire by the dragon and turned to ashes. There were also many fire ants that were killed by the dense attack of the puppet, or sprayed out golden flames to resist.

  Once this fire ant sprays out golden flames, it is equivalent to losing its attack power for a short time and is completely insufficient.

  It seems that Zhao Di has instantly annihilated half of the Golden Winged Fire Ants in just one round.

  The unequal golden winged fire ant organization counterattacked, Zhao Di immediately swung the Blazing Sky Blade again. A lone horned fire dragon once again ferociously pounced out with its claws dancing.

  But the golden-winged fire ants didn't react slowly either, and immediately a staggering number of golden flames flew out from various places in the cave, flying towards the fire dragon.

  The fire dragon didn't have time to kill more of the golden winged ants before being consumed by a large amount of golden flames, dispersing its power and disappearing into tiny sparks.

  It seems that the number of fire ants is far beyond Zhao Di's estimation.

  More golden flames spewed out, all towards a certain place, and soon formed a golden fireball of several feet in size.

  A golden fireball slowly flew towards Zhao Di, and before it even got close, Zhao Di already felt waves of high temperatures approaching.

  Zhao Di hastily swung out his third knife while also giving the puppet that was continuously attacking the fire ants an order to change its attack target to the golden fireball.

  As Zhao Di swung his sword, the solitary horned fire dragon flew out of the Blazing Sky Blade, opening its huge mouth to bite down on a golden fireball.

  The fire dragon cannot bite the golden fireball in one mouthful, and the golden fireball also cannot knock down the fire dragon, forming a stalemate.

  Only a small flame the size of an inch spewed out from the cave, merging into the golden fireball, making it bigger and bigger, threatening to destroy the Fire Dragon at any moment.

  The puppet's attacks were dense and hit the golden fireball, but most of them had not approached yet, and were blocked by the high-temperature heat wave generated by the golden fireball, making it difficult to form a real threat.

  Zhao gathered a large amount of spiritual energy and swung the Blazing Sky Blade with all his might once again. A large flame shot out from the blade, flying straight into the solitary horned fire dragon.

  The fire dragon suddenly grew much larger and longer, and in one gulp swallowed the golden fireball into its belly.

  A moment later, a fierce wave of heat raged, accompanied by the sound of explosions, and the fire dragon and golden fireball disappeared together.

  Only a few of the remaining golden-winged fire ants with attacking power were left, and they no longer posed a threat to Zhao Di. Under the cover of two shields, he calmly put away his puppet and Huo Tian Blade, walked through the cave, and entered another passage.

  Not long after they set off, Zhao Di clearly felt that the temperature around them was getting lower and lower.

  Just a few miles out, even he, with the physique of a foundation-building cultivator, could clearly feel the biting chill. If an ordinary person were here, they would probably freeze to death in less than half an hour.

  Zhao Di pasted seven or eight pieces of Huoyun Lianfu talismans on his body in one breath, and only then did he feel a bit better.

  But before long, the heat-resistant stickers were quickly consumed, and he had to stick on a few more.

  After walking out for a while, under the protection of Huoyun, Zhao Di still felt waves of cold air. As long as he consumed some spiritual power and cast Hunyuan Yiqi to protect himself around his body.

  This move was obviously more effective than the Fire Cloud Cover, and it allowed Zhao Di to walk out another two or three miles, until he came to a mountain cave surrounded by blue ice pillars on all sides.

  The cave is not high or wide, only a few hundred feet long, but the temperature is extremely low, emitting a faint blue cold air. Cultivators in the Qi Refining stage can't stay in this cold air for more than a few breaths, or they will be frozen to death.

  The purple energy protecting Zhao's land was also consuming a great deal of spiritual power under the invasion of this cold air.

  At this rate, he's likely to exhaust his spiritual energy and freeze into an ice sculpture before he even exits the cave.

  Zhao took out several high-grade spirit stones and slowly absorbed the spiritual energy within them.

  Zhao Di was extremely puzzled, what kind of intention did this ancient female cultivator have in storing this place. First, it was a group of golden-winged fire ants, and then an extremely cold road. If he didn't have high-grade spirit stones and top-quality spirit tools, ordinary foundation-building cultivators probably wouldn't be able to walk through this passage at all, and would likely turn back halfway.

  This ancient female cultivator's place only has techniques for women, so why do they have to let male cultivators go and fetch it, and on top of that make things difficult for them in every way? Zhao Di couldn't understand no matter how hard she thought.

  "Anyway, a woman's mind is just like the success rate of alchemy, both are variables with extremely high uncertainty." Zhao Di thought to himself and stopped pondering.

  At this time, he had already walked into the middle of the cave, and the purple gas was being consumed by the blue cold air at an abnormally rapid rate. Zhao Di felt that his spiritual power couldn't keep up a bit.

  He then brought out the Blazing Sky Blade, splitting out a fire dragon that surrounded him and resisted the cold air. This way, the consumption of purple energy was greatly reduced, and Zhao Di's spiritual power supply became abundant.

  Zhao Di let out a light breath and continued walking quickly.

  As he passed through the coldest place, right in the center of the mountain cave, suddenly, the spiritual beast pouch at his waist moved slightly, and the spiritual beast Ice Wind Snake, which was connected to his mind, transmitted some information to his divine consciousness.

  Zhao was overjoyed and stopped in his tracks.

  Who would have thought that this difficult and treacherous path of extreme cold would actually be very useful for him!

  The first update!