Astral Ants

Chapter 918 Metal Element Life, Austenite

Chapter 918 Metal Element Life, Austenite
In the Black Dharma Space, there are lush green mountains simulated by the world's capabilities.

A thousand-meter-tall, lush short-stalked horn tree stands proudly among the mountains.

The exclusive royal nest of Longbai!
...

A portal appeared out of nowhere and the Taber slowly emerged.

White light shines,

Longbai, Xingshen'ao, Yuteng and Elan teleported out of the cabin.

"Boss Longbai!"

The big-headed ant with golden light flashed and greeted under the transformation of the black magic. Its golden eyes aimed at the Star God Ao, and the purple-gold light flickered.

"Black magic!"

Xing Shen Ao greeted, "My name is Xing Shen Ao!"

"Hello--"

Hei Fa said incredulously: "It's the Flame Spider form again! The assimilation ability of the bloodline of the Divine Tree Civilization is too terrifying!"

"Perhaps Yu Teng's talent is too high."

Long Bai said, getting straight to the point, "Hei Fa, you carry the complete knowledge of the demigod civilization. Can you help me see if Xing Shen Ao can awaken his spatial talent?"

Black Law: “Yes!”

Long Bai asked, "Then can you simulate a special environment for Xing Shen'ao to evolve and increase the probability of success?"

Black Law: “Sure.”

Longbai activated the ability of the tree flower heart world and wrote into the black magic's mechanical consciousness the complete knowledge of Star God Ao constructing mining stars and veins, producing arcanite, and using arcanite and creative ability to cultivate austenite.

"Hei Fa, can you perform calculations and analysis to improve Xing Shen Ao's method based on the original method and help it cultivate a metal life form with spatial talent?"

"Theoretically it's possible."

Hei Fa was the first to give an affirmative answer, and his eyes projected golden beams that scanned back and forth over Xing Shen Ao.

After more than ten seconds,

Heifa said: "I need time to observe and conduct some experimental tests before I can give you a detailed plan."

"However, I can now give you a crucial suggestion: reduce the grade of the materials used to create the 'life embryo' to grade zero."

"The principle is very simple. Only when the Force life has a complete growth and evolution process can it have a higher upper limit. Zero-level materials cultivate zero-level metal life forms. Growth and evolution start from the lowest level."

Xing Shen'ao said, "I understand the principle. However, using low-grade materials to create an independent Force life form is a technical problem that I cannot solve."

"That's right——"

Heifa said: "For me, it is also a big challenge."

Xing Shen Ao asked, "What do you need me to do?"

Black Magic: "Where is your Law Stone? Let me see it."

A white light flashed on E Lan's forehead, and a metal stick tied to a stone-like, axe-shaped Palen Scepter appeared and floated in front of him.

Black magic: "..."

Heifa couldn't help but complain: "What a crude craftsmanship! The aesthetics are also... very retro."

After saying that, his eyes flashed with golden light and scanned.

"Okay. The data is stored. You can put it away now."

Black Law: "Xing Shen Ao, I will simulate the metal world environment for you. You will evolve first and break through the Three Trace Realm."

Star God Ao: "Thank you!"

...

The four-dimensional world changes,

In the far distance, the light and shadow are hazy, and the mountain and river environment with a diameter of 50,000 kilometers has calmly receded, replaced by a "metal world" that is desolate, dry, vicissitudes, with rocks everywhere, and metal energy raging with the wind.

Star God Ao moved in, placed the coffin and scepter, absorbed the energy, transformed, absorbed, and enhanced.

The essence of Xing Shen Ao is still an innate god, and a metal life form, which is another kind of life and power system. Like fish and insects, they cannot use the force food produced by the force plants of the natural god system to grow quickly, nor can they gain abilities through the divine fruit.

However, Xing Shen'ao can use the Law Stone that gave birth to it as a medium to accelerate the power of evolution and growth. With a little assistance from technological power, the speed will not be that slow.

...

The Black Law Space is breeding large quantities of energy materials of different grades and types, and the time required ranges from 3 to 3 years.

There is a continuous output of primary materials.

Longbai arranged Black Grape, Two-color Golden Acacia, Two-color Golden Banyan, and 500 technological warriors to reside in the Heifa world space, responsible for material refining and the production of some mothership and starship components.

The four combat assistant kings, Silver Cypress, Juniper, Two-Colored Fei Lian, and Two-Colored Thousand Lights, as well as combat insects such as Red Smilax, are responsible for security and defense.

The insects noticed the commotion and came over one after another.

"Your Majesty!"

"Why are you here, my king?"

"what!"

"This is……"

"Isn't this a spider?"

"Star God Ao?"

"..."

After a round of greetings, inquiries and explanations, they went to the tree-shaped king's nest together to hold a simple party.

After the party, everyone went about their own business.

Elan has something to do, so he returns to the Lingxiao star system first.

Yu Teng and Long Bai stayed and waited.

...

Star God Ao starts to evolve from King Level 1.

Over a thousand years,

Suddenly one day, in the tree-shaped king's nest, the half-asleep dragon cypress suddenly raised its head and raised its tentacles to sense.

The force fluctuations of breakthrough.

Very weak.

"Black magic!"

Long Bai called.

Shining gold,

The black magic in the form of a big-headed ant crossed the space to appear in the King's Nest, and took the initiative to explain: "Xing Shen Ao finally broke through."

"The consciousness has just fallen into a deep sleep, and the overall state is stable. According to my observation and calculation, if there are no accidents, the breakthrough will be successfully completed in 74 days. If an accident occurs and the spatial talent cannot be awakened, it will take 49 days for awakening. Of course, the probability of an accident is very low, no more than %."

"I am continuing to collect data. After the breakthrough, I just need to scan it again. Then I can preliminarily deduce the zero-level energy material used to manufacture the 'metal embryo' and conduct formal experimental tests."

Long Bai: "..."

Black magic has independent consciousness and thinking, but it has no soul. Moreover, it is an alien civilization and a different kind of intelligent machine. When communicating with it, it always feels a little awkward and unnatural...

Normal communication between intelligent beings should be that Longbai asks questions and Heifa answers them one by one...

Heifa had calculated what question Longbai was going to ask, and before Longbai even opened his mouth, he had finished speaking...

Long Bai had nothing to say. He was silent for three seconds, then stood up and gave an order:

"Heifa, notify Derris, Juniper, Silver Cypress, Black Ti, and Red Sedge to go over and take a look!"

...

49 days later,

Xing Shen Ao hasn't woken up yet.

According to Heifa's calculations, there were no accidents and he was certain that he had successfully awakened his spatial talent.

Another 25 days later,

The fluctuations of the Force from deep underground subsided, and Star God Ao, with the tentacles above his head wrapped around the Scepter of Palen, stepped out of the cave.

The insects waiting at the entrance of the cave all used their mental power to scan and sense.

"Star God Ao!"

"Congratulations!"

"congratulations!"

"You have the spatial talent?"

"What about spatial ability?"

"Have you realized the ability of space?"

"Awakening talent, there is a high probability that there will be a companion ability, right?"

"..."

Xing Shenao: "There is a... tunnel space folding and solidification technology."

"???"

"Forehead……"

"WTF?"

"If I remember correctly, it should be the ability to build a star network channel, right?"

“This is a hard labor skill!”

"That means it's similar to the Traveling Flame Spider."

"..."

The black magic eyes of the transformed golden big-headed ant burst into golden light and swept across the star god Ao.

Pause for a few seconds.

Waving its tentacles, large spots of golden light fell, and a powerful message was written into the soul consciousness of all insects.

A set of knowledge,
It includes the creation of the mining planet environment, the construction and maintenance of mineral veins, and the refining of output ore.

There are also detailed methods for producing 'Level Zero Arcanite', optimized and improved methods for manufacturing 'metal embryos', manufacturing and layout of auxiliary equipment for hatching nests, etc.

Black Law: "According to my calculations, the time required for the development of this new type of 'Level Zero Arcanite' deposit is approximately 1100 to 1200 years."

Hei Fa took the initiative to explain: "Ordinary zero-level energy materials can be cultivated in a hundred years, two or three hundred years. The 'Ore Gold' that I deduced and modified contains spatial characteristics, so it takes a longer time. All energy materials with spatial characteristics take much longer than other materials of the same level."

Hei Fa asked, "Boss Longbai, can I build a small mineral vein and breed a batch of minerals first?"

——Is there any need to ask? It is necessary and urgent.

Longbai gently tapped its antennae in response.

The surrounding space rippled slightly, and the environment simulated by the world's ability changed slightly.

Black Mage: "The mine has been constructed."

Long Bai asked: "Black Method, is this a test? There is no guarantee of 100% success?"

Black Law: “Yes.”

Long Bai: "Then can you try a few more plans? Carrying out multiple plans at the same time will save time."

Black Law: "This is the best solution I deduced and calculated. Boss Longbai, you must trust my demigod-level computing power. I don't need too much trial and error."

"Ok."

Long Bai asked: "Then, what shall we do next...wait?"

Black Law: “Yes.”

黑法：“矿脉孕育需要1100年至1200年。制作成‘金属胚胎’尝试孕育金属生命体，又需要500年至550年。大约1700年后出结果。”

"Boss Longbai, if you have something to do, you can go ahead and do it. Xing Shen'ao needs to stay and grow and evolve with me, so that I can continue to observe and collect data for backup."

"it is good--"

Long Bai gave the order directly, saying: "Xingshen Ao stay. Yu Teng, you rest here first. I will go to the 101st and 111th star regions for a tour and come back immediately."

...

Star Region 111,
Baifan is the commander-in-chief of the Shuhua Joint Fleet, and Qingfeng, Hongfeng, Luxin, Xingyunbai, Caolong, and Yudou are deputy commanders. They are stationed in the four star systems of Feiguang and coordinate the actions of 50 fleets and 500 million Zerg warriors. For a period of one thousand years, they will uniformly collect the source information found by each fleet and the distribution data of star matter collected during the voyage.

Longbai is also a fixed place, which travels there once every thousand years to input the collected information data into the Taber, deduce and calculate, and adjust and optimize the routes of each fleet.

Lacking the guidance of Yuchong, the overall progress of the combined fleet was slow, but the fleet was large, and all the gains added up were considerable.

Moreover, the Combined Fleet had another advantage: its large numbers and aggressive momentum scared away most of the other fleets that entered Star Field No. 111.

The Shuhua United Fleet consists of 289 survival motherships of various sizes, divided into 50 large-scale fleets, scattered throughout the galaxy to search. The motherships and landing ships are of the same standard, with the same color and paint.

As you can imagine,

Other fleets came and found traces of a certain tree flower fleet. They found that it was a large fleet of 10 insects. They couldn't afford to offend them, so they changed places. They changed places and found another large fleet of the same size and the same format. They changed places again. After changing places again, they found traces of the tree flower fleet's activities again...

Time and again, normal bugs can realize that Star Field No. 111 has been occupied by a terrifyingly large force, and those who know what's good for them will voluntarily withdraw.

One is to avoid conflicts and fear of being bullied; the other is to avoid the situation where one works hard to find the source only to find that it has been marked.

The Shuhua Chamber of Commerce is a brand name, and in the future it will use the name of 'Shuhua Chamber of Commerce' to do business in the Amber Star Domain. It will not oppress or drive away other forces, but invisibly, it actually dominates the entire Star Domain No. 111.

Long Bai went to the Four Star Systems of Crimson Light, performed routine tasks, collected data, updated the fleet route, and then rushed to Star Region 101.

...

The situation in star field No. 101 is similar to that in star field No. 111.

With three survival motherships traveling at 150 times the speed of light and the guidance of the fish worms, the fleet continuously searches out one source after another at ultra-high speed and efficiency.

The number of source points found so far has exceeded 4000, and they are evenly distributed throughout the star field.

When other fleets started searching, they would often head to those locations where the third-level and second-level source points were more likely to appear in the deduction calculations. Often, after working hard to find a source point, they would find that it had already been marked.

Normally, when a source point is marked, it means that a large area nearby has been searched and it is necessary to move to another location.

I changed my location and searched again. As I searched, I found that the source had been marked. I changed my location again...

After repeated occurrences, normal fleets will choose to withdraw.

In silence, the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce team also took over the search rights of Star Region 101 alone.

...

As the time goes,

Star fields 01 to 50, where the probability of the presence of third-level source points was the highest, were turned upside down, and all the existing third-level source points were turned out.

The fleet that was originally concentrated in star fields 01 to 50 began to spread to other "remote star fields".

at the same time,

New successful groups of warriors arrived continuously, and new fleets joined the search force and poured into various star fields.

The situation is different for star fields No. 124 and No. 125, which have the same layout.

The number of source points previously marked in Star Field No. 124 was not enough, and a large number of fleets still broke in and operated there.

Citi Mountain and Boshuwan Chamber of Commerce have been searching in Star Region 125, but after all, there are only two starships and more than 125 insects. The power is weak, and there is no fish insect to guide the direction, so the efficiency is extremely low. The number of marked source points is not enough, and many fleets have also poured into Star Region to compete with them.

Longbai couldn't help either.

Long Bai couldn't even take care of the star field No. 124 that he had reserved.

More and more bugs are entering the Amber Galaxy, and the competition is becoming increasingly fierce. They are determined to consolidate the 101 and 111 star fields.

Long Bai mainly stayed in Star Field No. 101 and followed the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce fleet.

...

The agreed 1700 years passed quickly.

Longbai arrived at the Black Law on time.

The Taber passed through the portal and came directly to the metal world simulated by the black magic.

Follow the passage down to a specially decorated hall deep underground.

Inside the hall, there are densely packed black metal columns and silver metal pedestals.

On each round platform, there is a gray-black oval metal ball with a long diameter of 20 cm, emitting a faint breath of vitality.

——Metal embryo.

Long Bai glanced at the scene, his brain rapidly calculating the statistics.

The integer is 1 circular platforms.

Of these, 31 are vacant.

Look at Xing Shen Ao again.

Xing Shen Ao was lying in the center of the hall, on a platform with three steps, a little over 20 meters in diameter.

The Palen Scepter was inserted vertically into the groove in the center of the round platform. The coffin was placed aside, and Star God Ao was lying on the coffin.

Below the circular platform, in the 31-sided square paved with black metal plates, silver-gray "little spiders" with a foot span of just over centimeters were gathered in groups of three or two, lying motionless.

——Metallic life form, a new type of 'austenite'.

The three-story platform absorbed a large amount of the Force, and after the initial conversion, it was injected into the Palen Scepter. After the Palen Scepter was converted again, the Force energy with the nature of the innate law of divine power was fed back to form a "field".

The big spider Star Shen'ao and the small spider Austenite were inside the field, absorbing the primordial energy and growing and evolving.

"Boss Long Bai!"

Xing Shen Ao woke up from his dormant meditation, greeted him, stood up, walked down the platform quickly, and ran forward to greet him.

The 'little spiders' woke up one after another and ran after it.

Long Bai asked, "Did it succeed in one try?"

"Half successful..."

Star God Ao Dao: "It is not certain whether they can awaken the spatial talent. We need to evolve to the Three Trace Realm to get the exact data. Black magic said that there is a probability problem. Some Aotenoids have a probability of awakening the spatial talent."

Speaking of black law,

A golden light flashed, and Black Magic in the form of a golden big-headed ant appeared and said, "According to accurate calculations, the average probability of awakening spatial talent in this batch of austenites is 17.4%. I have already given an optimization plan, and the new mineral vein has been built and is being nurtured."

"Forehead--"

Long Bai raised his claws and pointed at the surrounding circular platforms, saying, "Ten thousand metal embryos? Then the rest are..."

Black Magic: "It's a dead fetus. It's not dead yet, and Xing Shen Ao is reluctant to throw it away."

Heifa: "In the first batch, the probability of successful hatching is 0.31%, which is too low. We may need two more attempts to optimize and improve before we can achieve a more ideal success rate of more than 3%."

Long Bai: "Isn't 3% too low? Ten thousand metal embryos, only 300 metal life forms?"

Black Law: "3% is already a very high success rate."

Black Magic: "In essence, the so-called innate gods are just elemental life forms that are a little bit more powerful. Metal life forms are pure elemental life forms. All elemental life forms are probabilistic products under specific environmental conditions, and the probability of successful birth is extremely low. This is the law of the universe. Technological assistance can increase the probability of success to a certain extent, but it cannot fundamentally solve the problem."

"Forehead……"

Longbai looked towards Xingshenao.

A 'little spider' climbed up the carapace along Star God's hind legs, and quickly climbed to the top of its head, staring at Longbai with its eight pitch-black eyes.

Xing Shen Ao introduced: "This is Yuan Zhen, who is lively and active by nature, smart and studious."

Black Law: "It's just that your talent is not that good. The probability of awakening your spatial talent is less than one in ten thousand. I suggest you plan as early as possible, starting from the mountain master level, and strengthen your metal and soul powers simultaneously."

Star God Ao: “…”

Long Bai: "..."

Yuan Zhen: "Hello~"

"Hello~"

Longbai flicked its antennae in response.

Xing Shen Ao continued to introduce: "This little fellow is called Yuan Ling. The black magic test says that the probability of awakening space talent is more than 50%!"

"Very good~"

"Hello little one~"

Longbai greeted warmly.

Yuan Ling waved his claws and forelegs in response, "Hello, boss!"

"..."

Long Bai ordered: "Black Law, the most wonderful thing about the evolution of Force life is that it has the possibility of unlimited growth. The universe is boundless, things are unpredictable, and fate is unpredictable. Don't scan and test your qualifications anymore, it's meaningless."

Black Law: “Received!”

Long Bai asked, "Xingshen Ao, the first generation of 31 Austenites, are all named starting with 'Yuan'?"

Star God Ao: "Yes. The first generation is Yuan, the second generation is Ji, the third generation is Zhou, the fourth generation is Yu, the fifth generation is Kong, the sixth generation is Su, the seventh generation is Chen, the eighth generation is Yao, the ninth generation is Heng..."

"The number of first, second, and third generations may be relatively small. Once the optimal plan is established, I will return to the Lingxiao star system, deploy it on a large scale, cultivate it on a large scale, and quickly develop it into a civilization."

"it is good……"

Long Bai calculated silently in his mind.

At this rate, the next batch of first- and second-level energy materials will be produced enough to independently produce core components and realize the self-manufacturing of survival motherships and starships.

This not only saves costs, but also involves issues of autonomy, autonomy, and voice.

Longbai raised his paw and pointed, and asked eagerly, "What about this little guy? He looks very lively, too. What's his name?"

"Yuan Brown~"

The little flame spider answered and greeted: "Hello, boss..."

...

The Ferdinand civilization of Xingshenao is very important to Longbai!

Produce technological products and sell them to make money.

Restore the technology of the Vafa civilization and build a super fleet for deep space expeditions.

...

Long Bai came just to see the test results.

Just make sure that you can train an Austenite to the level of a junior warrior and that there is a chance that it will awaken the spatial talent.

Stayed for two years.
Long Bai brought Yu Teng to the Manchi star system to visit the Manchi Lord, chatted with him and gathered information, and then went to the Lingxiao star system to check on the evolution of Zhanlan.

Unlimited supply of source gems and chaos ore, rapid growth of Azure, evolution to the star realm.

Finally, Long Bai returned to Star Field No. 101 alone, rejoined the fleet, and lay dormant.

...

[Time: 78th Era-452 Yuan-184 Years]

The 101th effective source point with a force concentration of more than 5000 in star field No. 0.5 was found.

Including source points with Force concentration less than 0.5, the actual number of source points discovered and marked exceeds 5500.

The Taber made deductions and calculations, further narrowing the scope and eventually locking in the 50 points where the third-level source points were most likely to appear.

I searched one by one, but found nothing.

That means it hasn't evolved yet.

Star field No. 124 may still be salvaged.

The fleet did not stay for long and acted according to plan, entering the 124th star field to search.

...

Time flows in silence.

Suddenly one day,
The calm was broken.

Molan shook her mental power and shouted in shock: "Longbai, come out quickly! Look who's here!"

"..."

Long Bai's soul-calming ability swept away, and he was speechless.

The three insects are zeqi, elan and giant cypress.

Make a fuss out of nothing.