Force Astral Plane: Starting with the Chimera Ants

Chapter 74: Witnessing a Divine Gift

She personally spun out ant silk and wove a tent-like ant silk structure in a corner of the room. She then laid a soft ant silk mat on the ground, covering a square meter, which temporarily served as the incubation chamber for the semi-force queen ant.

The bamboo segment was placed down and fixed in a corner of the incubation chamber. The ant silk sealing the bamboo segment was torn open, and Ye Zhi directed the worker ants to walk out of the bamboo segment in a single file. The golden eggs were placed on the soft ant silk pad in the center of the incubation chamber, and then they flapped their wings and took off.

They entered the straight corridor again, following the ant silk marks left by their never-before-seen elder, the Azure Ant King, and flew towards the other side of the divine power barrier, a continent barren of primal force.

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After flying for an unknown amount of time through the dimly lit passage, a ray of light appeared before her. Ye Zhi shook her head to adjust her compound eyes to the sudden, dazzling light, then squeezed through the metal gaps and flew out of the last section of the earthen and stone passage.

Arriving on an unfamiliar continent once again, sensing the faint natural primal force emanating from it, Ye Zhi pondered for a moment before continuing to flap his wings and fly, scanning the surroundings with his compound eyes.

Further west, a towering mountain range extends from the divine barrier, likely connecting with the southward bend of the "L"-shaped mountain range within the ant kingdom's territory.

Looking out, the continuous mountain range stretched further south, and Ye Zhi's still tiny body flew along the winding mountain ridge, heading towards the unknown distance.

As they flew forward, they could feel the concentration of natural primal force seeping from the barrier of divine power gradually decreasing. After an unknown amount of time, they were barely able to sustain the intermediate stage of Leaf Weaving activities.

With its antennae drooping slightly, Ye Zhi sighed inwardly, changed direction, and flew along the invisible boundary line that the natural force could still support its own activities, continuing to scan the surrounding environment with its compound eyes.

His spatial energy could still pinpoint the location of the worker ants on the Dragon Bamboo Continent, so he wasn't worried about getting lost. He flew aimlessly, searching.

Although the vegetation in front of her was not much different from that on the other side of the continent, it was still different. As Ye Zhi flew, she recorded the plant knowledge in her mind and compared it with the knowledge recorded in her inherited memory.

"Um?"

After a brief flight, Ye Zhi landed on a tree branch to rest and ponder silently, but was interrupted by a strange roar.

Looking down, beneath the tree, an unprecedented orange-red figure angrily raised its forebody, its clawed forelimbs gripping the tree, and let out a threatening, hoarse roar at Ye Zhi.

The figure was about a meter long from head to tail, with no fluctuations of primal force, just an ordinary beast. It had a row of spiky derivatives on its back, and its appearance was similar to the green iguana from my previous life. It was orange-red all over, but had a mouth full of sharp teeth, like a fierce predator.

The inherited memories record that it is called "Red-maned Giant Lizard". It is separated by a divine power barrier, but it has never been found on the Dragon Bamboo Continent. Perhaps the divine power barrier cannot block non-original life forms, but it will also make ordinary creatures unwilling to approach.

With its membranous wings spread wide, patterns of primal force appeared, and the aura of a primal force life form at the intermediate warrior level was released without reservation. As the membranous wings flapped, it pressed down on the predator known as the Red-maned Giant Lizard.

The red-maned monitor lizard was taken aback. A few seconds later, it let out an even more ferocious roar, scratching the tree trunk with its forelimbs as if it sensed a threat and was determined to drive the intruder away.

"Hey, you're even panting?"

With Ye Zhi's current strength, she naturally wouldn't be afraid of ordinary beasts. She was just too lazy to take action and mainly focused on driving them away. Unexpectedly, the aura of the Force life form not only failed to scare it away, but also made it even more aggressive.

With a breath of air, Ye Zhi made her move without any hesitation. She flapped her wings and took off, then swooped down. Her abdomen swung nimbly in the air, and extremely fine ant-like threads were whipped out. She injected her primal energy and wrapped them around the neck of the red-maned giant lizard, which was covered with long, spiky derivatives like those of the green iguana from her previous life.

The slender, sharp ant-like silk coiled up and suddenly transformed into a lasso, tightly wrapping around the neck of the red-maned giant lizard. Then, it tightened abruptly, and before the lizard could react to what was happening, its massive head rolled off.

Ye Zhi silently commented in her heart that there was still room for improvement in the last volume, and that by the standards of ability, the usage was not smooth enough.

After some effort, Ye Zhi wrapped the giant red-maned monitor lizard's massive head with thick ant silk rope, grabbed it with its six limbs, sharpened a wooden stake on the spot, inserted it into the soil, and then stuck its head directly into the top of the stake.

After all that fuss, he checked the time and realized it was getting late. He decided not to linger on the unfamiliar continent any longer, so he simply followed his spatial location and returned to the direction of the interdimensional passage, squeezing into the narrow metal crevice.

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Emerging from the interdimensional passage and returning to the Dragon Bamboo Continent, it was already night. After flying forward for a while, Ye Zhi saw something familiar – a shimmering white ant silk rope wrapped around the treetop ahead, the mark he had left behind.

Looking down along the marks left behind, I saw the two-toothed pitcher plant that I had pollinated and an unknown pitcher plant that had somehow flown here.

After pondering for a moment, he decided to rest there for the night and observe whether his haphazard attempts at hybridization and pollination had yielded any results, and whether it could actually produce seeds.

After scanning the flowers with her spiritual power, Ye Zhi noticed they were somewhat wilted, and she wasn't sure if they had been successfully pollinated or if they would produce seeds. She didn't dwell on it for the time being, letting nature take its course, and found a wide branch to slowly descend.

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At the intermediate warrior stage, Ye Zhi no longer relies on sleep. She simply lay quietly on the tree branch, her antennae slightly raised, resting while sensing the movements around her.

Suddenly, a glimmer of light flashed through the dense canopy, illuminating the single eye on Ye Zhi's forehead. This caused him to abruptly stand up, instinctively flap his wings, and take flight to investigate the canopy.

Instinctively looking up, I saw that among the stars hanging in the sky, one seemed to have suddenly gone out, and the fleeting light was coming from that one.

Immediately, a trace of primal energy descended from the sky. It was only a faint trace, but it seemed to contain immense energy. In an instant, Ye Zhi felt as if his body was being crushed by a mountain, and the vibration of his membranous wings stopped for a moment.

"Holy crap..."

A sigh from the depths of her soul flashed through her mind, but the power lasted only a moment before vanishing without a trace. Ye Zhi even thought she was hallucinating for a moment, and quickly flapped her wings to steady herself.

Filled with surprise and uncertainty, Ye Zhi descended, his mental energy sweeping across the area below as usual, when he suddenly discovered a fluctuation of primal force emanating from below!

"?!" Ye Zhi was still surprised and suspicious. She fell rapidly and carefully scanned the area with her mental power. She found that the fluctuation of the primal force came from a flower in the dense inflorescence of an unknown pitcher plant that she had pollinated with a "let's give it a try" attitude!

"This is a seed bestowed by God, a natural gift from the divine?!"

Ye Zhi suddenly realized, recalling the legends about the stars at night and the origin of the name "God-given Seed"—so this was the divine gift...