They looked at the Queen Ant as they sealed their cultivation so as to bully it to the max, one at the time since it dared to scare their disciples.
Elder Xi unsheated his saber as his left hand went across the blade to its edge, he gave a maniac smile as he disappeared.
The Queen Ant immediately dodged as its leg that was previously cut slowly regenerated. Its scales toughened up and it no longer dared to look down on its opponent.
It spit poisonous fog all around it to try and find its opponent. Suddenly at one side there was a small disturbance in the poisonous fog, as an almost indistinguishable line slightly separated the poison.
Sensing it, the Queen Ant immediately used of its legs to counter the saber and its Ki circulated on its body as it shoot right through the poison silently without creating any disturbance as it aimed to take one of Elder Xi's hands.
Elder Xi changed slightly his body and his saber trajectory, as it split appart the Ki that was aimed to one of his hands and he barely dodged the attack. He continued his attack, although a little bit delayed and slower, it was still blindingly fast.
The Queen Ant shoot a few dozen of its scales and aimed them to make its opponent retreat, but Elder Xi simply used his left hand to take his saber's scabbard, and used it to deviate the scales from their path, simply by slightly brushing it past them.
This action greatly astounded the Queen Ant, as it never expected such an action.
As Elder Xi quickly made his way to kill the Queen Ant, it strangely began to shine as a slightly golden light shot right through to the sky, as many ants began to wither and die and their blood went towards the Queen Ant, some of them even began to run towards their queen as fast as they could, as if they couldn't wait to die.
That golden light pushed Elder Xi back, and he made a somersault to regain back his momentum of being pushed.
He began to analyse the golden light with great interest, since he did not know what was happening.
After some time after all the ants died, only that golden light was left as it began shrink faster and faster. A golden ant came out from it, no, calling it an ant was no longer correct.
It seemed to be an ant that could bring catastrophe anywhere it went, its mouth was huge and its fangs were as sharp as spears and from its mouth came a bright purple liquid that made holes wih no end on sight just by falling on the ground, its eyes shone red with malice, and its scales no longer no resembled those of snakes, intead they seemed to be from an incredibly ferocious dragon that could bring disaster anywhere.
This sight greatly startled all those present, even the cold Elder Li showed a frown.
"It actually is a Catastrophe Poison Ant, and a queen with a slightly pure bloodline at it. It's said that it was an offspring between an evil dragon and an Heavenly Poisonous Ant, it's said that the Heavenly Poisonous Ant poison could even melt an entire world. As to prevent them from creating even more chaos, an order was given by the many races to kill them down to the last descendant and those who served them as well." said Elder Li with surprise written on her face.
She was incredibly knowledgeable about creatures from having read the entire library and all records and mentions about them in the entire clan. She had even asked information about them after forcefully barging into a meeting between the Council of Eight.
She was never a person that liked formalities, much less follow them, so she wasn't afraid of any kind of punishment. She was also part of the group of elders that were more agressive towards outsiders.
Hearing this the other elders got their guard up. They had heard how ferocious these creatures were, so they needed to be careful.
Then they suddenly remembered that they were in an illusion and could not help but think where that lass got to know of this creature or had even seen it, since they knew that there was none in this world since they were all killed in the past.
The Queen Ant looked at them menacingly and spit poison at them.
The three of them did not unseal their cultivation. Elder Li wanted to study it, while the other two were more interested to see if they could handle its poison and test their techniques on a descendant of incredibly powerful creatures, forgetting that they were also descendants of one of the most notoriously vicious and domineering races.