Ant Lord in the Star Realm-Chapter 547 - 526 It’s All One’s Own Doing

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Early winter.

White Ivy, Melde, and their group followed the Revolve Spider King Caravan, returning to their tribe’s territory.

"Red Peach, Lupine, Grass Dragon, Silvergrass, you handle the trade. Column Spotted, go help out and don’t wander off."

The team’s rotating leader, White Ivy, assigned the tasks.

"Yes!"

"Alright!"

"Understood!"

The group answered crisply.

White Ivy: "Melde, don’t just stand there like a fool, come with me!"

Melde: "..."

Melde: "Let’s see how I’ll deal with you next year."

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The whole group came over to Spider King Spurge.

"Spider King Spurge!"

Melde greeted, untying the spider silk rope that secured the goods on his carapace, digging out a small spider silk bag from the bottom and respectfully handed it forward.

Melde said politely, "Spider King Spurge, this is Moon Peach Fruit, please keep it for us."

"Hmm—"

Spider King Spurge accepted it, then looked over at White Ivy.

White Ivy: "My most most MOST respected Spider King Spurge..."

White Ivy: "I traded away one Moon Peach Fruit, priced at two million Source Stones, and exchanged it at the buy-in price from Revolve Spider King for two million pieces of ultra-high-quality Metal System Divine-Given Origin Force Food."

Two million Divine-Given Origin Force Food, if the quality is good enough, could fetch a price of 2.5 to 2.8 million.

Tracing it back, the original cost was 1.8 million.

The profit is close to one million.

The key is,

they also sold one Insect Situation to Revolve Spider King.

Moreover, on Cloud Trace Continent, Dragon Cypress Ant King will soon need Metal System Divine-Given Origin Force Food.

A big profit while pleasing both sides.

Deals as shrewd as this—White Ivy definitely couldn’t have pulled it off herself...

Spider King Spurge responded indifferently, "Not bad—"

Just "not bad"?

White Ivy lowered her spiritual mind and said, "Spider King Spurge, there’s a super-lucrative big deal, do you want in?"

Spider King Spurge: "No."

White Ivy lowered her spiritual mind again and said, "A Divine-Grade Fruit with Fire Element Talent has been found! And the trade has already been agreed upon."

"!!!"

Spider King Spurge perked up, then grew suspicious: So many veteran Spider Kings searched in vain, and this dumb spider managed to find it?

White Ivy: "I need three Soul-Setting Fruits..."

Spider King Spurge: "???"

White Ivy: "I can trade you Kunlun Seeds for them."

"Hold on!"

Spider King Spurge interrupted, asking, "How did you arrange this trade? That Divine-Grade Fruit with Fire Element Talent—how many are you looking to exchange for? Three? Are you planning to eat one yourself?"

White Ivy: "No, no, I can’t afford it, really can’t. Too hard to trade. Unknown Great Tribe, unknown name, they don’t reveal themselves at all. I also handled it with other Insect Kings acting as intermediaries, helping swap..."

White Ivy: "Once this deal is done, I’ll have a share of three Divine-Grade Molan Seeds."

Really?

Spider King Spurge was skeptical.

But also... it made sense.

If the quota of Divine-Grade Molan Seeds is secured, losing a few Source Stones is no big deal.

Spider King Spurge said unhappily, "You’re snagging all the Divine-Grade Molan Seeds, so what about me? And you want to use my stuff to trade. White Ivy, you’re getting sneakier! You’re taking my goods and competing with me for Divine-Grade Fruit shares?"

White Ivy: "There’s compensation..."

White Ivy turned her tone, aggrieved, "A Divine-Grade Molan Seed only gives some kind of visual power, worth maybe one million tops, not even as good as a Youlian Seed—Old Spider King Spurge, you really want something like that and compete with your juniors?"

Spider King Spurge: "Spare me the nonsense. I don’t have a junior like you."

White Ivy: "You’ll always be the one White Ivy respects most most most!"

White Ivy came straight to the point: "Spider King Spurge, how about this: I’ll trade you 3 Kunlun Seeds for 3 Soul-Setting Fruits, and give you an extra Moon Peach Fruit."

Spider King Spurge indifferently: "Not enough—"

White Ivy: "3 Kunlun Seeds for 3 Soul-Setting Fruits, plus a Night Fragrance Fruit and a Spotted Embrace Fruit."

Spider King Spurge: "3 Kunlun Seeds, 3 Night Fragrance Fruits, 3 Spotted Embrace Fruits, packaged into 3 sets and we’re good."

"Melde, let’s go, let’s find that old Undead, Aconite Spider King."

White Ivy turned to leave.

Melde quickly smoothed things out: "Spider King Spurge, White Ivy was always dumb, don’t tease her. She can’t speak right, don’t be mad with her, we’re all spiders here—talking about compensation is like treating each other as outsiders, that’s rude. Is Spider King Spurge the type who takes advantage of juniors? White Ivy, apologize..."

At first listen, it sounded like scolding White Ivy~

Spider King Spurge grew wary, annoyed: You clever bastards! Did you script it all in advance to trick me?

Spider King Spurge waved his claw irritably to chase them off, "No deal. Go to that old Undead Aconite if you want!"

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All over the mountain, flowers are blooming.

It’s trading season again with the Flame Spider Roving Merchants.

White Ivy and the Melde Caravan delivered the very first Moon Peach Fruit.

Ink Orchid used it, regaining youth and vitality.

Good news—the Divine-Grade Fruit with Fire Element Talent was found.

But they don’t even know the name?

If White Ivy says she doesn’t know, then she really doesn’t know.

Don’t even know the name, yet managed to broker the deal?

Unbelievable move.

Asked for details, but Red Peach and Column Spotted refused to talk.

Dragon Cypress couldn’t figure it out, nor did he bother to ask further, just cared about results—if the goods are delivered, that’s enough.

Nothing else to worry about.

The second batch of 100,000 Silver Cypress No.1 seedlings, cultivated by Azure, were maturing in succession.

There’s also a third batch of 100,000...

Transplanting work was in full swing.

It didn’t finish until early summer.

Molan Mountain had 150,000 after two rounds of selection and elimination, keeping just 50,000 strong seedlings.

Southern Sour Jujube Mountain had 80,000, to continue next year...

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The 2,000 Specialized Green Ants at Southern Sour Jujube Mountain finished breeding.

Dragon Cypress switched to residing permanently at Molan Mountain, first assigning 200 ants to Great King Molan, then Thunder Oak, Junior Orchid, North Elm, Purple Poppet, Zihuang Peach in turn.

Time passed swiftly,

and it was spring of a new year again.

Just like last year,

Azure, in three batches with bud cultivation technique, trained 300,000 Silver Cypress No.1 seedlings.

Dragon Cypress delivered them.

Fragrant Cypress and Black Leaf directed the ant swarms to dig and transplant.

Southern Sour Jujube Mountain and Cold Orchid Mountain each got 150,000 planted; Black Lotus Lake got 80,000.

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Another year flashed by.

After two years,

Black Cory, Black Birch, and Black Peach finished reclaiming Hulan Mountain, Red Cypress Mountain, and Cicada Orchid Mountain respectively.

Black Birch went back to Purple Tung Insect Nation to help Round Cypress.

Black Cory and Black Peach headed out to cultivate wasteland at Xuelan Mountain and Banlan Mountain respectively.

Meanwhile,

in the new spring,

Great King Molan’s fourth time fruit expansion—the pod length reached 11 centimeters. Molan, with Tie Bush, rested on Molan Mountain.

Dragon Cypress, along with Fragrant Cypress and Black Leaf, kept transplanting 150,000 each to White Lotus Lake and Jianlan Plain.

The mother Silver Cypress No.1 transplanted from Hulan Mountain grew over 4 meters tall and bloomed in the spring.

In autumn, they harvested a batch of seeds.

Not many, only about 500. These were split in half: one batch kept at Xianglan Mountain where Azure directed the ant teams to sow and cultivate seedlings, one batch sent to Purple Tung Insect Nation for Round Cypress to handle.

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Another two years flew by.

Black Cory and Black Peach finished cultivation at Xuelan Mountain and Banlan Mountain.

The first Silver Cypress No.1 seedlings planted on Molan Mountain and Southern Sour Jujube Mountain had grown three to four meters tall and started to flower and fruit, yielding three million Cypress Seeds.

Black Peach returned to Molan Mountain; Black Cory returned to Black Lotus Lake, establishing special nurseries for high-density seed sowing, letting the seedlings compete, weeding out weak ones in the first internal round.

Once seedlings reached a certain height, ant selection followed, picking the strongest plants.

Dragon Cypress bustled up and down the mountains, delivering quality nursery seedlings to Purple Tung Insect Nation, Xuelan Mountain, and Banlan Mountain.

Only now did the breeding of Silver Cypress No.1 enter a proper cycle.

The total planted area reached about 100 square kilometers.

In another five years, when the nursery seedlings in Purple Tung Insect Nation, Xuelan Mountain, and Banlan Mountain matured, flowered, and fruited, the collected Cypress Seeds could be sent back south to Molan Mountain, Southern Sour Jujube Mountain, Xianglan Mountain, and Black Lotus Lake.

Still using high-density nursery cultivation, picking the strong, culling the old Silver Cypress No.1 trees grown from early bud-propagated seedlings.

From then on, it would be annual repetition: gather Cypress Seeds, sow at nurseries, multiple rounds of selection—pick out the best, eliminate weak adult cypress trees.

An ongoing, unbroken cycle.

Until a better mutant appears, or after generations a superior descendant emerges that could trigger Natural Godsend.

They could also keep at it, cultivating more Silver Cypress Divine-Given Seeds.

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Ivy chose one Silver Cypress No.1 seed as her Life Seed and planted it in Purple Tung Insect Nation.

The first batch of Silver Cypress No.1 Origin Force Cypress Seeds was harvested, its enhancement effect confirmed unmutated and still in the body-optimization category.

Dragon Cypress’s confidence soared.

Silver Cypress originally came from Silver Cypress Mountain in the Mountain Persimmon Territory.

Mountain Persimmon had no idea of its value—it was Dragon Cypress who discovered it.

If Silver Cypress itself doesn’t count as Dragon Cypress’s original, Silver Cypress No.1 definitely does.

This was a top-level plant species discovered and bred by Dragon Cypress himself. The strengthening effect is unparalleled.

Dragon Cypress gave it unprecedented attention, pouring all the Xianglan Mountain Kingdom’s resources and effort into its cultivation.