The enormous head was like a squashed leather ball, almost identical to the heads of aliens you could see in any random alien video on a video site, with two large, round eye sockets. The eyes inside were blurry, but the pupils were as black as gemstones! Above the eyes were two pairs of huge antennae, like two long whips lined with jagged teeth—not only asymmetrical, but one large and one small, making them look bizarre and uncanny!

The two huge teeth at the corners of its mouth were like guillotines, appearing rather menacing!

This was no ant—it was practically an interstellar monster! Fortunately, this monster was stuck in this space and was completely unable to move at the moment.

Meanwhile, those grayish clouds were now completely enveloping the ant’s body, continuously seeping inside.

“Hmm, it worked! Looks like it’s about to devour this ant! But such a small ant, yet so big in here… The ant itself shouldn’t have grown, so this so-called twenty-seven cubic meter space must be trash, only five millimeters in length, width, and height… Damn, with such a tiny space, it’s useless.”

Faced with this situation, Ethan Bolton felt somewhat disappointed, but only a little—more than anything, he was excited. At least, no matter what, it seemed the ant was starting to be devoured by the white mist.

The devouring process wasn’t slow. With the white mist’s monstrous, black-hole-like devouring power, in less than five minutes, the ant stopped struggling! Then, five minutes later, the ant completely disappeared, and countless rising grayish-white mists quickly formed a double-helix replication chain, which suddenly vanished from this space.

At this moment, Ethan Bolton began to feel a bit uncontrollably panicked, and at the same time, his senses were forcibly pulled away from this space.

Simultaneously, his body in the outside world suddenly began to tremble. His bones and skin seemed to harden all at once, and the blood in his body felt as if it was about to ignite. This sensation filled him with terror!

Almost instinctively, Ethan Bolton quickly visualized the universe as a colorless background, then rapidly entered a meditative state, clearing his mind of distractions and frantically cultivating ‘Tianyan’.

Tianyan was actually the cultivation method for the third eye, the supplementary instructions that came after obtaining the Sky City. Ethan Bolton called this the ‘Tianyan’ technique, which was essentially the ‘Heavenly Eye’. The technique consisted of just a few steps from start to finish, and Ethan Bolton’s cultivation was simply the repeated practice of these steps.

Finally, after three hours, Ethan Bolton was drenched in foul-smelling sweat and immediately went to take a cold shower.

After coming out of the bathroom, he carefully felt his body. It was obvious—Ethan Bolton could feel that his body had become much stronger, and his strength seemed to have increased tremendously!

It was an undeniable illusion, and even more, a near-instinctive confidence!

Thinking for a moment, Ethan Bolton focused his mind and walked toward the huge New York-style American wedding bed in the room. This bed, not counting the sofa cushions at the headboard, was two meters long and 1.8 meters wide; with the cushions, it was a full 2.4 meters long! Not only that, since it was made of fine wood panels, the quality was extremely solid, making it very heavy—estimated to weigh over 100 kilograms.

Previously, Ethan Bolton couldn’t move this bed at all. Now, he reached out with his usually weak left hand, gently gripped the bed leg underneath, and with a slight effort, immediately lifted part of the bed.

His heart skipped a beat. Then Ethan Bolton found the manual in the bedside cabinet and checked the bed’s weight, discovering it was 122.000 kg. Adding the bamboo mat on top, the total weight was at least around 125 kg! And with most of one leg lifted, the force applied should be about 90 kg!

After a brief contemplation, Ethan Bolton immediately understood that this was probably the benefit brought by some changes in his body after devouring the ant.

However, at this moment, Ethan Bolton was a bit worried—if he kept devouring like this, would he end up growing a tail or antennae, turning into some kind of half-human, half-insect monster?

Chapter 7: Super Strength!

Ethan Bolton pondered for a moment, then opened his laptop and turned it on to look up information.

At this moment, Ethan Bolton noticed his Dopod phone, which he had left on the bedside table, was lighting up and vibrating, making a ‘zzz zzz zzz’ sound.

Ethan Bolton glanced at it and saw it was a call from a friend on QQ whom he had already deleted, so he couldn’t even be bothered to answer. He simply ignored it, pulled out the SIM card, and crushed it!

Other than calls from his mother, sister, and Sarah Scott, Ethan Bolton no longer cared about anyone else’s calls.

Sitting down at the computer, after quickly looking up information about ants, Ethan Bolton learned about the ant’s most remarkable trait: strength!