Astral Ants

Red Robin.

White light flashed continuously, and Mo Lan, Zi, Lu Xin and Cai Gang were directly teleported to the bottom of the Bai Jing sacred tree.

Immediately, a large number of Force plants that had taken root on the Red Robin Star came over with their spiritual power and thoughts.

"I have seen the White Crystal Sacred Tree!"

The four insects greeted him respectfully.

"Leader Molan!"

The White Crystal Divine Tree responded.

The surrounding trees suddenly started quarreling.

"Lord Molan!"

"Time flies! The little mantis has also reached the master level."

"Congratulations, little mantis."

"Can you speak? Be polite! Congratulations to Lord Molan."

"Didn't they say that the Black Orchid Mantis had already reached the Domination Stage more than 4 years ago? How come it's still at the th stage of the Star Domain Domination?"

"Didn't you eat any force food?"

"Of course I have."

Molan explained: "The Baiwei Chamber of Commerce has been helping to collect it. Through the God-given Force Food, I have completed more than three stages of growth and evolution. At present, I have eaten most of the Force Food produced by the God-given seeds of the Domination Realm in our Divine Tree Civilization."

"too slow!"

"If you need Domination Realm Force Food, just ask Old Butterfly Xiange to exchange it for you. It will be done in one go."

"Molan Mantis, what are your abilities?"

"As I recall, you are not the Seven-Colored Flower Mantis?"

"But you have awakened the elemental talents and abilities of the Seven-Colored Divine Tree?"

"I heard that you also have the ability of 'black hole'?"

"How does it compare to the Ten-Colored Mantis?"

"Show us..."

"..."

——Something is wrong!
——Are these trees a little polite in their words?
——Force plants are all stubborn! Normal Force plants don’t talk like this… even if they are very old and at a high level of evolution.

Molan became alert, looking around, her eyes suddenly focused, and her soul-calming ability was instantly activated.

A pitch-black butterfly soul seemed to blend into the surrounding world the moment it was detected and disappeared.

Molan turned around suddenly again.
From the trunk of the White Crystal Sacred Tree, a jet-black butterfly slowly emerged.

"You are……"

Molan raised his claws without warning and a beam of ten-colored light shot out.

The black butterfly flapped its wings, and a large cloud of black fog surged, instantly obliterating the colorful light.

Zi, Luxin and Caigang all retreated upon seeing this.

——Is this butterfly trying to see my abilities?

——A butterfly that can command a group of Force plants at the peak of the Su realm or even the Domination realm?

——Who is it?

—Hidden in the dark, trying to find out my abilities?
Molan's thoughts raced, the divine power of the laws in his body surged, and he waved his claws, and another burst of colorful light was shot out.

The jet-black butterfly flapped its wings, and its wing scales glowed with metallic color.

The two attacks collided and were instantly eliminated.

Molan's figure disappeared on the spot, and the next moment appeared in the low sky a thousand meters away. At the same time, at the tip of the tentacles, two energies, one black and one white, gathered into beads, and suddenly pointed forward. The black and white energy beads rotated in an interlaced manner and shot out.

The black butterfly spread its wings, black mist surged, and the black tide surged, covering the black and white beads that were flying towards it.

hum~
The muffled sound of an explosion.

The power of the micro white hole explosion was forcibly suppressed by the black tide.

Molan was stunned.

This guy took on the abilities of large decomposition and large aggregation!
Molan is very clear about her own strength, even though she was just testing with her claws...

But my temptation is not something that any dominant insect can take.

The lowest evolutionary level advantage is one major realm, and the strength itself is extremely strong.

There aren't many butterflies in the Holy Butterfly Tribe that have this much power...

"Reincarnation Master?"

Molan greeted tentatively.

"Civilization has recovered so quickly. You are three points stronger than the Tenth Mantis King back then."

The black butterfly did not give a direct answer, which was considered as its tacit agreement.

"Meet the Lord of Reincarnation!"

The four insects hurriedly greeted them.

Zi shook her antennae vigorously and introduced herself: "Lord of Samsara, I am Lord Yiwei's student! I am also a butterfly. My name is Zi, and I am responsible for collecting information from the Amber Galaxy. I am here to report to the White Crystal Divine Tree!"

Zi added: "I have important information to report!"

Zi asked, "Lord of Samsara, are you back from... the expedition battlefield?"

"Return from deep space exploration."

The Lord of Samsara corrected him and greeted him formally, "It's a pleasure to meet you, head of the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce, Lord of Molan."

Molan: "Nice to meet you too, Lord of Reincarnation."

Zi said carefully: "Everyone calls Molan the Eleventh Mantis King."

The Lord of Reincarnation: “…”

The Lord of Reincarnation: "I see. As smart as the Eleventh Mantis King."

"..."

Molan defended herself, "I'm called Molan Lord. Eleventh Mantis King is a joke from Zi and the others. They just call me that randomly. Actually, I'm a very steady mantis."

Mo Lan's eyes sparkled, and he immediately asked, "Lord of Samsara, I heard that you organized an expeditionary fleet to go into the starry sky to search for and kill any possible remaining civilizations from the old universe era?"

"Yes--"

The Lord of Samsara shifted his gaze from Mo Lan to Zi, and then stayed on Lu Xin and Cai Gang for two seconds, and said: "This is the purpose of the fleet's expedition, but they didn't find it, so they came back."

"Oh--"

Molan was disappointed and half-doubted, so she asked, "Who did you go to find? Do you have a clear target?"

"certainly--"

The Lord of Samsara obviously didn't want to say more. His eyes were fixed on Zi and he asked, "Your name is Zi? Do you have anything important to report?"

The space in front of Zi was slightly oscillating. He took out a knowledge compass and handed it forward, saying, "The Amber Galaxy has made a decision to officially merge with the three major galaxies in 78th Era-760th Yuan-000 and recalculate the level of the Chamber of Commerce. This is the list of the newly promoted Level 7 and Level 8 Flame Spider Chamber of Commerce, as well as the list of emerging chambers of commerce that are expected to be promoted to Level 7 in the future, and detailed information about the chambers of commerce."

"Yes. It is very important."

The Lord of Reincarnation controlled the knowledge compass to float in front of him. He swept it with his mental power, read the information, and didn't care. He waved his tentacles lightly, and the knowledge compass floated towards the white crystal sacred tree.

The White Crystal Divine Tree quickly read it and asked dissatisfiedly: "Zi, this is the important information you mentioned? What else?"

"……there is none left."

Zi activated his ability again, took out a black metal box and opened it. Inside was twenty knowledge compasses. He controlled them to float towards the Lord of Reincarnation and said:
"This is the dynamic information of all parties in the Amber Galaxy over the past 5000 years."

The Lord of Reincarnation waved his tentacles lightly and threw it directly towards the white crystal sacred tree.

It is obvious that the Lord of Samsara has no interest in the situation in the Amber Galaxy.

The Force plants headed by the White Crystal God Tree were different. The plants took root on the planet and could not be easily moved. This intelligence information was a rare pleasure in life. Dense mental power thoughts came over, scanning and reading, and talking about it with relish.

"..."

The Lord of Samsara looked at Lu Xin and Cai Gang.

Zi quickly waved his antennae and formally introduced, "This is Cai Gang from the Si Li Chamber of Commerce. He is a subordinate chamber of commerce directly under the Bai Jing Chamber of Commerce founded by Si Shu and boss Xia Li. Cai Gang is with me and is responsible for collecting information from the Amber Galaxy."

Cai Gang: "Meet the Lord of Reincarnation!"

The Lord of Reincarnation tapped his tentacles lightly.

Zi continued to introduce: "This is the Green Heart of the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce. His status is second only to that of Chief Longbai and Chief Molan, and he is a Level 19 deputy chief. In addition to the major departments of the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce's military department, Chief Longbai specially established the th department for it, which is dedicated to information collection."

"Oh--"

The Lord of Samsara asked in a bad tone, "Are you going to Red Robin Planet to gather information? Are you trying to get information about the expeditionary fleet that has set out on this trip?"

"without……"

"No other meaning..."

Zi Cheng clarified: "In the field of intelligence information, Baijing Chamber of Commerce and Xianglan Chamber of Commerce are in a cooperative relationship."

The Lord of Reincarnation asked, "So you can openly explore the secrets of our Baijing Chamber of Commerce? Are you Yiwei's student? Did it arrange your job for you?"

"Okay, Tianlu! Stop talking nonsense about things that are none of your business."

The White Crystal Divine Tree spoke up and asked, "Zi, why did you return to the White Crystal Galaxy?"

Zi said: "Cai Gang, Lu Xin and I are deeply comprehending the law of reincarnation, and we need to borrow the Death Star."

The White Crystal Divine Tree asked, "Lord Molan, why are you returning to the White Crystal Galaxy this time..."

Molan said truthfully: "I came back to see the Great King Cypress God-Given Seeds. Also, the four God-Given Seeds that the Chamber of Commerce left behind in the White Crystal Star System have not yet shone, so I came back to ask what's going on with them."

Molan: "I am sending Zi, Caigang, and Luxin to the Yiweixiang star system. We are here to visit the Baijing sacred tree. I would like to say hello to you on behalf of Longbai."

The White Crystal Divine Tree asked, "You want to inquire about this expedition fleet, right?"

Cymbidium:"……"

Molan: "You can ask around..."

The White Crystal Divine Tree asked, "That innate chaos deity named 'Fish Worm' is not with you?"

Molan: "The fish worm is too big, the Purple Sun can't fit or carry it."

The White Crystal Divine Tree asked again, "Aren't you curious about why our White Crystal Chamber of Commerce is suddenly organizing a fleet expedition?"

Molan tilted her head, thought, and said, "I am more curious about why the Lord of Reincarnation came back."

"That's right!"

The White Crystal Divine Tree said, "Chief Molan, I have a good project for us to cooperate on..."

...

...

[Time: 78th Era - 760th Yuan - 000th Year] After years of development, the star network has covered almost all the third-level, second-level, and first-level source points in the Amber Galaxy, and is steadily extending towards the proven zero-level source points.

The star network brings great convenience and low transportation costs. The overall price and labor costs of the Amber Galaxy are still three times that of the three major galaxies of Liming, Lizhu, and Baijing, but they are basically unified and stable.

The Amber Galaxy was officially connected to the three major galaxies.

All chambers of commerce in the entire Protoss civilization will review their certification levels.

The Baiwei Chamber of Commerce had already spent a huge amount of money to purchase the Star Network, gathering 100 million points, and hired 10 overlords including Wild Persimmon, Red Maple, Thatchberry, and Shield Pillar to meet all the conditions for promotion.

Baiwei Chamber of Commerce was officially certified as a Level 7 Chamber of Commerce.

The biggest convenience of a Level 7 Chamber of Commerce is that it can borrow huge amounts of money from the Amber Chamber of Commerce at low interest or even without interest. Its essence is that the True God of Nature issues currency through the large chamber of commerce to facilitate the circulation of goods, while at the same time stimulating Zerg warriors to work hard and engage in various production and business activities.

For the Flame Spider Chamber of Commerce, obtaining a Level 7 certification means being able to participate in the highest level of trade and management activities of the Divine Tree Civilization and gain huge profits from it.

For the Zerg Chamber of Commerce, the Level 7 certification is not that important and is ridiculously difficult.

Strictly adhering to the standards set by the True God of Nature, the Xianglanshan Chamber of Commerce is only rated level 5.

Mainly because the ratings are not enough.

The Zerg Warrior Chamber of Commerce mainly relies on wild God-given seeds for scoring, 1 point per tree.

The total number of wild God-given seeds of the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce is less than 3, and the score is less than 3 points, which is far from the 6 points required for a level 10 chamber of commerce.

It is even far from the 7 million points required for a level 100 chamber of commerce.

At present, the Chamber of Commerce has built and operated 41 source star systems. Including the territory of the Xianglan main star, an average of one God-given seed is born every four years.

However, under the rough management model, Zerg warriors are born very quickly, with an average of 24 warriors born each year.

At present, the number of Xianglan Chamber of Commerce warriors has exceeded 60.

Once the Chamber of Commerce has warriors, they can arrange for them to join the engineering fleet to speed up the development of the source point, or they can arrange for them to operate more territories.

The more territories you manage, the more God-given seeds and warriors will be born.

A positive spiral upward cycle,

Long Bai and a group of senior management of the Chamber of Commerce are stationed on the main star of Xianglan, leading the Chamber of Commerce's incremental and rapid development.

...

A star port was built outside the main star of Xianglan to facilitate the entry and exit of soldiers.

A zero-level passenger Star Spider used for intra-system navigation docked at the North 1001 District Square.

In the Mountain King's Nest, Long Bai was keenly aware of the situation, and with his soul-fixing ability, he stood up subconsciously.

Purple and green hearts, as well as white-faced gods and black-faced gods.

"Leader Longbai!"

"Longbai Lord!"

"White-faced God! Black-faced God!"

"Green Heart?"

The giant cypress, black locust, red maple, and raspberry, which also noticed the movement, teleported over.

Hei Huai asked, "Green Heart, Purple, where are our Eleventh Mantis King?"

Green Heart spoke quickly, "Lord Molan will temporarily stay in Phoenix Constellation, Wind Wheel Star. White-Faced God and Black-Faced God need a life star system to comprehend the laws and find an opportunity to break through to the Lord realm."

Zi: "Chief Longbai, something important has happened! Let's talk somewhere else."

"event?"

Longbai tapped its tentacles lightly and waved its claws to signal.

Let’s go to the conference hall on the first floor of the short-handled horn tree.

Insects such as juniper, blackthorn, white sedge, and white rice arrived upon hearing the news.

"Zi, what's the big deal?"

Jubai asked.

Zi suppressed his mental power and said, "The expeditionary fleet of the Baijing Chamber of Commerce has discovered another galaxy with stable matter! The diameter is about 13 light years, and the matter density is low. According to multiple observations and estimates, it can derive about 150 third-level source points."

"what!"

"New Galaxy!"

"The fifth galaxy!"

"The White Crystal Chamber of Commerce organized a warrior expedition to develop a new galaxy?"

"Why don't you make the galaxy coordinates public?"

"Butterfly wants to eat alone?"

"Oh--"

"understood!"

"They plan to seize a large number of third-level source points first? And then notify other bugs, right?"

"..."

Upon hearing this, all the insects jumped up excitedly.

"Calm down! Everyone, calm down!"

“It’s not what everyone thinks.”

Zi quickened his pace and explained, "This galaxy is too far away, 7 million light years away. At this stage, our Zerg civilization still uses our home planet as its starting point, and our civilization is gradually recovering. It is impossible for us to build such a long-distance star network channel and remotely control a galaxy 7 million light years away."

"This is not a special case, nor is it the first. The Dawn Chamber of Commerce and the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce were the first to organize expeditionary forces, and they both made similar discoveries in distant star regions. Their approach was to reclaim and build mining planets and send powerful warriors to guard them. They also established a technological and industrial system as a supply station for the Chamber of Commerce's fleet's deep space expeditions. The randomly derived source gems and chaos ores would be transported back to enrich the treasury resources in the rear."

"This galaxy is officially named the 'Topaz Galaxy'."

Zi: "The White Crystal Divine Tree wants to invite Molan and Yuchong to help quickly find the third and second level source points in the Yellow Crystal Galaxy. After the job is done, the White Crystal Chamber of Commerce is willing to give out three star regions as a reward."

Zi emphasized: "Xianglan Chamber of Commerce does not need to put in too much effort, Molan and Yuchong can just go over and help..."

All the insects in the hall immediately understood the White Crystal Divine Tree's intention.

The Baijing Chamber of Commerce successfully obtained from Lord Baba the complete set of technologies for building a starship with a speed of 2000 times the speed of light, which was a third-level energy material. However, they still lacked the more important processing and manufacturing technology.

The difficulty, risk and cost of transporting the materials grown 7 million light years away back to the White Crystal Galaxy or the Amber Galaxy are simply too high.

If Xianglan Chamber of Commerce controls the third-level source point there, builds mining stars, and cultivates materials, Xianglan Chamber of Commerce must develop a science and technology city and build factories there.

What the White Crystal Divine Tree wants is the manufacturing technology of the demigod-level starships of the Vafa civilization.

Stealing technology?
Even if you can't steal it, at least you can entrust the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce to produce it.

The conditions offered by the White Crystal Divine Tree were difficult to refuse.

For the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce, the most important thing is not the three sources, not the addition of a processing business, but the increase in the chamber’s revenue.

The most important thing is that through the Baijing Chamber of Commerce, one can directly obtain a relatively safe interstellar route that leads 7 million light-years away.

At present, the main method used by the Shenshu civilization to observe the distant universe is to collect light information and deduce and analyze it.

7 million light-years means that by collecting light information and observing, we can see the scene from 7 million years ago.

The Divine Tree civilization has only been revived for 1 million years, and for a long time after the opening of the Dawn Galaxy, civilization was in a state of silence, slow and difficult development. The current civilization era is the 78th era, which means that it has only been 7800 million years since it officially entered the development track.

Xianglan Chamber of Commerce has obtained this safe route. If they want to find a galaxy in the future, they can directly search up and down and left and right along the existing route, saving the time and energy of independent exploration.

"The Huangjing Galaxy, 7 million light years away..."

Long Bai muttered, "The Baijing Chamber of Commerce has run so far."

Zi: "More than two million years~"

Zi asked, "Captain Longbai, what do you think?"

Long Bai stared at it intently and asked, "Is this the condition that Mo Lan negotiated with the White Crystal Divine Tree?"

"That's it."

Zi: "The Lord of Reincarnation has returned, and we happened to see him. Molan was talking to the White Crystal Divine Tree and the Lord of Reincarnation. Lu Xin, Cai Gang, and I were there to help come up with the idea."

Longbai: “Oh…”

Long Bai: "I say, Zi, which side are you on?"

Zi: "I get paid by the Baijing Chamber of Commerce, so of course I should support the Baijing Chamber of Commerce. Molan is my best friend, so I should support it too. So, I am a centrist!"

Long Bai: "..."

It was obvious early on that Zi was a white-eyed butterfly that was impossible to tame.

Zi: "Captain Longbai, aren't you planning to search for the Star God Alliance and find the Star God Chi? We looked and it seems to be on the way."

Longbai tapped his tentacles lightly and buried his head in deep thought...

With such a long distance, Molan and Yuchong don’t need to come back after they go there. They can just wait for the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce fleet and meet up in the Huangjing Galaxy...

There is nothing else, the main issue is safety...

Longbai thought for a long time, raised his head, and ordered: "Zhunbai, you arrange a newly built first-level source star system for the White-faced God and the Black-faced God for them to comprehend the laws."

"Okay. Long Bai Ant King."

Jue Bai agreed.

Longbai looked at the White-Faced God and the Black-Faced God and said, "Zunbai is in charge of the resource expenditure of the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce. White-Faced God, Black-Faced God, if you need World Gems and Source Gems for your evolution and growth, feel free to ask Junbai for them."

"Thank you."

"Don't worry, Chief Longbai, we won't be polite."

The White-faced God and the Black-faced God agreed.

Long Bai continued to instruct: "Lin Li, Zi Sha, each of you pick 1500 elite technological warriors at the Xingxiu level."

"Mao Mei, select 2000 elite warriors at the Xingxiu level from the combat unit."

"First, arrange 5000 soldiers to return to the Baijing Galaxy together."

"The three generation assistant kings Hongying, Hongcha, Hongxing, and Hongguang, go back to Fenglun Star together and replace Xiangbai, Yinbai, Cuibai, and Heishi."

"I also want to go back to the Baijing Galaxy. Let's go together. Let's wait for the next Molan transport ship to return, and then take the Molan transport ship to the Baijing Galaxy together."

"I definitely can't go to a galaxy 7 million light years away. I'll go there and meet the Lord of Reincarnation and come back. If there are no other questions, Lin Li, Zi Sha, Mao Mei, you lead the team and follow the Second King."

"I won't be gone for too long. During my absence, if Xianglan Chamber of Commerce has any major issues that it cannot make a decision on, Jubai will make the decision on its behalf."

"Ok."

"clear."

"understood."

The insects agreed.

"Okay~"

Outside the meeting hall, the fishermen who were looking around furtively cheered.

After making some simple arrangements, Long Bai called out, "White-faced God, Black-faced God, I will take you to visit Xianglan Main Star first." (End of this chapter)