Astral Ants

Chapter 853 Bai Wei's Concept of the Universe's Strongest Middleman
Seeing that Longbai pretended not to know her and ignored her, Molan left in boredom.

Long Bai carefully read all the information about Star God Chi and Sacagawea civilization from beginning to end.

Then he looked up the relevant information about Star God Ao and the Ferdinand civilization it created.

A weak civilization with weak gods and no combat power. They are good at production, but their output has no special features and there are few related records.

...

The Soul Law Divine Stone of Star God Chi can grant soul talents and also grant a "creation" ability.

In the Star God Alliance, every innate god has acquired this ability and created and established his own civilization.

The Star God Alliance is headed by Star God Chi and is composed of 4,244 civilizations. It has a complex composition and a huge size.

Long Bai patiently read them one by one.

Information about the Black Thai Empire and the Chanter Civilization, which have been at war with the Star God Alliance, is at a nearby fork in the road. They are forces that should not be underestimated, so you can take a look at them while you're at it.

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In the last cosmic era,

Not counting the Divine Tree Civilization, there are eight other god-level civilizations that Xingshen Chi has come into contact with. Seven of them were preserved from the previous cosmic era, took the lead, and developed rapidly, so they were classified into the category of "Chronicles of the Ancient Universe Era Civilization."

The universe is too big.

After searching and reading, Long Bai was shocked to find that the number of god-level civilizations that emerged in the last cosmic era was far more than the 8 that Xingshen Chi had come into contact with. There were as many as 47 recorded.

In the late era, when natural gods evolved into true gods and the sacred tree civilization leapt into a god-level civilization, there was indeed only one true God and the only god-level civilization left in the universe.

The Natural True God Organization and the Divine Tree Civilization spent a lot of effort exploring relics, searching classics, collecting related rumors, and summarizing and organizing them to record these forty-seven civilizations in a relatively clear and complete manner.

Longbai took the time to check them one by one.

These god-level civilizations are either relics from the previous cosmic era, or have inherited the god-level creations and god-level knowledge from the old god-level civilizations from the ancient cosmic era, or have seized the heritage of god-level civilizations and thus leaped to god-level.

Their rises were different, but the processes were similar: conquering, expanding, occupying more territory and resources, training more and stronger armies, and launching larger-scale conquests and expansions...

Limited by the fleet speed and information transmission speed, the limit of god-level civilization is to rule a supergiant star cluster.

Longbai discovered that

When these god-level civilizations reach their peak of development and expand beyond a supergiant star system, they will inevitably take a sharp turn for the worse. The power of the power center will begin to decline sharply, and the marginal leaders will gather troops and even establish their own regimes. The civilization will fall into a situation where the benefits of external expansion are lower than the expenditures, and the truce will breed internal friction, infighting, civil war and many other unsolvable and fatal problems.

Eventually, these once-powerful god-level civilizations either perished in internal strife or civil war, or were destroyed by external forces due to their weakening strength.

Most of them rise and fall according to this pattern.

There are exceptions!
The only exception is that before the Divine Tree civilization, there was a purely technological civilization called the 'Eternal Stars'. They absorbed all the failed experiences of past god-level civilizations. While developing and expanding, they popularized and continuously upgraded and strengthened the intelligent brain system, using 'digital life' to replace 'force life' on a large scale, assisting in the management and operation of civilization affairs, dividing and weakening the upper-level power, strengthening control over the lower levels, dispersing combat forces, and restricting military commanders.

The result was that the 'digital life' with independent life characteristics and autonomous consciousness went out of control, causing an intelligent mechanical catastrophe that affected dozens of superstar systems.

The Eternal Stars civilization was directly overthrown, and hundreds of thousands of civilizations of all sizes in the surrounding star fields were destroyed in this catastrophe.

The Shenshu civilization gained an opportunity for a breakthrough in this disaster, found precious living space and development time in the post-war ruins, and rose step by step in the cruel competition among the emerging civilizations after the disaster.

Since then, "digital life" has become a taboo in the entire universe, and all civilizations have strictly restricted the computing power, data, permissions, and application scenarios of intelligent brain systems.

The influence continues to this day.

The Dawn and White Crystal Galaxy strictly prohibit the intelligent brain system from generating "digital life" and will immediately wipe it out once it appears.

The strange thing is that the Lizhu Galaxy is the complete opposite, with an attitude of indulgence. It is said that the streets are full of "intelligent machines" parasitized by digital life, their number is more than that of humans, and they have equal rights to survive as the tree tribe, the insect tribe, and the human race.

...

Long Bai continued to search for information related to the Crystal Throne Galaxy Cluster, but the content was fragmentary and unclear.

I searched for the White Tower Civilization and the God Destroyer Organization, but there were no records at all.

The distance is too far, hundreds of billions of light years away. Even if the civilizations along the way stand still and allow themselves to be slaughtered, they would not be able to make it through even if they killed for 100 million years.

In theory, the Divine Tree Civilization would never have any conflicts of interest with the unreachable Crystal Throne Galaxy Cluster, so there was no need to pay too much attention to it.

...

The insects agreed to gather at the square once every five years.

Five years and five years,
Long Bai spent a lot of time reading "Chronicles of the Civilization of the Old Universe Era" and "Chronicles of the Civilization of the Ancient Universe Era" in turn. With the help of the intelligent brain, he finished reading both sets of knowledge and gained a more comprehensive understanding of the past of the universe, civilization groups, and the rise and fall cycle.

The arborvitae was interested in all thirteen categories of knowledge, but unfortunately the other insects became impatient one by one.

Have no choice but to leave.

...

[Time: 78th Era-180 Yuan-252 Years]

The insects gathered in the Camel Hoof Star System, in the Arctic wasteland of the Water Blue Star.

The leaders Bai Wei, Si Shu, Mo Lan and Xing Shi each took out a planned route for traveling in the Dawn Galaxy.

There are not many divine fruits that can be found that can greatly enhance everyone or a particular Zerg warrior.

Most of the target locations on the planned route are famous and unique tourist attractions in the Dawn Galaxy.

High repeatability.
After comparing the four routes and some consultation, they were integrated into one route.

Let's set off together on the 'Xiaolongbai'.

Next stop: Time Sea Prison

Built by the Lord of Time and Space, this magical star sea has a time flow rate ten times faster than that of the outside world and is specifically used to imprison criminal insects.

If a person is imprisoned for tens or hundreds of thousands of years and then released, only thousands or tens of thousands of years will have passed outside, so he will not be out of touch with society.

Foreign bugs can also spend original crystals to experience prisoner life, which I heard is very interesting.

...

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The dimension world of Xiaolongbai is divided into the northern and southern hemispheres.

Mo Lan remained calm and secretly arranged for the four-digit tree, oak, some fragrant orchid insects, and the Chinese flag insects to rest in the northern hemisphere.

Bai Wei, Hong Tao, and Long Bai were arranged separately in the southern hemisphere space.

"President Bai Wei~Hong Tao~come here!"

"Longbai, come here too."

Molan finally teleported in, waved his claws, and was covered by a ten-layer soul power barrier.

"President Bai Wei, have you contacted the Great Leader Qing Yuan and the others? Have you reached an agreement?"

"That's right~"

Important matters,
Bai Wei has also been looking for an opportunity to discuss things with Long Bai and Mo Lan in private, but there has never been a good opportunity.

Bai Wei went straight to the point and said, "Great Chief Qingyuan's intention is to exchange the giant dragon bamboo fruit with the king cypress fruit in a one-to-one ratio. For each one, they will compensate with a world gem worth 2 million original crystals, or a chaos raw stone or source gem."

"For every 10 share transactions completed, they will pay me one Star Level Giant Dragon Bamboo Fruit as a reward."

As Bai Wei spoke, the space in front of her rippled slightly, and eleven time and space cubes appeared and floated in front of her.

"A round trip between the Baijing Galaxy and the Lizhu Galaxy would take more than six thousand years. So, Qingyuan and the others want to trade 10 per trip."

"That makes sense."

Long Bai flicked his antennae and said, "If there are extra Spacetime Cubes, 20 or 30 cubes per trip would be best."

Long Bai then said, "The same is true for us in Xianglan Mountain. For every 10 seeds traded, we will pay one Wang Baizi as a reward."

"it is good!"

"Thank you, Mr. Longbai~"

Bai Wei happily agreed.

Long Bai tapped his antenna again and said solemnly, "Rewards are trivial. The key is to ensure that they can't track us down?"

Bai Wei: "Don't worry. I will be in charge of this deal myself. My seventh sense is extremely sharp. Unless the master comes in person, I can detect any spying immediately. The master of the Lizhu Galaxy came to the Baijing Galaxy, so the movement cannot be concealed."

"What's more difficult to deal with is that the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce may find other inconspicuous small chambers of commerce to conduct a secret investigation. The Baijing Galaxy has less than 300 star regions in total..."

Bai Wei said, "For safety reasons, Great Chief Longbai, you'd better break through the Brilliance Realm as soon as possible and move to the third-level source star system to settle down. If you don't want your movements to be discovered, you will need to ask other bugs for help and rent land in the name of private bugs."

Long Bai: "It's not a big problem. Molan should also evolve to the Brilliant Realm. We have discussed it and when the time comes, Molan will rent it privately."

Molan asked: "President Bai Wei, I am not exposed, am I?"

"No--"

Bai Wei said, "On the mother planet, it was only mentioned once or twice, saying that there was an orchid mantis coexisting with the dragon cypress ant king, but it also mentioned that there were various other longhorn beetle warriors, earwig warriors, and ichneumon wasp warriors. Chiwushan was focused on the Law Tree and didn't pay attention to these details. In addition, in this daylight sea arena battle, Molan, you participated in the battle under the name of 'Seven Colors Flower Mantis Warrior Eleven Colors'. The insects of the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce saw that your ability had the shadow of adaptive evolution and ancestral divine power, but they couldn't be sure. They didn't associate it with the dragon cypress ant king."

Bai Wei was puzzled and asked, "Can the registered name be changed at will?" Molan: "I asked the Dusk God Tree to help me register it."

"Molan is smart!"

Bai Wei praised and said, "The Dragon Cypress Ant King did not participate in the battle, otherwise, he would have been recognized as soon as he went up!"

Molan: "It doesn't exist. If it joins the war, it will be eliminated in the Baijing Galaxy and won't be able to get up."

Bai Wei: "..."

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai: "Then the matter is settled. After the tour, we will go back to Xianglan Mountain and arrange the first batch of transactions."

Long Bai changed the subject, pondered, and said slowly: "President Bai Wei, then can you take this opportunity to use the method similar to the monopoly of the divine fruit on the mother planet to start the law fruit trade? This job has a future!"

Bai Wei waved her claws left and right and said, "After careful consideration, I'm afraid it won't work."

Bai Wei explained: "The biggest problem is that there are too few trees. The natural god system has a fixed number of 55 trees. If you add the Shanglu sacred tree and the King Cypress sacred tree, there are only 57 trees in total."

"The 55 trees that are scheduled to be born are not born at once. On the contrary, the ones that have appeared so far that we know of are only the Dusk, Ghost King Sophora japonica, Giant Dragon Bamboo, Peach Blossom, Seven-Colored Tree, White Crystal Tree, and Rosary Tree. A total of seven trees?"

"The Dusk Tree is a special case, so it doesn't count. There are only 6 of them."

"Hong Tao and I speculated that the God of Nature must be worried that the Zerg warriors would take the Law Trees with them while exploring deep space and get stuck somewhere, so he didn't dare to release too many of them at once. The God of Nature is watching the progress of the Zerg warriors' exploration of the universe. Every time he opens up a galaxy, he releases two or three Law Trees depending on the situation."

"There are currently three major star systems and six sacred trees of laws. That means there are two trees in each star system? That's roughly it. There may be more that we don't know about, but the number is definitely not many, at most three."

"The Shanglu sacred tree and the Ghost King Sophora japonica tree are still on their home planet. I know of only five trees that have taken root in the universe. They all correspond to big forces. They know each other and can directly discuss exchanges when needed. It's not my turn to do this business."

Bai Wei said, then changed the subject and said, "If you need 'rosary beans', it will be no problem to temporarily exchange two. Just ask Chief Qingyuan for help. If it is a long-term exchange, I may need to evolve to the Brilliant Realm before considering it. I will try to communicate with the Straight-Eared Golden Turtle Tribe. It should be no problem."

The same meaning applies to cypress and black orchid.

Long Bai: "First, give me and Mo Lan two, and then, it would be best if we can get in touch and keep in touch."

"Okay! I understand!"

Bai Wei simply agreed and asked, "What about the 'Peach Blossom Fruit'? Do you need it? I can also help to exchange it. I think that the ability of the curse of doom has great potential for development! The reason why it is not very powerful now is, firstly, because our Zerg warriors are protected by the blood of the Protoss, and the effect is weakened; secondly, it should be that the power of this law is too profound and difficult to control. It is difficult for the Star Realm and the Su Realm to comprehend it, and it is impossible to exert its true power."

Bai Wei: "I like the peach fruit and plan to exchange it for another one."

Molan shook her antennae.

The universe's greatest warrior disdains such dark and vicious abilities.

Long Bai said seriously, "If you say that the abilities granted by divine fruits are useless, I believe it. The fruits produced by the Law God Tree cannot be like this. I am also optimistic about the "Star God Blessing" ability granted by the Peach Blossom Fruit. I feel that there are many insects in the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce that are suitable."

"The tribe to which the Peach Blossom God Tree belongs is called 'River Fanged Grasshoppers'? President Bai Wei, you can follow President Four and try to make contact with them first. In the future, we can exchange as needed depending on the situation."

"No problem—"

Bai Wei said confidently: "Through Wang Baizi, you can exchange for three kinds of divine products: Giant Dragon Bamboo Fruit, Rosary Beans, and Peach Blossom Fruit."

Molan said: "It's a pity that the output is too small. It takes about a hundred years for a star realm to produce one."

"Yeah~"

Bai Wei agreed and said, "Think about it in the long term. In the future, when the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce and the Baiwei Chamber of Commerce grow stronger, the existence of the Great King Cypress can be made public. We can consider cooperating and exchanging with the Holy Butterfly Tribe."

"Giant Dragon Bamboo Fruit, Peach Blossom Fruit, Rosary Bean, King Cypress Fruit, and White Crystal Fruit, five kinds of divine fruits are exchanged. Our Baiwei Chamber of Commerce can organize a special team to travel back and forth between the Lizhu Galaxy and the Baijing Galaxy at fixed time limits to help run errands."

“It doesn’t matter whether you make money or not…”

"In the future, we will be dealing with the managers of the big forces, which will be more or less convenient for our Force food trade, zero-level source point management, and star system construction projects."

"Downward, we control the top resources in the universe, and occasionally we may have surplus, which can be sold to the tribes of all sizes that cooperate with us. This will greatly boost our reputation and credibility, which will facilitate transactions and development in various fields. We are also qualified to contact those large tribes that developed early and have a strong foundation, so as to expand the trade of Force food."

Longbai and Molan nodded in approval.

With such comprehensive considerations and planning, it must be Hong Tao who is behind the scenes.

Bai Wei paused for two seconds, then continued: "There is another question. The sacred tree of the law that bestows space talent on the White Tower civilization, the Willful Stars..."

"The Law Tree is born randomly with probability. In the future, the number will definitely increase. Moreover, they should be scattered in different galaxies. They are far away from each other, so bartering will be cumbersome."

"With one sacred tree of space laws and one sacred tree of system laws, and with these two sacred trees as a guarantee of credibility, we can issue the 'Letter of Laws'. We will have the opportunity to control or even monopolize the transaction of the fruits of the laws of the natural gods!"

"That's right——"

Long Bai agreed and said speechlessly: "But that is too far away. It is too early to consider it now. It is meaningless. Let's consider the current problem first. President Bai Wei, Hong Tao, when do you plan to evolve to the Brilliance Realm?"

Bai Wei: "I will prepare for a breakthrough when I return to Huangtao Mountain and eat the White Crystal Fruit."

Hong Tao: "I'm going to go slow. I plan to eat a rosary bean and then see how things go before making a breakthrough."

Long Bai: "Well, let's calculate the time. If nothing unexpected happens, the Molan survival carrier will be completed by then. To undertake the galaxy construction project, we need a few Yaojing warriors to preside over the work..."

After discussing it in detail for a while, they each lay low and rested.

...

A long and pleasant journey.

[Time: 78th Era-181 Yuan-497 Years]

The insects divided into three teams and set out for the Lizhu galaxy.

Bai Wei, Hong Tao, Huang Tao, Nan Di, Si Shu, Xia Li, Zi, and Cai Gang are in the first team.

The second team includes Mo Lan, Poison Bean, Shield Pillar, Green Maple, Red Maple, Wisteria, Yellow Branch, and Spruce.

Yu Teng drives the Star Spider, while Long Bai and Xing Shi lead the other insects to form the third team.

Three teams of insects set off on three star spiders.

...

Across the galaxy,
[Time: 78th Era-185 Yuan-317 Years]

Arrived at the destination galaxy one after another.

Be careful when entering the territory of Lizhu Chamber of Commerce.

They split up and traveled separately.

Bai Wei and her group went straight to the Creek Fang-Toothed Locust Tribe to inquire about the progress of the peach fruit they had ordered.

...

[Time: 78th Era-186 Yuan-900 Years]

As agreed, Long Bai and his team arrived at the Castanopsis star system and the Arctic ice field of Hydra.

After waiting for half a year, Molan and his group from the second team arrived.

After lying in wait for more than sixty years, the first team, Bai Wei and the four members of the group finally arrived.

"President Bai Wei?"

"President Four Numbers?"

All the insects cast doubtful mental thoughts.

Sishu explained: "The Peach Blossom God Tree is only at the Sujing level, and can only produce peach blossom fruits at the Sujing level. It only produces one every 369 years. Waiting in line will delay it."

Bai Wei didn't say much. The space in front of her slightly rippled and two space-time cubes floated out.

Xia Li said, "There are five in total. Let's eat while we wait. I counted to four. President Bai Wei has eaten."

On Bai Wei’s forehead, above the ninth pupil, a white, six-petal mahogany flower-shaped divine pattern lit up.

"It is indeed an alien power, not belonging to any system of the elemental system, system, soul system, or space system. However, it has a certain compatibility and after a certain amount of time, it should be able to be combined and integrated into certain abilities of the conventional system."

Molan looked at Cai Gang.

How come Bai Wei has one?
Four numbers help color just ordered one?
Eaten by Bai Wei?
Cai Gang explained: "President Bai Wei said that it has the ability to obtain giant dragon bamboo fruit or rosary beans. I exchanged with President Bai Wei because I need rosary beans more."

"All right--"

Molan raised her paw, grabbed a space-time Rubik's Cube, looked at it carefully, and twisted it.

Accidentally twisted it.

He raised his claws and threw them to Longbai, then waved his tentacles and said:

"I don't need peach fruit. Longbai, do you think there is someone suitable in our Xianglan Chamber of Commerce? Let's arrange it."

"Qing Feng, take it and try it."

Longbai raised his paw and handed it to Qingfeng, saying, "Don't be in a hurry to eat. This long journey has taken up too much time. Hongfeng will go to find food. Everyone, eat your fill and set off to return to the Baijing Galaxy."

(End of this chapter)