Chapter 1004: Chapter 689: Giant Cypress Truly Is a Genius
Silver Cypress Year 383.
Dragon Cypress successfully condensed the Wood Element Forest Symbiont Divine Mark.
"Azure, I’m done, how about you?"
Dragon Cypress arrived at the shores of Azure Lake at the first opportunity.
"I’m ready too. We can initiate Tree Heart relocation at any time."
Azure replied, already unable to wait.
"Good—"
Dragon Cypress turned his focus and asked, "Purple Tung, Night Fragrance, I’m taking Azure to reside at Molan Mountain, not returning to Rainbow Island easily. So, you two..."
Purple Tung: "Oh..."
Night Fragrance: "Hmm..."
Purple Tung: "A tree cannot be moved easily."
Night Fragrance: "The tropical environment is better, high temperatures and ample sunlight favor plant growth."
Purple Tung: "Dragon Cypress, perhaps you should go first, and when you plan to leave, send me back to the Purple Tung Insect Nation."
"Okay—"
Dragon Cypress asked, "Night Fragrance, how about you? Why don’t you just come with me and Ink Orchid?"
Night Fragrance: "...Let me think about it."
Dragon Cypress: "Hmm. No rush. You have over four hundred years to consider it."
Time was of the essence.
Dragon Cypress didn’t say much more, gathered the insects on the island, and assigned tasks.
The Second King took Red Moonseed, Blue Catalpa, and Snakebark Maple to travel the mainland, so ignore them for now.
Giant Cypress, Rainbow Tea, Black Leaf, and Black Persimmon, commanded an elite Ant Army of 300,000 to guard the island.
Round Cypress, Black Peach, Black Sophora, and Fragrant Cypress stationed in Xianglan Mountain each performed their duties.
Other Insect Clan Warriors, including Tie Bush and Red Mulberry, assisted in scouting, fighting, and daily operations on the island.
Silver Cypress and Rainbow Apricot assembled a Specialized Blue Soldier army of 60,000, ready to depart.
When everything was arranged on Dragon Cypress’s side,
Azure had also completed the condensation of the Tree Heart: a super-sized Tree Heart over half a meter in length, glistening with golden light and nine blue-gold rings.
Cutting remnants, refining with Blue Refinement Bead, storing them into Shanglu Space.
Once everything was in place, the Zhen Beast transformed into a giant ship, breaking the waves out to the sea.
Circumnavigating towards Blue Island, picking up Cypress along the way.
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Over at Molan Mountain, the leaders and deputy leaders of the Wave Tree Bay United Kingdom had long helped dig reservoirs, and build walls and ant nests.
The army arrived, settling directly.
Cypress and Silver Cypress were responsible for routine patrols and defense, while Rainbow Apricot mainly handled logistics.
Azure Tree Heart took root on the mound at the center of the reservoir.
It was late spring, the best weather.
The Blue Refinement Bead, in conjunction with the Primordial Energy stored within God-Level Shining Gold, physical strength, and nutrients, rapidly regrew.
In just three days, it broke through a height of fifty meters.
Two months later, when the reserves of the Blue Refinement Bead and God-Level Shining Gold were exhausted, the tree reached the restored height of 150 meters.
Dragon Cypress also made amiable ties with the various factions of the Wave Tree Bay United Kingdom, settling down peacefully.
He began to focus on studying the Fire System Divine Mark Ability.
In the Natural God System, the second most prevalent are Fire Element plants, with a known quantity of 31 Divine God-Given Seeds across the northern and southern hemispheres, 28 of which endowed with Fire System abilities.
Dragon Cypress himself comprehended few Fire System abilities, but through Divine-Grade Fruit, he gained a wealth of Fire System abilities.
Moreover, among the seven-element, Fire System combat strength is second only to Thunder System.
However, Thunder System abilities are scarce, while Fire System abilities are quite abundant.
Fire System is worth significant development.
The Fire System Soldier Ants were named ’Flame Soldiers.’
Dragon Cypress designed five Divine Mark abilities to be inherited by Flame Soldiers in one go, named: Day Spot, Flame Burst, Thousand Calamities Flame Execution, Thousand-Petal Fire Lotus, Origin Fire Breath.
They include offense and defense.
Featuring melee attacks, ranged attacks, single-target attacks, and area attacks.
Quite comprehensive.
The combat power of specialized Flame Soldiers is certainly not weak.
Dragon Cypress plans to complete this within 50 years.
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Silver Cypress Year 386.
Ghost King Sophora arrived, arranging for Spiked Cypress to use.
As per the exchange agreement, five more seeds will follow, Cypress, Silver Cypress, Black Leaf, Black Birch, Black Persimmon in sequence.
In the same year, the Wangbai Seed from King Cypress also matured for harvest.
This one will be stored and sent to Red Crow Mountain next year.
The mutual exchange entered a consistent track.
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Silver Cypress Year 388.
End of Autumn.
Gale, dust storm.
Four insect figures tread carefully through the sandstorm, gradually approaching.
Ink Orchid, Ghost Fan, Mountain Persimmon, Woodberry.
"Greetings to the Great Leader Dragon Cypress!"
"Ink Orchid, you’re here because...?"
"Did you forget? The Shanglu Fruit is ripening this year! Time to exchange one. The fruit doesn’t store well, and Zhen, Shion, and New Orchid, the three Spider Kings, delivered it to Rainbow Island at the first opportunity."
"Oh—"
Dragon Cypress gave a cold stare.
Ghost Fan, Mountain Persimmon, and Woodberry all remained silent, clearly something was up.
Ink Orchid: "According to the rules, I’ll use it first."
"..."
Dragon Cypress knew it would be like this, said irritably, "Didn’t I say it already? Black Sophora crosses the sea every year to trade with Rednan Mountain, transporting goods is troublesome, let it use it first."
"Did you say that? Oh~ I forgot? Blame you. Remind me in time~"
Ink Orchid felt guilty for two seconds, irritably waving a claw, said: "Then let’s trade every spring, I’ll go with you."
Ink Orchid quickly changed the subject, sighing deeply: "My Shanglu Space is also not great~"
Dragon Cypress asked indifferently: "How big?"
With a flash of the gray-white leaf Divine Mark on her forehead, Ink Orchid said, "About 13 meters square."
"..."
Dragon Cypress said nothing.
—Did you specifically come here just to show off?
By volume, Ink Orchid’s Shanglu Space is over four times that of Dragon Cypress’s.
Isn’t it said that the size of Shanglu Space isn’t related to Primordial Energy Talent?
Non-Flame Spider Roving Merchants, this size is already quite exaggerated.
The Shanglu Spaces of Flame Spider Roving Merchants are large because their race was born mutated under the Shanglu Divine Tree.
At a cost.
Their Life Pouch can only nurture one Life Seed, unable to engage in productive activities.
For insects outside the five merchant sections, it’s challenging to achieve a Shanglu Space exceeding 10 meters in each dimension using a Shanglu Fruit.
Ink Orchid is really...
Dragon Cypress’s gaze swept over Ghost Fan, Mountain Persimmon, and Woodberry, solemnly advising: "Keep an eye on the Second King, never show off the Shanglu Space before outsider insects."
