Astral Ants

In the deep crater of the impact meteorite, a long string of gun shadows cleared a path, and brown-red streams of light shot out, defeating the high-energy beam attack that followed.

The sharp and brutal energy surges,
Shi Xia instantly crossed a distance of more than 100 kilometers and attacked the Ten-Colored Flower Mantis in a straight line. As he got closer, he jumped and turned irregularly to avoid the attack and fought in close combat.

The ten-colored mantis glowed brightly.

The surrounding material mass, the orchid grass moved without wind, swaying left and right, the pale flames jumped and burned fiercely, and infinite energy gathered towards the ten-colored flower mantis.

Not only does Shi Xia possess tyrannical strength, his speed is also as fast as a beam of light. He flies up and down around the ten-colored mantis with a wingspan of forty to fifty kilometers. The shadows of swords, guns, and shields are continuous and he attacks violently.

While the Ten-Colored Flower Mantis tried its best to resist, it gathered energy and stared quickly. The phantom turned into a solid entity, with a snow-white shell, ten-color energy patterns, energy power flowing, and colorful light shining.

The battle reached a stalemate.
Shi Xia fought with all his strength, but was unable to penetrate the defense of the Ten-Colored Mantis.

The ten-colored mantis was bloated and clumsy, and could do nothing to the stone machete that was close to it.

The battle turned into a pure show of strength.

Shek Kip obviously suffered a loss.

The Ten-Colored Mantis is burning and extracting material energy within a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers, transforming it into its own energy for battle.

And every movement of Shi Xia consumes a large amount of his own energy.

Shi Xia was also aware of this and tried it countless times, making sure it was impeccable. He decisively dodged, withdrew from the battle, fled in a zigzag line, escaped from the Daylight Sea in one breath, went straight up, and hovered in space a million kilometers above.

"..."

Molan was very depressed and cursed the damn ant a thousand times in her heart.

Too pit!
Wang Baizi's trade to the Gui Locust tribe warriors was a disaster.

These guys have become monsters that cannot be defeated or killed.

Close combat,

There is a move that can kill Shi Xia instantly, but it is only one move, and that is the ultimate move reserved for Bixue Longli. Once it is revealed, the opponent will be prepared and it will not work. In the end, it is hard to say who will win the first place in the competition with Bixue Longli.

Now the situation,

Shi Xia realized that he was at a disadvantage in fighting in a material environment, so he hovered in the space area and refused to come down. At the same time, he was absorbing the Force to restore the energy consumed in the fierce battle.

Molan controlled the ten-colored mantis, emerged from the sea of ​​daylight, stepped on the pale flames, and looked up.

In the material environment, with endless combat materials and energy, Molan was unwilling to leave the Daylight Sea to fight.

Neither side was willing to suffer any loss, so they activated their visual abilities and confronted each other, observing each other from a distance of millions of kilometers.

one day later,

Molan gave in.

Remove the pale flame and stop burning matter to absorb energy.

Shek Kip's energy was restored to perfection, and he remained motionless.

Another day later,

Molan removed the Ten-Colored Flower Mantis and the Big Molan, revealing her true form.

Shixia still refused to come down, and his meaning was very clear: no external force allowed, they had to fight in the space environment.

"Then let's die together~"

Molan turned around and plunged into the depths of the Daylight Sea, wandering aimlessly and leisurely, searching over large meteorites and asteroids.

After searching for two or three days,
Mo Lan's eyes lit up, and she gently waved her tentacles. The meteorite beneath her body disintegrated, and four bright white, flat, round crystals with light yellow ripples flew up and hovered in front of her eyes.

Carefully inject a wisp of the Force.

The crystal burst out with light and heat like the sun.

Sunstone!
A first-level light gem with many uses, for example, it is needed in the precision components of certain technological creations, large-scale survival motherships and star fortress ecosystems, dimensional world living spaces, as well as high-end star spiders and starships, and lighting equipment that simulates daylight.

It has a wide range of uses but is in small quantities. Compared to other first-grade gemstones, its price is several times more expensive and can be sold for tens of thousands of raw crystals per piece.

"Sure enough, there is something missing!"

"Get rich!"

The star-spot on Molan's forehead glowed faintly, and he happily put it into Shanglu's space. After thinking for a while, his body turned into a stream of light and flew towards the central area with the highest concentration of the Force in the Daylight Sea. He stopped at a large planet and began to search carefully.

It was harvested once before the Daylight Sea Arena Battle began.

But it seems that it was not picked clean.

Half a day later,

Molan hovered in a group of tiny meteorites, scanning back and forth with his mental power, his eyes brightening and his tentacles wagging.

Meteorites shattered,

Two teardrop-shaped, crystal clear, sparkling amber crystals flew out.

The light chalcedony that can only be produced by the Daylight Sea!
It is still a first-level energy crystal.

Zerg warriors who have awakened their light talents can absorb and enhance their light abilities.

Molan bent its tentacles and stuck to the gem. Star spots flickered on its forehead as it extracted the gem's power and absorbed and digested it.

It'll be over soon.

He turned around, locked his eyes on the meteorite cluster not far away, and stepped forward, exerting his mental power as much as possible, while silently sensing the fluctuations of original energy, and searching carefully...

After a while, another discovery was made.

A piece of meteorite shattered, and seven amber teardrop-shaped crystals floated out one after another.

Molan flapped her wings and cheered loudly.

Suddenly I remembered what the Dusk Tree said earlier, "Improve at the speed of light in battle"...

——So this is what you mean!

——You should have said it earlier!

——There was still time at that time. I had dug earlier and made progress earlier. Isn’t it successful now?
Molan muttered, opened her mouth and took the two gems into her stomach, absorbing and digesting them while searching.

Shi Xia: “…”

audience:"……"

At present, Molan is fighting in the material environment of the Daylight Sea, and has an absolute advantage. But if they enter the space environment to fight, they will lose the environmental advantage, and Molan may be helpless, and may not even be able to defeat the great leader of Shixia.

Neither side would budge.

It is obvious that they intend to last the entire 30-day period and strive for a lose-lose outcome.

The Second King is worthy of being the Second King.

No waste of time.

but,

Could you be a little more reserved?
I'm just lucky enough to dig up a few gems, but I'm so happy.

Seven or eighty billion Zerg warriors are watching.

It's really embarrassing~
The insects in Xianglan Mountain were extremely speechless.

Fortunately, Molan was smart and changed her name to Eleven Colors, so no one knew what the connection was with the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce.

...

Not surprisingly,

When the 30 days were up, two beams of green light flashed from the depths of the Daylight Sea. The terrifying energy directly evaporated Molan and Shixia.

These two guys wasted everyone's month.

Hurry up and play the fourth game.
[Cloud Pattern Tiger Armor Warrior Yunxiang] - Battle - [Silk Horn Red Firefly Warrior Zhangya]

This time it should be a normal match.

The Silk-Horned Red Firefly warrior Zhan Ya was much stronger and the outcome of the fight was decided in just a few minutes.

Then the fifth game,
The sixth game,
Game 7...

The purple flame spider warrior Guangyan, who ranked fifth on the list given by the Tree of Knowledge, finally appeared. However, the Zerg warrior who fought against him was not strong enough, and the battle ended with a space teleportation and a surprise attack.

The number one ranked scarlet dragonfly warrior Bixuelongli, the ghost king locust warrior Qingyuan, the flying fire cockroach warrior Chixia, and other highly-anticipated and top-ranked warriors, appeared intermittently, but the warriors they were matched with were all vulnerable, and their strongest abilities could not be seen at all, nor their specific strength.

It took six years.

The first round of fighting is over.

Then the second round...

The Twilight Tree control has returned to normal matching.
Shield Pillar, Red Maple and Black Orchid went into battle one after another and easily resolved the battle.

Six years later,

In the third round, a large number of participating fighters died three times in a row and were eliminated.

The fourth round, the fifth round, continued elimination.

The number of participating fighters dropped sharply from nine thousand to four or five thousand.

Most of the fighters who remained on the field were of similar strength, and it was difficult to tell who would win.
The duration of each round of battle has increased instead of decreased, and it takes more than ten years to complete a round of battle.

The number of soldiers on the battlefield gradually decreased to three thousand, two thousand, one thousand...

The duration of each round of battle is gradually shortened.

...

...

[Hat-spotted Purple Longhorn Beetle Warrior Red Maple] - Battle - [Seven-Colored Flower Mantis Warrior Eleven Colors]

"..."

Led by Longbai, the insects in Xianglan Mountain were still confused, wondering if they had seen it wrong.
Randomly teleported, Red Maple and Mo Lan were sent to the meteorite belt deep in the Daylight Sea.

The red maple tree's six legs went limp, its tentacles drooped to the ground, and it fell down.

"Second King, spare my life~"

Red Maple screamed.

"You haven't died once?"

Molan questioned.

Red Maple: "Thanks to the Dusk God Tree, the ones I encountered were all weak ones~"

"Second King, my own strength is not good enough, but at this stage of the competition, as long as I can survive three more rounds without being eliminated, I can successfully advance to the top 300!"

"What do you mean? Haven't you eaten the dusk fruit?" "Second King, dusk fruit cannot be bought or exchanged. Can I win another one for you?"

"..."

Red Maple flashed forward, waving its tentacles continuously, setting up ten layers of soul barriers to block any prying eyes.

"Second King, are you hiding your most powerful move to use against the Scarlet Dragonfly Warrior, the Jade Blood Dragon Li?"

"and then?"

"There is a way. By exploiting the loophole in the rules, you will definitely win first place!"

"Oh--"

Molan asked, "In the first stage, the ranking is lower? In the second stage, I will start from the lower ranking and challenge the rankings in turn. By lowering my ranking, I will grab the opportunity to challenge first, challenge the first place, and win. Afterwards, when other insects challenged me, I relied on the material environment of the Daylight Sea and mainly defended myself, and I remained invincible."

"Yes. Yes."

"The Second King is extremely smart!"

The red maple flicked its tentacles vigorously.

Competition rules: In the second stage ranking challenge, you must defeat and kill the opponent to succeed, and a tie will be considered a challenge failure.

Mo Lan shook his tentacles and said hesitantly, "I've already died once. If I die again, I'll lose two chances to be reborn. What should I do if I encounter Bixue Longli or Qingyuan in the subsequent battles?"

Red Maple: "If it's a true random match, the probability is very low, and the possibility of encountering it is very small. If it's controlled by the Dusk Tree... We are all so familiar with each other, it's impossible for it to deliberately trick you, right?"

"..."

"You are a scammer!"

Molan was angry, but she agreed with Hongfeng's statement. She waved her claws and scolded:

"Don't waste the opportunity. Split up and search the meteorite group. I want the light chalcedony and the dark rose. I will use the energy gems to improve my light ability, and maybe I can break through Qingyuan and Shixia's defenses. After solving these two big troubles, there will be nothing to fear from the Green Blood Dragon Lychee."

The red maple tentacles waved and shouted: "The Second King is invincible!"

……

The ten layers of darkness collapsed.

Under the watchful eyes of seven or eight hundred billion Zerg warriors, Red Maple and Black Orchid transformed into red and white streams of light respectively, and rushed towards the central area of ​​the Sea of ​​Daylight separately, moving quickly and searching among the meteorites.

Half a day later,

Molan was the first to reap the rewards, turning out three crystals that sparkled with amber light.

Light Chalcedony,
Without wasting any time, he opened his mouth and swallowed it directly into his stomach, absorbing and digesting it while searching for it.

Another day later,

He was so bold that he made a discovery while searching for red maples in the neutron star area near the center of the Sea of ​​Daylight. He controlled the beast to go deep into an ice asteroid. After a while, he returned and opened his mouth to spit out two transparent olive-shaped gems with ink-black rose-like energy patterns inside.

——Dark Rose!
The red maple was ecstatic, and it waved its claws, turning into a stream of light and rushing towards the black orchid in the distance.

"Second King!"

"I found something good!"

"Look! What is this?"

Red Maple controlled the two gems, which flew and hovered in front of Molan's eyes.

"Dark Rose!"

Molan was ecstatic and looked at it carefully.

The most valuable third-level energy gem produced by the Daylight Sea is a biological material similar to titanium sand and dragon bamboo crystal. It absorbs and uses it to obtain the "biological weapon transformation" that absorbs light energy and uses it for its own benefit. If used in sufficient quantities and transformed and strengthened to the extreme, it can evolve into the ability to instantly devour the light within the absorption area and condense it into light energy for attack.

This kind of biological transformation that acts on the star core corresponds to the evolutionary level, and the power it exerts will not exceed the scope of the star realm, and it is allowed to be used in ring battles.

"Red maple, where did you dig it?"

"Over there! On an asteroid made of ice!"

"Oh! Based on my knowledge of nuclear materials and mining experience, the dark rose should be produced inside the floating ice."

"The second king is knowledgeable and talented!"

"Very good! Red Maple, be quick and keep looking!"

"Okay! Second King!"

The red maple turned into a stream of red light and disappeared.

Molan opened his mouth and sucked, swallowing the two gems. He then hovered still, silently absorbing the energy of the gems. Star spots shone on his forehead, and the light of his ten-colored shell flickered.

It took a full three hours to complete.

There are ten-colored star spots in the shape of a mantis on the forehead, and there are strands of black rose patterns on the mantis's wings.

"My strength has improved a little bit."

"However, two dark roses are far from enough..."

"Light Chalcedony is also very important to my improvement..."

The Dark Roses were transformed and strengthened. After thirty roses, initial results were seen. After three hundred roses, attack capabilities were derived. After three thousand roses, saturation was achieved.

Molan buried her head in thought for a while, then slowly accelerated and drifted towards the distant ice floes.

"..."

"Is there some shady secret?"

"Do these two know each other?"

"I'm afraid it comes from the same Chamber of Commerce."

"It must be a familiar insect..."

"The longhorn beetle obviously can't beat the mantis."

"I guess they have agreed to dig for treasure first, and when the time comes, the mantis will kill the longhorn beetle with one claw."

"This is a fake match!"

"Do the rules of the ring battle allow this?"

"One of our insects wastes one month of life on them. If we add up the lives of 66.666 billion insects, that means they have wasted 1 billion years of life. If we average out all the insects and they earn 66.666 crystals per year, that means they have lost trillion crystals..."

"Is this the second time this mantis has done this? It's a waste of 60 days of our lives."

"That means more than 130 trillion in losses for everyone!"

"Yeah! I'm in a hurry to finish watching the game and get back to work."

"No bug management?"

"The rules of the game don't say you can't play like that."

"..."

On the battlefield, Hong Feng controlled the beast to go deeper into the ice layer. Soon, he dug out another dark rose, but this time he did not rush to give it to Mo Lan. Instead, he moved a short distance, explored, and controlled the beast to go deeper into the ice layer to continue digging...

Hong Feng spent nearly a day searching around an asteroid with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers, which was made entirely of black ice. He dug out sixteen dark rose gems and quickly reunited with Mo Lan.

at the same time,

Molan also had a lot of gains...

The two insects were in high spirits, busy shuttling between large and small planets.

Counting the time,

The 30-day period is about to expire.
The black orchid and the red maple finally got together.

The red maple waved its tentacles, holding up a black soul power light curtain to block prying eyes.

Next second,
The holographic projection screen flickered, and a row of three-dimensional characters appeared: [The purple longhorn beetle wins the red maple]

--What's the meaning?
——Fake match!
——The inside story!
——Are these two bugs so disgusting?

——If you don’t fight well, get out~
——A pure waste of everyone's time~
The audience seats were instantly boiling with indignation and abusive spirits surging.

The light curtain turned again.
[Flying Fire Cockroach Warrior Redwood] - vs. [Scarlet Dragonfly Warrior Bixuelongli]

The noisy audience suddenly became quiet.

The puzzled insects on Xianglan Mountain and Huati Mountain looked at each other and glared.

"what--"

"Why were these two guys from Chiwu Mountain matched together?"

"This redwood is ranked pretty high too!"

"Ha! Ha! Now we're going to have something interesting to watch!"

"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight until you die!"

"If you dare to pretend to hit me again, I'll cause trouble!"

The flying fire cockroach warriors, whose bodies were dark red with golden glow, and the scarlet dragonfly warriors, whose bodies were bright scarlet, were teleported in and appeared randomly in the space above the Daylight Sea.

The two insects tacitly transformed into streams of light and rushed into the daylight sea. They split up and searched for the icy planet, looking for...

"I……"

"go……"

"Is this ring battle still going to happen?"

“It’s all shady!”

"Refund!"

"Refund!"

"I don't want to watch it anymore!"

The swarm of insects waiting to watch the fun in the audience completely exploded upon seeing this.

After a while of commotion,
I found something wrong again.

The flying fire cockroach warrior Hongmu found the dark rose gem, quickly collected it, met up with the blood dragon li, and handed it to the other party.

The Green Blood Dragon Lychee can be swallowed directly into the stomach for use.

There is a necessary condition for using the Dark Rose: awakening the light talent!

The Bixuelongli had also eaten the dusk fruit in advance!
It is imitating a mantis, collecting dark rose gems to strengthen itself.

Already ranked first, who else can beat me like this? (End of this chapter)