Ant Lord in the Star Realm

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[Time: Epoch 78-Year 130-Month 705-May]

Twisted Blue Star.

Twilight.

The Ice Centipede bore the Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid, racing along the broad main road, veering off and entering the territory of Northern zone 2528.

"Stop!"

Ink Orchid vigorously waved its tentacles to call for a halt, the Shanglu Divine Pattern on its forehead glowing, releasing colorful ribbons that flowed out, forming a dazzling stellar disk with a diameter of 300 meters in the air.

Above the stellar disk, Primordial Energy condensed into a wide and radiant throne.

Ink Orchid flashed and stood upon it.

"Dragon Cypress, come up! I'll carry you~!"

"Second King~ Keep a low profile~"

"Longing to see smoke rise again from the ground of my homeland, not because today I return with the glory of victory..."

"..."

Dragon Cypress flashed and descended onto the Radiant Throne, instructing: "Fly low. Don't attract too much attention from the insects."

Ink Orchid: "Darkness is destined to be banished by the radiance of stars, brave insect, forge ahead..."

"..."

Dragon Cypress remained silent.

Ink Orchid bored, flipped through twenty years of literature on the way back.

The power of culture is truly terrifying.

The Mantis has gone mad.

Communication has become impossible.

Thankfully, some sanity remains, as the Radiant Throne swiftly moved at mid-to-low altitude of 200 meters, heading directly toward Yellow Peach Mountain.

Dragon Cypress didn't want to speak.

Approaching closer,

The Radiant Throne veered and turned toward Xianglan Mountain.

…

…

"Great King!"

"Second King!"

"Great Leader Dragon Cypress!"

"Ink Orchid!"

"The Great King is back!"

"Wow!"

"So dazzling!"

"What is this?"

"Can it carry insects to fly? Is it a starship from a high-level technology civilization?"

...

Green Heart and White Willow arrived first.

Rainbow Mulberry closely followed.

The insects of Xianglan Mountain noticed and rushed straight toward the lakeside Azure Divine Seed Tree.

As expected,

From the neighboring Yellow Peach Mountain, White Ivy and company arrived subsequently.

"What kind of treasure is this?"

"So cool!"

"Ink Orchid, are you controlling it?"

"If I'm not mistaken, is this thing mimicking a technological creation of the cosmic star system?"

"What's its purpose?"

Many insects asked questions.

Ink Orchid: "The light of the stars will eventually dim, while the brilliance of art transcends the river of civilization, forever endless! This is an art piece! One-of-a-kind in the universe, the supreme art creation!"

Silver Cypress raised its claws high, bouncing and excitedly asking: "It looks very powerful! Sounds even more impressive! Second King, what's remarkable about this thing? It must be very valuable, right?"

"Superficial! Vulgar!"

Ink Orchid scolded: "Can art be measured by wealth?"

"..."

The noisy insects and trees suddenly quieted.

Northern Gorgon worriedly asked: "Dragon Cypress, is the Mantis okay?"

"It's alright. No big problem..."

Dragon Cypress flashed and landed, explaining in detail: "The item is called 'Radiant Throne', crafted with 'Tears of Stars' and certain unknown technological synthetic materials. After repeated confirmation, it is simply a pure art piece, a chair for the highest ruler of civilization. Preliminary assumption, its main function is decorative within the palace residence."

"As for Tears of Stars..."

Dragon Cypress spoke quickly, narrating to everyone.

——The origin point of a star system was destroyed!

——Collected Tears of Stars from a star system!

——Made into such a... chair?

The insects and trees were shocked, speechless.

King Cypress commented: "Madness! It's crazy!"

Ink Orchid with a tone of melancholy, sadly sighed: "Cosmic destruction, civilization demise, species extinction's eve, the awakening and choice in despair perhaps."

"..."

Red Peach asked with great reluctance: "Are there no ways to separate and extract Tears of Stars?"

Dragon Cypress shook its tentacles, saying: "Tears of Stars itself is a consumable nearly zero in exclusivity, capable of merging with any material and energy in the universe, and once fused, cannot be separated."

White Ivy asked: "Dragon Cypress Ant King, were there other gains?"

Dragon Cypress: "Yes! Many!"

Dragon Cypress thought for a while, varying colored dozen or so World Gemstones dropped out, introduced: "Bloodflame Stone, Thunder Stone, Ripple Stone, Stardust Stone, Spirit Communication Stone, Wild Gemstone, Lush Green Gemstone, Withering Gemstone..."

"World Gemstones evolving from mature Third Level Origin Points. In the future, the Transformed Habitat Realm can use them, valued from millions to tens of millions. Rare evolution resources universally accepted in the universe, can be converted anytime, anywhere, also used for exchanging most other valuable resources."

Poison Bean's eight eyes shone brighter than the gems, raising a claw, asking: "Great King! How many of such gemstones are there?"

Dragon Cypress: "Lots, sized six to seven hundred."

——Wow!

——Got rich?

——Great King's awe-inspiring!

The insects' eyes gleamed brightly.

After finishing, Dragon Cypress lowered its head again, clink clank, a large pile of finely crafted books made of Third Level metal materials dropped out.

"Art pieces. Materials can be recycled, quite valuable. There are plenty. The content of the books isn't necessary for you to read, filled with enigmatic stuff, reading too much could result in..."

Dragon Cypress glanced at the Second King, the meaning apparent,

Then lowered its head again, tinkling and clinking, a large pile of Tech Star Cores dropped out.

"Total harvest of 1004 pieces. I kept the best one. As for the 1003 ordinary Tech Star Cores, the five old Spiders took 100 pieces, and Ink Orchid and I divided 903 pieces..."

Black Peach, eyes bright and wide, coming back from shock to ecstasy, raised a paw:

"Great King, Leader Round Cypress, Fragrant Cypress, and Black Sophora in charge of resource trade and wealth management wish to ask, what was the total value of Primordial Crystals from this adventure?"

Dragon Cypress: "Evaluatable, just over 60 billion. However, all Tech Star Cores, will not be considered for sale."

"World Gemstones as well, these items, easy to sell, troublesome to buy back, unless in dire need, prefer to keep them for personal use."

Dragon Cypress: "Books can be sold, plenty in number, valued about 24 billion."