Ant Lord in the Star Realm-Chapter 740 - 603: Heavenly Frost Remnants Realm
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Dragon Cypress had already figured out the general principle behind the Dominating Throne's manufacture of ant eggs.
It extracts bloodline information from its own body, draws on physical strength and nutrients, and produces a primary-form "ant egg."
The Origin Force characteristic of an Origin Force Life can't be directly inherited; the primary-form "ant egg" should be just ordinary life.
Therefore, it must undergo several rounds of "Origin Force Breeding," essentially Primordial Energy modification, to transform and upgrade the ordinary life into a Semi-Origin Force Life.
Moreover, the whole process resembles the evolution ascent of the Omnipotent Assistant King; it requires five stages of transformation before it succeeds.
Ultimately, the produced ant egg can develop into a Semi-Origin Force Life that inherits certain talent abilities.
This still differs from standard Ant Kings and Bee Kings—in regular cases, ant eggs and bee eggs are produced directly as Semi-Origin Force Lives.
This is a racial ability granted by the Natural True God.
With enough food, legitimate Ant Kings and Bee Kings can rapidly nurture a vast army.
The difference in mechanism determines that the Dominating Throne can never achieve this; the only recourse is to reduce the time required for "Origin Force Breeding."
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Dragon Cypress activated the Messenger function of the Dominating Throne early in the morning upon waking, and began "Origin Force Breeding."
Now and then, he communed with the Dominating Throne to check on the progress.
By afternoon, there was a response.
[Messenger · Producer · Refinement has entered the second stage of Origin Force Breeding. Continue?]
Dragon Cypress chose [Yes]
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Late at night,
Dragon Cypress communed with the Dominating Throne and received another prompt:
[Messenger · Producer · Refinement has entered the third stage of Origin Force Breeding. Continue?]
Dragon Cypress chose [Yes]
Dragon Cypress had gotten a general sense of the situation.
As expected, with the Awakening of Life System talent, the time required for the "Origin Force Breeding" process was drastically reduced.
He didn't rest at night, continuing to observe.
At dawn, it entered the fourth stage of breeding.
In a single day, three Origin Force Breeding stages were completed.
He continued to monitor,
and by afternoon, it entered the fifth stage of Origin Force Breeding.
By deep night, the fifth stage ended...
[Messenger · Producer · Refinement has entered the sixth stage of Origin Force Breeding. Continue?]
Dragon Cypress: "..."
Dragon Cypress chose [Yes]
At dawn, he communed again.
[Messenger · Producer · Refinement has completed breeding]
An opening appeared at the back of the Throne, and sixteen ant eggs each a few millimeters in diameter emerged.
At King Level, the Origin Force Breeding process increases by one stage from the Lord-Level's five to six stages.
The time required is reduced to two days.
Sixteen ant eggs bred in two days means an average of eight per day.
Still not fast enough.
Continuously, even after a grueling year, this still only amounts to 2,920 ant eggs.
To build an army of 100,000, 34 years would be required.
To build an army of a million, would that require 340 years?
Far too slow.
How long do King-Level Specialized Ants live?
Around three or four hundred years before they age and their combat abilities steeply decline.
A complete Ant Kingdom cannot simply foster Combat Ants; all sorts of supporting logistical ants are also necessary.
By the time a new batch is born, the old batch is already failing.
This means that it will never be possible to foster an army of a million...
Dragon Cypress couldn't help but contemplate: By consuming a large amount of Divine-Given Origin Force Food of the Life System to reinforce the Life System, could the time needed for "Origin Force Breeding" be shortened even further?
This is well worth trying!
But,
The overall evolutionary path proposed by the Linnan Divine Tree must not be changed lightly.
First age period focuses on Water System.
Second age period focuses on Thunder System.
Third age period focuses on Wind System...
Seven-elemental talents come first; Life and Strength are put at the end.
According to the Linnan Divine Tree's design, evolving in this sequence will grant a chance to comprehend the seven-elemental form in the seventh age period as Insect King.
If successful, one would become invincible.
Dragon Cypress's talent is poor; his chances of success are not high.
But it's precisely because of this lack of talent that every step of growing and evolving must be intentionally and carefully designed, to create opportunities for himself.
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Upon advancing to Insect King, Dragon Cypress needed to start pondering his own Divine Mark as well.
After years of refining, upgrading, and comprehending, Dragon Cypress had developed some personal insights and ideas regarding the combination of abilities, and designed a particularly formidable combo.
Huagi Mountain's "Frostfall" is the foundation of the combo ability.
At Dragon Cypress Lord Level, he rigorously trained "Frostfall" for over sixty years; after advancing to Insect King, with just a simple practice, he could within a mere three seconds, create a vast field of extreme-cold frost fog thirty meters thick and one hundred meters in radius.
After numerous experiments, Dragon Cypress succeeded in combining the Waterwood dual-system hallucination ability "Mottled Remnant Realm"'s water-based hallucination effect with "Frostfall," creating a snowy illusion realm.
A false illusion realm interwoven with authentic Frostfall attacks.
Forming a hybrid of truth and falsehood, an even more potent offensive ability—both real and illusory.
Dragon Cypress named this combo ability "Heavenly Frost Remnants Realm."
It is not yet perfect.
Three problems remain: the ability's activation speed is not fast enough; its scale is not large enough; and the extreme-cold attack strength of the ice crystals is insufficient.
There are also solutions.
In the Southern Hemisphere, there's a type of Divine-Grade Fruit called "Twilight Pearl Fruit," which grants an ability named "Twilight," similar to the cloud mist ability that Flash Butterfly Warrior Purple excels at.
Dragon Cypress estimates that if this "Twilight" is combined with "Frostfall," the problems of activation speed and scale could be solved.
As for insufficient extreme-cold attack strength of the ice crystals, there are many solutions.
The first way is simply to find another Divine-Grade Fruit that grants a freezing type ability, and add in an even more powerful freezing ability, blending the two together.
