My Divine Beasts Are Really Not Evil Gods

Chapter 58: Primordial Variant Species

"What!?"

Lu Yu was stunned for a moment, thinking he had misheard. He quickly asked, "Does such a skill really exist?"

But he had just looked through all the Elite Rank Extraordinary Materials, and even skimmed through the Commander Rank ones he couldn't afford, yet he hadn't seen any skill with a similar ability.

Could he have overlooked it?

Or was it a rare material from the Overlord Rank, for which he didn't have the required authority?

Having just closed a huge sale, the Sales Assistant Miss was in a good mood. She said with a smile:

"Of course, but the Chamber of Commerce doesn't have it. Even if there were a similar skill, it would be from an Overlord Rank material, requiring Star Guest authority. The one I'm talking about is located in an Ecological Mystic Realm near Great Abyss City."

"Near Great Abyss City?"

As a top student, Lu Yu was naturally knowledgeable.

Various Ecological Mystic Realms flashed through his mind, from the ordinary difficulty of the Peach Blossom Forest, Vampire Swamp, and Primordial Tree Forest, to even some intermediate and advanced mystic realms.Finally, his thoughts settled on one particular Ecological Mystic Realm.

The two looked at each other and said the same answer in unison:

"The Desert Ant Mound Mystic Realm!"

The Sales Assistant Miss looked surprised and continued, "Not bad, customer, your knowledge is quite extensive. It is indeed the three-star Desert Ant Mound Mystic Realm.

The reason I brought it up is because of that legend!"

Lu Yu nodded, not unfamiliar with it.

Although the Desert Ant Mound Mystic Realm was named after "Ants," it wasn't exclusively inhabited by ant-type pet beasts.

It was primarily a desert, mixed with terrains like gobi, karst caves, and oases, and was home to a large number of rock-type, earth-type, and even water-type pet beasts.

It was just that a massive number of Desert Fire Ants lived there, a low-tier Servant Transcendent Creature.

Individually, they were only the size of a finger, and an ordinary person could kill them with a stick.

But when they gathered in the tens of thousands, they would transform into a Sea of Fire that incinerated everything, scorching the earth.

Even a Commander Rank pet beast would have to retreat if it encountered a swarm of over a hundred thousand Desert Fire Ants, or risk being burned to ashes by the relentless waves of ants.

Most of the time, however, these fire ants were scattered, searching for food, corpses, monster scales and carapaces, and other things to carry back to their nest to help build it and feed the Ant Queen.

During this time, they would also be preyed upon by creatures like Desert Foxes, Anteaters, and Long-eared Rabbits. This not only controlled the fire ant population, but these predators themselves were also food for higher-level predators, forming a complete ecological chain.

The original Desert Ant Mound Mystic Realm was the place where a powerful ant-type pet beast had fallen. It had occupied this area with its powerful servant ants, which, after countless generations of breeding, became the present-day Desert Fire Ants.

Legend has it that before it died, it left behind an ant egg, sealed away in some corner, waiting to hatch one day in the future.

Originally, most people treated this as an interesting fairy tale, but a few years ago, the corpse of this mysterious ant was discovered.

Researchers identified it as a Primordial Variant Species from the Primordial Era named the 【Desolate Strength Ant】. Its strength in life was at least Overlord Rank, and it was female, which instantly caused a sensation.

A Primordial Variant Species refers to a special type of pet beast that falls between an Overlord and a Commander.

The reason for this classification is that an Overlord Pet Beast is defined as possessing one super-tier skill, several high-tier skills, and a large number of mid-to-low tier skills.

A Primordial Variant Species, however, has only one super-tier skill and nothing else. It cannot learn any other skills, making it an extreme-type pet beast.

Therefore, its cultivation is exceptionally important. A strong one can rival a beast above the Overlord rank, while a weak one might be even weaker than an ordinary commander pet beast.

They are a special type of pet beast with polarized potential.

Even so, Primordial Variant Species were still highly sought after, with their prices far exceeding those of the Commander Rank.

And the Desolate Strength Ant was one of the best among the Primordial Variant Species, possessing the super-tier racial talent 【Strength Ring】.

By consuming the transcendent organs of demonic beasts, it could convert them into special Flesh and Blood Rings to increase its own strength.

Furthermore, the Desolate Strength Ant had a unique body structure that could amplify this power twentyfold, making it no less potent than a top-tier super-tier skill for the ant itself.

Fifty tons of force could become a thousand tons in an instant, equivalent to two million jin of immense power.

A single punch could be described as an ant-shaped earthquake generator.

The skill's effect was that consuming the flesh and blood of a complete Servant Rank pet beast could form one Strength Ring, for a total of twenty rings, each increasing strength by a hundred jin.

After that, it required Elite Rank flesh and blood, which could form another twenty rings, each increasing strength by two hundred jin.

Each Commander Rank ring increased strength by four hundred jin, while starting from the Overlord Rank, each ring could increase strength by four thousand jin.

As for anything higher… the Desolate Strength Ant was only a Primordial Variant Species, and extremely rare at that, so no one had ever been able to test if it could form Strength Rings from higher-level flesh.

However, the difficulty was immense, not just because of the strength gap, but because as a pet beast's power increased, its flesh and soul would transform towards that of a Mythological Creature.

If a lower lifeform rashly devoured flesh of this level, they could easily be polluted by the will contained within it, becoming enslaved, falling into a twisted Aberration, or even being assimilated as a part of the other being's life.

But according to the speculations of professional researchers, a Strength Ring formed from the flesh of a higher-level lifeform might be equal to the sum of all the previous ones combined.

If the pollution could be removed, it would allow a pet beast like the Desolate Strength Ant, which relied on multiplying its base strength, to grow immensely powerful.

And this pollution, which countless people would avoid at all costs, was a trivial matter for Lu Yu.

What pollution could possibly compare to the Taboo Sun?

If he could obtain the 【Strength Ring】 skill, even if he couldn't kill a commander pet beast now, he could easily achieve the first forty rings.

If he could then gather the twenty from the Commander Rank, that would be a total of fourteen thousand jin of strength, equivalent to seven tons.

It might not seem like much, but this was pure physical strength, without any added Spirituality. A single punch would be no less than being hit by a high-speed battle chariot.

If extraordinary power was added, and he threw a hundred punches in an instant, his opponent's flesh would be instantly crushed to dust.

Combined with Little Spider's space-type powers, it would be enough to become any opponent's nightmare.

Among its peers, it would definitely be in the top tier of strength. If he could create a special Skill Secret Food to double its strength and max out its Proficiency…

He would have a real chance to surpass the Desolate Strength Ant and create a skill combination comparable to the Legendary-tier!

Little Spider would have to change its name overnight to 【Void Divine Strength Spider】!

But that was just a thought.

After all, over the long years, the Desolate Strength Ant's flesh and transcendent organs had all weathered away, leaving only a skeleton.

Putting aside whether materials could even be extracted from it, the skeleton had been transported to the Imperial Capital Research Institute for study years ago.

Ordinary people weren't even qualified to enter, let alone see it!

As for the so-called ant egg… that was even more illusory. After the sensation it caused a few years ago, countless Adventure Groups and explorers had flooded the area, conducting carpet searches, but no trace was ever found.

Instead, a large number of them became bones in the mound, mobile rations for the demonic beasts.

However, the exploration progress of the Desert Ant Mound Mystic Realm was greatly advanced, which led some to believe it was a deliberate ploy by the Alliance to trick people into helping explore an unknown mystic realm.

Over time, fewer and fewer people went searching for it.

Lu Yu didn't like dealing with riddles, so he asked directly:

"Is there new information about the Desert Ant Mound Mystic Realm?"

He wasn't worried that she would try to deceive a major client like him, who had just spent over a million, with old information.

Because there was no point in deceiving him, and it would only create an enemy. Since she brought it up, it meant there had been a recent development, and it was credible news.

It was very likely that an Ant Egg Fossil had been discovered!

To others, it might be useless except as a collector's item, but Lu Yu was different. He could try to extract materials from it!

The Sales Assistant Miss nodded and said seriously, "Three days ago, a sudden riot among the Desert Fire Ants caused some chaos, so someone accepted a mission to investigate the cause.

As a result, they unexpectedly witnessed a battle involving a giant Golden Armored Ant.

At first, he thought it was some special ant-type pet beast, but during the fight, twenty-seven Flesh and Blood Rings manifested on its body.

Only then did he finally confirm that this was the legendary Desolate Strength Ant. This scene happened to be captured by his Personal Recorder."

After hearing this, Lu Yu's pupils quaked…