Astral Ants

Chapter 54 Returning to South Suanzao Mountain
There have been wild fruits ripening intermittently in the mountains. Molan has been looking for them, and Longbai occasionally participates in them, picking up a large number of fresh berries and refining them into ant honey.

I searched twice up and down the mountain, but I didn't get the seed bestowed by God.

Similar to last year, Long Bai first sent Mo Lan and 10 specialized blue ants to the Mo Lan Mountains.

Mo Lan searched for the seeds bestowed by the gods, and picked some wild fruits that were not available in Xianglan Mountain.

Specialized blue ants are refined to brew ant honey.

Cypress returned to the Pandan Mountains and waited for the juniper to be born.

As predicted, half a month later, the giant ant cocoon was split from the inside.

Giant soldier ants!

The light yellow and tender carapace quickly hardens and blackens until the whole body is pitch black.

Body length about 70 cm.

With hooked jaws, a huge head, a slender chest and abdomen, and slender six-legged legs.

The body structure is good at running fast and biting and fighting.

It looks a bit tiger-headed and tiger-brained.

"Juniper?"

Long Bai shook his tentacles, trying to communicate.

"Long Bai."

Juniper directly called out Long Cypress's name.

"Ok?"

Long Bai was taken aback, and asked, "Junbai, do you know your name?"

Juniper: "I know. You called me."

Long Cypress: "The larval stage?"

Juniper: "Yes."

Long Bai suddenly realized that the intelligent chemical ants and giant soldier ants had consciousness at the larval stage.

When juniper was in its larval stage, Long cypress was a bit busy, and the worker ants were taking care of it, so they didn't pay attention.

Long cypress is idle this summer, and often brings larval juniper to the ruling throne to replenish its force, and always brings it with him.

"Have you learned a lot from me?" Long Bai asked.

"No~" Juniper shook its tentacles and said, "You are always sleeping."

Long Bai: "..."

at this time,

Junbai received the message and rushed over.

Juniper immediately said: "It's a juniper! Command the worker ants."

The juniper waved its tentacles at the juniper again, saying, "Juniper, I know you!"

Juncypress was not surprised, and responded: "Congratulations, Juniper, successfully completed the eclosion. From now on, the security of the territory of Xianglan Mountain and the food for the ant nest will be entrusted to you."

Juniper: "I know! I heard you and Cypress discussing..."

The two guys chatted straight away.

Ok.

Save me the trouble of introducing you to each other.

"Juniper, juniper, let's go, let's go for a walk on the mountain and get familiar with the environment."

Cypress shakes its tentacles to call it out of the nest.

……

"This is my first life seed, the dragon cypress tree."

"Second Life Seed, Juniper Tree."

"The third, the juniper tree."

"The fourth, giant cypress tree."

Long Cypress introduced the various life plants in his territory in turn, as well as the precious plant seedlings cultivated in the nursery.

Then take them to the territory of Molan and introduce them all.

Long Bai was not in a hurry to meet up with Mo Lan.

Take the juniper together, stroll up and down the mountain, introduce various plants and animals on the mountain, and let the juniper and juniper get acquainted with each other so that they can work together better in the future.

The juniper is as clever as the juniper, and it can memorize almost everything if it is taught once.

"The two of you guard your home well, perform your duties, and don't quarrel. I will return from this trip in about two months."

Five days later, Long Bai left a word, still using the bamboo tube to bring 10 small worker ants, went down the mountain to bid farewell to Zhanlan, and controlled the throne to fly eastward.

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With the refining ability of blue ants, 10 catties of ripe fruit may not be able to brew half a catty of ant honey.

Molan Mountain,
In the cave, among the 10 specialized blue ants, only 2 had full abdomens.

In the corner is a bag of dried moss chestnuts that have been dried.

Molan is not there.

In autumn, all kinds of fruits are concentrated and mature, so it should be searched outside.

Long Bai glanced at the entrance of the cave, and controlled the throne to rise slowly, hovering at a height of 300 meters.

Not long after, Mo Lan wobbled back with a heavy spider silk bag in her hand.

"Long Bai, you are finally here."

"The persimmons in the forest are all yellow, I'll pick a bag."

"This year's Molan Mountain has been turned over three times by me, and there is still no seed given by God."

As Mo Lan said, she landed vertically on the throne and asked, "Did Juniper come out smoothly?"

"Of course. I was worried that it would fight with the juniper, so I delayed it by two days."

Long Bai explained, opened the spider silk bag and took a look, the egg-shaped oblong persimmon fruit with a length of three to four centimeters was probably caused by the drought, and the fruit was very small.

The hard ones are not yet ripe, so put them in a bag and cover them for a few days.

"Has the ninth leaf of the dragon cypress azure blue god-given seed grown? How old is its fruit?"

"Zhanlan grows fastest in the hot summer. It is already over five meters high, and its tenth leaf is about to unfold. But its fruit development is always very slow, so..."

Long Bai picked up the smallest persimmon fruit from the bag and said, "It's only a fifth of the size of this one, and it won't be ripe until next year at the earliest."

"Then its flower-fruit cycle is two years."

Mo Lan worried: "Luo Li is so stingy, will you lend us the rough stone?"

"Borrow less, it should be fine..."

Long Bai was not sure either.

Luo Li is a qualified old profiteer, but he is not as easy-talking as Bai Wei.

Mo Lan emphasized again: "I've searched here three times, and I've confirmed that there is no god-given seed. Long Bai, let's hurry up and find the place of the original force!"

Long Bai agreed: "Okay. First go to Nan Suanzao Mountain to see the situation."

……

Rest overnight, pack up and set off the next morning.

Fly southwest for half a day, then turn due south, and search along the way.

Cypress has a strong sense of direction.

Eight days later, it made another deflection to the west and arrived at the destination accurately.

Still hot in the south, the scorching sun is in the sky.

Long Bai magnified the ruling throne to the limit, and placed it under the shade of the seed bestowed by the gods of southern jujube.

Molan faces south,

Longbai faces north.

Carrying a spider silk bag each, they flap their wings and fly to search for the seeds bestowed by the gods, and at the same time collect fresh wild fruits.

The weather changes,

On a sunny afternoon, a gust of wind suddenly blew up, blowing the trees in the mountains and forests so that they couldn't straighten their backs, almost falling over.

The sky quickly dimmed, and the dark clouds gathered like billowing thick ink.

Lightning flashes cut through the sky, and thunder rolls in.

Long Bai was worried about being struck by lightning, so he called off work early and returned to the tree bestowed by the God of Nansuanzao.

Not long after, the torrential rain poured down, and Mo Lan crawled back in embarrassment.

The next day, the rain rested.

The blue sky is full of white clouds.

Long Bai and Mo Lan stayed on the ruling throne, looking up at the tree with their heads up.

The rate at which the seed bestowed by the South Suanzao can absorb the force has increased significantly, which is a sign that the fruit of the force is about to ripen!
Staying there until the afternoon and dusk, the surrounding force accelerates to converge towards the seed bestowed by the Southern Suanzao God, and then it is absorbed by the branches and leaves.

After going on for a while, the force around the tree became thinner.

The force of the nearby places is spreading to this side, but the speed is limited.

"Long Bai, isn't there a lot of force stored in the ruling throne? Can you transfer some to it?" Mo Lan was a little worried.

"Let me try……"

Long Bai tried to communicate with the ruling throne, but there was no response, "It should not work."

Long Bai comforted: "It's okay. Mo Lan, don't underestimate the vitality of the wild god-given seed. It will definitely survive, but the quality of the original force fruit is slightly inferior."

"Oh--"

Mo Lan was silent.

Wait quietly.

　Thanks to Ling Fan, Fat Cat and Short Rabbit for their tip.thank you boss!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)