The sound was a little muffled and extremely weak. If not for Hao Xuan's extremely sharp ears, there was no way he could have picked it up.
He jumped down and followed it slowly. It came and went every now and then and even though he was basically right next to it, it took him several minutes to pinpoint the exact location.
It was coming from below the largest creature that resembled a beetle. Using the glaive Hao Xuan tossed the severed body parts aside until he saw the source of it.
*Scraaatch~*
It was an ant. A white ant, no larger than a couple of feet.
Unlike the normal ant warriors, this one wasn't bipedal and looked extremely normal.
It looked like an ant back from earth, just a few hundreds of times larger.
Half of its body was stuck under one of the hind legs of the beetle. It was trying to struggle free from the weight of the leg and the scratching sound was coming from these attempts as it tried to do everything in its power.