Ant Lord in the Star Realm-Chapter 556 - 535: Infinity

The autumn wind was gentle, the sky high and the clouds thin.

In the morning,

On the hill, a group of insects lay together, bored out of their minds, silently staring into space.

Great King Molan suddenly sent a message with spiritual power, "Molan, my fruit is probably about to ripen."

"Huh?"

"Oh!"

Molan jumped up excitedly, beat her wings, and announced with uplifted tentacles, "Senior Orchid Mantis’ fruit is about to mature!"

—Finally!

—Is it today?

—Awesome!

The creatures jumped up, cheering and hopping with joy.

Black Peach: Lying next to the Great King makes my whole body uncomfortable, finally I can be free!

Black Peach bounced the most, tapping with her tentacles, sending four Flourish Ability blasts at Senior Orchid Mantis’ offshoots: Go, Senior Orchid Mantis!

"Quiet! Quiet! Quiet!"

Dragon Cypress scolded, then piloted the Dominating Throne off the ground, floating low, and approached Great King Molan’s Divine-Given Seed mother plant.

Getting closer, he checked—the twelve offshoots around the mother plant, each with a fruit brimming with surging Primordial Energy, slowly undergoing quality change, and the speed at which they absorbed Origin Force was rising fast.

The nearby offshoots were also absorbing Origin Force faster.

"It’s begun already!"

Dragon Cypress: "Molan, remind Senior Orchid Mantis again, don’t hold back. If there’s not enough Primordial Energy, use Glinting Gold right away. Make sure the Origin Force Vacuum range is within the offshoots’ roots. If it gets out of control, have Senior Orchid Mantis tell you, then pass it on to me, and I’ll order to use Source Stone."

Molan: "Okay!"

Dragon Cypress waved his tentacles to give more orders.

A thousand medium and large Green Ants and Worker Ants, thirty thousand Source Stones, were spread out next to the offshoots, ready to act.

Dragon Cypress guided the Dominating Throne slowly upward, hovering thirty meters in the air, perching on the edge, and watched from above.

The Divine-Grade Fruit’s quality change became more intense, and Origin Force consumption kept ramping up.

The surge quickly spread to all the offshoots, their absorption of Origin Force shooting up.

With the mother plant at the center, an Origin Force Vacuum Land began to form.

The vacuum zone expanded quickly.

Soon,

The range of the Origin Force Vacuum covered all the offshoots’ rooting spots, forming a powerful Primordial Energy vortex that spread across the whole Land of Origin Force.

Senior Orchid Mantis followed instructions and began drawing on the Primordial Energy stored in Glinting Gold.

Close to noon,

Senior Orchid Mantis sent a wave of anxious mind.

No need for Molan to translate, Dragon Cypress shook his tentacles and gave the order.

The Assistant Kings commanded—one thousand Green Ants and Worker Ants together bit Source Stones with their Mandible Tooth, releasing Origin Force.

In an instant, the pure Origin Force of a thousand Source Stones exploded, suppressing the expanding Origin Force Vacuum Land.

Again and again, thirty thousand Source Stones were thrown in.

The range of the Origin Force Vacuum began to shrink.

Dragon Cypress shook his tentacles and ordered: Slow down.

The Green Ants and Worker Ants slowed their pace, breaking Source Stones at a steady rate, steadily releasing Origin Force.

After a while,

Altogether, a hundred thousand Source Stones were consumed. The Divine-Grade Fruit’s Primordial Energy Quality Change—its most energy-demanding phase—passed smoothly.

Dragon Cypress gave the next order: Stop!

Great King Molan’s Divine-Given Seed gradually slowed its absorption of Origin Force.

The Origin Force Vacuum area shrank circle after circle.

By mid-afternoon, things calmed down.

The Dominating Throne slowly descended, hovering at fifteen meters, as Dragon Cypress and Molan perched on its edge, heads down, closely observing.

In the sunlight,

Yellow spots appeared at the tip of the dark green fruit pod, spreading rapidly, soon covering the entire fruit pod.

With the yellow spreading, the fruit pod turned an earthy yellow and split naturally with a crack.

—It’s done!

Dragon Cypress shook his tentacles.

Twelve medium-sized Green Ants, already waiting nearby, quickly climbed up the offshoots, biting through with mandible teeth, picking the fruit off.

The Dominating Throne zipped over to the very top of the hill.

The twelve Green Ants each carried a Divine-Grade Molan Seed, trotting forward.

Dragon Cypress took one, peeled off the pod, and inside was a spindle-shaped seed, about eleven centimeters, brownish yellow with black-purple Primordial Energy.

Primordial Energy was overflowing—one seed could boost as much as fifty thousand Source Stones’ worth of regular Origin Force Food.

A dry fruit, but with a rather thin seed coat.

"Be careful."

Dragon Cypress warned.

The creatures all held their breath.

Fragrant Cypress presented a metal can, the bottom lined with a layer of Ant King Jelly.

Dragon Cypress carefully placed the Divine-Grade Molan Seed inside, gently waving his tentacles, and instantly, ten small Blue Ants crawled up, gathered at the can’s mouth, and poured in Ant King Jelly.

The small Blue Ants took turns,

After a few rounds, the can was full of Ant King Jelly, submerging the Divine-Grade Molan Seed completely.

Screwed the lid on tight.

The sealing process was complete.

Dragon Cypress: "Fragrant Cypress, keep this one safe. Next spring, send it to the Flame Spider Caravan as a sample."

Fragrant Cypress: "Yes, Great King!"

Dragon Cypress: "Black Peach, you take one to a branch nest and eat it."

Black Peach: "Brilliant, Great King!"

Dragon Cypress: "As for the remaining ten, just package them up in Origin Force Ant Honey. All Assistant Kings, each take one. Return to Xianglan Mountain, take turns eating them, I’ll help you absorb them on the Dominating Throne."

Fragrant Cypress: "Understand. Great King!"

Molan: "What about Tie Bush?"

Dragon Cypress: "When the next batch of Divine-Grade Molan Seeds ripen, Tie Bush will get one too."

Tie Bush said, enviously but happily, "Thank you, Great King. Thank you, Second King."

...

The Dominating Throne was placed at the branch nest.

Black Peach took a Divine-Grade Molan Seed, hopped onto the throne, and began absorbing Primordial Energy.

The other ants busied themselves cleaning up Source Stones, tilling and watering Great King Molan’s soil, and loosening and fertilizing the roots for all the other Divine-Given Seeds rooted at Molan Mountain.

After the aftermath was simply cleared up, everyone waited outside the branch nest entrance.

After three days,

Black Peach finished digesting the Divine-Grade Molan Seed.

Dragon Cypress went back and forth three times, ferrying everyone back to Xianglan Mountain.

Black Peach steadily ate Ant King Honey, drank and rested well, preparing for Evolution.

The other Assistant Kings took turns getting on the Dominating Throne to eat their Divine-Grade Molan Seeds.

After the ants of Xianglan Mountain finished, Dragon Cypress took three more seeds to the Purple Tung Insect Nation, arranging for Round Cypress, Giant Cypress, and Cypress to use them.

When he returned to Xianglan Mountain again, Black Peach was ready, hopped right onto the throne, got settled, and by evening had fallen into a deep sleep.

Four days later,

Morning,

Black Peach woke from sleep, shed her old shell, her new carapace quickly hardening, and she crawled out of the cave herself.

"Great King, Second King, I’m ready!"

"You’ve mastered the ability?"

"I have!"

"Details."

"It’s the eyes! Visual ability! Feels like a super powerful ability that costs a huge amount of Primordial Energy and stamina. I need to recover some energy first."

"Super powerful? Are you sure?"

"Not sure... Feels amazing... But I’ll have to test it to know."

Molan jumped around excitedly, "Quick! Quick! Quick! Dragon Cypress! Fragrant Cypress! Silver Cypress! Don’t just stand there, get food! Bring food!"

Fragrant Cypress delivered two cans of Ant Honey.

Silver Cypress led soldiers out to the forest to hunt fresh meat.

Black Peach scurried out of the cave, sprawled on the ridge, eating while sunbathing, replenishing physical energy with sunlight.

Spiked Cypress, Black Cory, Black Leaf, Black Birch and a bunch of ants rushed over upon hearing, eagerly awaiting the ability test.

By noon, Black Peach was mostly recovered and stood up, "Great King! Second King! I’m ready!"

"Hurry up!"

Dragon Cypress urged.

"Right away!"

"Great King, Second King, this ability seems to be seeing really far away. The higher I stand, the farther I can see, so I need to stand higher."

Black Peach looked around, quickly ran up a distant peak, climbed to the top, and focused on looking into the distance.

Molan, Dragon Cypress, and a crowd of ants followed.

Black Peach was full of spirit, "Great King, Second King, I’m going to activate the ability now!"

"Hurry up!" Molan was getting impatient.

"Get on with it!" Dragon Cypress also snapped, raising his tentacles as if he was going to hit her.

Black Peach: "Tell Spiked Cypress to get away from me! Why are you so close? You’re messing up my ability."

Spiked Cypress: "..."

"Alright! You’re asking for it! I’ll finish you later!"

Spiked Cypress backed off with slow steps.

"Oh, I’m so scared~"

Black Peach didn’t care, focused all her attention, eyes locked on the distance, Primordial Energy gathered, and the three black Heavenly Eyes on her forehead began to shine with violet-blue light as Primordial Energy spread out to form an oval concave barrier over twenty meters long.

The violet-black Primordial Energy Barrier started catching the light from afar.

It lasted only two or three seconds—Black Peach seemed exhausted, her upright tentacles drooping, and the Primordial Energy Barrier collapsed.

"Great King, Second King, this ability lets me see really far away, and very clearly—down to the tiniest detail. I saw far, far away, even spotted little ants on the ground."

Is that amazing?

It’s just a farsighted ability. Doesn’t sound all that impressive.

Molan: "How far can you see?"

Black Peach lifted her front foot triumphantly, "Infinitely far!"

Molan: "..."

Molan: "How far is infinitely far?"

Black Peach: "Theoretically, infinitely far means no matter how far away it is, I can see it."

Molan: "???"

Black Peach glanced around and found even the Great King was looking confused, so she explained in detail:

"This ability can be split into three parts. First, gathering light information from the entire area. Second, filtering out just what I want to see. Third, organizing all the gathered light into a high-def picture right before my eyes."

Black Peach: "This ability is really intense—it burns through Primordial Energy and stamina frighteningly fast. I could only keep it going for two or three seconds at a time."

Black Peach: "You can use Origin Force Food that strengthens your eyes, brain, and overall physique to boost it. The ability has a lot of potential—the plane range for collecting light, the breadth of light, amount of information, and duration can all be improved."

Black Peach looked over and found Second King even more confused, making her own head ache. She kept explaining:

"Everything in the world is always releasing and reflecting light. Some we can see, some we can’t. But all this light contains information about the state of the thing. We use our eyes to catch and analyze that light—that’s how we know what we’re looking at."

Black Peach, still worried, added, "Light is the most direct representation of information about the state of matter."

"Oh——"

"I think I get it——"

Molan was about to lose it: Stupid ant, what are you even talking about?

Molan snapped, "Black Peach, just tell me—is this ability awesome or not, is it valuable, and how much is it worth?"

"Super awesome! Super valuable..."

Black Peach, speechless, helplessly looked at Dragon Cypress: Great King, help me~

This guy Black Peach had picked up a lot of high-level knowledge in the Huagi Knowledge Hall.

Dragon Cypress called out, "Black Peach, eat something, rest a bit, get on the Dominating Throne and I’ll take you into the sky to try it out."