bioinnovel Chapter 118 The Mountain-Suppressing Ant - Gaia's Power!
Chapter 118 The Mountain-Suppressing Ant - Gaia's Power!
On the other hand, the facts were exactly as Xue Youyou had predicted.
The Zhenyue Ants of Beichen Peak have indeed mastered the legendary secret technique, Gaia Power.
It was regarded as the last hope of the entire village of Iwakuriin, and this behemoth was now lying steadily at the birth point of Iwakuriin, silently and greedily absorbing the power of the earth's veins.
This time, Bao Xiaoxing accurately recognized Iwao Armor Institute's tactical intentions.
"Wow! I didn't expect that Beichenfeng's Zhenyue Ant would possess the super rare legendary Geo-type technique, Gaia Power!"
Her tone was full of the excitement of discovering a treasure: "This was really well hidden! If Xiaoxing remembers correctly, this should be the first time that Beichenfeng has used this trump card in the competition!"
Rarely encountering a segment where she didn't fall into a knowledge gap, Bao Xiaoxing wished she had another mouth so she could pour out all the knowledge she had accumulated: "As far as Xiaoxing knows, this Gaia power is incredibly powerful!"
"With the help of the map of the meteorite crater, and given enough preparation time, the Zhenyue Ants could very well obtain power surpassing the Ultimate level!"
"Lan Zhiyuan's careless decision to release the ban allowed Yan Kaiyuan to successfully lock down the Heavenly Meteor Crystal Pit, which might become an unexpected foreshadowing in this competition!"
On the podium, Meng Tianxiang's face revealed an undisguised worry.
From the moment she saw Xue Youyou remain stationary, she guessed Meng Yanqing's true intentions.
This child wants to defeat the Ten Heavenly Kings, Beichen Peak, all by himself.
To be honest, it wasn't a big deal. Meng Tianxiang was even quite pleased that her granddaughter had such ambition and aspirations, daring to challenge the Ten Heavenly Kings in such a grand setting.
If Meng Yanqing really defeats Beichen Peak, then Meng Tianxiang can rightfully and legitimately transfer the title of one of the Ten Heavenly Kings of Beichen Peak to Meng Yanqing.
The problem lies precisely with the map of the Meteorite Crystal Crater.
With the blessing of Gaia's power, Beichen Peak's strength can be increased almost infinitely.
After absorbing for ten minutes, his strength would probably reach the level of Gu Xingling and Lin Feiyan.
If you absorb this for another ten minutes, you will be able to catch up with Manluo and Leiying's level.
If we drag it down any further... that would be the power to reach the ultimate Beastmaster realm.
Going further down, it might even touch upon Long Xi's level of strength.
If, and then even further—if she were to absorb it for several hours, the situation wouldn't just be a one-on-one duel; it would be the Lanzhi Academy base exploding.
By then, even if Xue Youyou personally intervenes, it will probably be too late to reverse the situation.
This isn't Meng Tianxiang exaggerating; it's simply the cruel reality. The power of Gaia, once it encounters the right map, becomes utterly unreasonable and monstrous.
Although she still believed that Xue Youyou wouldn't be so foolish as to let Beichen Peak comfortably absorb all the earth's vein power, she would at least intervene before things got completely out of control.
But if Meng Yanqing wants to win this duel on her own merits, her only way out is to race against time—she must end the battle within the first ten minutes.
Meanwhile, the four members of the Rock Armor Academy, excluding Bei Chenfeng, had all been mobilized to confront Meng Yanqing's four-person vanguard team head-on.
Meng Yanqing often compared himself to the Ten Heavenly Kings and Queens, and it wasn't entirely bragging.
Facing the four-person group led by Lu Lingbi, she demonstrated a level of strength that was clearly superior to theirs.
This caught Lu Lingbi off guard – she never imagined that there could be such a huge difference between two small fry.
Left with no other choice, the four members of the Iwao-Kei-in group could only stick to their original plan and do everything in their power to buy time for Hokushin-mine and the Zhenyue Ant.
Even though Lu Lingbi and the other three had used all their skills, they could only barely hold out against Meng Yanqing for less than two minutes.
After the brief battle ended, Meng Yanqing, without taking a break, immediately urged, "We need to speed things up!"
With her level of knowledge, she could naturally tell at a glance that Gaia's power had been activated. At this moment, she appeared calm on the surface, but inside she was already extremely anxious.
Finally, after the four of them traveled at full speed, it took them a total of seven minutes to reach the spawn point of the Rock Armor Academy and get in front of Beichen Peak and Zhenyue Ant.
The Zhenyue Ant, a fully-formed Rock-type pet beast whose size rivals that of a small hill, lies prone on the ground with an extremely composed posture. Its six thick limbs are deeply embedded in the rock layer, and every texture on its carapace emits an amber light, flickering and changing, like the slow and powerful breathing of the earth's depths.
Seven minutes was much shorter than Bei Chenfeng had anticipated.
This means that, excluding the time spent by the opponent traveling, the battle itself took almost no time.
She truly hadn't expected that, without Xue Youyou making a move, Lu Lingbi and his group of four couldn't even buy enough time to stop them.
It seems there are some experts on the other side.
However, when his gaze fell upon Meng Yanqing and her three companions, along with their pets, which were approaching, a glint of shrewdness flashed in Bei Chenfeng's eyes. He lowered his voice and said, "Seven minutes... that's enough to deal with these four!"
"Come on, Zhenyue Ant! Let these small fry see your true power!"
The moment the words left his mouth, the Zhenyue ants stirred.
It wasn't a physical movement, but a deeper, more fundamental change. Without warning, the seemingly rough, crystalline patterns on its carapace began to glow. At first, it was just a few scattered points of light, but then, like a wildfire, it spread rapidly along the winding patterns. The amber light climbed higher and higher, transforming into a fiery and majestic golden-red.
The earth began to rumble deeply, rolling over your feet like the sigh of a mountain range.
Meng Yanqing and the other three could clearly see that a terrifying change was taking place at the spot where the Zhenyue Ant's segments pierced the rock strata—the originally yellowish-brown rock gradually revealed crimson veins, like blood vessels dormant deep in the earth being illuminated by an ancient will, burning and vibrant.
A tremendous amount of energy erupted from the earth.
Meng Yanqing and the other three could not see the physical form of that energy, but they could feel it. It was a suffocating sense of oppression, like the pressure of water from a bottomless ocean, invisible yet omnipresent, pressing heavily from all directions.
The Zhenyue Ants seem to be merging into the entire Crystal Forest, becoming an unshakeable part of this precious land.
The golden-red patterns, after spreading to the edge of the carapace, did not stop, but instead extended to the six segments. The segments of the Zhenyue ant, originally a calm iron-gray, now also revealed the reddish-gold veins unique to the earth's veins, running downwards, along the tips that pierce into the rock layers, and finally forming a complete and flawless cycle.
It's not just about absorption.
It is an exchange.
Meng Yanqing suddenly realized this.
The Zhenyue Ant draws energy from the earth's veins, but at the same time, it also gives back—infusing its own aura and life essence into the earth's veins, creating an ancient and ineffable resonance between the two, as if reaching a covenant with the earth etched deep into the rock strata.
This is not simply plunder; it is symbiosis.
It knows how to communicate with this land, how to shake hands with this silent crystal mine, and how to breathe in sync with this deep earth vein.
The earth's pulse grew stronger and stronger, almost forming a deep heartbeat that could be directly heard.
The light on the Zhenyue ant's carapace began to slowly recede. It wasn't fading, but rather a profound restraint—the previously illuminated patterns dimmed inch by inch, but each pattern's edge gained a faint, dark golden luster, as if permanently engraved by the earth's veins, serene and noble.
Finally, the rumbling of the earth gradually subsided, and all around quieted down, but the world beneath our feet had undergone earth-shattering changes.
Meng Yanqing and the other three looked down at the rocks beneath their feet. The originally yellowish-brown, monotonous, and rough ground and the surface of the crystal ore were now covered with fine, reddish-gold patterns, like the capillary network of the earth.
The entire land was left with an indelible mark by the awakening-like baptism of the Zhenyue ants.
Before them, the Zhenyue Ant, which had just undergone the baptism of the earth veins, slowly straightened its massive body. All the outward light on its body surface faded, and it returned to its calm and restrained iron gray color. However, the intangible and intangible sense of heaviness was more than ten times stronger than before.
Its compound eyes, which had witnessed countless years, quietly gazed at the four people before it, and something new appeared in the depths of its eyes—there seemed to be the ancient memories of this land of the Heavenly Meteor Crystal Pit, and the ancient echoes that would never dissipate from the depths of the earth's veins.