Ant Lord in the Star Realm-Chapter 526 - 505 I want to learn

Knowledge Hall.

Boss Yellow brought Little Rattan, waiting and waiting, but there was no sign of Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid.

Little Rattan couldn’t hold it in first. "Boss Yellow, I’m not afraid of the cold. Are you?"

Boss Yellow: "...Not afraid."

Boss Yellow quickly ran out of the cave, just about to head down the mountain, when the Dominating Throne slowly began to rise, flying toward the peak.

Boss Yellow hurriedly pulled Little Rattan back into the cave.

"Boss Yellow."

"Little Rattan."

Ink Orchid was the first to slip into the cave.

"Rattan. Age 2, intermediate warrior."

Little Rattan proudly raised her tentacle to correct, then retorted, "Mountain Lord Ink Orchid, aren’t you just a Mountain Lord too?"

"...Yeah." Ink Orchid was annoyed.

"Boss Yellow."

"Little Rattan."

Dragon Cypress walked in.

"Rattan!" Little Rattan corrected, then retorted, "Dragon Cypress Ant King, aren’t you just Lord-Level too?"

Dragon Cypress: "Still better than you. Right, Little Rattan?"

Boss Yellow curved his tentacle and patted the still-arguing Little Rattan, asking, "Dragon Cypress, Ink Orchid, what trouble did you run into this time? Didn’t you say you’d need about half a month searching for Divine-Given Seeds in the Thousand Isles?"

Ink Orchid: "Bad luck. I hadn’t finished searching the largest, 400-square-kilometer island when a Lord-Level Jade Dragonfly Warrior showed up out of nowhere..."

Ink Orchid told them in detail about the encounter in the Thousand Isles and the news from Jade Dragonfly Warrior Green Heart.

Then recounted the advice given by Quandong Divine Tree.

Boss Yellow couldn’t say much, so he changed the subject and asked, "So what were you two talking with Quandong Divine Tree about just now? Was that all? Why did it take so long?"

Dragon Cypress: "Quandong Divine Tree was telling us stories."

Little Rattan cut in: "Quandong Divine Tree has endless stories to tell!"

Little Rattan asked again, "What story? Have I heard it before?"

Ink Orchid: "Your Shield Grasshopper Tribe’s ancestor, Mercuries, heard of him?"

Little Rattan: "Never heard of him!"

Ink Orchid: "Let me tell you..."

Ink Orchid then recounted the story he’d just heard as well as the issue about borrowing Source Stones.

After telling the story, they started chatting casually.

After the small talk,

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid got up and bid farewell.

Dragon Cypress called out, "Rattan, come with me to the Purple Tung Insect Nation to find the Huagi Divine Tree."

Little Rattan: "It’s cold."

Dragon Cypress: "Then I’ll take you to Xianglan Mountain for fun. It’s warm there."

Little Rattan: "All ants. Not fun."

Dragon Cypress: "Then how about we go to Scarletlight Mountain to see Little Spiders?"

Little Rattan pointed at the cave mural and said, "No time. I want to study properly."

Dragon Cypress: "There’s a Flame Spider Little Soldier named ’Column Spotted’ coming for the trade next spring. I’ll introduce you."

Little Rattan hesitated, a little tempted.

This little one had stuck to Boss Yellow’s head like glue, barely ever moving, from two or three centimeters long all the way to the current twenty or thirty centimeters.

Inseparable. Even eating, Boss Yellow had to feed her.

Dragon Cypress couldn’t help but say a few more words, "Boss Yellow, you can’t spoil Rattan like this. You should train her to survive on her own."

Ink Orchid agreed, "Yeah. Yeah. When Dragon Cypress and I were Junior Warriors, we already started living independently."

Boss Yellow: "That’s because you didn’t have elders. You had no choice but to be independent."

"..."

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid fell silent.

Boss Yellow: "On Huagi Mountain, we have a mature system for training Little Warriors. In the primary and intermediate stages, elders take care of them and teach various knowledge. At the high-level stage, they go to Linnan Divine Tree for combat training and start managing their own territory independently."

Dragon Cypress: "That was during the Origin Force Era on Huagi Mountain. Back then, each ridge had many Insect Clan Warriors, interacting daily, and young warriors could play together."

Dragon Cypress: "Now it’s different. Huagi Mountain is just an Origin Force Isolated Island among endless mountains. No other Insect Clan Warriors to socialize with. Same for Purple Tung Insect Nation—only Barley Bug Warriors left. Boss Yellow, you should let Rattan get out, meet other insects, make some friends."

"That does make sense~" Boss Yellow hesitated.

Dragon Cypress called, "Rattan, come with me, I’ll take you to Kiwifruit Mountain to play with Blue Catalpa and Snakebark Maple."

Little Rattan: "Not fun!"

Dragon Cypress: "..."

Dragon Cypress was helpless, and said, "Then, next spring, I’ll pick you up and take you to Xianglan Mountain for evolution, then introduce you to Flame Spider Roving Merchants and meet Little Flame Spider Column Spotted."

Little Rattan: "Thank you, Dragon Cypress Ant King."

Dragon Cypress: "Rattan, what knowledge are you learning?"

Little Rattan: "The knowledge recorded in the Knowledge Treasury."

...

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid left.

Together they headed to Purple Tung Insect Nation to settle for a long stay.

Through the winter,

The sixth and seventh Green Soldiers Legion, total 2700 green soldiers, finally brought up to quota.

Next is to train the eighth and ninth Blue Soldiers Legions, and another Soldier Ant Legion made up of Lord-Level Specialized Soldier Ants and Large Soldier Ants.

The new Lord-Level sixth to tenth legions fill in for the former Mountain Lord Level (first to fifth) legions.

...

In early spring, as wintersweet blossoms opened,

At dusk,

The Dominating Throne carried Ink Orchid, with Rattan lying on her head, racing into Xianglan Mountain.

"Rattan, let me introduce you to Northern Gorgon, good?"

"Okay—"

Ink Orchid spread her wings, gave a little kick and lifted off, gliding down toward the Northern Gorgon Water Reservoir.

"Ink Orchid, be careful!"

Dragon Cypress warned solemnly, then alone piloted the Dominating Throne over the ridges and down toward the South Mountain’s Azure Blue Reservoir.

After Evolution Lord, the Deep Blue God-Given Seed grew the fastest, the trunk now over 160 meters tall. The lowest and biggest trumpet-shaped broad leaves were nearly 50 meters across, the primary veins each over half a meter thick, and even the relatively thin smaller veins were over ten centimeters, the color a deep, rich blue-purple.

On the lower ten broad leaves, here and there, fruits dangled from the veins.

Last year, after flowering, thinning the blooms and fruit to keep an even 10,000, they’d now grown to the size of mung beans.

At Lord-Level, Deep Blue’s trunk will definitely surpass 200 meters, and during peak fruit season, each batch might yield up to 15,000 fruits.

Super Divine Seed.

These days, Deep Blue’s fruits are King Level now.

Dragon Cypress estimated that the price for each fruit should be upwards of 60 Source Stones.

Each blossom-fruit cycle is about five years.

At Lord-Level, the Deep Blue God-Given Seed can bring in yearly profits of 180,000 Source Stones—about three times the income of the Mountain Lord Level days, a substantial increase.

Dragon Cypress’s most profitable evolution among all God-Given Life Seeds actually isn’t Deep Blue, but that fellow Southern Gorgon.

Southern Gorgon and Northern Gorgon are quintuple split clones.

Dragon Cypress estimated: after reaching Lord-Level, the profits from Southern Gorgon God-Given Seed are roughly five times those of the Mountain Lord Level, about 110,000 Source Stones.

Other God-Given Life Seeds had differing increases, generally about two to two and a half times more than at Mountain Lord Level.

Projected rough incomes:

Red Cypress: about 350,000 per year;

Black Yellow: about 100,000 per year;

Little Wild Chestnut: about 80,000 per year;

Round Leaf Keg Vine: about 380,000 per year;

Thunder Oak, low-yield, maybe 120,000 per year; 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Two Kings Ink Orchid doesn’t cut it, maybe only 40,000 per year;

North Elm is tall and burly, fruit-laden, could yield up to 140,000 per year;

Purple Poppet is so-so, perhaps only 80,000 per year.

And there’s the Divine Grade White Poplar Divine Seed, known to earn a consistent annual 420,000 Source Stones.

And the numerous Common Life Seed plants, all together bringing in about 200,000 Source Stones annually.

After reaching Lord-Level Evolution, Dragon Cypress’s current Life Seed plants can bring in about 2.2 to 2.25 million Source Stones per year.

For a Lord in Age 1, evolving to Age 2, if you subsist only on common Origin Force Food, it costs only 2 million Source Stones.

Dragon Cypress earns more from his territory in a single year than needed.

Even if he only ate Divine-Given Origin Force Food, the income would still be more than enough to get stuffed.

Under Dragon Cypress’s command, all the Assistant Kings have grown picky—only evolving with Ant King Honey now.

...

"Dragon Cypress—"

Deep Blue and Black Yellow called out in greeting.

Southern Gorgon’s spiritual power also reached out, chiming in first: "No need to ask, the Black Peach No. 2 seeds we sowed this year—all weak seedlings."

Deep Blue: "Too few seeds were sent back to Xianglan Mountain."

Black Yellow: "Dragon Cypress, can you get more seeds? Or expand the planting of Black Peach No. 2."

The Origin Force Land planting Black Peach No. 2 was home to Black Cory, Black Leaf, and Black Peach—they could handle it all, but yes, only a few seeds ever made it back each year.

Dragon Cypress: "We’re just entering the peak fruiting period, no rush. Let’s watch for two more years. If it still doesn’t work out, I’ll consider transforming Red Cypress Mountain and Cicada Orchid Mountain..."

Spiked Cypress, Fragrant Cypress, and Silver Cypress were on their way, rushing here. Dragon Cypress waited for them to arrive, discussed things simply, and then set off alone to check on Ink Orchid Mountain.