Ant Lord in the Star Realm-Chapter 559 - 538: Pricing

Purple Tung Insect Nation rested for a night.

On the morning of the next day, the Dominating Throne set off with Black Peach.

"Great King, are we heading to Huagi Mountain?"

"What are we going to Huagi Mountain for?"

"Quandong Divine Tree is also a very wise, ancient divine tree."

"Not going."

"Then my eyes..."

"Didn’t Linnan Divine Tree already give four specific solutions?"

"It sounds like a lot, but, Great King, none of them can directly solve the problem."

"Huagi Divine Tree said if the seal’s power can’t be broken, then there’s no one in the Origin Force Star Realm who can break it."

"I understand. But, Great King, perhaps Quandong Divine Tree can help by coming up with a couple more ideas."

"Cut the nonsense. It’s just two blind eyes, why all the fuss? Don’t you still have your tentacles, spiritual power, and Heavenly Eye? The Ant Clan has the strongest sense of smell and perception."

"I... Great King, it’s not the same, I can’t see anymore."

"It’s temporary, what are you so anxious about."

...

Losing the ability to see, Black Peach couldn’t precisely command the ant colony in performing any slightly intricate task.

This was equivalent to crippling an omnipotent Assistant King who’d been painstakingly cultivated.

Dragon Cypress was also irritated.

Now, on the Cloud Trace Continent, they were constantly increasing the scale of mutant Silver Cypress Tree cultivation, and with the kingdom’s development, they were about to open up land on the Wanglan Continent—it was exactly the time they needed more Command Ants.

Just eating a divine-grade fruit, and ended up with an accident...

Who could have expected this...

"Black Peach, don’t you like to slack off? From now on, just stay at White Lotus Lake or Molan Mountain, take care of the Divine-Given Seed, and also look after the Silver Cypress No.2’s seedling cultivation and selection. You don’t need to be involved in other work anymore."

"Great King, I’m a diligent ant. Labor brings me happiness."

"Mm. Good. Next spring, during the deal with the Flame Spider Roving Merchant, I’ll inquire to see if there are any divine-grade fruits that grant wood element visual abilities."

"Understood. Great King..."

"I’ll send you to Molan Mountain. Focus on assisting Senior Orchid Mantis’s growth."

...

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...

The new year’s spring.

All of Molan’s Life Seed plants paused in blossoming and fruiting, accumulating force to break through to Lord-Level.

Glinting Gold stayed with Great King Molan’s Divine-Given Seed. This year, they would intensify the use of Flourish and Tranquility abilities, make heavy use of Divine-Given Remains, invest another 300,000 Source Stones, and help Senior Orchid Mantis grow with all their strength—while accumulating force to break through, they’d also store as much primordial energy and nutrients as possible in Glinting Gold.

Later, when evolving to Evolution Lord Level, try to use Source Stones instead of tapping Glinting Gold’s inner power. After smoothly evolving to Evolution Lord Level, use Glinting Gold’s reserves, immediately complete the growth of offshoots, and blossom and bear fruit as soon as possible.

This was a very cost-effective operation.

The divine-grade Molan Seeds produced by Senior Orchid Mantis are valuable—delay a year less, and that’s over a million more Source Stones in earnings.

...

Spring blossomed and flowers bloomed.

Rednan Mountain, Trade Cave.

Red Peach, Heliotrope, Column Spotted arrived on time.

They exchanged greetings,

Column Spotted’s gaze locked on the Spider Silk Bag personally carried by Dragon Cypress, and he asked in delight, "Dragon Cypress Ant King, did the divine-grade Molan Seeds get harvested successfully?"

Dragon Cypress replied solemnly, "Of course!"

That tone...

Red Peach, Heliotrope, and Column Spotted all felt a jolt in their hearts.

Column Spotted: "Does it grant a vision-type ability?"

Dragon Cypress: "Of course—"

Column Spotted: "Can you be a bit more specific?"

Dragon Cypress tilted his head slightly, looking to Black Peach beside him.

Red Peach, Heliotrope, and Column Spotted all looked over in unison, and at the same time noticed the bright green leaf-shaped primordial energy imprint covering Black Peach’s eyes.

Red Peach, who had the highest level of spiritual power evolution, swept the area with her senses, exclaiming in shock, "Wood element primordial energy power above King-Level? Luoli Grass? How did you get that? Where did it come from?"

Heliotrope and Column Spotted were also shocked.

Black Peach said gloomily, "I was almost screwed over by the Great King..."

Dragon Cypress flicked his tentacles, giving a warning tap.

Black Peach: "Divine-grade Molan Seed grants an especially powerful vision-type ability—officially named ’Scorching’. Specifically, you activate primordial energy to form a..."

Selling high-value divine-grade fruit requires providing detailed and accurate information—that’s basic trading principle.

Black Peach described the usage and characteristics of the ’Scorching’ ability in great detail, and recounted how Dragon Cypress had forced him to look at the sun and the moon—his tragic ordeal.

The matter on the moon wasn’t suitable for wild rumors, but the Flame Spider Caravan had to be informed.

Black Peach finished speaking.

Red Peach, Heliotrope, and Column Spotted were dumbfounded.

Dragon Cypress sternly warned, "The existence of highly-evolved Round Purple Flame Spider warriors on the moon can be told to the other members of the caravan, and to old Spider Kings like Aconite and Spurge, but don’t let it spread among other Flame Spider Caravans, and especially don’t tell any other Insect Clans outside the Flame Spiders."

Dragon Cypress: "Be careful, or you’ll bring disaster upon yourselves."

Dragon Cypress: "The divine-grade Molan Seeds will only be sold to those 8th or 9th age King-Level Insect Kings who are about to leave. Remind Lord White Ivy that when selling or introducing the ability, only mention that the ability cannot be used to peer at the moon, or the Natural True God will seal their eyes—no more details."

Dragon Cypress: "With this heaven-defying reconnaissance ability, I don’t think there’s any need to worry about not selling it, or selling it for sky-high prices. Red Peach, don’t you agree?"

Red Peach: "...Yes."

Red Peach: "Dragon Cypress Ant King, the pricing of the divine-grade Molan Seeds is..."

Dragon Cypress: "Identified by the three Divine Trees—Huagi, Linnan, Quandong—as being on par with the Soul-Setting Fruit, each with their own strengths. The price is 5 million Source Stones apiece—a very fair price."

Red Peach’s tentacles shook frantically side to side, "It’s not the same! Dragon Cypress Ant King, the Soul-Setting Fruit is soul-based, but the Molan Seed is only vision-type—they aren’t on the same level."

Normally, vision abilities are categorized as special ability system, and 3 million is the ceiling for the price.

Dragon Cypress replied briefly, "This isn’t just any ordinary vision ability."

Black Peach, with the most say, took over and said, "How big is the Outworld? Infinitely big! How far can light travel? Immeasurably far. How far can the Scorching ability see? As far as light can travel!"

Black Peach: "This is an ability whose real use is only unlocked after you leave the Origin Force Star Realm—super practical, with unlimited growth potential for a vision ability."

Black Peach: "Five million is a friends’ price. Those who get it don’t need any more explanation; those who know, understand already. You caravan folk could sell it at 6, 7, 8 million—there’ll always be insects eager to buy. If you go dark and sell it for ten million, maybe some Insect King desperate for it will snap it up."

"Ten million?"

Red Peach jumped, "Dragon Cypress Ant King, the divine-grade fruit’s price—the most critical thing is the attribute type. Vision-type abilities, the ceiling is 3 million. We can buy for 3 million, sell for 3.5 to 4 million—that’s basically the market. You know it as well as I do after all these years trading."

Dragon Cypress corrected, "The key to pricing a divine-grade fruit with ability is practicality and growth potential, only then comes attribute category."

Dragon Cypress swung his tentacles, tapping Black Peach’s eyes, "That’s a heaven-defying ability so scary even highly-evolved Flame Spider Warriors on the moon had to seal it. Selling for 5 million is already the lowest price."

Dragon Cypress: "This way, for the first sample, don’t price it yet—just try selling it yourselves. My only requirement: sell it for over 6 million Source Stones. If you can’t sell it, fine, give it back. If it doesn’t sell for a long time and the primordial energy leaks or degrades, that’s fine—the loss is on me."

Dragon Cypress: "If you manage to sell it smoothly, we’ll settle accounts next year."

Red Peach: "..."

Red Peach had nothing to say.

Column Spotted chimed in, "No problem! Thank you, Dragon Cypress Ant King." 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Heliotrope raised a claw, carefully inquiring, "Dragon Cypress Ant King, what about allocation? How do we distribute the shares?"

Dragon Cypress: "White Ivy and Luoli Caravans get three shares. Spider King Spurge gets one. Wormwood Spider King gets one. Seven-Leaf Lord gets one as well."

Heliotrope: "Each batch produces twelve..."

Dragon Cypress: "If my calculations are correct, a Lord-Level’s blossom-fruit cycle lasts 35 years, so it’s early yet. The remaining six shares, we’ll divide 35 years from now. Molan and I might reserve two or three shares for after King-Level, to exchange for other divine-grade fruits that grant abilities."

—Understood!

Red Peach, Heliotrope, and Column Spotted agreed.

Dragon Cypress handed over the Spider Silk Bag.

Red Peach took it, checked inside, and quickly closed the lid, "Everything’s fine!"

Column Spotted: "Thank you, Dragon Cypress Ant King!"

Black Peach hurriedly reminded, "Great King, there’s another particularly important thing, don’t forget."

Column Spotted asked, "Dragon Cypress Ant King, what else is there?"

Dragon Cypress: "What else could it be? Black Peach’s eyes can’t stay sealed like this forever, right? Wasting my resources every day and doing nothing—that won’t do. We still need to figure out how to break those two wood element powers. Red Peach, Heliotrope, ask the Spider Kings for help when you get back—see if there are any divine-grade fruits that grant wood element vision abilities."

Red Peach: "Understood."

Heliotrope: "Got it."

Column Spotted: "Wise Wood Eye!"

Black Peach’s tentacles trembled upon hearing it, "Wise Wood Eye?"

Column Spotted: "I heard it’s a wood element vision-type ability that Lord White Ivy awakened by comprehending a wood element talent himself."

Black Peach: "Uh..."

Dragon Cypress: "..."

Dragon Cypress: "If Insect Clan warriors can comprehend it, that means nature might also produce divine-grade fruit that grants similar abilities. Ask around. We can pay a high price or exchange other divine-grade fruits."

Red Peach, Heliotrope, and Column Spotted agreed again.

With the most important matters concluded, Dragon Cypress signaled for the annual Divine-Given Origin Force Food transaction to be completed first, and urged Red Peach, Heliotrope, and Column Spotted to hurry back and report the situation.