Astral Ants

Chapter 939 Ten-Series Almighty Ant

The technological egg-laying facility is designed to be in the shape of a fifty-meter-high mountain, and the interior is designed to be an intricate ant nest.

In the center of the ant nest, there is a hemispherical ovary chamber with a diameter of 6 meters. There are 1296 hexagonal secret cells on the wall, and the ant eggs are produced from the secret cells. The maximum number of eggs laid in a single batch has increased from 36 in the Throne of Domination to 1296.

1296 pieces in a single batch is the theoretical limit of Longbai at the Domination Stage.

In addition, there are 18 ant egg hatching rooms, 36 larvae breeding rooms of various sizes, secret cold storage for storing food, and a restaurant where food can be delivered under mind control.

A relatively complete set of facilities can be moved and placed in the Shanglu World.

The operation is also very simple, with mind communication, and the prompt information is familiar and more in line with the ant tribe:
【Please select the type of ant eggs】

【Soldier Ant·Regular】

【Worker Ant·General】

【Soldier Ant·Leader】

【Worker Ant·Rain Master】

Designed by Hei Fa, and manufactured by Xing Shen Ao himself.

To simplify, it is divided into two major types: regular ants and commander ants.

Conventional ants are ordinary soldier ants and worker ants.

The commanding ants are the leader ants and the rain master ants.

In addition, the biggest improvement is the addition of the soul system, making all ten systems complete!

Like the leader ants and rain master ants, ordinary ants inherit the ten abilities of Longbai.

The only difference between the ordinary ants produced by the equipment designed by Heifa and the command ants is the strength of their abilities.

It's a pity that Longbai doesn't have talent for space.

If there is, Black Magic can also design the corresponding functions, Xing Shen Ao can also create related equipment, and the ant colony can inherit the eleven series of abilities...

Arborvitae Simple Selection [Soldier Ant·Regular]

The new equipment also omits the quantity selection, and the default quantity is maximized every time.

The equipment is running, extracting the creative power within the space. The cypress moves at the same time, injecting the world's divine power, as well as life information and life energy.

The device begins to breed ant eggs.

...

"Your Majesty? Your Majesty? What's the matter with you, Your Majesty?"

The anxious calls of fish and insects came from outside the ant nest.

Molan took the fish and insects to meditate in a cave at the foot of the mountain.

They immediately noticed the slightest movement of the cypress.

Molan's figure turned into a shadow and floated into the king's nest.

"Longbai? Did it work?"

"It's done!"

"Let me see!"

"What's so good about this..."

Long Bai muttered, and with a thought, the originally empty Shanglu world turned into a pocket-sized mountain and sea world.

In a space with a diameter of 30,000 meters, the mountains became shorter, the peaks became lower, the lakes became smaller, and the illusory plants were reduced tenfold.

A small but perfect miniature world is condensed in a small space.

A fifty-meter-high green mountain stands proudly in the center of the world.

In front of Long Bai, the space rippled slightly, forming a stable space channel.

Molan's figure flashed and entered the Shanglu world.

With flickering lights and shadows, the origin of the innate water deity changed into the form of a dragon cypress, then emerged into the world and stood on the floating clouds.

"..."

Molan glanced at the dragon cypress, looked at the red sun in the dome, lowered her head to look, and scanned with her mental power.

"It's more real than the Shanglu world of President Bai Wei! Long Bai, can you also carry a large number of Zerg warriors and sail across galaxies?"

"Of course! Bai Wei's world is a space world. Mine is... an all-encompassing world of life."

"Oh--"

Molan suddenly became envious and asked, "I also have the Shanglu Divine Mark and the Technology Star Core. Can I do it too?"

Long Bai asked back: "What do you think?"

"All right……"

Molan asked: "Can it continue to grow and expand?"

"Of course!"

Long Bai: "As I said before, it is similar to the 'Unsullied Country', and it is just taking shape now. In time, if I evolve into a true god, the Shanglu World can grow with it and become a 'god-level artifact' like the Unsullied Country."

Molan asked, "If you evolve into a true god and then die, will you leave behind a divine artifact similar to the Immaculate Kingdom that inherits your path to evolution?"

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai: "Molan, let's talk about something happy."

"Okay!"

Molan suggested: "Shanglu World is a general term. Now, this is your unique... all-encompassing life world! You should give it a formal name. For example, Shanhai Realm? Wuliang Realm? Wuliang World?"

Long Bai tapped his antennae and said, "My idea is that during the star domain domination stage, we should focus on comprehending the laws of creation and the world, perfecting the world's divine power, and perfecting the mountain and sea realms."

"In the starry sky domination stage, I plan to travel far and wide, to the four major star systems of the natural god system, to leave traces of my existence in every life star system and every life planet, to deeply comprehend the 'reincarnation power', and to upgrade the Shanglu world to a reincarnation world."

"In the stage of dominating the universe, one travels far into the universe, deeply senses the energy of the universe, comprehends the laws of the universe, and spends tens of millions, hundreds of millions of years to expand the 'reincarnation world' and develop it into the 'universe space'."

Long Bai: "So, the official name of Shanglu World is now given in one go: 'Samsara Universe'."

"Oh--"

Molan was unhappy, so she raised her claws and knocked on the dragon cypress's carapace, saying kindly, "How about this? Now it's called 'Mountain and Sea Realm'. After we break through the Starry Sky Master, we can change the name to 'Samsara World'. After we break through the Universe Master, it won't be too late to change the name to 'Samsara Universe'. As a bug, you can't aim too high, you have to take one step at a time."

Long Bai choked up and sighed, "Whatever. Let's call it the Mountain and Sea Realm."

This is right~
Back to the point, Molan raised her paw and pointed at the ant nest in the distance, and asked seriously: "Longbai, how long is the batch now, and how many ant eggs are produced in each batch?"

Longbai: "Still one batch every two days. Each batch has 40 pieces."

"???"

Mo Lan tilted her head and asked, "If I remember correctly, before, the Throne of Domination produced 36 ant eggs in a single batch? You went through so much trouble and increased the number by 4? One batch every two days, an average of 2 more ant eggs per day?"

"Two reasons..."

Long Bai explained: "First, ordinary ants nowadays are not ordinary at all. They inherit all ten abilities of mine, and a single ant egg consumes a lot of energy."

"The second is the limit of the creation power of the creation fragments. With the growth and improvement of the space of the Mountain and Sea Realm, and my in-depth understanding of the laws of creation and creation, the number of ant eggs produced will increase simultaneously. The maximum number of ant eggs produced in the Domination Realm can reach 1296 in a single batch."

"When it reaches the limit, the average number is 648 per day, which means to per year, which is much more than the normal number of ant kings and bees. Combined with the Mountain and Sea Realm, when needed, it only takes to years to cultivate an army of ants numbering over million."

"Oh--"

Molan calculated and said, "That's not fast!"

Mo Lan followed up by asking, "What about strength? The key is, can the soldier ants inherit your master-level strength? If they can, then they will be invincible!"

Longbai: "It needs to be tested..."

...

Outside world space,
After waiting for a while, Yu Chong became restless and stamped his feet vigorously, shaking his spiritual power and shouting, "Big King! Second Big King! Where is my Second Big King?"

Long Bai's thoughts were diverted, and the spatial passage of the Mountain and Sea Realm led directly to the foot of the mountain.

Molan came out and called the fish and insects to return to the nest and continue to lie dormant.

The Longbai Mountain Ant Nest began testing the strength of the ant colonies bred by the upgraded equipment.

...

Two days later,
40 regular soldier ant eggs are produced.

Using his bionic abilities, Longbai created two micro worker ants to carry the ant eggs to the incubation room.

There are 8 ants in a group, divided into five groups, releasing pheromone stimulation to differentiate into micro, small, medium, large and specialized ants.

Then communicate with the equipment to breed 40 regular worker ant eggs.

Two days later, ant eggs are laid.

They were also divided into five groups and differentiated into different body sizes through pheromone stimulation.

Continue to breed leader ants,
Only one ant egg can be produced at a time, and it takes 1 days.

When testing the eggs of the Rain Master Ants, the same thing happened. Only one egg can be produced in a single batch, and the gestation period is long.

...

In the incubation room, it takes a month for regular soldier ant eggs to hatch.

Temporarily stay in the Shanhai Real World space and cultivate in the equipment ant nest.

The cypress uses its bionic ability to simulate micro and small worker ants, feeding and caring for them, while also using pheromones to stimulate them to differentiate into different body sizes.

Keep observing,

At the same time, regular soldier ants and worker ants are cultivated continuously.

It took 47 years.
In the first batch, 8 tiny conventional soldier ants and worker ant larvae formed cocoons and emerged one after another.

The body shape is similar to that of the ant eggs produced by the Throne of Domination in the past. It is a small ant with a body length of just over 1 cm, a black shell and a big head.

There is no need for a command test. Now Long Bai can see everything clearly with just a scan of his mental power and deduction of his intelligent brain capabilities.

Although they are small in size, they possess certain immortal characteristics that dominate the soul and body. Due to the power of the soul, the lifespan of micro soldier ants is extremely long.

Moreover, the micro-ant also successfully inherited ten types of talents and most of Longbai's ordinary abilities.

However, due to its small size, it is ultimately a disadvantage, and its ability strength is only 1% to 3% of the Longbai Xingxiu Realm.

The specific strength varies between soldier ants and worker ants.

Soldier ants have well-developed jaws, slender bodies, and are good at fighting.

The worker ants have fat abdomens and are good at support and logistics. The most critical water refining ability has been perfectly inherited.

The ant colonies cultivated by the new equipment have ten balanced systems, and all of them are very strong. Unlike the Throne of Domination, which is strong in water system but weak in other systems.

...

11 years later,

Eight regular small soldier ants and worker ant larvae successively spun cocoons and emerged from the world.

The body length is about 5 cm.

Similarly, he possesses a certain degree of immortal body characteristics of the Domination Realm, and his abilities are quite comprehensive, with his strength being approximately 5% to 8% of that of the Longbai Xingxiu Realm.

Longbai continued to wait, observe and test.
Medium-sized soldier ants and worker ants are about 25 cm long and have an inherited ability strength of about 10% to 15%.

Large soldier ants and worker ants are about 1.2 meters long and have an inherited ability strength of about 20% to 30%.

Specialized soldier ants and worker ants are about 2.4 meters long and have inherited ability strength of about 30% to 50%.

It takes a total of 147 years for specialized soldier ants and worker ants to grow from eggs to larvae to adults.

...

It took 341 years for the commander ants and rain master ants at the dominance level to emerge.

He inherited all of Long Bai's abilities except 'Boundless Mountains and Seas, Infinite Realm' and 'Blessings of the Star Gods', and was able to unleash 70% to 80% of his power from the Xingxiu Realm.

...

It takes 475 years for the specialized commander ants and specialized rain-master ants at the dominance level to emerge.

akin,
He inherited all of Long Bai's abilities except 'Boundless Mountains and Seas, Infinite Realm' and 'Blessings of the Star Gods', and was able to unleash nearly 100% of the power of Long Bai's Star Realm.

There is no essential difference between the Commander Ants and Rain Master Ants bred by the new equipment, the specialized Commander Ants and the specialized Rain Master Ants, and those bred by the Domination Throne, except for the addition of an additional soul talent.

...

The ant colony already possesses the qualities of a dominant soul and an immortal body.

Then,

If the 'patterns' of ordinary abilities are comprehended to the level of 'divine patterns of laws', will ordinary soldier ants, worker ants, leader ants and rain master ants also possess divine power of laws and exert some of the power of divine power of laws in the realm of domination?
Other ant kings and queen bees can.

This is the scariest part of the ant and bee tribes. It is worth a try.

But comprehending the laws is too difficult, and Long Bai does not have the time and energy in a short period of time.

I'll try again in the future when I have time...

The Domination Realm has infinite lifespan, and the thing it has the most is time.

If you can do it, you must deeply comprehend abilities beyond your core abilities.

...

It took 475 years for all tests to be completed.

During the test period, more than three million ordinary soldier ants and worker ants were cultivated.

One million is allocated to Zhanlan to help it manage the "Zhanlan Island Ecology". Longbai can also take a break to observe and comprehend the laws.

One million eight hundred thousand ants were first distributed to the nine plant tribes of the assistant kings under their command. Each assistant king led a small group of ants to start reclaiming wasteland and raising seedlings on the main star of Xianglan, in preparation for the subsequent large-scale reclamation of the forest.

There were more than 500,000 left. Long Bai stayed in the mountains, commanding the troops personally, opening up ant nests, and taking charge of various logistical tasks.

Longbai lives deep in the king's nest in the mountains and continues to cultivate the ant colony.

To cultivate an ant colony, it is necessary to inject power regularly, release pheromones, and perform frequent operations, but each operation takes a very short time, just a thought, a few seconds, or a few minutes.

Most of the time, Long Bai was comprehending the laws of creation and the laws of the world, while absorbing the force of nature, transforming the world's divine power, injecting it into the Mountain and Sea Realm, and expanding the Mountain and Sea Realm.

A life that is extremely regular and almost unchanging.

Five hundred years have passed.
The Shuhua United Fleet's current round of source search has ended. Long Bai left the Xianglan main star and personally announced the permanent end of the search work and the next form of cooperation.

Long Bai personally presided over and arranged the development project of the secondary source point.

After a lot of work,

More than 1500 million soldiers mobilized

Xianglan Chamber of Commerce has officially entered the period of source development and large-scale construction.

The entire Amber Galaxy has also entered a major construction phase with the development of the source point as the main focus. A large number of chambers of commerce or Zerg tribes have relocated and permanently settled in the Amber Galaxy, and all walks of life are booming.

The Baiwei Chamber of Commerce has been using various means to shelter the Watase Flame Spiders on a large scale and train young Flame Spider warriors.

The number of flame spiders in the Baiwei Chamber of Commerce is slowly increasing, and they have gradually gained enough strength to consider returning to their old business and resuming the royal jelly trade.

In the Amber Galaxy, the cooperative royal jelly trade plan has expanded to 167 star regions.

Longbai also cooperated and first trained 300 intelligent rain-making ants, the ninth generation of assistant kings.

Not all of these assistant kings were assigned to work on refining force food.

A Ministry of Education was established.

A complete set of scientific and reasonable education and training processes has been developed specifically for Zuowang:
As early as the larval stage, they are arranged to learn basic natural science knowledge.

After emerging from the world, one must not only learn botanical knowledge, but also undergo ability training and combat training, and systematically learn the theoretical knowledge of mechanics.

After breaking through the three-mark realm of evolution, he entered the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Peidirnan civilization under the command of Xingshenao, and systematically studied advanced scientific and technological knowledge.

When you reach the Nine Trace Realm, you can choose a development direction based on your own preferences: either technological production; territory management; or force food refining and processing.
Choose the right direction.

While evolving and growing, we also study and practice in our professional field.

Half-Star Realm officially started working.

...

Longbai plans to train 9000 ninth-generation Zuowang in batches, with 300 in each batch, for a total of 30 batches.

One batch is produced every 30 years, and it takes years to cultivate it.

Taking into account that there will be ordinary specialized ants, leader ants, or rain master ants that will evolve into assistant kings, Long Bai estimated that in the end, the number of assistant kings under his command will be fixed at about 1.

There can be no more, and there is no need for more,
It’s not that we can’t afford it, nor that we can’t manage it.

It is mainly limited by the spawning rate of the Mountain and Sea Realm.

The biggest advantage of the assistant king is that he can command the ant colony.

A king without an ant colony to command is no better than a Zerg warrior.

The assistant king under Longbai, with the assistance of the leading ants or rain master ants, can command an ant colony of 300 to 500 million.

Ten thousand assistant kings can command 300 billion to 500 billion ant colonies. Taking into account rotation and long-rest evolution, if the number is cut in half, it would still require 200 billion to 250 billion.

At the current stage of Longbai, the rate of producing ant eggs is 20 per day, and only more than 7000 are cultivated each year.

Totally not enough.

There is an urgent need to strengthen and expand the true world of mountains and seas, deeply comprehend and perfect the laws of the world, and increase speed.

But there is no rush, as this is destined to be a long and difficult process, and it may not be accomplished in 30 years.

1 Zuowang is almost the limit of Longbai.

...

...

[Time: 78th Era-592 Yuan-000 Years]

The Chamber of Commerce settlement day that happens once every thousand years.

The first floor conference hall of the short-handled horn tree,
High-level assistant kings of the Chamber of Commerce, such as Juniper, Giant Cypress, Spade, Black Sophora japonica, and Black Birch, as well as high-level Zerg warriors such as White Rice, White Smilax, Ghost Fan, Green Maple, and Red Maple, gathered together.

Xing Shen'ao temporarily set up a holographic projection device.

Deep inside the main star of Xianglan, there is an intelligent computer system with super-large capacity and super-powerful computing power that can connect devices.

Cedar is in charge of the Chamber of Commerce's financial revenue. In his absence, Heihuai will temporarily take over.

Hei Huai stepped forward and entered the Chamber of Commerce's income and expenditure information in all aspects over the past thousand years.

The intelligent brain system automatically calculates and gives results quickly, and lists detailed reports and various data analyses.

Molan walked closer leisurely with the fish and insects.

"Second King!"

Spade hurried out of the nest to greet him.

"Second King, are you here to check the accounts?"

"Um--"

"How much did you earn?"

"Hei Huai, the Second King asked how much you earned?"

"Total income: 941.7 million Chaos Stones, Chamber of Commerce operating expenses: 774.7 million Chaos Stones, operating surplus: 167 million Chaos Stones..."

“Why is it still only this much?”

"What did you do?"

"Let me check, is there any worm corruption?"

Molan quickened her pace and walked into the conference hall.

Hei Huai quickly operated the holographic projection to enlarge and display the data in detail.

Various reports, charts, densely packed characters and numbers...

"..."

Mo Lan pushed aside Hei Huai and looked up and down seriously.

"very good."

"Probably no problem."

"Hei Huai, are you greedy?"

"……No."

"Are you greedy, Spade?"

"I would like to, but I don't have the chance. Second King, check the Juniper! The most funds flow through its claws!"

"..."

"Stupid! Can't you tell I'm kidding?"

Molan waved its tentacles, tapped its spades, and wiggled its claws.

"I earn too little."

"Everyone has worked hard."

After Molan finished speaking, she activated her soul-fixing ability and anchored the cypress in the king's nest of Azure Island, shouting to convey the message:
[Captain Longbai, the Chamber of Commerce's accounts are out, and I don't think there's any problem. Do you want to review them again? ]

"..."

Wait a moment,

Long Bai's figure turned into a stream of light and came shining brightly.

He looked around and his eyes fell on the holographic projection.

Currently, the core income of Xianglan Chamber of Commerce comes from rent collection from third-level and second-level source star systems, operating output from its own mining stars, and production and manufacturing in the field of science and technology.

According to the Amber Galaxy's temporary administrative decree, at the current stage, the land rental price is 40% of that in the Lizhu Galaxy, and will slowly increase over a period of years.

Despite this, the rent collected from the territory is still the largest source of income for the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce. After all, it is the second largest landlord in the Amber Galaxy, and there will be no major changes in the future.

Millennium Small Settlement:

The rental income of the Qingqianli star system is 201 million Chaos Stones.

The rental income of the Molan star system is 247 million Chaos Stones.

The rental income of Baiwei Star System is 194 million Chaos Stones.

There is also a life planet in the Lingxiao star system donated by Lord Manchi. It is currently given free of charge to the insects of the Shuhua United Fleet to live in, so there is no income for the time being.

In addition, there are four secondary source star systems, Shilan, Hanlan, Chanlan and Hulan, which have been completed and opened to the public, with a total rental income of 81 Chaos Stones.

This item alone totals 723 million Chaos Stones.

The second is the self-operated mining star. At present, the third-level mineral deposits are all in the process of being nurtured, and a small amount of first-level and second-level raw energy materials are produced. At this stage, the prices of first-level and second-level raw energy materials are still very high.

There are also mining stars, as well as the source gems, chaos stones, and world gems naturally derived from the main star of Xianglan. There are quite a lot of them, which also constitute a considerable income.

A total of 136.3 million Chaos Stones.

In fact, this is essentially land income, the land use and income are different. Not to mention the third-level energy materials in the making, once produced, the value is immeasurable.

The next area is the technological manufacturing sector. We have received many orders from the Baiwei Chamber of Commerce for the manufacture of survival motherships, engineering ships, and star spiders. The profits are quite considerable, with an income of 82 Chaos Ore Gems.

In addition to the three major items, there are also the harvesting of God-given seeds in the operating territory, the output of wild God-given seeds, and the newly started royal honey trade. At this stage, the scale has not yet been developed, and the income is not good, accounting for only a very small fraction of the total income of the Chamber of Commerce.

...

Looking at expenditures,

The Chamber of Commerce's biggest expense is the salaries of the 1500 million Zerg warriors.

Everyone cooperates, collaborates, helps each other, and develops sources together, but in the interests of fairness, salaries must still be paid.

Whoever you work for should be paid.

And it needs to be paid according to the normal wages of the current Amber Galaxy. If you don't have money, you can borrow from the Baiwei Chamber of Commerce, with no interest or low interest.

Currently, there are 1500 million soldiers, and the average annual salary is as high as 5 Yuanjing, and they are all working for the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce.

After a thousand years, the salary expenditure reached a sky-high 750 million Chaos Stones.

In addition, there are expenses such as salaries and bonuses for the Zerg warriors of the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce.

In addition, a lot of God-given seeds and little warriors were born on the main star of Xianglan. There are expenses for cultivating wild God-given seeds and little warriors, but not much, just a small fraction.

Long Bai's eyes quickly scanned the area, and his intelligent brain performed simultaneous calculations. He checked the account and said, "The account is fine. The Chamber of Commerce is operating and developing well. Thank you for your hard work."

Long Bai ordered: "Take out 100 million Chaos Stones as dividends. The other 67 Chaos Stones will be converted into hard currency with usable value and stored in the Chamber of Commerce's treasury as a reserve resource for development."

"Ok!"

"understood!"

"..."

The insects agreed.

"Great! Let's divide the money!"

Under the short-handled horn tree, outside the meeting hall, the fish and insects cheered, "Second King, the Chaos Stone! I want the Chaos Stone!"

(End of this chapter)