Ant Lord in the Star Realm

Chapter 1056: Chapter 705: Deep Cooperation (2)

Primordial Energy power contracts.

The purple-black patterns covering the tree slowly fade away, taking half a day to completely disappear.

The soul of Night Fragrance synchronously transfers into the Primordial Gemstone.

Next, it will take at least 500 years to slowly absorb and digest the special primordial energy contained within the gemstone that is beneficial for the plant’s evolution and growth.

"Night Fragrance, how do you feel?"

Ink Orchid inquired.

Night Fragrance replied: "Very comfortable, as if soaking in a sea of primordial energy, life sublimating, and the laws of the universe seemingly clear."

——That’s good!

——Isn’t it pretty much as the inherited memories described?

——An incredible primordial treasure.

——It would be great if we could get two more back.

...

The insects were overjoyed, chattering away.

The trees remained silent, exhausted from arguing for two months, and sent envious desires towards the Dragon Cypress through their spiritual power minds.

"Alright. Alright. Fortunately, the first Primordial Gemstone was successfully used. Now that we have the experience, it will be easier in the future."

Dragon Cypress waved its antennae to signal for everyone to be quiet, giving orders: "Military Department Black Persimmon, Rainbow Apricot, Purple Three Leaf take turns to be responsible for the territory’s security and alert work."

"Plant Department Black Peach, Blue Catalpa, Black Rice, Mountain Persimmon, Woodberry, Pueraria, arrange your schedule to care for the Origin Force plants in the territory, each performing their abilities to assist in restoration and growth."

"Ink Orchid takes the lead, other insects, if there’s nothing else, go back to your caves and hibernate to conserve lifespan."

"Understood."

"Got it."

The insects agreed and dispersed one after another.

...

Dragon Cypress cannot hibernate.

Dragon Cypress needs to focus on cultivating the ant colony through the Dominating Throne.

According to the plan,

Logistics: 5,000 in total of large, medium, small, and micro worker ants, and 15,000 large blue ants.

Each: 50,000 large mountain ants and worker ants for land reclamation and farming.

Twisted Blue Star has many pests and they are fierce, it might also take about 50,000 of all sizes of green soldiers to control garden pests.

It requires 100,000 specialized green ants solely for caring for the Origin Force plants.

For combat, train 210,000 specialized blue soldiers, specialized thunder soldiers, and specialized flying ants, with 30,000 in each of the seven major legions initially.

In the future, when breaking through to evolve, we’ll replenish after reaching the Nine Traces Realm.

These ants will require more than a hundred years’ time.

The time spent cultivating the ant colony daily isn’t much, but the troublesome thing is having to operate the Dominating Throne every so often to release pheromones on the ant eggs and larvae in the nest to control their development to designated sizes.

The process is tedious, making hibernation not an option.

Dragon Cypress also opened up a muddy square with a side length of a thousand meters in the flat woodland near Xianglan Mountain, and practiced abilities daily with Tie Bush and Rainbow Mulberry.

...

...

Two months later,

[Time: Year 78-Era 119-Year 870-December]

Green Peach came over.

"Dragon Cypress Ant King, it’s trading month, are you going to check out the trading plaza in District 1001?"

"Of course!"

Dragon Cypress turned and ordered: "Tie Bush, Rainbow Mulberry, go wake up Ink Orchid, Fragrant Cypress, Black Sophora, Ghost Fan, White Rice, and Chinese Clematis. The ones on Plant Department duties are Blue Catalpa and Woodberry, right? Call them too, let’s go check it out together."

"Alright!"

Tie Bush and Rainbow Mulberry left.

Dragon Cypress asked Green Peach: "Where are Chairman White Ivy and Red Peach?"

"Chairman White Ivy and company are busy doing trading business."

Green Peach asked: "Dragon Cypress Ant King, how’s the recovery of the ant colony?"

"Still far from it..."

Dragon Cypress swayed its antennae, saying: "The trades of Origin Force Honey and Bee King Honey, I’m afraid, will not be substantial this year or next."

In the Third Trace Realm, there isn’t much change in micro and small ants, taking 30 to 50 days from ant egg to feather transformation.

But the development time for medium and large ants is significantly longer.

Nearly four months, the medium blue ants Dragon Cypress has been cultivating just hatched.

For large blue ants, the development cycle from egg to adult may extend to seven or eight months.

Based on that proportion, the development time for specialized blue ants may extend to twenty months.

Mass refinement of Origin Force food and brewing of Origin Force honey will be difficult without specialized blue ants.

Green Peach said: "Chairman White Ivy anticipated this early on and isn’t in a hurry for these one or two years, first wants everyone to get familiar with the prices. However, Chairman White Ivy said she hopes to try producing a small batch of Bee King Honey first..."

"That’s no problem!"

Dragon Cypress thought for a moment, nodding its antennae in agreement, asked: "How much Divine-Given Origin Force food trade is Chairman White Ivy currently managing? I heard from Poison Bean that after reaching the Venus Star System, the insects from the Origin Mother Star don’t recognize Chairman White Ivy anymore."

"What Poison Bean said isn’t wrong. Most insects only talk about benefits, not about brotherhood..."

Green Peach paused and continued: "But indeed, some value brotherhood, and with good living conditions and tribe-provided territories, the Insect Clan Warriors sell the Divine-Given Origin Force food produced from their life seed bestowed by gods to Chairman White Ivy. We currently manage the trade of about 80,000 Primordial Crystals of Divine-Given Origin Force food."

Dragon Cypress: "..."

The profit from Divine-Given Origin Force food trades in the Venus Star System is around 10%.

It’s more likely that the profit is less than 10%, and despite working hard for a year, White Ivy might earn less than 8,000 Primordial Crystals...

And that’s with Red Peach and Fish Vine helping, it’s the income for three insects.

That might be less profitable than driving the Star Spider for passengers.

Dragon Cypress and Green Peach chatted while walking and arrived at the foot of Xianglan Mountain, beneath the White Poplar Divine Seed tree.

The other insects gradually arrived.

A Zhen Beast transformed into a hundred-meter-long Ice Centipede, carrying everyone on their journey.

...

...

Nearing North 1001 District, more insects began to appear on the wide main road.

They traveled in groups of three or five, each showcasing their abilities, using metals, earth, wood, ice, and other powers to create carts with cargo holds, loaded with goods, controlled by abilities to rush down the road.

Of course, there were also some wealthy Great Tribes that extravagantly used Star Spiders for hauling.

Continuing forward,

The roads gradually became congested.

Dragon Cypress transformed its Zhen Beast ability into an Imperial Dragonfly form to fly through the air for faster travel.