Astral Ant Tribe

The orchids are blooming, it’s another spring.

Beiqian Reservoir.

Beiqian, return Shuojin to me.

That's my sparkling gold.

Give it back to me quickly. The Longbai Ant King is about to evolve to the Mountain Lord level. Nan Qian needs it urgently.

My Sparkling Gold.

oh--

Mo Lan left, walked around the mountains and down the mountains, and came to Beiqian Reservoir again.

Beiqian, return Shuojin to me.

My sparkling gold!

Then lend it to me.

No borrowing.

Lend it to me quickly. It's needed urgently. King Longbai Ant will evolve to the Mountain Lord level soon. Nan Qian needs it very much.

...I won't borrow it.

oh--.

Mo Lan left, went back to the cave to eat some ant honey, rested and squinted for a while, then went down the mountain again and came to Beiqian Reservoir.

Bei Gorgon...

Mo Lan, I was wrong. I'll give you this thing. Leave quickly. Don't bother me anymore.

In the center of the reservoir, at the location of the mother plant of Gorgon japonica, there was a bang, and Shuo Jin rushed out of the water, flying sideways and hitting Mo Lan.

I'll see you later.

Mo Lan raised her paw to take it, proud and happy.

Weighing it, it was very heavy. Beiqian followed the requirements and stored a large amount of force inward, accumulating a large amount of energy and nutrients.

Mo Lan was satisfied and put it into the spider silk bag and returned to the mountain to give it to Long Bai.

Long Bai went down the mountain and handed it over to Nan Qian, telling it to accumulate power and prepare to evolve with him.

When flower buds appear on the plants planted on the mountain and down the mountain in spring, they are cut off as soon as possible.

Everything is ready.

Long Bai calmed down and rested on the throne of control all day long, adjusting his mental and physical state to the best.

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty...

Deep in the ant nest, Juniper leads a large group of soldier ants, running towards the royal family, shaking its tentacles vigorously along the way to release a fierce message.

Juniper? What's wrong?

Long Bai was in a good mood at this time and asked questions calmly.

Your Majesty! Look!

Juniper pushed a soldier ant behind him forward.

The specialized soldier ant, which was more than 1 meter long, waved its tentacles with some fear to greet Long Bai on the throne: I have seen the king!

Huh!

Long Bai stood up.

Juniper: Your Majesty, this soldier ant is extraordinary! Two wild boars broke into our orchard last night. It actually knew how to command other soldier ants to hunt. It only led 11 specialized soldier ants to successfully hunt two adult wild boars. Got it!

Juniper: Your Majesty, is this what you are looking for, an ant like Heiti?

Long Bai: ...is it possible?

Long Bai was not convinced either.

At first, Heiti had very obvious characteristics: small, lazy, clever, and able to trick other ants into lazing around.

First of all, this specialized soldier ant is not small, and is even stronger.

Long Bai's mental energy was swept away and he didn't notice anything strange.

Juniper, do you recognize it? Are you usually lazy?

I recognized it, but I didn't pay attention... Your Majesty, there are so many ants in our kingdom, and most of them are lazy... I can't pay attention to every one of them.

——Could it be said that the standards and methods for selecting special ants were wrong in the past?

Long Bai jumped off the throne, walked closer, stared at the soldier ant for a while, shook his tentacles, and signaled to follow.

In the treasure house that stores Force food, there are still many black lotus seeds left for Mo Lan and the command ants to eat.

Long Bai took out one, peeled it off, handed it to the specialized soldier ant, and gave the order: Eat it

The specialized soldier ant was a little dull, looking around, hesitantly, and ate the black lotus seeds.

Junipers scrambled to get a closer look.

After waiting for a long time, only a very small amount of force escaped along the gaps between the carapace nodules.

Most of it is absorbed by the body, concentrated in the brain, and finally strengthens the brain.

King?!

Juniper asked excitedly.

That's right!

Someone like Heiti can use black lotus seeds to shed their shells and evolve into the specialized soldier ants that serve as kings.

Juniper, you have done a great job.

You did a great job! I will reward you with 1,000 rough stones.

Long Bai turned around and raised his claws to carve characters on the cave wall.

Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward!

Juniper was overjoyed and hurriedly stopped him: Your Majesty, no need to trouble, no need to keep accounts, I will take 1,000 raw stones as food of force.

Long Bai: Alright. You choose.

Eat so much, be careful to choke yourself to death.

Long Bai couldn't help scolding him sternly. He counted and found that there were 127 black lotus seeds left this year. He calculated silently in his mind, put 20 seeds into a small spider silk bag, and said to the special soldier ants:

The king gives you an official name. From today on, your name is Black Leaf!

Black Leaf!

The specialized soldier ants shook their tentacles vigorously.

Long Bai threw the bag of spider silk to Juniper and said: Junior, help hold these black lotus seeds. You take the black leaves with you and give them one a day. You can't give more. Be careful and don't let it participate in the battle.

I know! Your Majesty!

Juniper answered sonorously.

Long Bai was about to send them away when he had an idea. He carved a long string of characters on the ground and called Hei Ye to come forward and give the order:

--Learn with me!

- Remember these characters.

Long Bai pointed to a character and said: This is 'one', the number 'one'.

He took out a black lotus seed, shook it, and said, Can you understand the 'one' of a black lotus seed?

Black Leaf clicked his tentacles, Yes.

Long Bai took out another black lotus seed, placed it in front of him, and said, Two black lotus seeds.

Long Bai tapped his tentacles and pointed at the character representing the number 'two' on the ground, This is two.

Kuroye: Two.

very good!

Long Cypress teaches the characters representing the numbers one to nine in turn.

After teaching,

The characters who record the amount of private wealth of the command ants are randomly selected from the wall and assessed.

This black leaf may seem dull and silly, but it has a very strong memory. You can understand and remember it after a simple lesson.

Long Bai told Juniper: Go and notify Juniper, Incense Cedar, Giant Cedar, and Green Cedar to come over and re-examine all the ants in the nest to see if there are any omissions.

Your Majesty, how do you check?

Juniper pointed to the characters on the ground, Like this? Isn't it too troublesome?

Long Bai: Currently, Heiti and Heiye have only one characteristic in common, which is that they are smarter than the others. Organize all the specialized ants to learn characters in batches. Those who can learn them must be smart.

Juniper: ...

Juniper: My King, are you sure you can do it? I haven't learned everything yet...

Long Bai was furious and waved his tentacles wildly, Idiot! How dare you say that!

…

Juniper, fragrant cypress, giant cypress, and green cypress arrived quickly. According to the requirements, they organized the specialized worker ants, soldier ants, blue ants, and blue soldiers into groups of 36 for a brief lesson.

Long Bai was also surprised to find that most specialized ants can learn the simple characters one to nine.

So it was changed to teach the more complicated 11 characters representing names such as dragon cypress, mochi orchid, juniper, juniper, etc. as well as plant names.

Juniper, fragrant cypress, giant cypress, and emerald cypress were in charge of teaching. After the teaching, the specialized ants lined up and entered the Shannan restaurant.

Long Bai carved various characters randomly on the stone wall of the restaurant, examined them personally, raised his paws and pointed, so that the special ants could identify them.

After the first round of screening, hundreds of smart, specialized ants passed the test.

So more characters were taught and the second round of assessment was conducted.

14 specialized ants were selected.

Long Bai gave them each a black lotus seed and observed their reactions...

After half a month of hard work, the ants were disappointed and not a single one was qualified.

There are still many specialized ants stationed in the three ant nests of South Jujube Mountain, Black Lotus Lake, and White Lotus Lake. Let's go back and test again.

After Hei Ye ate 20 black lotus seeds, he shed his shell and evolved once. Just like Hei Ti, his size reversely shrank, the aura of the advanced specialized soldier ants weakened, and some of the characteristics of the command ants were added.

He was 100% sure that Hei Ye could evolve into a command ant like Hei Ti.

Then we can't let juniper take it.

Long Bai should concentrate on evolution and arrange to learn various knowledge from Juniper and Cui Bai first.

future,

Heiye went to the Xianlang rainforest to open up land and build orchards, specializing in the cultivation of golden fruits, blue fruits, mangoes, carambola, rambutan and other tropical fruits.

It enriches the fruity aroma of original honey and also provides delicious food to the ant kingdom.

…

Before you know it, it's the time of year again to trade with the flame spider merchants.

Long Bai went to Fei Guang Mountain to pick up Juang Lang and the 100 sub-adult primitive flame spiders he selected.

Rest for two days at Pandan Mountain.

Long Bai organized the ant colony to set off and rushed to the Hongnan Mountain ant nest.