Reborn Divine Doctor: The Abandoned Girl's Legend

Chapter 788: Chapter 655: Killing with a Borrowed Knife

Chen Mu’s movement was too conspicuous.

On the Rift Valley Sand River, people from the other Four-direction Boats also had their attention drawn by Chen Mu’s actions, discovering the presence of the Sand Ants one after another.

This discovery immediately sparked a frenzy.

Seeing the Sand Ants, almost everyone’s reaction was similar to Chen Mu’s, as if thousands of Hunting Points had appeared before their eyes.

Without any hesitation, dozens of Four-direction Boats immediately adjusted their course, searching for the nests of the Sand Ants.

The nests of the Sand Ants were scattered beside the riverbed of the Rift Valley Sand River, resembling honeycomb-like holes.

As more and more competitors joined in the destruction of the nests, the Sand Ants’ homes met their doom.

Grains the size of rice, Sand Ant Eggs floated on the river surface, scattered everywhere.

All kinds of attacks threw the Rift Valley Sand River into chaos; on the lake surface, those Four-direction Boats were like galloping warhorses, everyone’s eyes red with excitement and greed, bloodshot in appearance.

Such a scene was unexpected for Ye Lingyue, as she weighed whether to take advantage of the chaos or to wait and see.

”Ling Yue, how long can your Corrosive Soul Chain support our weight?” Feng Xun grabbed Ye Lingyue, his tone more serious than ever.

”It should be no problem to last for a day.” Before Ye Lingyue understood the purpose of Feng Xun’s question, he whispered into her ear. ”Wrap the Corrosive Soul Chain tightly around us and abandon the boat immediately.”

Feng Xun never took unnecessary actions. Although puzzled, Ye Lingyue did not ask any further.

After Feng Xun finished speaking, he embraced Ye Lingyue, and she used the Corrosive Soul Chain to tie around their waists. The Corrosive Soul Chain sunk heavily into the steep mountain wall, sending their bodies high up, hanging from the mountainside and tens of meters away from the sand river.

The uncontrolled Four-direction Boat, following the flow of quicksand, crashed rapidly into the mountain wall and broke into two pieces.

Seeing the actions of Feng Xun and Ye Lingyue, Chen Mu, who had already destroyed several Sand Ant nests, was filled with disdain.

Cowards.

Even at times like this, relying on a woman, afraid to act, Feng Xun indeed is nothing but a nuisance and a waste.

Chen Mu swung another punch, crushing countless Sand Ants into dust with the force of his fist.

”Feng Xun, why...” Seeing everyone fighting eagerly, Ye Lingyue could not help but wonder.

”These people all underestimate the Sand Ants. Guess why those who passed by earlier, including Long Sixuan and others, didn’t destroy those Sand Ant nests?” Feng Xun’s phoenix eyes lifted, his thin lips carrying a hint of a cold smirk.

The man’s handsome features, at this moment, were like a stone sculpture, with a sense of cold and solitary meaning.

”Because these Sand Ants are the lowest level of Fierce Beasts in the sand river... No, that’s because they knew not to touch the Sand Ant nests?” Ye Lingyue suddenly understood something.

”Although small, Sand Ants are too numerous for ordinary human strength to resist. Moreover, Sand Ants love sunlight most; only at noon, when the sun is scorching, is the best time for Sand Ant eggs to hatch. Sand Ants protecting their eggs are more ferocious than at any other time. An old Jiang Hu warrior like Long Sixuan would have probably already known this point.” Feng Xun has been physically weak since he was a child, and when he was in the Imperial Palace, he had almost read all of the books in the Beiqing Book Pavilion.

About Sand Ants, his knowledge was much more extensive than the average person.

Sure enough, not long after Feng Xun finished speaking, the one-sided situation where competitors were destroying Sand Ant nests was already changing.

After Chen Mu destroyed five Sand Ant nests and killed countless Sand Ants, he could not wait to urge An Yang to check the Four-direction Token on his body, after all, this time, An Yang was the competing contestant.

Chen Mu and An Yang both thought they would see an astonishing number of kills.

But the reality was that on the Four-direction Token, there was only a solitary ”five” character.

Chen Mu instantly felt a surge of blood rush to his head, a sensation that made him feel like coughing up blood.

Was this not too much of a pitfall? Clearing out a nest of Sand Ants only counted as hunting a single Fierce Beast?

Had he known it would be like this, why would he have exerted such great effort?

Chen Mu’s enthusiasm immediately waned, and he planned to continue onwards, but at that moment, An Yang let out a terrified scream.

Beneath their Four-direction Boat, unknowingly, a hole the size of a fingertip had appeared, and below the hole, there were patches and patches of Sand Ants.

That hole was expanding at the speed of the blink of an eye. Within a few breaths’ time, the body of the boat could no longer support a person’s weight.

Similar to Chen Mu’s boat, numerous Sand Ants also started appearing on the other Four-direction Boats.

These Sand Ants were even more ferocious compared to the earlier batch and in even more astonishing numbers.

On the wide expanse of the Rift Valley Sand River, white waves of Sand Ants were actually rising.

And earlier, the Sand Ant Eggs scattered on the sand river were rapidly hatching, with newly born Sand Ants crawling out of each egg.

These freshly hatched Sand Ants, mostly ravenous, carried the anger of their destroyed nests and turned into fierce floods of beasts, launching wave after wave of slaughter-like attacks at these clueless competitors.

Continuously, people fell into the frenzy of Sand Ants. They didn’t even have time to use their Spiritual Artifacts to escape before becoming numb in their limbs; their bodies swelled up and were gnawed to bones by groups of Sand Ants, to the point where not even their internal organs or bloodstains could be seen.

”Run, quickly, use the Mixed Element Skyfire Cauldron!” Witnessing this scene, Chen Mu’s eyes almost burst.

An Yang’s foot had already been bitten by a Sand Ant, and Chen Mu scooped him up with his left arm, while An Yang, enduring the pain, suddenly flipped out an item with his right hand.

It was a cauldron.

Ye Lingyue looked closely, and that thing was precisely the Mixed Element Skyfire Cauldron used by Sky Demon Bei during the Imperial Examination at Dan Palace.

Earlier, Ye Lingyue had thought that after Sky Demon Bei was killed by Wu Zhong, this treasure would have fallen into Wu Zhong’s hands.

Later, she learned from Feng Xun that after they left Xingxiu Cave, people from Kaijiang Prince Manor asked Feng Xun for the cauldron, who couldn’t be bothered to covet a broken cauldron and casually returned it.

Because of this, Ye Lingyue had ridiculed Feng Xun, calling him a typical squanderer.

It turns out that in Ye Lingyue’s values, what’s found is theirs!

The Mixed Element Skyfire Cauldron originally belonged to the wife of the Great Elder Chang Luo, An Yang’s aunt.

The power it could exert in An Yang’s hands was clearly far superior to in Sky Demon Bei’s.

As soon as the Heavenly Fire Cauldron left his hand, An Yang and Chen Mu quickly jumped into the Heavenly Fire Cauldron, and from the several mouths of the cauldron, flames burst forth.

Sand Ants are afraid of fire, and upon encountering it, they all scattered and retreated, and the cauldron immediately soared into the air, avoiding the Sand Ants.

In the moment before hiding in the Mixed Element Skyfire Cauldron, Chen Mu caught sight of Ye Lingyue and Feng Xun; the previous disdain was completely gone.

He finally understood why Feng Xun and Ye Lingyue would make such a move.

”Feng Xun, remember this!” Chen Mu spat out, then looking back at the river surface of the Sand River littered with corpses, he dared not linger any longer and swiftly left this troubled place with An Yang.