Astral Ants

Lord Manchi is a particular insect. In order to welcome the leaders of major chambers of commerce and major forces coming from the three major galaxies, he has made high-standard ceremonial preparations.

The open half-moon-shaped palace with a radius of more than 100 meters,

The gray-white floor paved with Chaos raw stone is low-key and luxurious.

The pillars, walls and domes decorated with the world's raw stones and various shining gems are gorgeous and noble.

Under the throne,
In the spacious living room, there are two rows of "low tables" about 2 meters long and 1.2 meters wide, which are made of metal and carved with exquisite floral and bird patterns.

The intelligent machines designed in the form of colorful flame spiders were busy coming in and out, placing various Force foods, freshly picked fruits, and steaming, roasted and cut pieces of raw meat on the table.

Behind the table is a cushion made of some kind of spider silk. When guests are seated, they can lie comfortably on the cushion at the back and reach for the food on the table by just raising their paws.

It looks very grand, formal and official.

It is much more high-end than the banquet style at Xianglan Mountain where people gather around a gilded pot and eat boiled food.

...

Manchi Lord fixed his gaze on Longbai and asked, "Are you the head of the Chamber of Commerce?"

Longbai introduced himself: "I am the leader of the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce, the giant-headed ant tribe, and the Longbai Ant King. Molan is indeed a flower mantis warrior who came out of the mother planet with me. He serves as the leader of the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce, and is mainly responsible for education and defense affairs."

He raised his paw again and introduced: "This is Huaqishan, the leader of the Shield Pillar, who ranked 456st in the 241th Daylight Sea Arena. This is the Luoli Chamber of Commerce, Captain Ang Tianlian, who is on a long vacation. We went on an adventure together and happened to meet the Lord of the Mountain Disaster on the Huoyala Star. After learning about the Amber Galaxy information, he followed us here. This is my most capable assistant king, Jubai..."

Longbai introduced them one by one, and finally it was Bai Liu's turn...

Bai Liu took the initiative and said, "My name is Bai Liu. I am the commander of the Ninth Corps of the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce's Military Department, the chief battle commander, and I specialize in territory defense. I own a divine black lotus seed given by God."

"Oh!"

"So many powerful warriors! Your Xianglan Chamber of Commerce is really full of talented people!"

The Manchi Lord said something polite and gently waved his tentacles to point out:

"Captain Longbai! Please take a seat in the front!"

"Chief Shield Pillar, please take a seat here!"

"..."

Very particular,

The higher the status, the closer the seat is to the throne dominated by Manchi.

There is a distinction between host and guest, and an order of high and low.

The guests were seated, and Lord Manchi finally ascended his throne. He held Lord Shanyang's wooden letter card and studied it carefully. He changed his tone and said slowly:

"Shan Yang only has 10 of these tokens. There is an agreement within the Chamber of Commerce that insects or forces that come with a token can enjoy the highest preferential treatment. There is also an agreement that they must be old friends with close relationships, or emerging tribes or chambers of commerce with unlimited potential."

"You two are so young, if you are not old friends, then you must be..."

The Manchi Lord's eyes gleamed, and he said slowly: "The power of reincarnation, the energy of all living beings, the aura of world power. And the extraordinary physique of the elite warriors of the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce. Great Chief Longbai, your potential is indeed unlimited."

"And the Shield Pillar Leader, the Black Orchid Leader, the Red Maple Leader, the Raspberry Leader, etc. You are all the top warriors in the universe, there is no doubt about that..."

Lord Manchi spoke implicitly, paused, and asked: "Would you please introduce your Xianglan Chamber of Commerce and Citi Chamber of Commerce in detail? You are a small group of insects, coming here on a super-fast starship? Have you organized other insects in the chamber of commerce and arranged for the main fleet to come?"

"Of course!"

Long Bai said: "The main fleet is on the way, with a speed of 1200 times the speed of light, and is expected to arrive within 4800 years. In the first batch, we dispatched 6 elite Zerg warriors, 500 Glory Realm and Star Realm Ant Kings and Queen Bees, and several assistant kings. We also transported an unassembled survival mothership that can be assembled and put into use at any time, as well as various supporting engineering equipment."

Long Bai was very clear that the size of his group was far behind the fleets led by Sishu and Xia Li, and was also completely incomparable to the fleets of the seventh and eighth level chambers of commerce that would arrive later.

Even with the "Molan Transport Ship" taking the lead, it is still just a small force that is not worthy of the Manchi Lord.

Long Bai didn't keep anyone in suspense. After he finished speaking, he stood up. The space in front of him swayed slightly, and ten square metal boxes floated out...

"Space-Time Cube!"

Manchi Lord's eyes lit up slightly, and he recognized it at a glance, and asked: "This thing only came out from the Daylight Sea Arena Battle, are these all won by you on the battlefield?"

"Yes."

"Molan is the champion of the 455th Xingjing Battlefield. I also won the 456th Sujing Battlefield."

Longbai picked out the key points and spoke in a light tone. He gently waved his tentacles and the magic cube flew in front of the Lord Manchi. He changed to a serious tone and explained and introduced:

"The reason why the Lord of the Mountain Disaster gave us a token and cordially invited us to develop in the Amber Galaxy is mainly because I have a sacred tree of law called the Great King Cypress."

"The fruit produced is called 'Wang Baizi', and the ability it grants is called 'Adaptive Evolution'. There are two main development directions: the first is to imitate change, bionics, creation, and even creation; the second is evolutionary adaptation, absolute adaptation, absolute immunity, and training oneself to become an immortal divine body."

Longbai: "At present, the Great King Cypress Sacred Tree is only at the Star Realm level, and it only produces King Cypress seeds at the Star Realm level, with a flowering and fruiting cycle of 111 years. Time is short, and we can only prepare 10 seeds. We present them as a gift for the visit, and I hope Lord Manchi will not despise them."

"The sacred tree of laws! Adapt to evolution?"

"No wonder! That's what I told you~"

Manchi Lord stood up excitedly, muttered, overjoyed, and said happily:
"I knew that the first team to arrive at the Amber Galaxy would not be simple! It turned out to be the Law God Tree! You were adventuring in the galaxy and accidentally encountered the mountain disaster, so you got the information first? This is not luck, not coincidence, this is clearly the guidance of the True God of Nature!"

"Yes!"

Long Bai nodded his tentacles solemnly and agreed, "The universe is so big, I don't believe there would be such a coincidence. It must be the True God of Nature who guided us to join the Amber Galaxy. Fortunately, we have made great achievements here."

"..."

Mo Lan, Ang Tian Lian, and Bai Liu listened in silence.

——The leaders of the forces all speak in the same way~
——Longbai and the Lord of the Mountain Disaster had already used the same tactics of flattering each other~
"That's right!"

The Lord of Manchi nodded his tentacles in agreement, selected a space-time Rubik's Cube, controlled the twisting, and teleported Wang Baizi out. He stared at it carefully for a long time, his mind moved slightly, and he carefully packed it up.

"Captain Longbai is too polite! But I won't be polite, I will accept your generous gift! In the Amber Galaxy, we also have young warriors being born, and we are worried about the lack of top-level resources to train them."

"Lord Manchi, I hope you don't mind that our gift is too frivolous."

Long Bai made a hypocritical greeting and continued to introduce: "We are too young, have only developed for a short time, and are still weak, so this time three chambers of commerce are working together to form a team. The Xianglan Chamber of Commerce led by me, the Citi Chamber of Commerce led by the Shield Pillar leader, and the Baiwei Chamber of Commerce led by the Flame Spider."

"The three chambers of commerce operate independently, but they also work closely together. Together they have formed an engineering fleet. In the White Crystal Galaxy, we have the ability to directly or indirectly mobilize more than a million Zerg warriors to build stars."

"Xianglan Chamber of Commerce has also cooperated with Baiwei Chamber of Commerce to engage in the trade of Force food, covering eleven star regions of the Baijing Galaxy, with an annual transaction volume of nearly 30 billion. At the same time, we have also cooperated to engage in the trade of energy materials. We predicted that a fourth star system would appear in the near future, prepared an expedition fleet, and stockpiled some materials."

"At the same time, we are also engaged in zero-level source point management, and the total number of God-granted seeds we directly own exceeds 10. Huaqishan has a stable inheritance on the mother planet, and there are a steady stream of warriors leaving the mother planet, entering the starry sky, and joining the Chamber of Commerce. The number of God-granted seeds we directly control exceeds 30, and through trade cooperation, the number of God-granted seeds we indirectly control can exceed 100."

"Our three chambers of commerce have united to a certain extent in the eleven star regions of the White Crystal Galaxy. We can guide more than five million Zerg warriors to migrate and settle in the Amber Galaxy..."

Longbai did his best to promote the power and influence of his group.

But Lord Manchi obviously didn't think much of it.

This scale of new chamber of commerce is better than the lower ones, but it is not good enough compared with the higher ones.
"good very good!"

"Captain Longbai, the Amber Galaxy is newly opened and is in great demand for insects. Feel free to introduce your friends to develop here and I will give them preferential treatment."

Manchi Lord said something polite, and brought the topic back to the Law Tree. He asked, "Captain Longbai, according to my knowledge, your ability of reincarnation has reached an extremely high level. You have comprehended the elemental force, and you also have a strong power characteristic of the ghost locust warriors of the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce. You also have a large number of ten-series abilities that are not weak. Have you integrated these powers to build a world ability?"

"Yes--"

Long Bai complimented, "Lord Manchi is well-informed and knowledgeable, and his analysis is spot-on."

Lord Manchi asked, "Then you should have established a stable exchange of law fruits with the Baijing Chamber of Commerce and the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce?"

Long Bai answered truthfully, "Yes. Baiwei Chamber of Commerce is doing an inter-galactic law fruit exchange transaction. Currently, the five known divine fruits are being exchanged: Wangbaizi, Baijing Fruit, Julongzhu Fruit, Rosary Bean, and Peach Blossom Fruit."

"No wonder!"

The eyes of the Manchi Lord shone with golden red light, and he was obviously more interested in the Fruit of Law. He exclaimed:
"With so many Law Fruits and Divine Fruits, it's hard for the bugs in your Chamber of Commerce to not be powerful!"

Long Bai said modestly: "But there are too few Zerg warriors with outstanding Force talent and combat talent. In the most recent Daylight Sea Arena, our Chamber of Commerce did not perform well. Only two little guys made it into the top 300, and their rankings were not high, not even in the top ."

Lord Manchi said pertinently: "I am familiar with the Daylight Sea Arena. Most of the rankings are won by the young warriors from the mother planet who are favored by the True God of Nature. It is already remarkable that the young warriors born in the starry sky can get a ranking."

Speaking of the Daylight Sea Arena, the warrior who is good at fighting, Manchi Lord, was full of energy and high spirits. He raised his tentacles and waved them, calling out:

"It's been a long journey, everyone must be exhausted, right? Let's eat and talk."

After a polite remark, he asked:
"In the past three million years, the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce, the Baijing Chamber of Commerce, and the Itinerant Flame Spider Tribe have produced extremely powerful... well, those with core abilities that have reached the level of Great Chief Longbai and Chief Molan. How many young warriors of your level have appeared? Are there many?"

Long Bai: "This... seems... not much, right?" Mo Lan tilted her head and thought, then said, "The Scarlet Dragonfly tribe has a fellow named 'Bi Xue Long Li' who is comparable to me. Not to mention the abilities bestowed by other law fruits, the main thing is that when it was on its home planet, it obtained a strange, extremely powerful annihilation power bestowed by the True God of Nature. It is an extremely special mixed elemental power, and I have tried countless times to simulate and replicate it, but it is completely impossible."

Mo Lan's eyes turned and said, "Oh, right! There are also guys who have ancient artifacts, the White-faced God and the Black-faced God..."

Molan recounted in detail the story of the two sacred artifacts, the 'Pure Land and the Pure Heart'.

"!!!"

This is undoubtedly another explosive news!
When Lord Manchi heard this, his tentacles stood up, his eyes shone with light, and he pondered for a long time before muttering, "How many good things has the True God of Nature collected?"

The topic comes to this...

Long Bai immediately added, "We have private exchanges and transactions with the White-Faced God and the Black-Faced God, and our relationship is pretty good. I have seen the god-level power bestowed by the artifacts on them..."

Long Bai observed Lord Manchi's reaction and said cautiously, "Lord Manchi, you seem to have similar metal-related god-level power?"

"That's right..."

Manchi Lord admitted it directly, gently tapped his tentacles, and said: "It was also given by the True God of Nature when it was the Mother Planet. It is called the 'Heart of Eternity'... Do you know about the Eternal Star Civilization?"

"Know!"

"I know too."

"I know!"

The group of insects in Longbai suddenly lost their composure. They looked at each other, then at the Lord Manchi, and raised their antennae, waiting for what was to come.

Long Bai said solemnly: "I have learned about it in detail in the library, and paid special attention to the history of the rise and fall of this civilization, as well as the 'Intelligent Disaster' caused by it."

Manchi Overlord: "It can be seen that you have an instinctive rejection and rational concern for the numerous digital life forms and intelligent machines that exist in the Manchi star system."

"The first thing I want to make clear is that you can rest assured that nothing will go wrong."

"Well, how should I put it..."

Lord Manchi paused and said, "You have not evolved to the Lord level, so you don't have the authority to read some information and cannot fully understand the history of that time. I think since you have come this far, I can tell you in detail."

The Manchi Lord paused for another two seconds, organized his words, and said slowly: "The Eternal Stars civilization is a pure technological civilization. For technological civilizations, materials are the most core technology for manufacturing artifacts. They used unknown methods to achieve mass production of god-level materials. It took hundreds of millions of years to create a god-level flagship that represents the highest achievement of civilization. The name is 'Eternal Stars'."

"A giant ship with a diameter of over 700 million kilometers, unprecedented and subversive. It has all the functions of survival, production, defense, and attack. It is not only a starship, but also the political, technological, and cultural center of civilization."

"It's not a conventional warship as we see it now. In fact, it is endowed with life characteristics and can be regarded as a god-level, true god-level intelligent machine named 'Eternal Stars'!"

"The Eternal Stars possesses a vast amount of data, god-level computing power, and manages the entire civilization. It can be said that it is the actual ruler of the Eternal Stars civilization."

"..."

Longbai and his group of insects were shocked and stunned after hearing what he said: Is there such a saying?
Molan raised his paw and asked, "That's not right! Since you are already the actual ruler of civilization, why would the Eternal Stars betray you? Isn't that the same as betraying yourself?"

The Manchi Lord gently shook his tentacles and said, "It is not the Eternal Stars that betrayed."

The Manchi Lord's gaze fell on Longbai.

Long Bai said: "The biggest feature of scientific and technological civilization is mass production. Since they have mastered the methods and technologies and occupied a sufficiently vast territory, they must be able to produce an endless supply of god-level materials and then build the second and third god-level starships. I guess there is something wrong with the latter god-level starship."

"clever!"

Lord Manchi asked curiously, "Captain Longbai, have you read the relevant information?"

"No--"

Longbai shook his antennae and asked, "Great Chief Manchi, this is not difficult to guess, right?"

"It's not difficult, but your guess is so accurate!"

Lord Manchi said: "The Eternal Civilization really did build the second and third God-class starships in one go, and called them the 'Eternal Twins'."

Long Bai: "..."

Manchi Overlord said: "'Zi' means direct descendants, bloodline descendants... not the kind of bloodline descendants that we Zerg understand... well, it's just like..."

Lord Manchi pondered, raised his paw and tapped the roasted tender beef on the plate on the table, and said: "It's like a cow giving birth to two calves, two 'sons' born directly, with a vertical blood relationship."

“But in reality, that’s not the case.”

"The Eternal Twins were not born from the Eternal Stars..."

Manchi asked: "Do you understand what I mean?"

"can!"

"cannot!"

"I understand it roughly. But not completely."

Some of the insects touched their antennae, while others shook them.

Lord Manchi saw that Longbai and Shield Pillar had both nodded their tentacles, so he did not explain further and continued:
"The diameter of the Eternal Twins is less than 600 million kilometers, which is only half the size of the Eternal Stars. Their comprehensive capabilities are also only about half of the Eternal Stars, and they are also subject to subordinate restrictions."

"The Eternal Twins were dissatisfied and united to launch a riot. They successfully killed the Eternal Stars, seized and shared its 'Eternal Heart', and completed a leap."

"Then they started fighting among themselves and frantically expanded their military power. A brutal war that shook the universe broke out, but in the end, they fought to the death. Other omnics began to fight for the Heart of Eternity and the wreckage of the god-level battleships. They armed themselves and evolved into a large number of demigod-level omnics. Eventually, they lost control and turned into an omnic catastrophe."

Lord Manchi said: "What I obtained is the Eternal Heart of Ruthenium, one of the Eternal Twins. After integrating it with myself, I have mastered a little bit of the ability to control intelligent machines."

--I see!
——What specific abilities are they?
Lord Manchi was obviously unwilling to give a detailed introduction, and the other insects did not dare to ask too many questions.

Long Bai thought quickly and asked, "Did the other 'Heart of Eternity' get it from the Dragon Bamboo Master of the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce?"

"I also had doubts..."

Lord Manchi shook his tentacles and said, "I have had the honor of meeting Lord Longzhu. Judging from the characteristics of his power, they are not similar. No, the difference is very obvious. They are different civilization systems."

"Oh--"

Long Bai asked, "So, Lord Manchi, do you mean to vigorously develop scientific and technological civilization in the Amber Galaxy, vigorously promote intelligent machines, and assist in galaxy construction and technological production?"

"I want to, too. But I can't."

Manchi Overlord shook his tentacles helplessly and said, "I am a Force life, a Zerg warrior, not a god-level giant ship with a diameter of more than 700 million kilometers. We are two completely different life forms. I have only inherited a limited part of the 'Heart of Eternity', the essence of metal power."

Lord Manchi: "I can only command the intelligent machines within the star system. I am studying the knowledge in the field of science and technology. If one day I can crack and restore the manufacturing method of god-level materials and build a god-level starship, perhaps I can use this to leap forward and evolve into a 'true god', becoming an existence similar to the 'Eternal Stars' and the 'Eternal Twins', but different from them."

"!!!"

Upon hearing this, all the insects were awed, raised their antennae, and stood in awe.

Lord Manchi has already mastered the path of evolution leading directly to the true God!

It sounds like a shortcut!

Ang Tianlian asked tentatively: "Lord Manchi, how much of the knowledge of the Eternal Stars Civilization in making god-level materials has been preserved?"

"zero."

Lord Manchi said: "Due to the confidentiality measures and the war, all the core knowledge of the Eternal Stars civilization has been lost."

"Forehead……"

Ang Tianlian: "Then, the difficulty should not be high, right?"

Lord Manchi said unhappily, "Little friend from the Five-Colored Flame Spider Tribe, you are not very involved in the field of science and technology, right?"

Ang Tianlian: "..."

Ang Tianlian said self-deprecatingly: "I am almost illiterate."

"I see it."

Lord Manchi said: "In the Eternal Star Civilization, countless top sages spent hundreds of millions of years and countless generations of accumulation before they finally understood the ultimate meaning of technology. I am almost alone, my subordinates can't help much, and my intelligent machines are limited in size. How much time and energy do I need to spend to get to that step? The difficulty is unimaginable."

"..."

The insects' upright antennae drooped in excitement.

It seems to be true! For a Zerg warrior with clumsy six claws, not particularly good brains, and not naturally good at technology, this road is simply deadly. (End of this chapter)