Astral Ants

Chapter 459 Forest Symbiosis

Ant nest on Pandan Mountain, royal family.

Long Bai woke up from a deep sleep and quickly completed moulting.

The new shell solidifies.

8-year-old mountain owner.

Scanning with mental power, examine oneself.

The body shape has become thinner again, and the membranous wings have changed a lot. They are as long as the abdomen and tail, and narrower after unfolding, but the wing veins are harder and the wing membranes are tougher.

A variation closer to the Hive's wings.

Long Bai tried to flap it twice, the current wing structure supports high-frequency vibrations, and it is more flexible to fly.

——Linnan Shenshu's training has achieved remarkable results!

Long Bai admired secretly, took a jar of ant honey prepared on the throne, opened it, dipped his head in with his tentacles, licked and ate slowly, and at the same time meditated.

all the best.

Long Bai raised his claws and waved lightly, a ray of original energy with a strong vitality was released.

Successfully comprehended the speed of light healing ability!
At the same time, there is also a very strong, strange and wonderful feeling, which should be the long-awaited ability endowed by the divine grade Melaleuca fruit: forest symbiosis
Long Bai threw Ant Honey aside, jumped off the throne, quickly ran to the entrance of the cave, and slapped open the blocked door with one claw.

"Your Majesty?"

The juniper standing guard at the entrance of the cave was startled.

"I'll try a new ability."

Long Bai ran out of the ant nest without looking back.

The ability of forest symbiosis needs to be stimulated by eating green plants.

Long Bai glanced at the black orchid grass beside the planting hole, swiped his claws and cut off a piece of orchid leaf, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed and swallowed.

With a flash of inspiration in his mind, he activated the original energy of the wood system, wrapped it up and swallowed it into his stomach.

Orchid leaves are quickly decomposed and absorbed.

Dark green stripes resembling leaf veins rose from the back of the breastplate.

Long Bai understood.

It's a pity that it's night and there's no way to test it.

Continue to cut and swallow with claws.

Dark green stripes spread up and down along the carapace, all over the body.

keep eating
The wing veins are also dyed green.

continue to eat,

The vein-like dark green stripes began to expand, forming clusters of green spots.

"Your Majesty..."

Juniper stood watching from the side, stunned, hesitated to speak, and finally couldn't help reminding:
"My lord, be careful! When the second king came back, he would be angry again when he saw that the molan grass was gone at the entrance of the cave."

"Afraid of it?"

Long Bai's movements froze, after thinking for a while, he felt that it made sense, and turned his gaze to the Longbai tree life seed not far away.

The branches and leaves of life-growing plants must not be touched easily.

Long cypress jumped up, landed in the woodland below, swiped its claws and chopped off some ordinary dragon cypress branches, eating quickly.

The green spot on the carapace continued to expand, and a very obvious color difference appeared.

The veins and green spots formed by eating Molan leaves before are dark green in color.

The color of the green spots that grow on the leaves of the edible cypress tree is verdant green.

——Is it in sync with the color of the leaves?
Long Bai immediately thought that there were a few maple trees with bright red leaves planted in the north of the mountain.

Wings take off, climb over the mountains, land under the tree, look up, take off the red leaves and swallow.

Sure enough, the newly developed markings on the carapace were red.

Long Bai understood the basic principle of the ability of 'forest symbiosis': [break up plant leaves into tiny active particles, and then reassemble them on the surface of their own carapace, and turn them into their own use]

A lot of plant names emerged in Long Bai's mind: blue ice cypress, azure blue tree, golden leaf metasequoia, golden leaf locust tree, red leaf plum...

Long Cypress and Mo Lan searched the mainland and occasionally found some distinctive or special plants. They would collect some samples along the way, send them back to Xianglan Mountain, and hand them over to Zhanlan or Cedar for planting.

The original force field of the azure water system can shelter most plants and overcome environmental factors to survive.

Xianglan Mountain is the core plant base of Ant Country, and it has collected all kinds of plants.

Juniper chased after it, stood beside it and looked at it curiously, and immediately raised its claws to propose: "My lord, try the golden leaf locust tree! The golden color is beautiful!"

"It's golden. Blue looks good." Long Cypress prefers blue, so he flapped his wings and took off, darting and searching at low altitude, and soon found a forest planted with blue ice cypress...

……

Toss midnight,

Long Bai transforms into a gorgeous and colorful ant in black, green, red, frost blue, golden yellow and purple red.

The sky is dawn, and the morning light is faint.

Long Bai lay quietly on a boulder on the top of the mountain, with his back to the sun.

A trickle of warm current passed through the carapace, penetrated into the body, and turned into physical energy.

Cypress spreads its membrane wings.

The large area of ​​the wings absorbs light more powerfully, and the dense energy gathers in the wing veins and flows back into the body.

The physical energy consumption of age evolution is recovering bit by bit.

Preliminary tests work.

And the effect is quite ideal.

In the case of sufficient light, if it does not move, the energy obtained by conversion is enough to survive, and there is a surplus.

This is still an ordinary plant.

What if it is replaced by a god-given seed that absorbs and utilizes sunlight more efficiently?
The strength of the "jungle symbiont" largely depends on the strength of the plants it eats.

The higher the degree of evolution, the higher the efficiency of absorbing and utilizing sunlight...

Beyond the king level, the leaves of the sacred tree...

……

Long Bai lay on the top of the mountain for a long time, and the freshness passed, and he started to get busy with business.

Juniper enters the forest to hunt for fresh food and comes back to eat and drink enough to start producing [producer·symbiosis] ant eggs.

The reigning throne set off with black hair and came to Molan Mountain.

"Long Bai?"

Mo Lan galloped up to meet her in a sluggish mid-air circle, landed on the throne, and stared at Long Bai's carapace.

"The effect of the ability of Melaleuca fruit?"

"of course."

"How did you do it?"

"Eat leaves of various colors, and you get brilliant colors."

"Oh!"

Mo Lan understood immediately.

"When will the second divine grade Melaleuca fruit arrive?"

"Can't the carapace of the orchid mantis change color at will?"

"It's different! It can only change with the changes in the surrounding environment."

"Hey! Mo Lan, that's not right! Will your ability conflict with the ability of 'Forest Symbiosis'?"

"No way? Maybe they can complement each other and better integrate with the jungle environment."

"It's also possible! You'll know exactly how it is after eating it. Next year, ask Bai Ke to ask Lord Qiye."

"I want red! Fuchsia is fine too."

"Safflower maple and red leaf plum."

"Oh! By the way, Long Bai, can the forest symbiosis ability be inherited to Qingbing and Qingying?"

"It's just the beginning, first cultivate a few small and micro termites, and you will know it after a month."

Long Bai manipulated the ruling throne and landed under the Leigang Oak tree. After greeting it, he told it in detail about the new abilities he had awakened.

Heiti goes to Molan Mountain to divide the nest and mobilize the ant colony to prepare.

Longbai came to the southeast again, on a hillside 1500 meters away from Quercus regex.

A piece of fertile soil with a radius of 150 meters.

Walking into the center, he dug a shallow pit with his front paws, buried his head and spit out the seed bestowed by the second king, Molan, and dug the soil to fill it.

Heiti organized specialized blue soldiers to bring water over and sprinkle water for irrigation.

After half a day, the seeds germinated.

After a day, the leaf buds burst out of the ground.

Half a month later, the mother plant grew to a height of just over two meters and began to accumulate energy.

Five days later, the pseudobulbs of the mother plant had only 5 germination points, which basically ruled out the possibility of supernatural products.

At the same time, the first batch of three miniature green ants bred were born, with two green rings on the tail, which was preliminarily confirmed to have the ability to inherit the 'forest symbiosis'.

Only a little over 1 centimeter, although they are small, they are not stupid at all. Under the repeated guidance of Longbai, they eat grass and leaves, and the surface of their carapace turns green.

Arrange three miniature termites to lie quietly in a sunny place and try not to move around.

keep watching,

I have not eaten for three days in a row, but I am still full of energy.

Drinking water has increased significantly.

Sunshine, air, water, the energy for life activities and a small amount of nutrients for growth are synthesized under the three elements.

Wait two days.

Three miniature young soldiers bred from the second batch of ant eggs also emerged.

It also inherited the forest symbiosis ability of Cypress.

continuous observation,

Qingbing and green ants hardly consume food when they are not working, and can even store some energy and nutrients by basking in the sun.

Inheriting the ability of 'forest symbiosis', the number of green soldiers and green ants is almost not limited by food.

Five types of ants, specialized, large, medium, small, and miniaturized, can be bred in large quantities.

Specialized green ants are given priority. First, 100 ants are assigned to each god-given seed, and 30 are assigned to each common life seed.

Specialized Qingbing can wait a while, waiting for Fengai Spider King's magic green beans.

After all, if the fighting ants can inherit the ability of 'bean and vine entanglement', it would be perfect.

……

Heiti stayed in Molan Mountain to take care of the seed bestowed by the second king, Molan.

The ruling throne carried Mo Lan to Huaqi Mountain.

(End of this chapter)