In a simulated life scenario, how do you defy fate and change your destiny every time?

"The pangolin is dead?"

Outside the anthill.

All the fire ants stared at the enormous beast lying in a pool of blood, their little heads unable to process what was happening.

However, Lu Yuan appeared very calm.

Although pangolins are natural enemies of ants, they have been feeding on ants since ancient times.

However, the Heavenly Ant Divine Skill is a cultivation technique tailor-made for the ant race, possessing the power to turn decay into wonder.

Even an ant can move mountains and overturn seas!

of course.

The difference between pangolins and fire ants is simply too great.

Under normal circumstances.

Even a swarm of Shackled Realm Fire Spirit Ants might not be able to cause it much damage.

This is why Lu Yuan has extensive combat experience.

They attacked directly and caught the pangolin off guard, using the force of a mountain collapsing to blast its internal organs into a pulp through its scales.

Otherwise, in a direct confrontation...

Even someone as strong as Lu Yuan couldn't break through the pangolin's defenses.

Lu Yuan shook his head.

Ants are born into a lowly position, with poor innate conditions, and are creatures at the very bottom of the food chain.

He was a level above the pangolin, yet he still won with such difficulty.

If the pangolin were replaced by another powerful demon beast or human cultivator, Lu Yuan would likely be powerless to fight back.

Become stronger!

We must become stronger in order to protect ourselves!
Lu Yuan clenched his fists, his desire for strength growing ever stronger.

He then ordered the other fire ants to begin cleaning up the battlefield.

Although the pangolin is dead, its skin and scales remain incredibly tough.

With the fire ants' strength, they couldn't tear through its defenses at all; they could only burrow into the pangolin's body through its ears and mouth.

Then, using its mandibles, it tears the flesh into countless fragments, which it slowly carries into the anthill.

It didn't take long.

The pangolin's enormous carcass was reduced to a skeleton.

Lu Yuan had just returned to the depths of the anthill.

The prompt from the will of the heavens also followed.

[You defied fate, overcame bloodline suppression, and single-handedly slew the ant race's natural enemy, becoming a legend of the Fire Spirit Ant race!]

You have earned 1000 million simulation points!

You've acquired a Queen Sawtooth Ant!

[You have obtained a Mountain-Shaking Demon Ant Queen!]

[This simulation evaluation has been upgraded to Grade E!]

Main story progress increased to 3%!

The voice just fell.

Two beams of light appeared beside Lu Yuan.

Inside the first ball of light was a jet-black, shiny queen ant, about half the size of a palm.

Its front jaws are sharp and robust, with fine serrations, just like a pair of scythes that can cut through iron like mud, enough to easily tear apart the fur and scales of most creatures.

The queen ant next to it was terrifyingly large, over a foot long and as thick as an adult's arm.

In particular, its massive and heavy body contains an explosive sense of power.

It's as if he could lift a hundred pounds with a simple gesture!

What surprised Lu Yuan the most was that both of these ant queens were Shackled Realm demon beasts.

this means.

Their offspring will be far stronger than ordinary ants!
However, this anthill has undergone several expansions and renovations.

However, it still felt very crowded for the enormous queen of the Mountain-Shaking Ants.

Upon seeing this, Lu Yuan immediately ordered hundreds of thousands of worker ants to work through the night to build a new, spacious palace.

And the other side.

After news of Lu Yuan killing the pangolin spread.

The entire ant colony in the Black Wind Forest was utterly shocked.

Dozens of ant colonies, large and small, all submitted to the Fire Spirit Ant Clan.

For a while.

The number of queen ants has reached dozens.

Lu Yuan persevered and continued to work diligently.

[The Queen of the Mountain-Shaking Demon Ants has given birth to one hundred offspring. You have acquired the bloodline of the Mountain-Shaking Demon Ants, causing your size to increase dramatically, and your health and strength to improve significantly!]

[The Sawtooth Ant Queen has given birth to five hundred offspring. You have acquired the Sawtooth Ant bloodline, and your strength has increased!]

[Your offspring have surpassed one hundred million, you have broken one hundred and eight shackles, and successfully reached the second realm of perfection!]

……

As a series of notification sounds rang out, Lu Yuan's figure underwent a dramatic transformation.

He was originally only the size of a thumb.

However, after merging with the bloodline of the Mountain-Shaking Demon Ant.

His body swelled several times its original size, becoming thicker than an adult's arm, and he transformed into a giant ant king!
His entire body was jet black and shiny, as if forged from divine iron, exuding a powerful aura.

With a simple lift, you can easily lift a yak!
His jaws are like a pair of sharp scythes, capable of easily tearing through an enemy's defenses.

Besides.

When Lu Yuan broke free of all his shackles, he felt a sense of lightness throughout his body, as if an invisible mountain had been lifted from his shoulders.

With every gesture, they can unleash unimaginable, terrifying power.

It is important to understand that by breaking free from each shackle, one can unleash the body's potential, thereby breaking the constraints of ordinary life and gaining power and abilities far exceeding those of ordinary people.

This is a leap in the level of life, and an extraordinary transformation of blood and body!
For an ordinary cultivator, breaking ten shackles is already quite an achievement.

If someone can break twenty chains, they are already a genius.

However, Lu Yuan, despite being an ant, broke free from all 108 shackles binding his body.

If this news gets out, the entire Xuanjie Continent will probably be terrified!
It can be said.

Lu Yuan's strength has now reached an unbelievable level.

He has transcended the realm of ordinary ants and is constantly evolving towards a higher level of life!

According to his estimation.

If that pangolin is still alive.

Even without using the Heavenly Ant Divine Skill, he could have easily killed him with brute force alone.

However, as their strength increases...

The benefits that ordinary offspring bring to Lu Yuan are negligible.

After all, the gap between a demonic beast in the Shackled Realm and an ordinary wild beast is like an insurmountable chasm, which cannot be bridged by sheer numbers.

Even if he were to give birth to a billion ordinary fire spirit ants, they might not be able to provide him with much vital energy.

Although the Sawtooth Ant Queen and the Mountain-Shaking Ant Queen are also Shackled Realm monsters, they require a lot of resources to reproduce.

Furthermore, the speed and efficiency were both dozens of times slower.

Under normal circumstances.

A Fire Spirit Ant Queen can lay 5,000 eggs a day, while a Mountain Shaker Ant Queen is considered quite good if she can lay 500 eggs.

Its efficiency is less than one-tenth of the former.

Lu Yuan could understand this point quite well.

Heaven is fair.

The weaker an individual is, the stronger its reproductive capacity will be.

For example, the most common termite queen can lay tens of thousands of eggs a day.

But the other way around.

As an individual becomes stronger, its reproductive capacity will decrease.

Just like the powerful mythical beasts such as the dragon, the phoenix, and the qilin, they often may not be able to give birth to an offspring for hundreds of years.

"The quality of offspring is more important than the quantity. Once you reach the point of being shackled, trying to achieve a qualitative change through quantity is as difficult as climbing to heaven."

Lu Yuan muttered to himself.

He has been in this world for more than half a year since his reincarnation.

We now have a general understanding of the situation in this world.

According to the information he gathered.

The cultivation realms in this world are roughly divided into: Blood Refining, Shackles, Freedom, Nirvana, Creation, Yin and Yang, Life and Death, Dao Palace, and Divine Appearance.

These nine realms are also known as the lower three realms, the middle three realms, and the upper three realms.

As for realms above the Divine Aspect level, those are beyond the comprehension of a mere ant like Lu Yuan.

If he wants to break through to the third realm, he must take a miraculous elixir or find a more powerful partner.

"The Black Wind Forest is just a remote jungle, with very few even Blood Refining Realm demon beasts. Even if there are some precious spiritual herbs, they have long been plundered by human experts."

Lu Yuan sighed. After thinking for several days, he finally came up with a solution.

As the saying goes.

There is strength in numbers.

It's unrealistic for him to expand the ant colony on his own.

Therefore, Lu Yuan changed his strategy.

He devoted great effort to improving the Heavenly Ant Divine Skill and passed it on to his outstanding offspring.

The improved Heavenly Ant Divine Skill is less than one percent as powerful as the original.

But for the average "ant tribe" member, it's more than enough.

Subsequently.

He then distributed the ordinary queens from other colonies to these offspring, allowing them to build nests on their own and form new colonies.

This way.

The reproduction rate of ant colonies has increased by several orders of magnitude.

Two is born, two is born three, and three is born all things!
Born!
Live them all to the death!
If there are enough of them, they will eventually cause a qualitative change!

[Your offspring cultivated the Heavenly Ant Divine Art, undergoing a transformation in their bloodline and becoming increasingly powerful!]

[Your offspring number has skyrocketed, and you have received a large amount of vital energy in return!]

[Your offspring have multiplied greatly, and the ant colony has surpassed 10 billion. You have successfully entered the Realm of Freedom!]

It didn't take long.

The mountains and fields were covered with countless ant nests and ant colonies, a dark, dense expanse.

Wherever it passes, not a blade of grass grows.

Flowers, grass, tree bark, poisonous insects, and wild animals were all devoured clean by the ant colony.

Lu Yuan soon discovered this.

The entire Black Wind Forest was devoured by the ant colony.

Even to the end.

Many ant colonies, lacking food, have even begun to cannibalize each other.

Seeing this, Lu Yuan could only order the ant colony to expand outwards.

Valley of All Insects!
It is located deep in the Taiyue Mountains.

The climate here is humid, and it is shrouded in toxic fog and miasma all year round.

Legend has it that this place was once the mountain gate of a certain sect, which was skilled in refining various poisonous insects and poisons.

But hundreds of years ago.

When an elder attempted to use the entire sect's resources to refine a poison pill.

However, due to a moment of carelessness, the poison pill exploded, and hundreds of disciples and elders in the entire sect all died from the poison!

This area has become a forbidden zone for all living beings.

After hundreds of years of growth and development, this place is now home to countless venomous snakes and insects.

These insects are extremely poisonous; even a cultivator at the Shackles Realm would die instantly if bitten.

So it has been.

This place is a paradise for poisonous insects, and countless poisonous plants and medicinal herbs grow here.

Even a powerful human cultivator at the third realm wouldn't dare venture here rashly.

But on this day...

However, the Valley of Ten Thousand Insects was about to undergo a shocking change.

Accompanied by a rustling sound.

A vast, dark army of ants stretched out from afar like a tidal wave.

These ants have dark red bodies and, from a distance, look no different from ordinary fire ants.

But upon closer inspection, one will be horrified to discover.

Even the most ordinary fire ant is as thick as a thumb.

Especially those fire spirit soldier ants, they were incredibly huge, as thick as an adult's arm!
Besides.

There are also tens of thousands of ants covered in black armor, as big as rats, with a pair of huge mandibles like sharp sickles, capable of tearing everything to shreds.

These ants are a fusion of the bloodlines of fire spirit ants, black armor ants, and sawtooth ants, as well as mutated mountain-shaking demon ants that have cultivated the Heavenly Ant Divine Skill.

Almost every mutated Mountain-Shaking Demon Ant possesses the strength of the Blood Refining Realm.

When they travel in large groups, they can easily devour an elephant and reduce it to bones in an instant.

If that pangolin were still alive, Lu Yuan wouldn't even need to lift a finger; these mutated mountain-shaking demon ants alone could easily kill it.

Behind the ant army.

There was also a giant ant queen the size of a millstone, exuding a terrifying aura.

This was none other than a Free and Unfettered Ant King!
Monsters in the Free and Unfettered Realm are also known as lesser monsters.

A demon beast of this level can already rule a mountain and dominate a region.

However, Lu Yuan was unusually not cultivating today, but instead personally came out to supervise the battle.

no way.

These mutated mountain-shaking demon ants are powerful, but they also have an astonishing appetite.

A single mutated mountain-shaking demon ant can devour a young sheep completely.

As for small creatures like spiders, grasshoppers, and caterpillars, they wouldn't even be enough to fill a gap between your teeth.

Thanks to the ravages of these gluttons, even the ancient, towering Black Wind Forest was almost turned into a desert by them.

However, if these Mountain-Shaking Demon Ants are allowed to expand unchecked, it will likely attract the attention of powerful human beings before long.

At that time, the entire ant tribe might face annihilation.

Therefore, Lu Yuan carefully selected the items.

Ultimately, they chose the remote and resource-rich Wanchong Valley as their primary target.

However, Lu Yuan did not launch an attack immediately after arriving at the Valley of Ten Thousand Insects.

Instead, he ordered all the ants to build nests on the spot, preparing to take things slowly.

After all, the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons is shrouded in poisonous venom year-round.

If one were to rashly step into it, most of the fire ants would likely die instantly upon contact with the poisonous gas.

Although those mutated Mountain-Shaking Demon Ants are comparable to Blood Refining Realm demon beasts, they have no resistance to the poisonous fog, so their situation is probably not much better.

According to the intelligence gathered by Lu Yuan.

The poisonous fog in Wanchong Valley only dissipates briefly for half a day during the time of strongest sunlight each year.

And that day.

This is the moment when the ant colony launches its final attack!
Not only that.

Lu Yuan had also made two preparations.

Since the ant tribe cannot resist the corrosive effects of the poisonous fog, then increase their poison resistance.

How to increase it?

One word.

Born!
Anyway, Wanchong Valley is located deep in the Taiyue Mountains, and it may not be visited by anyone for decades.

Furthermore, with more than two months remaining before the poisonous fog dissipates, Lu Yuan has ample time to prepare.

Next.

He dispatched a large number of Mountain-Shaking Demon Ants to launch a massive attack on the vicinity of Ten Thousand Insect Valley, seizing the queen ant.

These poisonous ants have lived around the Valley of Ten Thousand Insects year-round and are completely immune to the poisonous fog.

With the help of these poisonous ant queens, Lu Yuan could easily build an invincible army of poisonous ants in a short period of time.

[Your Mountain-Shaking Demon Ants and the Poisonous Ant Queen have formed a bond, resulting in mutated offspring whose bloodlines can inflict a trace of deadly poison upon attack!]

[The queen ant has given birth to a thousand offspring. You have acquired the bloodline of the poisonous ant, making you immune to the poisonous fog!]

[Your ant tribe has grown in size once again, and your strength has successfully broken through to the mid-stage of the Free and Unfettered Realm!]

……

With a series of notification sounds, the strength and scale of the ant race have grown once again.

As for the monsters and poisonous insects in the Valley of Ten Thousand Insects, they were completely paralyzed at this moment.

They noticed the anomaly as soon as the ant army arrived.

All things are born with a spirit.

These monsters and poisonous insects have lived in places rich in spiritual energy for many years, so they have naturally developed intelligence long ago.

They originally thought...

With the natural barrier of poisonous vegetation, the ant army would never dare to set foot in the Valley of Ten Thousand Insects.

But who could have imagined it?

Lu Yuan's thought process was surprisingly unique.

Instead of launching an attack, he continued to breed offspring in the same spot.
What kind of outrageous idea is this?

Years are like a shuttle.

Two months flew by.

The moment the poisonous fog dissipated, the long-prepared ant army finally launched its attack! (End of Chapter)