Astral Ant Tribe

This spring has been busy.

During the day, Longbai transported fruit seedlings from Xianglan Mountain to South Jujube Mountain and Hanlan Mountain. At night, he returned to Molan Mountain to rest and take care of the God-given seeds of Leigang Quercus.

Heiti is responsible for directing the worker ants to plant.

By the time I finished my work, it was already early summer.

…

Molan Mountain.

Two large green ants emerged on the same day.

Long Bai led them to the Leigang Oak tree planted by God.

"Longbai!"

The god-given seed of Leigang Oak noticed it, called out to him affectionately, and asked: "Long Bai, are you finished?"

Long Bai: "No. There are a lot of things happening this year."

"Where's Heiti? I haven't seen him for a long time."

"Heiti is also very busy. He is taking care of the spade seedlings in Nanzizao Mountain."

"oh--"

"I may not be able to come here for a long time. I sent Xiangbai here to take care of you."

"OK--"

Lei Gang's attention was attracted by two large green ants and asked: "Longbai, can they also release the ability of 'prosperity'?"

"Yes! I just brought them here to test them."

Long Bai said, shaking his tentacles to give instructions.

A large green ant stepped forward and locked onto the trunk of the Leigang oak. It gathered its tentacles with its original energy and activated its 'prosperity' ability.

Unsurprisingly, the 'prosperity' ability displayed by the large green ants is one level better than that of the large green soldiers.

However, it is still not ideal, only one-fiftieth of the intensity used by Long Bai.

After one use, the force was exhausted and symptoms of weakness appeared.

——Not quite.

Long Bai waved his tentacles and gave instructions.

The second large green ant stepped forward and used its 'Prosperity' ability on the Leigang Oak.

Pretty much the same situation.

"Long Bai...is that it?"

Lei Gang was a little confused.

It has grown into a small tree over six meters tall and is beginning to take shape.

I felt the power of two large green ants, but I didn't seem to feel anything.

This weak ability is insignificant to today's God-given Leigang Oak.

"Lei Gang, these are large green ants, and their abilities are indeed a bit weak. It's okay. In two or three months, the special green ants will be born. According to my guess, the special green ants can use their 'prosperity' ability to be about as powerful as me." One-twentieth of the power, only 20 specialized green ants need to take turns to use it, just like me. What if it's 100, or 1,000? Lei Gang, think about it. The ants win with numbers."

"I know. But..."

Lei Gang: "It takes a lot of energy for them to use this ability and they need to supplement their food."

Long Bai: "Need to supplement meat."

Lei Gang: "I remember you said that food limits the size of the ant kingdom."

Lei Gang should be the second smartest god-given seed in Long Bai's name, after Zhan Lan.

The other gods-given seeds only urged Long Bai to cultivate more wood-type ants.

But Lei Gang, who had just awakened his soul consciousness for a month, already understood that he could not feed more ants without enough food.

Long Bai was very happy and said: "That's right. Due to food restrictions, I can't cultivate too many specialized green ants."

Long Bai: "However, it's not a big problem. I will train a large number of young soldiers later, expand to the south along the divine barrier, and expand the kingdom's hunting range."

Lei Gang: "Why green soldiers? Can't blue ants do it?"

Long Bai: "In a few years, the Flame Spider Caravan will also send a divine fruit called 'Thousand Layer Fruit', which will give a wood-type ability called 'Forest Symbiosis'. Similar to plants, it can pass through Light obtains energy and synthesizes nutrients needed by the body.”

Long Bai: "Based on the rules, this ability can most likely be passed on to green soldiers and green ants. If it's just hunting in the jungle, green soldiers can save more food than blue soldiers."

Long Bai: "Similarly, for easy and effortless tasks such as killing pests in orchards and pruning fruit branches, it is better to use green ants and green soldiers of medium and small size."

Lei Gang: "I understand."

Lei Gang drew inferences and said: "Long Bai, if you gain one or two more wood attack abilities and pass them on to the green soldiers, then the green soldiers can replace the blue soldiers and become the main fighting ants in the ant country."

Long Bai: "That's right!"

Long Bai: "The idea is beautiful, but I won't know the details until I get the Melaleuca fruit and eat it."

Lei Gang: "Judging from the rules, it will definitely work!"

Lei Gang asked again in a casual manner: "Long Bai, is it summer now? Is the dry season you mentioned coming?"

Long Bai: "It's early summer now, it's not too hot yet..."

Lei Gang liked to communicate very much and kept chatting until late at night. He stopped only when he was exhausted and fell into a deep sleep.

…

Long Bai stayed in Molan Mountain and rested for five days before returning to Xianglan Mountain, where he took Xiang Bai over and took care of Lei Gang's god-given seeds.

Long Bai himself rushed to Cedar Mountain and began to transport the rough stones to Citi Mountain.

Currently, the Dominion Throne can transport 60,000 rough stones when fully loaded, but due to capacity restrictions, it can only transport up to 60,000.

Two trips a day, 120,000.

A total of 4.5 million rough stones were produced and it took a full 38 days.

Midsummer dry season.

The cedars return to Fanglan Mountain.

Long Bai traveled between Molan Mountain and Hanlan Mountain, busy in both places.

…

Late summer.

The third batch of spades is harvested.

The first batch of spade trees to be transplanted have entered the fruit-rich period, and this year the harvest was quite fruitful, with the number of seeds exceeding 300,000.

…

Early autumn.

After more than half a year of development, the specialized green ant larvae finally spin cocoons one after another and emerge.

The actual test results are consistent with the predictions. The 'prosperity' ability is only one-twentieth of the strength of Long Bai. After two consecutive uses, the Force will be exhausted. You need to eat meat to replenish nutrition and rest for a day to return to full strength.

I really can't raise too many dragon cypresses, so I form a team of 5. First, arrange a team for each god-given seed. It's interesting.

…

Mid-Autumn Festival.

Harvested when the seeds of the modified Orchid vulgaris are mature.

The seeds are dried in the sun and divided into three parts, sown in Xianglan Mountain, Molan Mountain and Heilian Lake respectively.

Finished

Long Bai went to Ghost Fan Mountain, picked up Ghost Fan, and set off north together.

Passing by Citi Mountain, we picked up Huang Ke on the way.

…

As soon as the Ruler Throne entered the Purple Lime Worm Kingdom, Mo Lan came up to greet him.

"Long cypress! Ghost fan! Huang skewer!"

Mo Lan circled around the throne, flying simultaneously on the left side, but stopped talking.

"Cymbidium."

Ghost Fan responded and asked with some urgency: "Are the fruits of the seed given by Jin He ripe?"

Mo Lan: "No. The golden myrobalan tree was not in its peak state when it first revived, so it was delayed a bit. The ripening time of the golden myrobalan tree was delayed by one month, and it was in late autumn."

Huang Ya tilted his head and stared at Long Bai: The work on the mountain is not finished yet! Send it back to me.

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai: "Huang Zhan is getting old, so he should stay in the Purple Lime Worm Country for a month's rest. Ghost Fan will replace Yun Shan. Yun Shan will go back to work in Citi Mountain."

This arrangement is not impossible~

Huang Ya tapped his tentacles in agreement.

The ruling throne accelerated and headed straight for the seed given by Jin He.

meet and greet,

Long Bai waved his tentacles and unleashed two 'prosperity' abilities.

Jin He: "Little ant, don't show off your weak and pitiful wood-type abilities, just scratch your itch."

Long Bai: "It is light on etiquette but heavy on affection. The seed given by God Jinhe represents my respect and concern for you."

Jin He: "Hypocritical ant, are you concerned about Jin He? You hope to mature soon."

Long Bai: "That's Huang Ya. I mean it sincerely."

Huang Ya immediately said: "Jin He's god-given seed, I will stay here to chat with you. There is still some finishing work in Citi Mountain. Let's go back to the spruce..."

Jin He: "You are so boring, you katydid. I have nothing to talk about with you. This ant would be the same."

The old Jinhe tree is very good at pulling jokes.

Long Bai stayed, chatted with it for a while, walked on foot, visited Lin Nan, Hua Qi, Ye Xiang, Zi Lin, and finally came to the tree planted by the god of Bai Bai.

"Long Bai——"

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Bai Bo took the initiative to say hello.

"Barberry."

Long Bai greeted, approached the main trunk, activated the prosperity ability, connected the tentacles, and fired four consecutive shots.

He looked up.

The six white barberry fruits on the tree have gone through four rounds of fruit expansion and have completed their final shape.

The fruit is oval in shape, with sharp ends, green skin and white lines, and is about 7 cm in length.

In about 3 years, the first batch of divine white barberry fruits will be ready for harvest.

"Long Bai——"

Bai Bo called out, "I heard that they discovered my mutant kin?"

Long Bai: "???"

Barberry: "Giant cypress, juniper, black leaves, black birch, and mochi."

Long Bai: "Your kindred? Barberry tree?"

Bai Bo: "Yes."

Long Bai: "!!!"

Long Bai looked around, "Where is it?"

Bai Bo: "I don't know——"

Bai Bo: "I heard them discuss it again, don't tell the other insects yet, and we'll discuss it later when you come over."

Long Bai suddenly realized that when they met just now, Mo Lan came over excitedly and wanted to say something, but after seeing Huang Ya, he didn't say it.

This must be it.

Ju Bai, Mo Lan and Gui Fan, who had just arrived, were all captured by the Linnan Sacred Tree for training.

Juniper, black leaves, and black birch are busy harvesting in autumn.

"very good."

Long Bai asked: "Where are Baibai, Juniper and the others probably busy?"

Bai Qi: "To the east? I listened to them chatting. They seem to be harvesting pine cones in the past few days."

Bai Bo doesn't like to talk...

What about quietly eavesdropping?

"Okay. I'll be right back."

Long Bai flapped his wings and took off, speeding away.