Ant Lord in the Star Realm

Chapter 797 622: Unpredictable Changes_2

Ink Orchid: "..."

Dragon Cypress: "Purple, have you been fighting in Dragon Stride Mountain all these years?"

Purple: "We moved all our Life Seeds over there. As long as the Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King is undead, I'm not going back to Fire Wheel Island."

Dragon Cypress: "Uh..."

Dragon Cypress: "Then you are..."

Purple: "I went back to Fire Wheel Island to have a look, and stopped here along the way. As I expected, you two are here again, trying to steal Divine-Given Seeds."

Dragon Cypress: "Oh..."

Dragon Cypress: "I heard that over at Dragon Stride Mountain, they're reclaiming the sea to make new land, raising mountains from flat ground. Three inner and three outer rings of defenses, with mountain ranges piled high, three million troops garrisoning and sealing off the cross-border passages."

Purple: "Wrong! It's five million."

Purple suddenly burst out in anger, intimidatingly shouting: "Ant! Mantis! You don't even know that? I've always suspected you two were island insects from Blue Island! Now it seems, you most likely are!"

On Ink Orchid, the seven-elemental Elemental Talent flickered and vanished.

"..."

Purple instantly deflated.

There's no way for Blue Island to have gathered all seven-elemental talents.

If they did, it would have gone first to Eddy Scorpionfish Ant King; as for the other Ant Kings, no way would a mere mantis get one.

Definitely not Blue Island insects.

Purple said quietly, "I know two insects from the Giant-Headed Leafcutter Ant Kingdom at Dragon Stride Mountain. That's not a wealthy kingdom; there's no way they could raise bugs like you, and I've never heard that Giant-Headed Leafcutter Ant Kingdom even has mantises."

Ink Orchid: "..."

Dragon Cypress: "..."

Ink Orchid: "Butterfly, don't pry into things that aren't your business."

Dragon Cypress: "When the time is right, we'll tell you."

"Fine—"

"Forget it then, if you don't want to say it."

Purple asked: "Ant, how long have you been evolved as Insect King? How many Divine Marks have you condensed?"

Dragon Cypress: "Almost forty years, I think. Just comprehended one Divine Mark."

"Oh—"

Purple asked: "Planning to get a Divine-Given Seed as your Life Seed, and then evolve to Age Period 2?"

Dragon Cypress: "Absolutely."

Purple: "How about your Divine Mark Ability? Mind showing us?"

Dragon Cypress thought for a moment, shook his tentacle, and a ring-shaped Divine Mark flashed. A surge of seawater leaped up, condensing into an ice pillar half a meter long, launched at a forty-five degree angle, tracing a parabola through the air before crashing with a boom eight hundred meters away in the sea.

"Wow—"

"Impressive—"

"Very creative ability combo!"

Purple praised, then changed the subject: "Ant, does it auto-trigger on a hit?"

Dragon Cypress: "Yes."

Purple lightly flicked her wings, making a mass of dark clouds morph into a wall of inky fog.

"Then, like this, wouldn't I easily block it?"

Dragon Cypress said, "This ability still has room for improvement. When I have time, I'll work on flight speed and the number of ice pillars."

Purple: "The weaknesses of this ability are too obvious, get on that quick!"

Purple: "I'm a battle-hardened veteran; here's my advice for you. That super-powerful attack of yours, it pierces forward, right? On a real battlefield, in the sky and on the ground, bees and ants are everywhere, you can't see the Assistant King, let alone the Ant King. In that case, area attacks are much better. You can try changing the internal structure of the ice pillar, so it splinters in all directions."

Dragon Cypress: "That's a useful suggestion."

Dragon Cypress had long considered these problems but simply didn't have enough time to work on them.

With so many Water System Abilities and powerful combinations, Dragon Cypress leaned more toward Heavenly Frost Remnants Realm, Nosh Remnants, and Whirl Beast Devouring.

Dragon Cypress changed the subject, asking: "Purple, you reached the age four Insect King so quickly? What's your third Divine Mark Ability? Can you show us?"

"Now this one's powerful."

Purple grew proud upon hearing this, sharply fanned both wings, and the dense black cloud below her dissipated with the wind, spreading through the sea and swiftly enveloping Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid.

In a flash, Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid also lost track of Purple.

A crescent orange-red moon hung high in the sky, casting a hazy, warm glow.

Thousands upon thousands of colorful butterflies appeared, swirling and flitting gracefully around Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid.

This was a half-real, half-fake misty illusion realm, similar to Heavenly Frost Remnants Realm.

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid tried to sense things using their Soul-Setting Abilities.

This guy Purple also used 'Nightfall' to conceal herself, utterly erasing her tracks.

In the sky above, the moon gradually turned full, the orange-red moonlight growing redder and hotter.

Dragon Cypress and Ink Orchid tried to move.

With a fluttering sound, all the butterflies around them moved with them.

Ink Orchid swung her claw, unleashing a Wind Blade, but it passed directly through the butterflies, doing no damage whatsoever.

Illusions?

Not illusions.

This ability was interesting.

With a thought, Dragon Cypress unleashed Primordial Energy, blue mist billowing up, with chilling cold radiating outward.

Heavenly Frost Remnants Realm.

Two mists—cold and hot—clashed against each other.

The dancing butterflies were forced back.

"Eh?"

Purple jumped out, marveling: "Ant, you've got an ability similar to my 'Proud Sun'!"

Dragon Cypress: "Purple, what do you think of this ability of mine?"

Purple: "Not that great. First, your ice power isn't strong enough; second, your control and manipulation of cloud mist is still raw and rigid."

Dragon Cypress: "Raw? Rigid?"

Purple: "Raw means your control isn't precise or subtle enough, practice more. Rigid means you haven't grasped the essence of cloud mist's ever-changing forms. Watch the clouds in the sky—light clouds on breezy days, thunderclouds before storms, rushing storm clouds in gales and rain. Study nature's mists: sea fog, forest morning mist, swamp miasma, mountain haze."

"Ant, water is the most adaptable element, and cloud mist is the most mutable state in the Water System. Seek inspiration from nature, then blend that into your own evolution and transformation."

Purple: "And the key point—in the air, there's water vapor everywhere, invisible to the eye. You've been overlooking that; you should try to take control of it. That's what I realized, and that's how I quickly condensed my third Divine Mark, Proud Sun."