Chapter 377 - 221: Golden Iron Mayfly

Chapter 377: Chapter 221: Golden Iron Mayfly

If one were to meticulously break down the Gold Attribute of metals, it could be categorized into at least several thousand types.

And that was just considering the Gold Attributes from metals native to the Guardian Beast World.

After all, a vast number of metals also existed outside the Guardian Beast World.

Those metals could very well possess entirely different Gold Attributes.

Zhong Yi had already decided to use the Golden Iron Mayfly as a Defensive Guardian Beast to coordinate with him in battle.

Once Zhong Yi’s own Tier increased, the Golden Iron Mayfly, whose strength would grow alongside his, would naturally display its value as a Foundation Level trump card.

With an additional, powerful Defensive Guardian Beast, Zhong Yi would be able to perform better, whether in Soul of Battle duels or within the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm.

Zhong Yi wasn’t in a hurry to choose metals for the Golden Iron Mayfly to devour. After all, the Golden Iron Mayfly Mother Insect hadn’t produced a single Sub-Worm yet.

Zhong Yi planned to raise the Golden Iron Mayfly’s Tier to the Extraordinary Tier and its Quality to Gold as soon as possible.

Then, based on the new Skills and Exclusive Traits the Blood Gold Iron Mayfly would gain, he would select two to three suitable metal materials for it.

For now, to help the Golden Iron Mayfly hatch its offspring as soon as possible, Zhong Yi had specifically purchased a full ten tons of Hundred-refined Fine Iron.

For a Golden Iron Mayfly currently at the Mortal Beast Tier, Hundred-refined Fine Iron was the most suitable food.

Judging by the Golden Iron Mayfly’s eager reaction to the iron box, this Mother Insect had a great appetite for Hundred-refined Fine Iron.

After forming a Contract with the Golden Iron Mayfly, Zhong Yi didn’t rush to raise Ice Glaze’s Tier and Quality.

Among the main ingredients Star Night had given Zhong Yi for concocting Sixth Level Potions, there was one material called Cold River Essence.

Cold River Essence was equivalent to the core of a ten-thousand-year-old glacier.

One might not find a single piece of Cold River Essence even after toppling dozens of glaciers stretching for hundreds of kilometers in the coldest, most remote northern lands.

For Ice Glaze, the Cold River Essence was a treasure she could use at least until she reached the Mythical Tier.

With the Cold River Essence, Ice Glaze’s control over the Ice Element would rise by at least one whole major level during her Bloodline evolution.

Zhong Yi planned to have Ice Glaze absorb a large amount of energy from the Cold River Ice Marrow first, and then use Flowing Soul Soil to help her increase her strength.

Zhong Yi rearranged the Healing Element floral Guardian Beasts planted in the Plain Jade Basins within his Soul Base.

He then watered each of these Healing Element floral Guardian Beasts with water from the Spiritual Spring.

The Longevity Empress Bee sensed Zhong Yi’s aura and crawled out from its hive.

The Longevity Empress Bee’s body was originally very long and slender, but now its abdomen had swollen.

It had taken on a translucent, shimmering green texture with golden specks.

Looking at the Longevity Empress Bee’s bulging abdomen, Zhong Yi felt a premature sense of a bountiful harvest.

Just then, the Fertile Creation Ant Queen crawled to Zhong Yi’s feet.

Zhong Yi noticed that the Fertile Creation Ant Queen, which had originally been only half his height, was now nearly as tall as he was.

Its body length had expanded from less than two meters to nearly four.

For a swarm ruler like the Fertile Creation Ant Queen, whose function was reproduction, an increase in size meant an enhancement of its breeding capabilities.

The Fertile Creation Ant Queen primarily increased its strength by relying on the energy feedback from the creatures it had converted into Ant Successors.

The Fertile Creation Ant Queen had successively produced nearly ten Mythical Tier Ant Successors.

Zhong Yi guessed that the Fertile Creation Ant Queen’s Tier must no longer be at the Extraordinary Tier; it had most likely risen to the Fantasy Tier.

Otherwise, a single Tier promotion would never have caused such a drastic change in its size.

The Fertile Creation Ant Queen could increase its own strength, saving Zhong Yi a good deal of Flowing Soul Soil.

Zhong Yi used All Things Exploration to inspect the Fertile Creation Ant Queen.

[Guardian Beast Name]: Fertile Creation Ant Queen

[Guardian Beast Species]: Creator Ant Species / Creation Ant Species

[Guardian Beast Level]: Fantasy Tier (7/10)

[Guardian Beast Type]: Mysterious Element

[Guardian Beast Quality]: Platinum Quality

Skills:

[All Things Ant-Turn]: Lacks the ability to gestate on its own. After devouring other creatures, it can refine, reconstruct, and optimize their genes. Without altering the gene level of the devoured creature, it can produce an Ant Successor with that creature’s genes. The strength of the born Ant Successor is related to the target’s pre-devouring strength and is unrelated to its own.

[Mixed Sacrifice]: Abandons some Ant Successors. By sacrificing these abandoned Ant Successors, it can strengthen a designated Ant Successor to raise its Tier.

[New Ant Fire Seed]: When an Ant Successor that has left a genetic fire seed within the Queen dies, the Queen can consume its own reserved energy. The fire seed’s genes will combine with an unhatched Ant Egg, transforming the developing Ant Successor into a copy of the one who left the fire seed.

Exclusive Traits

[Heroic Ant Successor]: Designate one Ant Successor as the Ant Swarm’s Heroic Unit. The designated Heroic Unit can, by sacrificing itself, unleash power that exceeds the limits of its current Tier. A new Ant Successor can only be designated as the hero after the current one has died.

[Ant Successor Assembly]: When multiple Ant Successors die, their broken remains can be assembled into a brand-new Ant Successor that inherits the strengths of the originals. The strength of the newly assembled Ant Successor will not exceed the upper limit of the source materials’.

[Ant Swarm Blessing]: Whenever the number of Ant Successors in the Ant Swarm increases, the abilities of all Ant Successors will be amplified to a certain degree, and the Queen’s own speed of hatching Ant Successors will also increase.

[Ant Kingdom’s Holy Nest]: Establishes an Ant Nest in a designated environment. Ant Eggs within the Ant Nest will hatch at an accelerated rate. If the Ant Nest’s environment is negatively affected, the energy within the Ant Nest will be used to maintain the current environment.

A quick inspection confirmed it. ’Just as I guessed,’ Zhong Yi thought to himself.

The Fertile Creation Ant Queen had already reached Fantasy Tier, Level Seven, and Platinum Quality.

It was almost ready to make a push for the Mythical Tier!

Thankfully, Zhong Yi used the Soul Taming Seed to form Contracts with other creatures, which kept those Contracted Beasts in a state of relative independence from him.

In the judgments made by the Virtual Source Network and Secret Realms, Zhong Yi’s Tier was determined solely by the Tier of the Resurrection Celestial Lord, the Order Beast born from his Soul Base.

Otherwise, once the Fertile Creation Ant Queen reached the Mythical Tier, the opponents Zhong Yi would be matched with on the Soul Fighting Platform would be at the Mythical and Immortal Tiers.

The Skills and Exclusive Traits the Fertile Creation Ant Queen gained from its Tier and Quality promotions didn’t grant it any brand-new abilities on top of its existing ones.

However, they did give the Fertile Creation Ant Queen, the empress of the Ant Swarm, more ways to strengthen, modify, and even resurrect her Ant Successors.

The Fertile Creation Ant Queen produced Ant Successors by devouring living targets.

The raw materials Zhong Yi provided for the Fertile Creation Ant Queen were of mixed quality.

And these units, once converted into Ant Successors, couldn’t continue to increase their strength like living creatures.

This meant that some Ant Successors would very likely become useless in the future.

Mixed Sacrifice, the Skill the Fertile Creation Ant Queen obtained upon advancing to the Extraordinary Tier, allowed it to sacrifice those useless Ant Successors.

By sacrificing Ant Successors, it could allow those with potential to break through their current Tiers.

Among all the current Ant Successors, the one that Shi Mi had been transformed into had the greatest potential.

Even two or three of the Mythical Tier Bizarre creatures Qin Ruyue had captured, when combined, might not be able to defeat Shi Mi.

Shi Mi was, after all, an elite cultivated by the Purifying Moon Sect!

In the future, using those Mythical Tier Ant Successors with little potential to raise Shi Mi from the Mythical Tier Peak to the Immortal Tier would be well worth it.

However, after raising him to the Immortal Tier, Zhong Yi saw no need to push the Shi Mi Ant Successor any further.

It was a very wasteful process for the Fertile Creation Ant Queen to use the Mixed Sacrifice Skill to raise the Tier of a single Ant Successor at the cost of consuming others.

It would likely consume five or six Mythical Tier Ant Successors just to allow the Shi Mi Ant Successor to advance further.

However, in Zhong Yi’s opinion, the value of this Mixed Sacrifice Skill was no less than that of the Fertile Creation Ant Queen’s Basic Skill, All Things Ant-Turn.

Wasteful as it may be, the Mixed Sacrifice Skill allowed the Fertile Creation Ant Queen to reliably create higher-Tier combat units.