Dragon Cypress’s breakthrough to Evolution Lord Level propelled the entire kingdom upward, bringing about all kinds of trendous changes.
There were a lot of matters to handle, and they were all over the place.
The most urgent thing now was to sow the newly nurtured Divine-Given Zibo Seed.
The location was chosen on Molan Mountain, 1200 ters away from the Divine-Given Seeds of Thunder Oak and North Elm. When bored, the God-Given Life Seeds could communicate with each other.
Keep it a bit farther from Junior Orchid, at least 3000 ters away—this fellow simply couldn’t communicate properly.
Needed to prevent Junior Orchid from quarreling and fighting with the other Divine-Given Seeds, lest it got itself so angry it died.
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The Divine-Given Zibo Seed was placed into the Life Pouch during Age 9 and nurtured along with Dragon Cypress’s evolution. It was born Lord-Level in life hierarchy.
The seed entered the soil.
Watered it.
In just one night, it took root and sprouted.
The tender shoot broke through the earth, growing toward the morning light.
In only a day, it had grown to a height of 15 centiters, with 6 true leaves developed.
Very rapid indeed.
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At dusk,
Dragon Cypress rode the Dominating Throne alone, coming to hover above the mother plant of the Two Kings Ink Orchid Divine-Given Seed.
This guy was disobedient. It didn’t use the Primordial Energy stored in Glinting Gold to evolve, instead consuming a full 100,000 Source Stones to break through.
After the successful evolution, the old plant withered; it then used Glinting Gold to imdiately grow out its offshoots—605 in total, each about 2.5 ters tall, forming a lush green patch.
Dragon Cypress waved its tentacles, sent down two bursts of Flourish, and calmly asked:
"Junior Orchid, is the Primordial Energy inside Glinting Gold used up?"
Junior Orchid: "No!"
Dragon Cypress: "Well, that’s great. Hand it over, Senior Orchid needs it urgently."
Junior Orchid: "???"
Dragon Cypress, with a somber tone, said, "Isn’t Senior Orchid holding 12 Divine-Grade Fruits? It’s not getting enough nutrition, its condition is worsening day by day, it might not last. You two are kin, and your Primordial Energy and nutrients are interchangeable, so pass so to Senior Orchid to ease the crisis."
The only difference between Junior Orchid and Southern Gorgon was that Junior Orchid still recognized Senior Orchid as kin.
Junior Orchid: "Then why don’t you pick the fruit off?"
Dragon Cypress: "It’s not my Life Seed. It belongs to the mantis."
Junior Orchid angrily said, "Damn mantis! Dragon Cypress, go kill it!"
Dragon Cypress: "No way. If I kill it, Senior Orchid won’t survive either."
Junior Orchid: "..."
Junior Orchid: "Then when it’s not looking, secretly pick Senior Orchid’s fruit."
Dragon Cypress: "Still no good. The mantis would fight to the death."
"You’re scared of it?"
Junior Orchid, even angrier and frustrated, grumbled, "I’m so unlucky, running into such a stupid and cowardly ant like you."
Dragon Cypress: "Give the Glinting Gold."
Glinting Gold secreted from the tip of Junior Orchid’s leaves, condensed into an egg shape, and floated down to the Throne.
"I’m so mad."
Junior Orchid: "Hit with two more Flourish Abilities to calm my nerves."
Dragon Cypress waggled his tentacles and hit it with two more.
Still so dumb even at Lord-Level~
Dragon Cypress shook its tentacles, piloted the Dominating Throne and left straight away, arriving at the mother plant of the Great King Molan Divine-Given Seed.
No need for words. Glinting Gold was handed over; the clever Senior Orchid imdiately understood Dragon Cypress’s intention, directed the fusion of Glinting Gold, and at the sa ti transmitted a feeling of joy and prompting spiritual power and intent.
Dragon Cypress waved its tentacles back and forth, four waves of Flourish Ability rained down...
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Three days after sowing, the Divine-Given Zibo Seed had grown into a seedling over thirty centiters tall, and began sprouting lateral branches.
At Lord-Level, its vitality was robust. Dragon Cypress instructed the Green Ants to use the Flourish Ability to support its growth.
After another eight days, the Divine-Given Zibo Seed grew into a sturdy sapling just over one ter tall.
Black Peach was left behind to tend it.
Dragon Cypress hurried back to Xianglan Mountain.
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Xianglan Mountain.
Molan Flowers blooming.
The spring wind blew, and the weather ward by the day.
The nine Common Life Seeds that Dragon Cypress planted during its mid-level stage near the Azure Blue Reservoir—Silver Cypress, Black Lotus, Water Stone Banyan, Azure Tree, Red Torreya, Coarse Torreya, Binmu, Sharp-Leafed Thuja, and Black Leaf Citrus—were all thriving thanks to the Water System Primordial Energy Field from the Deep Blue God-Given Seed, and began to be the first transitioning toward Lord-Level.
Upon evolving to Lord-Level, even Common Life Seed plants could produce rather impressive yields.
At the sa ti, all the evolved Life Seed Divine-Given Seeds were growing rapidly.
Dragon Cypress moved among Xianglan, Molan, and Southern Sour Jujube Mountain, personally using Lord-Level’s Flourish Ability to assist.
As per the pattern, after evolving to Lord-Level, all Life Seeds, both Common and Divine-Given, would enjoy a 10–20 year period of vigorous growth.
They would rest from flowering and fruiting for three years, then start keeping flowers and fruits, gradually raising output each year.
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The most important thing for the Ant Kingdom was the ants.
Lord-Level Blue Soldiers, Green Ants, Blue Soldiers, Blue Ants, Soldier Ants, Worker Ants—three systems and six types, and each further differentiated into specialized, large, dium, small, and micro types.
Currently, there were as many as 30 different ant forms.
Dragon Cypress first cultivated two or three of each type to test and observe their ability inheritance, to set the following years’ breeding priorities.
Afterwards, the focus turned to cultivating Specialized Green Soldiers.
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Deep in the Main Nest,
The first micro-sized Green Soldier erged into the world, fully feathered.
Pitch-black carapace,
A green spot on its backplate, even tinier than a sesa seed.
Squinting as hard as possible, you could see that it was a vivid, needle-shaped tree leaf patterned green mark.
Dragon Cypress personally instructed it, ensured it ate its fill, and carried it out of the Ant Nest.
In the sunlight,
The leaf-green pattern on the micro Green Soldier’s back was expanding at an extrely slow rate, bit by bit...
The Huagi Divine Tree’s analysis was correct again.
Green Soldiers and Green Ants could perfectly inherit the Forest Symbiont ability from the ’Symbiosis’ status.
This ant they didn’t need to consu leaves, but could directly acquire the Quandong Divine Tree’s ’Leaf Factor’, thereby gaining ultra-high solar energy utilization.
Dragon Cypress turned and notified the nearby Ink Orchid, Spiked Cypress, Giant Cypress, Silver Cypress, Fragrant Cypress...
Ink Orchid cheered, kicked off, and flew up to tell Fruit-Scented Orchid, Northern Gorgon, Erald Flower Hanlan, and Snow Orchid Divine-Given Seeds: [Good news! Good news! Lord-Level Green Ants have perfectly inherited the Forest Symbiont ability. From now on, they’ll be able to release Flourish Ability to their hearts’ content!]
Silver Cypress and Fragrant Cypress also spread the word to all of Dragon Cypress’s Life Seed Divine-Given Seeds.
The news quickly swept across Xianglan Mountain.
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The first micro-sized Green Soldier had five bands of green around its abdon. In theory, it also fully inherited Dragon Cypress’s five Wood Elent Abilities.
But the form was so tiny that, apart from Forest Symbiont, it couldn’t actively unleash any ability.
Continued observation,
After five days of sunlight, all of the green soldier’s carapace turned green.
The main job of micro Green Soldiers was to exterminate orchard pests like aphids, alybugs, leafhoppers, and spider mites.
They didn’t need to eat and could easily finish their daily work, with even greater efficiency.
The improvent for the Green Soldiers wasn’t actually that great.
The biggest improvent was probably for the Green Ants.
Specialized Green Ants were still being nurtured.
At Lord-Level, it could take 8 to 10 months for a specialized ant to develop from ant egg to adult.
The exact ti needed still had to be confird in practice.
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Micro-sized Green Ants, Blue Soldiers, and Blue Ants successively erged.
Observing the bands around their abdons, it could be determined that Green Ants also successfully inherited Dragon Cypress’s five Wood Elent Abilities.
Blue Soldiers and Blue Ants similarly had five bands, theoretically corresponding to the inheritance of Dragon Cypress’s Water Control, Hydrology Shield, Boiling, Freezing, and Water Making—five Water System Abilities in total.
Soldier Ants and Worker Ants lacked distinctive ring markings. Their ability inheritance would only beco apparent after larger types feathered out.
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Over at Xianglan Mountain, Southern Gorgon had run into a small problem.
The Southern Gorgon Reservoir was dug in the early days when Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid were still weak and led Worker Ants to dig. At that ti, capability was limited. It wasn’t dug big or deep enough.
After evolving to Lord-Level, the number of Southern Gorgon’s offshoots reached 2,343.
They were about to fill the entire reservoir.
The offshoots grew even more robustly, but the water at the edges wasn’t deep enough.
Silver Cypress and Fragrant Cypress urgently directed the ant colony to dig and expand the reservoir.
Dragon Cypress also went to White Rice Mountain and invited White Rice over to help with the work.
Hustling and bustling like this took a whole month,
By the ti the reservoir remodeling was done, the whole mountain was in bloom, and it was again the season for trading with the Fla Spider Roving rchants.
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