Ant Lord in the Star Realm-Chapter 434 - 414: That Sky Ox

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid insisted on searching the remaining Land of Origin Force one more time.

No results.

Ink Orchid went to Southern Sour Jujube Mountain.

In the back-and-forth running, time reached the end of spring.

Dragon Cypress returned alone to the Purple Tung Insect Nation...

Early morning,

Just getting close to the Central Region,

The spiritual power from the Linnan Divine Tree surged furiously, "Ant! I warned you, don’t go flying around in front of me on that Dominating Throne!"

"Yes—"

Dragon Cypress answered, quickly descended, leapt to the ground, controlled the Dominating Throne to float at low altitude and follow, while walking across the river canal.

Planning to take a detour around the Linnan Divine Tree, first to check on his own White Poplar Divine Seed.

"Ant! Stop!"

The spiritual power of the Linnan Divine Tree followed immediately.

"Where’s the Mantis?"

"Ink Orchid has something to do, won’t be coming over for now."

"You two went looking for a Divine-Given Seed?"

"...Yes."

"Did you find it?"

"...Uh-huh."

After spending enough time together, you realize this Linnan Divine Tree is not a bit dumber than the Huagi and Quandong Divine Trees.

The different roles they serve at Huagi Mountain have shaped their different temperaments.

Dragon Cypress stopped, looked up toward the Linnan Divine Tree, and took the initiative to explain: "A small shrub that grows in the tropics, a Little Wild Chestnut Divine-Given Seed that’s in the process of forming. It probably blossomed at last year’s Late Winter Season, the fruit is already half-grown. I estimate by the End of Summer the seed will be fully formed."

Linnan Divine Tree: "You’re going to use it yourself?"

Dragon Cypress: "Of course! When I evolve to Five-Age Period Mountain Lord, the full enhancing effect of the Divine-Grade Six Paths Fruit will kick in, and the Dominating Throne will be able to fly even faster..."

"Why not let the Mantis use it?" The Linnan Divine Tree brusquely interrupted, angrily,

"This damn place is boring to death, looking at you stupid insects just pisses me off. Why not wake up that little Jinhe brat earlier?"

Dragon Cypress answered unhurriedly: "In two years, once I get a One-Glimpse Fruit and the Red Phellodendron Divine Seed reverts to a seed, Ink Orchid will evolve and plant it at Huagi Mountain. At the same time, the Jinhe Divine-Given Seed will be brought over and planted here in the Purple Tung Insect Nation. Two years—that’s not long, is it?"

Linnan Divine Tree burst out: "I can’t stand even two days."

Dragon Cypress politely said: "Linnan Divine Tree, I’m sorry. I’ll have Ghost Fan, Snakebark Maple, Red Moonseed, and Areca move farther away from you."

Linnan Divine Tree: "I..."

Damn ant, I could squash you!

Linnan Divine Tree was a tree that couldn’t stand loneliness. Reining in its tone, it said: "Little Ant, let me give you a word of advice: before you evolve to Five-Age Period, do at least half a year of running and climbing training, and eat enough Silver Cypress Seeds. This way, you might still have a chance to restore your degenerated and atrophied six legs during the Mountain Lord Level stage."

Dragon Cypress: "Okay—"

Linnan Divine Tree: "I heard from the Mantis, your wild Southern Sour Jujube Divine-Given Seed is about to break through to Evolution Lord Level? At your next fruit harvest, you can eat a proper mix of Silver Cypress Seeds and Divine-Given Southern Sour Jujube Seeds. With appropriately intense flight training, you can also recondition your crippled wings."

Dragon Cypress: "Alright—"

The spiritual awareness of the Linnan Divine Tree suddenly shifted, roaring in fury: "That Sky Ox! Stop right there! Where are you running off to, you bastard! Who said you could stop!"

Snakebark Maple, who’d been trotting toward Dragon Cypress, stopped in her tracks, long tentacles standing up, waving in all directions, helpless and exasperated.

Dragon Cypress waved his claw, gesturing for her to hurry back, while he turned and sprinted away at full speed, getting out of the Linnan Divine Tree’s spiritual power’s cover as fast as possible.

...

The White Poplar Divine Seed, after a year of growth last year, had reached a height over fifty meters. Its soul was dense and stable as well.

Cypress led a group of ants alone, standing guard beneath the tree, running over to greet him.

"Great King! You’re back."

"Dragon Cypress—"

White Poplar was much more lively now, taking initiative to greet Dragon Cypress.

"Cypress."

"White Poplar." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Dragon Cypress responded, then offered: "I found a Little Wild Chestnut Divine-Given Seed. Black Cory went over to lead a group of ants to guard it. The Second King went to Southern Sour Jujube Mountain."

"Oh..."

Cypress had just been about to ask where the Second King went. Hearing this, he beamed, "Congratulations, Great King!"

Dragon Cypress twitched his tentacles, brought the Dominating Throne down to a stop, and instructed, "I’ve moved over a batch of Origin Force Food stored at Huagi Mountain. Cypress, you command the Soldier Ants to move it to the treasury and store it."

"Yes, Great King."

Cypress gave the orders to the Soldier Ants.

At Mountain Lord Level, evolving from Four-Age Period to Five-Age Period, if you just ate regular Origin Force Food, it would cost the equivalent of around 400,000 Source Stones. If you only ate Divine-Given Origin Force Food, it’d cost as much as 1.5 to 2 million.

These past two years, Dragon Cypress had traded with Flame Spider Roving Merchants and stockpiled about half a million Ant King Honey.

The "small gifts" given by the Purple Jade Spider King and Spider King Tiankui came in handy; altogether, it was just enough for Dragon Cypress to complete an Age Period evolution.

"White Poplar. Has the temperature been steady enough this past month?"

Dragon Cypress turned and looked up to check the growth of the White Poplar Divine Seed, making small talk with White Poplar.

White Poplar: "Comfortable—"

White Poplar: "Dragon Cypress, time to water me~"

Divine-Given Remains of all sorts were being added continuously.

Dragon Cypress even spent his own resources, once every three days, using Life System Origin Force Ant Honey worth three thousand Source Stones diluted with water, spraying it on the leaves to continuously replenish Origin Energy and nutrients for the White Poplar Divine Seed.

The six Divine-Grade Fruits didn’t cause it any strain at all.

With the arrival of the new spring, the White Poplar Divine Seed entered another period of vigorous growth.

If he put in another year of cost-no-object investment this year, the tree would exceed a height of 60 meters, after which it would basically be stable—only needing routine watering and fertilizing, and no further close care.

Dragon Cypress: "I’ll have Cypress water you later."

...

Dragon Cypress gathered a group of Worker Ants and went over to the Purple Tung Divine-Given Seed tree.

The new branches were lush, and the absorption rate of Origin Force much faster than before—clearly about to break through to Evolution King Level.

Dragon Cypress hesitated for a long time, and then instructed the Worker Ants to climb the tree, cut off most of the fruits, and only keep this year’s batch of ripe Purple Tung Fruits.

...

Dragon Cypress buzzed his wings and flew off to check the north side.

The excavation project was in full swing.

Black Leaf was commanding the ant group, Worker Ants digging up front.

White Rice was using Earth System Abilities, condensing the dirt into balls and slightly solidifying it.

The Worker Ants and Soldier Ants in the rear were in charge of transporting.

With simple Earth System cooperation, digging efficiency multiplied several times.

The planned reservoir’s overall outline had been dug out, and it was already about a meter deep.

Since the reservoir was for raising fish, it didn’t need to be too deep—1 to 5 meters would do.

The edge should be made into a shallow beach. Later, they’d try to see if Black Lotus could be planted there.

...

After chatting with White Rice for a while, Dragon Cypress headed off to check the orchard woods.

Round Cypress was busy commanding Worker Ants to trim the quality tree species cultivated by the Termite Kingdom in previous years.

Barley Bug Warriors worked in small groups of three or five, helping each other as they managed their private bug territories and cultivated their favorite plants.

All the work in the Purple Tung Insect Nation was proceeding in orderly fashion.

After wandering around for quite a while, it was already twilight. On his way back, Dragon Cypress passed by and took the opportunity to check on Wuye’s Harewood Divine-Given Seed.

"Dragon Cypress Ant King!"

Not far away, Pueraria and Chinese Clematis called out.

Pueraria was still an Intermediate Little Warrior and didn’t take part in the labor, hanging out with Chinese Clematis instead. The two little ones lay on the riverbank, watching the others across the river drill in combat training.

Spruce was still chopping blocks of ice.

Ghost Fan was climbing up and down along the tree trunk.

Red Moonseed was practicing flying between branches of the Divine Tree.

Areca was running laps along the boundary ditches.

Pueraria and Chinese Clematis both had their eyes fixed on Snakebark Maple not far away...

Snakebark Maple was waving her tentacles and crackling with electricity, causing popping bursts in the air...

The Linnan Divine Tree said Snakebark Maple’s overall qualities were high, her legs and feet nimble, and she could jump straight from physical training to ability training.

"Dragon Cypress Ant King, where is Mountain Lord Ink Orchid?" Chinese Clematis asked.

Dragon Cypress: "Ink Orchid’s busy, she stayed at Southern Sour Jujube Mountain. Chinese Clematis, you play with Pueraria. If there’s anything you don’t understand, you can ask me or Ghost Fan Mountain Lord tonight while we rest."

Chinese Clematis: "Got it—"

Chinese Clematis: "Dragon Cypress Ant King, have you and Ink Orchid been to Black Fruit Mountain? How’s my Life Seed growing?"

Dragon Cypress: "Don’t worry. Black Birch is taking care of it for you—it’ll grow strong. Once it gets hotter and work isn’t suitable, I’ll take you to Black Fruit Mountain to cool off."

Chinese Clematis: "Okay!"

Pueraria bounced, "Dragon Cypress Ant King, I want to see Chinese Clematis’s Life Seed too."

You want to come play too, huh?

Dragon Cypress cheerfully agreed: "Sure! Pueraria can go play at Black Fruit Mountain for a few days too."