235: Chapter 235 The Chameleon Locust

Although magic power recovery was slow, it didn't have much of an impact on Battle Energy.

With Nie Ning's own cultivation as a Sky Knight, even without the replenishment of Elemental Power, he could still convert blood energy into Battle Energy.

To prevent any unforeseen circumstances, Nie Ning had long prepared some food and collected quite a bit of non-toxic Strange Beast meat near Narnia Holy Mountain.

It wasn't much, just enough to fill seven spatial items; if they were frugal, it should last them a few months.

Heloise circled the area and shook her head slightly: "I didn't find any Teleportation Array."

In this case, it was almost certain that this was a random teleportation.

Nie Ning was lost in thought, then asked: "Can you perceive Chi Yu's location?"

It was currently unclear where they were, and having Chi Yu would add more combat power, which should be very helpful for their survival going forward.

Although he knew the location of the Flesh Spider, the Flesh Spiders split off from the Human-Faced Balloon were very small, and whether or not they could find them wouldn't affect them much.

"In that direction."

Heloise pointed to the upper left of them; when Nie Ning had jumped high earlier, he had indeed seen a black dot over there.

"Then let's go."

Nie Ning nodded, then picked up Heloise and ran across the water, quickly heading in Chi Yu's direction.

Although Heloise could also use magic power to walk on water, the efficiency of converting food into magic power was relatively low, and Nie Ning felt it was a waste to use magic crystals.

Therefore, carrying her was undoubtedly the most cost-effective method.

With the help of Battle Energy, Nie Ning's travel speed was very fast.

However, after running for a while, Nie Ning always felt that something was wandering nearby.

But when he used his Spiritual Power to probe, he didn't discover anything in the surroundings.

For a moment, Nie Ning even wondered if there was something wrong with his Spiritual Power.

Furthermore, after running for half an hour, he still hadn't reached the location where Chi Yu was, which made people feel that something was not quite right.

After a moment of thought, a fireball ignited in Nie Ning's hand.

"Are there enemies?" Heloise asked, somewhat puzzled.

"I don't know, but there are quite a lot of weeds here; I don't know if there will be any impact if I burn them."

Nie Ning shook his head, then threw the fireball in his hand out.

Under the scorching of the flames, the weeds were instantly ignited, and it began to spread rapidly to the surroundings.

Watching the rising gray smoke, Nie Ning used Battle Energy to wrap the two of them inside, avoiding the scorching flames affecting them.

"If I had known, I wouldn't have left the small black box." Heloise couldn't help but mutter in a low voice.

In reality, Nie Ning was thinking the same thing.

But since they had already left, there was no point in talking about it anymore.

Nie Ning didn't stop; while setting fires along the way, he continued to run towards Chi Yu's location.

Not long after, thick smoke was billowing behind them.

"Look over there!" Just then, Heloise suddenly pointed behind them.

Nie Ning turned his head to look, but didn't find anything unusual; it was still black smoke filling the sky.

"Look clearly, there's something inside the black smoke!"

Seeing that Nie Ning didn't see it, Heloise specifically pressed Nie Ning's head, looking towards the lower right direction.

Nie Ning activated his Strange Beast Body and finally discovered the difference; many, many black dots had appeared in the black smoke.

Originally he had thought it was just flying ash, so he didn't pay much attention, but now it seemed that wasn't the case.

Because those black dots were flying towards their direction.

However, Nie Ning still felt a bit strange.

He did not perceive any Malice, and this situation was very rare.

The last time he couldn't use Malice Perception was because of the Nalaiesi Believers, that is, that fourth-order church knight.

Watching the black dots getting closer and closer, Nie Ning, who had activated his Strange Beast Body, quickly discovered something wrong.

On the weeds near them, it seemed like something was moving.

Nie Ning caught one at an extremely fast speed, only to discover it was a type of locust that possessed color-changing abilities, and it possessed hard mouthparts and decent defensive power.

And after discovering the first color-changing locust, more and more locusts were perceived by Nie Ning.

These color-changing locusts were lying on the weeds as if they were sleeping.

But as soon as they passed by, these locusts would quickly wake up and then jump back and forth in the nearby grass.

As for flying, it was very likely due to the weeds being burned.

Previously, Nie Ning had felt that something was wandering nearby; it might very well be these locusts causing trouble.

However, this type of locust didn't have high strength, so Nie Ning didn't pay too much attention; he continued to run while carrying Heloise, and set fire to burn the surrounding weeds.

He prepared to wait until these locusts united, then he would take action to destroy them all.

Finally, after running for half an hour, there was a black mass behind Nie Ning; a massive swarm of locusts was attacking the two of them, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.

Nie Ning stopped his steps and put down Heloise, who was in his arms.

As the god-forbidden ring flew out from his wrist, Nie Ning extended his right hand towards the enlarging god-forbidden ring.

When the magic power in his body was driven, a wisp of breeze blew in front of the two of them, and then quickly formed a small vortex.

A flash of sharp light flickered in Nie Ning's eyes; in an instant, the vortex expanded, forming a giant tornado fifty meters wide and five hundred meters high.

In just an instant, one-fifth of the locust swarm was sucked away and ground into fragments by the giant tornado.

But this was not the end.

Under Nie Ning's control, the storm tornado swept up the weeds on the ground, along with the flames below.

Just like gas being ignited, the flames spread to the entire tornado in an instant, forming an even more terrifying fire tornado.

Wherever the fire tornado passed, nothing grew; all weeds, flames, flying ash, and locusts were devoured.

After about a minute or so, more than half of the locusts had been eliminated.

And the remaining locusts did not continue to fight, turning their heads and starting to flee into the distance.

Seeing this, Nie Ning did not continue to chase.

Because this weed area was very large, relying solely on the storm tornado couldn't catch up with the locusts that were only focused on fleeing, and at the same time, it couldn't kill so many locusts.

Rather than continuing to entangle with them, it was better to find Chi Yu as soon as possible.

After all, when it came to burning mountains, it still depended on this guy Chi Yu.

Even if it didn't use its fire-type abilities, just its own wings were enough to ignite the weeds along the way.

After resolving the threat of the locusts, Nie Ning took Heloise and continued on their journey.

Another half hour passed, and the two still hadn't reached the black box ahead.

"There's a problem with this space; we've been running for almost two hours, and we're still very far from the black box..."

Heloise stood on Nie Ning's shoulder, looking at the small black dot in the distance, and said with a grave expression.

At Nie Ning's speed, they had already run dozens of kilometers during this time, but the small black dot ahead didn't show any sign of getting bigger.