Chapter 1205 - 752: I Finally Met the Legendary Insects~_3

Once there are plants, from tiny worms to large beasts, they will naturally migrate over on their own.

On a newly built planet, the soil's organic matter content is zero, so many plants don't take well. What the Plant Department's Blue Catalpa, Black Rice, Woodberry, and Pueraria need to do is cultivate all kinds of shrub and arbor saplings, transplant them to designated areas, spread chemical fertilizer, give them special care, protect them through their fragile juvenile phase, and enrich the variety of plants.

Once the plants are rich enough, the animals will naturally become rich as well.

When the variety of flora and fauna is rich, the ecosystem will tend toward stability.

In this colossal project of transforming a planet, there's no need to waste time and energy worrying about the state of any particular tree or any particular patch of forest.

For each species, you scatter a batch of seeds in places suited to their survival, then let them grow, reproduce, spread, or be eliminated.

…

…

The appointed time with Huagi Mountain arrives.

On the plaza of Area 1001, spatial ripples are clearly visible.

A Star Spider with a leg span of over thirty meters pierces out of space, lands steadily, and its hatch opens.

Areca comes trotting out.

Behind, Shield Grasshopper Warriors crawl out one after another.

The relief army from Huagi Mountain arrives right on time.

On Green Torreya Mountain, Dragon Cypress keenly senses the disturbance; a sweep of Soul-Setting Ability, its body flickers, and it rushes over.

"Dragon Cypress Ant King!"

"Great Leader Dragon Cypress!"

"Holm Oak Great Leader!"

"Leader Mercuries!"

The insects call out their greetings.

"Holm Oak Great Leader, you personally led the team over!"

Dragon Cypress isn't very surprised.

Back at their Huagi Mountain, Holm Oak Great Leader's main duty is management.

It looks around; the 200 Shield Grasshopper Warriors that came on this trip are uniformly Half Star Realm, Age Period 4.

It must have been to lend a hand, that they deliberately altered tribe planning, concentrated resources, and pushed the group through another round of growth and evolution.

Holm Oak Great Leader laughs broadly: "I'm here to learn too. In the future, when our Huagi Mountain opens up a Zero Level Origin Point, it'll definitely be me leading the team, fully in charge. Everyone else in the tribe can afford not to understand, but I absolutely can't. I not only have to understand, I have to be familiar, proficient, and make sure no major mistakes happen. Great Leader Dragon Cypress, wouldn't you say so?"

Without waiting for Dragon Cypress to answer,

Holm Oak Great Leader sighs: "It's not easy being a Great Leader, the pressure hanging over your head is huge~"

"Haha. That's true enough..."

Dragon Cypress quite agrees, vigorously nods its tentacles, then tilts its head and orders: "Areca, use your Soul-Setting Ability to notify Second King and the others."

"Got it——"

Areca responds, activates Soul-Setting Ability to sense, locks onto Ink Orchid's position...

Dragon Cypress stays with Holm Oak and the other insects, chatting and explaining the situation.

"Great Leader Dragon Cypress, from the looks of it, things are developing pretty nicely!"

"This is the base of Area 1001. It's the most important food source zone, developed early, and every piece of land has been finely treated. So it looks good."

"How about the other places? How many areas have been opened up?"

"Right now, with Area 1001 as the center, the first ring outward is six areas, with about 80% green coverage. The second ring outward is twelve areas, of which four have plant coverage over 50%, and another eight are under development, with green coverage around 20% or so."

"Uh..."

Holm Oak Great Leader's expression immediately grows solemn. "It's been over a hundred years? That efficiency doesn't seem fast enough~"

Holm Oak Great Leader asks: "Great Leader Dragon Cypress, how's the progress on Water Making? What's the current scale of the ant colony? How much fresh water can you produce per day?"

Dragon Cypress: "There are over 320,000 Specialized Blue Soldiers, making close to 110 cubic kilometers of water per day."

Holm Oak Great Leader does some mental math and says: "The Water Creation Ability is sufficient! So the rate of land clearing and transformation isn't keeping up."

Dragon Cypress: "Exactly!"

——Haven't we been waiting for you guys to come help?

Dragon Cypress grumbles inwardly, then explains in detail:

"The ecological base station is set to 'tropical rainforest climate', air humidity 100%, and water vapor leaks outward through the Primordial Energy Barrier. At present, with Area 1001 as the center, the eighteen areas of the third ring are about to reach saturation in water content as well."

"I knew you, Holm Oak Great Leader, were coming, so I didn't cultivate more Strength System, Earth System, or Wood Element ants to do the clearing."

"Got it!"

Holm Oak Great Leader turns, waves its tentacles to direct, and says: "The 200 warriors will be split into two main teams. I'll command the first team, mainly doing fine-detail work; Leader Mercuries will command the second team, mainly handling the rough tasks — for example, digging and building large lakes, large-scale rainfall, cooling, and so on."

"Great Leader Dragon Cypress, take a look at the situation and assign tasks for me and Mercuries."

"I wouldn't dare to assign…"

Dragon Cypress hurriedly corrected himself politely: "Plan. Plan tasks."

"Same difference."

Holm Oak Great Leader said: "Also, twenty warriors per squad, appoint a temporary captain. Come, let me introduce you to the five squad leaders of the First Battalion, this one is…"

"Oh! Right! This is Dianthus! Great Leader Dragon Cypress, last time you said the Linnan Divine Tree mentioned Dianthus to you?"

Dragon Cypress: "It did! The Linnan Divine Tree once said Senior Dianthus changed the entire Huagi Mountain model for selecting and training warriors. Thanks to that, Huagi Mountain became, in the Origin Force Era before last, the strongest Great Tribe on Cloud Trace Continent."

Dianthus, who had just twitched his tentacles in greeting, froze his tentacles, suddenly awkward, "It's not that exaggerated, is it?"

"That's what the Linnan Divine Tree said…"

Dragon Cypress stared at the Shield Grasshopper warriors ahead, scrutinizing them, utterly fascinated.

Huagi Mountain has three Divine-Given Seeds of Divine Grade, including the Frost Birch Divine Tree, that entered the Universe Starry Sky.

In theory, with Divine Grade fruits trading back and forth, over these tens of thousands of years, it should have been enough to exchange Divine-Grade Fruit for the Tribe's other warriors to Awaken second- and third-system talents.

But this Dianthus has only Water System Origin Force fluctuations on his body.

A single Water System.

And it's an extreme ice frost attribute.

Under the influence of Primordial Energy, even his carapace color has turned into crystalline snow white.

The Shield Grasshopper warriors standing with Dianthus all have uniformly snow‑white carapaces, exuding a sense of ultimate ice frost.

Dianthus saw what Dragon Cypress was thinking and explained:

"At present, our Huagi Mountain has summarized three evolution modes: the first is multiple-system talent, with a wide variety of abilities; the second is dual-system talent, either Earth–Wood dual system, or Waterwood System; the third is a single talent, single attribute, pursuing the extreme in one particular direction."

Dianthus: "For the members of the 5th Squad under my command, our Path of Evolution is Water System taken to the extreme in cold. We are pure combat‑type Shield Grasshopper warriors; the kind of work we can do is also very simple—cooling down the planet."

"That's excellent."

Dragon Cypress switched to a heavy tone and said: "The planetary surface temperature is over three hundred degrees; outside the ecological base station, the high heat keeps pounding away, continuously consuming Primordial Crystals. My stockpile of Primordial Crystals is about to run out…"

As they were talking, intense Origin Force fluctuations came from afar.

Everyone looked up.

Ink Orchid controlled its Radiant Throne, carrying Ghost Fan, Starry Cloud Cypress, Greenstone, and Rainbow Apricot, speeding over.

Dragon Cypress introduced solemnly: "This is our Xianglan Mountain's Second Leader, an Orchid Mantis Warrior, Ink Orchid. It has elemental talent no less than Leader Mercuries—looking across the entire Insect Clan, it's a one‑in‑ten‑thousand genius!"

"Ink Orchid, come here, let me introduce you, this is Holm Oak Great Leader."

"Greetings, Holm Oak Great Leader!"

"This is Leader Quandong and Linnan Divine Tree's acquaintance they mentioned to us, Leader Mercuries. And this one, Dianthus, remember…"

"Leader Mercuries?"

"Dianthus! Of course I remember!"

"Wow!"

Ink Orchid exclaimed: "I've seen the legendary insect!"

Mercuries: "…"

Dianthus: "…"

The other insects of Xianglan Mountain, upon receiving Areca's message, either flew through the air or ran along the ground, arriving one after another.

And then came another round of introductions.

Dragon Cypress called everyone over to the reservoir at the foot of Green Torreya Mountain to feast together; as they ate, they further warmed up their relationships.

After eating their fill and resting well,

Dragon Cypress led the Huagi Mountain insects to survey the environment and familiarize themselves with the engineering principles.

…

The 200 warriors of Huagi Mountain settled in the third concentric ring.

After resting for two days, they threw themselves into work.

The Second Battalion led by Mercuries is specifically responsible for excavating and constructing a gigantic lake of three thousand square kilometers in area at the center of each sector.

The First Battalion led by Holm Oak Great Leader is responsible for digging reservoirs, rivers, canals, and ponds, improving soil, sowing green plants, lowering the planet's temperature, and other miscellaneous tasks.

With labor output comparable to a million Worker Ants and Mountain Ants, on average they can complete the waterworks and ecological reconstruction for one sector every three years.

The green of life is rapidly spreading across Stone Orchid Star.

PS1: Planetary pioneering is a bit dull, so I'm adding one more chapter to speed up the progress.

PS2: At the end of the month there'll be double monthly tickets; everyone can wait for the end‑of‑month event to vote, thank you all for your support, I'm deeply grateful.