Ant Lord in the Star Realm-Chapter 447 - 427 Migration

Purple Tung Insect Nation.

"Dragon Cypress!"

Ink Orchid sped over to greet, "Divine-Grade Night Fragrance Fruit..."

"Harvested successfully! Already placed temporarily in the Huagi Mountain Treasury."

"How about Night Fragrance?"

"It’s condensing its Tree Heart."

"Oh—"

Ink Orchid circled around the Throne, hovered in sync over Dragon Cypress’s head, and asked:

"When will we move it? Next spring?"

"Night Fragrance has been rooted alone at White Lotus Lake, it’s bored to death and eager to come over."

"Now? Is there still time?"

"Of course! Ink Orchid, time to test your training results—later, you’ll be responsible for slicing the exuviae of Night Fragrance’s Divine-Given Seed. I’ll do the transport."

"Okay!"

Ink Orchid flipped backward midair, widened the distance from the Dominating Throne, and condensed primordial energy in its forelegs, swinging down forcefully.

A giant Wind Blade tore through the air, raising a piercing high-pitched sound, flying two or three hundred meters before finally dissipating.

Ink Orchid waggled its tentacles, saying nothing.

Dragon Cypress: "...Amazing!"

Dragon Cypress: "Time is tight, let’s just transport the main branches, the fine twigs and broken leaves can be buried in place for compost. In the future, we’ll plant all the Divine-Given Seeds from the north together at White Lotus Lake."

"Mm! Mm! Mm!"

Ink Orchid agreed enthusiastically.

"Dragon Cypress, how’s the Round Leaf Keg Vine Divine-Given Seed?"

"The main vine is close to thirty meters; its soul consciousness awoke a month ago. It’s a bit temperamental, but extremely curious about new things—definitely a tree eager for knowledge."

"Wow! So it could become a tree like Linnan Divine Tree?"

"..."

Dragon Cypress dared not agree easily.

The Dominating Throne accelerated, flying straight to the Huagi Divine Tree and landing by its trunk.

"Huagi Divine Tree!"

Dragon Cypress called out.

"Mm—"

The Huagi Divine Tree responded, asking, "Night Fragrance Divine-Given Seed can be transplanted over now?"

Dragon Cypress: "Yes."

Huagi Divine Tree: "Northwest direction?"

Dragon Cypress: "Yes."

Dragon Cypress: "Huagi Divine Tree, please take good care of Night Fragrance."

Huagi Divine Tree: "Of course."

Linnan Divine Tree, secretly eavesdropping, spread its spiritual power over, complaining: "Little ant, did you forget me?"

Dragon Cypress immediately said, "Linnan Divine Tree, I must trouble you to look after it too."

"Hmph—"

"Did you need to say it?"

Linnan Divine Tree switched the topic, asking: "Haven’t seen you in half a year, were you sowing Keg Vine Divine-Given Seed?"

Dragon Cypress: "Yes."

Linnan Divine Tree: "How did it go?"

Dragon Cypress: "Growing splendidly, soul consciousness awakened, just as intelligent as you..."

"Worthy of the King of Vines!"

Linnan Divine Tree was very pleased with Dragon Cypress’s honesty, boldly saying: "When it evolves to King Level, get it a place in Purple Tung Insect Nation, I’ll help guide it..."

After a round of chatting,

Dragon Cypress bid farewell to Huagi Divine Tree, controlled the Dominating Throne to float along by its side, walking along, and in succession greeted the Purple Tung Divine-Given Seed, Jinhe Divine-Given Seed, and White Poplar Divine-Given Seed.

Finally, calling out to Round Cypress, Black Leaf, and Black Birch, they arrived at the Land of Origin Force’s Central Region, northwest, picked a spot, and dug a ring-shaped trench with a width of 6 meters, a depth of 6 meters, and a radius over 30 meters.

Kept a full 1500 meters from the Huagi Divine Tree.

Stayed a bit closer to the centrally located Purple Tung Divine-Given Seed, one thousand meters was enough.

This also brought it nearer to Linnan Divine Tree and Jinhe Divine Tree.

With nothing else to do, the five wild Divine-Given Seeds could connect and communicate via spiritual power—five trees together would surely never get bored again.

White Poplar was only at Mountain Lord Level, and for now couldn’t use spiritual power to communicate with Origin Force Life other than Dragon Cypress or Command Ant. In the future, after evolving to King Level, it should be able to.

...

Four or five thousand Worker and Soldier Ants busied together, and in just two days, preparation for the migration was complete.

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid arrived together at White Lotus Lake.

The ground was strewn with yellow leaves,

The Night Fragrance Divine-Given Seed had only bare branches remaining.

Activating the Soul-Setting Ability to sense, near the base of the trunk, at the center, a mass of condensed, nearly tangible soul was in a dormant state.

"Dragon Cypress?"

"Let’s cut off all the branches first."

"Okay! Watch this!"

Ink Orchid kicked up, form flashing, arrived beside the thickest lower branch—fully seven or eight meters in diameter—condensed primordial energy at its foreleg, and swung repeatedly, slashing down.

Zi~la~la~

Super-high speed Wind Blade cut through the air, its piercing boom echoing endlessly.

Soon enough, with a crack, the side branch tumbled off, crashing to the ground with a rustle.

Ink Orchid darted over, locking onto the second side branch...

Dragon Cypress watched for a bit, flapped its wings, rose straight up, reached the treetop, and used Rend ability, swinging its claw from the peak, hacking down with brute force.

After half a day’s work,

The Night Fragrance Divine-Given Seed was left with just a section of trunk ten meters off the ground.

At this point, both Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid became cautious.

Using spiritual power to pinpoint the Tree Heart, they gathered primordial energy at their claw tips to dig in from the side.

This was precise work requiring careful claws; it took another half day, but finally they had dug out an ellipsoid Tree Heart about sixty centimeters long, shimmering with seven-colored metallic hues.

The just-congealed Tree Heart brimmed with energy and nutrients, very heavy—it weighed nearly as much as twenty thousand Source Stones.

Ink Orchid stayed behind to clean up.

Dragon Cypress carried the Tree Heart up onto the Throne and sped northward.

...

Rushing through the night, they returned to Purple Tung Insect Nation.

The shallow pit was already dug and lined with soft humus.

Dragon Cypress placed the Night Fragrance Tree Heart into the pit and covered it back with soil.

Black Birch commanded the Specialized Blue Soldiers to fetch water from the distant river canal and transport it over.

Water was sprinkled and the surrounding soil thoroughly saturated.

Soon,

The underground Tree Heart sprouted roots, the taproot boring deeply down.

At the same time, leaf buds began to differentiate, a spot of green broke through the soil, reaching for the morning light, and grew rapidly.

One meter, two meters, three meters...

By midmorning, it had grown to over ten meters tall.

In just a single day it shot up to a little tree more than twenty meters high.

Another night, and the tree’s height exceeded thirty meters.

With abundant energy and a soul in full strength, the Night Fragrance Divine-Given Seed’s regrowth rate was even faster than the Huagi Divine Tree back then.

However, once the energy and nutrients stored in the Tree Heart and Glinting Gold were exhausted, the growth rate suddenly slowed again.

Dragon Cypress hurried off to White Lotus Lake.

Ink Orchid had already chopped some of the branches to pieces.

Dragon Cypress directed the Worker Ants to gather and bag them for urgent transport back to Purple Tung Insect Nation.

After half a month of busyness, everything was settled.

The trunk of Night Fragrance Divine-Given Seed had climbed back up to just over fifty meters tall.

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid set off again, starting the autumn roving merchant trade, and along the way, searched for Divine-Given Seeds across every Land of Origin Force.

At full speed, they made a circuit in twenty days.

By the time they returned, it was late autumn, with desolate winds and all things fading.

At the center of Purple Tung Insect Nation, six towering giant trees of various heights and sizes stood proudly, ever verdant and tall.

In recent days, the temperature dropped sharply; winter was imminent, and the Night Fragrance Divine-Given Seed’s trunk height had stalled around seventy meters.

Ink Orchid was first to speed down beneath the tree, looked up, and asked, "Night Fragrance, how is it? Are you getting used to the climate here?"

Night Fragrance: "A King-Level life can adapt to almost any climate."

Ink Orchid: "How is your spiritual power recovery? Can you communicate with the other Tree Kings yet?"

Night Fragrance: "Our Divine-Given Seeds’ spiritual power is limited by our body size. For now, I still can’t initiate contact with them. But, Huagi Divine Tree and Purple Tung Divine-Given Seed can project their spiritual power over. We can communicate."

Ink Orchid: "Purple Tung just advanced to King Level and doesn’t know much; Night Fragrance, be sure to help it out."

Night Fragrance: "I will—"

Dragon Cypress interjected at the right moment: "Night Fragrance, next year rest up and restore your growth, and bloom and bear fruit the year after. The Origin Force Concentration here is super high—you can go all-in, bear seven fruits at once."

Night Fragrance: "No problem."

Dragon Cypress: "Can I have the Glinting Gold first? The White Poplar Divine-Given Seed will bear fruit in eight years, it may need it. Night Fragrance, I’ll return the Glinting Gold in eight years—will that be in time?"

Night Fragrance: "...It’ll be in time."

Dragon Cypress: "Great! That way, you and White Poplar stagger your fruit times and take turns."

Night Fragrance: "...Alright."

Under Night Fragrance’s control, Glinting Gold separated from the trunk and floated down to Dragon Cypress.

Dragon Cypress raised a claw to receive it, "Ink Orchid, keep Night Fragrance company."

With that, it carried the Glinting Gold and rushed off to the White Poplar Divine-Given Seed.