Ant Lord in the Star Realm

——We’ve struck it rich!

The emotions of the insects were high and intense.

"Don’t get too excited yet!"

Upright Lotus raised a claw, pointed to the large door at the back of the warehouse, and said, "Move forward, there should be a row of connected warehouses, ten in total. Let’s go take a look!"

Chickpea dashed forward, swiftly opened the door with a claw.

Indeed,

inside the spacious area behind the door, there was a cylindrical platform in the center, and on the platform was a sculpture emitting a murderous Primordial Energy Mechanism.

A beast that looked like a buffalo, yet was slimmer and longer, with flat, shovel-shaped horns on its head, blue-black in color, wearing a purple-red armor, in a charging pose.

On the back of the beast, there sat a humanoid warrior covered in exoskeleton, holding a lance in the left foreleg, with the body tilted in a pose ready to stab.

An alien clan warrior riding the beast, charging and attacking on the battlefield.

Upright Lotus flashed forward and first gouged out the two large blue-purple eyes of the beast sculpture.

"These are World Gemstones, similar to Bloodflame Stone and Thunder Stone, but more expensive. This size could be worth 30 million Primordial Crystals!"

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid were aware of World Gemstones from their Inherited Memory, but did not know the value. Upon hearing this, their tentacles couldn’t help but stand upright, and joyful emotions rippled throughout: We’ve struck it rich!

Upright Lotus controlled a cloud mist, slowly rising his body, getting level with the humanoid warrior riding the beast, inspecting closely, and tested with Metal System Ability to confirm that the mask on the head couldn’t be removed, and there should be no sculpted eyes or embedded gemstones behind the mask.

"This sculpture has only two gemstones, but they’re more valuable."

"A single sculpture, two creatures, big size, substantial material. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. The artistic value is quite significant! Estimated to be worth 500 million Primordial Crystals!"

Upright Lotus praised endlessly, examined it up and down, then gave an appraisal, pointing to another door at the back, and beckoned: "Let’s go take a look!"

Chickpea was very diligent, and while everyone was appreciating and evaluating the sculpture art, he already opened the door of the back warehouse.

Subtle Wood Element and Life System Primordial Energy dispersed.

The same Third-Level Primordial Energy Metal sculpture.

An entirely verdant, patterned four-legged intelligent lifeform covered in leaf vein patterns.

Its hind legs knelt on the ground, with its two front legs conjoined at the chest, head buried, as if mourning, or praying.

A petite sculpture.

Judging by its size, it would stand less than two meters tall, with a particularly slender form.

However, on its gourd-shaped large head, six eyes varying in size were embedded with three colored Primordial Energy Gemstones: blue, green, and white.

The two large ones are from the Life System, while the four small ones are from the Wood Element.

These gems have a general term known as ’World Gemstone’, only found in Third Level Origin Points, on planets with mature operations, typically for Origin Force Lifeforms within the Habitat Realm and Overlord Realm, used specifically for aiding the condensation of ’Star Trace’.

"This artwork is very finely crafted! Its worth can exceed 200 million! It’s not bad!"

Upright Lotus gouged out the gemstones embedded in the eyes, collected them into his space, and commented.

Chickpea had opened the door behind,

The insects proceeded to check the next warehouse...

A row of ten connected warehouses, all containing sculptures.

Finally,

Upright Lotus began assigning tasks, saying: "World Stones are precious and fragile but small in size, taking up little space, leave it to Dragon Cypress Ant King and Ink Orchid for storage. All fragile, easily damaged but small and light treasures should be stored by them."

"I, Kansui, Giant Taro, our spaces have larger volumes and are stable, heavy metal materials will be stored by us."

"Move now! Kansui, you collect first."

"Alright!"

Kansui agreed.

Upright Lotus flashed to Dragon Cypress, handed over a handful of differently colored gemstones to Dragon Cypress.

Dragon Cypress’ Shanglu Divine Pattern on his forehead gleamed, carefully storing them.

"Thank you, Captain Upright Lotus, for your trust!" Ink Orchid eyed enviously, happily expressing gratitude.

"Trust? Can you two escape?"

"Trust us not to hoard for ourselves."

"Purple Cicada possesses an extraordinary memory, retaining all it sees. Every gain is accounted for, don’t think about hoarding for yourselves."

"Awo—"

"Thanks for the reminder, we’ll be careful."

...

Soon finished,

The insects returned to the main corridor.

Chickpea efficiently opened the neighboring treasury door.

Still metal sculptures, still bizarrely shaped four-legged lifeforms...

A row entering again, also ten warehouses.

Quickly tidied up, opened again...

Plant-shaped sculptures from Alien Clan Civilization, without gemstones embedded, but much larger and more valuable.

Along the broad main corridor, stretching over a thousand meters in length, the adjacent treasuries distributed orderly, totaling 50 rows.

Every row consisted of ten warehouses, calculated as approximately 500 warehouse rooms.

All metallic sculptures, including realistic animals and plants, along with mountains, planets, extreme celestial bodies, as well as some exaggerated, abstract, unrecognizable high art pieces unappreciable by many.

The insects swiftly grew numb, and Upright Lotus was lazy to scrutinize estimates, constantly urging actions to speed up.

Chickpea kept opening doors.

Upright Lotus and Purple Cicada together prying gemstones.

Kansui continually using space for collection.

After bustling for a while, Kansui’s space was filled.

Giant Taro continued to collect.

It took some effort.

The second-tier treasury’s third level, 500 warehouses cleaned out.

"Captain Upright Lotus, can you estimate? Roughly how much are these artworks worth together?"

Ink Orchid eagerly asked.

"Above two trillion, probably."

Upright Lotus replied.

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid’s eyes lit up.

"Then Dragon Cypress and I can share over three hundred billion?"

"Indeed."

"Treasure vault is tiered thrice, this is the second tier! So the harvest from the third tier..."

"Surely there will be more, higher value... Artworks are abundant. Hopefully, we can find some specialized functional, usable high-end technological items."