Ant Lord in the Star Realm-Chapter 449 - 429: Linnan Divine Tree You’ve Worked Hard

Chapter 449: Chapter 429: Linnan Divine Tree You’ve Worked Hard

The lush spring, when a hundred flowers vie in splendor.

When the Xianglan Mountain Ant Kingdom’s trading host arrived at the Rednan Mountain sub-nest, Red Peach and Silvergrass were already waiting.

Greetings upon meeting.

Dragon Cypress didn’t beat around the bush, and spoke directly: "The Soul-Setting Fruits have been harvested successfully."

Fragrant Cypress cooperatively directed the worker ants to bring three spider silk bags forward and passed them through the Starship Rift.

Red Peach and Silvergrass took them, opened them to inspect.

Silvergrass: "No problems!"

Red Peach: "Five million Source Stones have been delivered as agreed."

Red Peach turned and pointed to the stone slab wheelcart, asking, "Dragon Cypress Ant King, are we still shipping Source Stones first this year? I brought 100,000 with me."

Dragon Cypress: "Transport the Source Stones first!"

Silvergrass: "Three Soul-Setting Fruits, fifteen million Source Stones. Down payment of five million has been made, five million will be sent this year, and another five million next year."

Dragon Cypress: "That’s right."

Silvergrass: "Are the Divine-Grade Kunlan Seeds maturing this year? Dragon Cypress Ant King, for the first batch, does Huagi Mountain want to keep one for itself?"

Dragon Cypress: "Huagi Mountain will keep one. Ink Orchid and I will each keep one as well."

Dragon Cypress: "Two are left. Lord White Ivy will take one first, payment at the price of high-quality Origin Force food produced by the lord or Insect King territories..."

——Great~

Red Peach and Silvergrass cheered.

Dragon Cypress paused, then continued: "I owe Wormwood Spider King a One-Glimpse Fruit, so the last Divine-Grade Kunlan Seed should go to Wormwood Spider King."

"Wow! Oh!"

Silvergrass jumped for joy. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Red Peach: "Then Wormwood Spider King still needs to give you another one million Source Stones."

Dragon Cypress: "Preferably compensation in Divine-Given Origin Force food, any variety, but the more wood element the better."

On hearing this, Silvergrass hesitated instinctively, but after a quick thought, agreed cheerfully: "No problem!"

Silvergrass then said tactfully: "Dragon Cypress Ant King, Lords Seven-Leaf, Melde, and White Ivy are all very concerned about the growth state of the Keteng Divine Seed..."

Dragon Cypress: "The main vine has exceeded a hundred meters. This year I’ll attempt to keep ten flowers, but the timing of fruit ripening is still uncertain for now."

Ten flowers?

"..."

Silvergrass and Red Peach choked, speechless.

Dragon Cypress: "The Keteng Divine Seed follows a pattern of blooming and fruiting every year. So there will be mature fruit every year from now on. Starting next year, I’ll gradually increase the fruit count annually, boosting yields as much as possible without affecting growth and development."

Red Peach: "No rush. Dragon Cypress Ant King, you don’t need to be that anxious."

Silvergrass: "It’s mainly Lord Seven-Leaf; it’s impatient, eager to see what the Divine-Given Keteng Seed looks like."

Whether Seven-Leaf is anxious or not is uncertain.

But, knowing Lord White Ivy and Grass Dragon, those two are definitely impatient.

Dragon Cypress didn’t want to comment further; it curled its claw and said, "Pass me the Source Stones. There’s lots to do this year, let’s get to work quickly."

...

This year’s five million Source Stones: three million hauled back to Xianglan Mountain; two million sent to Snow Cedar Mountain.

After half a month of busy work,

the trade with the Flame Spider Roving Merchants was completed.

Spring is always busy with all sorts of things.

After finishing, they worked day and night to transport Source Stones to Huagi Mountain.

After delivering the stones,

they inspected the orchards at Molan Mountain, Cold Orchid Mountain, Black Lotus Lake, and Southern Sour Jujube Mountain.

Hardly had a few days’ rest, and by high summer, they encountered a severe dry season and rushed to water the newly planted Black Peach saplings...

At the end of summer,

the second batch of Black Peach fruits ripened.

This year’s harvest was abundant—about eighty thousand fruits, eighty thousand peach kernels, and eighty thousand seeds.

They were sent back to Xianglan Mountain for sowing in the coming spring.

...

In early autumn,

the mutated Molan Seeds matured and were harvested in huge amounts.

They were still divided into three parts,

to be sown at Xianglan Mountain, Molan Mountain, and the White Lotus Lake Nursery.

When Dragon Cypress finished handling everything, it set off northward in the utmost haste.

...

Purple Tung Insect Nation.

Ink Orchid and Spruce stood beneath a tree, heads raised, motionless.

Round Cypress, Black Leaf, and Black Birch brought worker ants and soldier ants, forming a large ring beneath the tree.

The Dominating Throne, carrying Yellow Stem, sped toward the tree and landed directly beneath it.

"Linnan Divine Tree!"

Dragon Cypress and Yellow Stem greeted.

"Mm—"

Linnan Divine Tree replied, "You ants do have a knack for timing. If the weather stays good, the fruit will ripen in three days. If it turns rainy, it might get delayed a couple of days."

Dragon Cypress: "Excellent!"

Yellow Stem: "Thank you for your hard work, Linnan Divine Tree!"

"Dragon Cypress! Yellow Stem!"

"Great King!"

"Great King, you’re here!"

The Ink Orchid insects gathered around, all greeting and welcoming them.

After some casual chatting,

Dragon Cypress and Yellow Stem went to pay respects one by one to the five trees: Huagi, Jinhe, Purple Tung, Night Fragrance, and White Poplar.

After making the rounds,

when night fell, they returned to the tree of the Linnan Divine Seed and patiently waited.

Three consecutive days of sunny weather.

On the fourth day, at dawn,

Linnan Divine Tree’s rate of absorbing Origin Force began to rise slowly.

"Wow~"

"It’s starting!"

Ink Orchid, keenly sensitive, woke abruptly from sleep and exclaimed, flapping her wings vigorously to call out, "Dragon Cypress! Dragon Cypress!"

Dragon Cypress was roused by the commotion.

All the insects keeping watch under the tree were woken, their tentacles raised in excitement, holding their breath in anticipation.

Linnan Divine Tree’s absorption of Origin Force intensified, forming a vacuum band of Origin Force around it, which rapidly expanded outward.

The insects retreated step by step.

"Get farther away!"

Linnan Divine Tree snapped in anger.

The insects all dashed away at top speed.

They ran nonstop until they were outside the boundary ditch.

Huagi Divine Tree and Jinhe Divine Tree watched intently from afar.

Jinhe Divine Tree kindly reminded, "By my estimation, the Origin Force vacuum radius is about 2,800 meters, and its impact will cover the entire Land of Origin Force."

——That intense?

The insects turned and fled wildly, running all the way to the White Poplar Divine Seed tree.

An extremely violent Origin Force fluctuation followed, whipping up a storm of Origin Force.

All the sleeping Cypress, White Poplar, along with the soldier ants and blue soldiers, were roused in alarm.

"Dragon Cypress——"

White Poplar hesitated before speaking.

Having been forewarned, it knew the Linnan Divine Tree’s fruit was ripening.

"White Poplar, it’s all right. It won’t affect you."

Dragon Cypress reassured.

"Oh——"

White Poplar couldn’t help but marvel, "That’s amazing!"

Dragon Cypress: "A highly evolved being, after all~ Quite impressive~"

The scale of the commotion was truly beyond imagination.

The Barley Bug Warriors had all awakened, and knowing that it was the Linnan Divine Seed fruit ripening, they rushed from their nests, gathering at the riverbank to watch expectantly.

At dawn,

a ray of golden light shone from the eastern skyline.

Linnan Divine Tree’s frenzied absorption of natural Primordial Force abruptly ceased.

The violent waves of Origin Force quickly calmed.

Is it done?

"Yeah!" Ink Orchid cheered, launching herself airborne, flickering rapidly, vanishing from sight.

Dragon Cypress and Spruce beat their wings at the same time, speeding through the air toward the Linnan Divine Tree.

"Fool!"

"Don’t rush!"

"Little Mantis! Stop! Wait!"

The rushing Ink Orchid was roundly scolded and berated.

Dragon Cypress and Spruce quickly landed and advanced on foot.

Ink Orchid, long inured to scolding, circled the tree three times, landing on the lowest branch.

She stayed perfectly still, staring at the nearby fruits.

The bluish fruit was rapidly changing color, gradually turning ocher, brown, then dark brown, traces of blue-green original energy patterns surfacing on its skin.

The fruit was ripe!

It detached on its own, falling toward the ground.

Ink Orchid flashed, snatching one.

Dragon Cypress and Spruce took flight together, each grabbing one.

Ink Orchid flickered, catching the remaining two.

"Thank you, Linnan Divine Tree!"

"Linnan Divine Tree, you’ve worked hard!"

The divine-grade fruits that granted wood element elemental talent, anticipated for more than a decade, were finally in their grasp.

Dragon Cypress, Ink Orchid, and Spruce were all excited and thanked her joyfully.

Round Cypress, Black Leaf, and Black Birch arrived with their ant hosts, bringing spider silk bags and metal cans.

The two Divine-Grade Kunlan Seeds for trade were sealed in cans, preserved in Bee King Jelly.

The three intended for consumption were each packed in a spider silk bag to be carried away.

Elder Yellow Stem, now less nimble, arrived last.

Dragon Cypress: "Yellow Stem, it’s time to settle up."

Yellow Stem: "You’re taking four Kunlan Seeds in total, for eighteen million Source Stones."

Yellow Stem: "There are still four and a half million Source Stones owed for the Soul-Setting Fruits."

Dragon Cypress: "The Source Stones for the Soul-Setting Fruits will be delivered next year."

Yellow Stem: "The second batch of three Soul-Setting Fruits still has 3.3 million Source Stones outstanding."

Dragon Cypress: "Each year I’ll repay one million in Origin Force Ant Honey. The debt will be cleared quickly."

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid held many Divine-Given Seeds, their annual profits easily reaching two to three million from various sources.

Their debt repayment capacity was beyond dispute.

Yellow Stem tapped his tentacles: "The total is 25.8 million. Nine million in Source Stone cash, the rest—16.8 million—in Origin Force food."

Dragon Cypress: "That’s right."

Yellow Stem tapped his tentacles again: "The accounts are clear, no objections, all done."

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid thanked the Linnan Divine Seed once more, then dashed off toward the royal palace, cheering.