Ant Lord in the Star Realm

Chapter 969 - 677: Scepter Migration, Postwar Settlement_2

The final settlement shows that 1 point of combat merit equals 12 million Source Stones.

Snow Velvet, Blood Root, and the other five Old Spider Kings have just completed weaving promissory notes worth 30 billion, but it wasn’t enough, so they urgently added 10 billion more.

All participating insects settle accounts in order, based on combat merit rankings.

As expected,

The Wild God-Given Seed was exchanged first.

Then the share of Divine-Grade Fruit was all distributed.

Lastly, land on Blue Island and the Spider King Scrolls were settled.

All post-war affairs have been handled.

...

...

Rainbow Island.

A thousand-meter Ice Boat carries fifty thousand Specialized Blue Soldiers, sailing against the wind.

"Dragon Cypress Ant King! Ink Orchid!"

White Willow comes out to greet them.

"Great King! Second King!"

Red Moonseed follows closely.

Spruce also comes forward.

This expedition took nearly a year.

Red Moonseed eagerly asks: "Great King! Second King! Were there any other gains in this war?"

Silver Cypress runs over with a medium-sized Spider Silk Bag, opens it, revealing a neatly packed stack of Spider King Scrolls.

A closer inspection reveals they are all valued at one million each.

One stack is a whole set of 100 sheets, which equals one billion.

White Willow, Red Moonseed, and Spruce immediately extend their spiritual power to scan inside the Ice Boat and quickly sense something unusual. They direct their focus to the bottom of the Ice Boat.

The bottom of the Ice Boat has paddles that look like fish fins, propelling the massive vessel at high speed.

"This is..."

"A Water System Bionic Ability stronger than a Whirl Beast!"

"Kirin?"

"Dragon Cypress Ant King, is it the Kirin Beast’s ability?"

"The effect after combining the Whirl Beast and Kirin Beast? That’s unbelievable!"

"Dragon Cypress Ant King, have you successfully comprehended ’Kirin’?"

"Wow! The Great King is mighty!"

"Ink Orchid, how about you?"

"If the Great King can comprehend it, then the Second King surely finds it easy as well."

"..."

Ink Orchid is displeased and stays silent.

"..."

Dragon Cypress is speechless.

Red Moonseed’s words truly have a knack for offending bugs~

You’ve managed to offend both the Great King and Second King together~

Cypress hastens to explain: "The Second King is not interested in the Whirl Beast ability, nor does he care for the Kirin Beast ability, so... he didn’t comprehend it, which is normal."

Silver Cypress swings its antennae excitedly and says: "The Great King is amazing! The Great King’s most powerful ability is ’Whirl Beast Devouring,’ unexpectedly triggering a hidden power a hundred times stronger than the Kirin Beast in the Ocean God’s Scepter, named ’Zhen.’"

Cypress: "The Ocean God’s Scepter comes from a civilization called ’Zhen,’ so it’s not hard to understand that ’Zhen’ is their strongest inheritance."

Silver Cypress: "The Great King has obtained the Ocean God’s legacy! In the future, he might become a true god of nature..."

Before finishing the sentence, Dragon Cypress strikes it fiercely with a claw.

——Stop spouting such unfounded nonsense!

"Save the pointless words. Discuss this back on the island."

Dragon Cypress reprimands, not in a good mood.

Fragmented memories of human warriors clad in metal carapaces, standing proudly among the stars, left Dragon Cypress with considerable psychological shadow.

Is Zhen not strong enough?

From the current perspective of the Star Realm Bug, it’s already an incredible ’god-like’ existence.

The Motherstone embodies cosmic material laws, universally called ’Law Divine Stone.’

Zhen was born from within the Motherstone, inherently carrying the power of cosmic material laws, mastering the ultimate Water System abilities at birth, and learning various abilities from other races and civilizations in its growth, drawing upon the strengths of all stars to enhance itself.

Zhen’s evolution has reached a perfect realm, the ultimate recognized state of life evolution by many civilizations.

Such an existence was instantly defeated by a strong figure from human civilization.

To make matters worse, the Natural God stole the Starship that humans were using to transport battle spoils...

For the past half year, Dragon Cypress has pondered this the most, the deeper he delves, the more perplexed he becomes, with the biggest mystery being why every cycle of Origin Force reincarnation in the Star Realm invariably causes Starships to fall.

Has the Natural God been countering human civilization by robbing?

Why?

Many possibilities exist, but from Dragon Cypress’ current knowledge and reasoning, none fully make sense. The behavior of the Natural God remains incomprehensible.

...

The Ice Boat approaches the island’s southern coast.

With a flash of bright blue on Dragon Cypress’ forehead, the Ice Boat turns into flowing water, smoothly landing ashore.

Cypress and Silver Cypress lead the Ant Army back to the nest to rest.

Spiked Cypress and Rainbow Parasol Tree arrive first.

Tie Bush is on the southern island, quickly running over.

Rainbow Mulberry follows, flying over.

Other insects on the island hurry to welcome them, inquiring about the details.

Red Moonseed enthusiastically introduces: [The Great King has comprehended the highest Ocean God’s Scepter legacy ’Zhen,’ and the Second King is already strong enough, so he hasn’t comprehended it.]

Dragon Cypress, patient as ever, provides a detailed introduction:

——Zhen Beast Divine Pattern inherits many characteristics of ’Zhen’: adept at transformation, has no fixed form, and can shapeshift into any desired form; lacks a fixed size, with the maximum scale limited by spiritual power.

——There’s also more transformative enhancement: ’Zhen Beast’ is no longer purely composed of water but absorbs immense Origin Force, combined with the Water Creation Ability, evolving into a special, Water Element Lifeform.

——It transcends simple abilities, almost akin to a ’tool.’

——Some traits and abilities of the Whirl Beast remain, like Dead Water State, Wind Wings, and Moon Spots.

——Some Water System abilities I master are magnified tenfold when unleashed through the Zhen Beast.

——At ordinary times, it can shrink and be stored within the Zhen Beast Divine Pattern, released when needed.

...

Chatting while walking.

After the introduction, they return to Xianglan Peak.

Dragon Cypress demonstrates on the spot:

The ’Zhen Beast Divine Pattern’ on the forehead shines, a thousand-meter stream rapidly shrinks, condensing into a single, crystal-clear blue droplet that disappears into the divine pattern within a few breaths.

After a brief pause,

Dragon Cypress activates, causing the forehead divine pattern to glow, the Azure droplet flies out, expands rapidly, transforming into a cloud mist black ant. Under the control of Sea Soul Ability, it detaches from Dragon Cypress, flapping its wings to ascend into the high sky, swelling against the wind to transform into a thousand-meter wing-spread giant ant.