Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton-Chapter 1697 - 1258: Wrapping Luther Into a Fireman

In some places, expressing enthusiasm might mean saying, ’I’ll twist your head off,’ but that’s just talk, right? You’re actually going to twist it off? That’s a bit too enthusiastic!

Luther and the others were shocked and dumbfounded, with only Ange and the two little ones having no reaction. Once, Little Zombie had his head chopped off, and before it grew back properly, Little Angel often twisted it around for fun.

These bamboo stick insect monsters were even more convenient, as the fallen head gradually vanished and swiftly reappeared on the body again. The core of the Celestial Descendant Clan is the White Crystal; as long as the White Crystal isn’t damaged, the form can be manifested at any time.

Even if the White Crystal is damaged, as long as most of the form remains intact, the White Crystal can recover. This mechanism of dual recovery makes the life force of the Celestial Descendant Clan extremely resilient. Only someone like Luther, who can restrain the opponent’s White Crystal in a short time, can completely control the opponent.

The bamboo stick insect monster, whose head had regrown, looked regretfully at Luther and Lightning, especially Lightning, as its bulky size seemed ’most delicious.’

"Not for eating? What a pity, can only feed myself, Little Papa is already hungry." The bamboo stick insect monster bit off its right hand and carried it in its mouth as it returned to the pit.

In the pit from which it emerged, a smaller bamboo stick insect monster looked expectantly in this direction. Upon seeing the big bamboo stick insect monster bite off its arm, its eyes turned expectantly towards the arm the big bamboo stick insect monster carried.

Luther, Lightning, Negris, and the others showed expressions of ’unable to accept,’ even Anthony couldn’t help but display an odd expression: "This survival mode is a bit too harsh, isn’t it?"

Only in extremely harsh survival conditions would the same type of creatures harm each other... um, excluding the Undead.

"Oh, we misunderstood; these aren’t real limbs, they’re merely manifested forms. Essentially, they’re just energy, using its own energy to feed the children." Negris quickly realized,

"Right, right, energy, just energy." Luther breathed a sigh of relief. Those two scenes just now were too intense; either the head got knocked off, or flesh was cut for feeding, which is a huge shock for living beings.

Anthony turned to Gampasa and asked, "Is that your child?"

After receiving a confirmation, Anthony curiously asked, "Why do you give birth to children? Isn’t your species immortal?"

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Back then, Ancient Godlight, Abyssal Big Mouth, Dark Origin, and even Time-Space Ancient Dragon couldn’t produce an increase, showing its difficulty.

Without increase, maintaining the stability of an enclosed space can only rely on balance. Therefore, species with strong reproductive capabilities usually have short lifespans, and species with long lifespans often have weak reproductive capabilities.

The lifespan of Elves is very long, but their total population is only several million, not even close to the human population of billions.

The lifespan of Giant Dragons is even longer, but if Ange hadn’t helped solve their egg-hatching issue, they might already be extinct. Even without hatching problems, their reproductive capability is poor, taking 500 years to hatch one egg.

The God of Life has a lifespan of a hundred thousand years. Without encountering Ange, it couldn’t even sprout a single seedling, and even if one sprouted, a plane can only give birth to one World Tree; everything else is just timber.

And the immortal Undead creatures simply cannot reproduce; the birth of an Undead relies on living beings, so Monarch always says: Life is the foundation of the Undead Empire.

Even though it’s unknown how long the lifespan of the Celestial Descendant Clan is, it’s certainly not short, and the continuation of their species isn’t related to reproduction; the Sun is their foundation for continuation.

Why do they choose to have children then?

Gampasa explained: "We are low-level; once children grow up, they are higher-level and can fly."

Anthony suddenly realized that the reason for their reproduction is the opportunity for upgrading and evolution.

Negris suddenly asked, "If your children upgrade and become stronger than you, can they help you upgrade and evolve in return?"

Gampasa nodded: "Yes, at least they can take us flying, away from here."

This makes more sense; reproduction is not merely a sacrificial act but an investment with returns.

For low-level Celestial Descendant Clan members like them, they are prey for other Celestial Descendant Clan members; if they can raise a more powerful descendant, even if it can’t take them along in upgrading, it can still help them leave the surface of the God Star.

Having understood this, Anthony knew how to proceed: "What do your children eat? What do they need to evolve and upgrade? By the way, how many levels are the Celestial Descendant Clan divided into? What level are you?"

What do Celestial Descendant Clan members need to evolve and upgrade? It is of course Origin Power. Chaotic Origin, Divine Star Energy, whatever the name, it is the most fundamental force.

These bamboo stick insect monsters do not have the ability to receive power through wings like Little Angel, nor the direct refining ability like Ange. Their only way to obtain Divine Star Energy is by preying on Fire Elves.

However, Fire Elves are not numerous, they aren’t fast and lack intelligence, easy to capture like grass, but herbivorous descendants are numerous too.

Recently, two Light Disasters occurred; those who could leave have already left, but the Light Disaster also cleansed the Fire Elves, leaving them either transformed or hidden.

Thus, usually, there isn’t much food to find. Of course, for the Celestial Descendant Clan, not eating isn’t an issue; being in the light range of the God Star means they won’t starve even without eating. Eating is more for combat, evolution, or feeding the next generation.

Regarding levels, Gampasa wasn’t clear; apparently, no classification was done among the Celestial Descendant Clan; only aware that higher-level ones can fly.

Anthony turned to Negris and said: "Lord Nage, please classify them for negotiation purposes."

"This is easy. When it says ’fly,’ it probably refers to the ability to exert continuous force to break free from the God Star’s gravity. Using it as the base, we’ll call it Earth Level; one level higher that can exert continuous force to resist the God Star’s gravity is called Sky Level; those that can break free from the God Star’s gravity are called Void Level."

At this point, Negris asked: "By the way, can it do Star Shifting? It probably can’t, otherwise, it would have flown away by now."

Anthony asked around and confirmed Gampasa cannot do Star Shifting, not even aware of such ability: "Just glance at it and instantly shift over? No, I’ve never heard of such a skill."

"Never heard of it? Do you know of descendants like those two dragons?" Negris asked as he flapped his wings. He heard from Luther and Lightning that on their way in, they encountered two dragon-like descendants.

Gampasa was about to answer when Luther suddenly turned and walked out, twisting his hands, forming an Energy Sword, and leaving saying, "You chat, I’ll handle this."

Looking in his direction, there were already seven or eight bamboo stick insect monsters quietly surrounding them at some point; besides Gampasa, there were indeed more bamboo stick insect monsters here, and Gampasa’s enthusiasm of ’I’ll twist your head off’ clearly didn’t scare them.

At that moment, Little Fireman suddenly jumped off Little Tree Man, shouting "Yaya!" as he ran toward Luther. Before Luther could react, it leapt onto Luther’s head, then flowed down like a flame, wrapping Luther into a Fireman.

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