Killing God - Chapter 12

Chapter 12 Ant Phagocytosis
The group that had been moving forward suddenly stopped at this moment. The middle-aged man sitting behind the table did not seem to have reacted at first. He looked like he was about to reach out to receive the spirit crystal. Unexpectedly, he subconsciously reached out and found that there was no movement on the other side of the table.

The gray-clothed middle-aged man’s palm stiffened in mid-air. He looked a little embarrassed and somewhat ridiculous. He had no choice but to slowly retract his hand. Immediately, anger appeared on his face. He glared at Butcher and Shen Shi and said coldly, “Guys, what do you mean?”

Shen Shi was also embarrassed. A thought flashed through his mind, “Could it be that this uncle doesn’t want to hand over spirit crystals?” Butcher’s expression was calm. He reached into his arms and took out a small jade token the size of half a palm and handed it to the middle-aged man.

“Huh?” The middle-aged man swept his gaze over the jade token. His expression changed slightly. He stood up and took it. After carefully examining it, a smile appeared on his face and he said, “So it’s one of us. Please come in.” After saying that, he smiled and handed the jade token back.

The butcher withdrew the jade token and nodded to him. “Thank you very much,” he said.

The man smiled and remained silent, his attitude completely different from before. Shen Shi followed behind the butcher and easily entered the teleportation array. He was puzzled for a moment. Taking advantage of the unnoticed opportunity around him, he whispered to the butcher, “Uncle, what brand did you show him just now? Why didn’t we pay for the spirit crystals when we entered?”

The butcher smiled and said, “That’s a sign indicating my identity. Have you forgotten where I came from?”

Shen Shi naturally knew about this. He was stunned and said, “I know about the Divine Immortal Gathering, but … er,” he suddenly seemed to have thought of something. He glanced at the butcher and said, “Could it be that those gray-clothed men from earlier were also from the Divine Immortal Gathering?”

The butcher smiled and didn’t say anything. Shen Shi was curious when he heard the butcher beside him say, “There is no teleportation formation in Xilu City. Plus, you are still young. I’m afraid you didn’t pay attention to this one. In fact, all the teleportation formations in the world can only be used by the gods and immortals who control the fees.”

Shen Shi sucked in a breath of cold air. Even with his normally calm temperament, he couldn’t help but reveal a shocked expression when he heard this. Born on the first floor of the Heavens, he had been used to seeing merchants ever since he was young. However, after a brief thought, he knew that the Divine Immortal Association could earn an astonishing amount of profits every year just by relying on this. As expected, the reputation of the number one merchant association in the world was not in vain.

However, with such enormous benefits, even the world’s top cultivation sects led by the Four Righteous Clans were unwilling to sit idly by and ignore them, so how could they allow the Divine Immortals to monopolize the benefits?

The butcher glanced at the young man Shen Shi who was deep in thought. He seemed to know what he was thinking at this moment and said indifferently, “Didn’t your father tell you before that all the teleportation formations created by the human race in this world were built by the Divine Immortal Society?”

Shen Shi was stunned for a moment. It was only at this moment that he seemed to have reacquainted himself with the colossus of the Divine Immortal Gathering. After hesitating for a moment, he asked in a low voice, “I heard that it was a grand master from a thousand years ago who was astonished and stunning. In fact, it was also a teleportation formation created by referring to the ancient teleportation formation patterns.”

The butcher smiled and said, “That senior master’s surname is Zhou. He is from the Divine Immortal Gathering.”

Shen Shi let out a long sigh and nodded. He sincerely said, “The Divine Immortal Association is indeed worthy of being the number one Chamber of Commerce in the world.”

The butcher turned his gaze and looked around. He pulled Shen Shi back a few steps and said, “Alright, I’ve seen enough people. This spell formation is about to activate. You don’t have any dao skills. Be careful later.”

Shen Shi was stunned for a moment and said, “Be careful? What should I be careful about?”

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The number of people standing in the teleportation formation leading to Lee Prefecture had already reached 50. The grey-clothed man at the entrance temporarily stopped the rear line and waved to the grey-clothed men. Soon, three other men in grey walked over from the Divine Immortal Gathering.

The teleportation formation made entirely of dark gold spirit stone was solemn and quiet. An inexplicable aura seemed to be floating in this magical formation. In the crowd, Shen Shi looked a little nervous. The butcher had inexplicably reminded him just now, but he didn’t say anything when he asked further. He just smiled and said, “Anyway, you have to go through it. Just let yourself feel it.”

This mysterious and mysterious appearance made Shen Shi even more nervous. He subconsciously watched the three men from the Divine Immortal Society approaching him. They walked to the three parts of the teleportation array separately and took out a bag from their bosom. From within, they took out small glittering stones, which were spirit crystals, and inserted them into the holes on the ground in turn. Apart from that, there were a large number of complicated array patterns carved on the ground around the holes. Shen Shi focused on it for a while and didn’t see any meaning. He felt that it was rather like the talisman patterns he had learned over the years. They were complicated and distorted, but he couldn’t see any meaning in them. It was very strange.

The three gray-clothed men each placed seven spirit crystals into the holes on the ground, and then walked out of the teleportation formation. Shen Shi had heard before that these teleportation formations relied on consuming the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within the spirit crystals to drive them. He had personally witnessed this before, and it was indeed the case.

A moment later, A grey-clothed man walked out of the formation. Seeing that he was much older than the people around him, He looked like an old man in his early fifties, Standing at the entrance of the teleportation array, After closing his eyes and concentrating for a moment, Suddenly, he waved his hands, An abundant Spiritual Energy gushed out from his body. At the same time, For some reason, the array patterns around the empty holes where the spirit crystals were buried suddenly lit up one by one. At this moment, the originally quiet array seemed to have suddenly gained vitality. Dark golden light flourished, and an inexplicable and mysterious aura enveloped it. It was invisible, tasteless, and colorless, but it surrounded everyone.

A low howl that seemed to come from the ancient times rang out, With an ancient aura, In the distance, it seemed to rumble in everyone’s ears, Shen Shi suddenly felt his eyes darken. Then, his body lightened. There was a feeling of floating up, It was as if his entire body had lost weight, Almost at the same time, a terrifying sensation that was as intense as an insect biting his body instantly descended upon him. Every inch of his skin, every part of his flesh, was like being bitten by an ant at the same time, and it was painful to the bone marrow. Even in this short moment, he felt as if his entire body had fallen apart, almost collapsing to the ground.

In his eyes, that moment was like a long day.

Amidst the indescribable pain, the darkness in front of him suddenly faded away like a tide. The light once again enveloped him, and the strange and terrifying feeling of the Myriad Ants devouring his body finally slowly dissipated.

In the surrounding crowd, someone let out a soft sigh of admiration, while someone was still chatting. It seemed that most of the cultivators, even rogue cultivators, had normal expressions on their faces. Only after Shen Shi was shocked at first, and then the heavens and earth spun in front of him, and he couldn’t help but stagger and fall.

A strong arm stretched out from the side and the butcher supported him.

At this moment, Shen Shi’s face was deathly pale. Cold sweat covered his forehead and palms. From childhood until now, he had never experienced such intense pain before. For a moment, he was almost unable to endure it. The butcher looked at his expression and frowned slightly. “How is it?” He whispered.

Shen Shi struggled to raise his head. Just as he was about to speak, his expression suddenly changed. He broke free from the butcher’s arm, rushed to a corner and knelt on the ground, vomiting heavily.

The butcher shook his head and walked behind him. He patiently waited. After half a cup of tea, Shen Shi’s expression slowly calmed down. The pale color on his face also turned a little rosy. He looked up at the butcher and smiled bitterly, “Uncle, is this what you want me to be careful about”

The butcher smiled and gently patted his shoulder. At the same time, he pulled Shen Shi out of the formation and said, “Exactly.”

Shen Shi closed his eyes and moaned weakly.

④

The two of them randomly found a place to sit and rest outside the teleportation array. It was at this moment that Shen Shi found out from the butcher what exactly happened to the torture just now. In fact, this could be considered a teleportation formation created by humans, but it wasn’t completely successful in replicating the ancient teleportation formation. One of the disadvantages of this was that once an ordinary mortal without a Dao was teleported through a teleportation array, they would definitely suffer from the pain of the so-called “ant devouring”. On the contrary, if they had already cultivated a Dao technique and entered a teleportation array, the vast majority of cultivators with Dao techniques would not feel this way.

Shen Shi gasped for breath and still hadn’t evaluated it. He bitterly smiled and said, “What is the reason for this?”

The butcher pondered for a moment and said, “I don’t understand the reason. I heard a senior mention this once. He said that cultivators possessed Dao Cultivation and their bodies were much tougher than mortals, so they were able to withstand the tearing power of this teleportation formation.” “In contrast, mortals are physically fragile. Once they enter the teleportation array, they will suffer the pain of being devoured by this ant.” At this point, Butcher paused for a moment and shook his head slightly. “However, I do know that when they teleported from the Primordial Chaos Master World to other worlds through those ancient teleportation formations left behind by the sect, neither cultivators nor mortals had any strange feelings.”

Shen Shi sighed. At this moment, he could be considered to be able to recover. However, the pain and intense dizziness caused by the ant devouring made him unable to endure it. Only then did he have the intention to look around. The surrounding scenery was completely different from before in Black Wood City. It looked much more lively. Especially the transfer array in front of him, which was roughly similar, had changed from two to four.

Shen Shi looked at the teleportation formations and was silent for a moment. “Are we already in Li Prefecture?” He said.

The butcher nodded and said, “That’s right, you are hundreds of thousands of miles away from Black Wood City.”

Shen Shi felt that he didn’t know what to say. After a long while, he sighed softly and said, “Senior Master Ghost Axe Divine Art is truly unimaginable.”

Butcher said, “You’re right. When I first entered this teleportation array, I thought exactly the same thing as you do now. Do you feel better now?”

Shen Shi nodded and said, “Much better.”

The butcher said, “Well, that’s good. Let’s go in again.”

Shen Shi was shocked and said, “What?”

The butcher shrugged his shoulders and said, “The Misty Continent is tens of millions of kilometers away from the Sea Continent where the Ling Xiao Sect is located. Among them, there are 23 large and small continents. You don’t think that just one teleportation is enough, do you?”

The corner of Shen Shi’s mouth twitched, and his face instantly turned pale.

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