Lu Li let the Yong Demon wait here, while the Dreamwalker emerged from behind, a halo invading the surrounding space, lifting him past the lava, flying towards the depths of the swamp.
The viscous lava streamed like a waterfall from the top of the canyon, pooling into a small lava pond at the bottom.
Lu Li's target was the hillock at the center of the lava pool, atop which stood a low ant mound, where lamb-sized, dark red, black-spotted fire ants busily worked, with several paths leading from the mound to the swamp outside the lava pool.
Fire ants depend on lava for survival, but unlike the Fire Demon, they cannot exist in lava, for it still injures, burns, and kills them.
At this moment, a fire ant prowling the swamp discovered Lu Li as an invader. Its pincer-like mandibles opened, spewing a stream of scorching lava from its gastric sac along the cavity towards Lu Li—and then pierced through the bizarre illusion and the silhouette at its center.
