Other than having to return to Cloud Trace Continent every spring and autumn to handle important affairs, Dragon Cypress spent most of his ti peacefully staying on Rainbow Island.
Every two days, sixteen Ant Eggs, sixteen Specialized Blue Soldiers.
The Blue Soldier Legion continued to grow.
The training of the Blue Soldier Legion was handed over to Cypress and Silver Cypress.
Dragon Cypress kept a very regular daily routine.
In the morning, he intensely practiced Heavenly Frost Remnants Realm.
In the afternoon, he experinted with the combination of Touch of Silver Light and Controllable Current.
At night, he set aside ti to practice Vortex Beast Devouring and Nosh Remnants as appropriate.
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Year 101 of Silver Cypress.
White Ivy brought over a Divine-Grade Leilian Seed.
White Willow used it to evolve into a Lord at the seventh Age Period.
This guy's luck is as bad as ever, he failed to awaken his Thunder System Talent.
What a disaster.
Dragon Cypress felt even worse than White Willow, and could only wait for the next visit from the Snow Velvet Spider King to trade for a Divine-Grade Leizhe Fruit.
The last ti the Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King raided Wind Phoenix Mountain, trying to seize the Leizhe Seed and even attempted to destroy the Divine-Given Leizhe Seed. Although it was stopped, the tree was still wounded and had to regrow its Tree Heart to be reborn. No one knew if it had recovered by now.
There's definitely no way to get it in the short term.
White Willow could speed up evolving to the eighth Age Period, first nurturing the Divine-Given Black Lotus Seed, and sow it in ti.
Dragon Cypress still hadn't fully figured out the enhancent effect of the Black Lotus Seed—maybe he'd be able to clarify it through the Divine-Given Black Lotus Seed.
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Later that autumn, the Soul-Setting Fruit of the Quandong Divine Tree was harvested.
Dragon Cypress helped migrate it for the Purple Tung Insect Nation to take root.
He had already given a heads-up to the caravan; the next batch was expected to yield five Soul-Setting Fruits, with priority given to being used by the Assistant Kings under Dragon Cypress's command.
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Year 104 of Silver Cypress.
White Ivy brought two Divine-Grade Fruits that granted Life Talent at once.
Spiked Cypress and Silver Cypress used them to break through and advance to King-Level.
Spiked Cypress was also assigned to reside on Rainbow Island long-term.
Spiked Cypress, Silver Cypress, and Cypress, three pure combat Assistant Kings, took turns being responsible for sentry duties, drilling the troops, fishing, and patrol work.
On the Cloud Trace Continent, guarding Xianglan Mountain was handed over to Giant Cypress.
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After more than twenty years, Dragon Cypress finally had a sudden breakthrough one day, successfully fusing the two abilities, 'Vortex Worm' and 'Hydra', into one, creating 'Whirl Beast'.
Next was to integrate the 'Destructive' property from the Refinent Ability into 'Whirl Beast'.
This was the most difficult and core part of the entire combo ability.
Dragon Cypress had been pondering this for nearly twenty years, and although he'd just gotten a bit of inspiration, for now, besides repeated practice to get familiar with the ability, he hadn't found any better way.
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Late spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
It was deep autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, the season when various plants' fruits and seeds ripen together.
The Thousand Reef Archipelago.
Dusk.
Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid dove deep beneath the sea, approaching the largest island in the open sea—four hundred square kiloters.
Soul-Setting Ability swept out, confirming there were no other insects on the island.
Ink Orchid landed confidently on the island, skimming low, searching for Divine-Given Seeds.
Dragon Cypress stood on the sea, thick mist rising, focused on practicing 'Nosh Remnants'. Suddenly, he sensed sothing.
The Soul-Setting Ability spread out, locking onto Ink Orchid's position.
Without asking, Dragon Cypress withdrew the mist, rose up, slipped through the forest, and floated over.
On the marshy northeastern swamp of the island, amidst dense woods, Ink Orchid stopped beneath a seaside hibiscus tree about five or six ters tall.
Ink Orchid gently raised a claw and pointed at the tree.
The seashell hibiscus blooms at the end of sumr and early autumn.
A half-grown green fruit emitted a faint Origin Force fluctuation.
It was a developing Divine-Given Seed of Seaside Hibiscus.
A small arbor.
Water System purification-type ability enhancent.
It focused on strengthening a specific type of ability, but was rather rare and not very useful.
Currently, no insect in the Xianglan Mountain Kingdom had mastered this type of Water System Ability.
There were Divine-Grade Fruits granting Water System purification-type abilities in both hemispheres, but Dragon Cypress had never bothered with such powers.
The value of the Divine-Given Seaside Hibiscus Seed was probably even lower than the value of the more common comprehensive Water System enhancent-type Divine-Given Seeds.
Ink Orchid: "..."
Dragon Cypress: "..."
Ink Orchid: "Dragon Cypress, what do you think?"
Dragon Cypress: "...It's alright, I guess."
Ink Orchid: "Should I use this to advance to Insect King?"
Dragon Cypress: "...Better not for now?"
Ink Orchid had plenty of Divine-Given Life Seeds, but most didn't fit their insect needs.
The Divine-Given Seaside Hibiscus Seed had average yield and quality, a niche enhancent effect, was King-Level, and only brought in about two hundred thousand inco per year.
The available Life Seed quotas for both Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid were down to the final countdown—nine left for Dragon Cypress, ten for Ink Orchid—every quota had to be used wisely.
Dragon Cypress: "We definitely have to take the seed. For now, let's keep it in a tal Case. Ink Orchid, you still have nearly thirty years before you evolve to Insect King; there's ti, decide later."
Ink Orchid: "What about you? You should consider evolving to second Age Period Insect King."
"I'll consider it once I've condensed a Divine Mark of Heavenly Frost Remnants…"
After thinking for a mont, Dragon Cypress said: "Ink Orchid, you keep searching. I'll stay here and keep watch."
"Alright—"
Ink Orchid backed up a few paces, fluttered her wings and took off.
Dragon Cypress activated Hydra's Power, conjuring twelve invisible tendrils in unison to pick off the excess fruit on the tree.
Spending half the night, Ink Orchid quickly finished searching the entire island.
Guarding the island by day, acting at night, after three nights they checked all the islands nearby, and there were no other finds.
"Dragon Cypress, the Divine-Given Seaside Hibiscus Seed still needs at least two months to mature."
"I'll stay and guard it."
"And ?"
"Ink Orchid, return to Rainbow Island or hide on the sea. That Little Bee King from Forest Beard Bee Kingdom is very active. In two months, it will definitely lead the Ant Army ashore to scavenge. I can activate 'Asphyxia' state and 'Water Escape' ability to hide in the waters, completely masking my presence, ensuring I won't be detected. If the bee swarm approaches, I'll then use Mottled Remnant Realm to cover us."
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