The Legend of the Demon Hunter

"What is the Shenyue bloodline?" Xiao Zhu asked Guchuan puzzledly.

After parting with Fang Zhiyuan, Xiao Zhu and his three companions headed towards the top of Dongshan Mountain.

"The Divine Moon bloodline is one of the legendary bloodlines. People with this bloodline have powerful healing and auxiliary abilities. The only flaw is that the Divine Moon bloodline has almost no attack ability. But for demon hunters who are on the brink of life and death every day, if they have a companion with the Divine Moon bloodline by their side, then they have one more person who can save them from the gates of hell. You can imagine how popular the Divine Moon bloodline was among demon hunters back then! The Divine Moon bloodline once became one of the most famous bloodlines in the demon hunting world, but for some reason it disappeared hundreds of years ago. I didn't expect to see it again today." Furukawa replied.

After hearing this, Xia Shi covered her mouth and chuckled, "Brother Guchuan is really knowledgeable. Even I don't know these things."

Gu Chuan ignored Xia Shi's praise and asked expressionlessly, "How serious of an injury can you heal now?"

"If it is a skin injury, it can be healed almost instantly. But if it is a bone injury, it will take more than half an hour." Xia Shi replied seriously.

"Okay, I understand." Furukawa replied.

Gu Chuan's indifference made Xia Shi and Xiao Zhu feel distant, but because of the previous experience of being possessed by the devil, Xiao Zhu felt that Gu Chuan was just not talkative, but kind by nature. However, the relationship between Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi quickly became familiar, and Xia Shi began to call Xiao Zhu "Brother Xiao", while Xiao Zhu called Xia Shi "Shi'er".

An hour later, the three of them arrived in front of a huge cave with a diameter of more than three meters. The exit of the cave was covered with snow ant footprints, extending in all directions. There were three snow ants wandering around, as if on patrol.

The three of them hid in the crown of a pine tree. Gu Chuan pointed to the snow ant's nest and said, "The acacia flower grows on a cliff behind Dongshan Mountain. I have explored it several times in the past six months and climbed to the top of the mountain to observe it. I found that the only way to pick the acacia flower is to pass through the snow ant's nest and go out from another exit of the nest. That exit is halfway up the cliff, only about ten meters away from the acacia flower."

As a girl, Xia Shi couldn't help but feel scared when she saw the huge bodies and long legs of the snow ants. Now she was asked to go deep into the anthill of the snow ants. She was immediately terrified and asked, "Do we really have to go in there?"

Gu Chuan showed rare patience at this time, fearing that Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi would shrink back, and explained in a calm tone: "Don't worry, with the huge size of snow ants, the food on the East Mountain can only feed dozens of them at most. It is impossible for thousands of them to be crowded in an anthill like ordinary ants. I have a way to lure them out, and we can enter the anthill while they are away.

"It's just that the queen ant won't leave the anthill, so we just need to try to avoid her."

As he spoke, Furukawa took out a thumb-sized cricket made of grass leaves from his arms. The cricket was exquisitely made and lifelike. Furukawa gently threw the grass leaf cricket into the snow ten meters away. The cricket flapped its wings and made a sharp chirp.

The three snow ants patrolling at the entrance of the anthill were perked up when they heard the sound. They extended their antennae, looked around with their huge heads, and then quickly ran in the direction of the cricket.

"Can this sound attract snow ants?" Xiao Zhu asked in surprise.

"That's right, everyone just wait for a moment, a large number of snow ants are expected to arrive soon!" Furukawa replied.

"Ah!" Xia Shi lowered her voice and exclaimed. She pointed a jade finger at the location of the ant nest. Everyone looked in the direction of her finger and saw snow ants swarming out of the ant nest. At one time, there were twenty or thirty snow ants coming out. They all ran towards the direction of the crickets excitedly, as if attracted by the delicious food.

As the snow ants approached, the cricket made of grass leaves began to move. It jumped more than ten meters and then quickly disappeared into the dense forest. A group of snow ants chased it frantically, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"This cricket can only hold them back for half an hour at most. Let's go and come back quickly!" Gu Chuan jumped down from the tree branch and waved to Xiao Zhu and the others.

Hearing this, Xiao Zhu and Xia Shi did not dare to waste time. They quickly jumped off the pine tree and walked towards the ant nest.

It was pitch black in the anthill. Furukawa waved his arm, and the two giant pythons that had fought with the snow ants in the past reappeared. Their eyes, made of unknown material, emitted a faint green light, and the area around the anthill was immediately illuminated.

"Is this a puppet?" Xia Shi asked in surprise.

Furukawa did not explain and ordered the two giant pythons to lead the way. The three people walked cautiously towards the depths of the cave.

With the light from the giant python's eyes, Gu Chuan noticed that the rocks on the four walls of the ant nest were very neat, not like they were formed naturally, but rather like they were dug out by humans. But seeing that Gu Chuan and Xia Shi were both nervous, he suppressed his doubts. Especially Xia Shi, since entering the cave, one of her jade hands had been tightly grasping the corner of Xiao Zhu's clothes, and Xiao Zhu could feel the fear in her heart.

The anthill is very deep, but fortunately there is only one way out, otherwise the three of them would most likely get lost in it and become food for the returning snow ants.

As they went deeper, the anthill gradually became wider. After about a quarter of an hour, they actually saw a white light like fireflies in the distance.

"Is it the exit?" Xia Shi's face showed joy, as if she had been longing for this moment for a long time.

But when she looked at Gu Chuan and Xiao Zhu, she found that they did not relax at all, and even acted as if they were facing a great enemy. Xia Shi suddenly realized that the place in front of her was not the exit she had been thinking about, but the terrifying existence: the queen ant.

The three men slowed down their pace and approached cautiously. After turning a corner, they saw a huge area like a square in front of them. The diameter of this area was more than 50 meters. In the center of the area, there was a thick layer of straw, which was covered with the corpses of humans and beasts, some fresh and some rotten. The straw had been dyed blood red, and there were traces of blood on the walls and roof. A pungent stench filled the air.

This area is like hell on earth!

In the middle of the straw and the bones, there was a huge white monster lying. This monster was extremely fat, and its body was divided into five sections. It looked completely different from a snow ant, and more like a giant fleshworm. What was even more peculiar was that the surface of the monster's skin actually emitted a pale white light, illuminating the entire area.

Queen Ant!

After looking around, Xiao Zhu and the other two looked even paler. There were four snow ants surrounding the queen ant. Two of them were helping the fat queen ant to eat. They pushed the food to the queen ant's mouth. The queen ant squirmed her body and swallowed the whole animal in one gulp, while the other two were guarding in front of the queen ant.

These four snow ants are a whole circle larger than those outside, and they have a pair of sharp horns on their heads, exuding a terrifying aura.

Xiao Zhu grew up in a mountain village. He also knew that there were different divisions of labor within an ant colony. Ordinary ants were called worker ants, and their main function was to find food. Once they encountered other ant colonies, another type of ants with larger bodies and stronger attack power would be responsible for fighting for territory. These ants were called soldier ants.

The four in front of us should be the soldier ants in the snow ant colony.

Judging from their size alone, they are much stronger than ordinary snow ants.

At this moment, two of the guarding snow ants seemed to notice something. They turned around and walked towards the place where Xiao Zhu and the other two were hiding.

Xia Shi's pretty face turned pale. The bloody scene in front of her, which was like hell on earth, made her extremely uncomfortable, and the approach of the snow ants made her even more nervous. Her body was trembling slightly, and she felt nauseous and wanted to flee from here immediately.

Fortunately, the Shenyue bloodline circulated in her body in time, and a cool feeling surged into her brain, which immediately refreshed her spirits, and the crescent symbol at the center of her eyebrows reappeared. She noticed that Xiao Zhu and Gu Chuan also looked very bad, so she gently held their arms with her white jade hands, and immediately a cool breath spread from her arms to her whole body. This breath had the effect of refreshing the mind, and the three of them calmed down a little in an instant.

......

Xia's lobby.

The doorman rushed in and accidentally tripped and fell when he passed the threshold. He got up with a dusty face, and then saw Xia Meitao standing in the lobby. He said in panic: "Master, Master, something bad has happened!"

Xia Meitao looked at the doorman's discomfiture and said calmly, "Don't panic. Tell me slowly if there is anything."

The doorman took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to Xia Meitao, saying, "Just now, the eldest son of the Ouyang family, Ouyang Mingque, came and asked me to hand this letter to the sect master and tell him that the Ouyang family wants to..."

"What do you want?" Xia Meitao asked with a frown.

"The Ouyang family wants to help Ouyang Mingque propose to Miss Xia!" the doorman replied.

"Humph! Proposing marriage..." Xia Meitao snorted coldly. He opened the letter and glanced at it quickly, then frowned even more. He suddenly clenched the letter in his fist, and the paper crumpled into a ball.

He hesitated for a moment, then asked the doorman: "I heard that the eldest son of the Ouyang family is very romantic, and it seems that he already has several concubines, right?"

"Yes, it is said that Ouyang Mingque already has six concubines." The doorman replied.

"What do you think about this?" Xia Meitao suddenly asked the doorman.

The concierge didn't expect Xia Meitao to ask for his opinion. He was shocked and said solemnly, "Miss Xia must not marry this man!"

Xia Meitao nodded slowly: "This is consistent with what I thought, but the Ouyang family is definitely not easy to deal with. They said they would come to propose marriage in three days. It sounds good, but I'm afraid they will force us to submit by then. Now that Shi'er is not here, you can make some arrangements, and then let me meet the old guy Ouyang Duan!"

"Yes!" the doorman replied softly, then quietly left the lobby.

In the lobby, a flame appeared out of thin air in Xia Meitao's hand and burned the letter to ashes.