harleyscars Chapter 67: Intermediate Evolution
Chapter 67: Intermediate Evolution
Ye Zhi followed the same method and personally planted another blood orange seed 150 meters away from the small yunmu seed .
Plants should not be planted too close together, otherwise they will compete for natural energy when flowering and fruiting, which may affect the quality of the produce or cause irreversible damage to the plants themselves.
Of course, being too far away makes maintenance inconvenient, which is also a problem. Around 150 meters is considered the most suitable interval for ordinary species.
After all that effort, and by building a protective canopy for the new shoots, the work is temporarily complete. Now, all that's left is to wait for the plant to sprout.
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In the soft, humus-rich soil mixed with crushed fallen leaves, the plant quickly took root and sprouted. About a week later, two plants sprouted one after another.
The joy of the seed sprouting helped Huo Yun recover from her previous complex emotions. She hovered around the seed plant every day, preying on any insects that might eat it.
Much of what they couldn't finish naturally ended up in the "Chimera's" insect traps. The tree spirit, who was already no longer averse to Huo Yun's approach, was now becoming increasingly friendly towards her.
Meanwhile, Ye Zhi continued to train up and down the banyan tree, slaying, lifting weights, and swinging her silk threads, waiting for further growth and evolution.
Now, more than two months have passed since the ninth year of evolution, and after another transaction, Wu Yuan has once again prepared more types of Force food for Ye Zhi.
He put the "Chimera" back into his life pouch, then used a base of divinely bestowed primal energy food of mountain lord quality, along with various other high-quality primal energy foods, and combined this with Ye Zhi's practice to gradually absorb the nutrients and strengthen his body at the genetic level.
The God-given Force food is very potent, but it is still consumed every few days, while the accompanying regular Force food is consumed daily to continuously strengthen oneself.
Two months later, the familiar drowsiness returned. After eating, Ye Zhi reported to the Black Ant King and then crawled into the "Spider Cave," which had been expanded countless times, to prepare for evolution.
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Its twenty-centimeter-long body silently curled up on the ant silk cushion in the center of the "Spider Cave," which had been expanded several times over. A faint, invisible vortex of primal force appeared, continuously drawing in the natural primal force surging from the vicinity.
As the major advancement occurred, Zuo Wang Qingyuan personally guarded the cave entrance, with five slender worker ants protecting him. Two of them each carried a small spider silk bag filled with primal stones in their mouths, silently sensing the primal force fluctuations of the breakthrough.
An invisible vortex of primal force spread from Ye Zhi's body, and its absorption efficiency of natural primal force gradually increased over time, causing the concentration of primal force in the vicinity to gradually decrease.
Seeing this, Zuo Wang Qingyuan shook his antennae. Beside him, two worker ants tore open the spider silk bag, took out the raw stone, and used their sharp mandibles to cut and crush it, releasing pure primal force.
With the leap to a higher rank, the God-given Seed also broke through, seemingly resulting in some kind of superimposed qualitative change. The rate of Force consumption surged abnormally, and the two slender worker ants continued to rhythmically cut the raw stone to replenish their natural Force.
One day, two days... three days passed in the blink of an eye. Ye Zhi's main body seemed to have turned into a bottomless pit, constantly absorbing the natural primal force in the vicinity.
Even the King of the Black Ants was alarmed and came to check on the situation. He didn't dare to use his mental power to sense it, but silently felt the fluctuations of the primal force and brought a large bag of primal stones as an emergency measure.
On the fourth day, the fifth day... the nest entrance was piled with raw stone powder, and evolution seemed to have finally reached the last and most crucial metamorphosis stage.
The consumption of Force intensified suddenly, and the number of worker ants cutting the raw stone increased to four, just enough to keep up with the rate at which Leafweave absorbed the Force from nature during its evolution.
Another day passed, making it a full six days. The Force vortex, which had expanded to cover the entire nest chamber, suddenly erupted for the last time before subsiding and dissipating into the air.
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When Ye Zhi woke up, she felt the binding sensation of being wrapped in the old shell. She skillfully twisted her body left and right at a specific frequency, and a crack appeared in the shell on her back as she twisted.
With the muscles in its shoulders and back working, the body wriggled and arched open the old shell, and the still tender newborn body squeezed out from under the old shell.
The pale yellow exoskeleton slowly stretched and extended. Beneath the exoskeleton, Ye Zhi could clearly feel the newly formed muscles stretching at an astonishing speed, and even felt a slight soreness caused by the stretching.
However, the divinely bestowed Black Peach kernel that strengthened his muscles was not for nothing. The slight pain quickly disappeared, replaced by a strong sense of power. He could feel that his body was several times stronger than in the initial stage.
A mental scan of his entire body revealed even greater changes than when he was younger. Under his own special directional adjustment, no one would guess that he had risen from the Leaf-weaving Ant tribe if not told.
A mid-level warrior in its first year of life, whose body length eventually settles at around thirty centimeters, has an exoskeleton that gradually deepens from its original pale yellow to a metallic light gold. Combined with the skull and the armor patterns on its body, the whole thing looks like it was cast in brass.
Its jaws are long and sharp, with the inner edge of its jaw teeth arranged like canines and carnassials, and the ends of these teeth are darker in color, making it easy to tell that it has a powerful bite. Its six limbs are long and slender, but full of muscles, and have extremely strong explosive power and sustained pulling force.
The most significant change is in the lumbar scape. With deliberate manipulation, the end of the first posterior abdominal segment forms a flexible joint, turning towards the second tubercle, making the lumbar region more flexible than before.
With its long, sharp mandibles and slender body, and the absence of a stinger except for its abdomen, it does indeed resemble a cow ant.
With increased flexibility in her waist and abdomen, Ye Zhi's strongest attack method—the Ant Silk Flying Blade—has also been greatly improved in terms of agility, which is undoubtedly good news.
With her jaws slightly open, Ye Zhi tore open the ant silk rope sealing the cave entrance and slowly walked out. She saw Zuo Wang Qingyuan, who was personally guarding the cave entrance, and the raw stone powder scattered all over the ground.
"Qingyuan Zuo Wang, what's going on?" Ye Zhi asked in surprise, her compound eyes scanning the surroundings as she transmitted her mental energy.
"Little guy, you've reached the intermediate stage?" Zuo Wang Qingyuan transmitted his concerned mental energy. "How are you feeling?"
"It feels great. Did I consume a lot of Origin Force during my evolution process?" Ye Zhi's attention was still focused on the Origin Force powder scattered on the ground as she asked curiously.
"Little guy, your evolution has indeed made quite a splash. Even the King of the Black Ants came over in person, saying that it must be due to the synchronous evolution of the God-given Seed, which consumed several hundred Primal Stones."
"Well, little guy, I'm glad you evolved successfully. You've been evolving for six days, are you hungry?"
Ye Zhi tapped his antennae. The liquid food stored in his social stomach had just been used up, and now was the perfect time to replenish it before he went to plant the "Chimera" and test some of the new abilities he had gained in his intermediate warrior evolution stage.