Ant Lord in the Star Realm-Chapter 682 - 584: The Invitation of the Snow Velvet Spider King

The Dominating Throne dived beneath the sea, taking a roundabout path south, far away from the islands.

Dragon Cypress put away the Dominating Throne and, together with Ink Orchid, walked on the water.

Jacaranda saw Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid.

Thick clouds hung low, morphing into a giant butterfly that stretched across the sea.

"Hey!"

"Ant! Mantis! Long time no see!"

"Jacaranda, long time no see!"

"Haha, caught you two at last!"

"Jacaranda, you're a Butterfly King now?!"

Ink Orchid was shocked.

"No shit!"

Jacaranda snapped, sending out a wave of spiritual power, and announced viciously, "Don't move! This is a robbery! You're being kidnapped!"

"No! The ant's kidnapped, the mantis goes back to find Ant King Sisal and tell him to bring ten million Source Stones to Fire Wheel Island to ransom the insect."

Ink Orchid: "..."

Dragon Cypress sounded unhappy, "Jacaranda, are you looking down on me? Ten million? Isn't that a bit too little?"

Jacaranda froze, then asked irritably, "Then what do you think you're worth?"

Dragon Cypress: "At least a billion, right?"

Ink Orchid: "A billion isn't enough either! The Divine-Grade Fruit I just ate was worth more than fifty million alone."

"Get serious!"

Jacaranda felt insulted and snarled, "This is a hold up! Believe it or not, I'll off the worthless one first!"

"We believe you—"

Ink Orchid pointed her claw at Dragon Cypress, "He's relatively cheaper."

Jacaranda was furious, but couldn't help blurting, "Enough messing with me. Like I haven't seen Divine-Grade Fruit? Hmph! Fifty million? Do you two little Lord-Level insects even know what that means?"

Ink Orchid: "Want to see what fifty million Divine-Grade Fruit's power looks like?"

Jacaranda didn't answer. The giant butterfly formed from cloud mist quivered its wings, sending out countless normal-sized little butterflies, flapping toward Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid in a swarm.

Ink Orchid shrank back and swung her claw, shouting, "Dragon Cypress! Charge!"

Dragon Cypress: "..."

Dragon Cypress activated his Soul-Setting Ability, locking on Jacaranda's position in the cloud mist. His antennae stood straight, then bent, slowly taking aim as Soul System Primordial Energy gathered.

Soul Seal!

The fluttering horde of butterflies froze midair.

The giant butterfly spanning the sea lost control and began to sink slowly downward.

Ink Orchid leaped into the air. Wind and Water Dual System Primordial Energy surged into both her wings. She gave a mighty flap, sending forth a gust of eerie, bone-chilling wind.

Whoosh~la~la~

Over the sea, butterflies great and small shattered and dissolved, scattered and carried away by the winds.

Jacaranda's form tumbled out.

"???"

Jacaranda flapped his wings, stood up on the sea, then snapped out of it, looking around confusedly.

"Wow!"

"Yellow Stem Ant King!"

"Lord Bayonet!"

"So that's the new ability you two spent fifty million on? Awesome!"

Jacaranda squirmed his antennae awkwardly, happily saying, "Congrats, congrats, using a soul system ability to take down an Insect King above your level! So strong, definitely worth the fifty million!"

Jacaranda: "I was just messing with you, don't take it seriously. Alright, let's talk business..."

"..."

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid stared on coldly, unmoved.

"I really was joking just now."

Jacaranda lifted a claw and pointed west, toward the Forest Beard Bee Kingdom, saying:

"Wave Tree Bay and Blue Island are at war again, Forest Beard Bees have sent their armies to fight, suffered huge losses, and lost control over the islands once more. I figured you'd surely come wandering by, so I waited here for you."

Jacaranda: "The intel you gave last time was spot on! News just came—Mountain Ant King and Red Maple Dragonfly King have already left Origin Force Star Realm. Their Leader spots have been filled by Mountain Pepper Ant King and Dark Maple Dragonfly King."

Jacaranda: "I also heard the One Fruit, Two Fruits, and Three Fruit Bee Queens will be leaving soon too. I wanted to ask if you have any info—who are the three Insect Kings replacing them as Leaders? Any word on that?"

Ink Orchid: "No idea."

Dragon Cypress: "Nope."

Ink Orchid joked, "Jacaranda, tell me, how much could a Butterfly King fetch in Source Stones?"

Jacaranda: "Not even worth a single Source Stone!"

Ink Orchid tilted her head, glaring coldly. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Jacaranda hurriedly said, "I've never tasted a Divine-Grade Fruit, and I don't have any valuable Divine-Given Seed either. I'm the poorest butterfly on the entire continent, just a pathetic insect with no one to rely on. There's no way Volcano Ant King would ever pay ransom for me. If I got kidnapped today, tomorrow he'd wipe out my whole Life Seed."

"..."

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid were speechless again.

Call him dumb, and he really is.

But when begging for his life at a dead end, his mind works fast as lightning.

"Alright, enough fooling around, let's talk properly."

Dragon Cypress asked seriously: "Jacaranda, you used to hang with the ants, how are you this poor?"

Jacaranda: "Poor. Dead poor. Just barely managed to get to King-Level."

Dragon Cypress: "Don't tell me you don't even have a single Divine-Given Seed?"

Ink Orchid reminded: "Don't lie. We can tell. If you lie we'll take it as you're worth a lot, you get me?"

Jacaranda: "..."

Jacaranda: "Four... but they're just ones Volcano Ant King didn't want and tossed to me. Evolution King Level, make maybe a hundred thousand, two or three hundred thousand a year at most—those bottom-of-the-barrel Divine-Given Seed."

Dragon Cypress: "Volcano Ant King has a lot of Divine-Given Seed?"

Jacaranda: "...not really."

Jacaranda hesitated, then said, "Volcano Ant King only started collecting Divine-Given Seeds after evolving into Insect King. With every Age Period Evolution, he has to nurture a Divine-Given Seed as his Life Seed. Once you become Insect King, you have enough time to collect them, but sadly there aren't many Life Seed slots left, so a few get tossed to me as rejects."

A perfectly reasonable explanation.

Seeing Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid relax a bit, Jacaranda hurried back to the main topic: "Fire Wheel Kingdom and Volcano Ant King are pretty well-known on Wanglan Continent. Just last year, the One Fruit Bee Queen, Butterfly King Jacaranda, and Mountain Pepper Ant King all visited Fire Wheel Island together. They talked big, analyzed the situation from every angle, and in the end, Volcano Ant King agreed to take part in the Wave Tree Bay and Blue Island war, promising that every battle from then on, Fire Wheel Island would send at least one Assistant King and fifty thousand Soldier Ants to join the fight."