Immortality: Raising an Ant Queen to Cultivate by increasing stat points

Chapter 550: 542

At this moment, he, a powerhouse of the Immortal Warrior Realm, also faced the threat of failing the trial, and he was afraid he would soon become the laughing stock of many people.

After all, possessing the cultivation of an Immortal Master and still unable to overcome the First Immortal Gate was truly an embarrassment.

Qin Niu ran wildly on the surface of the sea, performing the Misty Rain Elusive Step to its extreme, transforming his entire being into a faint afterimage. In the blink of an eye, he had traveled a hundred meters.

With such speed, those sea sharks naturally could not catch up to him.

Though he had shaken off the group of sea sharks, Qin Niu was now facing the threat of being unable to find the coast.

“It should be this direction without a doubt!”

He considered himself to have a good sense of direction and remembered coming from this direction.

But after running forward for a quarter of an hour, he still couldn’t see the coastline.

At that time, he desperately wished there was a lighthouse ahead to guide the way. Otherwise, he was sure to perish at sea.

He thought of asking his pets for help.

“Fourth, can you discern the direction?”

Qin Niu summoned Fourth to help him determine the direction.

Fourth’s sole horn moved around, and after a long while, it finally said in ant language, “Master, it’s impossible to discern direction here.”

Qin Niu also summoned Green Demon Bees and other bugs to lead the way, but they all ended up with the same result as Fourth.

In this Immortal Gate, they were unable to discern directions.

Most bugs determine direction using the sun as a reference.

The sky here was nothing but chaos, with no sun or moon, only dim light and a boundless ocean.

“Master, a formidable and aggressive creature is catching up from behind.”

The Diamond Ink Turtle had always been carried by Qin Niu in a basket.

Yet now it was rare for it to communicate with Qin Niu using Divine Sense.

Qin Niu turned his head to look behind and indeed saw towering waves in the distance, a mass as large as a small hill rapidly approaching.

Damn it, that monstrous sea creature had locked onto him as its target.

Watching time slip away, he had not been able to find the exit. Trapped in the vast ocean, he couldn’t help but fall into a heart of despair, having lost all illusions of hope.

This time, he had considered himself to be quite well-prepared, and on his way here, he had continuously encountered numerous great opportunities, which had pushed his cultivation to the Immortal Warrior Realm.

Who would have thought that all of it would still end in failure?

As his confidence vanished, the world seemed to grow even darker.

“I’ll slaughter this giant sea monster first.”

Qin Niu couldn’t help but stir up the blood and courage in his heart.

He had one great quality about himself; he never gave up without a fight.

Faced with threats, he always took the initiative to strike back. Even if his enemies were ten or a hundred times stronger than him, he never bowed his head, let alone waited for death.

“Cowardly turtle, fighting in the water is your forte, let’s join forces to deal with this giant beast catching up.”

After hearing this, the Diamond Ink Turtle’s neck shrank back into its shell.

It angered Qin Niu so much that he really wanted to throw it away.

The waves behind him began to close in fast and grew taller and taller.

Riding the rise and fall of the waves, at its highest point, Qin Niu was lifted by the wave’s crest to nearly seventy or eighty meters high. The sea monster’s speed was incredibly fast, and it had already caught up.

Finally, Qin Niu could see its true form clearly.

It was a whale, with an exceedingly immense body. Its huge mouth harbored at least a hundred whale baleens, resembling a spider web, or rather, a complex sieve.

“Wu——”

It opened its vast mouth towards Qin Niu to swallow him, and suddenly a terrifying suction force started to draw all the seawater and everything around it towards its gaping mouth.

In front of its massive body, Qin Niu was as insignificant as a shrimp.

The power of being swallowed by the whale was extremely frightening.

He was involuntarily swept along with the seawater, surging towards the mouth of the giant whale.

“Die!”

As he reached the whale’s mouth, Qin Niu raised his Ink Blade and fiercely slashed at its baleens.

Unexpectedly, these baleens possessed astonishing elasticity and were quite thick. His blade strike only managed to injure one baleen.

Qin Niu’s body was involuntarily pushed further into its massive mouth.

It immediately closed its mouth to swallow.

In its mouth, Qin Niu felt as though heaven and earth were collapsing, incapable of resisting at all.

This giant whale was nearly a hundred meters long and dominated the sea like a colossus.

Moreover, based on his feeling, it likely wasn’t an ordinary creature but possibly a Sea Demon.

Otherwise, its whale baleen couldn’t have been so tenacious.

It must be known that with Qin Niu’s current cultivation power, combined with Slash Martial Skill, plus the power of the Ink Blade, it wasn’t just a whale baleen that could be easily cut through, even an iron pillar would yield to his blade.

He was swallowed by the giant whale.

A torrent of rolling and spinning made him feel as though he was tumbling in a twisted tunnel.

“Since it’s a Demon Beast, then there should be a Demon Core.”

Qin Niu was struggling to mobilize his cultivation power, with the help of King Pig Leather Armor, he formed a protective shield of qi around his body while searching for a way to destroy the enemy and save himself.

What he saw were the dark red intestines squirming continuously.

This must be the giant whale’s digestive tract.

The place he was in now was inside its digestive tract.

“Cowardly Turtle, quickly sense around and find where this giant whale’s Demon Core is located.”

At this moment, Qin Niu once again asked for the Diamond Ink Turtle’s help.

Though extremely cowardly, it was very loyal to Qin Niu.

“Over there!”

After the Diamond Ink Turtle pointed out the direction, it also strived to help Qin Niu withstand the pressure from the giant whale.

Its greatest ability was Water Control.

It seemed that the giant whale also needed the help of seawater to push prey it had swallowed into its stomach.

“Break!”

Following the guidance of the Diamond Ink Turtle, Qin Niu struck fiercely against the dark red walls of the digestive tract in front of him.

With this strike, he managed to produce both the critical hit and Rupture effects.

After ascending to the Immortal Warrior Realm, when he performed the Ink Blade Strike, his Blade Qi became like real blade light with a tendency to converge into a solid form.

The blade light fiercely tore open a gap in the whale’s inner wall.

But for its massive body, this wound less than a meter long was just a minor cut.

Its healing ability was also extremely strong.

No sooner had Qin Niu slashed a one-meter-long wound than the ends began to heal.

Seizing the moment before it fully healed, Qin Niu, with exceptional agility, squeezed directly out.

However, after wriggling out of the esophagus, he was surrounded by sticky fluids and various organs. He thought these liquids were its blood or stomach fluids of some sort.

In the darkness, he saw a glowing object the size of a human head.

With his experience, this must be the Demon Core.

“How dare you swallow me.”

Qin Niu struggled to approach the Demon Core, hugged it, and then, with one hand wielding the blade, frantically hacked and slashed at the surrounding organs.

The Demon Core released a powerful demonic energy, trying to push him away.

But it didn’t succeed.

“Cowardly Turtle, haven’t you always wanted to ascend to a higher level? Now’s your chance, swallow this Demon Core for me.”

Qin Niu felt the terrible pressure around him.

The giant whale seemed to be counterattacking, trying to crush him into mush.

The sticky fluids were also rapidly eroding his protective qi shield.

Facing these attacks, Qin Niu swung his blade desperately.

Inflicting damage and pain upon the giant whale.

The Diamond Ink Turtle was able to discern what was good for it, recognizing that the Demon Core was a valuable item.

Changing from its timid nature, it swam quickly to the Demon Core, clumsily wrapped its forelegs around it, and bit fiercely into the Demon Core.

One could see it rapidly absorbing energy from the Demon Core.

Streams of green light continuously flowed into its body.

And its body began to grow larger.

Seeing the Diamond Ink Turtle acting so boldly, Qin Niu couldn’t help but feel pleased. He didn’t need to hold onto the Demon Core anymore and could free his hands to grip the blade with both hands, dealing severe damage to the giant whale.