Astral Ants

Long Bai appeared in the hall.

"Hello, Your Majesty!"

A little longhorn beetle warrior waved its antennae enthusiastically to say hello.

"Hmm~hmm~hmm~"

Long Bai agreed perfunctorily and buried his head in thought.

"what happened?"

Mo Lan suddenly realized the problem and asked, "My Lord, with your current ability, the system should match you with a fighter of my level at least, right? Can't you beat them? Which level are you stuck at? You're not still on the sixth level, are you?"

The weird mantis~
“It’s not a question of which floor it is…”

Long Bai was in no mood to joke, and said solemnly: "I have matched up with the Lord of Time and Space! There is no fun in this Black Thorn Tower."

"What?"

Molan was startled, "Master of Time and Space?"

Then came the unprecedentedly strong curiosity.
"How strong is the Lord of Time and Space? Can you beat him? No, right? It can't kill you either?"

Long Bai tapped his antennae and said, "I can randomly match any life world with a Force concentration above 3.0. I can be resurrected infinitely. Unless the entire planet is destroyed, you can't kill me."

"The master of space and time in the star realm does not have the ability to quickly destroy a planet, so it is a draw."

"what?"

Molan was stunned for a moment, and said in disbelief: "Is the Lord of Time and Space so weak?"

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai said unhappily, "Switch to Mantis, he'll kill it in one move."

Long Bai explained: "It is a combination of time, space and ice power, an ability to wipe out everything. A similar ability has appeared in the Daylight Sea Arena. The stupid-looking white-legged flame spider warrior named 'Big Claw' killed the Holy Butterfly Warrior Ling in one move. Remember? That ability is called 'Ice Crack'?"

"Remember! Ice crack! So impressive!"

Mo Lan looked serious and said seriously: "This ability is not enough to kill me."

Longbai shook his antennae and reiterated: "A kind of 'space-time power' is superimposed. The whole insect is instantly frozen. The body cannot move, the energy cannot function, and the mind is imprisoned. The destructive power is amplified tenfold!"

"!!!"

Mo Lan's tentacles twitched, and she was stunned for a moment, in disbelief. She waved her claws and said, "Try to match again! I'll watch!"

Long Bai had another idea in his mind: Since the revival of civilization, how many Zerg warriors with star core capabilities at the same level as mine and the Lord of Time and Space have been born?
Longbai: “Try it!”

Molan raised her paw, "Wait a moment! I'll bring the little warriors to watch the battle! Let everyone see the extraordinary demeanor of Chief Longbai!"

Long Bai: "..."

...

...

Random matches, stellar backgrounds, the Force vacuum.

Molan brought a total of one hundred Zerg warriors, transformed into a phantom, and was the first to arrive on the battlefield.

Getting close to the stars, below you will see a surging ocean of light blue flames that stretches as far as the eye can see.

A supergiant star that is much larger than the stars created by the natural god system worms, with a higher surface temperature, continuously burning everything at a high temperature of tens of thousands of degrees.

Longbai and another black and white moth warrior whose specific race could not be identified appeared.

White energy rises from the surface of the dragon cypress.

The moth warrior turned into a stream of black and white light, and disappeared into the star in a flash.

"Stupid ant!"

"Stacking defense there again?"

"It was killed in one claw!"

"Isn't the reaction too slow? Will this allow it to escape into the star? We're in big trouble. We can't defeat it."

Molan lost her temper and became furious after just one look.

"..."

The young soldiers were silent and dared not speak.

The battle has begun.
Countless flames condensed into white spears, shooting out from the stellar sea of ​​fire and attacking Longbai in an all-encompassing manner.

A layer of white energy rose from Long Bai's body surface. Not only did he not dodge, he even rushed forward for a distance towards the incoming spear and crashed straight into it.

The spear shattered and exploded, and the white flames instantly spread and enveloped the dragon cypress.

The surrounding spears exploded one after another, turning into flames and forming a sea of ​​fire.

From the rear, the flying spears turned, gathered, and attacked with concentrated fire.

In a flash, a blazing white fireball enveloped the cypress. A thick column of fire connected the star and the fireball, continuously inputting energy.

Black energy patterns are generated on the surface of the fireball.

The black energy veins spread in the opposite direction along the front line, connecting with the light blue stars.

The dense black lines on the surface of the star expanded like roots, turning into a huge black spot.

It looks very strange, like an isolated island in a sea of ​​light blue fire, with a big tree rooted in it, a solitary trunk, and a huge 'fruit' connected to it.

There was a violent energy exploding inside the fireball, causing it to expand due to the impact. The black energy veins seemed to have super toughness, expanding suddenly and then contracting quickly, forcibly suppressing it.

Explosively expand and contract, expand and contract, repeat several times, and then calm down.

Longbai is trapped!

It seemed like it was thinking, and after being quiet for a while, bulges broke out on the surface again.

It was like launching a point-to-surface attack, trying to break out of the fireball, but the black energy patterns could not be broken or penetrated.

The bulges on the surface of the fireball became more and more dense.
It can be seen that Long Bai is trying desperately to break out, but to no avail.

so sleepy!
"..."

Molan was speechless and solemn at the same time.

A single fire element, a supreme warrior who comprehends and strengthens to the extreme, surpassing the limit.

I have seen many single-line and dual-line extreme warriors, but this is the first time I have seen one of this level.

The power of fire that can trap ants!

Molan looked carefully.

Another problem was soon discovered.

The moth warrior's own strength is not enough to trap the ant, so it relies more on the vast energy of the supergiant star.

Molan immediately came to realize that the virtual universe database could not match a warrior who could match Long Bai in star core capabilities, so it controlled the battlefield environment to balance the combat power of the two warring parties.

Long Bai was smart and probably saw through it the moment he entered the battlefield. He might have underestimated the enemy, or he might have wanted to test the strength of the fire-type extreme warrior and allowed himself to be trapped on purpose.

In a fair duel matched by the intelligent brain system, it is impossible for the difference in ability strength to be too big.

I'm afraid I can't get out.

"No need to look. The ants are gone."

After careful observation and thinking, Molan came to a conclusion.

Long Bai currently possesses two powerful abilities: the first is an indestructible and indestructible defensive ability that he learned from the Ghost Locust Tribe and constructed by combining it with his elemental power.

The so-called 'indestructible and indestructible' also has an upper limit. In this environment without the Force, the Moth Clan warriors can mobilize the energy of the supergiant star to consume it and will definitely be able to kill it.

Long Bai's second ability is the "Infinite Sea, Endless Sea" that he just learned from the Holy Butterfly Tribe. In the final analysis, this ability is still based on "water" as a carrier, and it will still be suppressed and weakened in this stellar battlefield.

Not surprisingly,
After holding out for half a month, Long Bai was eventually trapped and exhausted to death.

Challenge failed.

"..."

They returned to the hall and looked at each other in silence.

Long Bai then chose random matching and entered the next game.

...

...

A random desolate planet battlefield, with a thick air environment that seems to contain metal toxins.

A planet with the Force!

As you enter, your feet feel slightly sunken, with the gravity three times that of the Zerg's normal living planet.

Long Bai learned his lesson this time and changed his fighting habits. When he entered the battlefield, he was the first to activate his visual ability, mental power, and soul-fixing ability to quickly observe the battlefield.

Three kilometers away, a dark shadow...

Without thinking, he launched the attack first, waving his tentacles and shooting out a pale electric light.

However, the opponent was faster and disappeared in a flash, and I lost my perception immediately.

After a quick observation, I could vaguely make out that it was a cockroach warrior with a dark body and a metallic matte shell.

next moment,
The earth shook and the mountains rose.

A metal hemispherical fortress rose from the ground.

The sound of mechanical operation.

Black gun barrels protruded from the fortress.

boom! boom! boom!
Countless shells drew arcs, hit Longbai and exploded on the ground.

Woo~woo~woo~
Densely packed metal dragonflies took off from the top of the fortress.

Swish!Swish!Swish!
The metal dragonfly aimed at the dragon cypress, and its eyes shot out white particle rays and purple high-energy beams, bombarding it intensively.

"!!!"

"Bionic weapons of technological civilization?"

Long Bai was stunned.

Above the battlefield, Molan and a group of young soldiers who had turned into shadows to watch the battle were all stunned.

At the same time, everyone suddenly realized that they had matched with the Dragon Bamboo Lord!

From the perspective of the spectator, the view is clearer.

The fortress is spherical in shape, half of it is on the ground and half is buried underground.

Within a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers, all the metal, as if summoned, is turning into trickles, converging towards the fortress from underground.

Inside the fortress,

Mechanical puppets in the form of ghost locusts, scarlet dragonflies, narrow butterflies, red cockroaches and even ants are being generated in large quantities.

Various strangely shaped metal instruments were produced simultaneously.

Digital life has moved into metal weapons, condensed into a life core, and transformed into a metal life form: an intelligent machine!
Organized war corps quickly took shape and rushed out of the fortress in formation from different directions.

At the same time, as more metals are collected, the fortress is constantly upgraded and reinforced, the attack weapons are constantly iterated and strengthened, the extended gun barrels shrink and disappear, and are replaced by protrusions similar to the compound eyes of a dragonfly, surrounded by dense and complex energy patterns, which are rapidly drawing natural force energy, ready to go.

It can be felt that once you get close to the fortress, you will be bombarded by powerful and fierce technological weapons.

Longbai had no chance to get close to the fortress.

On the battlefield, in the brief time it took to perform "Boundless Sea, Infinite Sea", Long Bai was trapped from all directions by millions of metal robot armies from the sky and underground.

All intelligent machines in Zerg form or strange mechanical form switch into more than a dozen targeted attack modes.

It lasted for less than two seconds, and all the attacks were unified into cyan hail attacks, a kind of dark energy that had a good restraining effect. The white infinite sea was riddled with holes and was constantly compressed.

Longbai changed in panic, and the Wuji Sea rose and turned into white mist in an attempt to escape.

It was blocked again by layers of green energy barriers.

Fortunately, the intelligent machines controlled by Lord Li Zhu were restricted to the stellar realm, and the attack weapons they used were limited to level one.

The white mist shrank and transformed into a giant ice ant. White and purple lightning flowed around its body. It flapped its wings and swept across. Electric light burst out, piercing through the green energy barrier and knocking down a large number of intelligent machines.

With a brutal charge, relying on brute force and strong defense, they broke through a gap and successfully broke through the encirclement.

Longbai turned into a beam of lightning and fled for his life.

The omnic army behind them was chasing like a huge wave or tsunami. Longbai was still faster and rushed to the North Pole of the planet.

The loess plain is dry and barren, with not a drop of water left.

The giant ant transformed itself into a white boundless sea. The water surged and turned into a translucent white sphere with a diameter of 50 kilometers, half of which was submerged in the ground and half of which was visible above the ground.

The ice solidified and turned into a white ice fortress.

Invisible dodder spreads underground.

The original energy creates water, which seeps out from the ground, turns into ice fields, and continues to expand.

On the surface of the Ice Fortress, densely packed umbrella birds with a wingspan of more than one meter appeared from the surface and flapped their wings into the sky.

On the ice field, ice cypress trees quickly grew and turned into a dense forest. Pale flames danced on the branches and white cold fog filled the woods.

When the robot army arrived to chase them, Long Bai had already imitated the Dragon Bamboo Lord and quickly completed a full set of defensive arrangements.

The Umbrella Bird took the initiative to attack the army of intelligent machines flying in the air, causing a loud bang and a shocking explosion.

The intelligent machine army running on the ground rushed into the misty forest and was immediately attacked, ignited and burned by the pale lightning that erupted from the branches.

There was chaos in the sky and on the ground.

On the surface of the ice fortress, ice pillars more than 300 meters long and 30 meters in diameter condensed and were launched vertically, rushing straight into the sky at an altitude of 10,000 meters. They flew at supersonic speeds, lowered their heads, accelerated, and accurately smashed into the metal fortress dominated by the dragon bamboo.

As they approached, the compound eye-shaped protrusions on the surface of the metal fortress fired particle jets, destroying them one by one.

The metal fortress was subsequently transformed, and vertical gun barrels were extended, which also fired metal weapons, accurately striking Longbai's ice fortress from a distance of 40,000 to 50,000 kilometers.

"..."

Molan led a group of young warriors, floating outside the planet, looking at the overall situation, and remained in a daze.

Individual battles have evolved into high-tech legion wars.

There are many varieties, grand scenes and fierce battles.

But it makes no sense.

In the center of the metal fortress, the Dragon Bamboo Lord also created a device to extract natural force and convert it into energy. The Dragon Bamboo Lord also possesses inexhaustible energy.

Moreover, the intelligent machines it creates have complete metallic life characteristics and can autonomously absorb the Force to replenish energy.

Under the Force environment, neither side can possibly kill the other by exhausting their strength.

The intelligent mechanical army led by Longzhu attacked, while Longbai defended, and the two were evenly matched.

"..."

Molan didn't have the patience to read on.

But the group of ignorant young soldiers behind him were watching with great interest.

Long Bai was also bored and refused to admit defeat. He kept changing his abilities and it took him three full months to finish the fight with Dragon Bamboo Lord.

...

Take a short break and continue matching.

Random space environment, a dark deep space battlefield with no force and no matter.

Long Bai was on high alert, with white energy rising up to strengthen his defense, while at the same time he used his mental power and soul-fixing abilities to scout the target of the fight.

--Hey!

——Ghost locust warrior!
Long Bai was secretly delighted. He had mastered the defensive capabilities of the Ghost Locust Tribe and had surpassed them, but he could not learn the combat offense of the Ghost Locust Tribe.

There is no doubt that the one matched by the Black Thorn Tower is the most powerful warrior of the Ghost Locust Tribe.

Let’s have another good discussion with it!
...

He was severely beaten for three months.

Continue matching.

As expected, according to the perfect score of 100 in the Stellar Realm, all the matches were of extraordinary strength, with scores above 110.

Including Molan and Bixuelongli, there are 83 in total, and 84 including Longbai.

This means that since the beginning of the new era of the universe, the Divine Tree civilization has only produced 84 such warriors.

After one circle is completed, I meet the master of time and space again.

Molan witnessed the 'ice cracking ability' and her curiosity was satisfied. She no longer had any interest in watching and continued to train the little warrior.

Long Bai concentrated on studying the abilities of these guys, looking for things to learn from and figuring out how to optimize and improve his own abilities.

...

[Time: 78th Era-194 Yuan-829 Years]

Molan got the white crystal fruit as she wished and used it directly.

Done,

All the bugs boarded the Tubbe and headed straight back.

...

The sunset glowed the evening sky in the west red.

The Glorious Throne dropped from the sky, trailing a long rainbow-colored tail of flame, and glided in an arc before landing beside the hill where the Great Orchid had taken root.

"Cymbidium."

Dalan greeted him and asked, "Did you eat the white crystal fruit?"

"Of course!"

"Have you realized the ability of reincarnation?"

"Just ate. Haven't started to comprehend yet. Dalan, I'll condense a cocoon for resurrection first..."

The big orchid is a herbaceous plant with woody rhizomes underground, and its cocoons can only be placed underground.

It took some time to condense.

After Molan felt it, she happily rushed to the next place to find the seeds given by the God of Lidou...

Xianglan Mountain became noisy.

The trees clamorously asked:

——Where have you gone, ant?
——How did you get involved with the mantis again?

The insects came and heard that Longbai had comprehended the original energy of power and combined it into a super new ability. They also surrounded Longbai and chattered and asked questions.

As usual, at the lakeside dinner, Long Bai described in detail the process of comprehending the "Elemental Force".

At the same time, Long Bai also inquired about the progress of the Force food trade during the nearly thousand years that he was away, the management of the Azure Star System and the Ocean Blue Star System, and the progress of the planetary construction project on the Cod Mass.

Each matter has its corresponding insect management, and everything can operate normally even without Longbai's command.

The dinner is over.

Long Bai arranged the world gems worth more than 300 billion on the eleventh floor of the short-handled horn tree and continued to comprehend the use of "Elemental Force".

'Boundless Sea, Infinite Sea' lacks combat power and is a single water carrier, so it will still be restrained.

The next step in the plan is to make the "Elemental Force" break away from the limitations of "water" and combine it with other elemental powers to derive more similar abilities, and then deduce and combine a more perfect and completely unrestrained full-system ability.

Longbai already had a plan in mind and was not in a hurry. He meditated and pondered every day, and continued to look through the knowledge compass collected by Yu Teng. He was leisurely, leaving the nest at regular times in the morning and evening, strolling around, enjoying the scenery, and quietly experiencing the world of life.

Molan spent half a year to lay 54 rebirth cocoons in 54 life seeds. She followed Longbai's example, read philosophical books, and traveled around with a few little soldiers.

Molan successfully combined the rebirth ability with the star core, and then it stopped working...

One year, two years, three years...

Ten years, twenty years, thirty years...

There was no progress, no sudden realization like Longbai's.

"Ant, is there any trick you didn't tell me?"

“There is no trick.”

"Why can't I?"

"Because you are missing two things."

"Something is missing? What is it? Why didn't you tell me earlier? Are you wasting my time on purpose?"

"I thought you could figure it out yourself."

"What did you realize? Tell me! What's missing?"

"To comprehend the power of reincarnation, it is not about talent, understanding, or intelligence. Molan, you lack 'tranquility'. 'Tranquility' is a kind of life practice and also a kind of wisdom."

"???"

Molan tilted her head and looked at him coldly with squinting eyes.

Long Bai said calmly: "Look at you, you get angry as soon as I say something. First of all, you have a restless mind and extremely unstable emotions."

Long Bai sighed and said, "In this situation, a large part is innate, it is nature; a small part is developed during the life course. Without great determination and wisdom, nature cannot be changed. I don't think you can change it either. You are destined to not go far on the road of reincarnation."

"..."

Molan asked, "Two things are missing? What else?"

Long Bai: "You need to improve the sense of existence of your 'self'. There are two ways: the first is to keep dying and gather the power of death. The second is to use the world gem to gather the energy of all living beings and absorb it passively. Of course, if conditions permit, both methods can be carried out at the same time, which is more efficient."

"Oh!"

Mo Lan suddenly realized, "You stupid ant, you were already in a dead water state on your home planet! You noticed it a long time ago, but you didn't tell me!"

Molan sighed, "So should I just keep dying, dying, dying like President Bai Wei?"

Long Bai: "Yes."

Molan: "Will you help me?"

Longbai: "At your service! I'm always available."

Mo Lan stared at him suspiciously for a long time, then ordered: "Follow my command and move your claws. The first way of death..."

...

Longbai has a new job in his daily life: killing mantises
Baibo was also trying to comprehend the power of death and was particularly enthusiastic about it, so he helped with the counting.

Once, twice, three times...

One hundred times, two hundred times, three hundred times...

Killing, killing,

Suddenly one day,
Longbai finally had an epiphany. With one thought, the vegetation in his territory took on a new look and flourished, but did not wither or die due to the decline of the wood element's energy.

Using the 'Giant Carnivorous Flower' as a medium, the 'Elemental Force' was successfully expanded to the Wood Element.

Another ten years,
Successfully expanded the 'Elemental Power' to the Earth Element.

Another ten years,
Successfully expanded the Wind system.

The gate was opened and things could not be stopped, quickly completing the fusion of Yuanli and the other six elements.

Another two hundred years of training and understanding,

Suddenly one day, Long Bai rose vertically into the sky, rushed straight out of the life planet, and hovered in the dark deep space on the edge of the source point. The original energy in his body burst out like a tide.

Mountains, rivers, lakes and oceans, white clouds and tree shadows, facing the rising sun, thousands of flowers are in bloom and birds are singing on the branches.

Molan noticed something was wrong and followed closely, rushing in, scanning repeatedly with her mental power.
A 'world' that is exactly the same as the real world?
"My Lord! What kind of power is this?"

"Infinite mountains and seas, infinite true worlds."

"Oh~ what else?"

"In theory, I am the god of a closed world dominated by me. I have infinite power and unlimited strength. As long as the world survives, I will not die. As long as I survive, the world will not perish."

"???"

"So what you mean is that your ability is impeccable?"

"That won't happen. With such overwhelming force, it will destroy me and the world together, and wipe out all traces of my existence. I will be gone. However, at the same evolutionary level, although it is not absolute, there are definitely very few insects that can do it."

Longbai: "It's time for me to change." (End of this chapter)