Chapter 1210 - 754: Fourth Generation Zuo King: Nebula Banyan_2

The Specialized Mountain Ant swallowed it in one gulp, paused for a few seconds, its eyes lit up, happily wiggling its tentacles:

——Great King, give me another one.

Dragon Cypress simultaneously activated Soul-Setting and spiritual power to observe.

After all, it was Half Star Realm; its tolerance for Primordial Energy Power and its ability to digest were quite formidable.

Give it one more...

Seeing this, Greenstone reminded again: "Great King, this guy is really sly, it was hiding deep in the mountains slacking off!"

Tie Bush suddenly thought of something, raised its Giant Pincers high and said: "Great King, could it be there are other similar Specialized Ants? They've Awakened self-awareness, don't want to work, left the teams and hid themselves."

"Well this..."

"It's not impossible!"

Dragon Cypress: "Tie Bush, go check every Ecological Base Station. Look around, maybe there are more."

Tie Bush: "Okay, Great King!"

Greenstone said happily: "I'll go with Tie Bush!"

Dragon Cypress said unhappily, "You don't have any Soul-Setting Ability, what are you tagging along for? Greenstone, go do your work properly."

Greenstone: "Great King, I also want to find a mountaintop, dig a hole and hide myself."

"..."

Dragon Cypress: "Then go find Ink Orchid and Black Cory, tell them the news."

"Okay——"

Greenstone and Tie Bush left.

The Specialized Mountain Ant carefully raised its claw, trying to grab the metal tube.

The Shanglu Divine Pattern on Dragon Cypress's forehead flashed; he put it away, and slapped his tentacles in a stern warning: Be honest! If you dare slack off again I'll butcher you!

"..."

The Specialized Mountain Ant turned and looked into the Ant Nest.

A familiar yet unfamiliar environment.

It was born here,

but a few days after its Feather Transformation into an Insect, it had been taken away, then it was endless day-and-night hard labor.

"From now on you'll follow me around. Help manage the Ant Nest logistics."

Dragon Cypress wiggled his tentacles to beckon it, leading the Specialized Mountain Ant around to get familiar with the place.

…

With Huagi Mountain's Insect around, everyone disabled the Spatial Teleportation Ability of the Technological Star Core.

Black Cory and Rainbow Light got the message first and rushed over.

"Great King!"

"New Assistant King?"

"Specialized Mountain Ant!"

"This one should be counted into our Plant Department First Group, right?"

"Do we even need to ask? Earth System Worker Ant, of course it'll be following us to dig earth!"

"Oh! True!"

"Alright then. The Great King is busy. Rainbow Light, take the little guy and teach it stuff."

"Okay——"

Black Cory and Rainbow Light chimed in together.

Rainbow Light wiggled its tentacles, signaling the Specialized Mountain Ant to come over.

The Specialized Mountain Ant clung tight to Dragon Cypress, not moving at all.

Dragon Cypress glanced sideways coldly.

Black Cory asked guiltily: "Great King, I heard it was found inside the mountain? Did it get lost?"

How could a Half Star Realm ant possibly get lost.

Dragon Cypress said irritably: "You two need to pay more attention and keep a proper watch on your ant swarms. Two Assistant Kings can't manage two hundred thousand ants?"

Black Cory: "..."

Rainbow Light: "..."

Rainbow Light muttered: "If we add one more Assistant King, then we'll be able to manage them."

Black Cory asked again: "Great King, the Specialized Mountain Ant should be following me and Rainbow Light, right?"

Dragon Cypress: "Yes——"

Dragon Cypress: "Once Star Spider arrives, we'll send it back to the Sheep Hoof Bettle Star System first, let it eat a few Divine Grade, and hurry to evolve to 9 Scar Realm. Then it'll come back to help."

Black Cory was overjoyed, "Great King, you're wise!"

Rainbow Light asked: "Great King, what about its name?"

Dragon Cypress: "We'll talk when the Second King comes. The Second King is full of resentment, let it have some fun."

On the Pioneer Planet, at first everyone felt fresh and thought it was very interesting, they were full of motivation.

Gradually, as time went on, doing the same repetitive work for too long, everyone started to feel bored and tired.

A full two days passed,

Ink Orchid, Snakebark Maple, Red Moonseed, and Ivy came when they heard the news.

After a round of happy questioning,

Ink Orchid asked: "Dragon Cypress, this is the Fourth Generation Zuo King!"

Dragon Cypress: "...Of course."

Ink Orchid: "Name?"

Dragon Cypress: "The Second King has high artistic attainment, let the Second King do it."

"Haha. I told you already. Read more books."

Ink Orchid proudly flicked its tentacles and recited:

"Today we don our exoskeleton and set out on campaign,

trillions of stars guide our way,

hundreds of millions of star rivers are flowing,

ten thousand nebulae flicker in silence,

quietly sending us their blessing."

Ink Orchid said: "This is our first Assistant King entering the Star Space, and we already have a Starry Cloud Cypress, right? Let's name the little one 'Nebula Banyan'."

"In the material-scarce Universe Starry Sky, nebulae are a symbol of Flourish and abundance."

"Naming the Fourth Generation Zuo King with 'Nebula', the stars will bless us, victories upon victories, harvests upon harvests."

Dragon Cypress: "..."

All the Insects: "..."

So much long-winded nonsense...

Just say you're following the 'Starry Cloud Cypress' naming and be done with it, no?

Dragon Cypress: "The Second King who's read books really is different now."

"It's not entirely because of books~"

Ink Orchid lightly swayed its tentacles and said: "Art is something that relies heavily on Talent. But from my observations, none of you have any artistic Talent. The entire Insect Clan Civilization, overall, lacks artistic Talent; that's a flaw, not something education can fix."

"..."

All the Insects choked.

Ink Orchid asked: "Dragon Cypress, our stock of Black Lotus Seed hasn't gone bad, has it?"

Dragon Cypress: "Of course. I've already fed it some. Three seeds a day; in roughly ten days it can carry out its first leap Evolution."

"Oh——"

Ink Orchid put away its cheerful mood, and asked in puzzlement:

"A Half Star Realm Specialized Ant still has to go through six leap Evolutions to Metamorphose into an Assistant King? What about its size and Evolution Level? It won't fall back down to High-Level Warrior level, will it?"

"Don't know. Hard to say."

Dragon Cypress wiggled his tentacles, "After a few days, once it goes through a leap Evolution, we'll see; basically we'll be able to infer the result."

All the Insects tapped their tentacles in agreement.

Snakebark Maple and Red Moonseed went to get food; everyone gathered for a small celebration by the reservoir at the foot of the mountain.

…

Eight days later,

Nebula Banyan used the Dominating Throne to sleep and evolve once.

Its body length shrank from a bit over 3.5 meters to about 3.2 meters.

Its Primordial Energy Breath plummeted from Half Star Realm down to Star Marks Realm.

Preliminary inference: it still has to drop back to High-Level tier.