Professor Li knew very well that without Zhang Tian, they wouldn't even know if they could find this place, let alone get here.
They had no choice.
The only option might have been to go their separate ways.
But Professor Li clearly wouldn't choose that.
So, the situation now was that they had to obey Zhang Tian.
"Then how do we get down?"
Xiao Guang asked, still confused about how Zhang Tian would deal with so many poisonous insects.
Zhang Tian looked at the armor on his body.
After thinking for a moment, he said,
"We have protective gear, but those World War II era outfits won't be reliable against poisonous insects."
"So, there's only one way now: either eliminate the poisonous insects or keep them at bay."
As Zhang Tian spoke, several people looked at the river before them.
In the middle of the river, poisonous insects were constantly wriggling.
Almost the entire river had become the domain of poisonous insects.
But Zhang Tian was curious about where these poisonous insects came from and why they were here.
With so many insects, what was their food source?
Zhang Tian had some doubts in his heart.
"Boss, how do we eliminate these disgusting bugs? Fatty is feeling hot all over just looking at them."
Fatty couldn't bear to look.
"Our fireballs are flames formed from qi. If I'm not mistaken, they are inextinguishable in water."
"We can burn them to death, but it will consume a lot of energy."
Zhang Tian said.
Shirley Yang seemed to have an idea and suddenly spoke up.
"Brother Zhang, if the flames are inextinguishable in water, can we create a flame shield to block the insects?"
Shirley Yang's voice came through.
Zhang Tian had also thought of this method, but he was unsure if Professor Li could do it.
Master level cultivators could release qi externally, and Grandmasters could form a protective shield of qi around themselves.
Zhang Tian's cultivation level was enough to create his own qi shield.
However, this shield was limited to himself alone.
It was clearly impossible to take Professor Li with him.
Unless, as Shirley Yang suggested, they enveloped the surroundings with flames.
"Flames don't go out even in water?"
Professor Li and Xiao Guang exchanged glances.
They were both somewhat shocked.
If it were before, they definitely wouldn't have believed it, but now, they believed everything Zhang Tian said.
"How about we try this suggestion?"
Hu Bayi looked at Zhang Tian.
Zhang Tian pondered for a moment and slowly nodded.
"This is the most economical method right now."
As Zhang Tian spoke, he waved his hand, and a fireball appeared.
This was the fireball technique from Maoshan Daoism.
With the appearance of the fireball, the surrounding chill lessened considerably.
Everyone also felt a sense of warmth.
"How do we do this?"
Xiao Guang looked at the fireball that appeared out of nowhere in Zhang Tian's hand.
He was both curious and a little excited.
With a wave of Zhang Tian's hand, the fireball began to thin, and then, a barrier made of flames appeared.
Because he was wearing armor, Zhang Tian made the fireball as large as possible.
Of course, this would also consume a lot of his qi.
Seeing this, Hu Bayi also waved his hand, forming a shield like Zhang Tian.
With the appearance of the shields, Zhang Tian looked at Zhang Qilin.
"Qilin, observe the surrounding terrain. We'll go down together to find the ancient tomb."
Zhang Tian said softly.
Zhang Qilin nodded without saying much.
"Splash!"
"Sizzle!"
The next moment, Zhang Tian, along with Fatty and Xiao Guang, jumped directly into the water.
The two of them didn't even have time to react.
"Damn it, Boss, why did you jump without warning? Give us some hint!"
"Gulp gulp."
Fatty's voice was excited, and he had already fallen into the water before he could finish speaking.
Xiao Guang, finding himself in the water, quickly held his breath.
After Zhang Tian jumped into the river, the surrounding insects swarmed towards him.
As the insects increased, burnt corpses began to appear on Zhang Tian's flame shield.
Since the fuel for the flames was not ordinary fuel but Zhang Tian's internal qi, the flames would not extinguish without external interference.
"So magical."
Watching the insects die before him, Xiao Guang murmured to himself.
He felt like he had opened the door to a new world.
This kind of thing was truly extraordinary, even he had never seen anything like it, let alone scientifically explained it.
After Zhang Tian entered the water, Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang, and Professor Li also followed.
Although the flame shield could block the insects, the water could not.
Almost the moment they entered the water, everyone's clothes were soaked.
Professor Li, being frail, was shivering uncontrollably as soon as he entered the water.
Hu Bayi and the others were wearing armor, so even though it was wet, it wasn't a big problem.
[Good heavens, what's going on? Why do they have flames when they go into the water?]
[This must be some kind of gas circulation, right? There's carbon dioxide in water too. So, it's likely that Zhang Tian and the others are releasing some kind of molecule, increasing the internal pressure of the water, allowing the fire to burn.]
[There's no scientific basis for that!]
[Matches can also burn in water, but they consume some kind of chemical substance.]
[Controlling fire to burn in water is truly unique. Of course, this seems to be the most basic level.]
Countless people discussed it.
Clearly, Zhang Tian's actions had attracted a lot of attention.
A certain scientific research base in Xia Nation.
Zhang Tian's video had spread throughout Xia Nation, and almost everyone was watching it, though perhaps not the elders in the villages.
"This is probably an equal atomic weight, forming a unique situation with certain molecules."
An old expert said.
"But can humans really control these atoms and molecules? Or can they control nuclear molecules?"
Another expert said incredulously.
"From the perspective of history and mythology, those gods, or those powerful individuals, all cultivated by absorbing a certain kind of qi from the atmosphere."
"And that so-called qi, I suspect it's some kind of molecule, and that molecule is becoming rarer with pollution. It might be more abundant in forests."
The old expert spoke.
"Then how do they form and utilize it?"
The person next to him asked.
"They probably inhale those molecules into their dantian and use special methods to control or transform them. We cannot understand this with our current knowledge."
He said.
Shaking his head, other experts also sighed.
They still couldn't understand the things from a hundred years ago that Zhang Tian possessed.
Of course, if Zhang Tian hadn't participated in this trial, they would never have known about other things in the world.
At this moment, in the picture.
Zhang Tian and the others had already gone deep into the riverbed.
As they descended, Zhang Tian felt the temperature dropping.
Zhang Qilin swam in the lead.
Gradually, the number of insects around them seemed to increase.
"Boss, are we entering the insect nest?"
Fatty asked, speaking from his stomach.
Zhang Tian looked at the countless insects around him and also felt that they might be entering an insect nest.
Xiao Guang watched the two of them conversing in the water using their stomachs, feeling curious and surprised.
As they went deeper, Zhang Qilin's figure slowly stopped.
Before Zhang Qilin's eyes, surrounded by countless black insects, a gigantic, grotesque insect egg appeared.