Force Astral Plane: Starting with the Chimera Ants

According to the inherited memories, the primal forces of this world can be roughly divided into ten types: the "seven elements" consisting of wind, water, fire, thunder, wood, earth, stone, and metal, as well as three special primal forces: power, life, and soul.

The Force power seems to act directly on genes. The first seven will grant Force-wielding life forms the ability to consume Force and transform it into corresponding types of "superpowers" for attack, such as the five-hit lightning whip of the giant toothed ant we saw before.

The latter three directly affect the body, strengthening muscle strength, healing ability, and even brain function, and are therefore also known as the "comprehensive system".

After a high-level warrior breaks through to the Mountain Lord realm, Force-based beings will awaken a series of elemental abilities. According to records, this seems to be determined by "talent," or perhaps by some hidden gene within their genes.

Ants and termites are somewhat special. Most ants awaken a type of elemental ability while also possessing strength-based talents, while termites possess life-based talents.

According to Ye Zhi's inherited memories, after the Leaf-Weaving Ant is promoted to Mountain Lord, it will randomly awaken one of the two elemental abilities: Earth or Wood. Hmm, this Earth-Wood Ant is a good candidate for working on a construction site...

Others, such as the Dark-bellied Giant-toothed Ant, awaken the Thunder type, while the Floating Slender Ant awakens the Metal type... After the insect warriors of this world evolve, they will possess powerful combat abilities.

However, these things are not of much concern to Ye Zhi, who is still a novice warrior. According to the inherited memories, before evolving into a mountain lord, each molt is accompanied by an expansion of body size. If the shell strength is not up to standard, it is very likely to cause serious tearing injuries.

Therefore, the memory also indicates that in the initial, intermediate, and advanced stages, one should consume as many foods as possible that enhance overall physical fitness, especially the resilience of the exoskeleton, to prevent tearing after molting.

In Ye Zhi's memories of her previous life, the molting process of arthropods was already accompanied by the risk of "capsule," so the evolution of this world must be even more dangerous.

As for the memory inheritance mentioned earlier, during the process of evolution, the body needs to store enough nutrients during dormancy, otherwise it will fall into extreme weakness or even die from excessive energy consumption. Ants do not need to worry about such problems, after all, the existence of a social stomach is equivalent to having an extra backup hidden energy.

Force-based beings cannot reproduce naturally, and the same is true for Force-based plants. Therefore, after the flowers and fruits of life-bound plants and wild divinely bestowed seeds, the resulting seeds essentially become pure carriers of Force energy.

At this moment, the Black Ant King had already selected one of the bags of Force food. Its massive forelimbs were surprisingly agile; with a gentle twist of its claws, it picked up a single grain and instructed:

"These are the seeds from my blood orange seedlings. They are used to strengthen the blood. Don't eat too many yet. If you feel unwell, stop eating them to avoid over-absorption and causing problems."

Ye Zhi lightly tapped her antennae to indicate that she understood, then randomly reached out with her forelimbs and picked up a seed—it looked similar in shape to the seeds inside oranges she ate in her previous life, but a size larger, and had familiar Force patterns distributed on it. The patterns were extremely fine, yet they were blood-red, giving it a somewhat eerie appearance.

Without any hesitation, it pressed down with its forelimbs, and with a barely audible effort, its upper jaws, which had improved somewhat after one evolution, cracked the seed open like a sunflower seed. Then, its soft, tongue-like lower jaw extended and swallowed it whole.

Holy crap!

As soon as the Force food entered her stomach, Ye Zhi immediately felt a surge of immense energy flow into her body, rapidly exploding and filling every crevice of her entire being.

But then he sensed something was wrong. Wisps of primal energy seemed to be slowly dissipating outwards through the gaps in his exoskeleton caused by the interlocking. This startled him, and he immediately began to absorb it according to the method in his inherited memories.

With just a thought, the primal energy that had been trying to dissipate a second ago quickly began to converge along the blood—or more precisely, the lymphatic fluid—and flowed entirely toward the location of the life sac.

"How are you feeling?" Wu Yuan seemed to have noticed a wisp of primal energy dissipating when Ye Zhi absorbed the primal energy food, and asked with some concern, "A chimera species leaping to become an ant king is unheard of. Is the absorption normal?"

"It can be completely absorbed, and I can eat it again!" Ye Zhi felt that her mental strength had been strengthened by the powerful primal energy contained in this seed, and she finally stopped stumbling. She then took another seed and put it in her mouth.

This time, he mustered his spirits and began to absorb the Force food with all his might the moment it entered his stomach. The immense Force power contained in the Lord-level Force food immediately flowed into his life sac for storage, and then transformed into his own Force power, flowing into his limbs and bones. Only a very small portion was not absorbed in time and dissipated into the air.

"Such a high affinity for the Force?" Wu Yuan seemed somewhat surprised as well. "As expected of a descendant of the Azure Ant King, it's just a pity that being a chimera species is ultimately a congenital defect..."

But then it reassured me again, "It's alright, molting and evolution can repair all kinds of hidden injuries. Just grow and evolve a few more times, as long as the life sac is fine."

Ye Zhi remained silent, simply picking up another seed and swallowing it. He felt excellent, experiencing no indigestion whatsoever, only noticing that some of the honey he had consumed earlier had been used up.

He skillfully spat out two drops of honey from his stomach, swallowed them, then picked up the fourth seed and swallowed it, followed by the fifth, the sixth...

It wasn't until the tenth seed was swallowed by Ye Zhi that Wu Yuan, somewhat shocked, pulled the spider silk bag back—at that moment, a thought arose in its mind: "This child is terrifyingly powerful."

You should know that when I was in the initial stage, I could only eat five grains of Origin Force food at the Mountain Lord level, and then I had to rest for a while before I could continue eating. But the little guy in front of me ate ten grains of Lord-level Origin Force food at once, and there was no sign of him stopping.

Ye Zhi, of course, had no idea what Wu Yuan was thinking. He just continued to eat voraciously, feeling incredibly good because of the abundant primal energy he possessed. It wasn't until his forelimbs grabbed at empty air that he realized the spider silk bag in front of him had been taken away by Wu Yuan.

"Stop eating for now, wait a bit," Wu Yuan said telepathically. "Original Force food will consume a lot of nutrients when modifying the body. Honey alone won't be enough to replenish them. Let's wait for Hong Yuan to come back and eat some meat before continuing."

Ye Zhi felt she could eat more, but after carefully sensing the reaction of the food after it entered her stomach, she knew that what Wu Yuan said was true. So she stopped for the time being and waited for the return of the long, thin worker ants that had gone out to hunt before continuing to eat.

As she pondered, she heard footsteps echoing across the rocky ground inside the cave, gradually approaching. Ye Zhi's eyes lit up; it seemed they had returned, and she could continue to freeload and create Force food.