Dragon Elephant Valkyrie

Chapter 253 The Gold-eating Ant Queen
"Spirit insect tube, is it used to hold spirit insects?" Qin Yu picked up the emerald green bamboo tube and looked at it over and over.

"That's right, spirit worms belong to a rather different branch of spirit beasts. Take a look, what kind of worms are inside, is it dead or not?" Jiyuan Yanlong urged.

On the top cover of the spirit insect tube, there is a very exquisite engraved pattern, and a transparent gemstone is inlaid on it. Through this gemstone, you can see the situation in the spirit insect tube.

Qin Yu carefully lifted the spirit insect tube, brought his eyes up, and looked into the spirit insect tube through the gemstone, just like looking into a kaleidoscope.

Through the gem, one can clearly see that there is a worm with a large abdomen in the spirit insect tube, but now the abdomen has shriveled up, like a leaky air bag.

"The ant queen, it seems to be a queen ant." Qin Yu felt that the appearance of this insect was a bit like an ant, and its abdomen was fat, which looked like a queen ant.

"I don't know if it's dead or not." Qin Yu shook the spirit worm tube, but didn't see any movement from the ant queen. He was worried that it would have shriveled up and died after being held here for too long.

"The sun, moon, heaven and earth are separated in the spirit insect tube, and the spirit insects will not die if they stay in it for a long time. Open it and let me see what kind of ant queen it is." Jiyuan Yanlong urged.

Qin Yu saw that the ant queen could not move anymore, and thought that there should be no danger, so he slowly opened the cover.

"Hey! Gold-eating ants, that's amazing, kid!" Jiyuan Yanlong said excitedly, "Not only is this spiritual insect tube a treasure of space, but the gold-eating ant queen inside is even a big treasure. This time I made money."

"Gold-eating ants? Do they eat metal?" Qin Yu couldn't help guessing after hearing the strange name.

"That's right, this kind of gold-eating ant can really be said to be 'invincible', as long as it is given enough time, it can eat up all the treasures of the emperor." Ji Yuanyanlong said excitedly.

"But this ant queen seems to be dying soon." Qin Yu shook the spirit insect tube again, the gold-eating ant queen in the tube still didn't move, as if she was dead.

"It's not dead, but it's coming soon. If it's not dug out in a few decades, it's really dead."

Qin Yu was also very happy to hear that the gold-eating ant queen was not dead, and quickly asked, "Then what should we do now?"

"Drop a drop of blood in and revive it. Too many years have passed, it is already dying, there is no need to boil it, just revive it, let it remember your smell, and it will recognize the master." Ji Yuan Yan Long replied.

"Aren't they gold-eating ants? I thought they were eating metal."

"The name Gold-eating Ant just means that it can eat metal, not that it only eats metal." Ji Yuanyanlong explained.

At this moment, a person ran over from the direction the merchant team left.

"Someone is here." Ji Yuan Yanlong hastily reminded.

Qin Yu noticed the visitor almost at the same time, immediately lifted a stone and pressed it on the hole just dug, and then quickly walked out of the ruins of the imperial beast garden.

"Brother Qin, why are you so slow?" Shang Bieli ran up and asked Qin Yu when he saw Qin Yu coming out of the collapsed gate of the Royal Beast Garden.

"It's ready, let's hurry up." Qin Yu didn't explain, and walked forward side by side with Shang with a smile.

The spirit worm tube was hidden behind him, he lightly scratched his finger and dripped a drop of blood into it, then closed the lid, stuffed it into his bosom and put it away.

The merchant's martial sage ancestor has already woken up, and his lifespan is about to run out, so the merchant must find the Emperor's Blood Flower and refine the Emperor's Blood Pill during this trip to the Emperor's Market.

And Qin Yu is one of the guarantees for refining the Emperor Blood God Pill, so Shang Bieli will find it himself.

……

Returning to the merchant team, the team is continuing to move forward along the route recalled by the merchant's farewell cousin.

"Father said that he was standing under the Lion Mountain in the barren sand, and saw a blood flower blooming in the cold wind, as gorgeous as the scorching sun..." The merchant cousin pointed to a mountain in the distance that looked like a lion's head Said, the voice is hoarse and low.

Shang Qingqiu led the team to the foot of Lion Mountain.

Lion Mountain is a mountain shaped like a crouching lion. It is not big, only twenty or thirty feet wide.

Shishan is surrounded by weathered sand and soil, and the wind blowing around it brings a creepy coldness.

Everything was as described by the merchant cousin.

Shang Qingqiu asked the team to stop at the foot of Lion Mountain, and then sent people to search around.

Qin Yu also walked around for a while. Since the Lion Mountain is not big, it doesn't take long to go around.

After turning around, I didn't find any flowers blooming like the hot sun.

Half an hour later, the merchant martial artists who searched in all directions returned one after another, and they all said that they did not find any flower-like things.

The nearby barren sand is very cold and desolate. In fact, no plants grow, not even a moss, let alone flowers.

"Nephew, think about it again, is it here?" Shang Qingqiu asked with a solemn expression.

The businessman's cousin was tightly wrapped in the quilt, his expression was in a trance, and he was completely caught in the memories of ten years ago.

That memory was too painful for him, but he had to recall: "My father said that he stood under the Lion Mountain, in the deserted sand, and saw a beautiful flower blooming in the cold wind. The flowers... bloom so far away... people want to get close to the past..."

This passage is like talking in sleep, but I don't know whether it is the repeater talking in sleep, or the dead uncle of the Shang family talking in sleep.

"It's so far away..." Shang Qingqiu repeated this sentence, "Could it be that the distance is still very far away?"

He looked around, allowing himself to immerse himself in the scene of the year, and finally chose a direction, leading the team to head westward against the cold wind.

After walking for three hours, the Lion Mountain behind had sunk into the horizon, but the legendary Emperor Blood Flower was still missing.

"It is said that the Emperor's Blood Flower is a demonic flower. If you look for it with greed, you will never find it. Only those who are willing to sacrifice their flesh and blood will see it. Business owners, I am afraid that if you continue to search like this, you will never find it." Before Master Xu decided to search for the Emperor's Blood Flower with the merchant, he carefully read all the ancient books related to the Emperor's Blood Flower.

Shang Qingqiu didn't answer, but turned around and walked back. No matter whether the Emperor Blood Flower was a magic flower or not, his business had to find it this time, and he had no other choice.

Half a day later, the team returned to the Lion Mountain.

At this time, many slack words have spread among the merchants.

After all, after searching for a whole day, they found nothing, and there are dangers everywhere in the Emperor Ruins.

No one knows when the six-eyed black snake will return to the place where it was born.

If it weren't for the merchant's ancestor as the spiritual support, some of the merchant's martial artists might have collapsed.

After Qin Yu gave up the bronze chariot to the wounded, he allocated another carriage.

Not as roomy and comfortable as the Bronze Chariot, but still a nice touch.

After nightfall, Shang respectively led people to distribute food.

Qin Yu simply ate a little, then took out the spirit insect tube, looked inside, and found that the gold-eating ant queen had come back to life, so he opened the lid, put a piece of dried meat in, and closed the lid again.

The gold-eating ant queen began to nibble on the dried meat, and slowly regained her vitality.

(End of this chapter)