Astral Ants

The White Crystal Galaxy is in the shape of a discrete disk as a whole, and the constellation Pteroptera is located at the center of the White Crystal Galaxy.

The Zhouchitong star system is a third-level source point star system and is not allowed to enter or exit at will.

However, only 14 light-years away from the Chopin star system, there is a secondary source point star system called the 'Eight Star System'.

The Baxi star system has become the trade center of the Baijing star system, a distribution center for bulk goods transactions.

For example, most of the raw materials produced by the mining stars operated by the fourth, fifth, and sixth-level chambers of commerce are measured in tons. They will be sent here directly and sold at a good price.

For example, many large chambers of commerce will also make the force food at the realm level into gene agents and send them here for trading or exchange, enriching the gene agent categories in their own stores.

The Eight Star System is also the wholesale place for human civilization’s scientific and technological creations.

Only Level 7 and Level 8, as well as a handful of Level 5 and Level 6 Flame Spider Chambers of Commerce, can apply for qualifications and obtain the qualifications to directly contact and trade with human civilization.

Some gadgets produced by human civilization are sold in bulk here, and some large items are also available for pre-order.

Other flame spider small chambers of commerce can come here for wholesale purchases or reservations.

Baiwei Chamber of Commerce can handle many transactions, but Pandan Chamber of Commerce cannot.

For example, ecological base stations, life bases, reverse-ecological base stations, etc. that transform the planet.

The Baiwei Chamber of Commerce can come here and find wholesale from large chambers of commerce. It also supports customization and branding it as 'Baiwei Grass'. When it is taken out, it can be claimed to be produced by the Baiwei Chamber of Commerce.

Another example is the knowledge compass, notebook, short-range pager, as well as star spiders, starship repair accessories, etc., all kinds of small items.

In addition,

There are also many fun amusement parks built by human science and technology in the Baxi star system.

Last time Long Bai and Mo Lan went on a long trip, they passed by it and played with it once. When they were returning, they were pulled by Mo Lan, who took a detour and played with it again.

This is the third time that Long Bai has entered the Eight Star System.

...

Starting from the Sheep's Hoof star system, you only need to make two stops along the way to reach your destination.

Long Bai then took the short-distance star spider in the department and came to the 9999 district square in Shanxi Xingnan, which he had made an appointment with President Sishu.

It is the busiest source star system in the all-white crystal galaxy.

Insects come and go, their heads are swarming, there is a mountain of insects and a sea of ​​insects.

Long Bai activated his soul-fixing ability and swept it all away. His intelligence and brain abilities were running simultaneously, and no trace of the Four Numbers Guild Leader's soul was detected.

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[Time: 78th Era-159 Yuan-791 Years]

The certification activity starts from 159 yuan, 000 and continues until the end of 159 yuan, 900.

Lasts for 900 years.

The time agreed between Longbai and the Four Numbers is 159 yuan-800 years.

Still 9 years to go.

That is, the fourth number has not arrived yet.

Long Bai didn't hurry and squeezed out of the square, walking slowly north.

Enter the trade area and wander aimlessly.

After wandering around, I was really bored, so I entered the North 2003 area again.

The square is covered by a black hemispherical energy barrier.

It is surrounded by a high wall of black thorns.

From the outside, the atmosphere is somewhat solemn.

【Thorn Tower】

A place for entertainment and spiritual practice.

There is a technological device called the 'Cocoon Nest'. Zerg warriors enter it. The device reads the star core and body information and converts it into data to build a virtual identity in the virtual universe.

The consciousness enters the virtual universe and can launch ability battles at will.

There are three ways to play: black thorn tower challenge; random matching battle; friends competition.

When Mo Lan was together, Long Bai didn't like to play this.

However, Mo Lan is not here this time...

Long Bai came over to test his ability.

After evolving into the star realm, many attack types on the living planet can no longer be easily attempted. They are too powerful and will cause irreversible damage.

In the virtual universe, there are no such scruples.

...

Go forward along the wide straight road, and at the end is a 100-meter high platform.

The four steps represent the fourth level of god-level civilization, with 49 steps on each level.

Climbing up the stairs, there is a long row of 49 entrances with a width of about 2 meters, separated by star pillars.

In front of each star pillar, there are original spider warriors guarding it.

All kinds of Zerg warriors came in and out.

Long Bai queued up, approached the star pillar, opened the star network to communicate, and received the number plate...

"what?"

"Longbai Ant King!"

A familiar spiritual call suddenly came from the exit passage on the left.

Long Bai turned his head and looked...

White peaches, red peaches, yellow peaches, and fish vines.

Can this happen? !
Long Bai quickly removed his number plate and hurried forward to join Bai Wei and his party.

"Longbai Ant King, are you here to participate in special ability certification?"

"of course."

"A bug?"

"A worm. The road went smoothly. Every time I transferred to the Star Spider, I happened to catch it and didn't have to wait much. So, I arrived 9 years earlier than the agreed time. I was bored and came over to test my abilities. How about you?"

"We came here to inspect the market to see if there are any suitable products, and we plan to purchase them back to enrich the variety of goods in Shuhua Shop. There is also the interest of Yuteng's 'Gate of Truth'. We plan to try to apply and let Yuteng certify a special ability. Yes, but unfortunately, it won’t work if the conditions are not met.”

"Forehead……"

One of the basic conditions for the so-called 'special ability' is that it must be able to be converted into tradable commodities and large-scale mass production can be achieved.

Udo's 'Gate of Truth' is powerful, but if it doesn't meet this basic condition, you can tell with your claws that it won't work.

Bai Wei probably wanted to rely on the 'Phytolacca Divine Pattern' for convenience, but obviously failed.

"That's such a shame."

Long Bai responded perfunctorily, changed the topic, and asked: "President Bai Wei, why are you here?"

Bai Wei: "Hong Tao and I evolved to the planetary realm and came here to test our abilities. Huang Tao and Yu Teng traveled all the way and obtained some new abilities with particularly strong attack power through divine fruits. It is not convenient to try them in the real world, so come here test."

After Bai Wei finished speaking, her eyes widened, she activated the soul barrier to cover everyone, and then asked:

"Longbai Ant King, are you in the star realm?"

"The 7th stage of the Star Realm."

"Hiss~ How big is Phytolacca Space?"

"4800 meters in diameter."

"Where's the star navigation ability?"

"15 times the speed of light."

"Oh--"

"Has the refining ability changed?"

"No."

"Are you sure it will be rated level 3?"

"This is not something I can decide. It depends on whether the four presidents of the Holy Butterfly Tribe are capable or not."

"Right."

"It's definitely no problem!"

Bai Wei removed the soul barrier, raised her paw and pointed at the registration entrance, and said, "We have nothing urgent to do. King Longbai Ant, let's go, let us see your stellar realm strength..."

...

We lined up together, registered again and got our number plates.

Behind the entrance is an alleyway leading to the square buildings one after another.

Inside the building are densely distributed 'cocoon nests', with thick circular metal hatches about 1.8 meters in diameter.

Find the corresponding cocoon nest, communicate consciously, and activate the star network capability certification.

A vertical crack opened in the middle of the hatch...

Multiple seals, the hatches are layered layer by layer, shrinking and opening to the left and right.

Behind it is a narrow oblate space.

After entering, follow the instructions, adjust to a comfortable posture, and enter a hibernating state.

The hatch is closed.

Inject some sort of light green smoke.

Cocoon Nest begins to read information.

Soon, Long Bai's consciousness was awakened, and the star network ability was automatically turned on, with characters marked and four options: [Black Tower of Thorns], [Random Match Battle], [Friends Competition], [Interstellar Roaming]

There is also a [Friend Search] option below.

Long Bai waited for a moment.

A row of messages popped up on the screen: [23504Apply to add a friend]

Long Bai agreed to the application.

The scene in front of him changed, and the surrounding area turned into a gorgeous hall decorated with various gemstones on the dome.

Bai Wei was standing in front of a star pillar, communicating and operating.

Soon, red peaches, yellow peaches, and fish vines appeared one after another.

"Long Bai Ant King, let's try fighting first?"

"Battle? I'll beat four of you one by one."

"Okay! Then it's four against one. Hearts, yellow peaches, and fish vines, get ready for battle!"

Bai Wei continued the operation and said confidently: "Don't give in to anyone, otherwise it will be boring. How about we add a little more bet, 100 million raw crystals?"

"it is good--"

Long Bai also wanted to try his own fighting ability in the stellar realm, but reluctantly agreed.

"That's good!"

"Then let's get started!"

Bai Wei was in high spirits and continued to operate.

The surrounding scene changed again, and the vast forest sea with white clouds appeared.

Three thousand meters away, Bai Wei, Hong Tao, and Huang Tao quickly shuttled through space and disappeared.

There was only one fish left standing there, turning around and looking around...

Yu Teng discovered traces of Long Bai...

"Longbai Ant King, shall we wait a moment?"

"..."

Long Bai hesitated for 0.1 seconds, raised his paw and pointed a finger, and a silvery white electric light shot out.

The touch of blue thunder.

At close range, Yuto had no time to react and was knocked to the ground without any vital signs.

"Get one for free? That's three against one."

Long Bai murmured in his heart.

I scanned with my soul-fixing ability and couldn't find any trace of Bai Wei, Hong Tao, and Huang Tao. I must have used my soul-based ability to isolate them from perception and lurk.

suddenly,

Violent energy fluctuations came from behind.

Almost at the same time, a strong sense of danger came from the left and right sides.

Bai Wei, Hong Tao, and Huang Tao tacitly divided into three groups and launched attacks from three directions at the same time.

From behind, a pillar of blue and purple thunder fire struck at the speed of light.

On the left and right sides, dense wind blades containing strands of metal with sharp characteristics blocked all movement paths.

On Long Bai's body, strength, earth, stone, and wood elements exploded in sequence.

boom! boom! boom!
Three explosions as the earth trembled.

With Long Bai as the center, the pure energy of the power system burst out to form a powerful impact, enveloping the earth, rocks and trees, and violently impacted in all directions.

There are no other fancy changes, just brutal and brutal crushing force.

The lightning beams and wind blades that attacked from three sides were all scattered.

The surrounding jungle with a radius of four to five kilometers was cut off every layer, forming a deep pit of forty to fifty meters.

When the smoke cleared, Long Bai's figure disappeared from the bottom of the pit.

Bai Wei, Hong Tao, and Huang Tao were also missing.

The 'dead in battle' Yuteng is in a state of virtual 'dead soul', floating comfortably in the sky to watch the battle.

I can no longer participate in the battle, nor can I communicate with everyone. However, I can still use my reconnaissance ability, and my mental power and soul-fixing ability can be scanned at the same time.

All gone.

Floating high in the sky, activating sunburn and brain power retrieval...

...

'Cocoon Nest' scans and reads information, but there is a limitation: that is, it cannot bring 'artifacts' into the virtual universe.

Long Bai indirectly integrated the technological star core through the 'monster origin', so the technological star core was judged as an 'artifact'.

In the virtual universe, Long Bai cannot use the space system capabilities given by the space star core.

White peaches, red peaches, and yellow peaches are not restricted.

They all disintegrate the technological star core, integrate it with their own star core, and turn it into a part of their own star core, which can be brought into the virtual universe.

The ability of 'space teleportation' given by the technological star core is quite difficult to deal with.

...

In the virtual universe, the entire planet is a battlefield,
Without a hit, Bai Wei, Hong Tao, and Huang Tao immediately escaped and disappeared, crossing space and meeting at the north pole of the planet.

"That idiot Yuto! He let him lure the enemy, instead of letting him die~"

"It was gone in an instant. We didn't get even a second."

Bai Wei was depressed.

"Perhaps it didn't expect that the cypress ant king would be so rude and chopped it down without saying a word."

Huang Tao helped defend.

"Resist! Get away!" Bai Wei was angry.

"..."

Huang Tao was also speechless.

Bai Wei looked at Hongtao and said, "Now the Longbai Ant King is also lurking. What should I do?"

Hong Tao: "President Bai Wei, you are too hasty. We can't win at all and have wasted 100 million."

"Can't win?"

Bai Wei: "Why can't we win? We have space to teleport and can come and go freely. At the very least, there is no winner or loser."

Heart: "..."

Hong Tao said helplessly: "The level gap is too big. Frontal attacks can't hit or hit. We can only use the ability with the smallest fluctuation of original energy, the fastest claw speed, and the most deadly attack to assassinate at close range. Also, adapt to Evolution is immune to most abilities such as wind, fire, thunder, soul, etc. Please note that it cannot be used. "

"Longbai Ant King's attention must be entirely on me or Bai Wei. Relatively speaking, it is easier to ignore Huang Tao's existence."

"First, Bai Wei attracts attention. Huang Tao and I attack at close range. I still feint and take the lead. Huang Tao attacks from behind, piercing the metal and attacking the brain, striving to kill with one blow."

"good idea!"

"Action! Action!"

Bai Wei didn't think too much, and greeted her eagerly to set off.

...

Long Bai knew very well,
Bai Wei, Hong Tao, and Huang Tao are completely incapable of competing against themselves.

Their only means of spatial teleportation.

The only way to defeat yourself is to make a sneak attack.

I've tried long-distance siege and it's confirmed that it doesn't work.

Then the only option left is a close assault.

If you think about this clearly and take a little precaution, it will be difficult to lose.

Long Bai is here to test his ability, not to win money, but he can use them to test his reconnaissance ability.

It sneaked along, its shell changing color, hiding itself by the river. Iridescent water droplets flew out, turning into a stream of water and merging with the river.

Three reconnaissance capabilities are activated simultaneously.

The source of the turbulence: Countless planarians with a length of only 1 centimeter are generated, either along the current or against the current, spreading along the water veins.

Underfoot is a naturally evolving planet with oceans and all water veins connected. Planarians can follow the water veins to reach all rivers and lakes on the planet.

Eye in the Sky: Countless invisible and transparent eagles rise silently into the sky.

Cuscuta: dense invisible threads spread from the water to riverside plants, and then spread along the roots of jungle plants.

...

Long Bai used the soul-based god-given force food worth 12 billion raw crystals in the planetary realm.

Under the influence of the super-soul ability, at the seventh age of the Star Realm, the soul strength has reached the peak of the Star Realm, and there are faint signs of breaking through the Star Realm and entering the Star Realm level.

The range of mental perception exceeds 50 kilometers.

The sensing range of the soul-fixing ability is more than 10,000 kilometers, covering half of the planet.

Combined with the soul of art and the ability of sea soul,

With all-round coverage of water, land and air, the three reconnaissance capabilities of touch, vision and soul breath perception can include the entire northern hemisphere under surveillance.

Capability layout has not yet been completed.

Cuscuta and Sky Eye successively detected the traces of Bai Wei and his party.

They were still in a decent manner, one in front and two behind, forming a battle array, carefully teleporting through space, trying to search and track themselves.

When the eagle's vision noticed them, Bai Wei, the leader, was also keenly aware of them, and quickly moved away across the space with the red and yellow peaches.

"..."

"During the battle, the visual reconnaissance of the Eye in the Sky was a bit useless. We are all cosmic-level beings, and the moment our vision is locked, the opponent will immediately be aware."

"However, if in the real universe, the artist has one claw, and the three of them are gone at this time."

Long Bai thought silently in his heart.

Thinking deeply about deductions,
The 'planaria' in the river sensed the traces of Bai Wei and his party, and disappeared in an instant.

Obviously, they also noticed something unusual in the water.

"..."

"Bai Wei is very alert."

"However, they don't seem to notice the 'Cuscutus' that is scattered all over the jungle underground."

Long Bai continued to pay attention to Bai Wei's movements.

They have realized at this time that the entire northern hemisphere is covered by reconnaissance capabilities.

The most fearful thing in battle is that your every move will be seen by the enemy, but you don't know where the opponent is.

Bai Wei simply stopped.

Huang Tao and Hong Tao activated their earth and stone abilities, built hemispherical fortifications, set up a battle formation, and waited for Long Bai to attack...

Long Bai withdrew his consciousness and stopped paying attention.

Thoughts turn,

With a crash, the river changed its course, roaring and rushing towards the jungle. Wherever the flood passed, mountains collapsed and the ground cracked.

The surging flood suddenly stopped, and in the breath, the water penetrated into the ground.

The earth bulges, and a thirty-kilometer-long rock python rises from the ground, winding like a mountain range.

Pan Guan gathered his strength and leaped into the air, causing the thousand-meter mountain peak to collapse.

It crashed to the ground with a rumble, the earth trembled and cracked, and the mountains collapsed and fell.

The giant python raised its head, opened its mouth, and a pillar of lava and fire spurted out, turning the ground in front of it into a sea of ​​fire.

Spinning around, he continued to spit.

A radius of thirty kilometers turned into a magma ocean.

The giant python raised its head.

Long Bai stood on the top of the giant python, his tentacles swinging, and his dual element of Feng Shui exploded.

The clear sky suddenly became dark, and within a radius of fifty kilometers, the wind and clouds changed drastically, and the cold air dropped.

Hurricane, blizzard.

The snowflakes whirled like sharp knives, cutting the air and making a subtle whine, and were blown wildly by the roaring hurricane.

The magma lakes condensed, and the land turned into a vast snowfield.

Long Bai waved his tentacles again.

The power of fire and thunder bursts out.

There were thick clouds in the sky, roaring thunder, red lightning striking the earth, and the snowfield instantly turned into a sea of ​​thunder and fire.

The giant earth-rock python coiled around again, gathered strength, and leaped into the air.

Like shedding its skin, the earth and stone that made up the scales turned into fine sand and drifted away. A giant python formed from a stream of water mist, with thunder and lightning flowing out. It had eight wings on its back, fluttering its wings and flying across the forty or fifty kilometers in one breath. miles away, swooping down into the dense mountain forest.

Big carnivorous flower!

The giant python turned into wood and turned into a giant vine with a cage, and its branches spread rapidly.

in an instant,
The vegetation in the forest grows wildly, thorns and vines grow everywhere, and the ancient trees quickly rise up into the sky, sealing the sky and the earth.

The peaceful forest sea instantly turned into a murderous prison.

"Conventional life planets can no longer tolerate the force life in the star realm."

Long Bai muttered, communicating with the eagle bird of aerial reconnaissance.

The hemispheric defenses built by Bai Wei and the others are still there, and they mobilized the nearby planarian sensors to isolate them with a soul barrier, and they are still hiding inside.

"..."

Long Bai's heart moved, and the giant insect-eating flower suddenly transformed into a frost centipede.

Losing the original support of the wood system, the jungle was in turmoil, and the wildly growing plants withered and died.

The water element is activated,

On the back of the frost centipede, 30,000 icicles with a length of more than ten meters and a diameter of more than one meter rise vertically into the air.

Almost Forgotten Ability: Explosive Jet
Thirty thousand icicles passed through the clouds, sailed from the thin stratosphere, spanned a distance of 4,000 kilometers, adjusted their tilt, locked vertically downward on the hemispheric defenses, and accelerated the impact at the end.

Under the overwhelming bombardment, the hemisphere defense fortifications were the center, with a radius of ten kilometers, and they were instantly submerged by flying ice chips.

Bai Wei and a group of three insects finally noticed the 'Cuscutus' distributed in the jungle, and immediately found a way to avoid it.

All three of Long Bai's detection abilities were disabled, and Bai Wei and the others were no longer traceable.

I'm thinking about changing my reconnaissance method.
Suddenly, there was a slight fluctuation in the force behind him, and a feeling of danger of death arose in his heart.

Bai Wei!

Deduced my location so quickly?

Just over a hundred meters away, blue, yellow, gold, blue, red, silver, and transparent, including eight elements of seven series and systems, with a length of about half a meter, suddenly shot out.

——Sneak attack?
Long Bai raised his claws and waved, and his strength and wind energy exploded slightly. The arrogant force swept through the concentrated air flow. With ease, the eight thorns shot shattered. The power did not decrease and the speed was extremely fast.

At a short distance, Bai Wei was hit by the strong wind before she could leave across the space, and flew backwards with a heavy impact.

The wind and thunder energy on Long Bai's body shone brightly, and his body turned into a beam of lightning. The moment Bai Wei landed on the ground, he extended his claws again.

Touch of blue fire.

Two beams of pale lightning penetrated Bai Wei's forehead, piercing two holes from beginning to end...

and also!

Long Bai's figure was just stable.

A sharp claw protruded from the side and went straight to the forehead.

hearts,

Metal Mantis' close range assassination.

Long Bai had been on guard for a long time, with the original energy of water and fire flowing, blue and purple umbrella bird patterns instantly covered his body.

puff! laugh!
Before the sharp claws touched the carapace, the umbrella bird's ability triggered and detonated independently, and the ice and fire jets recoiled.

Hearts were knocked away.

Long Bai's figure turned into a shadow, clinging closely to him, his tentacles connected, and two blue ice picks forcefully piercing two holes in Hong Tao's head.

Three are missing.

Long Bai turned his head suddenly.

"..."

Huang Tao raised his catching foot high and came across the space, just in time to meet Long Bai's eyes.

He was stiff and embarrassed for a second.

Huang Tao reluctantly retracted his claws and said, "I give up."

The battle is over.

The world scene changes.

Long Bai, Bai Wei, Hong Tao, Huang Tao, and Yu Teng returned to the empty hall.

"Hongtao, your tactics are useless."

"Yuteng, you loser, why did you disappear as soon as you went up?"

Bai Wei asked angrily.

Heart: "..."

Yuto: "..."

Yu Teng: "My idea is to use clever words to attract the attention of Longbai Ant King and create conditions for your sneak attack..."

"Okay. Okay. The planetary realm and the star realm, the huge gap between the realms, the disparity in power, there is no need to play with it."

Long Bai tried to smooth things over, activated his star network ability, and said happily: "One million, don't default on your debt."

"...Don't default on your debt!"

Bai Wei followed up by activating the star network ability to pay.

Long Bai said proudly: "Have you practiced fighting together? I'll tell the truth, your cooperation is not very good. If I get serious, I can kill you a hundred times a day. Do you still want to play? A million rounds. , the little money you earn will be lost in less than a year.”

"It's boring..."

Bai Wei turned around and connected to the star pillar to check.

There is no relatively fair friend battle mode that can narrow the gap between the planetary realm and the stellar realm.

"Stop playing!"

"Longbai Ant King, do you still want to test your abilities?"

"Of course. I'll try it at Black Thorn Tower."

"Oh--"

Bai Wei became interested again and asked: "Isn't this your first time here? What level have you reached?"

Long Bai asked back: "How many levels can you reach?"

Bai Wei said truthfully: "Huang Tao and I can reach the fourth level. Hearts are on the fifth level. Yu Teng is worse and stopped at the second level."

"Oh--"

Long Bai said: "It seems like Mo Lan is quite powerful. Mo Lan can reach the ninth level."

"The ninth floor?"

Bai Wei, Hong Tao, and Huang Tao were shocked and inexplicable.

The Black Thorn Tower challenge matches combat targets with the same evolutionary level and comparable star core strength.

These combat objects are to collect the ability information and combat skills of the numerous warriors of the Zerg civilization, and compile them to form intelligent combat programs.

The two sides competed purely based on their abilities in a limited space.

What matters is fighting will, consciousness, technical skills and adaptability.

In the Black Thorn Tower, the first to third floors are matched with qualified battle targets; the fourth to sixth floors are matched with elite level battle targets; and from the seventh floor upwards, the battle targets that have been optimized by the Intelligent Brain Program are matched. Gradually "metamorphosis", the comprehensive combat power exceeds the scope of normal Zerg warriors.

"Isn't Molan too strong?"

Bai Wei was amazed and asked: "Longbai Ant King, what about you?"

Long Bai said displeasedly: "Molan can reach the ninth floor, and as its leader..."

Bai Wei said in disbelief: "Tenth floor?"

"How can it be!"

Long Bai shook his tentacles vigorously and said: "The tenth level is a fixed 18 named warriors. They are the 18 most capable demigods from the old universe era, the Zerg civilization dedicated to fighting. The challenge is limited, and the evolutionary level is above the realm. That’s it. You can choose who you want to challenge, and if you win one, you will get a small reward of 1 million raw crystals.”

"Oh--"

"Is there still such a thing?"

"It's not written on it! Is this a hidden message?"

"Then you have penetrated the ninth floor?"

Bai Wei also had a character that refused to admit defeat. Her heart was ignited with blazing fire and her fighting spirit was high. She greeted: "Heart peach, yellow peach, and fish vine, let's continue to challenge the black thorn tower! We won't leave until we break through the nine floors!" ( End of this chapter)