Ant Lord in the Star Realm

Chapter 931 - 665: Wind Tree Core (2)

"That’s great!"

"As long as the Mantis King Ink Orchid is fine."

"Can they all hold their breath that long?"

"Powerful Insect Kings are all good at holding their breath..."

The Insects on the shore relaxed when they heard this. After hearing that the Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King was not dead yet, they all perked up and went on alert again, quietly waiting.

Late at night,

the Mud Beetle King dived into the mire again to investigate.

Still alive, but barely breathing.

In the latter half of the night,

there was movement under the mud pit. The silt churned, and a brownish-red Giant Mantis of dual Water and Earth Systems drilled out, the metallic Catching Feet skewering an intact Ant King corpse.

"The battle is over. The Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King has been executed."

"I still have important matters to handle. I’ll come visit Wind Phoenix Mountain when I have time."

"Farewell, Insect Kings!"

With that, the Giant Mantis gulped the Ant King’s corpse into its abdomen in one bite, kicked off and rose into the air, rolling sideways midair, flinging off mud. Its body twisted, transforming into a Cloud Mist Giant Mantis, and it flickered into the dark night sky, disappearing.

—Dead?

—That damned Ant!

—Finally dead!

—It’s over!

—The crisis of Zhibai Continent is resolved, we can finally sleep in peace!

The Insects on the shore were briefly stunned, then burst into wild cheers.

Assistant King Yellow Thorn beat his wings and said, "Earth Shrine Beetle King, Iron Heart Beetle King, Sand Golden Lacewing King, over on Wanglan Continent, the counterattack on Blue Island has probably already started. This ultimate war absolutely cannot be missed. Insect Kings, farewell!"

Assistant King Yellow Thorn hurriedly called out, "Yellow Hemp, Yellow Heart, Yellow Leaf, gather and reorganize the remnants. We depart at once, back to Wanglan Continent!"

Color Steel, Green Heart, and Purple Three Bug glanced at each other, then took off first, flying straight toward the Two-Realm Passage.

...

...

Two-Realm Passage, Zhibai Continent entrance.

Rock, along with two other Beetle Warriors guarding the pass, stared intently at the distant skyline.

A Cloud Mist Giant Mantis came speeding over.

It landed and dispersed.

With a thud, an Ant King corpse was tossed out.

"I am the Mantis King Ink Orchid of Rainbow Island Ant Nation! The ambush and slaying of the Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King was a success!"

Ink Orchid’s eyes flashed cold light as he swept his gaze around, then locked onto the bulky Mole Cricket Warrior and asked, "You are Rock, Leader of Golden Amber Mountain?"

"I am!"

Rock quickly snapped out of his shock and probed, "This is... you are..."

Ink Orchid stressed each word, "I am the Mantis King Ink Orchid of Rainbow Island Ant Nation! This is the Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King. The corpse."

Ink Orchid: "Two matters. First, seal the news! Seal off the Two-Realm Passage! Other than the Snow Velvet Spider King, no other Insect, not any Insect, is allowed through. Close the gates now. Second, take me to meet the Six-Column Ant King. I will personally make this proposal to it and discuss the details."

"Alright—"

Rock’s thoughts raced. He roughly understood Rainbow Island’s intent and shouted, "Close the gates! Close the gates! Shut all the passage gates at once! No one is allowed through! Mantis King Ink Orchid, please come with me!"

...

...

Wanglan Continent.

Rainbow Island.

"Ink Orchid is back!"

"Ink Orchid is back!"

White Willow, who was scouting high above, dropped straight down, spiritual power vibrating in a cheer.

Red light flared. Red Moonseed shot out at full speed.

White Willow followed closely, turning into a black shadow that streaked out over the sea.

"Second King!"

"Mantis King Ink Orchid?"

"Where’s the Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King?"

"You succeeded?"

White Willow and Red Moonseed flew alongside on left and right.

Ink Orchid poked his head out of the cloud mist and said briefly, "The Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King has been executed. According to the plan, I’ve already arranged things over at Dragon Stride Mountain."

Ink Orchid said gloomily, "That Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King had also eaten a lot of powerful Divine-Grade Fruits. I almost couldn’t kill it."

Red Moonseed: "A lot of Divine-Grade?"

Ink Orchid: "At least six Divine-Grade Fruit abilities. Touch of Silver Light, Flash Strike, Controllable Current, Wind Eel, Nightfall, it even ate a Divine-Grade Three-Colored Origin Force Fruit. Its Primordial Energy reserves were far beyond common Insects. I almost couldn’t wear it down!"

White Willow: "How could it have gotten that many Divine-Grade?"

Red Moonseed: "Flame Spider Roving Merchants? Snow Velvet Spider King?"

Ink Orchid snapped, "Red Moonseed, use your brain when you talk. If it were the Snow Velvet Spider King, Blue Island would have already hit Rainbow Island and snatched King Cypress away."

Red Moonseed: "...I was just guessing."

White Willow: "Insect Clan Warriors also trade Divine-Grade privately. It might have been some coastal Kingdoms paying wealth to avert disaster."

"Right! That’s highly likely!"

Ink Orchid: "Let’s not talk about this now. We’ll investigate later, it won’t be hard. Once we find out, we’ll wipe out their entire clan!"

Ink Orchid said fiercely, then his tone shifted and he said gloomily, "I also picked up one utterly rotten piece of news. Blue Island only has 800 Wild God-Given Seeds, not over a thousand like that Snow Velvet Old Spider claimed."

White Willow: "Uh—"

White Willow: "Ink Orchid, 800 is already a lot, right?"

Ink Orchid: "A lot, but I’m afraid it won’t be enough to split."

"Take our Thousand-Year Tree as reference. The Ocean God’s Scepter is an Outworld Civilization God-Level Artifact about on par with the Thousand-Year Tree, maybe even stronger. The continents around it are not so easy to take down. Whoever charges in, dies. According to the Huagi Divine Tree and Dragon Cypress, the only method is to send two hundred million, three hundred million troops and pile them up with their lives to wear those things to death."

"But that means we need to mobilize about three hundred Ant Kings and Bee Kings to cooperate. Do we give these Insects one, two seeds each or not? And then there’s the Wave Tree Bay United Kingdom with all those Leaders, Deputy Leaders, executives, plus the Insect Clan Warriors taking part. Do they get a cut or not?"

"There are only 800 in total. With that many Insects splitting them, how many will fall into our hands in the end?"

Red Moonseed: "Second King, we contributed the most and did the most. We just take more."

Ink Orchid: "Which is why we take the Divine God-Given Seeds."

White Willow: "Ink Orchid is right. The Divine-Grade ones are the main prize; we must secure the Divine-Grade. But once we take the Divine-Grade, we can’t very well grab too many ordinary Divine-Given Seeds..."

Talking as they went,

they returned to the island and landed beneath the White Poplar Divine Seed tree.

The other Insects on the island rushed over when they heard the news.

The spiritual power of the various trees followed in as well.

The cloud mist dispersed, and the Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King’s corpse was thrown out.