Astral Ant Tribe

…

"Longbai, have the cypress trees been planted?"

"No. We still need Xuelan Mountain and Panlan Mountain."

"That Xiangsi Island..."

"Let's see next year."

Long Bai's original plan was to spend three years to quickly complete the development of Xiangsi Island, and then start iterative work on the Silver Cypress trees on Yunji Continent.

Now, the work on both sides has been reversed, and it’s almost the same.

Long Bai: "I went back to Xianglan Mountain this time just to see if the god-given seeds of the cypress tree have matured. In that case, I won't delay much and go back to Xuelan Mountain to continue my work. There are still tens of thousands of eliminated cypress trees in need. Cleaning up, busy."

"oh--"

Mo Lan: "Transplanting next spring?"

Long Bai: "Of course."

Mo Lan: "If I remember correctly, the divine fruit endowed with the fire element talent will be delivered next spring."

Long Bai: "You remember correctly."

Long Bai asked again: "Mo Lan, you have been in Xianglan Mountain for nearly three and a half years. Do you want to change places?"

"Change!"

Mo Lan: "I changed to..."

Mo Lan hesitated for a moment and said, "I'd better go to Mo Lan Mountain. I'll take care of Da Lan."

Long Bai: "It's up to you."

As he spoke, the ruling throne slowly descended and stopped at the entrance of the ant nest in the south of the mountain.

Long Bai greeted Zhan Lan and told him that he had come back and took away King Bai's god-given seeds and Mo Lan.

The seeds given by the gods of King Cypress were so special that Long Cypress was worried about putting them in the treasure house. Juniper and Silver Cypress secretly took them out to look at them, but they were damaged, so they had to take them with them to feel relieved.

Zhan Lan will tell them the news of Long Bai's return and departure.

Don't stay long,

The Throne of Control took off again and headed straight for Mount Molan.

…

The second batch of fruits from the God-given seeds of King Molan completed their third expansion in the spring of this year. They are still two times away, that is, in 16 years, before they are mature and harvested.

Da Lan has a lively personality, so Mo Lan stays to chat with her.

Long Bai rushed to Xuelan Mountain alone.

I was busy until the middle of winter, and then I called it a day.

Long Bai ran back and forth again,

Send Hei Hua, Hei Ye and Hei Ti back to Pandan Mountain.

Take the juniper, emerald cypress, and black locust from the purple linden country back to Xianglan Mountain.

Take Spades, Li, and Mo Lan back to Xianglan Mountain.

Long Bai is going to hold an important meeting that will determine the future development of the kingdom.

The current twelve auxiliary kings:

Juniper, juniper, giant cypress, green cypress, fragrant cedar, silver cypress; black stem, black leaf, black birch, spade, black persimmon, black locust.

Except for the giant cypress who stayed behind, the other eleven princes gathered in Xianglan Mountain.

Ridge, Shandong Reservoir, held a grand celebration banquet first.

Let’s celebrate the Kingdom’s cultivation of the obviously extraordinary King Kashiwa God-given seed.

Just eating, drinking and chatting.

Long Bai jumped onto the governing throne and said solemnly: "Our efforts in recent decades to cultivate silver cypress trees have finally reaped our first generous rewards, although it was with the help of Zhi Bai's top bloodline..."

Long Bai continued: "There is no doubt that the development potential of silver cypress is infinitely high and unique. It is worth cultivating as the iconic planting of our Pandan Mountain Kingdom. Today, I officially announce that now, In the future, as well as the distant future of entering the outer world, our Pandan Mountain Kingdom will focus on the planting of 'silver cypress', focus on cultivation, and use it as the symbol of the kingdom."

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Juniper immediately raised its front feet and took the lead in shouting and responding.

"The king is mighty!"

Yinbai cheered and echoed.

The ants cheered.

Long Bai moved his front legs up and down to indicate silence, and then said: "Your Majesty, I have been thinking, our current way of writing characters to record time is too cumbersome and vague, so that some stupid people can't remember how much time has passed. Years, I can’t remember how old I am this year. It’s definitely not good to keep doing this, and I need to make changes. I heard that the Watase Flame Spider Kingdom in Phytophaga records the passage of time in the form of epochs and chronological years. This method is very good. No matter whether it has been thousands of years, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of years in the past, they will not be messed up.”

Long Bai: "Our Xianglan Mountain also implements the era and calendar system. An era is the length of a Force reincarnation cycle, which is eighteen thousand years. This is the law of the true God of nature that controls the operation of the world, although I don't understand the mystery. , but if you learn from it and use it, you will definitely not go wrong. Calendar refers to how many years have passed in an era."

"The first era is named 'Yinbai'. Starting from the New Year next year, the next year will be Yinbai 1 year, the year after that will be Yinbai 2 years, the year after that will be Yinbai 3 years, and so on until the end of Yinbai 18,000 years. When an era ends, it is given a new name and the next new era begins, and so on."

Long Bai: "With this system, we will not lose our way in the long river of time with no source or end."

Long Bai: "Hei Huai, from now on, you will stay in Xianglan Mountain and live permanently in Xianglan Mountain. The king will assign you an exclusive position, specifically responsible for recording the year. Once a year has passed, you will carve characters on the pot to mark it."

Hei Huai: "Okay. Your Majesty."

Hei Huai: "Your Majesty, what's on the pot?"

Long Bai raised his paw and pointed at the golden metal cauldron, and said: "I re-smelted it, and specially found a ghost fan to strengthen it. After that, after eating, put the pot away and hide it in the treasure house, don't let those The special ants touched it casually and made random drawings. This is where everyone eats, and Prince Zuo is not allowed to make any random drawings on it, including me, and you two, Mo Lan and Zhu."

"???"

Mo Lan felt vaguely that she was being targeted.

"……oh."

Xing looked at her pliers solemnly.

Hei Huai: "...I understand."

Long Bai: "In addition, as the kingdom develops and grows, there are more and more important affairs. We go back to collect black birch trees, cut them into wooden boards, and use characters to record important events."

Long Bai: "For example, next year, if a divine fruit that grants the fire element talent arrives, it can be recorded as Yinbai 1 year, and the divine fruit that grants the fire element talent arrives."

Long Bai: "For another example, 16 years later, we harvested our magical mulberry seeds. You can record that 16 years later, our miraculous mulberry seeds were harvested."

Long Bai: "In this way, through chronology and notes, we can easily calculate when the next batch of divine fruits that endow the fire element will arrive, and when the next batch of divine fruits will mature and be harvested. . Avoid having too many things, forgetting them, or getting confused.”

Hei Huai: "Understood!"

Longbai said to Xiangbai again: "Xiangbai, you also need to keep records. All Zuowang and Xiangbai have one book of accounts each. For example, in one year of Yinbai, how many raw stones are Juniper's fixed wages, how many raw stones are the share of income, and how many raw stones are the rewards? How many rough stones, how many rough stones are spent, and how many rough stones are left in the account. Every income and expenditure must be recorded clearly."

Long Bai: "There is a small settlement every month, and a big settlement every year after the transaction with the Flame Spider Traveler is completed."

Xiangbai replied: "I understand, Your Majesty."

Long Bai: "Also, Xiang Bai, you should be diligent. Every year, you should keep a record of the entry and exit of force food and raw stones. The year is divided into 12 months, and the year and month are marked in detail. The income of the kingdom's wealth The comings and goings of expenditures must be clear, and the amounts of receipts and expenditures should be consistent with the balance.”

Xiangbai: "Okay, Your Majesty."

Long Bai continued: "Yunbai, you also have a mission."

Long Bai: "Currently, the silver cypress trees we cultivate have few mutant branches. If we continue to cultivate them on a large scale, more cultivated varieties will inevitably appear. Please record the relevant information of each cultivated variety of juniper. For example, the silver cypress hybrid No. 3001 The origin of the variant, the planting location, the cultivation area, and for example, in the future, Yinbai No. 3002 will be optimized and bred, or the mutant strain No. 3101 will be born, record the time and place of appearance, which Zuwang cultivated it or accidentally discovered it."

Long Bai: "Keep detailed records, firstly, to facilitate future reference and analysis, and to formulate planting plans, and secondly, to facilitate the distribution of rewards after successfully cultivating the God-given seeds."

Longbai: "I understand, Longbai Ant King."

Lian Bai asked: "Long Bai Ant King, is this necessary?"

Long Bai solemnly said: "Yes! It is very necessary!"

Long Bai continued: "The numbering of the silver cypress trees was taught by the Snow Spider King. This should be the method used by their flame spider kingdom, the native flame spider clan, to manage their territory. Then, the question arises. I don't know how long their kingdom will continue. How many Force reincarnation cycles have there been? How many thousands of years have the cultivation been optimized? Why is the number only four digits? Is it enough?"

Long Bai: "I didn't pay much attention to this issue at the time, but after thinking about it later, I found that there was a lot of knowledge in it."

Silver cypress: "The first number, 1 to 9, represents the 9 varieties of native species. For example, we insist on planting native species of silver cypress trees and cultivate the first, second, third and ninth varieties. New mutated species with significant differences are numbered from 1 to 9, but what if a tenth mutated species is born? How to deal with it? "

Long Bai looked around at all the princes.

Yinbai asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, the last one will be eliminated? If there are more than 10 variants, the worst one will be eliminated?"

Long Bai clicked his tentacles and said: "That's right! More than half of them are right! Eliminate them! Only 9 relatively excellent native species branch variants will be retained."

Long Bai: "Similarly, the varieties of native species mutate again. For example, our existing Yinbai No. 1001, during the optimization and breeding process, it mutated into No. 1101, right? If we continue to cultivate, it may mutate into No. 1101 No. 1201, No. 1301, and so on, until there are nine variants, and when the number reaches ten, the last ones will also be eliminated."

Long Bai: "Nine multiplied by nine, the full quota is 81 varieties. This number is already very scary. Now we are busy operating 4 varieties at the same time, and we focus on 81 plantings at the same time. How much land does this require? How much time and energy do you have to invest? It’s basically approaching the limit of a prosperous kingdom’s operating capabilities.”

Long Bai: "The last two digits of the number are the iterative updates of the variant, which can reach up to 99 generations. Ordinary life forms and ordinary plants cannot evolve with the Force, so there must be a limit. In fact, according to our iteration The standard may be optimized to the 30th generation, and the 40th generation will reach the limit, and it will be difficult to improve further.”

Long Bai asked again: "If we optimize a planting to the limit, what will we do next?"

Xiangbai raised his paws and answered actively: "Keep the good bloodline, no need to take care of it! Plant it on a large scale and wait to harvest the seeds given by God."

"Cyber ​​is smart!"

Long Bai praised, paused, and added: "If a plant has been optimized and selected to the extreme, it can be removed from the number and given a formal name. This is another level of 'removal' of the four-digit number. mechanism."

Long Bai concluded: "The four-digit numbering method taught by the Edelweiss Spider King may seem simple, but it contains the crystallization of the wisdom of an ancient kingdom that has been passed down for countless thousands of years to manage its territory."

Long Bai: "Now our kingdom has just started to develop. It's easy to remember a few simple variations with your brain. But in the future when it grows and grows and there are more things, it's possible that it's easy to misremember them. "

Junbai: "Longbai Ant King, I understand!"

Juniper waved his tentacles excitedly, "Your Majesty is the wisest. With just four characters, you can analyze so many things. I felt enlightened after hearing this."

suddenly see the light?

Long Bai stared and asked: "Juniper, didn't you understand?"

Juniper: "I understand!"

Juniper: "Your Majesty, I am a giant soldier ant who specializes in fighting."

"Forget it, I won't embarrass you anymore."

Long Bai jumped to the ground and greeted: "Let's continue eating."

…

The party is over.

The distribution of insect pests has been adjusted.

Silver cypress, fragrant cedar, and black locust tree live in Xianglan Mountain.

Juniper, juniper, and black persimmon live permanently in the purple linden country, while giant cypress temporarily lives in the purple linden country.

Cuibai, Black Birch, and Ligusticum first went to Shake Leaf Island, and then opened up 10 acres of land on the island and planted a number of wise cypress trees. By the way, the fruit trees on the island should also be pruned.

The tasks of Hei Ye, Spai Tao, and Hei Ti remain unchanged, and they are responsible for Bailian Lake, Molan Mountain, and Nan Suanzao Mountain respectively.

…

There was nothing else to do this winter. Long Bai and Mo Lan spent two months in Nanzizao Mountain.

In early spring, time officially comes to Yinbai 1st year.

Long Bai took the black persimmons, black leaves, and black leaves and continued the transplantation work of silver cypress trees in Xuelan Mountain and Panlan Mountain.

Spring is in full bloom.

The flame spider traveling merchant trade, the divine fruit that gives the fire talent is delivered as promised.

Oval and egg-shaped, magma-like red with black force veins.

The shell is woody and scaly, and after peeling it off, there are brown-red nuts inside.

It's completely impossible to tell what kind of plant it comes from.

If you can't identify the species or even have a name, it's completely impossible to trace the origin of the item.

Many insects and many tribes do not want their good things to be made public, and they are even more afraid of making trouble known to all the insects.

Long Bai didn't explore much. He got the things, briefly inspected them, and then ate them directly.

After some simple preparation, sleep evolved.

When you wake up from a deep sleep, you shed your old shell and the new shell hardens quickly.

6th age lord.

Silently feeling the force in his body, he felt happy.

Done!

Long Bai turned around, unscrewed the metal can beside him, licked a few hastily, took out the giant metal box, opened it, and spit out the pregnant Elephant Foot King Orchid God-given Seed, and rolled his tongue to take the God-given King Bai Seed. Included in life bag.

After a slight induction, after this thing enters the life bag, the rate of absorbing original energy is more than ten times higher than ordinary god-given seeds.

Correspondingly, it is ten times more difficult to nurture it into a divinely gifted seed.

With the support of the Dominion Throne, it's not a big problem.

Long Bai put away the metal box, jumped to the ground, and walked out of the ant nest.

"Long Bai, how are you?"

Mo Lan, who was guarding the entrance of the cave, noticed the movement and opened the door blocking the entrance to ask.

"Successfully awakened the fire talent!"

"Where's the ability?"

"It seems like there are only two."

"Try it quickly!"

"Shandong Reservoir."

Let’s leave the nest together and climb the ridge.

Long Bai: "The first ability is conventional, the fire control that one must master when awakening the fire element talent."

Mo Lan: "Oh..."

Long Bai: "The second ability..."

"Molan, please stay away."

As Long Bai spoke, he spread his membrane wings and waved to drive away the few specialized ants that were following him. He walked to the reservoir embankment, calmed down and brewed for a few seconds. The fire energy in his body surged and suddenly exploded. .

With a shout,

The red and thick flames spread all over Long Bai's body.

The blazing heat spread in all directions, and the lake ahead boiled and smoked.

The dragon's cypress membrane wings waved, and a large fire flew out, hitting the center of the reservoir directly, and there was a loud roar.

"Wow!"

Mo Lan raised her front legs high, jumped up and shouted: "The king is mighty! The king is mighty..."

Mo Lan stopped his movements and praised: "Long Bai, this flame ability is very strong! It's so gorgeous!"

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai: "Mo Lan, please stay away, or be careful of accidental injury."

After saying that, he flapped his wings and took off, circling and landing in the center of the reservoir.

After a brief brewing, the breath rose straight up, with a loud bang, a hundred times the power and the ability to rage were activated at the same time, the flames attached to the body surface shot out in all directions, and in an instant, the entire reservoir was boiling with high temperature.

Cymbidium:"!!!"

Mo Lan: "Long Bai, your strength-based anger ability is really omnipotent and can cooperate with all abilities!"

"Okay--"

Long Bai breathed a long sigh of relief and said: "Wrath and the newly awakened fire ability appear to be powerful, but in fact they consume a lot of raw energy, and their practicality and applicability are very poor."

Mo Lan: "It can be improved through strengthening and training."

Mo Lan: "The new ability is called 'Flame Body'?"

Long Bai: "..."

Upon noticing the movement, silver cypress, fragrant cedar, and black locust tree rushed over.

Long Bai ordered the hunter to hold a small banquet to celebrate.

After eating well and recovering well, the Governor's Throne carried Mo Lan and set off overnight to the Xuanlang Rainforest to sow the seeds given by the God of Elephant Foot King Orchid.

One day later, the seeds took root and sprouted.

Three days later, the seedlings grow to a height of just over 20 centimeters, and the leaf blades unfold.

It is a tropical semi-herbaceous plant with a branched development pattern and a fast growth rate.

Half a month later, the seedling grows into a small sapling over one meter tall. The earliest leaves fall off, and the stem near the root begins to swell.

Cypress carefully controls its power, activating its abilities of prosperity and tranquility to aid its growth.

at the same time,

Mo Lan was not idle either. She wandered around the mountains and forests every day, collecting samples of various animals and plants.

After more than three years of development, the God-given red leaf rain tree has grown into a towering tree with a height of more than 40 meters.

Mo Lan also started teaching, first using various specimens to teach red leaves how to recognize objects.

…

Mo Lan stayed alone in the Shuanglang Rainforest, taking care of the seeds given by the God of Elephant Foot Wang Lan.

Long Bai hurriedly set off for the purple linden country, and transported the silver cypress saplings cultivated there to Hanlan Mountain and Panlan Mountain, where Hei Ye and Hei Persimmon directed the ant colonies to plant them.

Complete all transplanting work before the hot weather in early summer.

The new generation of silver cypress optimization and iteration work has been completed.

When Long Bai came to the Huanglang Rainforest again, the Elephant Foot Wanglan had grown into a small tree over 3 meters tall.

Just let Mo Lan continue to look after him.

There should be no further delay in the development of Xiangsi Island.

Long Bai rested for two days and set off again. (End of chapter)