Astral Ants

Longbai fell into a deep sleep, absorbing and digesting the power of reincarnation.

Molan stood aside, observed for a while, waved his claws, and sprinkled his soul power, turning into a black barrier that covered the area.

"White Crystal Sacred Tree, can I walk around and take a look?"

"No."

"I'm just looking, I'm not taking anything."

"If you don't take anything, then what's there to see?"

"That's true..."

Molan looked around. She was surrounded by a forest of ordinary white crystal trees. She could not see anything else. She was silent for a few seconds and asked casually:

"White Crystal Divine Tree, you said before that the most powerful Lizhu Lord in the Lizhu Galaxy is the one with the strongest metal and life abilities?"

"Yes."

"Be more specific? What ability?"

The White Crystal Divine Tree paused and explained, "The Dragon Bamboo Overlord has four unique skills, one is called 'Metal Armor Transformation', one is called 'Infinite Digital Universe', and one is called 'Super Alloy War Will'. According to the insects of the Red Blattus Tribe, there is another most powerful one, but they don't know what it is."

"'Metal Armament Transformation' means that any metal material can be transformed into a war weapon with life characteristics. These war weapons can be weapons, armor, intelligent machines, or warships."

"Level 1 primordial metal in its claws can be turned into astral realm war weapons. Level 2 primordial metal in its claws can be turned into a stellar realm war weapon. Level 3 primordial metal can be turned into a master realm war weapon."

"Once digital life enters a war weapon, it can immediately be transformed into a metal war army with autonomous action capabilities."

"'Infinite Digital Universe' is a bit similar to 'reincarnation'. You can sign a 'summoning contract' with digital life. When needed, you can summon digital life across time and space. Moreover, digital life that has signed a summoning contract can be reborn through the infinite digital universe after any form of death."

"As for 'Superalloy War Will'..."

"On weekdays, those digital lives that beg on the streets, work for the Zerg and Terrans, and appear to pose no threat with only a tattered shell, will condense a 'metal life core' once they are blessed with the 'superalloy fighting will', and will immediately be able to master superb fighting skills and transform into the most professional and fanatical war life."

"With these three abilities combined into one set, Lord Li Zhu will have an endless, immortal, and indestructible metal war army."

Mo Lan: "Oh——"

Is it great?
Similar to the king ant and the queen bee, having an advantage in numbers?
Isn’t that amazing?

Molan tilted his head to think, then asked: "What about the ancient god's creation, 'The Immaculate Country, the Pure Heart'?"

The White Crystal Divine Tree narrated slowly, "In the ancient universe era, an unknown god-level strongman forged two artifacts with unknown materials and methods. The earliest record is that they were owned by the emperor and empress of the Binary Star Empire in the old universe era. A pair of force life forms, one male and one female, evolved into true gods by cracking the inheritance of the artifacts, and at the same time led the entire civilization to leap to the god level. This is the shortest-lived god-level civilization in the record..."

Molan raised her paw to signal.

White Crystal Divine Tree: “?”

Molan: "In the library managed by the Knowledge Tree in the Dawn Galaxy, I looked through the information about the Binary Empire, but there is no description of the artifact..."

White Crystal Divine Tree: "Wait until you evolve to the Domination Realm, then go and see it, and you will see it."

Cymbidium:"……"

Molan: "I know that the Binary Empire gave birth to a third true god named 'King Hexile', a male. He colluded with the Emperor and Queen, plotted to kill the Emperor, and attempted to replace him. However, King Hexile was stabbed in the back by the Emperor and Queen. The war led to the collapse of the Imperial Court, and the Emperor and Queen were severely injured. They were besieged and exhausted by the kings of all parties. Afterwards, the Binary Empire quickly perished in internal strife and foreign invasions, and the Binary Superstar System they ruled was reduced to ruins in the war."

Molan: "And then? How did the True God of Nature obtain a divine creation?"

The White Crystal Divine Tree said unhappily, “It was dug out from the ruins.”

The White Crystal Divine Tree was very disappointed and said indifferently: "I want to rest. Mantis, be quiet."

...

Half a month later,
Long Bai woke up from his deep sleep. Before he could come to his senses, he felt the world spinning around him. When he came to his senses, he found himself lying on the Purple Mine Star Square with his six legs facing the sky.

"Molan? What's going on?"

"Nothing's wrong. What's wrong?"

"The White Crystal Divine Tree threw us out?"

"I've given you the power of reincarnation. When you're done, leave now!"

"Okay. Let's go."

...

...

Bauhinia star system, potato leaf star.

Pandan Mountain.

It was a midsummer morning with dim morning light.

King Bai is multitasking, commanding three specialized teams of green ants at the same time to unleash the power of prosperity for the forest plants.

The Glorious Throne carried Molan and Longbai through space and landed directly under the King Cypress Tree.

"Longbai!"

"Cymbidium!"

Da Wangbai greeted him, and was surprised for a moment, and asked: "Is the star system construction project going smoothly?"

"It went smoothly! It went smoothly! Everything went smoothly!"

Molan briefly explained, "We've been to Red Robin Star! Longbai successfully obtained the power of reincarnation! I made an appointment to get a white crystal fruit of the Sujing level."

Molan put away the Glorious Throne and urged, "Longbai, try it now!"

"it is good--"

The dragon cypress was equally anxious, and it flashed forward and climbed up the trunk of the giant cypress.

The primordial energy surged, gathered at the tentacles, touched the tree trunk, and quickly condensed into a ten-centimeter-long black oval cocoon.

A drop of dark green blood was forced out of the body and injected into the cocoon.

Immediately, the cocoon began to breathe life into itself.

The two tentacles gently touched the connected cocoon, and various colors of energy were continuously injected into each system of the star core.

Ten-colored patterns appeared on the surface of the black cocoon, gradually becoming clearer and more solid.

Then a tremendous amount of life energy was injected, and the cocoon expanded and grew bigger little by little.

This process lasted for five days and five nights until the cocoon reached four or five meters in length.

"That's it!"

Longbai dodged and landed on the ground, "Big Wangbai, how do you feel?"

Great King Bai: "It is draining my vitality and the Force."

Longbai sensed it and said, "This is a normal phenomenon. You only need to provide a small amount of power to maintain the activity of the cocoon. It will not affect your growth and evolution, nor will it affect normal flowering and fruiting."

Great King Bai: "...Okay."

Great King Bai: "Longbai, from now on, if you die, your soul will return at ten thousand times the speed of light and be reborn with the help of this cocoon?"

Long Bai: "Yes."

Long Bai explained: "I have obtained the highest level of 'reincarnation power', but I cannot control this power at all at the moment. I can only perform the most basic 'rebirth'. I need to invest time and energy to comprehend and gradually master it. The next step is to be able to reincarnate after the body and soul are destroyed. The next step is to break away from the restrictions of the life species and achieve rebirth with the help of the rivers, mountains, and lakes of the life world."

Longbai: "The White Crystal Divine Tree is also a tree of extraordinary wisdom. It has seen that adaptive evolution is a law-based ability, not a combination ability..."

Long Bai recounted the situation.

at the same time,

The seeds bestowed by the gods shook the spiritual power and shouted, and the news of Long Bai and Mo Lan's return quickly spread throughout the territory.

The insects left behind in Xianglan Mountain rushed there as soon as possible.

From Huangtao Mountain next door, Baiwei, Huangtao and Zeqi also rushed over.

"Captain Longbai, have you obtained the power of reincarnation?"

"got it."

"Where's Molan?"

"Molan has a white crystal fruit of the Sujing level. After 1,284 years, the Eighth Star System will pick it up."

"Oh!"

"With Molan's extraordinary understanding, she will soon be able to comprehend everything and prepare for a brilliant transformation."

"It should still take some time. From my personal experience, it is not easy to master the power of reincarnation."

"I feel the same way! I've died ten thousand times, and I've only just come to some realization."

Bai Wei changed the subject and asked, "Then can we prepare for the exchange of law fruits? I estimate that it will take at least five or six hundred years, or at most a thousand years, for me to advance to the Brilliant Realm. After I reach the Brilliant Realm, can I set off directly? It will take five or six thousand years to go back and forth. By that time, you and Molan will surely have made breakthroughs long ago."

"Of course!"

Long Bai ordered: "You can start preparing now. From now on, all the Wang Baizi produced will be stored in the Space-Time Cube."

Long Bai said: "President Bai Wei, there was a small problem during our visit to the Baijing Sacred Tree..."

Long Bai repeated the story of visiting the Baijing Sacred Tree.

Finally, he said, "The White Crystal Divine Tree will not publicize the existence of the Great King Cypress, and there will not be any insects in the star network that will openly snatch it. However, to avoid trouble, Molan and I should transform as soon as possible and migrate to the Fengyan star system to settle down."

"understood."

"understood."

The insects solemnly agreed.

Long Bai said, "President Bai Wei, I have also arranged a deal for you. Since the existence of the Great King Bai has been discovered by the White Crystal Divine Tree, we must exchange it with the Holy Butterfly Tribe. I have designated Si Shu and Xia Li to communicate with us, and I have designated you to be our agent."

"President Bai Wei, you have to help me stop the trouble from the Holy Butterfly Tribe. One day in the future, the existence of the Great King Cypress will spread, and you have to help me stop the trouble from other tribes. Whenever any insect comes to me, I will say one thing: All the King Cypress seeds produced have been signed and sold to the Baiwei Chamber of Commerce. If you need anything, please talk to President Bai Wei."

Bai Wei: “…Okay!”

Long Bai continued, "For every 11 King Bai seeds I give you, you can give me 10 other types of Law Fruits in return. As for other exchanges, I won't ask how much you earn from them."

"President Bai Wei, with the three kinds of law fruits, namely, the king cypress fruit, the white crystal fruit, and the giant dragon bamboo fruit, it would be relatively easy to exchange them for the rosary beans and peach blossom fruit, right? In this way, you will have five kinds of law fruits, and there will be a surplus in the transaction."

"You can use the surplus fruits of the law for yourselves. You can also give them to powerful clans as appropriate according to the situation. This will speed up the trade of the original force food at the level of the Su realm."

"Of course!"

Bai Wei agreed.

Longbai took out another metal box and handed it to Heitao, saying, "The White Crystal God-given seeds were bought at a sky-high price of 30 billion. Find a place to plant them and take good care of them. They will definitely be useful in the future."

"Understood! Your Majesty!"

Spade agreed.

Nothing else to do.

Longbai invited all the insects to go to the lakeside for a meal and a small celebration.

Afterwards, it took some time to leave a cocoon on each of the fifty-four life plants.

Fifty-four consecutive chances to be reborn!
"Longbai!"

Molan raised her catching feet high, showing her sharp front feet with fine hooks, "Want to give it a try? I have thought of 10,000 ways for you to die. The first one is beheading. Stretch out your head..."

"Don't make trouble!"

Long Bai waved his claws to drive him away, "I don't need to comprehend the power of reincarnation through death. I can have the ability to be reborn, but it doesn't mean I can give up my life so easily."

Molan asked, "How can you be sure if your ability is effective if you don't try it? What if it doesn't work?"

Long Bai said coldly: "If it doesn't work, I'll be gone."

It seems like this...

Molan tilted her head, thought for a moment, and then said kindly, "Through death and rebirth, you can deepen your understanding and accelerate your mastery of the power of reincarnation."

Long Bai said indifferently: "No need! I will figure it out slowly by myself."

Molan tilted her head, looking contemptuous, "Don't you dare to die? Ant, you are too timid, aren't you? Are you afraid of pain?" "Mantis, we don't have any grudges, right? How much do you want to kill me?"

"Let's have some fun!"

Long Bai waved his claws vigorously to drive them away. With an idea in mind, he said, "Watching other insects die and be reborn will have the same effect. A bystander can see things more clearly. Let's go and help President Bai Wei..."

...

Longbai refused to try to die.

Concentrated, he observed Bai Wei's death and rebirth, gained insights, and deduced.

It might be due to the power of reincarnation, or maybe he was quite talented in this aspect. It took Long Bai less than a year to easily integrate the rebirth pattern into the star core. It took him less than a hundred years to realize the 'reincarnation rebirth' before Bai Wei, who had come back to life from the dead.

At the star level, it is enough to be able to comprehend and reach this level.

--too easy!

Long Bai felt very good about himself, but he felt unsatisfied, so he tried to move on to the next level of enlightenment: to examine himself and deeply feel the existence of "I".

It's something that belongs to the realm of existence.

It's a bit mysterious.

The question about "I" is more about practice at the level of thinking, consciousness and soul.

Long Bai immediately thought of art and philosophy.

Art is as unreliable as the Second King and can be ruled out.

Yu Teng dug a cave specifically for this purpose in Huangtao Mountain and collected millions of knowledge compasses, which included the philosophical and mathematical knowledge of many top civilizations in the old universe, as well as a small amount of pure theoretical knowledge in natural sciences.

Long Bai searched and checked.

A miracle happened.
I flipped through dozens of sets at random, and I felt deeply touched, as if it was a natural process, and I understood the artistic conception of "me".

Long Bai accidentally discovered that the philosophical classics that he used to look down upon can not only train the thinking of pioneer worms, but also help them to deeply understand life, the world, and even the universe from the thinking level, and analyze their operating rules from another perspective.

——Yu Teng is not stupid~
——This guy is playing dumb! He is lazy and doesn't work, just thinking about these things.

Long Bai only felt that he had found the field in which he was best at, and he was no longer in a hurry to improve his abilities. He cleared his mind, calmed down, and carefully read through the collection of Derris.

Time flows quietly as I am immersed in thought.

Suddenly one day,
Longbai had some enlightenment, and every day he was like Derris, either lying motionless, or strolling in the deep and dense forest, or climbing up to see far away, or looking up at the starry sky, or looking down at the mountains and rivers.

Appreciate nature, observe the universe, and cultivate your mind.

Suddenly one day,
In the gloomy sky of late spring, a thunderclap sounded.
Under the God-given tree by the azure lake, Longbai slowly raised his head, and felt that his brain, which was filled with all kinds of profound philosophical thoughts, was cleared out by the sudden roar, leaving it empty and bright.

The wind is blowing and the rain is falling.
Longbai raised his head and stared at the vast and misty lake without moving.

"Zhanlan, look, is the ant okay?"

Nan Qian asked carefully.

"I think it's okay..."

Azure was unsure.

“I just say that everything in the cultural field is poisonous.”

Heihuang was worried.

“Are the ants crazy too?”

The two-color mulberry tree is more serious than ever before.

The trees on Xianglan Mountain were a little panicked.

As everyone has seen, the last one to be poisoned was the black mantis, and the one before that was the fish vine spider.

These two bugs are actually unimportant, whether they are crazy or demented, it doesn't matter, it doesn't affect the overall situation, everyone can just watch the fools jumping around, enjoy the fun and have fun.

How could such a smart insect as the cypress ant be poisoned?

Xianglan Mountain is supported by ants.

"Ants can't be crazy~"

"The ants are going crazy, Xianglan Mountain is collapsing, what are we going to do with the trees~"

"Yeah, yeah~"

"I think it is necessary to send a tree to communicate with the ant and have a good talk with it."

"I agree with this with a hundred branches!"

"Send who?"

"Big Wangbai, you go!"

Da Wang Bai: "..."

Great King Bai: "Isn't Long Bai trying to comprehend the power of reincarnation? Be quiet and don't disturb it."

“Is this an attempt to comprehend abilities?”

"Is there anyone with such comprehension ability?"

"Look at the White Spider next door."

"I'm helping to count. I've died and reborn 12471 times. It'll be 12472 soon!"

"The aura of death on the Baiwei Spider is almost condensed into substance. It will be successful soon."

"Ants can't do that. Ants are afraid of death~"

"Ants are not suited to this ability."

“It’s totally inappropriate.”

"Don't go off topic."

"Big King Bai, go ask the ants."

"..."

"Forget it! I'll do it!"

Shuangse Sang couldn't bear it anymore, and called out with his spiritual power, "Longbai Ant! Longbai? Longbai?"

Long Bai came to his senses, looked back, and gathered the titanium sand scattered in his body, turning it into a gray-white metal ball and placing it under the tree. It spread its membranous wings, floated into the air, and disappeared into the thick clouds.

After hovering for a long time, its body suddenly began to disintegrate, turning into thick black smoke that drifted away with the wind and merged into the cumulus clouds.

The sky was blackened,
It instantly spread to cover the northern 4201 district, drifting with the wind and spreading to the surrounding territories. Soon, dozens of districts were shrouded in darkness.

When the insects on the planet were confused and terrified and rushed out of the nest to check the situation, a light rain suddenly came and then stopped abruptly.

After the rain, the sky clears up.

The lakeside where the azure blue takes root,
On the lake, the clear water surged and turned into a black cocoon. The force of heaven and earth seemed to have been summoned by something and gathered in an incredibly calm and extremely fast manner. Ten colors of light flowed on the surface of the cocoon.

"???"

"This is……"

"The second most important realm of reincarnation?"

Before the trees had time to be shocked, the light on the surface of the cocoon was restrained and transformed into ten-colored energy patterns.

next moment,
The cocoon burst, and the cypress emerged, and its new shell hardened quickly.

The surrounding light distorts and converges,
Absorb light,

A green spot on the carapace quickly spreads, and the black carapace quickly turns dark green until it reaches the membranous wings.

"Long Bai?"

Zhan Lan was the first to react, and said incredulously: "You have realized the second level of reincarnation? You have escaped the restrictions of life seeds and can use the water in nature to reincarnate?"

"Yes--"

Long Bai answered calmly.

a thought,
The cocoons attached to the trunks of the 54 life plants collapsed, transformed into pure energy, and retracted into the body.

After a reincarnation, some of the deficient original energy is instantly restored to fullness.

"This……"

"Why is it the second major realm?"

"Is this it?"

“How do ants do this?”

"Isn't this simple?"

"I've said it before, reincarnation is a philosophical question."

"The stupid spider next door is still dying there~"

“It’s the second time.”

"Stupid mantis is still helping."

“Wrong road!”

“Should we remind them?”

"Don't!"

"Don't cause trouble!"

"I can't die anyway."

"Let's just watch~"

"Look at those two idiots messing around."

"Looking back, what would their reaction be if they knew that the cypress ants only had to reincarnate once to accomplish their mission?"

"Bai Bo, you count. When the spider dies 20,000 times, we will tell it."

"Ha~ha~"

"..."

"Ok?"

The trees were gloating and making noises, but they saw the dragon cypress flap its wings again and fly into the air. It hovered high in the sky, meditating for a long time, and then its body disintegrated and turned into invisible air flow that drifted away with the breeze.

next moment,
In the dense forest on the northern foot of Xianglan Mountain, grass and trees grow wildly, and vines gather, converge and entwine to form a huge "cocoon".

Infinite natural forces gathered from all directions, green light rose, the cocoons formed by grass and trees turned into wood, and then ten colors of light rose.

The brilliance is restrained, condensing into complex primitive patterns in the shapes of primitive plants and flowers.

The cypress tree breaks out of its cocoon.

"..."

All the trees were silent.

This is the expansion of the rebirth carrier of the reincarnation ability from 'water' to 'wood'.

"Cedar!"

"Giant cypress!"

"Spade!"

"Two-color chamomile!"

Shuangse Sang shook his spirit and called out, "What are you busy with? Come and see, there is an ant here that is going to defy the heavens!" (End of this chapter)