DipNovel Chapter 33: Flesh and Blood Transformation
Chapter 33: Flesh and Blood Transformation
"Little one, coming to see the God-given Seed again so early in the morning?"
A familiar mental force emanated from behind him; it was none other than Zuo Wang Qingyuan.
Ye Zhi's eyes lit up - she was just about to say that she wanted to figure out the specific effects of the "nutrient bodies" of the primal force that the "Chimera" condensed under the cage vines, and here comes the expert, the one who can most likely figure it out.
"King Qingyuan, you've arrived. My divinely bestowed seed seems to have sprouted something..." Ye Zhi immediately transmitted her mental power, "It looks somewhat like a Force Fruit, but the location isn't right. It's very strange. Could you take a look?"
"Oh? Little guy, is that so?" Qingyuan also stepped forward with some curiosity, shaking its tentacles and examining the "Force Nutrients" that had condensed on the cage vines of the "Chimera".
"This is... a comprehensive lightning enhancement?" As a lord-level being, Qingyuan had consumed more Force food than Ye Zhi had ever eaten ordinary food. It immediately sensed the specific enhancement effect, stretched out its forelimbs, picked up a grain with its claws, and put it in its mouth to taste.
"It also comes with a strength-enhancing effect, Dark-bellied Giant-toothed Ants?" As the nutrient solution entered his mouth, Qingyuan suddenly realized, "These were transformed from the corpses of those Giant-toothed Ants by your Divine-Given Seed?"
Ye Zhi nodded her antennae in affirmation. Qing Yuan then picked up another primordial energy nutrient and examined it closely: "And there's also a combined earth-type power enhancement. That Hong Yuan guy even sent back the corpse of the giant mountain toothed ant?"
Then, after seemingly pondering for a moment, Qingyuan said with some seriousness, "Little guy, your God-given Seed ability is unheard of. We can't use the combined lightning-type primal force food. How to deal with it, I'm afraid we'll have to wait for the Wuyuan Ant King to return to discuss it."
Ye Zhi also knew that once this somewhat heaven-defying ability was exposed, even if the Life Plant and the insect warriors shared the same fate and suffered the same fate, and there was no risk of killing insects to seize treasures, he and the tree ant kingdom where he was currently inhabiting might still be subjected to retaliatory attacks.
Ye Zhi understood the principle of being sneaky... no, developing in a low-key manner. However, after hearing that the strengthening effect of the condensed primal force nutrient body was consistent with the primal force characteristics of the flesh and blood absorbed by the "Chimera", he suddenly had some bold ideas.
Food with the same elemental properties can bring more benefits to the growth and evolution of elemental life. So if you use worker ants that you have bred to "feed" chimeras, wouldn't you be able to produce elemental nutrients that perfectly match your elemental aura?
As semi-force-based life forms, worker ants, after metamorphosis, possess the same rank as the ant king, at the cost of being unable to advance even a single step further. However, their growth process only requires absorbing a small amount of natural force and a large amount of protein.
Consuming a large amount of ordinary food and a small amount of natural Force to transform it into Force food that perfectly matches oneself seems to actually be feasible?
But this behavior was too hellish, and Ye Zhi always felt that it was "against the natural order." There really was an extremely powerful "god" in this world, and such behavior was perhaps a bit suicidal.
Then, on second thought, I realized that my chimera's egg-laying ability was only so-so, and the size of the ant colony probably wouldn't even increase. If I did this, I would probably wipe out my own ant colony first.
I silently memorized this method of operation, intending to develop the ant colony later and conduct small-scale experiments using the corpses of worker ants that had reached the end of their natural lifespan. I would only use it as a backup hidden energy source as a last resort.
.......
"Red Cypress, why are you still like this? I'm no longer able to molt and evolve, and you can't grow any further. This leg is broken, and you'll be disabled for life!"
Seeing the citron's appendages severed from the junction of the tibia and femur by the giant toothed ant, Wu Yuan felt a pang of heartache and sighed as he transmitted his spiritual power.
"Your Majesty, this time is different!" Hong Yuan exclaimed excitedly, ignoring her injuries. "With this newly discovered ore vein, you can continue to evolve!"
"I don't possess a divinely bestowed seed; my current level of evolution is all thanks to the care of the Azure Ant King. Further evolution is pointless now." A hint of melancholy lingered in Wu Yuan's mental signal. "It's a pity this mine was discovered too late. If it had been earlier..."
The Dragon Bamboo Continent is home to numerous kingdoms, and it seems that nature, as a deliberate arrangement for the refinement of future generations, has randomly scattered countless tiny mineral veins throughout the continent.
On this continent, ants, bees, and termites are constantly waging war, all for territory and raw stone veins. A large vein that can produce tens of millions of raw stones is enough to trigger fierce battles between a true kingdom composed of several king-level ant kings.
Raw stones contain pure primal energy. They serve as the common currency of the continent and can also replenish the primal energy consumed by life plants or insect warriors when the concentration of natural primal energy is insufficient.
However, in the Dragon Bamboo Continent, where a single ant can form a kingdom and countless kingdoms exist, only the ant king in each ant kingdom can give birth to the seed of life. In the termite kingdom, only the ant king and queen have the seed of life. The land is vast and the seed of life is scarce, so the consumption of natural primal force is correspondingly small.
This results in the Dragon Bamboo Continent having a much richer natural force on average compared to the neighboring Cloud Continent, where every insect warrior possesses a life seed, and fewer of the second function of the Primal Stones are used.
Most of the raw stones produced by these veins ended up in the hands of the Flame Spider merchants who came from across the continent, in exchange for primal energy food from the neighboring Cloud Continent. This food was then used to fuel the growth and evolution of the Ant King and Zoro, making the battles even more intense.
Thinking of this, Wu Yuan couldn't help but sigh. Ordinary spiders weave webs to hunt, but in the vast star realm, the crisscrossing paths pioneered by the Flame Spider Merchants are nothing less than a giant web, gathering every bit of wealth from the continent.
The raw stone vein in front of them was even located on the "lost territory" of the tree ant kingdom back then - when the Qingzhi ant king left, it was unable to support itself alone and was forced to give up this territory, but unexpectedly, it has such an opportunity now.
However, if this raw stone vein had been discovered while the Green Ant King was still alive, perhaps the Green Ant King wouldn't have been stuck at the first instar king level and unable to break through further. The current tree ant kingdom might be a different story.
Thinking of this, Wu Yuan couldn't help but recall the chimeric little guy—speaking of which, it seemed that his worker ants had found him on the border with the Great Tooth Ant Kingdom, so he was probably somewhere nearby.
Whether it was seeing the insect or not, the worm saw the shadow of the old Green Trifoliate Ant King in the little guy. It even saw in the little guy the glorious scene of the tree ant kingdom being restored, a scene it had only heard about from the Green Trifoliate Ant King.
Unfortunately, the little guy's life sac seems to have mutated due to the innate chimeric species, which makes Wu Yuan worry. He also made up his mind that once the situation on the front line stabilizes and Hong Yuan is enough, he will go back to check on the little guy's current condition.