Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton-Chapter 1703 - 1264: Chaotic Mandible Insects

What is the most effective way to deal with the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms? Undoubtedly, it is insects. This has already been verified by the God of Life and the Insect God Mattis.

Don’t be fooled by Mattis’s infrequent appearances; it was the only lower deity that almost gnawed the God of Life to death.

In the master plane of those years, the highest deities were undoubtedly the Gods of Light, followed by the Harvest Goddess, Elemental Main God, War God and Forging God of the Dwarves, and the like.

Because their beliefs were widely spread, they had a large foundation of followers, a substantial supply of resources, a highly organized structure, and excellent combat power, whether in divine wars or conventional battles.

Don’t underestimate conventional battles; even a deity has to detour when encountering an opponent like Anthony.

And the Insect God was undoubtedly the lowest level deity, with no large number of followers, no fixed territory, no substantial resource supply. In short, it was poor. How much combat power could a poor deity have?

However, beyond the powerful deities and the poor deities, there was one super existence beyond all systems in the master plane—the God of Life.

This was a powerful existence that even the Gods of Light did not dare to provoke easily. Although called the God of Life, it wasn’t actually a deity but a tree.

This tree nurtured a group of powerful elves. Although these elves worshipped it, it was too lazy to become a deity because the god status felt unnatural, so it was just a tree.

Such a powerful existence that even the top-tier deities were unwilling to provoke was almost gnawed away by the lowest-level Insect God. This impressive battle record was enough to make it the prime choice for dealing with an Ancient Man Snake as a divine artifact.

However, it’s not easy to evolve insects that can survive under the instant death halo, withstand thousands of degrees of high temperature, and still gnaw the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms.

Yet Ange completed it in a short span of over half an hour. Why? Because there was the instant death halo, the Goddess of Beauty Fist, countless experiments for reference, extensive experience in nurturing new species, and several worlds to conduct simulation experiments.

Creatures at this level had blurred boundaries between animals and plants. Nobody would consider the Ancient Man Snake darting across the void as a plant, and Ange’s experience in breeding could be applied to raising insects.

Thus, an insect somewhat resembling an ant, but with a scissor-like mouthpart, was gnawing leaves at the pit under thousands of degrees of high temperature, each bite causing a slight power of chaos fluctuation in its mouthpart.

"Goodness, using the power of chaos to eat? That’s a bit perverse. Find a piece of Black Crystal for it to take a bite of, see if it can. If it can, catch one and give it to the Old Immortal," Negris said with a malicious grin.

The insect not only gnawed but also laid eggs while gnawing. The first egg began to hatch minutes after it was laid, and before it was fully hatched, the second egg was already being produced.

"The speed is a bit slow." Negris looked up at the massive canopy and countless leaves: "How long will it take to gnaw through all that?"

A few minutes for an egg, sixty minutes in an hour, roughly twelve eggs, twenty-four hours in a day, about three hundred eggs, a year would produce a hundred thousand, and ten years, ten million.

Sounds like a lot, but it’s facing a giant tree with leaves as vast as eight million square kilometers.

Even with billions upon billions of ants, could they gnaw through the master plane?

"It’s reproducing too slowly; we have to find a way to speed it up." Negris suggested, "Why not raise a queen ant?"

Ange shook his head, "This way is fast."

"Faster this way?" Negris was incredulous, but soon understood why as the second insect that hatched began laying eggs after chewing leaves for a dozen minutes and growing in size.

"Uh, no males or females? All can lay eggs?" If so, the number of insects could increase exponentially, initially one begets two, two beget four, four begets eight, and later on a hundred billion becomes two hundred billion, two hundred billion becomes four hundred billion...

Even Anthony couldn’t help rubbing his hands: "If that’s the case, as long as not all the insects are eradicated by the Ancient Man Snake, even one surviving insect could repopulate."

Gnawing while reproducing, the pit deepened quickly and then diverged into different horizontal tunnels, extending inward, and from the outside, it looked like just a fist-sized hole, with no insects to be seen.

...

Hundreds of meters away, Gampasa drove Dagonsas here, blocking its view securely, preventing it from seeing the happenings on the other side.

Dagonsas couldn’t help but complain, "What are you doing, all mysterious like that, and I can’t look? Have you forgotten you’re my child?"

"I know, but you can’t look. If you see it, you only have two choices: die or become a slave," Gampasa said.

"Didn’t they say they could help me upgrade without me becoming a slave?" Dagonsas asked.

Gampasa nodded, "Yes, so are you willing to let the adults help you upgrade?"

"Of course, I’d love to be a slave, having a master look after me," Dagonsas said, not mentioning the upgrade but rather focusing on being a ’slave.’

Gampasa could understand Dagonsas’s feelings, it too had sensed that these new masters were peculiar, neither beating nor scolding, treating it kindly, seemingly not really considering it a slave, making it feel uneasy.

In this void, for low-level celestial descendant clans like them, the best outcome was to become slaves to powerful star descendants rather than upgrade evolution since being a slave meant being under a master’s care.

Why were the weaker subspecies able to freely buy and sell them at the market? Simply because the subspecies all had masters. Dagonsas also wanted to be a slave to a powerful star descendant rather than to upgrade evolution.

"I’m willing to be a slave, can I look now?" Dagonsas asked as it tiptoed to look over.

Gampasa swatted its head down with a slap, "No."

With Gampasa blocking, Dagonsas saw nothing for quite a while until a goblin ran over, "Follow me to move some stuff first, then return with me to my shop."

Gampasa and Dagonsas served as temporary carrying beasts to haul all of Diakos’s things and then returned to its ’shop.’"

Why the quotes? Because no one could associate this crevice, covered with various debris, with a shop.

"Isn’t this place a bit too simple?" Negris said in surprise.

"I haven’t been here long, there’s nothing. I hope the adults won’t mind," Diakos said a bit shyly.

Although the crevice was simple, its internal space was quite vast. As soon as you went in, the temperature instantly dropped from over a thousand degrees to about two hundred degrees, and deep in the crevice, you could see some emerald green veins.

Seeing the emerald green, a spot suddenly rose on Little Fireman’s body, as if something inside poked it. It curled up into a ball, revealing the Little Tree Man that poked it.

Breaking away from Little Fireman, the Little Tree Man jumped down from Luther’s body, ran to the green vein, and jumped on it.

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