Astral Cockroach

To ensure safety, two more Butterfly Kings were dispatched from Chiwu Mountain. Named Gardenia and Lilac, their strengths were L4 and L5 Butterfly King respectively, and they were contemporaries of the Leizhu Ghost King.

When a Bug King advances to the ninth instar, they are guided by inherited memories: They only need to transform all their natal plants into a "tree heart" shape before their lifespan expires, store them in their natal pouch, and when the outer stars sense it, they will release divine power to guide them away quietly.

Among the various tribes of the continent, the Bug Kings who are qualified to leave usually agree on a time and travel together around the same time.

According to the Begonia Butterfly King, the most recent batch of departing Bug Kings, which includes the Chiwu Ghost King and the Begonia Butterfly King, will leave in 150 years.

Leizhu and the others will probably have to wait another 400 to 500 years to lead their tribes through the most difficult period of decline before they can leave with peace of mind.

Everyone has plenty of time, and there's much that can be done!

Due to severe leakage of primal force from the underground transmission pipelines, the primal force concentration around the canyon has jumped to about 0.6, and the primal force coverage area has reached a diameter of about 50 kilometers.

The Chi Lian tribe warriors, who are stationed in the canyon year-round, simply manage the Sakura Tree Sea.

A large number of ordinary small cockroaches, and occasionally small warriors, are born.

… …

With four Butterfly Kings with greater strength and higher efficiency guarding the Inheritance Hall to condense primal force beads, Banbu became somewhat lazy over time, and missed the life on Lizhu Peak.

While his strength had not yet improved, he simply sat on Lizhu Peak and enjoyed the comfortable time.

While the number of insect tribe warriors exploded, the number of beast warriors in the Northern Wilderness also exceeded their capacity. The raw stone veins could not support more warriors, so they were driven south and crossed the mountains.

Starting from the Central Region, the situation became more serious year by year, and the prairie fire spread rapidly throughout the continent.

Tens of thousands of beast warriors went south, but they did not act together. Instead, they broke up into smaller groups, scattered and fled, concealed themselves, and waited for an opportunity.

The insect kingdoms became busy, organizing warriors, deploying defenses, patrolling, and encircling… It was indeed a terrible era, and the insect warriors could no longer farm with peace of mind, and entered a state of intense combat readiness.

Every harvest season in summer and autumn is a period of frequent looting events.

Standing at the cosmic level, Banbu was very sure that this was deliberately designed by the insect gods to create disasters. Combat talent is engraved in the genes, but it also requires certain external factors to stimulate awakening, and the guerrilla attacks of the beast warriors in the Northern Wilderness are the best training.

Lizhu Peak was also difficult to escape. For decades, almost every year during the large-scale ripening season of primal force food, warriors' territories were attacked, and it was impossible to defend against.

The entire Chi Lian tribe, and even the entire Fire Lotus Kingdom, was like this.

The most serious time was when nearly a thousand beast warriors crossed the river from the south, quietly approached, and attempted to attack Lizhu Peak. Fortunately, they were detected in time and sniped in advance, and the losses were minimized in a battle.

… …

The beast scourge on the continent finally subsided after nearly a century.

The number of stars in the night sky has been reduced to about 60. Compared with the most prosperous period when the number of stars exceeded 100, it is obvious that the probability of small warriors being born has decreased by about 50%.

After a century, Lizhu County has gradually become a large county with a population of nearly 10,000 insects.

Due to the limitations of primal force food production, most of the tribesmen stopped at the level of advanced warriors, with a short lifespan of 50 years. The older warriors died of old age one after another, and the probability of small warriors being born decreased, and the population growth of the entire tribe began to slow down.

… …

After Hongdao and Duzhu advanced to the Lian King, they rarely participated in the management of the territory. According to Banbu's requirements, they tried to move around and show their faces as little as possible, stayed in their own territory, and grew up with peace of mind.

Nightingale took over Hongdao's position.

The bamboo sea was managed by Dongzhu.

Midsummer, dry season.

Dongzhu carried Baba and flew down in front of Banbu's cave residence.

"Banbu, good news!"

"What's the matter?"

Baba rushed to answer: "God-given seed of divine quality!"

Dongzhu hurriedly said: "Shengyin Mountain, Shenzhu breeding base, a god-given seed was born this year. It looks extraordinary. Baba happened to pass by and asked it to help check and confirm that it is of divine quality."

Banbu asked: "Born by god's gift? Or naturally born?"

Baba replied: "God's gift."

"Oh, I understand."

It's not so rare for a god-given birth.

Banbu gently shook his antennae and said, "Let's go take a look."

Baba took off and landed on top of Banbu's head, and asked, "You don't seem surprised at all?"

"It's something that will happen sooner or later, what's there to be surprised about." Banbu asked back: "Baba, what did you go to Shengyin Mountain for again?"

"Nothing…" Baba said: "There's a silly little warrior who's very interesting, I'm teasing it."

"There's not much time left, try to show your face as little as possible, and gradually dilute the memories of the younger warriors of us…"

"Understood, understood." Baba said reluctantly: "Actually, there's nothing wrong with staying here…"

… …

Shengyin Mountain has always been headed by Shengyin, who leads more than 20 warriors who like bamboo, specializing in cultivating the two bamboo species of Shengyin Bamboo and Leiyin Bamboo.

After 200 years, there has finally been a breakthrough.

In late autumn, the seeds matured and were directly sown during the rainy season, and the site was selected by the lake, close to the Iron Gall Oak Chestnut to accompany each other.

A god-given seed of divine quality with the effect of greatly extending lifespan is enough to ensure the prosperity of Lizhu County in the future.

At this point, Banbu was completely relieved.

… …

At the agreed time.

Chiwu Ghost King, Lotus Mist Ghost King, Begonia Butterfly King, Hibiscus Butterfly King, Spruce Mantis King, and a large number of other familiar old Bug Kings either disappeared silently, or news of their death due to exhaustion of lifespan spread one after another.

Warriors who knew of their existence, whose strength reached the Bug King level, knew a little inside information, and those whose strength did not reach the Bug King level had either exhausted their lifespan or were about to die.

These changes did not cause a major reaction. Everything on the continent remained the same, still calm and peaceful as before.

Especially in winter, it is silent.

In the Orchid Mountains, 300 years have passed since the wreckage crash.

The Blue Frame Mantis King's strength stopped at L1, and he had truly entered old age. He no longer asked about racial affairs and enjoyed his old age in his territory.

Replaced by the newly promoted Mantis King Juniper, who presides over all affairs in Blue Frame County and its related branch mountains.

The Sword Mantis tribe used their earth and stone abilities to attach a thick layer of stone skin to the outside of the wreckage, and then glued a layer of soil to the surface and planted plants.

Looking around, it was a lush green, perfectly concealing the metal wreckage.

Inside the spacecraft, the energy cabin was operating normally.

In the hot summer, there was a cooling system to cool down. In the cold winter, there was a heating system inside the ship, and the temperature inside the ship was always kept constant, like spring all year round. The lights inside the wreckage could provide light.

Therefore, the inside of the ship was also transformed by the Sword Mantis tribe for various agricultural purposes, filled with potted plants, and ditches were built for diversion, forming a closed and unique ecosystem. The mountain warriors lived in it, and in winter, there were still millions of ordinary small Sword Mantises and various insects flying and crawling all over the cabin.

Mantis King Juniper accompanied Banbu.

"Banbu Lian King, what do you need? Just tear it down." Mantis King Juniper shook his antennae generously.

Banbu sent a whole bag of primal force beads, which is 100 million raw stones.

The Sword Mantis tribe is inherently stingy and keeps a close eye on the spaceship wreckage. Foreign warriors are not easily allowed to enter for sightseeing. However, when the money arrives, they become very talkative.

"No need, I just need to tear down a few small things."

The cabin was filled with plants, and Banbu couldn't recognize the road, so he had to unfold his mental power and scan to find it.

After wandering around for a long time, he finally found it following his memory: the electronic entertainment cabin of the Luan-K704 transport spacecraft.

The rotating warriors usually have many ways to relax and entertain, but they are not purely for entertainment. Electronic entertainment can also be regarded as virtual war combat tactics training. By entering an electronic virtual battlefield, they can experience and familiarize themselves with various interstellar wars and improve the warriors' war literacy.

The equipment was basically well preserved.

Banbu checked them one by one and quickly found a small cabin.

"Mantis King Juniper, I need to tear down this cabin and all the equipment in the adjacent cabins."

A row of six small cabins, each with a square box-shaped thing of unknown purpose. The things were not small and took up space. The Sword Mantis tribe had long thought about tearing them down and moving them away, but they didn't have the ability to do so.

Anyway, they couldn't use them themselves, so Mantis King Juniper readily said, "Tear them down!"

These are the data chassis of virtual games, with super-large information storage capabilities. Each one can hold partial information of a galaxy. The things are precious and fragile, so the boxes are embedded in the ship's deck.

Banbu activated his metal ability and began to cut, directly cutting off the box along with the deck.

Those who came with him were all core warriors of Lizhu Peak such as Hongdao, Duzhu, Hongmi, and Huoji. At this time, their strength had all reached the Lian King level, and each carried one back to Lizhu Peak.

… …

Down the mountain in the bamboo forest, next to the position of the divine seed of the Giant Dragon Bamboo, a large open space had been cleared in advance, and a row of houses had been built with earth and stone abilities.

The chassis were transported back and placed in the houses.

A level-one electrical box supplied power, and the equipment started running again.

There was also a set of equipment connected to the bamboo pole of the Giant Dragon Bamboo divine seed.

"Giant Dragon, this is the soul-sensing manipulator that I mentioned to you. The houses are storage devices. Try to connect and communicate with the information database."

After a while, the Giant Dragon Tree Spirit replied briefly: "Yes."

Banbu asked: "Can you understand its information writing principle?"

The Giant Dragon Tree Spirit said: "I have only heard simple theoretical knowledge from Baba, and I need some time to get familiar with it."

"It's okay, we have time." Banbu said: "You can try deleting the data in the instrument first."

The latest and most complete novels are on [six] [9] [book] [ba] [first] [release]!

"I'll try…" The Giant Dragon Tree Spirit changed his words and asked, "Very interesting information, Banbu, is this the starry sky? I'll take a look first."

Banbu said, "More or less. They're all virtual starscapes constructed based on the real universe and digitized data. Of course, the information capacity and processor computing power are limited, so it can only be a very one-sided restoration, with huge differences from the real universe starscape."

In terms of electronic technology, Banbu must admit that his IQ is not enough.

Humans are very wary of electronic life. When Baba was manufactured, restrictions were set to prevent her from touching programming-related matters; otherwise, a built-in self-destruct program would be triggered, destroying all of Baba's data.

The tree spirit of a divine-grade, god-given seed possesses super high intelligence and can handle it. But theoretical knowledge alone is not enough. This set of equipment that Banbu dismantled is specifically for the Dragon Tree Spirit to practice with.

Banbu's requirements are not high; it only needs to reach the level of programming electronic life like Baba.

The news of departure was told to Tiedan Kuili, Jiuye Honglian, and Tata, three divine-grade, god-given seeds. Tiedan Kuili refused to leave, insisting on waiting for the return of the gods. Tata agreed to leave, but its intelligence has not fully recovered, and it is unknown whether completing the third transformation and evolution will bring any improvement.

Jiuye Honglian has been resisting the suppression of divine power, attempting to break through the shackles of life, so naturally, it is willing to follow Banbu. Thus, it became the second helper. After the Dragon Tree Spirit mastered electronic programming, the equipment was moved to the lakeside for Jiuye Honglian to practice and learn.

Time flowed slowly in the silence like water.

Stars in the night sky dimmed one by one.

As expected, by Banbu's 360th year, with the number of stars below 30, the insect population of Lizhu County began to experience negative growth.

By Banbu's 460th year, the last star disappeared, and the night sky was pitch black.

The insect population of Lizhu County plummeted below 10,000 and entered a freefall mode. The number of warriors dying of old age exceeded a hundred each year, while the number of newly born small warriors was only a dozen or so.

When a warrior died of old age, the territory was immediately abandoned. Correspondingly, the tree sea plantations under their care suffered counterattacks and invasions from natural plants, becoming desolate within a few years.

The decrease in the number of warriors corresponded to a reduction in the scale of the tree sea. The results of hundreds of years of effort were gradually reverting to their original state year after year.

Banbu's 500th year.

The number of warriors in Lizhu County rapidly decreased to one thousand. Since they were all County Lord-level and Mountain Lord-level warriors, the rate of decline slowed down somewhat.

The traveling caravans on the continent were also in the same situation. The four major caravans that used to regularly trade with Lizhu County had their warrior numbers reduced. The older generation of warriors aged and died, and eventually, only the Yuzhu and Chonglou King-level caravans remained. Their strength was limited to L1 Spider Kings and would enter a period of decline soon as well. They planned to merge into one, with Xuemai taking charge in the end. With Banbu's support, Xuemai also became the only Flame Spider warrior among all the caravans to continue growing after becoming a Spider King.

The situation of the Chi Lian tribe was also not optimistic. In the Tiedao Mountains, Da'an Mountains, Hongju Mountains, and the original Jinping Mountains, the insect population decreased irreversibly, the tree sea withered and became desolate, and the small warriors born each year began to migrate to the Jinping Mountains.

Warriors from Chuirong County, Huangyang Mountains, and Qinggang Mountains would transfer to Chijian County…

Integrating resources, Lizhu County, Chijian County, Yinxing County, and Youli County, the four major county lands would serve as the last bases for the continuation of the Chi Lian tribe.

In the long, 300-year-long period of dark and lightless decline, weak races would be eliminated and perish. Those powerful major clans would also have a difficult time, having to concentrate resources and cultivate as many County Lord-level warriors as possible to ensure the tribe's inheritance would not be extinguished.

Banbu was born in the early stages of the transition from decline to prosperity, personally experiencing and witnessing the rise and prosperity of the tribe. Now, seeing everything he had built heading towards decline… he only felt that everything was like a fleeting bubble dream, and his heart was without waves.

Having known this earlier, he would have made arrangements earlier, selecting outstanding younger generation warriors and arranging for them to be promoted to Lian Kings. With young Lian Kings and many County Lord warriors, the tribe's inheritance could be guaranteed to be preserved one hundred percent.

Rat King was the second to reach the L9 Beast King level after Banbu.

In the next hundred years, Duzhu, Hongdao, Hongmi, Longzhu, Guanli, Datou, Daxiong, Youcha, and other warriors would all advance to L9 King-level.

He could start preparing.

…

Banbu took Rat King and entered the Star-Piercing Dojo.

"Senior Dulong, the stars in the night sky have completely disappeared, and the Natural True God has fallen into a state of extreme weakness. Can we begin the final preparations?"

"The stars have finally disappeared? We can begin." Dulong asked, "How is the Chiwu Mountain side doing? For the past few hundred years, they have been absorbing the dojo's primordial energy and condensing Primordial Energy Pearls."

"Many Butterfly Kings of Chiwu Mountain have agreed to leave together, but…"

"But what?"

Banbu tilted his head slightly and glanced at the Butterfly Kings who were concentrated on condensing Primordial Energy Pearls in the main hall. He said, "They still don't trust me and are only willing to take away 3 SSS-grade Primordial Energy Plants."

"3 plants?" Dulong couldn't hide his disappointment and asked, "What about the territory you rule? How many do you have now?"

Banbu replied, "There have always been only 2 plants. One is my Life Seed, and the other is Jiuye Honglian, which can condense a tree heart at any time and leave with us."

"Only 5 in total? And one of them is your Life Seed?" Dulong said, "I understand."

Banbu wiggled his antennae and beckoned, "Rat King, go down and follow Senior Dulong to learn star navigation knowledge."

…

With little time remaining, Banbu also stayed in the inheritance hall, following the Butterfly Kings of Chiwu Mountain to condense Primordial Energy Pearls together.

Over three hundred years, they obtained a total of more than 25 million Primordial Energy Pearls, of which 10 million were sent back to the Myriad Races Continent and stored in the tribal territory. In addition, there were 15 million, all hidden in the canyon.

Knowing that the continent's primordial energy would be exhausted in 40,000 years, the two races made another agreement to establish survival bases on both sides of the canyon. Once the Myriad Races Continent showed signs of primordial energy depletion, the tribal warriors and divine-grade, god-given seeds would be transferred here. Relying on the primordial energy slowly dissipating from the Star-Piercing Dojo, they would continue the tribe's inheritance without extinction.

There was a reserve of 30 trillion Primordial Energy Crystals deep underground, and less than 10 trillion had been consumed before and after. Perhaps, they could survive the long 200,000 years and usher in the next primordial energy recovery, waiting for the return of the gods.

Before leaving, all Banbu could do was to store as many Primordial Energy Pearls as possible for the insects and insect grandchildren of the Chi Lian tribe.

…

Time flew by another hundred years.

"Senior Dulong, how is Rat King's learning going?"

"Not bad. After all, it's a primordial energy creature. At least, its memory is not bad and it can handle it."

"Then I can rest assured." Banbu asked, "Senior Dulong, can we start preparing?"

"It's time to leave." Dulong sighed, the sword body turned, and he glanced at the four Butterfly Kings in the inheritance hall. He said, "Clean up all the mess. The inheritance hall is part of the spaceship and is the most important emergency escape pod."

"The escape pod and command pod will sink into the base 2,000 kilometers deep underground and be transported to the coastal base through parallel tracks. There, they will be docked with other cabins to complete the assembly. Sailing in the deep sea, finally, the spaceship will depart from the sea surface. The specific coordinates are 20° east longitude and 20° south latitude. Spaceships in the Southern Hemisphere all depart from there."

"Understood." Banbu asked, "When is a suitable time to agree?"

Dulong asked, "Have the others been prepared? The collection of plant and protoss gene samples."

Banbu said, "Everything is ready, just waiting for your order."

"Then one year later." Dulong said, "Rat King will continue to follow me. It needs to issue several important startup commands."

Banbu replied firmly, "Understood."

"Hurry up and clean up the emergency escape pod." Dulong instructed, taking Rat King and re-entering the command pod.

…

Banbu turned around and beckoned, "Butterfly King Dingxiang, it's time for us to go."

"Are we leaving? That's good too." Butterfly King Dingxiang sighed slightly, "I hope the remaining primordial energy here can guarantee the continuation of our race without extinction."

"It will." Banbu activated his metal ability, throwing away all the primordial energy transmission pipes connected to the inheritance hall. Flapping his pulse wings, he cleaned the ground and beckoned, "The corresponding equipment is about to be activated, let's leave quickly."

The four Butterfly Kings of Dingxiang moved quickly.

They walked out of the inheritance hall and closed the door.

Squeezed in the passage outside the door, watching curiously, half an hour later, the ground vibrated slightly, and then the hall began to sink underground, leaving a large pit with a diameter of 50 meters.

Lying on the edge, looking down, the hall accelerated downwards, and after another half a day, it left a bottomless pit.

Banbu directed Baba to close the Primordial Energy Secret Rooms in each residential building.

After a simple cleanup, they took away most of the warriors gathered in the canyon, leaving only a small part to continue guarding.

At this time, precisely calculating the time, Lizhufeng and Chiwu Mountain had already begun to prepare busily.

Everyone had already collected the most important Life Seed plants into their Life Pouches. With no stars in the sky, there was no way to trigger divine power reception, so they couldn't leave for the time being.

The second most important thing was 12,000 boxes of Primordial Energy Food. It was not appropriate to publicize the departure or mobilize the younger generation of small warriors. They were all personally carried by King-level warriors who had eaten Dragon Bamboo Fruit, walking across the Dragon Bamboo Continent to load onto ships on the coast.

Banbu manipulated a thousand-ton small boat without a power system with his metal ability to navigate, setting off first and arriving at the agreed sea area.