Chapter 511: Chapter 500: Sword Cultivator Father
Perhaps because it was their own nest, the Blazing Fire Ants stopped chasing Ye Qiu, but their behavior became quite peculiar, fighting amongst themselves.
"What’s going on?" Ye Qiu looked completely bewildered.
However, Little Golden Crow, being a spiritual beast, had much stronger perception than Ye Qiu. It flew back onto Ye Qiu’s shoulder and whispered in his ear, "You are a Human Cultivator, so you can’t smell it, but I can detect a strange scent of flowers. It must be this scent that made the Blazing Fire Ants lose their sanity."
"Flower scent? Could there be something in the volcanic crater?" Ye Qiu guessed, then cautiously moved forward, "Let’s go and check it out."
The Blazing Fire Ants were moving in the same direction as Ye Qiu, although they were fighting their way forward.
At this moment, people in the crater also heard the disturbance and walked out from the craters; they were two tall and robust men. They didn’t notice Ye Qiu, instead, they frowned at the fighting Blazing Fire Ants.
"Didn’t you feed them the medicine? Why have they come back?" said the one on the left in green clothes.
The man in gray beside him was also puzzled, "Yes, I definitely fed them the medicine. How could they have returned? They shouldn’t have!"
"This is problematic. If these Blazing Fire Ants continue fighting like this, and in the end only one is left, how are we going to explain this to the sect?"
Both men were somewhat anxious, and finally, the one in green clenched his teeth, "Fine, let it be just one, but make sure later that these creatures don’t eat the Flame Flower, otherwise even if the Master comes later, we won’t be able to handle it."
So that was the story!
Ye Qiu muttered to himself, thinking that the group of Blazing Fire Ants had been persistently chasing him because they were drugged by the people from the Beast Taming Sect, leaving them unable to let go of any Human Cultivator.
But it seemed the Flame Flower in the volcanic crater was almost blooming, which was why these two were guarding it.
The Flame Flower is a companion spirit grass to the Blazing Fire Ants, useless to Human Cultivators, but for Blazing Fire Ants, it’s an extremely beneficial supplement. However, when the Flame Flower is about to bloom, it releases a strange scent causing Blazing Fire Ants to fight each other, and only the last one remaining can consume it.
And this Flame Flower must be different, causing the group of Blazing Fire Ants to mutate collectively.
"Qiuqiu, let’s drive these two men away."
"Why? The Flame Flower is not of any use to us." Ye Qiu was probably still confused from being chased by the Blazing Fire Ants, still not catching up.
Little Golden Crow glared at him exasperatedly: "What do you think is most familiar with this desert?"
With a hint from Little Golden Crow, Ye Qiu understood its intention, right, how could he be so dumb, a ready-made desert detector right in front of him!
After the group of Blazing Fire Ants determines the winner, the strongest one will certainly go devour the Flame Flower. Once it consumes the Flame Flower, it would likely be the top-tier Blazing Fire Ant in this desert. By then, wouldn’t controlling it to search for an ancient temple in the entire desert be easy?
Ye Qiu felt sorry for these two men; he had decided on this Blazing Fire Ant and that Flame Flower.
"Who’s there?" As soon as Ye Qiu showed up, the two men noticed the anomaly.
Ye Qiu walked out imposingly, releasing the pressure of a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.
The foreheads of the two men immediately broke out in cold sweat, and they respectfully saluted in Ye Qiu’s direction: "Senior."
Ye Qiu got straight to the point, his face solemn and cold, his tone leaving no room for refusal: "I want both the Blazing Fire Ant and the Flame Flower inside. As compensation, I can give you something else in return."
Hearing Ye Qiu’s words, the two men immediately showed a distressed expression: "Senior, the Blazing Fire Ant and the Flame Flower are tasks assigned to us by the sect."
"How many Spirit Stones do you want?" Aside from anything else, Ye Qiu really wasn’t short on Spirit Stones, and buying the Blazing Fire Ant and the Flame Flower was definitely within his means.
"Senior..." The two men still looked reluctant.
Ye Qiu didn’t want to bully others with his power and tarnish the name of Lonely Swallow Sword Lord, so he negotiated one last time: "I need this Blazing Fire Ant for a task. Once I’m done, I’ll return it to your Beast Taming Sect, and also provide some additional compensation."
"But..." The grey-robed man wanted to say more, but the man in green gently bumped his companion, then respectfully said to Ye Qiu, "Since Senior has said so, we juniors dare not disobey."
Ye Qiu glanced at them, uninterested in the scheming he saw in their eyes, and threw out a storage bag filled with Spirit Stones: "This is the rental fee, take it."
The man in green scanned the storage bag with his Divine Sense, no Cultivator’s Divine Sense was attached to it, and clearly saw a bag full of Spirit Stones, causing him to click his tongue in awe.
Just this bag of Spirit Stones alone could buy the Blazing Fire Ant! And Senior mentioned this was just the rental fee, then how much was Senior initially willing to spend to buy them? If they had the authority to decide, just the Spirit Stones from selling the Blazing Fire Ant would last them a lifetime.
"Senior, we will take our leave now."
The two walked away to a deserted desert area, and the grey-robed man couldn’t help but blame the man in green: "Now that the Blazing Fire Ant and the Flame Flower are gone, how are we supposed to explain this to Master? Sending the Blazing Fire Ant back to the sect later, isn’t it just benefiting the faction under the Sect Leader?"
"What do you know." The man in green snorted at the grey-robed man sarcastically, "If we didn’t concede, would that Senior have just given up on the Blazing Fire Ant? Or do you think your life is too long?"
His eyes narrowed as he continued: "Moreover, if we can’t handle him, don’t we still have Master? Immediately send a message to Master, telling him this person has many treasures, and with enough resources, we could compete with the Sect Leader’s faction."
The grey-robed man was somewhat nervous: "That man was a Sword Cultivator, can our Master really defeat him?"
The man in green scoffed: "So what if he’s a Sword Cultivator? Don’t forget our Master has just advanced to Nascent Soul Middle Stage and contracted a Late-stage Nascent Soul Unihorn Dragon. No matter how strong that Sword Cultivator is, could he be stronger than our Master?"
Encouraged by the man in green’s words, the grey-robed man gained confidence, thinking right, how could their Master lose? Recently, their Master had been dominantly suppressing the Sect Leader’s faction.
"It’s just a pity about those Blazing Fire Ants, if they weren’t all lost, by the time we could each have one, wouldn’t the Sect Leader have to concede his position? Too bad the medicine is rare, and we can’t get a second bottle," the man in green regretted.
"Perhaps those Blazing Fire Ants were brought back by that Sword Cultivator." The grey-robed man remarked, and the two glanced at each other, more convinced they needed their Master to come and kill Ye Qiu to settle the score.
Meanwhile, Ye Qiu had no idea about the plotting against him and leisurely walked into the crater, having heard that the Flame Flower was breathtakingly beautiful. He had never seen it for himself!